"Such disgusting Undead wave tactics…" Derek surveyed the Undead's advance through his engineering telescope, and also spotted the skeleton, over three meters tall, wreathed in frost! Honestly, Derek was experiencing the bitterness of the people of Lordaeron for the first time. Kul Tiras started with maritime trade and was quite the expert in artillery. However, the firepower of this first line of defense was even more intense than that of their capital, Boralus. This dense, crisscrossing fire couldn't stop the endless Undead, allowing them to reach the lines and engage in melee combat. It was evident just how powerful the Undead Sea was!
After a moment of contemplation, Derek decided to employ a decapitation tactic. He was now the Alliance's supreme commander, appointed by Galen Trollbane, and the power he could wield was even greater than that of Kul Tiras alone. "Go, bring the masters of the Hidden Blades!"
Soon, three figures appeared behind Derek . Edwin VanCleef, with two curved blades hanging at his waist, Valeera Sanguinar, toying with two emerald daggers, and… Hogger, holding two hand axes! Derek was stunned… He had seen stealth masters of humans and high elves, which wasn't surprising, but the fact that a gnoll was also a high-ranking member of the Hidden Blades was an eye-opener for Derek . After all, they were Galen Trollbane's subordinates. It was normal for some oddballs to appear.
"Masters, during the next wave of the Undead's attack, I will have the artillery bombard the area in front of the lines. At that time, I ask you to behead that lich commander!" The three stealth masters nodded and then disappeared on the spot! Three legendary-tier great rogues ambushing an ice mage, even if he was a lich in an undead body, could kill him a hundred times over!
"Boar Riders! Raptor Riders! Target: Undead Commander, open a path!"
"Charge!" The quillboar under Galen Trollbane's command were divided into two major tribes: the Bristleback tribe, led by the purple quillboar Fangtooth, whose personal guards were the Raptor Riders! The other was the Thistlefur tribe, led by the chieftain renamed Bob by Galen Trollbane. He was also leading his Boar Riders to charge into the Undead army!
The servant army under Galen Trollbane's command was just too competitive. They originally thought that as long as they were loyal and obedient, they would be able to wield great power in the clan, indulge in luxury, and play with several mother quillboar! Who knew that a try-hard like Hogger would appear in the servant army? It was one thing for his strength to improve by leaps and bounds, and it was also one thing for him to cultivate both the path of the berserker and the path of the rogue. The damn thing even managed to find connections from who knows where and trained a group of elite gnoll scouts under the tutelage of the Hidden Blades big shots! Okay, it would be fine if only one gnoll was trying hard, but Galen the Great Warchief had so many vassals under his command. Hogger being unique wouldn't affect the quillboar, but the result was that there was a dog accompanying him in his efforts! That damned kobold king, Flintlocke, didn't focus on leading his kobold pups to mine and do their job properly, and increase the wealth of Galen the Great Warchief. They actually crossed over and started a kobold musket team! The two quillboar chieftains expressed that their lives were hard. Their quillboar pups couldn't learn the path of stealth, and their eyesight couldn't even keep up with the kobolds. They couldn't compete even if they wanted to! What to do? Fortunately, the quillboar still had some strength left. The Bristleback quillboar revived their old business of raising boars and training boar riders. The Steelmane quillboar saw that they couldn't raise boars either, so they could only set their sights on the wild animals of the Golden Plains. They couldn't catch thunder lizards, and they didn't have the taming skills for kodo beasts, so in the end, they could only lock their sights on the raptors. Thus, the two quillboar clans found their place and joined the try-hard army.
As the two quillboar rider groups attracted the attention of the Undead, Derek ordered the artillery to prepare for an attack. Brann received the commander's flag signals and observed the situation with his engineering telescope. "Artillery battalion! Southeast direction, maintain a distance of one hundred meters, advancing barrage!"
"Fire!" As Brann's words fell, the artillerymen on the artillery positions adjusted their muzzles and then loaded and launched their attacks! The artillery fire helped the two quillboar rider groups open a path, and they quickly advanced halfway. This startled the lich, Kazzak Winterchill, and he directly pressed the abominations around him to stop the quillboar with their massive bodies, and then annihilate them all! He still hadn't been able to break through the first line of defense. He hadn't achieved any success, and fearing Archimonde's blame, he hoped to take down these quillboar as achievements!
"Succumb to the chilling touch of death! All life must perish! Dust to dust, ashes to ashes!" Just as the lich was making his calculations, his mental power felt a sting. This was a crisis warning from a strong person! He only had time to activate a Frost Armor for himself! Immediately afterward, he felt his head go dark! He was ambushed! The Frost Armor was shattered in an instant. The simultaneous attacks of the three top stealth masters left the lich with no power to fight back. Valeera's emerald daggers pierced the lich's back, severing his spine. Hogger's two hand axes shattered all of the lich's rib bones in a storm of fierce attacks. Finally, the cunning Edwin VanCleef used his curved blade to cut off the lich's head!
"Ah!" The soul fire hidden in the skull was severely damaged, and the lich's desperate screams echoed in the valley! Although he knew that killing the lich's body didn't truly kill him and that his soul could be resurrected through his phylactery, this would take time. This lich would no longer have the opportunity to participate in the Battle of Mount Hyjal. The dreadlord Anetheron, who was supervising the battle behind the lich, couldn't even react in time. The three stealthers disappeared again with the lich's head!
This infuriated the newly appointed leader of the dreadlords. When Archimonde came to Azeroth, Anetheron served as Archimonde's personal guard. After Tichondrius disappeared, he took over Tichondrius's leadership position and gained control of the Scourge along with Kazzak Winterchill. Now that the lich was dead, the Undead in front instantly lost their command system. Anetheron simply couldn't command all of the Undead with those low-level necromancers! Soon, a human knight group rushed out of the first line of defense and rescued the quillboar, who had suffered more than half their losses!
"Damn it!" Anetheron was arranged by Archimonde to guard the Legion's camp and lead the demon army to advance. Now that they had lost a commander before even breaking through the first line of defense, this was undoubtedly a slap in the face of the Legion!
"Attack! Warriors of the Burning Legion!" Anetheron issued an order for a full-scale attack.