Chapter 456: The Archbishop is Critically Ill

The defense of Lordaeron City has ended.

It ended with the Alliance's victory.

However, this result was not satisfactory for either side.

The victors did not win a great victory, and the losers did not lose completely.

Orgrim Doomhammer retreated back to the Alterac Mountains. Clearly, he would choose to pass through Alterac, return to Hinterlands, and then re-embark from Southshore to the southern continent to settle accounts with Gul'dan.

As for Grom Hellscream and his Warsong clan orcs, their whereabouts became elusive. Grom, contrary to his previous aggressive momentum, deliberately avoided all human towns and restrained his subordinates, hiding in the vast forest.

Everyone knew what kind of destruction 30,000 orcs could cause. If left unchecked, they could easily destroy the remaining core area of the Kingdom of Lordaeron.

The feeling of having an enemy hidden under one's eyelids, like a thorn in the throat, was absolutely uncomfortable.

Almost as soon as the battle ended, King Terenas came to find Duke.

"Please! We must not let these despicable green-skinned beasts go! I need the support of the elven rangers! Including those from Quel'Thalas, and your direct rangers! If possible, I hope you can personally preside over the encirclement of this batch of the Horde."

"I'm sorry, I have more important things to do. We must first arrange for someone to rescue the Red Dragon Queen Alexstrasza, otherwise when Talanis comes again, no one will be his opponent. Your Majesty, that is a real ancient red dragon that can destroy a kingdom by itself."

Terenas was taken aback, "Didn't you and Archbishop Antonidas deal with that big lizard together?"

"No! He obviously held back. I could feel that he didn't want to fight the Alliance." Antonidas's words gave Duke a way out.

Duke suddenly said, "In fact, I used Alleria's Wind Language to tell Talanis that the Alliance will rescue the Red Dragon Queen as soon as possible, and hope that he will not attack us with all his might."

This was explosive news.

"A real dragon!" Lothar stroked his own big beard.

To maintain morale, it's fine to deceive the people below by saying that the great Alliance heroes Antonidas and Duke Marcus jointly repelled the red dragon. But after hearing this inside story, every king and general's face sank.

That was an existence that broke the rules.

An existence that could render all strategies and tactics useless.

The battle between humans and orcs was nothing in front of this level of power. Ever since Duke crossed over to the world of Azeroth as a miserable college student, after he had barely stabilized, he was prepared to fight various unscientific non-human monsters in the future.

Like dragons, elemental kings, ancient gods...

Unfortunately, when the time came, Duke still felt that he was not ready. After all, in the game before crossing over, any dragon was a proper game boss template. The problem is, now he's the only one who crossed over alone, and it's not like in the game where you can gather 25 buddies who can resurrect indefinitely to raid bosses!

The only thing that could reassure Duke was that he now had powerful heroes like Alleria by his side.

Kurdran Wildhammer stroked his well-groomed orange beard, "Actually, we can also look on the bright side. If we can really rescue Alexstrasza, maybe the Red Dragonflight will side with the Alliance. After all, these big lizards were forced to fight the Alliance before."

King Thoras sighed, "The problem is we don't even know where the Red Dragon Queen is."

"Well..." King Llane raised his hand, "According to my intelligence, she is likely in the Wetlands, in the fortress of Grim Batol that used to belong to the dwarves."

Duke had been hesitating about whether to reveal the news, but seeing the effectiveness of the Stormwind King's spies, he felt reassured.

King Thoras was excited because if the Red Dragon was dealt with, the pressure on Stromgarde at this moment would definitely be greatly reduced, "Really, can the special operations team of Stormwind..."

Llane shook his head with a bitter smile, "My people lack funds, it's already their utmost effort to find out this information."

"Then let's leave it to the elite secret forces of Lordaeron to handle this." King Terenas seemed full of confidence.

Duke really didn't want to disappoint Terenas.

Not to mention whether Terenas's rogues could handle the mysterious [Demon Soul], according to the original history, the one who really trapped Alexstrasza into the hands of the Horde was the famous Black Dragon King Neltharion, now known as 'Deathwing'!

Would Deathwing let Terenas's rogues rescue the Red Dragon Queen before he achieved his goal?

Duke could almost imagine how the elite rogues of Lordaeron would meet their tragic end.

Unfortunately, he couldn't reveal it.

After the Alliance bigwigs thought they had dealt with the Red Dragonflight, the meeting entered the main topic - how to eliminate the Horde.

Under the premise of common hatred, the meeting was very smooth. There was no shirking as there was at the beginning of the Alliance's establishment.

The main goal is as follows: try to push the front line to the dwarf kingdom of Khaz Modan before the winter of this year, and also relieve the besieged Ironforge.

The hundreds of thousands of Alliance troops gathered in Lordaeron City were divided into three armies:

Nearly 200,000 Lordaeron troops, with the help of the Quel'Thalas and Duke's direct elven rangers, will try to eliminate the Horde that ran to Tirisfal Glades. Even if they can't be completely eliminated, they must reduce the number of the Horde in this area to an acceptable range. For example, less than three thousand.

Terenas plans to use a large army to encircle and offer high rewards to exterminate these orcs.

The second route, the Gryphon Legion and the Wildhammer dwarf gryphon riders who had just come out of Hinterlands not long ago, a total of 50,000 troops, will follow Orgrim's remnants to ensure the elimination of this Horde elite, or permanently drive them away from the Lordaeron continent.

This route is not difficult either, unless Orgrim gives up chasing Gul'dan, otherwise this route is basically a military parade, sending the Horde out of the country all the way.

The third route is the armies of the other countries, they will be led by Lothar, rushing back to the Thoradin's Wall, hoping to recover the fallen Arathi Highlands within two months and drive the Horde back to the south bank of Thandol Span.

After the meeting, Duke rubbed his brows.

The Second Dark Portal War finally began to show signs of ending.

Back at the guesthouse estate, Alleria rarely helped Duke massage his shoulders to relax. Duke didn't know how elves grew, with long-term bow and arrow use, Alleria's fingers didn't have a single callus?

Just as Duke was about to say something, shocking news came - Archbishop Alonsus Faol was critically ill.