Conquering Myriad Worlds from the Mythical Three Kingdoms

As Sylvanas passed through the underground passage and arrived beneath the portal, she felt increasingly uneasy.

She was a shrewd hunter herself, and her intuition was screaming at her that they had stepped into a trap.

But she could not disobey Kel'Thuzad's orders.

Kel'Thuzad forcibly brought her here under the Lich King's command, and the power etched deep within her soul is constantly urging her to launch an attack.

The moment she had the thought of retreating, her whole body felt as if it had fallen into an ice cellar, the cold making her soul tremble.

Taking a deep breath, Sylvanas cleared her mind of distractions and focused solely on dealing with the guards near the portal.

"They've built semi-permanent defensive structures, hiding many archers inside, making it impossible for my crypt demons to launch a direct assault!"

The lord of the underground tunnel, who had dug the tunnel, gave a brief report on the situation of the garrison.

What troubled them the most was the arrow towers built by Xu Shu and his men. They could watch over and help each other, and any attack they launched from anywhere would be met with a hail of arrows.

They had already experienced the power of the Changshui and Shesheng battalions; ordinary undead simply couldn't break through, and powerful undead would be targeted and killed.

Even the lords of the underground caves dare not show their faces directly.

"Can't we just dig down from underground?" Sylvanas pointed to the area below.

"It will cause the entire underground passage to collapse, and then all the dead will be buried!" The cave lord shook his head helplessly.

Sylvanas fell silent. She didn't believe a word of their nonsense; they were just trying to force them to fight the defenders on the ground.

She didn't understand why Kel'Thuzad was doing this, but she couldn't disobey orders, so she had no choice but to attack.

"I will attack from the front, and you will lead all the crypt demons to flank from the rear!"

The Crypt Lord wiggled its arthropods: "Good luck, Sylvanas!"

Sylvanas turned to look at Mal'Ganis, the dreadlord.

"Those arrow towers are yours. Smash them with your hellfire!"

The dreadlord Mal'Ganis bowed gracefully: "As you wish, my queen!"

Sylvanas suppressed all her impatience and apprehension, and her clear, cold voice suddenly rang out in the corridor, carrying an undeniable, iron-blooded chill.

"All troops attack! Give them no chance to breathe!"

The elite veterans stationed near the portal sensed the impending danger. A centurion frowned, lay prone on the ground, and listened intently to the sounds coming from beneath.

A moment later, his expression suddenly changed, and he stood up and roared.

"Enemy attack! The enemy is underground!"

The next moment, the ground began to tremble violently.

Dense cracks spread out, and countless ferocious and sharp insect legs broke through the soil, with one after another, huge, black-shelled cave demons bursting through the soil.

Behind them, countless undead surged forth like a tide.

On the other side of the undead army's charge, the ground trembled, low hissing echoed, and more cave demons broke through the soil.

"The Curtain of the Dead!"

The necromancers, mingling among the tide of the dead, brandished their staffs, and a dark green undead canopy began to spread across the sky, intertwining with the thick clouds.

The undead roared and charged toward the rapidly assembling soldiers.

However, before they could get close, a hail of arrows rained down on their heads.

The semi-permanent defensive fortifications stretched out in a continuous line, with arrow towers standing in a staggered pattern, forming a defensive network. Behind the battlements and inside the arrow towers, the elite archers of the Changshui Camp and the Shesheng Camp were already poised to strike.

"Changshui Camp, fire your arrows!"

Under the command of the officers, these elite archers of the Changshui Battalion drew their bows, and a dense barrage of arrows exploded in the tide of the dead.

The successive explosions bought the infantry valuable time.

After a brief period of chaos, the armored Tiger Guards, carrying swords and shields, formed a heavy defensive formation, like a dam directly cutting off the tide of the undead.

"Shooting Battalion, rapid fire, unleash the arrows!"

The commander gave the order again, and a hail of arrows suddenly shot out from the sky.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!
A dense rain of arrows blotted out the sky, like dark clouds pressing down overhead, pouring down with a sharp, piercing sound.

In addition to their all-out attack, the Shooting Battalion is also capable of conducting regular arrow barrages.

Even if you're not very good at it, you can still fire six or seven arrows per second.

A dense barrage of arrows covered all the undead's paths of advance.

The cloud-like mist wrapped around the arrowheads, greatly enhancing their piercing ability.

The ghouls charging at the front had no time to react before being pierced by arrows and pinned to the ground. But the wounds that would kill any living creature were nothing to these undead.

Unless their bodies are completely smashed, or their undead flames are extinguished by a mental attack.

However, nailing them to the ground already greatly slows down the advance of the undead.

The undead then launched a desperate charge, but no matter which angle they charged from, they would fall into the crossfire of the arrow towers.

Xu Shu's meticulously designed defensive system was flawless. With arrow towers providing mutual support and layers of firepower stacked upon each other, the undead army, protected by infantry, could not get even a step closer to the fortifications and could only suffer continuous casualties in the rain of arrows.

The situation on the ground was fully observed by Sylvanas underground.

Without the slightest reaction, archers, no matter how powerful, ultimately have their limits.

The undead are particularly adept at attrition warfare.

As expected, after the initial burst, the rain of arrows began to thin out.

The Changshui Camp began to cease fire, while the archers of the Shesheng Camp began to snipe at the powerful individuals in twos and threes.

But that was enough; they had bought the infantry enough time.

The nested military formations, combined with semi-permanent defensive fortifications, effectively provided the infantry with a defense equivalent to heavy armor.

In Xu Shu's previous analysis, when facing an army of undead, the higher the defense, the longer one can hold out.

After all, no matter how large the number of undead is, the area they can engage in battle is ultimately limited. As long as they shrink their defensive lines, they can entangle with these undead for a long time.

Seeing that she couldn't break through the impenetrable defenses, Sylvanas was getting anxious.

This was a surprise attack; if it dragged on for too long, the Xinghan army would surely return to reinforce.

Even if Kel'Thuzad sends troops to hold them off head-on, he can't hold off everyone; reinforcements will inevitably come.

The location of the portal was not far from where the army was stationed; cavalry could arrive in two or three hours.

Sylvanas was furious; this was clearly a trap.

An incredibly ingenious trap.

Kel'Thuzad is a fool. He considers himself a wise man but can't even see this. He's the biggest fool of all.

Sylvanas cursed Kel'Thuzad a thousand times in her mind, but an order is an order, and the Lich King's will was deeply embedded in her soul; she had no option to retreat.

"Malganis, what are you dawdling for?"

Sylvanas unleashed her fury on the Dreadlord, who, though displeased, offered no rebuttal. Using the power of the magic circle, she continuously cast spells to adjust the angle.

Seeing that Mal'Ganis remained silent, Sylvanas's anger intensified, but she also knew that he was preparing to cast a spell, so she could only refocus her attention on the battlefield.

After struggling with her thoughts for a moment, Sylvanas could only give the order with resentment.

"The banshee is about to advance!"

She didn't want to use these banshees. These subordinates, who had been killed alongside her by the Lich King, were already in such a miserable state; she didn't want them to suffer the pain of death any longer.

Even though the Lich King's will was like a whip, constantly lashing her soul, under this threat, she could only keep retreating.

Dozens of female demons, under the cover of many strange and grotesque undead, rushed out of the defensive line. The next moment, they all transformed into wisps of shadow and disappeared directly into the bodies of the Tiger Guards at the forefront.

In just a moment, the Tiger Guards, whose consciousness had been taken over by the banshee, turned their blades and pounced on their comrades.

"Old Liu, have you gone mad!"

The soldier who was stabbed in the back by his comrade was terrified, but he saw the confused look in his comrade's eyes.

He suddenly realized that it wasn't that his comrade had gone mad, but that his comrade had died.

The only things moving now are the corpses of our comrades.

The same thing happened repeatedly on the front lines. The originally solid lines collapsed in an instant, and the undead began to break through the seemingly impregnable lines.

"Fire arrows! Fire arrows!"

Seeing the battle line collapse, Xu Gai immediately ordered the archers to suppress it, and then mobilized reserve soldiers to fill the gap in the battle line.

Just as the reserve soldiers were about to push the battle line back, the Dreadlord finally completed his massive spell.

"Rain of Chaos!"

A dozen or so dark green meteorites fell from the sky and crashed straight into the defensive building.

"Legion attack!" Xu Gai roared, mobilizing the cloud energy to launch an attack.

Several beams of light shot into the sky, blasting the meteorite, which had not yet hit the ground, into fragments.

However, several meteorites still struck, directly collapsing the watchtower and leaving a huge crater in the ground.

Immediately afterward, a hellfire, three or four people tall, rose from the pit, its body engulfed in dark green flames. Anyone who got close could feel their soul being burned.

"Internal energy leaving the body?"

Xu Gai charged forward wielding his battle axe, and with the help of his guards, he quickly chopped down a Hellfire, but he was far from happy.

The formation inside had been disrupted by these several hellfires, and the outer defenses had been breached one after another without warning, making the situation a complete mess.

Amidst the chaos, the cave demons behind also began to exert their power.

As chaos erupted, the cave lord, who had been lying in wait, suddenly plunged his forelimbs into the ground. Dozens of earth spikes burst forth, piercing through the dozens of soldiers fighting on a string of candied hawthorns.

The heavy armor was no match for this extreme piercing, and the battle lines behind them began to collapse.

As the commander, Xu Gai's forehead was covered in cold sweat. He felt immense pressure, far greater than when he led his troops into the Sea of ​​the Dead.

Back then, he only needed to think about how to crush the enemy in front of him, but now he has to think about how to deal with the attacks coming from all directions.

"Calm down, I have to calm down!" Xu Gai forced himself to calm down and think of a way to break the deadlock.

"Contract our defenses, continue to reduce the area of ​​contact with the undead, and send an emergency signal for help!"

Xu Gai's mind was clearer than ever before. Under immense pressure, some people lose their rationality, but others become more lucid.

Xu Gai, on the other hand, calmly contracted his defenses, trying his best to maintain them and keep the situation deadlocked.

Sylvanas noticed this and raised her bow.

"Not bad, young man. It's a pity you've forgotten that being distracted on the battlefield can lead to a terrible death!"

An arrow imbued with dark light pierced through the void. Xu Gai instinctively raised his axe to block it, but the arrow pierced through the axe and his armor, and went straight into his body.

"Arrow of Willpower?"

Xu Gai bit his tongue, and the pain brought him back to his senses.

"Is this the battlefield that Father and the others faced?"

Xu Gai became increasingly calm, and his personal guards formed a circle around him, attempting to use their bodies as shields.

Sylvanas fired several arrows, but they were all stopped by her guards. After frowning, Sylvanas gave up the idea of ​​shooting Xu Gai.

The guards around the enemy were clearly acting strangely; arrows that were enough to threaten Xu Gai were hitting them without causing any harm.

In terms of willpower alone, he even surpassed Xu Gai, the commander-in-chief.

Sylvanas couldn't find a solution to the problem for a while.

The situation reached a stalemate again, and Sylvanas's brows furrowed even more, her unease growing stronger.

"Boom!"

The ground began to tremble, and the sound of a large cavalry force advancing made Sylvanas's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, completely die.

It came too fast, twice as fast as expected.

This was indeed a trap.

But she had no option to retreat, so she could only continue charging forward with the undead around her.

But the shadow that appeared in the sky the next moment made her even more desperate.

She was completely unaware of Gan Ning's arrival while sneaking through the underground passage. This was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, completely shattering her idea of ​​escaping unscathed.

Countless phantom warriors fell from the celestial ship, followed by the roar of naval cannons, their precise impacts directly destroying the undead army's formation.

"Crush them!"

Zhang Xiu's deep roar erupted with a purple glow, and a pure attack of will swept across the battlefield as his weapon swept through, killing the undead along the way and crushing them to pieces under the hooves of galloping horses.

Knowing that the attack was completely over, Sylvanas closed her eyes in despair and then lunged at Xu Gai.

"Die!"

Sylvanas thrust her sword at Xu Gai's neck, but a shield and several spears blocked all her attack routes.

"You're the one who deserves to die!"

Seizing the opportunity, Xu Gai wielded his battle axe and swung it down at Sylvanas.

"Oh!"

Sylvanas's head was cleaved in two by the battle axe. Xu Gai looked at the fallen Sylvanas and then at the battle axe in his hand with suspicion.

"I've become stronger?"
He clearly felt that the undead hero in front of him was very strong, but he was instantly killed in one move during the fight.

He quickly put the question out of his mind and, with his personal guards, raised his battle axes and launched a counter-charge against the undead.

The arduous defense is over; now it's time for annihilation! (End of Chapter)