Duels should be played with a smile.

His excitement was palpable. Leyou had only known that such a tactic seemed to exist in this level before, but he had never had the time to try it out himself. Now, by chance, he had even succeeded. If he didn't take advantage of this opportunity, when would he?

To show off without revealing one's true colors is like wearing fine clothes in the dark!

Projecting his own image next to Archimonde's big head, Leyou fully demonstrated his talent for messing with people's minds. Archimonde, who was already furious because of the unexpected situation, was so angry that he jumped up and down, and even summoned hellfire from the sky to smash Leyou.

"I'm so happy for you. You're getting impatient. The way you get so worked up after being wronged is just the epitome of what you do."

"This wave, this wave, I'm so lucky to have won."

If it weren't for a few characters not matching, Leyou really wanted to give K a proper interpretation of the new generation's abstract six-character mantra.

Perhaps because K's thinking is relatively conservative, he finds it difficult to understand Leyou's avant-garde performance art, but that doesn't prevent him from feeling the mockery Leyou's actions are directed at him.

K wanted to do something to get back at Leyou, but when the hellfire descended from the sky and passed through Leyou's phantom, K, who was somewhat delirious from the corruption of the fel energy, realized that he had once again done a lot of useless work under Leyou's guidance.

With his base destroyed, his attack stalled, and few options left, he was wasting his time here!

K was just momentarily confused; it didn't mean he was stupid. Once he came to his senses, he ignored Leyou beside him and went to summon all the remaining demons.

"I have to admit, your performance in some aspects has indeed exceeded my expectations... but don't think you can win! As long as the time hasn't come, I still have a chance!"

After suffering a series of setbacks, and having just been briefly separated from Archimonde's body during a cutscene, the influence of fel energy on K's mind seemed to have weakened considerably.

Without much thought, K already understood that he didn't have many options left.

In a game, when your understanding of the game is inferior to your opponent's, but you have an advantage in raw skill...

All that fancy stuff is unnecessary!

"No matter what tricks you have up your sleeve, I am invincible! My legions are endless! These two points are beyond doubt!"

As the leader of the Burning Legion, Archimonde held the power of life and death over the lower-ranking demons. After ignoring Leyou's interference and gathering all the remaining demons, he did only one thing.

Let's set off. Our destination: the summit of Mount Hyjal.

No need for fancy tricks, just use absolute strength to carve out your own path!

The Holy Armor ignores damage except for Chaos damage. Given enough time, he could single-handedly wipe out the entire Mount Hyjal!

"You destroyed my original camp, so I'll just abandon it! My only goals have always been the World Tree atop the mountain and the Well of Eternity, which contains boundless power!"

The demon army regrouped and, led by Archimonde, marched toward the orc camp located on the mountainside.

The initial accumulation allowed Archimonde's demon army to reach an unimaginable size. Even though it suffered significant losses in the two major battles, the remaining forces were still formidable!

After taking Leyou seriously, K is no longer frivolous or arrogant, but treats his opponent with equality.

So... besides seriously considering all the issues related to Leyou, he activated Plan B, which he hadn't originally planned to use.

The two props that were previously placed on the chessboard and shrouded in mist are now in K's hands. He is leading his demon army forward, but his mind is already on what will happen after this game.

"I'm never hesitant to use the assets I own...that's one of my strengths..."

"I'm already looking forward to what surprises await me next, and even more surprises to come."

"Using two tools to understand the opponent—it's a worthwhile trade..."

……

A strange feeling welled up inside Leyou, who was mobilizing his troops and preparing for the final battle, and stopped his original thoughts.

"This premonition... is definitely not unfounded. It seems that K is up to something again."

but...

Leyou inspected his current deployment on the tactics panel and smiled slightly.

"No matter how strong you are, I'll just lie down here... Just as your mission is the World Tree, my mission has never been to defeat you..."

"The Holy Armor and the demon army are indeed difficult to deal with, but... nothing is impossible if you're willing to give up."

Halfway up the mountain, the orc base, concealed by the dense forest, was rapidly adjusting its defensive plan. In the forest behind the base, the trees could be vaguely seen swaying incessantly.

Furthermore, there are people in the forest, and the trees that make up that forest have become tree people.

The Ancient Guardian dragged his heavy steps, walking step by step from the Night Elf base on the mountaintop to the vicinity of the Orc camp's main gate.

After finding a suitable place, several tender green branches and leaves sprouted from the legs, which were themselves made of trees, and went straight into the earth.

Soon, the ancient guardians, having completed their initial deployment, returned to their original defensive structure and began to observe whether any demons were invading their defenses.

This unique relocation method, where mountains don't come to me but I go to them, is one of the special techniques of the Night Elves. Many of their buildings are ancient trees that have gained wisdom and consciousness with the help of druids. Because of this, these treant buildings can rise from the ground and run around on their own.

However, because of their large size and cumbersome movements, they rarely do this.

Furthermore, when defending against enemy attacks, if the ancient trees of the night elves have nothing urgent to do, they can simply free up their hands and smash the intruders to death with a few blows. After smashing them to death, if they don't mind, they can even bury them on the spot and use them as fertilizer.

Even before preparing to evacuate the human base, Leyou had already begun relocating the night elf base. Now, except for most of the buildings that couldn't be moved, the night elves had essentially moved their entire family to the orcs' side.

Especially that densely packed area, whose numbers were no less than those of the ancient guardians in the human camp, was a lush green expanse as far as the eye could see.

"No matter how realistic it is, or how lifelike the details are, it's still just a game at the end of the day."

With a smile in his eyes, Leyou calmly gave the hippogriff riders the order to patrol and scout.

Now, his entire force consists mostly of hippogriff riders—for no other reason than that they can fly and fly fast.

Or rather, because of Leyou's deployment, the only ground troops he could use were auxiliary units.

The reason is simple: after the entire Night Elf family moved here, the only road leading to the mountaintop was blocked by a dense array of Treant structures.

Perhaps in Azeroth, Archimonde could fly directly to the mountaintop, but this is a game.

Perhaps in Azeroth, Archimonde could use his immense power to turn these buildings to ashes as easily as he destroyed Dalaran, but this is a game.

Regardless of whether Archimonde is a Divine Armor or not, he is just a normal hero unit in the game, with all the attributes of a regular hero unit and subject to the same restrictions.

He can't fly, his attack stats are fixed, and his skills are also fixed.

As a ground unit, it has a collision volume...and it's not small.

At the very least, the passage that Leyou left for the little elves to pass through and facilitate real-time repairs cannot be entered by him.

……

"Hahaha, it seems I had too high expectations of you."

"I thought you would come up with some tactic to break my invincible defense, but in the end you just used such a petty trick as blocking the road with buildings?"

K had already led his demon army to the mountainside. When he saw Leyou's arrangements, he was initially surprised, but then relaxed a little.

While I still take Leyou's every move seriously, subconsciously I'm not as wary as before.

The fact that they resorted to methods like blocking the road, which he considered ineffective, already indicated that Leyou was prepared to stall until the deadline passed.

Surely no one would go to so much trouble just to set a trap?

Could this complex of buildings, which can do nothing but block roads, really be considered a trap? Even if it is a trap, would anyone be foolish enough to fall for it?

With a cold snort, K ​​put aside his extraneous thoughts, checked the remaining time, and then ordered the demon army to begin their attack.

The remaining time was roughly what he had estimated, the only difference being that he no longer had a base for resupply, but rather a situation somewhat like a desperate battle...

The demon army has an amazing talent for destruction. When they get into action, every strike is fierce and deadly. And it's not just about swords. In addition to their weapons, demons also have all sorts of racial talents and special skills. Demons are just a general term; there are countless types of demons within the legion.

The Doomguard summoned flames from the sky, the Abyss Lord wielded his battle blade, the Eredar demons cast spells, the hellhounds breathed fire, and the three-headed, six-armed Shivara slashed wildly with his weapons, while the weakest of the three, Morgard, pushed his self-made siege engines, bombarding the defensive positions from outside their range.

If Leyou hadn't been well-prepared and hadn't deployed some hippogriff riders to harass the enemy from the sky, it's hard to say how long this defensive line could have held out.

As time went by, Archimonde's initially relaxed mood began to wane, and he had to admit that he had underestimated Leyou's turtle-shell blocking tactics.

It was timid... but it was also really effective.

In fact, it wouldn't take the demons too long to clear a path, but... Archimonde's size and collision volume are really huge, big enough to be a target.

Without the Holy Armor, one would likely be "accidentally" killed by all sorts of attacks, both friendly and enemy, on the battlefield.

At least he's currently cutting down trees while under attack from friendly forces—don't expect discipline from demons; not killing friendly forces indiscriminately is considered obeying the law!

"I've had enough of this boring charade! I want to..."

"what would you like?"

K was startled when Leyou's question suddenly rang in his ears, and instantly spotted Leyou's projection.

It's fine if you don't look, but you'll immediately notice something's wrong.

Because he had been cutting down trees all the way here, there were originally the remains of those ancient trees behind him, but at some point, a not-so-small army had silently gathered behind him.

"You came here because you were afraid I'd tear your shell off..."

"I'm doing this because I'm fed up with this boring charade."

Leyou returned K's words verbatim, showing no sign of impatience.

On the contrary, they were very relaxed, as if they were just on a leisurely outing, while he and Archimonde were chatting idly, a goblin airship had already quietly slipped away.

The goblin airship played a crucial role in enabling them to reach Archimonde directly from behind.

Wilderness shops are awesome!

"Hmph! It's pointless. Even if you gather another army, it's meaningless in front of the invincible me. These ordinary soldiers can only delay me for a negligible few seconds!"

Archimonde didn't stop what he was doing, and didn't even give the nearby demons any orders to chase away the flies, continuing to chop down trees.

With such a diligent and conscientious appearance, if you took them to an orc camp and had them say "work, work" a few times, they could probably work as laborers.

Relying on his divine armor, Archimonde ignored the presence of Leyou and his troops until...

He realized the moment his health began to drop.

A stinging sensation came from his feet; this was the first time K had felt pain since possessing Archimonde's body.

"What's going on?" Archimonde turned around and began to counterattack, but the sudden loss of invincibility threw him off balance, and his counterattack was not very effective.

With interference from other troops and the ancient tree guarding it, Archimonde was completely confused at first as to how his invincibility had been suddenly broken.

Suddenly, Leyou's smiling face appeared in his mind, and the words Leyou left behind when the human camp was "attacked" echoed in his mind again.

At this moment, Leyou had already led his troops to completely surround Archimonde. The hippogriff riders harassed the enemy in the sky, while also working with the defensive structures in the line of defense to repel the demon reinforcements. The ground troops... were mostly the tough and resilient orc troops, responsible for withstanding Archimonde's counterattacks. Interspersed among them were a few druids of the claws, who were responsible for healing the enemy while shouting buffs and attack power.

But these are not the entirety of the ground forces. The most crucial units are quietly mingling among the main force, getting close to Archimonde's feet, and quietly unleashing their attacks.

Those... were all bear-like warriors recruited from mercenary camps.

That was the mercenary group that Leyou had been recruiting from the very beginning of this battle, but so far, they hadn't managed to recruit a large number.

At the same time, they are the only unit in this battle that possesses the special attack type of "chaos attack" - perhaps because the demigods of the bear monster clan were brave in the ancient war and killed countless demons, and their descendants also possessed this special and targeted attack method.