Grand Arcanist of Azeroth

Chapter 150 Clearing the Eastern Forest 2
In order to contain the gnolls in the eastern forest of the Red Ridge Mountains, the Kingdom of Stormwind has built many towers and other fortifications here.

He even spent huge sums of money to build a large-scale granite castle.

However, those fortifications lined up along the banks of Zhishui Lake can still deal with the weak wolf men in the forest.

When encountering the Horde army from Draenor, it was easily captured.

It's not that the quality of the fortifications is too poor.

In fact, as a degraded Titan creation, human beings are still very good at building!
However, in the face of the green frenzy that bulldozed all obstacles and burned buildings wantonly, ordinary defensive buildings were not effective.

Even the more advanced titan-forged dwarves couldn't stop the fortress they built.

The orc defenders stationed in the forest are currently stationed in the damaged towers and castles.

Those air forces of the coalition forces mainly attacked the mountainous areas in the north.

They haven't come to the Eastern Forest to bomb yet.

However, with Herald in person, the fortifications have no defensive effect.

All it takes is to trigger a small earthquake, and the strong fortifications will be in ruins.

The power of the caster is so against the sky!

This is why the Magic Kingdom of Dalaran has only a few tens of thousands of people, but it can maintain a detached position among the seven human kingdoms.

Among the pitiful tens of thousands of people, there are not even a thousand real mages.

But if you encounter a conventional war, you don't need to mobilize too many mages to join the battle.

As long as dozens of mages participate in the war, the outcome of the war can be easily changed.

Therefore, no human kingdom dares to fight against the magic kingdom of Dalaran.

King Terenas, the scheming king of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, was only secretly doing some poaching.

After all, this is not a game, and the professions will try their best to achieve a balance.

Only the caster is effective against the caster.

In the face of the mage's devastating magical power, any struggle of ordinary people is meaningless!

The largest granite castle on the shore of Zhishui Lake, the ranger troops surrounded the castle on three sides.

Those bloody orc infantry rushed out of the castle roaring with their battle axes, and were headshot by large-caliber sniper rifles, or beaten into a pile of rotten flesh.

Finding that taking the initiative to fight will surely lead to death, some orc infantry have learned their lesson.

They are hiding in every corner of the castle, ready to wait for the enemy to come in before launching a sneak attack.

The enemy's long-range firepower is too strong, and street fighting is also a reasonable choice.

The terrain inside the castle is narrow, and the success rate of sneak attacks will be very high.

Then they noticed that the ground began to shake slightly.

Even a low-intensity earthquake seemed severe inside the castle.

On the ceiling above the head, stone powder kept falling down, as if it was about to collapse.

The orc infantry who were afraid of being buried alive ran out of the gate one after another.

Although running out is also dead, but it is better than being buried alive.

Herald controlled the scale of the earthquake below level five, and these orc infantry obediently came out to die.

The orc infantry scrambling to rush out of the gate made the rangers feel like they were shooting prisoners.

Only a few smart people jumping out of the window can bring some variables to the Rangers' boring shooting.

Of course, the end result is the same.

It's nothing more than re-locking and pulling the trigger.

When no more orc infantry appeared, Herald stopped the earthquake spell.

From beginning to end, he had no intention of destroying the castle.

After all, it is not easy for the Stormwind Kingdom, which is waiting to be rebuilt.

Even if the labor cost of the stonemason is not very expensive, it cannot be repaired without tens of thousands of gold coins.

If you can keep a complete castle, it's better to protect it as much as possible.

The ranger troops cleared all the way along the Zhishui Lake, and quickly emptied all the fortifications.

Those orc deserters have some brains.

They will not flee into the conspicuous lakeside castle when the front line is defeated.

Only by finding a hiding place deep in the forest can you guarantee your own safety.

Caves or hidden valleys are ideal shelters for them.

However, these places are often occupied by gnolls.

If you want to get an ideal refuge, you need to get rid of the gnolls first.

Gnolls have a strong physique, and their fighting power is even higher than that of humans.

But they are at a very backward stage, without decent production capacity, and can only manufacture rough leather armor and clubs and other equipment.

If there is decent equipment, it must have been obtained by robbing humans!

The orc deserters were beaten by the coalition forces and fled like wild dogs.

It feels like it's easy to bully.

However, since the orcs occupied Blackstone Mountain, a natural blacksmith shop.

They have been greatly improved in terms of equipment quality.

Even the poorest orc infantry has a decent set of equipment.

Even when they fled, they did not throw away their armor.

This gives them a great advantage.

It can't beat the coalition forces with powerful air forces, and it's no problem to beat these backward natives.

How can a jackal in tattered leather armor fight an orc deserter in iron armor?

Often a dozen orc deserters gathered together could attack a Gnoll camp with a population of more than two hundred.

A wooden stick wrapped in tattered iron skin will definitely not be able to break through the iron armor.

The gnolls, who had an advantage in numbers, were still scattered and fled by the orc deserters.

The gap between a barbaric and backward race and an even more barbaric and backward race is so big!

Of course, this does not change the ultimate fate of the orc deserters.

A forest with lush vegetation can make ordinary troops helpless.

But the army that came to hunt them was not an ordinary army.

High elves have little interest in nature spells.

However, this does not mean that high elves do not know natural spells.

In fact, the botanists of the high elves have a deep research on natural magic.

The high elf rangers who often act in the forest, some of them also choose to master some natural spells.

Of course, it is just to use the grass and trees as a medium to communicate with the will of the forest to obtain the simple information you want to know.

Compared with the druid who can attune the treant at every turn, or let the grass and trees activate to strangle the enemy, this small trick can't be put on the table.

However, the effect of this small method is fatal to the orc deserters!
Rangers quickly got useful information about them.

The will of the forest, born from this forest, is very unhappy with these alien green-skinned humanoid creatures.

Those damn greenskin guys have cut down tens of thousands of trees in the forest.

The will of the forest is very enthusiastic to guide the rangers and ensure that they can go to the place.

Looking at the scene where the leaves of the grass and trees swayed without wind, showing the way forward for everyone, Herald was very moved by the effect of natural spells.

No wonder the rangers formed a team to hunt down forest trolls, the hunting efficiency was so high!
There are professionals in the team who are good at communicating with the will of the forest, so why not find one right away!
Under the guidance of the will of the forest, the first group of orc deserters were quickly found.

The number of that group of guys is very small, not enough for the ranger troops to fill their teeth.

But the orc deserters are very harmful, and if they can be killed, they cannot be let go.

Alleria dispatched a team of rangers to wipe them out.

On the forest glade more than 200 meters ahead, the Jackals set up a bunch of tattered tents.

A dozen orc deserters occupied the place, dealing with the mess left by the gnolls.

The Gnoll's tent was set up casually.

They made a frame out of thick twigs and covered them with tattered leather that was simply sewn.

Without further processing, a tent is set up.

For a guy like the Wolf Man who brought his own wolf fur coat, the air leakage from all sides of the tent was not important.

The orc deserters couldn't be so casual.

They spliced ​​together the tattered animal skins, and then they were going to cut down a few trees as supports to build a big and strong tent.

Before they could realize their vision, the rangers had reached the edge of the glade.

They move silently, using the bushes to hide themselves cleverly.

The orc deserters who were picking out tattered hides were completely unaware of the approaching crisis.

When the rangers were ready to launch the first wave of attack, they realized that the enemy had come to the door.

But they didn't figure out where the enemy was attacking them until their death, and how many there were.

Behind the big tree, above the canopy, and inside the bushes, there are elusive figures of enemies everywhere.

(End of this chapter)