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Soon, news spread that shocked all the kingdoms.
Lordaeron, the most powerful human kingdom in recent decades, has been invaded by an unknown race, and this invading race comes from the Dragon Tower!
The news of the Dragon Tower's unusual movements stirred the hearts of all factions. Aside from the relatively uninformed guardian dragons and elves, the first human force to react was the mage city of Dalaran.
The establishment of Dalaran was not only for the purpose of better studying magic, but also for the purpose of guarding the Dragon Tower on behalf of the elves and the guardian dragons. In any case, it was impossible for them to turn a deaf ear to or a blind eye to the changes.
The orc army has been wreaking havoc on the land of Lordaeron. As a barrier to the southward advance of the human world, if the orcs want to spread quickly to the entire Eastern Kingdoms, even if they are the first to bear the brunt, they will have to face obstruction from the two major human kingdoms of Alterac and Lordaeron.
After Terenas returned to the palace with his men, he almost immediately mobilized the army and prepared for war. However, the orcs' actions were still so fast that he was dumbfounded.
In just a few days, the orcs had already conquered a city in Lordaeron, and the exiled people flocked to the capital of Lordaeron.
Terenas had just assembled his nearest army, and upon hearing the news, he was practically utterly shocked. If the siege continued at this rate, the fall of all of Lordaeron seemed imminent.
The only good news these days is that Dalaran has sent a lot of mages to help and find out the cause of the changes in the Dragon Tower.
Ka'gath led the clan he formed and marched forward. Along the way, there were a large number of fugitives who fell behind. His crazy appearance and cruel and brutal methods made every exiled human who was targeted by him panic.
When he raised the butcher knife towards the humans, his thick wrist was tightly grasped by a stronger hand, preventing him from taking any further action.
The stopped Kael'ath squinted his eyes and looked at the orc who was blocking him, a young orc dressed in white wolf skin, healthy and strong.
"Ah, Durotan, you and your people, are you going to stop me?" Kael'gath looked at Durotan coldly, his eyes full of gloom and tyranny.
"You can terrify them, but you can't let them die in large numbers. This is the will of the high priest! The power of the totem needs more life to nourish it." Durotan whispered, "They have no power to resist, do they?"
"Allowing their minds to connect to the totem is an insult to the totem." Kargath struggled to free himself from Durotan's grasp, but did not attack the fugitives ahead. Although he was unruly, he still had to listen to the high priest's words.
"They'll be left to you."
After Kargath finished speaking, he led his men past the crowd and continued in pursuit. The vast orcish soldiers passed by like two brown torrents, leaving only the orcs, flanked by tall white wolves and wearing wolf-like attire.
"Take them back and hand them over to the Shadowmoon Clan who are responsible for interrogating the intelligence." Durotan waved his hand and drove the fugitives, numbering about three hundred, towards the orc camp.
All intelligent life will become an important asset to the clan!
This was the experience gathered by the various orc clans since the spread of totem power. The more fervently one believed in a particular totem power, the more feedback they received, and the stronger it became.
The consumption of totem power can be replenished by fanatical orcs or other intelligent life forms.
After temporarily solving the food problem, the major clans fought north and south under Held's command. In the end, only seven clans obtained the totem power unique to their own clans through their merits.
These seven clans also took the opportunity to recruit numerous smaller clans that had orcs as vassal forces. The strongest among them would be absorbed into the clans, while the remaining orcs would serve as walking totem energy replenishers.
In order to distinguish themselves from other orc clans, an orc clan that possesses totem power is called a totem clan. The more orc warriors there are in the totem clan and the more orcs there are in its vassal clans, the more active and abundant the totem power of this totem clan will be.
Durotan's Frostwolves are one of these totemic clans. They wield the rational and insightful power of totems. By harnessing this totemic power, they maintain absolute composure and rationality at all times, possessing a strong resistance to spells and mind control. They are also highly observant in combat, able to quickly discern and attack their opponents' weaknesses.
At the same time, they were also given the power of frost elements. Together with the white wolves that were raised and influenced by the power of totems, when their number reached a certain level, they could summon an ice and snow storm without the need for a shaman, manipulate the celestial phenomena to change the environment, and thus gain an advantage.
To become an orc warrior who officially uses the power of the totem, he needs to be given a tattoo of the pattern by the shamans under the high priest.
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Dragon Tower.
The body of a black strange energy creature was being cut into pieces and placed on shelves.
Apostle Luke was very interested in researching the energy life called Naaru. Although he did not have any reliable instruments at hand, he was still able to analyze some things by using other methods.
What particularly interested him was that this was an energy life that was both light and dark! It could be light, and it could also switch to darkness.
This involuntarily made Luke feel a sense of familiarity. After all, even before his talent upgrade, his template already possessed the energy of light and darkness. Leveraging this talent, he had also created a crystal of light principles, and subsequently developed the technology to condense the Infinity Stones.
He could sense that the Naaru before him was a very ancient life form, so ancient that it could be called a living fossil of the universe. This meant that besides its inherent light and dark properties, its research value had increased significantly.
Regarding how to better master and replace the energy foundation of the universe, the other party is obviously an excellent research material. Of course, there is another kind of energy research material.
Luke looked at a hideous and ugly head thrown in the distance. It was connected to some chaotic and evil energy, and its powerful soul was firmly bound inside the head by Held's magic.
It was an orc skull infused with fel energy. If it weren't for the Naaru, Luke would still have some interest in studying it, but now that the gem was in front of him, it could only be temporarily cast aside, and its research authority automatically relegated to the back burner.
Luke heard a faint whisper. It was so faint, yet so "clear." The source of the whisper came from the separated Naaru corpse.
Luke looked through the information about the Dark Star that Held had collected for him.
According to information passed down from generation to generation by the Shadowmoon Clan, this dark star, named the Sublime Father, the Dark Mother, etc., appeared above the Shadowmoon Clan's habitat hundreds of years ago.
Because of the influence of this mysterious star, the power of the Shadowmoon Clan shamans was unprecedentedly enhanced, and they gained the ability to communicate with elements and ancestors. Because of the appearance of this star, the orcs living nearby at that time called themselves the Shadowmoon Clan.
However, after a period of time, some orcs of the Shadowmoon Clan heard voices from within the Dark Body, which were called Void Whispers. They gained the power of the Void and desecrated the souls of their ancestors.
This whisper led the then-Shadowmoon Chieftain to believe that Darkstar was evil, and he issued a ban on contact with the power of the Void.
In other words, the so-called power of the void is the power of shadow that opposes the holy light. The masters of this power are also the so-called Old Gods. This is a dangerous force that is extremely polluting, capable of corrupting and twisting the soul, causing corruption.
"Are you trying to pollute me?"
Luke accepted the meaningless whispers without any resistance. However, although he was an avatar that was temporarily disconnected from the original body, he was blessed with the energy of the Dragon Tower and was a huge source of pollution that was no less than the so-called Old Gods.
If it were the Ancient Gods who were to pollute each other, it would be hard to say who would be the one to pollute whom.
But Luke, whose body and soul were clearly unchanged, became even more interested in the naaru's corpse. He wanted to see if the life form of this creature truly blurred the line between life and death.
The Dragon Tower gathered energy for a thousand years, directly bypassing the authority of Tyrannosaurus King Bakar, and began to be mobilized by Luke with the highest authority.
Although the various rules set by Bakar are rigorous and meticulous, for Luke, to whom energy is both himself and the source, these so-called rules, no matter how rigorous and meticulous, are meaningless to him.
Even after integrating with another multiverse founding force such as the emotional spectrum, the transformed energy can even piece together different energy properties and characteristics like the color spectrum under Luke's updates.
For example, holy light composed of positive emotions?
Although he was not sure what the subtle differences were between the holy light in his hands and the holy light in this world, in terms of function, the similar properties between the two were almost from the same source.
Of course, due to the scarcity of materials, Luke did not let the holy light cover the entire Dark Star, but instead covered one of the huge Naaru fragments.
Endless holy light was condensed and mixed from the ceiling, floor, and walls, and after transformation, it was projected onto the door-like fragment in front of Luke.
The warm light gradually dispelled the darkness above. This fragment, or rather the stump, seemed to come alive and began to actively and consciously absorb the power of holy light.
Finally, a golden fragment, imbued with a vast amount of Holy Light power, appeared before Luke's eyes. It even possessed a strange vitality and faint soul fluctuations, revealing every detail to Luke's observation.
The structure of this life and the characteristics of its energy made Luke narrow his eyes slightly.
Undoubtedly, this life form was unique, possessing exceptional adaptability and growth potential. In particular, the conflict between positive and negative energies, and the constant transformation of life forms, could offer Luke some inspiration, allowing him to advance some of his stagnant research to a new level, perhaps reaching a satisfactory level.
Life, material, energy, evolution.
This kind of life has so many characteristics and advantages. It is a rare and good material!
It's just too little.
Luke sighed.
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"Your Majesty, we have stopped the orcs' rampage. Their invasion has been halted." Kel'Thuzad reported the latest news from the front to Terenas on the throne.
Griffins and magic became the most convenient means of communication during wartime.
"This is not worth being happy about, Mage." Terenas did not show the happiness he should have shown. Instead, he frowned, as if he was thinking about some difficult problem.
He had seen those orcs. Even though his army was the best-equipped and most powerful, it only had a slight advantage against them, and could not gain the overwhelming advantage it had against the armies of other human kingdoms.
Even in the first battle, his army suffered over a hundred casualties. As for the loss of equipment, it was even more distressing to him.
After all, with the wealth of Lordaeron, the number of standard magic equipment produced in the past twenty or thirty years is only over a thousand pieces, and no more than fifteen hundred pieces.
That is to say, it is because of the resource supply of the Dragon Tower. Otherwise, even Lordaeron would not be able to afford such a well-equipped army, let alone a court mage team of about dozens of mages.
Every powerful mage is a gold-eating behemoth. Without a massive investment of resources, the Lordaeron royal family would not be able to recruit so many outstanding mages. Their first choice is always Dalaran. After all, it has a wealth of magical knowledge and a strong atmosphere for magical research.
According to Terenas's estimation of the strength and number of those orcs, the troops he urgently mobilized would not be able to hold off those orcs for long.
The news that the other party's invasion had been curbed made him instinctively sense that something was wrong.
Are the subsequent orcs not strong enough?
Or do they not really want to start a war?
Or is there some other reason?
Before he had more accurate intelligence, Terenas felt a vague sense of unease. He thought the orcs were preparing something. This feeling was so strong that it even transcended his rationality.
"Send the reinforcements that have been prepared," Terenas ordered. Regardless, without knowing the enemy's intentions, he decided to follow his original goal and build a solid wall first.
"Your Majesty, I have trained several disciples. If necessary, they can go to the battlefield at any time." Alonsus Faol, the bishop of Stratholme Cathedral, also spoke.