Chapter 9: Victory in the Defense of Arathi

Tokaral Troll Slayer slashed at the bones of the Lich Summoner Akira, but was blocked by a layer of frost shield that suddenly appeared.

"Young prince, you will be the best gift I offer to the great master, and you will become a death knight after death, destroying the kingdom you protect with your own hands." The Lich Summoner Akira hiding in the frost shield was not panicked by the warrior's approach, as if he had a sure win.

Garlin Trollbane gathered his anger and shattered the frost shield with a sword, but his speed was also reduced by the ice fragments, but he replied unyieldingly, "Lich, it's not certain who will win. I want to use your skull to worship my dead human compatriots."

At the beginning, Garlin Trollbane was at a disadvantage and was almost played by the Lich Summoner Akira. He couldn't even touch the bones of the lich and was covered in dirt.

However, as time went by, Garin Trollbane felt that he had a better grasp of his strength and body. The frost shield that originally needed anger to break could now be broken by finding weaknesses.

In the tug of war, Garin Trollbane's strength continued to improve, and his heroic momentum became more and more stable. Finally, he saw a flaw in the lich summoner Akira, and with a sweep, he broke all the undead zombies blocking the way in front of him, and then launched a charge.

Just when the lich summoner Akira wanted to repeat the old trick and cast the frost shield, Garin Trollbane gathered his anger and roared loudly. The powerful energy directly interrupted the lich summoner Akira's spell, and the frost shield did not form.

Garin Trollbane also seized the moment when the lich summoner Akira was stunned, raised his sword and fell, and cut off several ribs of the lich summoner Akira.

"No! My perfect body!" The undead have no pain, but Summoner Akira is an extremely narcissistic person. He dressed himself meticulously when he was alive. After he died, he became a lich and loved his lich body very much. Now it was destroyed by Galen Trollbane.

Galen Trollbane didn't care what the lich summoner Akira was like. Seeing that the other party suddenly lost his mind and focused on his lich body, he would not let go of this rare opportunity. "You are finished, lich!"

Holding Tokaral Troll Slayer with both hands, Galen Trollbane jumped high and directly launched the warrior's final skill "behead" against the lich summoner Akira!

In this way, the skeletal head of the lich summoner Akira flew up. After losing the skull, the power that originally supported the floating lich body also disappeared, and fell to the ground and turned into a pile of crystal white bones with ice crystals.

After killing the lich summoner Akira, Galen Trollbane's momentum was completely stable, and he truly reached the strength of a heroic warrior.

Before, Garin Trollbane had just broken through, and his foundation was unstable. His strength could only be said to be half a step to the hero level, while the lich summoner Akira was a pseudo-hero level, even if it was a pseudo, he was stronger than him who was half a step.

But through fighting with strong men of the same level, Garin Trollbane's strength began to stabilize. After stabilization, the real hero level was stronger than the pseudo-hero level, which was why Garin Trollbane's Fear-Breaking Roar could affect the lich summoner Akira.

Coupled with the huge flaw revealed by the summoner Akira, this allowed Garin Trollbane to complete the final beheading.

At this time, a large number of black shadows also appeared in the sky in the north, and thousands of dwarf knights riding huge griffins appeared.

Garin Trollbane also asked for help from the Eagle's Nest Mountain in the Hinterlands. The principle of lips and teeth being cold, the Eagle's Nest Mountain Lord Falstad Wildhammer was still very clear.

Falstad Wildhammer used a storm hammer in the air, smashing the abomination head that wanted to attack Galen Trollbane to pieces, and said in a rough voice, "Congratulations, Prince Galen, another hero-level warrior has been born in the Kingdom of Stormgarde."

How difficult it is to break through the hero level. Except for those with extraordinary talents, many ninth-level warriors have been trapped for their entire lives. This is also why many hidden warriors took the initiative to join the Scourge after the appearance of the Scourge in exchange for eternal life and powerful strength.

Like Falstad Wildhammer, although he is the great lord of Aerie Mountain, he is only at the peak of the ninth level and has been trapped at this level for more than 20 years. The only hero-level warrior in Aerie Mountain, Kurland Wildhammer, has joined the Alliance Expeditionary Force.

With the addition of the Wildhammer Dwarf Griffin Knights of Aerie Mountain, these gargoyles of the Scourge's detachment are no longer a threat, and Stromgarde has an air advantage, so the time for a counterattack has come.

Marshal Oslet, who was commanding on the Wall of Thoradin, seized the opportunity and ordered the militia of Stromgarde to open the city gate. The first to rush out were not the militia of Stromgarde or the Highland Cavalry, but the Witherwood Trolls of Witherwood Village. Led by their leader, Zarath Witherwood, they launched an attack on the Scourge.

Although the Witherwood Trolls were poorly equipped and most of them even held wooden stone axes, they still pushed back the undead who relied on their numerical advantage with the powerful recovery ability of the trolls and the ninth-level strength of their leader Zarath Witherwood.

Looking at the witherwood trolls who were constantly sacrificing, Galen Thorbane had a dark face and did not issue an order for the militia of Stromgarde to attack. Stromgarde and the Witherwood Trolls were destined to be enemies. Being kind to the enemy was cruel to oneself. Although he made a promise to Zarath Witherwood, he could reduce the number of Witherwood Trolls through the Scourge.

After the Witherwood Trolls suffered heavy casualties, Galen Trollbane issued an order to send troops. The Stromgarde Militia, which had been waiting for a long time and had been gathering strength for a long time, launched a counterattack against the Scourge.

Without the commander of the Scourge, the Lich Summoner Akira, and the heroic warriors, the Scourge was just a mess, with only a small number of high-level undead commanding the meaningless resistance of low-level undead.

The Stromgarde Militia, the Griffin Knights of Aerie Mountain, and the Witherwood Trolls joined together and finally won the defense battle of Arathi Highlands.

After defeating the Scourge, Zarath Witherwood led the remaining less than 10,000 Witherwood Trolls to the north and disappeared from sight.

Falstad Wildhammer, the Grand Lord of Aerie Mountain, who was originally beating the undead, screamed and gave up attacking the Scourge with the Griffin Knights to chase Zarath Witherwood.

Because the direction that Zarath Witherwood fled with the remaining Witherwood trolls was exactly the Hinterlands.

Now most of the Wildhammer dwarves live in Aerie Mountain in the Hinterlands, and they are hostile to the Witherwood trolls. If Zarath Witherwood, a ninth-rank warrior, and so many Witherwood trolls run to the Hinterlands, the danger of Aerie Mountain will increase.

Garlin Trollbane promised to give Zarath Witherwood and the Witherwood trolls a way out, but Falstad Wildhammer, the Grand Lord of Aerie Mountain, did not.

Although the Witherwood trolls and the Griffin Knights withdrew from the battle one after another, the Stromgarde militia was basically one-sided against the remaining troops of the Scourge, which was just right for training those new recruits.