The hive crystals that were not intercepted during the air raid hatched nearly 100,000 insects after they landed. The garrison in Cenarion Fortress relied on favorable terrain for defense, but still lost nearly a thousand people.

If those hives were allowed to continue to develop, the Cenarion Hold base would probably be razed to the ground like Southwind Village.

After all, these insect people eat both meat and vegetables, and anything that can be called a living thing can be their food. If they are allowed to replenish nutrients unscrupulously, not only will Silithus become truly lifeless, but a large number of insect eggs will be laid every day.

Therefore, these insect nests are a hidden danger for Garen's attack on Ahn'Qiraj, and clearing the insect nests is imperative.

Soon, Maiev and her elite watchers completed their reconnaissance mission and returned to Cenarion Hold.

Then, a huge sand table of the Silithus Desert terrain appeared in front of Garin.

Garin summoned several commanders and high-end combat forces of this war to discuss the matter.

As mentioned before, the Silithus Desert is surrounded by mountains on all sides and is shaped like a square. The only flat passage is the trail connecting to the Un'Goro Crater in the northeast corner.

Cenarion Hold is located near the center of the north, and most of the hive crystal locations marked by Maiev are concentrated in the eleven o'clock direction of the fortress.

In just one night, they had connected together to form a huge insect nest!

"In addition to the insect nest closest to us, my men discovered that there were two large insect nests on the left and right sides of the southern gate of Ahn'Qiraj!"

"hiss!"

Garin looked at the direction marked by Maiev and felt that even if he had triggered the War of Quicksand in advance, history would still be surprisingly similar!

Aren’t these three insect nests the three major insect nests of Ash and Zorarego in later generations!

Fortunately, these hive crystals only landed in the Silithus Desert. If they were dropped indiscriminately on the Kalimdor continent, I don’t know how many places would suffer.

"We must destroy these insect nests, starting with the one closest to us. The remaining two are close to the beetle wall. Our army will push through from the north and south and destroy them as we go!"

Garin pointed to the location of the Yash Hive and continued, "I issued the order for the army to march last night. My plan is very simple. The two armies will enter Silithus and advance quickly. Then they will open the beetle wall and rush into Ahn'Qiraj and attack Huanglong directly!"

C'Thun had already vaguely sensed the coalition's goal, and last night's hive attack was just a test.

Even if the night elves' target was not discovered in the end, it didn't matter. After all, this old silver god had been allowing the Qiraji insects to explode for a thousand years, so a few years wouldn't make a difference.

"The number of insects is huge, but their magic resistance is weak and they have no autonomy. They mainly rely on the command of senior worker insects and brain insects."

"This is a brain worm, the most important grassroots commander of the Qiraji. Their mental power is very strong and they can lay eggs. One brain worm can command nearly 10,000 worker worms."

Garin condensed a huge, fat creature on the sand table, with its body covered with purple shells, four legs, and two long, horny tentacles. It looked like an enlarged version of a morning glory beetle.

"Maiev, after the war begins, you will lead the Hidden Blades and Gnoll Scouts among the Watchers and Crusaders, and be responsible for finding the brain worms and decapitating them."

"no problem!"

Maiev's voice came from beneath the owl helmet.

"Let's first understand the enemies we may encounter. First of all, in addition to the bugs, there is a group of special beings in Ahn'Qiraj that we need to pay attention to!"

"Teacher, are you referring to the Obsidian Colossus?"

Fandral seemed to have thought of something, and Maiev also knew whether what Galen said was true or not, but Aegwynn was the only one who didn't know.

"Obsidian Colossus? What is that?"

Facing Aegwynn's question, Staghelm answered, "The Obsidian Colossi are a group of stone giants that are more than ten meters tall. They have human-shaped bodies and jackal heads. If it were just an army of insect men, the army I led could still handle it. It was because of these Obsidian Destroyers that I was defeated!"

Fandral cast a spell, and a black model of a creature with a human body and a wolf head appeared above the sand table.

Half of the elite troops in the army back then participated in the War of the Ancients, but were defeated in the end. In addition to the huge number of ordinary insect troops, there were also these tough obsidian colossi.

Fandral glanced at the Bronze Dragon Prince and continued, "Even a giant dragon can be destroyed by them if you are not careful!"

Those obsidian colossi corrupted by C'Thun were too powerful. Although the night elves were immortal, they were still mortals, and it was difficult to cause much damage to them.

Even the dragons suffered a lot of losses when facing these giants. Most of the dragons that were killed were killed by the Obsidian Colossus after being knocked down from the sky and being besieged by insects.

"Obsidian Colossus, stone giant, I seem to have heard of it somewhere. Could it be that this Obsidian Colossus is a creation of the Titans?"

Aegwynn was a heroine who had fought and killed Sargeras. When she sealed Sargeras's clone in the Temple of the Moon in Suramar, she placed a group of stone men found in ancient ruins, namely the Maidens of the Ring of War and the Maidens of Valor, among them as guards.

Aegwynn's doubts just happened to test Garen's knowledge points.

"The Obsidian Colossus, also known as Anubisath, should be more precisely called Titan creations."

Anubisaths, the Rock Vrykul, and the Earth Spirits were all born in the furnace of consciousness forged by the gods, but the division of labor of these Titan creations is different.

The Rock Vrykul are the warriors responsible for attack, the Earthen are responsible for logistics, and these jackal-like obsidian colossi are the jailers, responsible for guarding the Old Gods imprisoned by the Titans.

Their leader is the Great Guardian Ra. After the Guardians purged the ancient gods of the Black Empire, except for some obsidian colossi that stayed in Ulduar in the north, the other colossi accompanied Ra from the Titan base Ulduar all the way south to Uldum to participate in the construction plan of the Forge of Origin.

Uldum is located at the southern end of the ancient Kalimdor continent, separated only by a mountain range from Silithus, the sealed place of the ancient god C'Thun.

To be on the safe side, the Great Guardian Ra built a solid fortress on the land sealed by C'Thun: the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, and let the obsidian colossi that followed him serve as the initial guards.

Later, as time went by, the guardian Lai disappeared, and the obsidian colossi were also eroded by the same flesh and blood curse as the rock vrykul and earth elementals.

They soon discovered that their indestructible obsidian bodies had become as weak as mud, and their mental will was gradually weakened by C'Thun's whispers.

However, relying on their own magic immunity, the Anubisaths still overcame part of the curse and evolved into a unique race of half flesh and half obsidian, also known as the Tol'vir.

The tol'vir of Uldum established their own unique civilization and continued to guard the Forge of Origination until a mogu rebellion caused Uldum to be magically sealed off from the outside world.

Compared to their fellow tribesmen in Uldum, the Anubisaths who guarded the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj were not so lucky. They were defeated by the Yakir Zerg who moved south, and then occupied the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj and established a new Zerg Empire.

The captured Anubis were given false wills by the Old Gods, making them smarter, and some were transformed by the Old Gods and eventually became winged obsidian destroyers.

Everyone listened to these ancient secrets with great fascination. These stories took place even earlier than the night elves, and there were no records of them at all.

At this time, Vereesa, who was sitting in the corner, felt that Galinlema was really like her brother-in-law, with the same powerful strength and the same erudition!

If Windrunner's younger sister hadn't known that her brother-in-law was in Stromgarde, accompanying her two sisters and nursing their children, she would have almost thought that the two were the same person.

As Garin finished speaking, the Bronze Dragon Prince Anachronos, who had been silent the whole time, said in a low voice: "The weapons thrown by these Obsidian Destroyers are very powerful. When our dragon clan relied on the air advantage to defeat the Anubisath army, an Obsidian Destroyer threw an obsidian sword and cut off the wings of the dragon army leader Grakaron. Poor Grakaron died just like that!"

This is probably the greatest achievement of these Obsidian Destroyers. The remains of the mighty dragon still stand in the desert.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little depressing, Garin cursed Anachronos in his heart as a stupid teammate!

Boosting others' morale will destroy your own prestige!

"Don't worry, I will deal with these Obsidian Destroyers when the time comes."

Garin glared at the bronze dragon prince. Anachronos also knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he took the initiative to accept the task of introducing the Qiraji insect people.

Anachronos also cast a spell to condense the image of an upright insect man on the sand table. This insect man had a strong upper body and two claws like giant pincers.

"General Rajax is the main military commander of the Qiraji. He is cruel and cunning, and is good at exploiting the weaknesses of his opponents to make targeted arrangements. He is very difficult to deal with."

Fandral clenched his palms tightly and his eyes seemed to be spewing fire.

When he was a teenager, it was this guy who set a trap and captured his son Vastan. If Vastan didn't have the life-saving heirloom given by his mentor, I'm afraid that what would be left for him would be Vastan's fragments!

Following the Bronze Dragon Prince's explanation, the generals gained a certain understanding of the Qiraji Zerg.

However, the information from Fandral and Anachronos was incomplete. It only involved the Zerg leaders in the wastes of Ahn'Qiraj. They knew nothing about the deeper core Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.

However, the main battlefield envisioned by Garin was on the wasteland of Ahn'Qiraj, where the army would hold back the Zerg army, and then he would lead an elite team to use the sewer infiltration method that the millions of great lords were best at back then, to sneak into the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj and carry out a decapitation operation.

After the meeting, everyone prepared for their own situation.

The next morning, an army of 100,000 night elves and 50,000 centaurs had crossed the northern mountains and entered Silithus.

As the commander-in-chief of this 150,000-strong army, Fandral's strategic goal is to push the battle line to the gate of Ahn'Qiraj and destroy the Zora hive in the west.

The leader of the Crusaders was not Aegwynn. The former guardian said that she was not good at marching and fighting, so it would be better to keep her on the battlefield to fight against the enemy's high-level forces.

Therefore, Garen gave this important task to Khadgar, who had just returned to Azeroth from Draenor.

In the spring of the twenty-first year of the Dark Gate, the night elves and the Crusaders formed an alliance and entered Silithus!

To the west of the great desert is the marching area of ​​the night elves, led by two legions advancing in parallel.

On the left is the Scythes of the Moon led by Vastan. This legion has experienced the Battle of Mount Hyjal and the Emerald Nightmare crisis. Now the Battle of the Quicksands will become their third legendary feat.

On the right is a strange legion. They do not look like night elves, but they look unusually tall and strong.

They wore black hoods and blood-red cloaks.

Their scarlet eyes and sharp claws could be vaguely seen from the shaking hoods and cloaks. After their march, a long trail of meat-pad-shaped footprints was left in the desert!

These are Garin’s new brothers, from the Wolf Warrior Legion in the Emerald Dream!

Following the two legions were the war druids and archers of Eldre'Thalas, and behind the team were hundreds of the night elves' unique glaive throwers and hundreds of mountain giants with granite bodies.

The giants were not holding randomly uprooted tree stumps, but rather giant maces specially made for them by Eldre'Thalas.

On the left wing of the army were the female hunters. They rode on nimble cheetahs, held moon blades flashing with cold light, and had stern faces.

The army on the right wing was equally huge. They were warriors from the five largest Centaur clans in Desolace. Each tribe was led by a Centaur Khan and they were divided into five colors: black, brown, green, red and yellow.

This is the result of two and a half years that Vastan has spent in Desolace.

This rising star of House Staghelm used a variety of strategies including massive military conquests, intimidation and inducement, and making friends with distant nations and attacking nearby ones before he quelled the Centaur Rebellion and recovered the Desolace.

Maraudon is now under blockade in Eldre'Thalas and no one is allowed to enter or leave, waiting for Galen to free up the Earth Princess inside and liberate the soul of the Son of Cenarius.

In the eastern part of the Silithus Desert, the Crusaders were also on the march.

In front of him were Garin's five elite army legions, led by the five earliest legion commanders who followed Garin. These five legions were composed of elite infantry, hunters, heavy knights, military wizards and field priests.

Behind one square formation were eight huge square formations consisting of 80,000 boarmen warriors.

They wore Crusader-style armor on their tall bodies and held sharp steel weapons in their hands.

Among these eight phalanxes, six are heavy infantry phalanxes, and the other two phalanxes belong to the elite guards of the Quilboar Chieftain, the Toothless Raptor Knights and the Screaming Heavy Armored Fighting Boar Knights.

Behind the boarmen are the Tauren's heavily armored Kodo Knights and Sunwalker troops.

When these phalanxes entered the desert, a group of troops like locusts swarmed into the mountain road!

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