"Damn it! If not for that Archbishop of Light, all of this would be mine!"
As Medivh secretly watched Saruman, Saruman glared at the skeleton army, seething with rage.
Even that half-baked Necromancer had managed to build a skeleton army of this size.
If that ability had fallen into Saruman's hands, he could scarcely imagine how powerful he would be now.
It was all that Archbishop of Light's fault. He had meddled in an affair between mages and given Medivh the chance to grow stronger.
Saruman only watched from a distance. He did not confront Medivh. Both knew the other was there, but kept their desires for plunder and revenge buried.
This planar war was a major undertaking for both city-states. Internal conflict would not be tolerated now.
After a period of waiting, the powerful fighters of the Zaun City-State and Odyssey City-State attacked the Sam Plane's Plane Barrier.
The Indigenous Kingdom's powerful fighters did not meet them at the Plane Barrier. They chose to fight the city-states' forces within the plane instead.
The familiar sequence played out again. The powerful fighters of the Odyssey City-State and Zaun City-State tore open the Plane Barrier, and the War Demi-plane accelerated into the breach, lodging itself there.
"All forces, advance!"
At the war commander's orders, the Expeditionary Legions teleported to their assigned landing points.
The Indigenous Kingdom of the Sam Plane had prepared well in advance, stationing heavy troops across most of its territory.
The landing points chosen for this assault were widely scattered, most of them in regions unsuitable for human habitation.
The landing legions had only one task: hold their landing points and draw away the Indigenous Kingdom's forces, buying cover for the construction of the Plane Portals.
Once the Plane Portals were complete, the landing assault would become a