As one of the creations designed by the Titan Keeperss, the Earthens already have an extraordinary connection with the earth. In addition, recently, the Archaedas discovered a relic left tens of thousands of years ago in Grizzly Hills. A large amount of equipment was forged there. With the new equipment, these hundreds of Earthen exerted an efficiency far exceeding that of ordinary humans several times that number. It only took less than half a day to open up the rugged mountain road into a road wide enough to accommodate dozens of people walking together.
"Aren't these Earthens coming with us?" Vereesa and Aaron were walking at the front, looking at the Earthens who stayed behind and asked curiously.
"They want to stay and continue to widen this road, after all, it is like this road now," Aaron said, but in his heart he regretted not taking Archaedas to get back Pillars of Creation Hammer of Khaz'goroth that can shape the terrain first. If there was that hammer to help, why bother to let Earthen slowly widen the road?
Apart from the Earthens, there are still some Vrykuls who have not tamed Proto-Dragons and remain among the Echo Valleys. They will build temporary camps here in the next period of time to serve as a transfer station for material transfer.
The remaining members of the expeditionary force entered Loshidar Path along the opened path after a short rest. Because they were not familiar with the environment and route, the expeditionary force moved very slowly on the road. Fortunately, there were dragons and Proto-Dragon knights guiding the way in the air. At least there was no danger of getting lost. This was very important in Storm Peaks, where the environment was very cruel, and it meant that the expeditionary force could save a lot of resources.
Although the Earthens helped open the road, after walking through the ladder-like road opened by the Earthens, the forward of the expeditionary force led by Aaron still truly realized the horror of Storm Peaks.
The biggest problem is the relentless cold wind in this area. The howling cold wind keeps circling back and forth in the valley, mixed with scattered snow.
"It's really cold here." Kael'thas complained as he walked beside Aaron.
Although Aaron had previously advised Kael'thas not to follow, as the prince of Quel'Thalas, if anything happens to Kael'thas at Northrend, don't Speaking of Aaron, even Covenant City may be implicated. By then, Alliance, which managed to maintain its existence by signing a new alliance half a year ago, may be facing a new round of dissolution crisis.
However, Kael'thas still insisted on coming to Storm Peaks with the expeditionary force. By the way, he also brought all the accompanying High Elf mages with him. According to Kael'thas said that since Blood Knightss participated in this expedition, of course he had to come to protect these precious combat forces. Quel'Thalas's front-line troops are really rare.
Kael'thas adjusted the three fireballs surrounding him so that the heat of these fireballs could fully heat the air around him to help him adapt to the biting cold wind of Northrend: "How about I hand over Ao? Having him at least make our life more comfortable, right?"
"It's better not to waste your magic power. This area is not a safe place. Keep your magic power to prepare for accidents. Besides..." Aaron shook his head and pointed to the snow and ice under the cliffs on both sides of Loshidar Path, "Aren't you afraid that the snow will melt and drown us all?"
Loshidar Path is called a trail, but it is actually just a natural passage between cliffs. There are usually no traces of life except some beasts living here, and the ground is covered with thick snow.
Except for those mages who had cast Slow Fall and could barely walk on the snow, others could only stumble forward in the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
If Kael'thas really summons the fire phoenix, the blazing flames surrounding Ao will certainly improve the air quality, but it may also melt the snow. When the snow melts into snow water, the road will be more difficult to walk, and it may touch the ice and snow on the nearby cliffs, and it may even trigger an avalanche.
"Okay, okay, I just won't summon Ao out." Kael'thas said helplessly, extinguishing this thought, "Then when will we reach the end?"
Although Kael'thas can also walk on the snow, the sight of ice and snow in front of him still makes Kael'thas a little irritated, "Aaron, can't you bring your ship over, let's fly there together."
"Dreadwake? It's right above." Aaron pointed upward, and you could see a large ship moving slowly directly above the team, it was Dreadwake.
"You brought Dreadwake, why don't you just let us all go on board? It's not a problem for your ship to hold hundreds of people, right?" Kael'thas looked up at Dreadwake and said.
"This road is really too narrow. If Dreadwake goes down, if something goes wrong, it will not only be difficult for Dreadwake to deal with, but it will also affect other people." Aaron spread his hands and pointed at the cliffs on both sides.
When he said this, Aaron also looked up subconsciously, only to see several black shadows appearing near Dreadwake, flying around Dreadwake, "Hey? What is that? Is it Northrend's eagle?"
Lightning, who had just completed a flight, stood on the shoulders of Vereesa and cried a few times to the sky. It seemed that he was also attracted by those black figures.
Vereesa also raised his head, and after looking at the hovering black shadows for a while, he suddenly pointed at the black shadows swooping down from the sky and said, "Wait a minute, those are not eagles!"
Lightning's uneasy posture just now made Vereesa feel that something was wrong. It was not until those black shadows in the sky entered her Eagle Eye's sight that she saw clearly that those with wings were not flying eagles, but humanoid creatures with eagle wings.
"Ranger, mage, prepare to attack!" Aaron also guessed at this time what the black shadows swooping down from the sky were, and immediately ordered all long-range units to prepare to intercept those black shadows. The dragons and Proto-Dragon knights who were advancing with the team were dispersed. The situation nearby was investigated from the air. The few dragons following the team did not seem to notice the changes below. For the time being, the ground troops could only deal with these enemies who made sudden attacks. Fortunately, there were not many black shadows in the sky, and these guys did not have much fighting power. They were just a minor trouble.
It's just that while Aaron was waiting for those enemies to enter the attack range, he couldn't help but look at the camp of the elf mages, wondering if some unlucky guy was among the mages behind Kael'tha.