When he first heard the news, Aaron was deeply surprised. He knew Lich King Ner'zhul has been missing for a long time after Battle of Mount Hyjal. He thought that Ner'zhul, who had seen the strength of Azeroth, would lurk here and wait at least for a while before coming out to cause trouble. He did not expect that Lich King would choose to stir up trouble again at this time.
Aaron always thought that the old Orcs who was afraid of death had chosen to hide. However, the news from Stormwind City was so true. It is said that Ghoul and various other Scourge creations have appeared in the vast territory of Kingdom of Stormwind from Darkshire in the south to Lakeshire in the north.
These once-disappeared monsters caused great trouble to the residents of Kingdom of Stormwind. The only good thing is that Scourge did not secretly spread the plague this time. Otherwise, Stormwind City, who has no experience in dealing with Scourge, might not be able to withstand the first round of attacks.
Fortunately, this extremely resilient southern kingdom dealt with Scourge's first round of attacks. Not only did it get a chance to breathe, but it also had time to ask for help from the Alliance.
This news also attracted the attention of the Alliance. At the beginning, Scourge ran rampant in Lordaeron and several neighboring countries. Although it did not cause too much damage to the Alliance, There were irreparable losses, but their rampant footsteps still caused serious damage to many areas in Lordaeron, and even today Undead among Silverpine Forest have not been cleaned up.
And now that Alliance has formed a relatively tight group, they will naturally not let Stormwind City sit still and wait. The problem is that when Stormwind City reported the news about Scourge, he also mentioned it in passing A piece of news that surprised everyone at the Alliance was that while Scourge was about to make a move, Jungle Trolls, which was located in Stranglethorn Vale south of Stormwind City, also started to make some moves.
These old enemies of Stormwind City have been stable for a long time, especially after the invasion of Orcs. They once formed Alliance with Orcs. As a result, Orcs was defeated. In the end, these Troll were also seriously affected and had to huddle in the dense jungle of Stranglethorn Vale to lick their wounds.
However, after so many years of recuperation, these Jungle Trolls seem to be planning to declare war on Kingdom of Stormwind again. Although the new Kingdom of Stormwind has gradually rebuilt in these ten years of life, they still do not have the strength to face the enemies from the north and the south at the same time, especially one of them is Scourge who almost destroyed Lordaeron.
After some discussion and debate, Alliance finally decided to send troops to help Kingdom of Stormwind deal with the danger in the north, while Jungle Trolls in the south would leave it to Kingdom of Stormwind to deal with it himself.
This is also determined by the geographical characteristics of the Alliance. The main forces of the Alliance are concentrated in the north. It would be beyond our reach to launch an attack on Stranglethorn Vale, but to attack It is said that the Scourge hidden in Blackrock Mountain is a little simpler, as long as the Alliance army followed the route of the Orcs army to attack Orcs.
Varian himself has no opinion on the Alliance's decision. In fact, this king who still seems so reckless now even wants to rely entirely on the power of his kingdom to solve the threats on both sides. Fortunately, he Many of his ministers blocked his unrealistic idea, and finally Varian agreed to ask for help from the Alliance, otherwise the rebuilt Stormwind City might not be able to survive.
After the Alliance decided to support, Aaron, as a being who had fought with Scourge many times, also received an order to go to Burning Steppes to investigate the situation.
Aaron is actually not sure why Scourge is hiding in Burning Steppes, but thinking that Archimonde came to Blackrock Mountain, he guessed that maybe Lich King Ner'zhul used Blackrock Mountain as his hiding place.
After all, when Alliance is shrinking and recuperating, no one will pay special attention to Blackrock Mountain. The black-body dwarves who once regarded Blackrock Mountain as their home are no longer outside Ironforge. Having established a new home, the dwarves' sight has retreated to Badlands, lacking the necessary vigilance against Searing Gorge that is closer to Blackrock Mountain, while the boundaries of human influence have stopped at Lakeshire.
So the two areas Burning Steppes and Searing Gorge have become blind spots in the Alliance's field of vision. As a result, when Aaron brought people to Burning Steppes, they saw a large number of skeletons and Ghoul wandering on the plain.
Judging from the surface environment, the time when these Undead spread in Burning Steppes was not very long. It was probably very similar to the time when Kingdom of Stormwind was found as minions in Scourge. According to the distribution pattern of these Undead, Aaron finally confirmed Lich King Ner'zhul is really hidden in Blackrock Mountain.
Of course, in fact, Ner'zhul cannot be said to have hidden its intentions at all, because a giant Necropolis is suspended above the half-collapsed Blackrock Mountain.
If Alliance anyone has ever entered Burning Steppes or Searing Gorge and looked slightly in the direction of Blackrock Mountain, they will find that Necropolis, it's a pity that no one has done this in the past few years. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Ner'zhul dared to place Necropolis above Blackrock Mountain.
Based on the information obtained by the dwarves from investigating Scourge in the north, Scourge has turned both Searing Gorge and Burning Legion into its own territory, and has even made The land near Blackrock Mountain has gradually changed from being eroded by flames to being infiltrated by the power of death. In particular, the land near Blackrock Mountain has been completely directly infiltrated by death, and a situation like Icecrown Glacier has already occurred.
Aaron swears by his identity as Wild God that Lich King Ner'zhul must have not been idle these years. He must have produced a large number of Undead. Now these Undead may be hidden in the hollow mountain belly of Blackrock Mountain.
Although I don't know why Ner'zhul suddenly started to expand during this period, Aaron only knows one thing. Since the other party dares to take the lead, it must be completely solved this time.
In order to completely achieve this goal, Aaron even specifically asked for help from Dragonflights in the north, asking them to block Necropolis's escape route in the air.
The dragon clan, which was once completely angered by Scourge's act of stealing the dragon bones to make Frost Wyrm, fully agreed to Aaron's request. They also had many accounts to settle with Scourge.
Speaking of dragons, we have to mention one of the more special ones among the dragons: Onyxia, Black Dragon Princess once almost went to Outland because of Aaron He was killed by the restrictions brought by the reins due to his behavior. Fortunately, he was saved by Azeroth. After that, he stayed in Sholazar Basin. This time, he was sent out by Azeroth.
Aaron is not only a little sorry for almost killing Onyxia, but also regrets that he lost a Black Dragonflight mount - at that time Azeroth could only remove the restriction of the reins, but now Onyxia is directly controlled by Azeroth.