Victory

"Damn it, those Alliance guys actually summoned such powerful elemental creatures!" the Orcs priest Rega said angrily, sitting in the fortress's hall.

In reality, if it were in the wild, a few dozen players from Horde would be enough to take down a boss of Xiao Yu's caliber. However, once it appears on the battlefield, with a large number of support players healing and buffing it, allowing this elemental creature to unleash its boss skills to its heart's content, it would be an absolute nightmare.

If you focus fire on the boss, then Alliance players can unleash their full damage potential, and the Horde players might all die before the boss is even defeated. If you ignore the boss, its powerful crowd control abilities are a real headache, making it seem like there's no solution.

The Tauren commander suddenly said, "Perhaps we should summon something too. Hey, as far as I know, there's a powerful fire elemental in the lava lake to the east. Rega, aren't you a priest who's good at dealing with elements? Why don't you go talk to it and ask it to join us?"

Rega glanced at the Tauren Chieftain, thinking to himself that this NPC certainly had a wild imagination. But why would he suddenly say something like that? Was it some kind of hint? That might be one way, but fire elementals were known for their explosive nature, and he couldn't persuade the other party. If it were an ordinary elemental creature, he could use the Dominate Elemental to control it, but with those BOSS-level elemental creatures, unless he used a hero skill, it was hopeless. Unfortunately, his hero skills were Lava Burst and Healing Wave, what a pain! He should have saved some skill points for those. Just as he was hesitating, a series of exclamations suddenly rang out outside, and an Orcs infantryman, covered in dust, rushed in.

Rega (Horde Prophet): "What happened?"

Orcs infantryman. "It's fire elementals, lots of fire elementals! They're burning down the camp gates!"

What?! The Tauren and Rega exchanged a glance, both seeing the shock in each other's eyes. They both stepped out of their tents at the same time, only to see that the outer fence was already engulfed in flames and was about to be burned to the ground.

It has to be said that the Horde is far inferior to the Alliance in terms of architecture. The Alliance camp walls are all made of stone, while the Horde camp walls are made of thick logs. They are fine against ordinary physical attacks, but when faced with a group of unreasonable fire elementals setting fire together, things get really bad.

At this moment, both the main gate and the wooden walls of the camp were burning under the attack of the fire elementals. Some spellcasters of the Horde were casting ice spells on the walls, but it was a drop in the ocean, since the fire elementals did not consume mana when casting spells.

Rega (Horde Prophet): "Damn it, how could this happen? Why are these fire elementals attacking us? Wait, are those Alliance?"

He looked out of the camp and saw that behind the fire elementals, the Alliance army was on high alert, seemingly mobilized in full force. There were more than three hundred NPC soldiers and two or three hundred adventurers, a vast, dark mass.

Rega (Horde Prophet): "Quickly, sound the alarm! Summon all adventurers to join the battle! Send messengers to the Dark Plains to summon reinforcements!"

The Tauren chieftain hurriedly did so, but it was clearly too late. Boom! To the astonishment of the Horde, the camp gate's durability was burned to ashes, and fire elementals swarmed in. Although there were only a few dozen, many elites were mixed in, all activating their Fire Shield. The flames burned fiercely, making it impossible for melee classes to get close. The Alliance army then launched its attack.

"Hold on! Hold on!" the Tauren chieftain roared, leading his Tauren guards to the front lines. They managed to hold their ground, but as more and more Alliance soldiers and adventurers poured in, the line became increasingly precarious.

"Retreat to the fortress, hold the fortress!" Rega kept healing the Tauren Chieftain with Healing Wave as he retreated towards the fortress. Even with the battle so intense, he was still keeping an eye on the situation around him, worried about the Horde players.

Players are the most unreliable creatures. When there are advantages, they rush in faster than anyone else, and when things are about to end, they run away faster than anyone else. Adventurer-type players are better off, since they are not afraid of death. Even if there is no hope of victory, they may fight to the death just to prove themselves.

However, players with soldier or guard templates are different; they can be killed by the plot, so they are often the first to flee when a battle is about to be lost.

In fact, Rega himself was one of those people, because he was also afraid of being killed off by the plot.

Sure enough, as the battle became clearer and the Horde's defeat was inevitable, the adventurers still fought bravely, while some players playing as Horde soldiers began to take the opportunity to sneak away. Instead of retreating back to the fortress, they bypassed it and fled towards the Dark Plains.

Once one appeared, two followed, and soon dozens of people had fled. Some adventurers with weak fighting spirit also ran away when they saw this.

Rega sighed. He was confident he could hold out for a while if everyone retreated into the fortress and held their ground, with the Tauren Chieftain blocking the entrance while he healed from behind. If they could hold out until reinforcements arrived, the outcome of the battle would be uncertain. But now that so many had fled, the hope of holding out was slim. Since that was the case, there was no need for him to fight to the death. After all, he had spent tens of thousands to buy this hero template.

With that thought in mind, he cast a final Healing Wave, then turned and ran.

Mosak (Tauren Chieftain): "Rega, heal me! Rega!" The Old Ox shouted twice, then suddenly realized something was wrong. He turned around and was so angry that his nose almost twisted. Rega had turned into a Ghost Wolf and run away, taking many soldiers and adventurers with him.

It was too late for him to run away, and the honor of being a Tauren chieftain would not allow him to beg for mercy.

All they could do was roar, "For the Horde!" and fight to the death.

However, this effort was clearly futile in the face of the swarming adventurers.

Compared to the BOSS template, the hero template's health bonus is far less. Even a level 40 high-level hero only has a little over 20,000 health. Without Rega and healing, it can be reduced to low health in just a few rounds of focused fire.

Old Ox swung his massive axe, unleashing a final Shockwave, before being killed by concentrated fire.

"Holy crap, they can actually revive!" the players exclaimed in surprise.

That's right, the Tauren chieftain has the Ancestral Protection and can be resurrected once after dying in battle, and he will be resurrected with full health and status. However, by this time the tide has turned, so it is obviously useless. He was focused down and killed again after only a few swings of his axe.

With Mosak's death, the Horde's defeat in the battle for the Burning Path was declared.

System notification: You have completed the story event - The Battle of the Burning Path. You played a significant role in this battle between the Alliance and the Horde. Based on your impact in this event, you have gained 679 reputation points.

System notification: Your relationship with the Alliance has improved; it has changed from indifferent to the Alliance.

Haha, that's awesome! Xiao Yu was immediately excited. He didn't expect to get so many reputation points at once. But thinking about it, it makes sense. On the one hand, he played a decisive role in the previous battle. On the other hand, he persuaded Baron Geddon to join their camp. Moreover, Esmehalda also contributed a lot. It's really not much that he got 679 reputation points.

The battlefield is indeed a great place to farm reputation points. But now that the war is over, it's time to discard those who helped us.