The south coast of Jialan Continent, the Echo Islands.
This is a large group of reef islands just off the coast.
Due to tidal action, the reef island group is submerged below sea level for most of the year. Only in September and October, when the storm season is approaching, will this reef island group emerge and become a taboo sea area that all navigators dare not easily set foot on.
Therefore, the Echo Islands were used by the Pale Witches to build a solid forward camp that continued to invade the Jialan Continent.
It's not that the elves are ignorant of the harm that the Echo Islands bring them, but they are helpless.
This is the only main island in the Echo Islands where the alder fruit is exposed all the year round above sea level. The witches densely set up a large number of defensive and offensive witch arrays. In addition, a third-level senior witch sits in town. The elves want to The price to be paid to remove it is beyond imagination.
What's more, the Echo Islands are still sixty to seventy miles away from the Jialan Continent. If the elves want to attack the main island, they can only dispatch a huge navy and air cavalry. And once the elf navy is dispatched, the jagged reefs around the Echo Islands that sink below the sea surface become their nightmare when fighting.
As for the elf airriders, if they set off from the nearest south coastline and fly sixty or seventy miles long-distance to besiege the witch stronghold with a strong fortress, most of the Pegasus and Hippogryph would not be able to support them physically. So the witch outpost camp on the Echo Islands has existed for one or two hundred years, but it has never been removed by the elves.
And the only thing the elves can do is to establish a new elf city, Green Water City, near the coastline closest to the Echo Islands, and station a powerful elf army - the Windrunner troop there, to fight against the witches. invasion.
This Windrunner troop includes almost all air units capable of flying in the Elf Kingdom, from low-level flower spirits to high-level green goblins, from low-level Pegasus knights to high-level silver Pegasus knights, and groups of Hippogryph Archer, Chimera Demon Beast Squad, Wind Eagle Assault Squad...
As long as there are flying monsters that can be found in Jialan Continent, they can be seen in Green Water City.
Coupled with a large number of low-level druids and the forest companions they summoned, if the witches dared to invade Green Water City, they would have to face overwhelming flying monsters immediately.
With the containment of Green Water City and the huge Windrunner army, the invasion of the witches on the south coast appeared to be a little bit powerless and thunderous.
After the Dark Witch and the Pale Witch's allied forces crossed the ocean and entered the Echo Islands, facing the strictly guarded Green Water City, they could only send some witch squads to bypass the Green Water City area to make some small troubles. Due to the existence of the Windrunner troop and the relocation of the elven villages around the coastline, the witch squad did not gain much, and they also had to bear great danger of their lives.
This also invisibly lowered the war benefits of the witches, which caused serious dissatisfaction among the dark witches who came across the border!
Especially Uzza, the third-order dark witch who led the team, almost quarreled with the pale witches because of this.
Uzzah led the team here this time, but he shouldered the great trust of the leader of the witches. In addition to bringing back a small group of elves to the dark witches, he also tried to obtain the most holy thing of the Pegasus clan--the water of the magic spring. .
The expansion of the dark witches in the shadow plane is going smoothly, and they urgently need to migrate into a high-level intelligent life group that can reproduce by themselves. After choosing and choosing, they find that the Faen forest elves provided by the pale witches are the most suitable.
It's just that the elves captured by the Pale Witch from the Fann plane on a regular basis are either elf warriors or elf archers, and almost all of them are strong fighters who are suitable for training as war slaves. This is a bit inconsistent with the expectations of the Dark Witch.
What the dark witches want more is a whole group of elves including the elderly, children, women and children, and the number should be at least 400. In this way, it is convenient for the witches to observe and test the infection process of the shadow plane to the alien intelligent biological group.
As for the magic spring of Pegasus, that is the key to the magic forest of Jialan Continent being able to continuously produce the magic beast Pegasus. It is said that only after a pregnant Pegasus or Silver Pegasus returns to its holy land, the Magic Spring, and cites the water from the Magic Spring, can the offspring be real Warcraft Pegasus, otherwise it will only be an ordinary wild horse.
This strange appearance certainly aroused the curiosity of the witches.
Recently, the Dark Witch is planning to breed a batch of suitable flying witches, so she urgently wants to obtain some water from the magic spring for research.
It's just that the Pegasus Magic Spring is far away in the depths of the central mountain range, where the elves are heavily guarding the area, so although the dark witches are impatient, they don't dare to make mistakes easily, they can only try to figure it out slowly.
Therefore, Uzza, the third-level dark witch, couldn't bear the pale witch's behavior of occupying the periphery of the Jialan Continent without any major actions, and wished to part ways with them as soon as possible.
However, at this moment, she unexpectedly received an invitation to fight that made her heart-thumping.
The invitation to battle comes from Alice.
Ever since the outbreak of the 'Witch Plague', Alice, the leader of the fate witch, has broken away from the Pale Witch's fleet and entered the Jialan Continent alone, relying on a powerful floating giant ship. For this huge metal fortress that can advance and retreat freely, the collateral witch branch has long been envious.
However, if such a huge floating ship wants to stay in the air for a long time, and go deep into the enemy-occupied area to fight, the number of magic crystals it consumes every moment is amazing enough. Therefore, it is not that collateral witches do not have such means, but they are really unable to support such a terrible consumption of magic crystals.
As for the Destiny Witches, the Tower of Destiny has been self-enclosed for thousands of years, and the amount of magic crystals they have hoarded must be astonishing, so they can consume magic crystals so extravagantly in a short period of time to make up for their shortcomings in combat power. For this point, although the witches of the other series are envious, they are not very surprised.
The Fate Witches led by Alice have entered the Jialan Continent for half a month, and they will definitely gain something. But with their team, they didn't even have a rank 3 witch, so they must have suffered a bloody blow from the strong counterattack of the elves!
Now that Alice took the initiative to invite the dark witches to act with them, it seems that she must have suffered a lot.
With the slightest snigger and contempt, Uzza the Dark Witch accepted Alice's invitation to fight without hesitation.
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October 12, 10471 in the Farn calendar.
Two light elven warships patrolled the Echo Islands.
Compared with large human sea ships, elf warships are slightly smaller, with a narrow and long hull, and a relatively flat upper deck, on which are placed a lot of long-range magical equipment unique to the elves - bird wing ballistas.
Such an elf battleship is obviously not suitable for the deep sea area with huge wind and waves, so it cannot sail far. However, in the offshore area near the coastline, due to the advantages of fast speed and flexible steering, it has become the most common battleship in the elf navy.
It's a sunny afternoon.
The blue sky is like washing, and the sea breeze is blowing.
Two elven battleships are patrolling the outskirts of the reef island boredly, while admiring the beautiful and pleasant sea view, while monitoring every move of the witches on the Echo Islands not far away.
On top of their ships, some winged Pegasus flew up from time to time, leading the elf knight equipped with a monocular, silently monitoring the surroundings from high above the sky.
The snow-white horses, wide and white wings, and the elegant posture of stepping on the ground as if they were walking on the ground, made this group of Pegasus knights attract everyone's attention. On both sides of the elven battleship, there were elven warriors waving to the Pegasus knight and saying hello loudly.
Although these monster flying horses are handsome, their physical strength is far inferior to other flying monsters, so they are often only responsible for monitoring the safety of the airspace within three to five miles around the elf warship. The vigilance of the farther airspace is often in charge of the enduring Hippogryph archers.
Today's sea conditions are so good, and the blue sea and blue sky are full of beautiful scenery, so the Pegasus knight who took off into the air on a whim, played the old trick of diving and riding the waves around the elven battleship. A pair of vigorous flying horses, carrying the elf knights, swooped down from a height of two to three hundred meters, and suddenly pulled up horizontally at the moment they approached the sea. The unparalleled pure white flying horse stepped on the rolling waves with four hooves, and walked among the waves.
This soul-stirring scene immediately caused bursts of cheers from the elves, and even a lot of black spots drilled out of the tall building fortress on Echo Main Island in the distance, peeping here.
Cidaris wiped off the sea foam splashed on his face, and raised the flying height again with the cheers and waves of the elves. The naked Silver Pegasus climbed up with all his might, and finally came to the side of the knight Hegus, who was soaring at a height of 100 meters.
"Aren't you going to play for a while? It's rare to come to the Echo Islands, and the witches don't dare to come out easily, just to let our old man loosen his muscles and bones. I've been stuck in the cabin for a while, and my bones are almost rusting... "Cidaris asked briskly, his eyes full of deep puzzlement.
Most of the air cavalry troops of the elves have been transferred to Green Water City, and even several powerful elf envoys are stationed there. The "Witch Plague" that broke out this year has been suppressed by the elves from the source. So far, the battalion of witches who have attacked have never even had a chance to set foot on the homes of the elves.
As for those sporadic witch teams who sneaked into the Jialan Continent under the cover of night, as long as they dared to show their faces, they would never be able to escape the pursuit of the elf windrunner troops and powerful elves.
So psychologically, Cidaris didn't take the group of witches in front of him seriously.
It is said that this year the attacks of the witches have once again focused on the human-dominated Faen Continent, and the Jialan Continent is just bluffing. Therefore, as long as they survived the four-month low tide period and waited for the violent monsoon to blow in the depths of the ocean, the witches could only obediently retreat to that evil Shadow Island again.
At that time, the Echo Islands will also be engulfed by the soaring sea water and sink below the sea surface again.
Without this powerful outpost, it will not be so easy for the witches to invade the Jialan Continent.
Just when Cedaris was 'harassing' Hegus, the stubborn and withdrawn silver Pegasus knight suddenly shook, and pulled out a shiny silver monocular from his waist. He held the mirror in front of his eyes and looked at the sea area on the other side.
"Alarm...alert...an enemy is coming!"
The next moment, the silver Pegasus knight Hegus suddenly rang the piercing enemy attack siren on his body...
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