Chapter 262: The Four-Nation Alliance
Under Richard's plan, the High Elf Kingdom is preparing to increase its population to 200,000 in 20 years and to 1 million in 50 years. As for whether to continue to increase it in the future, it depends on the situation at that time.

Richard's use of blood magic to change the growth period of the high elves is not irreversible.

If there are one million high elves and they are managed in a militarized manner, Li Jue feels that the High Elf Kingdom can really sweep across Azeroth. One million high elves can at least pull out 500,000 high-level professionals, at least 5,000 legendary professionals, and there will definitely be a few demigods, and there may be 300,000 high-level mages.

With such a huge military capability, even the Burning Legion will be in trouble.

The ancient elven interstellar empire in the multiverse controlled countless planes, and at that time the gods had to give in again and again. There were elves in almost all planes. The strength of the elven empire at that time was far greater than that of the arcane empire.

After a day of discussion, the new Quel'Thalas Alliance was soon born. After a heated debate between the alliance leaders and many councillors, some fighting and some crossing out, the new alliance agreement was finally born out of friendly negotiations.

Quel'Thalas, Lordaeron, and Aerie Mountain were not the only nations that signed the agreement. Dalaran also signed. A dozen high-ranking mages from Dalaran discussed the matter and eventually decided to join.

The conference hall fell silent, and next they prepared to sign and seal the documents prepared by all parties.

"Now, before the kings of each country sign and seal the agreement, I will read out the agreement. After the agreement is read out, if everyone has no objection to it, then after everyone signs, this agreement will officially take effect!"

Richard looked around at everyone, and when he saw that no one had any objections, he began to read aloud.

The Kingdom of Quel'Thalas, the Alliance of Lordaeron, the Wildhammer Kingdom of Aerie Mountain, and the Alliance Kingdom of Dalaran, signed an offensive and defensive alliance agreement. It is referred to as the Alliance of Quel'Thalas.

The treaty is as follows:

Article 1: All contracting parties recognize and respect the legitimacy of the kings or chiefs of the contracting parties, and do not recognize any other person or force usurping the throne or controlling any contracting party in a puppet form by any illegal means. Respect the internal affairs of the contracting parties, and other contracting parties shall not interfere in their internal affairs without the request of the king or chief recognized by the contracting parties.

Article 2: The four countries will formally establish an offensive and defensive alliance from the date of signing of the document. When any member country or force in the alliance is attacked or invaded by other countries or forces, the other member countries must do their best to provide military or other assistance.

Article 3: When, after formal consultations within the alliance, the leader of the alliance declares war on a country outside the alliance, all countries and forces in the alliance must give their full support and declare war on that country or force at the same time.

Article 4: After the four allied countries formally sign the alliance agreement, all residents of the four countries can freely enjoy the freedom of business and travel within the four countries, but they must abide by their own laws. At the same time, the country must also guarantee their personal freedom, safety, private property and other basic rights from infringement.

Article 5: The Quadruple Alliance may enjoy the right to share intelligence with the other three countries and the right of military passage after being clearly informed, etc.

Article 6: No contracting party may withdraw from the alliance without the consent of the other contracting parties, and no country or force outside the alliance may join the alliance without the consent of all the contracting parties.

Article 7: All contracting parties shall respect the territorial integrity of each other.

Additional Treaty: Within the first month after the agreement takes effect, the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas, as the leader, must unconditionally send troops to help the Alliance Kingdom of Lordaeron, the Dwarf Lord Kingdom of Aerie Mountain, and the Alliance of Dalaran eliminate the threats of undead, demons, and trolls within their borders. The order of sending troops can be negotiated by themselves.

At the same time, the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas needs to provide the other three kingdoms with monthly food rations for 3 people, with the food rations allocated in the proportion of 1% to Lordaeron, % to the dwarves, and % to Dalaran. The deadline is one year from the signing of the alliance treaty.

After the treaty was read, the four parties signed the treaty and it officially came into effect. After each party put away their own treaty, the Four-Power Alliance was officially formed.

After the alliance was formed, Richard immediately ordered the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas to dispatch 10,000 soldiers and 2,000 rock golems to form an army to start clearing out the undead and demons in Lordaeron. At the same time, he ordered the food to be transported to Stratholme.

The high elves were now all soldiers, so it was not a problem to mobilize 10,000 people. Richard and Kael'thas were responsible for commanding the army, while Sylvanas returned to Silvermoon City to stay.

Then the army of Quel'Thalas began to work with the army of Lordaeron to eliminate the undead and demons in Lordaeron. Archimonde took away a large number of demons, and the undead army was also scattered all over the place.

Facing the counterattack of the army of Quel'Thalas and Lordaeron, the army of the undead was no match at all. Two thousand rock golems formed a front to advance, the elven rangers used bows and arrows to support, and the mages attacked important targets.

Kael'thas and several legendary high elves kept an eye on the battlefield, and would attack immediately upon discovering a powerful enemy. On the other side was the Lordaeron coalition that was responsible for coordinating the attack.

Richard did not take any action in this operation. He simply marked the dangerous enemies with spell marks and let Kael'thas deal with them.

Because of the rock golems, the high elves had almost no casualties, at most a few were injured. When injured, the high elves' paladins or priests would heal them.

Since Richard analyzed the fundamental source of the power of Paladins and Priests last time, many high elves have started to specialize in Paladins and Priests. In order to help these elves specialize, Richard deliberately used the mental suggestion effect of the Mind Gem.

Help these high elves strengthen their will and beliefs.

The power of Holy Light is not truth, goodness, or beauty, nor is it the so-called virtues of knights. Those are just a layer of clothing that humans wrap around the power of Holy Light.

The more important thing about Holy Light is the power of the mind. Richard used suggestion to the elves to strengthen their belief in defending their country.

Sometimes even if you tell a lie a thousand or ten thousand times, someone will still take it as the truth. Moreover, the belief that Richard helped them find was originally true. Coupled with the telepathic suggestion, these high elves quickly found their own holy light power.

The most important thing about the Holy Light is to believe that you are right. If you doubt your path or what you do, the Holy Light will dissipate. The most important thing about Paladins and Priests is to shape your faith. Therefore, Paladins and Priests soon appeared among the High Elves.

This kind of idealistic power requires the user to believe in it from the bottom of his heart.

But it is often difficult for people to do so, so at this time, we need to rely on the power of religion to strengthen our faith. As long as we are normal human beings, we will have the nature of pursuing justice, fairness, kindness, benevolence, and courage. Integrating these into religion will make it easier for people to believe. But even so, there are many devout believers who cannot use the Holy Light.

The main factor here is that he does not have a firm belief deep in his heart.

The effect of mental suggestion is very good. Li Jue thinks that it will be better if the Paladin is trained from a young age, because children are easier to deceive. No, it’s easier to believe that the Holy Light (deception) is protecting you.

The high elves' offensive was swift, and the Rock Golem Legion had powerful melee capabilities that ordinary undead were no match for. They also had spells, and except for the high-level undead, they were completely devastating on the battlefield.

Crypt spiders, gargoyles, and abominations were also routed by the rock golems. Occasionally, there were some high-level undead, but they would be immediately attacked by the high elf rangers behind them.

Even if some necromancers and corpse wizards appeared, they would be immediately destroyed when they appeared in front of the elven wizard group.

Those high-level undead and demons wanted to resist, but Kael'thas and others were already waiting for them. The Undead Scourge, lacking high-level forces, were constantly being eliminated.

The Alliance of Lordaeron was shocked when they saw the rock golems.

There are many types of rock golems. In addition to the ones on the ground, there are also obsidian gargoyle golems. This type of golem is deployed on the battlefield as cover for the Dragonhawk Knights.

After the battle, the high elves suffered almost no casualties, and only the rock golems were damaged. Golem damage was not a big problem, and they could be repaired directly. As long as the soul core was not broken, the rest could be replaced.

The undead army was destroyed, and although the land belonged to Lordaeron, the spoils all belonged to the high elves. The probability of low-level undead dropping soul crystal fragments was 1 in 300, and the probability of mid-level undead dropping soul crystals and large soul crystals was also very low, about 1 percent.

The probability of high-level undead dropping high-level soul crystals is one in ten. As long as you have the soul binding technique, you can get legendary soul crystals at the legendary level.

The number of Undead Scourge troops in a city ranges from hundreds of thousands to three hundred thousand. Although 90% of them are low- and middle-level Undead, the remaining 10% is also very large in number.

Therefore, every war will generate a large amount of soul crystals. Ordinary soul crystals and fragments can be used for enchantments, while large soul crystals are used to make puppet golems.

As for the high-level soul crystal, it was taken away by Richard.

In a battle, at least dozens of high-level soul crystals can be harvested, and at most hundreds can be harvested. High-level soul crystals have many uses, such as legendary and above magic items, which all require high-level soul crystals.

Richard estimated that this undead disaster could provide at least 500 to 1,000 high-level soul crystals. It seemed like a lot, but you have to know that at least half of the people in the Eastern Continent died because of this war.

Lordaeron had a population of millions, but in the end only a million were left. Several other countries also suffered heavy losses, with the total death toll exceeding ten million.

Richard had not encountered many cases where so many people died in a short period of time in a war. This happened every time there was a major event in the Motailai world, such as the [Collapse of the Arcane Empire], the [Collapse of the Elf Empire] in the Third Age, the [Year of Turmoil] event in the Toril world, and the [Destruction of the Soul-Sucking Empire] event.

Each of these events caused the death of more than half of the population of the main material world, and caused serious consequences. In comparison, this undead disaster is nothing.

The main problem of the Scourge is that there are not many high-level forces, and even fewer legendary ones, with only Kel'Thuzad and Arthas. One of the reasons why the Scourge was able to sweep across the eastern continent was that it was a surprise attack, which did not give countries time to react, and the other was the human wave tactic.

Especially the surprise attack effect. The undead plague broke out directly within the country. It spread rapidly in the early stage of the outbreak, causing the country's order to collapse quickly, and the army was unable to react at all.

Later on, it was the human wave tactic. After all, the low-level undead were very weak and could only rely on numbers.

The undead army of Lordaeron numbered in the millions. After several major wars, their numbers dropped a lot. After the high elves and Lordaeron launched a full-scale counterattack, the number of undead continued to decrease rapidly.

There are very few undead who can be promoted to legends on their own. Basically, all legendary undead are summoned by legendary masters after their death. Therefore, there are very few legendary undead in the undead army. As soon as undead of this level appear, they will be dealt with by Richard or Kael'thas.

Every legendary undead is a legendary soul crystal, and Richard will not give up. This time, Richard will take half of the high-level soul crystals and legendary soul crystals harvested from the counterattack against the undead Scourge army, and the rest will be put into the Quel'Thalas treasury.

When the Quel'Danas Alliance began to counterattack, Archimonde also crossed the Endless Sea. This expedition may take several months. But at the latest, the Burning Legion will land on Kalimdor twenty-one years after the Dark Portal is opened.

This battle will be the second largest-scale war to break out in Azeroth since the War of the Ancients. This war, launched by the Burning Legion and long forgotten, has swept across nearly half of the land of two continents, with more than 10 million people and dozens of races, and is almost coming to an end.

Both sides gathered almost all their forces on the continent of Kalimdor.

Archimonde, the Sun-Tree, is about to start showing off his impressive skills, and the World Tree on Mount Hyjal has also met its fate.

To be honest, Richard never understood why Archimonde didn't just open a large teleportation array in Azeroth to teleport the Burning Legion and Sargeras here, but why he had to go find those night elves.

Of course, it is also possible that he is too arrogant and greedy and wants to devour the Well of Eternity.

It can only be said that Archimonde did not learn any lessons from the War of the Ancients. During the War of the Ancients, the Well of Eternity ended in an explosion, and the Burning Legion was directly killed by the explosion that tore the continent apart. As a result, 10,000 years later, Archimonde actually fell into the same pit again.

(End of this chapter)