Chapter 1877: Chapter 1270: A Bunch of Weaklings
Duanmu Huai’s character has always been one to say and do things immediately. Without waiting for the Anhe Alliance delegation to negotiate further details, he directly boarded the Night Raven Black Star, setting off for the Dark Portal located in the Cursed Land.
The enormous stone gate at the center of the Cursed Land was clearly visible, and from high above, the Alliance’s layered defenses around the Dark Portal could also be seen. Duanmu Huai couldn’t be bothered to waste time here and directly piloted the Night Raven Black Star to lower its altitude, speeding past above the Alliance camp. Before the Alliance’s guard soldiers could react, Duanmu Huai had already dashed straight into the Dark Portal.
However, Duanmu Huai soon discovered that he had made a wrong choice.
The entire space passageway of the Dark Portal was like a washing machine drum, continuously rotating. And Duanmu Huai’s piloting skills were at best average, making it impossible to maintain control in this chaotic space turbulence. Soon, the Night Raven Black Star was swept up by the turbulent flow of the space passage like a small fishing boat caught in a great vortex, spinning forward — and the next moment, the Night Raven Black Star directly shot out of the passageway exit of the Dark Portal, crashed into the ground, and then instantly exploded, turning into a heap of scrap metal.
“Damn!”
Duanmu Huai pushed off the debris on him, gloomily stood up from the wreckage, and shook himself off.
If I had known it would be like this, I’d rather have walked! Now look, I’ve even lost a warplane!
I wonder if the Alliance will reimburse me for this.
Duanmu Huai patted the dust off his body, only to realize that he was surrounded by a group of Alliance soldiers, who held their weapons, looking at Duanmu Huai with surprise and uncertainty, unsure of how to react.
This was quite normal; while in the midst of intense battle, suddenly a strange machine bursts out from the Dark Portal behind them, crashes, and a person emerges unscathed from inside? It’s no wonder the Alliance soldiers’ brains were overloaded, unsure how to respond.
“Who are you? What’s happening here?”
Fortunately, at this moment, the appearance of an Alliance officer broke the odd atmosphere. Duanmu Huai stepped forward and casually handed over a letter — which bore the seal of the Alliance delegation, at least serving as identity verification.
The officer took the letter, quickly opened it, glanced through it, then looked up again at Duanmu Huai with a puzzled expression — he’d never heard of this Tribunal organization, but the letter clearly stated, this man in front of him was a Great Judge of the Tribunal, responsible for leading the Tribunal’s troops to support the Alliance frontline.
Regardless, it was a good thing.
“Welcome, Your Honor, the Judge.”
Putting away the letter, the Alliance officer saluted Duanmu Huai.
“I am Commander Duron, currently in charge of the defense work for the Dark Portal.”
“Hmm, hello, I am the Big Judge of the Tribunal, Duanmu Huai.”
Duanmu Huai nodded.
“I suppose you don’t want us wasting time here, so tell me the situation.”
“Alright.”
Commander Duron also had no intention of wasting time and quickly nodded, then began explaining the current situation to Duanmu Huai.
While listening to Commander Duron explain the battle conditions, Duanmu Huai opened his personal terminal, fiddling with it, then looked around. Looking around, the entire Dark Portal was on a large platform. And below the platform was the battlefield between the Demons and the Alliance army. Most of the demons here were large in size, while the Alliance occupied high ground, constructing defenses to hold them back here.
“We have contacted the Expeditionary Force, but they are still a distance away from the Dark Portal and are presently tangled with the Orcs, unable to spare extra hands for the time being. All we can do is wait for subsequent reinforcements.”
“Speaking of which, aren’t you afraid those demons will fly through?”
Watching the fighting demons in front of him, Duanmu Huai curiously asked, and Commander Duron hesitated.
“Uh, well… the safest way to the Dark Portal is on foot. If you go through the air, you might encounter space turbulence…”
“…Alright, I understand.”
Duanmu Huai sighed silently, not wanting to bring up the subject again.
“…Your Honor, the Judge, the letter says you would arrive with reinforcements…?”
Although somewhat impolite, Commander Duron couldn’t help but ask Duanmu Huai. After all, the current battle situation was indeed very tense, with these demons not only being large in size and tenacious but also having a powerful aerial advantage. Commander Duron had seen these demons not only once flying their airships overhead to attack and even deploying infernal demons from above.
If it weren’t for these demons being careful not to destroy the Dark Portal alongside, his soldiers would’ve been blown to bits already.
This was why they could only camp at the front of the Dark Portal, at least preventing air raids.
But elsewhere, they were not so lucky.
“Oh, they’re arriving soon, should be here any moment.”
Duanmu Huai glanced at his personal terminal, then told Commander Duron, who was taken aback, wanting to ask something. Just then, a soldier suddenly shouted.
“Commander, they’re coming again!”
“What?”
Duron was shocked, hurriedly looking up to the sky. He saw a fusiform, flat warship flying towards them from above.
“Everyone watch out! Stay vigilant!!”
Before Duron finished speaking, a string of fireballs shot out from the warship, bombarding around the Dark Portal. The soldiers, having faced this kind of battle before, quickly found a place to take cover.
After carrying out a round of bombing, the warship once again dropped several large meteors, these meteors engulfing in green flames fell from the sky, landing on the ground, transforming into stone giants that started attacking the Dark Portal again.
The soldiers returned to their posts, continuing to fend off the demons’ attack.
“This is the Burning Legion? So weak?”
Watching this scene in front of him, Duanmu Huai frowned, speechless. He had heard the stories about the Burning Legion from Prophet Velen, who had hyped them up as almost invincible, seeming even harder to deal with than the Chaos Battle Team. But…this?
Just this?
Isn’t this just an ordinary cosmic civilization fleet?
If we’re talking quality, Duanmu Huai reckons it’s not even on par with the Galactic Empire, right?
With this thought, Duanmu Huai immediately felt utterly uninterested, so he yawned and issued an order through his personal terminal.
“Go ahead.”
As Duanmu Huai’s words fell, suddenly, a beam of light descended from the sky, directly piercing the Burning Legion’s warship, which exploded in the sky before even having time to react, turning into a blazing firework!
“What’s this?”
Seeing this scene, Commander Duron was stunned, but what happened next left him utterly dumbfounded.
Under Commander Duron’s gaze, a huge, heavy shadow emerged from the clouds, slowly advancing from behind the Dark Portal. Its massive body almost obscured most of the sky before Duron’s eyes, making the Burning Legion’s warships seem like tiny boats in front of this giant steel battleship, utterly insignificant!
But this was not the end!
The next moment, Commander Duron saw hundreds of dark figures shooting out from beneath the steel battleship, directly smashing toward the Dark Portal!
“Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!”
These dark figures crashed like cannonballs into the Demon Army in front of the Dark Portal, immediately throwing the Demon Army into chaos. But that was just the beginning; with a “thud,” the shell of these “steel cannonballs” suddenly flew off, and next, one by one, steel warriors clad in heavy armor and wielding chainsaw guns marched out, mercilessly launching an attack on the Demon Army before them!
“This, this, this……”
At this moment, Commander Duron was still completely blank, dumbfoundedly watching those steel warriors charge into the Demon Army like tigers descending the mountain, easily tearing them to shreds. He then turned to look at Duanmu Huai standing beside him.
“Your Honor, the Judge… Is this the reinforcements you brought?”
“Exactly.”
Duanmu Huai nodded. He didn’t need to transport troops through the Dark Portal like the Alliance did. Duanmu Huai had already confirmed with the Draenei that this so-called Outland was actually just another planet, so it was simple; Duanmu Huai just needed to go there himself, then lock the coordinates through his personal terminal and have Aikute dispatch a fleet over.
But really, there wasn’t much of a fight.
Watching the utterly destroyed Demon Army, eliminated by the Night Guards in a matter of minutes, Duanmu Huai smirked.
He initially thought it was the Chaos Legion or something, but it turned out this so-called Demon Army was only this capable?
Yet another case of “when the tiger is away, the monkey is king,” huh.
With that thought, Duanmu Huai yawned again and looked at the shell-shocked Commander Duron beside him.
“Let’s go then, take me to see what this Honor Hold is about.”
When Duanmu Huai and Commander Duron, along with the Alliance soldiers, arrived at Honor Hold, there was a palpable tension due to the presence of the Tribunal Warship. But for Duanmu Huai, it didn’t matter if they were tense. The warship was in the sky, and even if they were tense, one shot would easily demolish them, so they might as well just lie down and relax… No point in stressing, right?
In Honor Hold, Duanmu Huai met the commander of this expeditionary force, Danath Trollbane.
Honestly, when this commander learned that the gigantic warship above belonged to the Tribunal, he was at a loss for words, staring at Duanmu Huai not knowing what to say.
But Duanmu Huai wasn’t there to waste time.
“Alright, I’m not here to waste time, I’m here to solve the problem.”
Duanmu Huai patted the table, signaling everyone to snap out of it.
“It seems this Dark Portal is a problem, and we have to figure out how to destroy it.”
“It’s no use.”
Danath shook his head.
“Even if we destroy the Dark Portal, they’ll just build another, and it’s not easy to destroy the Dark Portal. If it were possible, we would have done it already.”
“Of course, I know that.”
Duanmu Huai waved his hand.
“Blowing up the Dark Portal is only a temporary fix; we need a permanent solution… Hmm, I do have an idea.”
“Your Honor, the Judge? What’s your idea?”
“My idea is very simple.”
Duanmu Huai pointed to the map in front of them.
“First, we evacuate everyone in this world back to Azeroth.”
“And then?”
“And then?”
Duanmu Huai glanced at Commander Danath.
“We just obliterate this world completely, simple enough, right.”