Chapter 1,243 The Unbreakable Barrier [First Update]
The pre-war testing and communication ended with the unhappy separation between the two parties.
Arthas failed to persuade the magicians of Dalaran to surrender, and Antonidas failed to scare away the overwhelming undead.
So the war began.
Even though he knew that the magic barrier in front of him was very powerful, Arthas still wanted to try to break through it.
When he was alive, he was a Paladin and didn't know much about magic, but he also knew that the casting of magic required the consumption of arcane energy.
The larger the magic, the more energy it consumes.
Based on this simple idea, he thought that maintaining the huge magic barrier in front of him would be expensive for Dalaran, and continued attacks would intensify this consumption.
And what the Scourge Legion, with its countless cannon fodder, is least afraid of is consumption.
As long as he can give full play to the numerical advantage of the Scourge and use the constant army to continuously attack the magic barrier and consume its energy, Dalaran will soon be unable to maintain the barrier and eventually become a lamb to be slaughtered.
So Alsace issued an order to attack.
As a result, the War Machine composed of hundreds of thousands of undead finally launched.
The first to attack were the siege machines.
This is the most terrifying weapon in the Scourge - the Meat Wagon.
This machine is used to collect and store corpses as a reserve of Scourge troops waiting to be resurrected.
But at the same time, it has another way to use these corpses, which is to use them as siege weapons.
The bloody corpses are thrown in front of the enemy's eyes, which is not only a great test for the fragile psychology of the living, but can also cause physical damage.
But what's even worse is that the thrown corpses are often infected with the plague of natural disasters. The clouds of disease will spread as the corpses are broken, posing a great threat to the living nearby.
Now facing the fortified city, the meat grinders took the lead in showing off their power.
The undead soldiers mechanically controlled the meat grinder, launching those things that could have become their compatriots towards Dalaran.
Seeing these bloody corpses flying in the sky, many magicians in the city vomited on the spot.
How could they, who were so pampered in Dalaran, have seen such a method?
At this moment, countless people began to be thankful that they did not try to fight these undead in the wild, and that Dalaran's magic barrier could protect them.
And indeed it is.
Although the corpses thrown by the meat grinder had a strong psychological impact on many people in the city, the effect did not stop there.
These corpses did not have the protection to break through the magic barrier. When they touched the magic barrier, they were turned into a handful of ashes under the powerful magic, without harming the people inside.
But the sudden failure of the meat grinder had no impact on the Scourge Legion.
The ruthless undead still launched an attack under the orders of their ruthless leader.
The archers bent their bows towards the barrier,
Kael'thas could see that many of the undead archers had long ears, and it was obvious that they were his dead compatriots.
The elf prince's fist was clenched so tightly that his nails even scratched the palm of his hand, leaving a trail of blood.
But he had no idea of it.
This scene only deepened his hatred of the Scourge and Arthas.
It's a pity that the dead elf rangers will not stop for a moment just because they see their prince.
The rain of arrows covered the sky, but they all turned into powder after touching the barrier.
Above the arrows, more overwhelming gargoyles also rushed toward the sky above Dalaran.
On the earth, endless undead warriors are advancing one after another, trying to get close to the magic barrier, using the crude weapons in their hands to destroy the barrier and then flood the city.
But it was no use.
Their efforts were all in vain in front of the powerful magic barrier.
The flesh was burned to coke, the bones were burned to fly ash, the blood was instantly evaporated, and the steel melted into molten iron...
No matter how many undead the Scourge Legion sent out, they would all be easily wiped out before they came into contact with the magic barrier.
During this process, Dalaran didn't even use the Magician Tower.
ten people,
twenty people,
fifty people,
one hundred people,
five hundred people,
a thousand people,
Ten thousand people,
One hundred thousand people...
In front of the Scourge, Dalaran's magic barrier is like a chasm or a bottomless abyss. No matter how many people come, they will only be destroyed.
Seeing more and more undead being destroyed in vain by the barrier, the barrier was originally unscathed, not even a trace of darkness. Arthas finally gave the order to stop the attack unwillingly.
He realized that if this continued, even if he filled in the entire Scourge Legion, he would not be able to break through the barrier in front of him.
Alsace made the right decision.
For the undead natural disaster, Dalaran's magic barrier is much more terrifying than imagined. As an ordinary person who is not familiar with magic, Arthas did not understand the mechanism of the magic barrier from the beginning.
…Please give me flowers…
This was the reason why the Scourge Legion's first attack failed.
Arthas underestimated the power of magic.
Casting magic consumes energy, and the larger the magic, the greater the energy consumption. This simple understanding is actually correct.
But magic is not that simple.
For example, the magic barrier originally seemed huge and covered the entire Dalaran. It was considered a very large-scale magic, but in fact the magic power to maintain its operation was not as large as Arthas imagined.
It can be said that regarding the magic barrier, the stage in which Dalaran consumes the most energy is when the barrier is established.
After the barrier is fully formed, the magic power in the barrier has reached a stable closed loop.
In other words, the entire barrier has almost become an independent system, and the magic power that makes up the entire barrier is the batch that was input at the beginning. If there are no accidents, this independent system will not exchange magic power with the outside world at all.
In this case, as long as there is no attack, the magic power spilled and wasted by the barrier is very little, and the cost of maintaining it for a whole day is less than one percent of the cost of establishing the barrier.
Not just this large-scale magic barrier, but actually as small as the simplest magic shield has the same principle.
Building a magical closed-loop barrier is basically the basis of protection spells.
The kind of magic barrier that requires a lot of magic power to maintain can only be created by a magician who has failed in protection magic.
Therefore, when Alsace thought that a large magic barrier would consume a lot of energy, he had already lost.
But Dalaran's magical barrier doesn't stop there.
Although the magic barrier originally does not consume energy, it will still lose energy when facing an attack to offset the attack power.
But the reason why the Scourge Legion's army couldn't even consume the magic barrier after sacrificing more than 100,000 people was because of another reason.
That's where Antonidas' brilliance lies.
After realizing that his enemy was the Scourge, the great magician redesigned Dalaran's magic barrier and added a targeted ability to it: the ability to drain the energy of nearby undead.
In this way, any undead that comes into contact with this barrier will be destroyed, and it can continuously extract the vitality of the undead and convert it into magic power to replenish the barrier.
In this way, the undead's suicide attack actually charges the barrier.
Let alone 100,000 people, even if there are one million, ten million... No matter how many undead there are, encountering such a targeted barrier will be a meal.
The power of magic is terrifying. .
