I looked to the barrier, then to Aelana and ultimately to Sylvanas.
She nodded.
"Argent champions!" I yelled, "release them and fall back!"
They did just that,they stopped their incantations and immediately afterwards the barrier fell, releasing the horde within who pursued after their trappers. The paladins hurried their way down, to the safety of Sylvanas's forces, who, in meantime did what they were told to do. They summoned down blizzards and somet storms, causing a few skeletons to fall to the ground but freezing most in place.
The scourge lost quite a few forces becase of their eagerness. Due to their vanguard being tremendously slowed they pushed quite some of their army off of the stairs to a deathly fall. Those that did survive were cut down with ease by a few forsaken warriors.
"Warriors in position!" Sylvanas yelled from behind, "Wedge formation! Push! Them! Off!"
I was baffled at her choice of tactics. I knew Sylvanas was good in battle as fighter and as commander (hell, she was ranger-general for a reason) but I never to to see her as a master tactician. That was, until now.
Their melee fighters raised their shields above their head and formed a V shape, the point of the V at the front and everyone else behind him. Sylvanas called the casters off to regain their mana and energy. She waited until the scourge almost reached the bottom of their descent and then cried out: "Unleash hell!"
The warriors charged forward focused on keeping their shields up and their formation intact. They literally didn't even have to use their swords to kill so many enemies. Thanks to their formation the enemies were pushed to the edge and then thrown off. The few survivers being executed as soon as they had landed.
I mentally cheered for this new insight. We culled their numbers quickly in a save manner, it would certainly turn the tide now.
Once they had reached the top of their ascent they fell back as fast as they could, outrunning the skeletel warriors who were once again met by an arsenal of ice spells flinged into their direction. This gave the warriors time to rest.
I must have stood there with my mouth wide open when Sylvanas snapped me out of it.
"You still there?"
I looked her way.
"Good, now where do we find that warlock you told me about?"
"I have a feeling he will find us before we find him," Aelana answered.
I nodded.
"Then we wil draw him out of hiding, Can you fly the two of us inside?"
I looked at my right wing. "I'm afraid I can't, I already went inside before and was met with two arrows in my wing, I am still unable to control it."
She sighed. "Fine then."
She took my wing and channeled some magic into it, I could not feel it, only observe. It seemed like pitch black tar like substance was molding itself around my wing. It scared me to no end and I tried to pull back but Sylvanas's hold was too strong. She was soon finished and the black substance completely disappeared. Once it did I could feel my strength returning to my extra limb.
I didn't like the looks of what she had just done and was going to ask for an explanation when she looked at mewith her fiery red eyes, silencing me by demanding me to fly us into Zul'Aman.
I felt awkward wwhen I lifted her the same way I did with Aelana. Unfortunately it was the only way to not accidentally drop her. When we left her behind I hoped she would forgive me.
I managed to sneak us in from the side. All their attention was focused on the main gate. I knew they had already lost quite a few of their numbers but it was not visible from this point of view. Living necromancers still gave life to more of the bones summoning more soldiers to their ranks. From the position we lay in I could count five of those necromacers. They weren't keeping up with the rate they were losing their army by, but they were prolonging this battle for us, thus we would have to deal with them.
Sylvanas grabbed her bow and silently took an arrow from her quiver.
"Don't alert them," I whispered, "we need to take them out quickly before they send their army for us."
"You know I never miss, Silverlight, plus, they won't even be able to scream," she showed a chilling smirk.
Her arrow flew and hit the closest necromancer in the throat. Sylvanas was right, he just could not scream as he fell limp.
"That's one."
She loaded another arrow and fired it at the next member of the cult of the damned. This time it hit him in the head, killing him instantly.
"Two," she showed another evil grin.
Her third arrow went into the direction of a third necromancer who was saved from a sudden death when he turned around the moment it was in mid air. The arrow that was meant for his lungs hit him in an arm instead. He screamed out in pain, alerting the other two behind him. He was silenced by a second arrow that ended his life, but the damage was ready done.
The skeletons they recently raised started running in all directions, looking for us.
"Lady Sylvanas, I whispered quickly, you take the left, I take the right, take them down before they know where we are, we only got one shot at this, make it count!"
She nodded, "Ready?"
I charged my magics as I counted , "Three, two, one, now!"
I watched as the beam of holy light vaporised my target. His staff dropped to the ground with half an arm still attached to it. I looked at Sylvanas's target who was also taken out woth a single arrow through his skull.
Following their deaths, the skeletons that had disperced stopped for a moment before walked to the gates again.
"Good work there, Silverlight, now, where do we fi-."
She was cut off when I blocked a shadow bolt coming her way. The spell shattered on my holy sword which I had risen.
"Did you think you would just enter my domain, and then live to tell the tale?" The warlock's eerie voice sounded again.
"You will pay for what you have done, fiend!" I screamed.
I charged at him, only to be knocked back again by the unholy forces surrounding him.
He launched a wave of smaller shadowbolts our direction. I had no problem blocking those either. From behind me Sylvanas had charged forward and managed to penetrate her blades through the barrier. They got stuck before she was able to reach him and she was knocked back as well, the warlock laughing as he looked at the blades which were mockingly close to his body.
If Sylvanas wasn't able to handle him it meant that I had only one solution. I took my word and placed the tip of it in the dirt. I took the gri firmly, with both hands and kneeled. I saw Sylvanas locked in ranged combat with the warlock. Arrows were getting stuck in his barrier and she was busy trying to dodge his black lightning beams. I closed my eyes and focused on the light.
I prayed for strength and gathered every little bit of light energy in my body and sword. I let every little bit heap up in my heart. On the outside I could still hear the both of them fight. I focused harder and could see the paths their spells were taking in my mind, even with my eyes closed. I focused even more and felt a spark of the energy that once coursed through this land before it was corrupted. I went deeper and saw the world around me vanish, there was only me and the light. This was my chance.
I opened my eyes and stood up, my sword still in the ground. I spread my wings and locked on to the warlock who was taunting Sylvanas.
"With the whole of my heart," I whispered.
"And all of my strength!" I yelled.
I releashed all the energy that I had accumulated. The warlock was burnt alive in a massive ray of light that incinerated all undead in its path. It pierced every troll building it came across with and only stopped when it reached the ground in the middle of Zul'Aman right in a clump of skeletons. I could only smile as I saw that I had killed at least a hundred of them, before my light faded and I collapsed.
