Crossing Azeroth, starting with the Heroes of Might and Magic system

Since they had been to the fork in the road once before when they fought the Riverpaw Jackals, they were familiar with the route and could march quickly. By the evening, Varian's main force had arrived at the fork in the road on the Dust Plains.

At this time, a griffin was hovering in the sky above the dire wolf. It was a griffin sent by Varian for reconnaissance.

Through the vision of the griffins in the sky, Varian knew that the Dire Wolf troops were several kilometers away.

This has entered the range of the magic eye of perspective.

So Varian used his magic eyes of perspective to observe the enemy's strength.

After looking for a while, Varian had an idea.

There are more than 1,100 dire wolves, including one seventh-level dire wolf, eight sixth-level dire wolves, more than thirty fifth-level dire wolves, nearly a thousand fourth-level dire wolves, and some second- and third-level young wolves.

The strength of the dire wolf this time is much stronger than the river claw gnoll last time.

A few kilometers away, it was expected that the troops would soon run into the dire wolves.

Varian immediately arranged: "Archer priests, stand on the hill and wait; Halberdiers and Crusaders, stand in front of the ranged troops as the front row; Knights wait two kilometers to the north, waiting for an opportunity to attack the enemy's back row, or to disperse the enemy troops from the side."

"The enemy is composed entirely of Dire Wolves, with no ranged troops. The Griffin Knights and I will attack from the air first. Once the Dire Wolves are driven over and within range, the archers and priests will start shooting. Do you understand?"

"understand!"

The large force then moved towards the designated location according to Varian's deployment.

Varian took fifty griffin riders and flew high into the sky towards the dire wolves.

More than fifty griffins soon circled over the dire wolf.

"Lord Rubeus, there are so many birds in the sky!" A gray dire wolf spotted dozens of griffins circling in the air, but it couldn't see clearly because they were too high.

"Don't make a fuss. There are a lot of carcass birds on the Dust Plains," said Rubes.

"No, there are humans on the backs of these big birds!"

As the griffins descended in altitude, the dire wolves finally saw clearly that there was a human on the back of each big bird.

"Oh no, they are coming for us!"

Rubes reacted and shouted hurriedly.

Just as he finished speaking, a series of fireballs suddenly appeared in the area where the dire wolves were most concentrated in the rear. The fireballs kept exploding, and many dire wolves were killed on the spot, while some were blown to pieces.

This was a magic fireball cast by Varian on the griffin. Before the dire wolves could react, a cold blizzard covered a large number of dire wolves, causing casualties.

Faced with the sudden attack, Rubes became anxious and shouted, "Scatter quickly, run forward, and stay away from the big bird in the sky!"

The dire wolves immediately ran in all directions.

At this time, several huge water elements appeared in front and attacked the fleeing dire wolves.

The dire wolf had never seen a water element that was more than three meters tall. After a moment of panic, it began to besiege several water elements.

The dire wolves did not recognize the water element and thought it was also a living creature, so they wanted to rush forward and bite the water element to death.

The other griffin riders used arcane energy balls to attack the scattered dire wolves one by one.

There were also many dire wolves that were unable to fight back against the griffins in the air, and were angry and anxious. They could only run forward desperately to get away from the griffins behind them.

Varian cast an attack acceleration magic on the griffin rider, and the attack speed was very fast. The arcane energy balls kept hitting the dire wolf below.

Before long, more than two hundred dire wolves had died, and many were injured.

Varian felt very comfortable. This was a dimensionality reduction attack! This feeling of being the only one who could hit others, while others couldn't hit him, was very refreshing.

Afterwards, Varian released the quicksand trap magic, and many invisible traps suddenly appeared on the plain below. Many dire wolves didn't know why, and after stepping into the traps, they could not move and could only passively take the beating.

After nearly five hundred dire wolves died, the remaining dire wolves appeared within the range of the archers and priests on the hill.

"Start shooting!" Gavinrad gave an order, and countless arrows and energy balls shot towards the dire wolves, knocking down a group of them in an instant.

Rubers looked at the densely packed human army in front of him, panicked, and cursed angrily: "Damn humans, they actually ambushed us here!"

His brain worked quickly. With so many archers and mages ahead, if he rushed forward now, there would probably be more casualties. There were also air forces at the rear, so it would be better to break out to the north and avoid being attacked from both sides.

So Rubeus shouted: "Ah-woo-ah-woo~ Break out to the north!"

The wolves were indeed very disciplined and obeyed orders. After hearing Rubes' instructions, they all ran north in unison.

After a while, the dire wolf appeared in the sight of the champion knight. Mathias had been waiting here for a long time and immediately issued an order: "Knights, attack!"

Sixty champion knights rushed towards the dire wolf.

The dire wolves were immediately frightened. The knight was so fast that it was too late for them to escape. In a short while, the knight was right in front of them.

Before he could react, Rubes immediately gave the order: "Attack!"

The neat team of heavily-armored knights plunged into the wolf pack like a sharp knife.

The wolves then engaged in a fight with the knights.

At this time, the Griffin Knight came into the air again and launched a dimensionality reduction attack.

Varian cast an attack acceleration magic on the knights. The originally heavy-armored knights' movements instantly became agile and smooth, and their combat effectiveness was greatly enhanced.

At this time, Mathias jumped off the griffin, entered stealth mode, and quietly came to the vicinity of Rubeus and waited for the opportunity.

He also saw the huge silver-white dire wolf at a glance and knew that it was the dire wolf leader.

Varian also noticed Mathias's actions. He knew that Mathias was no match for Rubeus, so he ordered the priest who had just caught up to pay special attention to Mathias.

Sure enough, after the dire wolves beside Rubeus joined the battle, Mathias launched a sneak attack from behind Rubeus, using a combination of stun and backstab.

Rubes was caught off guard and knocked to the ground, but he reacted very quickly, rolled over, and jumped up.

Rubeus was injured in the back, but it was not fatal. He was furious and jumped in front of Mathias and slapped Mathias with one claw. Mathias was unable to dodge and flew backwards two meters.

Rubeus' claw brought shadow damage. If the character had a health bar, you would find that Mathias's health was reduced by half.

The priest in the back saw this situation and cast several Holy Light spells on Mathias. Mathias instantly regained his health and entered stealth mode again.

Unable to see Mathias anymore, Rubeus became furious and turned his attack to the knight next to him.

Originally, the knight's heavy armor had strong defense against the dire wolf's attacks, but Rubeus' shadow damage ignored defense, so the heavily armored knight would suffer great damage if hit or bitten by the wolf's claws.