It was over, and the people of the Azeroth Alliance breathed a sigh of relief… Just now, when Malfurion blew the horn, Tyrande, who was still able to move, led Velen and the others away from the central battlefield. This was a war without victors!
Looking at Nordrassil, which was now just a bare tree stump in the valley, Tyrande's heart was cut like a knife. In this battle, the night elves suffered heavy losses, not only losing many troops but also losing the World Tree! Population could be restored, but without the blessing of the World Tree, the night elves lost their eternal life and would also suffer from the invasion of diseases. They would enter an unprecedented period of weakness! In the south, they had to guard against the Ahn'Qiraj insectoids, and on the west coast, there were Naga and murlocs who harassed them from time to time. Tyrande looked at the Grand Crusader Lord beside her, calculating the success rate of forming an alliance with them. Judging from Grand Lord Galen's previous performance, he was an upright paladin. The Crusaders conquered the quillboar, a native race of Kalimdor, as a servant army and treated the vassal races with such kindness, so they should treat their allies sincerely! Moreover, they also had a good relationship with the tauren. Tyrande believed that they could use the Crusaders as allies to get through the difficult period for the night elves. As for the alliance between the Crusaders and the high elves, the nightborne, Tyrande ignored it directly; anyway, these two distant relatives were not in Kalimdor. So, Tyrande approached Aragorn, who was wearing the Galen persona, and many leaders to discuss post-war matters.
At the pass of Mount Hyjal, a violent explosion overturned the demons and the Kalimdor Allied Forces who were still fighting. After the storm stopped, Azgalor, the pit lord who felt Archimonde's aura disappear, had a bad feeling and dropped the remaining hundreds of thousands of demons and turned around to run! Among the Burning Legion's high-ranking commanders, Grand Lich Kel'Thuzad was beheaded, and Doom Lord Kazzak was jointly killed by Baine Bloodhoof, Ulan, and Shandris Feathermoon. His genuine Apocalypse Blade became the spoils of the Allied Forces. As the commander-in-chief, Anetheron was careless, and his deployment was disrupted by the Allied Forces' all-out attack. He was besieged by Varian and others and fled in panic, eventually disappearing in a golden light… The commanders fled or were killed in battle, and the fall of Archimonde caused the previously arrogant and invincible demon army to collapse and directly lose the courage to continue fighting. Before long, they were defeated by the warriors of Azeroth and fled in all directions. Thus, the Battle of Mount Hyjal officially came to an end!
Galen had already teleported away from Mount Hyjal in the explosion. Originally, he wanted to return to Mount Hyjal to see Nordrassil and the battlefield after the big bang and take back his Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker, and the Neltharion's Tear gauntlets, but Smaegor stopped him from returning! It turned out that this cunning old dragon wanted to use the "martyrdom" of Grand Lord Galen to reap a wave of prestige!
"Fellow night elves, after a difficult battle, we have defeated Archimonde and his Burning Legion who invaded again. We have won again! But we have also paid a heavy price. A large number of brothers and sisters have left us to protect our homes, and Grand Lord Galen, who had already broken through to demigod, also perished with Archimonde in a heroic sacrifice! While we rebuild our homes, we must also keep their achievements in mind!"
The above is the general idea of the notice posted by Tyrande, which infinitely elevated the martyred compatriots. Among them, Galen was even more admired by the surviving night elves. They even built a statue of Galen's night elf persona not far from Nordrassil, and under the statue were enshrined Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker, and the gauntlets left behind by Galen… Galen refused in his heart. It's so unlucky to have a portrait! What's the use of just commemorating? Malfurion, Tyrande, where's my money!
Tyrande also had her own little calculations. Although Galen could be resurrected, the cost of resurrecting a sacrificed demigod was huge. Otherwise, the night elves would have resurrected all the demigods who sacrificed tens of thousands of years ago, especially the White Stag, who was Cenarius's father. With him as the stabilizing force, the night elves wouldn't have to think about forming alliances! Therefore, Galen's resurrection may be in units of centuries. Therefore, Tyrande vigorously promoted Galen's bravery, fearlessness, and spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice, in order to unite the hearts of the night elves after the disaster. Smaegor realized the benefits of this immediately, so he called a halt to Galen. Anyway, he knew that Galen was not dead and could appear at any time, and then he would reap a wave of prestige and trick Tyrande! Currently, if the night elf public's support rate is marked with data, Tyrande and Malfurion's rule over most areas accounts for 60%, and Galen only accounts for 40%, of which 30% is attributed to the existence of Eldre'Thalas, and the remaining 10% is because of Fandral Staghelm's existence. Just imagine Tyrande now helping Galen to promote him, and as a result, Galen jumps out in a few years to reap the prestige… So Galen decided to shamefully hide! Isn't it just a statue, what's the big deal!
After the leaders of the various races finished discussing, they left the territory of the night elves. Aragorn led the army of humans, tauren, quillboar, kobolds, and trolls back to the Gold Road from Ashenvale. In the Crusader Fortress, after Galen and Aragorn switched back their identities, they held an internal meeting.
Among the 100,000 human army, 30,000 of the 80,000 Crusaders were lost, 3,000 of the remaining Stormwind Seventh Legion were lost, and 5,000 of the Kul Tiras ground troops were lost. This was because Daelin Proudmoore, as the commander, placed his country's troops in the most dangerous position. Kurland's gryphon flying corps and the Grand Tinker's airship corps did not suffer many losses. The high-tech airships crushed the Burning Legion's felbats, and the large-scale gryphon knights could even hunt dragons. Before the Burning Legion's higher-level air units were dispatched, the gryphon knights and airships were simply invincible against the small felbats. Among the remaining servant armies, more than 1,000 kobolds were smashed to death by hellfire, and only 3,000 of the 20,000 quillboar were left. The troll guard also suffered more than half of its losses. Finally, there were the tauren of Mulgore, who were allies. They stood in the front row of the night elves and fought alongside the Highmountain tauren, losing 5,000 brave cows. Fortunately, they had recuperated in their new home for the past ten years, and the new generation had grown up; otherwise, 5,000 losses would have hurt them.
Afterwards, Galen commended the quillboar, gnoll, Hogger, Vol'jin, and Rokhan of the servant army and used the decomposed soul energy in the Altar of Kings to help them improve their strength while giving their races better treatment. For the tauren and the Stormwind Kingdom, Kul Tiras, and the dwarves who participated in the war in the Alliance, Galen allocated to them a part of the trade share with the night elves. It can be said that in this Battle of Mount Hyjal, except for the night elves who suffered relatively large losses, everyone else, in addition to the troop losses, more or less gained some benefits. The Crusaders, in addition to the losses of low-level infantry, a large amount of supplies, life potions, and the Ivory Tower, also self-destructed 30,000 wisps at Nordrassil! But the harvest was also huge! The troops participated in the killing of Archimonde! The four Altar of Kings heroes under Galen gained massive amounts of experience! Aragorn, Thranduil, and Gandalf broke through the limits of mortals and were promoted to demigods on the spot! Durin, the king of the Dark Iron dwarves, only benefited from following along and rose from the middle stage of legend to the peak of legend because he had lacked combat for a long time. Even so, the Crusaders were still making a lot of money, and the name of the legendary hero Galen Trollbane resounded throughout the continent of Kalimdor.