"Your Royal Highness, welcome back!"

Outside the city of Lordaeron, King Terenus's court butler looked at the hooded Arthas with pride and affection, the prince had grown up almost under his care, so that to the old messenger, Arthas was like his son and nephew. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Facing the enthusiastic old butler, Arthas's stiff face pulled out a faint smile, he didn't speak, just reached out and patted the old butler's shoulder, for this kind of intimate behavior, the old man seemed even happier, and there was even a trace of abnormal flushing on his wrinkled face.

"Come, Your Royal Highness, His Majesty is waiting for you!"

At the signal of the old butler, the gates of Lordaeron City at dawn burst open, although it was not the normal time to get up, but after the messenger of last night delivered the news of Arthas's return to the royal city, there were still many citizens who got up early and stood on both sides of the road to welcome His Royal Highness the prince who had returned from afar.

It is said that His Royal Highness the Prince has brought back treasures that are enough to fight the terrible plague, and the return of some turbulent Lordaeron to its normal state is definitely just around the corner.

"Oh! Your Highness the Prince!"

"Your Highness Arthas!"

"Praise be to you, Your Highness!"

Arthas followed the old butler and led Pharik and Marvion into the city of Lordaeron, and the citizens along the way excitedly threw red petals, which in Lordaeron's etiquette, a symbol of victory, Arthas looked up at the petals flying in the sky, he reached out and caught the red flowers falling from his eyes.

On the black armor, the red petals withered rapidly, and in just an instant, they became the driest color, and His Royal Highness rubbed it lightly with his hand, and the dried petals turned into broken leaves and fell at his feet as he continued to walk.

No one noticed this, and the reveling townspeople cheered for His Royal Highness, but they had no idea what Arthas had brought back.

No matter how long the road was, there was an end, and after ten minutes, Arthas stood at the gate of the palace of Lordaeron, and the old butler left first, and King Terenus sat in the front hall of the palace, waiting for the audience of his son, the future king of the country.

Arthas stepped on the red carpet and walked up the steps of the palace step by step, the bright light and the black cloak on his body formed a strong contrast, and the cheers of the crowd slowly fell silent, as the prince's palace stepped up the 24 steps of the palace, the light of the entire sky seemed to be sucked into it by the dark back of Arthas.

In the corner where no one was paying attention, the old butler was sitting on the ground in embarrassment, his strength was passing rapidly, along with his life force, there was no wound on his body, but he could feel that a terrible pulling force was tearing at his soul.

Fear crawled over his body like a shadowy palm, choking his throat, the shadow of death laughed wildly and squeezed his last life out of his body, he opened his mouth wide but couldn't breathe, like a fish thrown to the shore, waving his arms with difficulty, trying to grasp the life-saving straw that didn't exist.

A life is gone, but this... This is just the beginning.

"Wow!"

The royal guard opened the door to the antechamber, and the sunlight merged with the light of the nave to brighten the dim light, and Arthas strode into the nave, where the aged King Terenus was sitting on a magnificent throne, holding Lordaeron's scepter in his hand, and his eyes still bright, looking at his son.

He is so good, like himself when he was young, fearless, brave, and does not compromise with fate.

But in the palace where the father and the son were supposed to meet, in addition to those loyal royal guards, there were two more people at this time.

Gianna held her short-handled staff in her hand and looked nervously at Arthas, who stepped forward step by step, unlike the loving King Terenus, Gianna was nervous now, her palms were full of sweat.

Half a month ago, the eldest lady who was confined to Dalaran by Antonidas, who was furious, received a letter from Stratholme, in which Dick expressed his concern about Arthas's return, and he hoped that Gianna could persuade Antonidas to protect Arthas's return by the most powerful archmage in the human world.

But Antonidas decisively rejected Gianna's proposal, the old mage believed that the mage should not participate in the royal power, but under Gianna's repeated persuasion, the old mage finally sent the strongest mage of Dalaran's younger generation, Ronin, to accompany Gianna to protect King Terenus.

Of course, on the surface, it is said that Dalaran and the royal family of Lordaeron are discussing the progress of the plague research, but it also happens that on the day that Gianna and Ronin arrived at the palace, Arthas returned!

The spiritual power of the mages is generally very strong, and Gianna and Luo Ning are among the best, so when Arthas approached the throne, not only Gianna, but even Luo Ning felt the energy fluctuations hidden in the body of His Royal Highness the prince, which made him a little frightened.

This level of energy fluctuation, Luo Ning swears, he only saw it 10 years ago, in the Second Orc War, when he rescued the Red Dragon Queen who was imprisoned by the Dragonthroat Clan, he accidentally bumped into the fallen Earth Guardian, the black dragon Nesario.

But what level of existence is Nesario?

What kind of existence is Alsace?

Both of these... How can it be!

Seeing that Arthas was already approaching King Terenus, Ronin began to alarm frantically in his heart, he stood up, his figure flashed, and the light of the flashing spell shattered in place, and when he reappeared, he was already in the middle of King Terenus and Arthas.

Arthas didn't speak, but just looked up, and the eyes under the dark hood glanced at Ronin, a glance that sent chills down the young archmage's body, and King Terenas with a hint of anger.

"Stand down, mage, don't disturb me and my son!"

"But Your Majesty... He..."

"Stand down!"

The old king didn't want to listen to Luo Ning's explanation at all, he even stood up from the throne with the support of the guards, pushed Luo Ning away with his thin hand, and step by step, took the initiative to walk to Arthas who was standing in place, opened his hands, and hugged his cold body.

"My child, I am finally relieved to see that you are safe and sound. ”

"Father, I am relieved to see that you are safe and sound. ”

This was the first time Arthas spoken, and at the moment his voice sounded, Ronin and Gianna moved at the same time, this was not a sound that a living person would make at all, it was like thunder in the sky, just when the sound sounded, the energy in the surrounding space began to fluctuate violently.

"Danger! Your Majesty!"

"Evil!

Luo Ning and Gianna appeared next to the two people embracing each other on the left and right, Luo Ning was responsible for attacking, and Gianna was responsible for protecting, but as soon as the magic light in the hands of the two people appeared, they were blocked by two terrible sword lights.

Faric and Marvine, His Royal Highness's right-hand men.

"My child... You... What's wrong with you?"

King Terenus also sensed something was wrong at this time, because he could not feel a trace of warmth from his son's arm, only a bone-chilling cold.

Arthas looked at his father, his emaciated pale face, appearing in the air for the first time,

"Father, I'm here to inherit your throne!"

"Huh"

Behind Arthas, frost sorrow wrapped in a dull shroud slashed the old king's neck, and seven different inscriptions gradually lit up on the black-blue sword, and the old soul emerged from the corpse held in Arthas's body, and then was sucked into the shiny sword.

"Father, your reign has come to an end... And I will be crowned king!"

In a very "gentle" tone, Arthas picked up the body that was gradually frozen in his arms, and walked up to the throne step by step, he didn't pay attention to the battle that was taking place in the palace, he put King Terenus back on the throne, stretched out his hand, and a large piece of cold ice froze the corpse and the throne with a shocked and stunned expression on his face.

Finally, he picked up the heavy crown that had fallen to the ground, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it, and finally smiled disdainfully, and with the force of his left hand, the hard crown slowly turned into a stream of scum in his hand, as if it had rotted in time for hundreds of years.

"Come, my warriors, fight for your masters!"

Arthas lifted Frost Sorrow high, and then slammed into his knees, the sharp blade of his sword also pierced into the ground, and the entire palace began to shake as the dark magic passed through the ground, and Gianna and Ronin were suppressed in the palace for a while in the face of the never-before-seen combination of martial arts and dark power.

But the sudden earthquake and the cracks in the ground, as well as the giant spiders and beetle-like creatures that churned up from the ground, the furious shadow energy almost tore apart everything in this palace.

Gianna remembered Dick's plan at the end of the letter, and with a wave of her hand, she sent out a swirling ice storm that forced Farrick back, reached out to rearrange herself with a layer of ice armor, and shouted to the other side,

"Ronin!

Ronin was also a ruthless character, seeing that his side was falling into disadvantage, he held the staff with both hands, and the magic power of his whole body gathered together, as if he was wielding a battle axe, and slammed it down in the direction of Arthas.

The next moment, in the sky outside the palace, a dark crack was opened, and immediately after, a whistling, fire-wrapped meteorite meteorite fell from the sky and smashed down towards the already chaotic palace.

"Whew!"

The light of the two flashes disappeared into the palace, and the moment the panting Luo Ning and the solemn Gianna appeared outside the palace, the meteorite also smashed above the palace, which gathered the power of the archmage's attack, how terrifying, this blow almost leveled the majestic palace to the ground.

But no one pays attention to that anymore.

The whole city was slaughtered! Someone even set a corner of the city on fire, billowing black smoke rising from the corner, and with the wails and screams of death, the once majestic city was reflected as hell.

The soldiers brought back by Artace, they shed their disguises, thousands of undead fires appeared in the streets of Lordaeron, and the crypt demons who tore through the ground and drilled up from the ground, they went crazy to slaughter!

This time, it's no longer the slaughter of Stansom for justice, but an evil feast!

A little girl who ran out of the house with tears in her eyes and cried out of the house panicked to avoid the pursuit behind her, it was an undead soldier in a Lordaeron uniform, and it raised its long sword expressionlessly, and was about to pierce the little girl's body, the little girl was already frightened stupid.

"Get out of here!"

"Boom!"

A large ball of fire struck the undead in the chest, sending it flying into the air, leaving only a mangled body when it landed.

Luo Ning stretched out her hand to the little girl, and the little girl threw herself into Luo Ning's arms, and her little hand grabbed Luo Ning's robe, and she was frightened.

Gianna couldn't bear to look at the slaughterhouse behind her, and although she desperately wanted to dispel the evil, she and Ronin alone couldn't save the city.

It was then that the eldest lady remembered how Dick had felt when she had rushed into Stratholme alone, and she opened her eyes, and this time, there was only fortitude left in her eyes.

"Let's go, Ronin, let's go to the palace!"

"Where are you going, Alsace is still there!"

"Go and save someone who can rebuild Lordaeron!"