"One of the roads ahead is in the direction of the Intramuros and the other is in the direction of the Valley of the Hearth, which is the forest at the intersection. ”

"I've heard that there seem to be some giants living here before, and that the dwarves are here to find this kind of legend?"

"At least the sounds of birds and insects can be heard nearby, indicating that it's safe and not occupied by the damn undead. ”

"Well, that's the truth, the part of the road I just passed was so quiet, it was as if even the forest itself had died. ”

Due to the temporary safety, the group of six people rested and ate on the side of the inaccessible path, and while listening to the analysis of the royal guards such as Thassarian, Edlan wondered about the large forest in front of him, there is still such a place near Andorhar, but at the moment this is indeed a forest that has not been infected by the plague, and Edlan can even see butterflies on the wildflowers on the side of the road. The forest was very calm, and there were no restless birds and beasts, indicating that there was no ambush of a large group of men and horses, but the ground around it was too clean, and the dwarf's mortar was not sinking, and there was no wheel mark at all, or the dwarf's footsteps?

"All right, Thassarian, you stay here and watch the horses, the others, spread out into the broken woods, I hope those dwarves don't go too deep, remember to use the yellow signal if you find it, and use the red signal if you are in danger! If you don't find it, we'll be back here in half an hour." "Despite all the doubts, at the moment Edlan and they are ready to send them.

"Yes!"

Because it is a forest on the side of the road, there are no traces of large beasts in this forest, at least on the road that Edlan walks, the vegetation is not dense, the gap between the trees is also very large, and the whole body is wearing heavy plate armor, although it is inconvenient to walk in such a potholed forest, but it is safe.

Edlan walked for more than ten minutes, this forest seems to be really big, so he can't see any sense of coming to the end, and he hasn't seen any signal to lift off, it seems that they have found nothing. But if this were a regular hunt, Edlan's harvest would have been abundant, for more than one snake with no long eyes had already scurried out of the trees or grass on his heavy plate, and then crashed into the sturdy plate......

Edlan felt that if he retired in the future, he must get this plate armor back, and when the time comes, if he wants to eat some game, he will go to the woods to walk after wearing it, at least snake meat can easily get a lot of it.

Even after more than ten minutes of Edlan's group of people scattered into the woods, Thassarian, who had stayed on the side of the road to feed the horses, was always uneasy, could the dwarves really be interested in this legend passed down from their grandfather's grandfather's generation, and if there was anything here, it would have been dug up long ago?

"Well, why is it so quiet all of a sudden? Even the birds—"

Suddenly, he felt that something was wrong, there was a sound of breaking wind from far and near! Thassarian immediately rolled on his side! He felt that he must have avoided something, but when his eyesight returned to normal, he found that the horse that had been enjoying his petting and feeding by his side was gone!

As he looked at the fainter and fainter sound of the neighing of the war horse, he was stunned by the scene in front of him—

From the forest on the other side of the road, a behemoth came out of the two pine trees, it was a monster comparable to the height and size of an ogre, yes, a monster! The most striking feature of its body was that it had a large mouth on its abdomen, and from the disgusting mouthparts, you could still see some rotting organs, pieces of flesh, and unknown pus flowing out of it, and that pus would even decompose the vegetation when it flowed to the ground, as if standing around the monster and breathing air was to accompany the god of death.

The monster is more than 3 meters tall, and it can be seen that it is used in various ...... all over the body. The corpse was stitched together, not only humans, but also many animals! The most hideous thing was probably its three arms of different sizes, the huge meat crushing knife, the giant axe, and a large iron hook it held......

The horse was pulled by the vicious hook around the neck, and the monster, as if trying to show its might, split the poor horse in two with a flesh scraper in his right hand......

And what made Thassarian feel even more desperate was that there were two such monsters! One was walking slowly from their path, and Thassarian felt the earth shake with every step of his heavy body! And the monster that had just attacked him seemed to be observing him as a tiny human being, with the same eyes that were looking at a dead man, if it still had thoughts......

Sasarian felt that his body was trembling, he instinctively pulled out his long sword, and couldn't help but take a few steps back, and the surrounding war horses also seemed to feel the coming of death, and they were restless and restless, and even some war horses couldn't stand such fear and ran away, at this time Sasarian couldn't care about appeasing the emotions of the war horse anymore, and he subconsciously touched the flare gun on his waist.

But when he took out the flare gun and was about to reload the red projectile, he hesitated......

“...... You follow Baron Edlan on a secret mission...... Be sure to protect him!"

The words of the Prince of Arthas echoed in Thassarian's mind.

At this moment, he wondered, if the red flare was fired, although he could be rescued, the best friend of the prince was a powerful paladin, but in the face of two monsters that were so terrifying that he could not calm down and concentrate on facing the enemy now, would that lord be able to win?

No, I'm afraid this is a despicable conspiracy! It's a conspiracy against that adult! Because until now, those two monsters who could kill him 100% only surrounded him, and didn't come up to kill him all at once, so it means that the other party did it on purpose!

The more Thassarian thought about it, the calmer he became, whether it was the royal guards or the paladins, we were not afraid of death, but if we died under such a despicable conspiracy, and died worthless, how could we be worthy of the country and the high hopes of His Royal Highness the Prince? At least delay the time, let the lord know, and then quickly flee and tell the Prince of Arthas about this place and the appearance of this monster!

Thinking of this, Thassarian straightened his back slightly, he slammed the flare gun in his hand on the ground, raised his foot and stepped on it hard!

"Click!" The intricately constructed engineering musket was trampled and deformed by the force of Thassarian's fury.

"Papapa......" came from the woods and applauded softly.

"Oh~ what a touching master-servant relationship! In order to prevent that paladin from coming, you can overcome your fear and smash the survival flare gun, quack quack...... It's so impressive~"

It wasn't until the hoarse owner, who didn't look like a human speaker, walked up to the monster that Thassarian saw him in his entirety, a thin human wrapped almost entirely in black robes, and judging by the one of the sheepbone staff he was holding, it was supposed to be a spellcaster.

"Who are you?"

"Quack, it doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that you let me see a good show......" The black-robed man sneered, "Do you think I'm just going to be prepared for this?"

Thassarian frowned, realizing that things didn't seem to be simple, "What do you mean, you are the mastermind of this evil plague?" his hand holding the sword grew stronger and stronger, as he vaguely sensed that there seemed to be some great conspiracy involved in the other party's words.

"No, stupid human beings, you can't imagine the power of my noble master......! Quack, you're dying anyway, and you'll know when you're dead. The black-robed man caressed the tall and disgusting monster beside him as if he were caressing his lover, and then glanced at Thassarian contemptuously, "Kill him." ”

"Hmph, come on, scum!" As the horse carrying his shield had fled into the woods, Thassarian had no choice but to draw his dagger for self-defense, the sword of the royal guard in his right hand and a Seiko dagger in his left.

Even though these were only standard weapons, a faint blood-red mist gradually appeared beside Thassarian, and finally condensed around his two weapons!

"For Lordaeron!" Thassarian shouted a slogan, and while the light amplification effect applied by Adran was still there, his whole body was like a flash of red, and he rushed towards the monster that was still nearly a hundred yards away from him!

But Thassarian is only a low-level warrior after all, and the warrior skills that can get close to the enemy in a very short time are only 30 yards at most. And after Thassarian shortened the distance with the monster by 30 yards like the red "Flash", he took a deep breath, and the blood-colored mist on his body was thick again, completely overshadowing the originally faint holy light around him, and quickly concentrated under his feet, and now he seemed to be full of strength again, charging again!

The blood-red streamer skyrocketed, and this second round of charging shortened the distance between Thassarian and the monster, and he was very lucky to avoid the drag of another monster on the avenue that threw a hook towards his first pause!

"Bah!" At this moment, the hook thrown by the monster in front of him was picked open by Thassarian with his long sword, although the power was so great that he paused in place for a second after the charge, and the long sword in his hand was almost shaken off by the strong sink!

And 30 yards!"Suffer death, monster!"

Like a cannonball being fired, Thassarian jumped high with a "rub", and the blood-red mist on the deadly blade seemed to have been condensed into it, as if the texture of the entire weapon had changed!

In the blink of an eye, Thassarian had reached the very top of the parabola under his heroic leap skill, "Oo————oo

But the impact of Thassarian's death-defying eruption was full of disdain in the eyes of the black-robed man, he looked at the warrior in front of him like a dead man, and he had even figured out what to do with the corpse of this warrior.

I saw that the monster more than 3 meters tall didn't do much movement, it just came first with the machete in its right hand, not very accurate, like a fly swatter, and used the back half of the blade to slap Sassarian's imposing body away!

"Stupid human beings, the difference in the level of strength, cannot be made up for by courage. The black-robed man lost interest when he saw his "pet" move, and he turned and walked towards the woods.

But what the black-robed man didn't expect was that the young warrior who should have been slapped away and turned into a broken kite in the air, he was still awake, although Sasarian was looking terrible now, he felt that the muscles and bones of his whole body were screaming in despair, but the anger in his heart could not be relieved, he suppressed it, like a rhinoceros that had been suffocated!

A savage, savage rage poured back into his body, and he could clearly see that the giant axe on the monster's third arm was striking at himself as it was still floating in the air.

At this moment, it seemed that time had slowed down, and Thassarian even felt that he could adjust his posture in the air! He twisted his body as if he was about to break bones in the next second, and his legs were retracted and kicked, dodging the moment of the deadly giant axe, and exerting force through the force point on the surface of the giant axe!

Again! It was like a heroic leap from being favored by faith again and gaining a chance, the blood mist so thick that it seemed to materialize, and a large amount of blood oozing from all over his body, completely turning Thassarian into a bloody man! Like a blood-colored meteor, he rushed fiercely towards the target he had originally wanted to kill—the black-robed man!

"What?!"

The black-robed man who felt the threat behind him subconsciously stretched out an ice shield to envelop himself, but in the next second, a touch of red filled with anger completely shattered the snow-white ice! The sword of the royal guard easily broke through the skin, muscles, and bones of the black-robed man like cutting butter, and slashed it from his shoulders to his waist and hips!

At this moment, the two tall monsters had just turned around and wanted to come over to protect their masters.

Sasarian lay on the ground, although he felt that he was out of breath and out of breath, and he didn't even feel pain in his body, but after he looked at the body of the black-robed man who had been killed by himself, he found that his eyelids were so heavy that he couldn't even open the strength of the Ten Princes, but he felt that he could still see the faces of his favorite mother and sister, which made him very happy, and inadvertently a satisfied smile appeared on his blood-covered face......

And the two monsters also returned to silence as if they had lost their purpose, and they stood still like two faithful "door gods", guarding their master's side.

For a long time, the black robe that was broken in two pieces was like two magnets attracted to each other under the action of some force, and finally connected.

"Whew...... It really hurts, it actually killed me once before I sublimated! If it weren't for the mercy of my master, I would really be dead! What a human being who deserves to die!" The hoarse voice of the black-robed man echoed again on the empty forest path.

"Whew-huh-" The black-robed man suddenly knelt down, and with a strange voice that seemed to be breathing in his lungs that seemed to have been hollowed out of the air, it didn't take long for him to retreat from the spirit world, and then he replied respectfully, "...... Yes, noble master, for the will of the Great Lich King!"

The black-robed man unleashed two rounds of green flames at his "pets" and slammed them into the two monsters, causing them to take a few steps back and stop the "pets" who wanted to eat the human corpse, "Oh, damn it, you can't eat this guy...... I didn't expect it, it looks like your talent is not bad......" The black-robed man walked up to Thassarian's corpse and turned around a few times, he wanted to immediately crush this human who dared to cause him to lose half of his strength in exchange for his master to give him a chance to be reborn!

But the master's order must not be disobeyed, the black-robed man stopped, and some kind of evil magic had already begun to condense the fluctuation in his hand, "Count you lucky, human, and even if you are still a little useful, you will become the master's sharp blade, and you will serve your Royal Highness the prince again in the future, quack quack......"

In the next second, on Thassarian's corpse, the evil magic sphere was like a viscous green liquid, dripping continuously.

Thassarian's spirit, which had not yet completely collapsed, felt an unprecedented shock, his soul seemed to be shackled by something, and he couldn't even run away, he felt it! he felt that he was turning into something he hated in front of him, no, it was a ghoul! his corpse was changing towards a ghoul!

Thassarian's spirit resisted, but it was so weak that it could only slow down the mutation of his corpse.

"Oh, it's amazing how strong the psychic power is after death!" the black-robed man rolled his eyes and smiled, and he completely transmitted the so-called conspiracy through the spiritual network to the human corpse that was being transformed into a ghoul.

The spirit of Sasarian learned the whole truth of the matter in an instant-

It was an archmage named Kel'thugad who had been banished by Dalaran, because he was obsessed with necromancy and completely depraved, and he single-handedly founded the Cult of the Cursed God in order to welcome the rebirth of the great master, and the first goal of rebirth was to lead the prince of Lordaeron step by step into his destiny of becoming a vessel!

As for Kel'thugad, the first human to be obsessed with death and necromancy, his goal is to sublimate into a lich and gain eternal life!

The outbreak of the plague was part of the plan, and the Cult of the Cursed had already begun to infiltrate all over Lordaeron, but when they chose to infiltrate Anaheim City, a burgeoning city at the foot of the mountain, in order to deal with the Abbey of Light, they repeatedly failed, and when the Cult of the Cursed found out the reason, they found out that this was called Edlan The young lords of Anaheim had long been prepared for the outbreak of the plague, and now they had a powerful priest in the chapel of Anaheim City, which made it impossible for them to do anything.

After the details of the human named Edlan were figured out, Kel'thugad decided that in order for the plan to go smoothly, he would cut out the unstable factors and eliminate all the existences around Arthas that could affect him, so not only against Arthas, but also against Edlan's conspiracy was fermenting, until now, he was successfully lured out of the city.

The Cult of the Cursed God has arranged a net for him, and he will also be the sharpest blade of his master, yes, just like himself......

After Thassarian understood what was going on, perhaps the distraction had made him mentally less resistant, or maybe he couldn't hold on any longer, and all he had left in his mind was the thought that "I will eventually become a death knight and serve my master".

Yes, I will be a death knight and serve my master, and you will too, you will not escape, Baron Edlan, and you will also be the sharpest of your masters-

"Ahh————hh

Because the scorching light, so bright that everything around it lost its color, was burning it fiercely!

"Necromancer, whoever you are! you don't want to tarnish his glory!" a grim voice suddenly appeared, accompanied by the holy light that disgusted all the undead, Edlan rode out of the forest, raised his sword condensed by the scorching light, and ran in the direction of two abominations known as war machines......