Azeroth did not originally have the doctrine of Light. In the aftermath of the Troll War, a large number of humans were plagued by hazy hallucinations and dreams, in which they were repeatedly seen to resemble angels, with geometric shapes and bright lights around them. Although these mortals did not know it, the person they were communicating with was actually Naru in the infinite dark starry sky. Through this connection, a part of the human mind has been fortunate enough to be guided by Naru to reach the presence of the Light. From this fragile connection, human priests learned to harness the extraordinary healing power of light, and they went on to launch a religious movement to preach their tenets of justice, peace, and selflessness, which won the favor of the masses and grew from strength to strength. In order to better study the teachings of the Holy Light, away from the hustle and bustle of the world, they spontaneously gathered on the high mountains northeast of Tirisfar, and thus established the first large stronghold of the Church of the Light, which is the origin of the Cathedral of Lordaeron.

After thousands of years of continuous renovation, the Church of the Holy Light has been transformed from a small stone house into a church building area, covering an area that is almost the size of a small town. There are not only ascetic priests and paladins here, but also many apprentices who have studied the teachings of the Light here, and Claudia has practiced here with her mentor.

At this time, the usually peaceful cathedral was full of tension and slaughter, and the winding mountain path was full of monster corpses - mostly zombies and ghouls, but also a few gargoyles, several human paladins had just withdrawn from the front line of the battlefield, their attendants walked quickly to serve them, dismounted and unloaded the heavy armor of the paladins, and many priests hurriedly walked to their side to bandage and heal. The knights' eyes were full of exhaustion, and one of them even fell asleep leaning on his squire as soon as he took off his armor. In the past few days, countless undead soldiers have flocked to the cathedral like a tidal wave, and these monsters that don't need to rest will never stop.

"Uncle Rhein, how are you feeling?" A young priest with a somewhat immature face was handing a white towel soaked in hot water to a middle-aged knight who had just rested his armor, and his squire was not around, and was now sitting down a little weakly against the bluestone wall.

Rhine took the towel, wiped his face full of blood and sweat, and said with a little tiredness in his voice:

"Thank you, Paltris, don't worry about me, I'm not hurt, just a little tired."

After saying this, his brows furrowed: "The strength of these monsters is not strong, but their number is too much, and for two whole days, their number has not decreased at all." ”

Partris took Rhine's used towel, put it aside and handed it to Rhine with a military kettle, who took it and drank it in a big gulp. Partris's facial features were somewhat similar to Claudia's, and she had the same brilliant blonde hair and blue eyes, but her eyes were larger than her sister's, and her voice was a little weaker, which made people feel a sense of pity when they heard it. She looked at Rhine, who was gulping water, and whispered with some hesitation:

"Uncle Rhine, can we hold on?"

Rhine put down the kettle, thought about something, and then said: "There are too few warriors we can charge at the front line, if only the dwarven brothers or heavy knights of the knights were by their side, there are really not many human paladins who are suitable for practicing the path of holy light protection, and now we can only hope that Lord Uther will soon receive the distress message from here and send reinforcements back." ”

He thought of something, and then became a little angry: "I really don't understand what that mad demon is thinking, let the future king be inappropriate, run to be a dog for the undead legion, his father spent fifty years building this kingdom, and he only took a few days to scorch it all!" I'm glad his father didn't live to witness what he did, and even more hateful because he ...... my former comrades. ”

Rhine's voice stopped suddenly, and he found that the priest girl beside him had red eyes, and tears were in her big eyes, and the middle-aged uncle who realized that he had said the wrong thing hurriedly comforted: "I'm sorry little Paltris, I shouldn't have mentioned this matter." ”

Partris lowered her head, tears dripping to the ground, sobbing: "It's okay, Uncle Rhine, I just don't know how my sister will face her if she becomes like that, I heard that the soldiers who came back from the Northern Rift this time have become monsters, woo...... Obviously, she wrote to me before she went out last year, and made an appointment to ask me to be a bridesmaid for her when she returned...... Woohoo......"

Rhine sighed, patted the sobbing girl on the back, and comforted her: "We have to believe Claudia, she may still be alive, and when the siege here is resolved, I will accompany you to find her." Your father is my brother, and his daughter is my daughter. Even if they're gone, I'll take care of you. ”

After a short period of recuperation, as the drums of war were remembered, the knights once again put on their armor and rushed to the precarious front.

Not far from the foot of the mountain, there is a small village, at this time the original occupants of the village have become part of the surrounding undead legions, and the former lord's house is now occupied by the new occupants.

"It's been two whole days without progress, North, do you have any intentions!" A lazy voice complains, and the owner of the voice is a delicate and sexy woman.

North, the former president of the Kingdom Psychic Association and now the plague messenger, looked at his newlywed wife with some doting and explained: "Dear Farina, the master's order to us is to drag this side and attract the paladins from Uther's side as much as possible, and not to destroy the master's plan. And we don't have to fight to the death with the Paladin Priest here, so it's better to save some effort and do something else. ”

"Yes," Falina licked her red lips and let out a coquettish smile, "Let's do something fun with the energy we saved." ”

After a while, the men's panting and the women's moans resounded through the room, and spring was in full swing.

Along the way, Claudia witnessed the devastation of Lordaeron by the Scourge Legion, where the once thriving village was mostly deserted, the former owners were either turned into zombies or fled, and the once busy trade routes no longer had caravans passing by, and from time to time dead livestock and disheveled corpses could be seen on the road, and occasionally lost skeletons or zombies wandering aimlessly. In order to get on the way, she and Segrina had to clean up a lot of undead creatures that stood in their way, and they were lucky enough to harvest a war horse - not from the undead monster, of course, but by chance, this horse was drinking water by the river, and it still had a blood-stained saddle on its body, and it was estimated that its owner was more than lucky. Claudia gave the horse a resounding name: Virgil.

When she and Segrina walked to the foot of the mountain, they saw the scene of dense undead creatures besieging the mountain peak from a distance, and the two of them suddenly felt a tingle in their scalps.

"Are you sure you want to go up the mountain? That's a lot of people, isn't it?! Segrina said as she grabbed her hair in distress.

"We have to find a way, otherwise even if so many pigs rush over, our little body will be trampled to death." The blonde girl also had a sad face. "Fortunately, there are traces of the Holy Light shining in the distance just now, and it seems that the monastery is still holding on."

As a result, three hours passed, and the two girls were still hiding in the corner and looking at each other, not thinking of any good way.

Claudia hesitated for a long time and said, "Why don't you sneak up first?" I'm trying to find a way to get your attention on the periphery? ”

The elf girl immediately rejected her thoughts: "As long as you are a holy knight without teammates, how long can you drag on, whether you can run away is a question, I don't want to sneak up today and have to sneak down tomorrow to collect your body." ”

Claudia didn't deny the elves, she wasn't good at frontal combat, like most Terran paladins, protecting and healing teammates was her forte, if only my wings could be used in the world, she thought a little madly.

Suddenly Segrina looked into the distance, and Claudia followed her gaze, but saw nothing, but soon, she felt it.

The earth is trembling violently!

It's as if countless frost giants are pounding the ground with their giant hammers!

The trembling was getting more and more intense, and puffs of dust were rising from the ground to the sky.

Closer, closer! Claudia finally saw what it was, and a wall of iron with a silver glow was rapidly pressing down, expanding so rapidly that it was about to take up all of her vision.

This is an iron wall composed of heavy armor knights densely arranged, from people to horses are covered under thick iron armor, even the fragile hooves and wrists of the horses are carefully protected by chain mail, the knights are covered with face armor, and the fierce and terrifying spears are as long as one foot and three feet, slowly flat and supported by the right hand, buckled into the armor, and the left arm is buckled with a half-human high iron shield, exuding a chill. This is the heavy armor iron horseman, the nightmare of countless orcs in the second war, and only a few hundred people can penetrate the emperor of the --- cavalry in the queue of tens of thousands of orcs.

At the front of the iron wall, a knight wearing no mask and a black blindfold watched coldly as the undead creatures not far away approached, and then let out a roar, and the powerful force made the air within a radius of several miles tremble: "For Lordaeron!" ”

Claudia looked at the familiar figure from a distance full of adoration, and couldn't help but shout, "Master Mentor! ”

Rhine, who was riding a horse in the distance, slashed down a ghoul with a sword, and when he heard this voice, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and let go of a hanging heart: "My lord, you have finally arrived!" ”

Falina looked at the god-like figure from a distance, her face turned white, and she spoke a little unfavorably: "Tai...... Luo ......"

North, who was covered in cold sweat, grabbed her and walked out, and said in a foul language as he walked out: "You have to run quickly, if you don't run, you can't run, only there are abominations and death knights who can fight this monster head-on, I*&@!" How can Lordaeron still have a heavily armored iron cavalry ...... formed?"

The front of the silver iron wall was equipped with the undead legion, and then, the undead monsters were trampled under the iron wall as if they were being cut wheat, and a path was cleared in an instant, Claudia and Segrina also followed along the path cleared by the knights, and the monastery on the top of the mountain also had many priests and the rest of the knights to meet and come out.