The arrival of the Ethereal Spirit Merchants did not cause much of a stir on the surface, the demons of the Burning Legion ignored this group of bandage people, the creatures of the Draenor world were still panicking about the sudden changes in the world they lived in, Ainan had no idea of contacting them for the time being, and everyone ignored this group of cosmic merchants, making the Ethereal Spirits extremely boring.

In fact, this is not completely beneficial to the ethereals, and the fact that no one pays attention means that there are not many people who pay attention to them, so that the matter of secretly unearthing the resources of this broken world that they discussed before entering Draenor is much easier to do.

Ainan did not immediately contact the Void Spirit Merchant Group, firstly, to avoid giving the other party the illusion that the lion would open his mouth and knock on his own bamboo pole, and secondly, because he had more important things.

Under the careful planning of the Dreadlord Marganis, Arthas, a new tender, stepped into the trap step by step, and with the Frost Sorrow, he unsurprisingly became a slave of the rune sword. King Terenus, who had been building momentum for him from birth, had chosen him as the crown prince, and had cultivated his so-called kingly mindset since he was a child, expecting him to take the kingdom of Lordaeron to a higher position, had the misfortune of becoming a ghost under the sword of Frost Sorrow.

After killing his father, Arthas was extremely powerful, and with the blessing of the Rune Demon Sword Frost's sorrow, he completed the feat of turning the royal city of Lordaeron into a city of the undead, and the entire city was killed by him, and then transformed into the undead.

The curtain of the undead scourge began.

The fall of the royal city of Lordaeron has thrown the entire kingdom into chaos, and the pursuit and encirclement of Thrall and other orcs have to be stopped, because the army of the dead under the command of Arthas is attacking everywhere, and everywhere they pass has turned into a no-man's land, and the Scourge has turned all living creatures into undead - not only humans, but also horses and other animals.

The resurrection of the dead is a taboo, and even if you want to do it, you can only do it secretly, otherwise you will become a street rat that everyone shouts and beats. Now Alsace has not only done it, but also done it with great fanfare, how can such arrogance not provoke public anger. Armies and nobles from all over the kingdom, including his teacher Uther and the paladins of the Silver Hand who had worked with him, rode against him, vowing to bury him with the undead.

With the strength of one city against one country, Alsace loses more than wins. On the surface, this is true, after all, Alsace is on the weak side of the strength on paper. In the situation that the kingdom is against everywhere, many nobles have made their own small calculations.

Now that King Terenus of Lordaeron is dead, and Arthas, the crown prince of Lordaeron, is a sinner who kills his father and has become the public enemy of the nation, the decline of the royal family of Minethil is inevitable. After the successful crusade against Arthas, the destruction of the undead scourge, and the restoration of Lordaeron to peace, the next thing to do is to establish the ownership of the throne.

In any case, a nation, especially a great power as Lordaeron as important among the nations of mankind, cannot do without a king, not even for a day.

The throne is vacant, will I be able to take this opportunity to ascend to the position of my dreams?

A fire burned in the hearts of the nobles who thought they were powerful, and the flame of ambition grew stronger under the temptation of the throne of Lordaeron, and many of them were looking forward to the day when they would be crowned kings.

However, the ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny.

No matter how well these nobles thought beforehand, they had to defeat Arthas and his undead scourge in order to do so. Without this precondition, everything is empty talk.

As soon as they fought against the undead disaster, the nobles who had been dreaming of being crowned before were shocked to find that the script did not come as they expected it at all.

Alsace, who was absolutely weak on paper, not only did not be defeated as they expected, but also slaughtered their army in a bloody manner. Fearless of death and pain, the unconscious army of the undead easily broke through the defenses of the human soldiers, destroyed their fighting spirit, and harvested their lives.

The strength on paper is diametrically opposed to the outcome of the battle, which shows that war is not a numbers game, and who wins and who loses can only be known if they have actually fought.

The ferocity of Arthas and the undead was far more ferocious than the human nobles imagined, seeing the dead human warriors standing up again, and seeing their comrades who were fighting side by side one moment become their enemies the next moment, the silent wails of the undead, and the fearful screams of the human soldiers, scared the pampered noble lord to pee his pants. So much so that when the army was defeated, the nobles only cared about fleeing for their lives, and no one stood up to try to turn the tide.

The coalition of nobles who fought against Alsace not only failed to nip the undead in the bud, but instead sent a wave of heads in anger. This wave fattened the Scourge Legion, and the number of undead elites under Arthas's command increased several times.

Withstanding the first wave of counterattacks and expanding his strength, Arthas took advantage of the vacuum left by the defeat of the noble alliance to attack quickly, and the undead plague spread from the royal city of Lordaeron to the surrounding area, and there is a tendency to spread throughout the kingdom of Lordaeron. If no one stopped Arthas, Lordaeron would soon fall and become a paradise for the undead.

In a moment of crisis, a hero stepped forward.

Uther the Lightbringer led the paladins of the Silver Knights to intercept Arthas's main force, Uther did not know that Arthas had been controlled by the rune sword Frost Grief, all he saw was a puppet with Arthas's body on its head, and the Lightbringer also tried to convince Arthas to persuade him to go back.

After persuasion failed, Uther, with a sad and self-reproachful heart, began a duel with Arthas. Uther's grief stems from Arthas's depravity, and his self-blame also stems from Arthas, after all, Arthas is a disciple of Uther, and Uther thinks that Arthas has a great responsibility as a teacher. Against Arthas, Uther had the mentality of killing the other party to atone for his sins.

The Paladins of the Knights of the Silver Hand witnessed this duel with the undead of the Scourge Legion, and the Paladins were convinced that Uther, who had defeated Orc, the Great Chief of Orc, Orgrimmar the Hammer of Destruction, would once again mark Arthas's heroic record for posterity to celebrate.

However, the outcome of the battle surprised the paladins.

Although Uther, with his brilliant martial arts and the suppressive effect of the paladin's holy light on the dark energy, he had the upper hand at the beginning and achieved a great advantage, putting Arthas in danger again and again. How can Arthas, who has the blessing of the sorrow of the rune magic sword frost, have endless physical strength and inexhaustible magic power, the two sides have been facing each other for a long time, Uther has been unable to turn the advantage into a victory, but because of the continuous decline in the consumption of physical strength, Arthas finally seized the opportunity to successfully turn the tables.

Looking at the dead Uther and Arthas on the undead horse called Invincible, the paladins only felt that the sky had fallen.

Uther's defeat to Arthas, and the Lightbringer's defeat to the commander of the Undead Scourge, is this a sign that darkness will replace light?

The demoralized paladins suffered a defeat, a defeat not seen since the Silver Hand was founded, and Arthas stepped on the bones of his teacher to form a new order of knights on the corpses of the dead paladins, a terrifying force of death knights.