Chapter 20: The Cruel Truth

The historians of Azeroth have said, "The forgotten histories are the pages of a book glued together, and when you tear them open you will see sticky blood." Mooch never imagined that on this day, at the end of the corridor, he would learn about one of the darkest and most brutal histories of Azeroth......

The stairs came to an end.

The narrow path suddenly widened, and Mo Qi raised the fire fold in his hand to see how high the room was, but he failed, the room was even higher than he had imagined, and he couldn't see the top at all. Mochi guessed that this was once a natural cave, and that it was impossible or necessary for human beings to create such a high space.

Mochi cautiously continued to walk forward, and a pitch-black gate appeared at the end of the field of vision. The gate was made of black iron, and Mochi couldn't even think of a larger metal door than this. Slowly approaching the iron door, Mo Qi couldn't help but brush his hand over the pattern of the iron door - those intricate and gorgeous lines could not see any traces of tool carving, and there were no welded gaps in the whole door panel, which seemed to be poured in one piece. Mo Qi couldn't imagine how much fine iron it would take to forge such a huge door, let alone what kind of craftsmen would build it, and he was more concerned about what was behind this door.

Following Carlstone's next prompt, Mooch quickly found the mechanism that opened the gate - an iron lion's head located in the lower center of the gate. To open this door, one must drip his own blood into the lion's gaping mouth. Carlstone called the opening of the door "a tooth for a tooth, blood for a blood." However, Mochi felt that this method had no practical meaning other than to increase the risk of contracting the blood with germs.

Mochi bit his fingertips with shark-like teeth, squeezing the blood beads from his fingertips into the lion's mouth.

After a second or two, the mutation suddenly occurred.

The lion's eyes lit up and he let out a roar. Then, the iron door glowed white, and in the white light, Moqi faintly heard a sound similar to the breaking of ice.

Realizing that something was wrong, Mochi turned and ran backwards.

I only heard a loud rumbling sound behind me, and the huge iron gate collapsed instantly. Thanks to Mochi's fast movements, he was able to dodge the iron that rolled from a great height. In a panic, Mo Qi knocked off the fire fold in his hand, and only the sound of the iron door collapsing could be heard in the darkness......

When everything calmed down, a glow lit up from behind the door.

Mochi crossed the ruins of the gate and squinted into the darkness. Behind the iron door was a cave full of crystals, and the glow was emitted by a large crystal in the center of the cave.

"Such a good gate turned out to be a one-off? What a fucking waste! Mochi looked at the largest crystal in the cavern, but his mind was calculating how much he could get if he sent all the pieces of the iron gate to the scrapyard.

"Outsider, you're welcome."

The sudden appearance of an old man's voice echoed through the cave, almost startling Moqi.

Mo Qi looked up, and an illusory figure appeared in midair, and it was this shadow that made the sound.

"It's a video that has been magically burned into crystal. This image is made by me, the court historian of Lordaeron? Bont Records. The kingdom I am in now is about to be destroyed by the Scourge Legion, and all I can do is preserve the historical truth as I know it before my life comes to an end. It is the responsibility of a historian to record the true historical appearance, and it is also my lifelong pursuit. ”

"You want to tell a story? Okay, let's talk about it! It's a pity that there are no melon seeds to eat......" Mo Qi's words did not cause a change in the feelings in the words of the figure, which shows that this is just an image, and it cannot communicate and interact with people at all.

"During the days of His Highness the Arss Northern Expedition to Northrend, His Majesty Terenus Minarhill often felt very lonely. I often can't sleep at night because I miss my son. In order to alleviate the king's loneliness, Finga Brown, the head of the inner court, specially selected a purebred Lordaeron retriever named 'Bella' for His Majesty Minar Hill, but who would have thought that such a small thing would eventually become the fuse for the destruction of the entire country.

"His Majesty Minarhill is getting younger in the company of Bella, and at first the ministers and chamberlains don't care, after all, it's a good thing to see more smiles on the king's face. Later, however, the king's affection for Bella was not limited to the old man's love for his pet. By the time everyone realized that something was wrong, His Majesty Terenus Minarhill had already written an edict asking BΓ©la to replace His Highness Arthas as the next heir to the throne of Lordaeron. ”

Hearing this, Moqi's mouth turned into a big O-shape - "You want a dog to be the king?" How unwilling this old king is to see his own son! ”

"After the end of His Highness Arthas's Northern Expedition, His Royal Highness the Prince has been discovered, and with the help of the bishop and the three priests, the situation in which the prince is controlled by the forces of evil is under control. However, after he entered the area of the Lordaeron Kingdom, he unexpectedly learned that His Royal Highness the King was going to appoint a pet dog as the heir to the throne. Although His Majesty's edict was not legitimized by all members of the royal family and ministers, His Majesty's action was the last straw that overwhelmed His Highness Alsace's sanity...... Evil consumed him completely. ”

The plot that follows is just as Mochi is well aware......

"No wonder Arthas was so resolute when he made a move to his father, without any regard for family affection, it turns out that there is such a layer of cause and effect in this...... It's no wonder that so many elderly people are fooled by people who sell health supplements. It turns out that in the eyes of the elderly, companionship is really more important than blood relatives. Mo Qi sighed.

Having said that, Moqi is still very sympathetic to what happened to Alsace - "The son of Beipiao returned from entrepreneurship and found that his father left the inheritance to his pet dog", I believe that this is an ending that no one can accept, what do you let the family's relatives and neighbors think of this son?

Mochi originally came here to pick up an artifact fragment, but unexpectedly revealed one of Azeroth's darkest and most brutal history.