Chapter 19 is still a transition, you can skip this chapter
Passing through the streets, bypassing the patrolling soldiers, I lurked in the shadows, little by little, towards the largest building northeast of New Avalon. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info it's the Scarlet Castle, the headquarters of the Scarlet Crusaders in New Avalon.
It's now the fourth day since our legion laid siege to New Avalon, and the living are still here in vain, leaving thousands of corpses beneath the walls every day.
Of course, this is not for nothing, and unlike us Death Knights who have been blessed by His Majesty the Lich King, the living need to rest, need to eat, and need to relieve the fatigue of their minds. On a battlefield like a meat grinder, even the most determined Light fanatics will be crushed by physical and mental fatigue.
Now, a large part of the entire Scarlet Crusader's military strength has been placed on the battlefield on the front line, in the flood of offensive to defend against our Scourge Legion.
We who have slaughtered all of Haven County have countless corpses to use as troops to drain the living force of the Scarlet Crusaders. Under pressure from the front, they had to send more soldiers, even civilians in the city who could use weapons, into the battlefield and plunged into an almost endless war of attrition.
If the stalemate continues, it will be just around the corner for our Scourge to break through the city and wipe out these survivors, but it is clear that the current commander of the Scarlet Crusaders. Bridget Abydis was not a brainless Light fanatic, and according to intelligence, the female commander was planning to abandon the city and retreat by sea.
Remembering the ships docked at the seashore, the damned fleet. I couldn't help but start a nameless fire, 3 days, in the first 3 days, we Death Knights carried the momentum of breaking through Haven County, leading a huge army of ghouls to attack New Avalon. At one point, it was even about to occupy the city walls.
But the fleet, which had returned in time, was covered by artillery at sea, and repelled our attack. I was directing the attack of my Death Knights, and one of my knights was on the rampart.
But under the artillery fire in the sky, our undead army was directly cut off by the artillery fire. In response, in order not to lose too many troops, the High Lord Darien Mograini ordered a retreat and abandoned the attack. And this made me angry, and my Death Knight, who had climbed the walls, was attacked by the Cultists of the Holy Light after being left alone, and finally fell.
This is the third Death Knight I've lost to my men, and it's a shame for me that those cowardly living people have lost a quarter of my subordinates in just a few days.
If it was a one-on-one death, it would be an honor, but now, because some rotten wood floating on the water actually made me lose a subordinate again, which I can't accept. However, I didn't wait for the opportunity to lead the team for revenge, and the next day, my Death Knight was requisitioned on a secret mission, and the others were not allowed to fight. All of a sudden, I became a single commander!
What makes it even more difficult for me to accept is that His Excellency the Great Lord did not want to consume the Death Knights in the siege battle, so in the next two days of fighting, all the Death Knights, including me, could no longer set foot on the battlefield. This made me feel helpless, but as a soldier, I still obeyed orders unconditionally.
However, the words that the voice that appeared in the bottom of my heart to me kept me upset. In his words, Your Majesty the Lich King, our ruler is not a big deal, this world has a more powerful existence than our Scourge Legion. But how is this possible?
Is it possible that a being more powerful than our Scourge Legion? We have destroyed countless lives, reversed the realm of life and death, all life after death, no matter how powerful he was in life, will be ruled by us after death, even if it is a powerful dragon, after death will not become the frost dragon in our legion!
I wanted to laugh at that voice, when I didn't know why I couldn't open my mouth, it seemed that there really was something in the dark that was above the Scourge Legion, above His Majesty the Lich King, watching the world every moment.
I was silent, unwilling to face the question, and the voice did not appear again, but my idea of running away was undoubtedly a betrayal, and I began to doubt the Scourge and the power of His Majesty the Lich King.
It was betrayal, and I spent two days in this torment of self-doubt. That was until I received an order from Prince Kereses to infiltrate the city of New Avalon and assist the Death Knights on a special mission.
Only then can I focus my attention on what the voice is telling me, and the possible truth!
Entering the city and the vanguard round went smoothly, and although he was almost exposed at the end, he managed to enter the stronghold in the city and connect with the Death Knight embedded earlier.
Then, as before, the scene took place, as the captured Kurdila, Sassarian, and Orbaz Bloodpoison quarreled. I interrupted their argument, but Albazz taunted me for being a 'prop', and in his words, I noticed that he seemed to know why I had no memories of my life, and told me that I was just a puppet.
At this point, I suddenly felt as if I had learned some truth, something I had no control over. Then the voice came back to me, and in his words, he must have known something, but he just wouldn't tell me. I've always avoided my questions on the grounds that when the time is up, I'll know it.
I wondered why the name Sylvanas felt familiar to me, why I seemed to have heard the name Gotik somewhere, and most importantly, that the man named Gotik had a lot to do with my lost memories.
But the voice didn't tell me, but told me something else, and eventually, he even told me that I wasn't actually dead, and that was why I couldn't listen to the Lich King like the other Death Knights.
This makes me even more confused!
I'm not dead? A living death knight, is that possible? I couldn't say anything, I didn't know what to say, something seemed to be broken inside of me.
In the end, I chose to escape, I am now a soldier, and a soldier is going to do what a soldier is supposed to do, and what I have to do now is to complete the task that Orbaz gave me, even if it seems to send me to death.
Only in this way can I not think about those, those, those things that I don't want to face, everything!