When Xue Huan arrived on the Kalimdor continent alone, it was eight days later.

If the eastern kingdom is a gathering place for human prosperity, then Kalimdor in the west is another barren place.

With ghostly Night Elves, majestic and powerful Minotaurs, centaurs, and strange-looking, flying Harpies, Kalimdor is always a real wilderness and crisis compared to the somewhat peaceful Eastern Kingdoms.

However, when Kel'thugad teleported Xue Huan to the hidden Gray Valley, the aura of murder that filled the place still made him feel a little surprised.

The Ash Valley Forest is a black forest full of swamps and twisted trees, bordered by the Black Coast to the west, Eshara to the east, and the Sacred Mount Hyjal to the north.

When Xue Huan arrived in the Gray Valley, Akmund's legions had cleared the place, and the Burning Legion had opened multiple portals, advancing from Issa** to Nodahir, and the Night Elves had placed their stronghold in Aishara, two-thirds of which had been completely uprooted by the legions.

The battle had spread from Azhara to Ashenvale, and at least when Xue Huan descended on Ashenvale and cleared out a few of the Hellhounds that had pounced on him, he gradually realized that the Burning Legion guys were moving too fast.

"Master, those guys have already begun to march in the direction of Mount Hyjal, they are stationed at the foot of Mount Hyjal, ready to accumulate strength and directly destroy the World Tree. Kel'thugad, who was in charge of gathering intelligence, reported.

"What about the Night Elves, how did they react?" Xue Huan asked.

"Not very optimistic. ”

Kel'thugad replied, "They're already putting up resistance, here's the first information I've gathered, and the orcs who have joined the resistance to the Burning Legion. ”

"Orcs?!"

Xue Huan was a little surprised and asked, "Did they join too?"

For the addition of orcs, Xue Huan didn't feel too strange, in the face of absolute power and destruction, any force would release their suspicions and work together, but what surprised him was, how did those orcs gather here?

He remembered that when he was in Lordaeron in the Eastern Kingdom, weren't those orcs all wiped out?

As if to understand Xue Huan's doubts, Kel'thugad explained: "That's right, eight or nine out of ten of those orcs have died in that land at that time, but for the densely populated orcs, this is nothing, I heard that they built a base east of the barren land and started to develop again. ”

Those orcs are really persevering... Xue Huan couldn't help but sigh.

"Now that the Burning Legion is ready to storm Mount Hajgar, a large army is being assembled, and the master, you are concerned, the Dreadlord Tikdios is in the nearby Feywood Forest, using magic to pollute the forest. Kel'thugad smiled grimly, and it was clear that the Great Lich didn't have any affection for the disgusting fellow.

"Felwood Forest? ”

Xue Huan thought about it, since Tikdios polluted the forest in large quantities, those night elves would definitely not let him go, he only needed to use the power of those night elves to get rid of that guy.

Thinking of this, Xue Huan said to the Great Lich: "I need someone, a guy who can use his hand to eradicate Tikdios. ”

"Isn't that what we're here for? ”

The Great Lich Kel'thugad looked confident, he spat out a few cold breaths, and said coldly: "In the Night Elf camp, there is a person we can exploit, he has been imprisoned by his own people in the cold basement for ten thousand years, and he longs for revenge, whether it is the Burning Legion or his kindred. ”

"Oh, who is it?" Xue Huan suddenly became interested.

Revenge?

He liked the word very much.

"What should we do?" or, what are you going to do?" Xue Huan asked.

"No, no, no, my master, this elf, I suggest that you meet him personally, and if you can use him successfully, the eradication of Tikdios is just around the corner, and then we can regain control of our army. ”

"Brilliant idea, Kel'thugad. ”

Xue Huan praised it, but then, he put forward his opinion: "However, with his strength, can he beat Tik Dios?"

"That's where you need to help him, master!"

Kel'thugad paused, then continued, "I remember that when you took Gul'dan's skull for your own use after defeating it, it was a... Well, an artifact, at that time, the master, your strength was insufficient, and you could barely gain a foothold on this continent by relying on evil energy spells, and now, master, you are the chief death knight under the command of the Lich King, sitting on hundreds of thousands of undead natural disasters, and your own strength has reached the peak of the seventh order, if you can use that skull as a bait and give it to that elf, maybe..."

The Skull of Gul'dan.

Of course, Xue Huan remembered that when he was fighting against the Hammer of Destruction, due to his lack of strength, he chose to absorb the power inside Guldan's skull.

That kind of thing, of course, didn't have much effect on him now, who was already a seventh-order death knight, but...

"What's the price, and isn't that thing already magically out of place after I've absorbed it?"

Xue Huan took out the skull from his arms, this skull seemed to be full of power when Guldan died, and when he completely absorbed the power inside, the skull became even more dry and dull.

Kel'thugad took the skull of Gul'dan from Xue Huan's hand, and then the Great Lich took out a purple crystal from somewhere that made Xue Huan feel very familiar.

The Shadow of the Fallen is capable of stripping the power of the human body and refining it into a spirit.

"The price will be that you will lose the advanced power of the evil spell, and I will refine this power into an essence and rechannel it into this skull. Kel'thugad answered Xue Huan's question as he carved the circle on the ground.

"Advanced power, that is, part of my power will disappear?" Xue Huan hesitated.

"No, master. To be precise, only the evil spells you manipulate will be weakened to around the fourth order, and will not disappear completely, because you still have the power of the demon heart in your body, and the shadow energy in your body will not change in the slightest. ”

A few minutes later, the spell was finished, and Kel'thugad made an inviting gesture to Xue Huan, motioning for him to stand in the center of the entire circle.

After weighing the pros and cons for a while, Xue Huan pulled the black death knight's cloak and stood on the magic circle, and then, a low, painful male voice echoed in the forests of the Gray Valley...

(End of chapter)