In the setting of Warcraft 3 - The Ice Throne, long before the Lich King Neozu was sealed in Kilgardan and projected to Northrend, this vast continent of ice fields already had its own owner.

Although most of the terrain of Polar Continent is uninhabitable snow-capped ice fields throughout the year, and the land suitable for crops is only a little barren along the coast close to the mid-latitudes, no matter how you look at it, it is not suitable for the reproduction and expansion of life and civilization. But thousands of years ago, a strange creature migrated here, relying on the talent of the race itself, and gradually developed its own unique civilization.

This race is the Spider Demon. The civilization they developed was called "Eldraine-Nibru", which is why they also called themselves "Nibru", which means "people favored by the abyss".

As creatures with half insect and half human genes, they only need to absorb a small amount of metal elements from the abundant minerals underground to sustain their lives, but in this way, the civilization that had little contact with the outside world has become even more isolated, so that the humans and other indigenous races who later fled to Northrend to survive have no idea that there is a huge Zerren empire under their feet.

But that was a long time ago, when the Lich King came to this world, and at the beginning of his infiltration of Northrend, he first discovered the vast potential of this ancient relic, and tried to nip it in the bud. The mysterious king of the underground realm, "Anubrekan", naturally did not let him be slaughtered, and launched an attack on the frozen throne where the Lich King was located, vowing to crush the evil king of the dead to ashes.

They almost succeeded.

The spider demons' natural insect minds are different from those of humans, making the Lich King's unfavorable mind ineffective, and the insects' hard carapace and limb blades that have evolved for thousands of years make it meaningless to advance the cannon fodder dominated by the Sea of Skulls.

However, in this magical world where there is no limit to personal force and heroes are one against a thousand, the racial advantage is not absolute, in the long war, with the proud and powerful insect general "Anubrak" being defeated by the Lich King himself, and forcibly resurrected as the undead hero "Crypt Lord", a large number of undead spider demons who fell on the battlefield turned around and launched an attack on their compatriots, and this powerful country that lost its high-end combat power finally fell completely.

It flourishes in silence, and its death is nameless.

Now, these deplorable races have become a sword in the hands of the Lich King, turning to the Lordaeron Expeditionary Force from the human kingdom of another continent.

So, in the cracks of the ground in the dark night, a nightmare of the expeditionary force that had stumbled and fell.

On one side, there were seven or eight human soldiers dressed in plate armor, broad swords and long shields, while on the other side, there were just two three-meter-long, sharp-edged crypt weavers.

From the very beginning of the battle, it slipped in the worst direction, less than a minute after the opening, a soldier who lost his helmet in the fall was caught by the spider demon in the gap, and the spitted silk thread directly penetrated the uncovered skull, and he fell to the ground without even snorting, and after another half a minute, a soldier wielding a long sword slowed down due to exhaustion, and was immediately cut into pieces of flesh by seven or eight stirring blades, and blood splattered all over the ground, even if he couldn't see things clearly in the dark, the companions around him struggled to resist, and they also felt that their bodies were wet. I can't tell whether it is the blood of my comrades-in-arms or the sweat of my own exhaustion.

The remaining three or four soldiers have long been desperate in their hearts, and the reason why they survived is not so much because they are strong, but because of the instinct to survive and the honor of the soldiers who died on the battlefield, but the exhaustion of physical strength cannot be reversed by overdrawing their will after all, and now, they are about to reach their limit.

This persistence has finally won them a glimmer of life until now, and the battle situation of defeat has suddenly taken a turn.

Breaking through the darkness was a dark light that was dim and winding, almost swallowing up the night around it.

The gray light silently soaked into the spider demon's body, its originally swift and sharp movements slowed down in an instant, and the airtight attack was also due to the mistake of prediction, most of the slashes towards the enemy were deflected into strange angles, and the expeditionary forces with a light pressure had not yet figured out what was going on, when they heard a dull and indifferent young man's voice in the darkness.

"Frost Nova."

In the darkness, a light lit up.

A turquoise blue, crystal-clear light rose from the bodies of the two spider demons, and a piercing chill also spread.

The soldiers present only felt that their bodies were cold, but the two monsters in front of them let out a terrible scream, and the thin and tough patterned carapace swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye, shrinking one by one, like two huge tumors bulging, faintly wisps of blue flowed in them, and they swelled to the limit in an instant.

"Bang--"

The supernatural freezing gas created by the ice magic in the spider demon's body was transformed into an ultra-low temperature of the physical surname, which immediately caused a sharp change in the surrounding temperature difference. Under the law of uneven exchange of air flow from the inside to the outside, the spider demon is like a cloudburst bomb detonated in his body, and the soft internal organs explode into a pool of blood rain on the spot, and the hard carapace can not withstand this internal vibration, and it collapses into scattered fragments, and large pieces splash onto the surrounding potholed ground, initiating a series of "clang" sounds.

It was only at this time that the warriors, who had reacted to their own salvation, noticed a group of people walking in the distance.

Walking in front was a tall and slender black-haired woman, tightly protecting a young man in a hooded cloak, and beside them, a floating object that exuded a blue glow, like a cloud and mist, but faintly revealed the image of the human body, quietly followed, taking on the duty of illuminating like a street lamp.

The soldiers, barely able to see from the darkness, were silent for a moment, and then a squad leader-like figure stepped out of it, shouting loudly from afar: "Thank you for your help, but please stop and tell us, who are you?" ”

The young man who was hidden behind raised his eyebrows and pondered for a moment before calmly replying, "I am an ally of Your Royal Highness the Prince, and I am also ...... Save your people. ”

In this way, the panicked soldiers joined the team.

Naturally, they couldn't believe Rorschach's words, but it was brave to fight to the death with monsters that were on the line, and for the strong who could slaughter them all with a single move, no matter how they resisted, it was only stupid and reckless. Instead of staying where you are and waiting to die, it is better to follow these mysterious people who saved one of you to gamble to get a chance of life.

Immersed in his own world, Rorschach, of course, didn't have time to care about the feelings of these handy-saved soldiers, at this time, he was practicing the necromancy he had obtained from the Black Witch with great interest, and the knowledge instilled through the cards became more and more profound as he used it again and again, and many generalized things that he knew but did not know about were gradually penetrated with practice.

Perhaps it is the divine effect of the reincarnation space card itself, or it may be the addition of the "psychic" system, Rorschach's mastery of the necromancy inside the natural disaster can no longer be described as "a thousand miles", it is simply to the inhuman point of "hearing one and knowing ten".

From the initial painstaking release of the "Fatigue Curse" was resisted by the spider's carapace, to the later various "weak", "sluggish", "corrosive" and "blinding" weakening spells at your fingertips, and even without using your hands, these spider monsters were paralyzed and weak, and they were pressed by their own weight and unable to move, and after testing their current limits, Rorschach ended his experiment.

And these incredible advances only took him half an hour of work. If a ninja in Azeroth knew this, his first reaction would probably not be to meet a peerless genius and take his mantle from his disciples, but to try to dissect and study him, and he would not give up until he found out what kind of otherworldly monster he was.

But in a sense, Rorschach, an "otherworldly creature", deserves its name.

Interrupting his excitement was the leader of the expeditionary force who had been rescued in the first place, who, as if gaining courage from his growing number of companions, cautiously raised his questions with Rorschach.

"Why go down?" Rorschach was stunned for a moment, and asked strangely, "Didn't you see more and more wounded along the way?" According to the structure of this underground project, only a small percentage of people should have fallen in the upper area, and the vast majority of soldiers should have fallen to a deeper position, and we should not ...... Do you want them to die? ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he could hear the whispers of the rescued people who followed behind him, and as for the squad leader who was pushed out, his face was almost embarrassed and red. He then said in a slur manner: "We are not powerful mages like you, in such a dark place, we can't see anything clearly, our martial arts can't be used at all, and those monsters are almost invulnerable......

"So you're going to give up your companions below?" Rorschach smiled understandingly, his footsteps did not stop, but his voice echoed in the empty passage, "If any of you think that it is dangerous down there, and if you continue to go down like this, you can go back yourself, the spider demons along the way have basically been cleaned up by me, maybe, you can really find the exit to the surface." ”

Hearing this half-encouraging and half-ridiculous words, the team behind did not react at first, but after a while, several wounded people who really couldn't stand it quietly left behind, but they didn't catch up. After the rest of the people saw Rorschach's indifferent performance, they confirmed that what he said was true, and immediately began a series of small actions. At first, the seriously injured deliberately fell to the ground and groaned, but refused the support of others and took the opportunity to get out, and later, the guy who didn't want to take the risk simply chased back to the latter under the pretext of running directly in the direction he came, leaving a long and narrow figure that gradually faded.

In the end, in addition to Rorschach's few people, only seven or eight of the thirty or forty rescued people in this temporary team followed closely behind, and to Rorschach's surprise, the team leader who had taken the risk to ask questions at the beginning stood in it.

Having tested out the magic abilities he could master, Rorschach was no longer interested in playing with them, and the group was too bored to walk silently into the deep and dim crypt, and he asked casually, "Aren't you going with them?" ”

The squad leader-like figure was stunned for a moment before he reacted to speaking to himself, and then showed a shy look and replied, "With a powerful spellcaster like you in front of me, what am I afraid of?" And...... I fear that His Royal Highness the Prince is still inside, and as a member of the Guard, it is my duty to keep him safe. ”

That's what he said, but everyone knows that Alsace, who was born as a paladin, doesn't need to be protected, and in this chaotic situation, no one knows whether Arthas has fallen underground, and there is no way to talk about responsibility or anything, this man's insistence is mostly because he really wants to save his companions. Rorschach looked sideways, looked at his excessively young face with interest, and asked aloud, "What's your name?" ”

"Thassarian...... That's my name. The young soldier hesitated, but replied.

"Huh?"

Hearing this answer, Rorschach stumbled under his feet, stepped on the rocks with a "tie" sound, and almost tripped over, and after regaining his balance with the help of the girl on the side, he didn't look at the pit in the ground, and turned his head directly, looking at the poor young man with a strange eye. It made him feel a little furious, and he couldn't help but ask in confusion: "My name, is there anything wrong, my lord?" ”

"No, nothing." Rorschach shook his head, but there was a strange feeling of time and space distortion in his heart, the name Thassarian, unknown in the original single-player strategy Warcraft series, but played an important role in the expanded online game World of Warcraft, which was modeled after it. An elite soldier born in Lordaeron, but at the end of the Northern Expedition in Northrend, he was stabbed through the heart by Arthas and turned into his second death knight, and in a series of later episodes, he was forced to kill his elderly mother, known as a rare outlier with mercy and kindness in the Scourge Legion, and in the future, he was almost the first benevolent forerunner among the death knights to explicitly declare that they would rebel against the Lich King and destroy the Frozen Throne.

If the black witch Falina is just a coincidence, then does the appearance of Thassarian indicate ...... This plane is not just a plot of the Ice Throne, but a hybrid of the Warcraft series? In other words, it's not just the conspiracy of the Lich King and the Prince, but also some powerful characters that have never been born, the Four Guardian Dragons, the World-Destroyer Deathwing, and even the Elder Gods and Titans?

Rorschach shook his head and decisively stopped thinking, no matter whether there are monsters in this world that are enough to destroy the world, they have nothing to do with his mission, with his current weak strength, it is very reluctant to follow the footsteps of Arthas, if he rashly arouses the attention of those god-level lifeforms, it is definitely a dangerous situation of ten deaths.

But...... Yes or no, be careful.

Originally, with the rapid improvement of his strength, Rorschach, who consciously faced the so-called heroes of this plane even if he was defeated, could save his life and escape, his mood was quite heavy, and he drove the entire team to speed up, and there was no interest in talking.

Soon, a scout-turned-soldier reported what he found: there were traces of fierce fighting along the way, but ...... But there was no trace of any creature or corpse, and the humans who fell down seemed to have disappeared.

"Were they caught to stock up on food?" Rorschach asked in surprise, but he himself felt unreliable, not to mention that the recipe pack of the spider demons did not contain humans, the undead spider demons who were killed and resurrected by the Lich King relied on the negative life circle in their bodies to absorb energy and act, and they did not need to eat to survive at all.

The answer to the matter was revealed when Rorschach stepped into the deepest part of the passage.

It was at this moment that he understood why the Scourge would be so unscrupulous against the prince's army.

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