Chapter 32: Bound by fine iron, the phantom of the sea of hearts

In the cold and bright ice cave, the white and blue figures fought together.

The Death Knight, who was completely open and accepted by the evil power of ice, gradually drew the echo of some evil force. As the anger in his heart burned, the blood-red smoke screen that "melted" little by little in the crystal clear ice walls around him converged under his feet and gradually condensed into a black-red aura, constantly changing and transmitting on the ground, colliding with the turquoise blue "piety aura" fluctuating under Rorschach's feet. This kind of power that also erodes the environment and amplifies itself is the Death Knight's signature ability for legion warfare, the "Evil Aura".

And not only the sudden comprehension of skills, but also his strength began to slowly increase, whether it was pure physical strength, agility, or the boiling and cold evil power of death, all of which were intentionally instilled in the entire glacier, he climbed step by step, and in the blink of an eye, his injuries healed, and his strength leaped to a new level.

However, even so, the battle is still ...... One-sided decline.

It's not that it's crushing in strength, but the gap in skills and experience between the two sides, which has reached a realm that is almost irreversible.

Rorschach stood still, his gaze calm, no matter how powerful the evil strikes of Arthas, whether with a simple martial art or with the power of the Death Knight's runes. All he did was turn the war hammer in his hand into a ball of silver and shine, and counterattacked again and again against the prince's shots, and when Arthas was desperate to simply overwhelm people, he was always interrupted by the attack that cut in, forcing him to fall into a quagmire of skill.

What Arthas, immersed in frustration and frustration, did not notice was that the subtle changes in each of Rorschach's movements were almost identical to his own. Regardless of the distinction between the bright black evil power and the holy light, and the difference in the appearance and costume of the two, the moves and skills of the two sides hammering and swords are like the front and back of a mirror, but Rorschach is always the last to strike, and with the same blow, he skillfully breaks the block of the death knight and defeats him to the ground, and the strange scene of the master-apprentice teaching of the same vein is faintly revealed in the posture.

In the first minute and twenty seconds of the opening game, just when he was too late to sprint, Rorschach seized the gap and struck a "Crusader Strike" shining with holy light, bringing his arms to his chest and breaking his muscles and bones, but in the next second, the black mist rose and the injury returned to its original state.

In the battles that followed, whether it was being pierced through the chest by the "exorcism", or shattered by the sternum with a war hammer, or even the limbs shattered or the muscles and bones were eroded, Arthas always recovered quickly and with a speed visible to the naked eye, but the extremely proud prince obviously could not accept this kind of cheating victory, and the anger in his chest stained his icy blue pupils with a touch of red.

This kind of maddening anger was stirred to the extreme, but it calmed him down, Arthas took two steps back, looked at Rorschach who was standing in place, and suddenly a thought rose: "His physical strength and holy energy are limited, but I can recover from my injuries indefinitely, in this case, why doesn't he take the opportunity to escape, although there are many natural disasters in the outside world, they can't stop the paladins of this strength!" ”

"Did you finally find out?" Rorschach didn't pursue, just bowed slightly, and suddenly withdrew the lustful holy light that wrapped his legs, and the whole person limped forward two steps, but these two short steps made his straight leg muscles as if they were soaked in sulfuric acid, and wisps of white smoke came out.

He didn't show any pain, but calmly continued: "The power of your magic sword is indeed powerful, it has soaked my lower limbs, and it seems that it has become a half-undead as you said, even if it is holy light, it can only be temporarily suppressed, and the temporary stimulation allows me to regain a little consciousness, it is not difficult to use it against you, but if it is a long-distance run, I am afraid it is impossible." ”

"Aren't you afraid that I will gather an army and drown you alive when you tell me this?" Arthas gave a mocking expression, "Or do you think I'm the rigid knight who would be so pedantic and insist on a duel with you?" ”

"No," Rorschach shook his head, "I know your madness and viciousness better than anyone else, and I always do whatever it takes to get there...... "He vaguely skimmed over a key word, then gently grasped the hammer and said indifferently, "So, I just need to defeat you completely before then." ”

He said so, and so did it.

In the fourth minute of the battle, Rorschach slammed a heavy blow into Alsace's chest to end the twists and turns of the battle.

The war hammer wrapped in the majestic flame not only blasted the black prince's body away, but also smashed a human-shaped hole with the entire three-foot-thick ice wall, and most of his sternum and his sword-holding arms were shattered on the spot, but such an injury could only be recovered in three or five minutes under the infusion of the lich's evil power like a hanging. It's just that when Rorschach took out a steel chain more than ten meters long from the space cloth bag, first bent his body backwards and tied it into an ellipse, and then "clicked" the leg bones and forcibly tied them with the reverse neck, it ended his stubborn resistance process. In this case, his endless resilience will cause the growth of musculoskeletal deformities, and then the muscles will tear apart and break on their own, repeating in endless suffering.

Even if he didn't know that he was actually being tied sideways in a kind of island country's "anti-sea old binding, reverse bending and bending style", but just the humiliation of falling to the ground and being fiddled with, and the ** pain caused by the constant repetition in the recovery of the wound, had already made this death knight mad with anger. He said fiercely: "You can't escape, you can't kill me!" Feel relieved...... I will not let you die easily, I will transform you into a half-human and half-corpse, feel a little bit of decay of yourself as a living person, and then extract your soul after death, seal it in the sorrow of frost, and let you repent in the pain of billions of years! ”

However, Rorschach, as the scolded, was indifferent, not because he had the kind of self-indulgence, but because after the temporary victory, he had been dragging his stump to and from the complicated passages of the ice cave, placing boxes of sealed red lacquered wooden barrels beside the crystal clear icicles, and he had no time to pay attention to the wailing of the defeated dogs.

After four or five minutes of this, until the ground shook slightly from the trampling of the army, he clapped his hands, put down what he had, and walked back to Arthas.

"How? Feeling the fear? But it's too late...... Hahahaha! Arthas, as the holder of the Frost Grief and the nominal second leader of all the army of the undead, naturally sensed the changes in the outside world as well, and couldn't help but laugh rampantly.

"It's frustrating to think that I'm being defeated by such a simple guy......" Rorschach was stunned and sighed suddenly.

At the same time, this same sentence was said by another "Alsace" with a wry smile.

The reason why it is called another is because this prince, still wearing silver armor, holding a war hammer, and bathing in golden holy light, is actually dressed as a paladin in the past, and his face is vivid, where is there a trace of depravity?

"There's no way, after all, this one is different from you in the original story, just a small piece of resentment, resentment, and prejudice in your heart to build a false personality, which can only be regarded as a defective product temporarily spawned by the Lich King, and it is based on the psychological shadow of fear that you fell from riding a horse when you were seven years old, and it is normal for your surname to be irritable and irritable like a child."

A voice picked up the conversation and replied that it was Rorschach, who had just knocked out the fallen prince once and for all, that the paladin who shouldn't have existed.

Only now he was dressed in a perfect modern casual suit, his hands were empty, and he didn't have that kind of embarrassment.

It's a strange outfit, but it's a fitting fit, because he's standing under a traffic street lamp that is constantly changing red and green.

However, although the development of technology in Azeroth is not inferior to that of modern times, the mainstream of society in general is still arcane magic, and street lamps, a product of rules born under the modern traffic order, should not exist in this plane.

But the fact that there is no reality does not mean that there is no such thing as Rorschach's heart.

At this time, he showed a slightly nostalgic look, looked at everything in front of him, and muttered in a low voice: "I didn't expect my heart, but it is here." ”

The sunset is like blood, and time freezes.

The never-fading dusk reflects every inch of land, and the constant traffic of all kinds of vehicles never stops, just this small piece of time and space, but it will always repeat the scenery of the same scene.

Two bloodstained human shadows, a black sedan overturned to the ground, endless smoke and burning flames, and on the other side, the broken street lamp emitted the sound of electricity, but the broken glass still changed back and forth with red and green light.

Surrounded by the endless flow of people, just those illusory human figures, all of them are just faint shadows, looking carefully at the facial features and clothing, all blurred into fog, cut and wrong like a mouse-like murmuring, but listen carefully but there is no clear and accurate speech.

In this world, only Rorschach and the prince stand on both sides of the street with clear and vivid faces.

"The face of the sea of the soul may not be the most longing for beautiful dreams, but it must be the deepest and most sincere memories in life," Arthas was wearing a classical knight's armor, standing out of place in this different time and space, hearing Rorschach's whisper, he subconsciously replied, but he immediately reacted and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean anything else." ”

"It's okay," Rorschach shook his head, but avoided the topic and asked fixedly, "Why are you so much stronger than that guy with the same strength and skill?" ”

"How can you say the same," the paladin smiled, "that guy outside, for example, is like a baby who has been hiding in my heart and has observed my life experience from afar for more than twenty years, although he knows me well, but only superficially 'knows'. The erection of the heartbeat of the first time I drew the sword, and the emotion of calling for the holy light when I was a child...... Even my family affection and love, those he has never tasted in person, just a plausible understanding, with the instinct of ** although it can imitate the effect of seven or eight points, it can also bully some weak people who do not know the situation, if it meets the real itself, it is simply a clumsy joke. ”

"I see." Rorschach nodded suddenly, understanding what he meant: this situation is like watching a movie on the screen from a distance, even if the movie is detailed to every minute and second, but as an audience, no matter how obsessed you are, it is impossible to compare with the protagonist of the story who really experiences all the feelings of love and hatred.

But...... This situation is really a fluke, recalling this thrilling turning experience, Rorschach can't help but feel a little frightened.

The root of the matter begins with Arthas's experience after he entered the Frost Cave alone.

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