Chapter 22 Join forces across the sea to fight the Witch King

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After being hammered by Alsace, Rorschach lay down in his hospital bed, and when he woke up two days and three nights later.

It wasn't that the prince was killed after the attack on the town of Henim, but on the contrary, after Rorschach retrieved the identity letter obtained from coming to this mission world, proving that the distant uncle who taught him swordsmanship and raised him was a veteran of Lordaeron who had fought in the Second War, the crown prince's attitude immediately changed dramatically. What was originally just a thunderous method of half-temptation and half-treatment has also become a painstaking use of holy light to penetrate the body and bones, and heal Rorschach and all kinds of old injuries and dark wounds left in his early years.

In the end, it's Rorschach's own fault.

You must know that although the abilities used by the "psychic people" from the world of "Psychic King" are only simple communication with the underworld, wandering life and death, and there is no distinction between good and evil, good and evil, in the original work, even Joan of Arc, who was promoted by the Christian Church as a "saint" and can indulge in the holy light of the living dead, also appeared as a "god-level holding spirit" of psychic.

But the power of this kind of damp demoo itself is always on the dark side. However, Rorschach minored in the necromancy of the Scourge, which was invisibly contaminated with a bit of evil from the Lich King, and this trace of evil power would actually add a little bit of the power of the spell, but it was not harmful. But when he was covered by the transparent and pure holy light, it immediately triggered a wisp of evil thoughts that even Rorschach himself could not indulge, but fortunately, his foundation was still on spiritism, and the undead spell was only superficial, and the evil power was extremely weak, so that Arthas subconsciously thought that it was a curse from the enemy, and after eliminating it with the holy light, he no longer paid attention to this.

However, this lesson also made Rorschach vigilant. He has just practiced the necromancy a few times, and he will inevitably be contaminated with the breath of the Cataclysmic Legion, if he is said to be profound, and his cultivation has reached a high and profound realm, he is afraid that he will be evil everywhere he goes, and he will be regarded as a villain at a glance, so it's okay, after all, he is not a second-year teenager who has a "righteous spring", so he naturally will not give up his strength for the sake of ideological cleanliness.

What really made him up to the point was something else. Instead, the knowledge in his mind vaguely mentioned that even though this death spell was ever-changing against other professions, when it came to the competition between the same necromancer cultivators, it had become a confrontation between the high and low levels of pure strength in terms of quality and quantity, and all the tricks were meaningless. And the most important thing is that from the very beginning, the necromancy he obtained must absorb a trace of the power of natural disasters as the foundation, in order to be able to extend it, in other words, no matter how brave and vigorous this spell is, most of them will not be able to get rid of this barrier, not to mention that they have encountered the source of evil power, the Lich King, that is, they have encountered a slightly higher natural disaster general, isn't it that all laws are illusory, and they can only be captured?

"It's no wonder that in the plot of Azeroth, even the warlocks who use the demonic power of the Burning Legion participate in the fight against the Scourge Legion, but I have never seen any necromancers, a popular profession in other games, appear, I thought it was the discrimination that spread among the public, but I didn't expect the necromancy of this plane to have such drawbacks...... Throughout the history of Warcraft, the Lich King's backbone of the rebellion and separation, the Death Knights, who relied on their relatives, have fled in large numbers, but they have never heard of the defection of the Lich and Necromancer. Afraid of death and cunning, these intellectuals are definitely more than the stubborn knight class, now that I think about it, it is not the loyalty of any Laoshzi, but the fact that they are simply subject to others, and life and death are not autonomous! ”

With this in mind, Rorschach had already decided that he would not deliberately use this seemingly convenient power again, at least until he left this plane. As for after leaving...... At that time, his stage has become a sea of bright stars built by the infinite plane, among which the demon king villains who are more evil and terrifying than the mere Lich King are tens of millions of millions, not to mention whether he will still use this necromancy that he thinks is easy to use now as a treasure, even if he learns it, how can he care about an indigenous boss who is destined to be overturned in the native plane, can the Lich King Nao Zu still be able to catch him back across the plane to dig coal?

"Speaking of which, although there is no comparison, the harvest of this mission world adventure is quite satisfying. Just last night's reward for killing the spider demon and saving people all the way has more than 1,000 survival points, and a total of other messy entries are added up, and I already have more than 3,400 survival points, which has exceeded the total amount of rewards for that last task, counting the income of various treasures and the expansion and improvement of my own ability, judging from the book left by Bai Wu, even if I don't rely on the corpse Ji now, it is enough to easily kill him, a 'veteran', is he too wasteful, or am I too powerful? ”

Rorschach instinctively ignored the fact that the unlucky guy he was lucky to kill was a summoner who relied on servants to fight, and after the two asymmetrical comparisons, he couldn't help but feel happy, and more importantly, the main quest arranged by the Book of Reincarnation had reached this point, in fact, it had come to an end.

It was only then that Rorschach truly felt relaxed. After a moment of physical and mental slackening, he lay on the bed and nibbled on the fruits and vegetables handed over by the beauty, and had a vague idea of how to spend the rest of the time: "The remaining final mission of 'escorting Arthas to the Cave of Frost Sorrow', in fact, I don't participate in it." After all, compared to the prince who is eager for revenge, the real owner of the magic sword, the Lich King, is definitely much more anxious than him, even if there were any monsters blocking him along the way, most of them would have been slaughtered by this guy a long time ago, and then, as long as he stayed in the camp with peace of mind, he was protected by the army and survived the next seven days, and by the way, he tried to master the power of mutants, and cleaned up the undead detachment to get rewards."

It's a pity that at this point, the historical process that he inadvertently disrupted finally began to deviate, with the subtle changes of the tributaries, the backlash from the plot itself...... Befall.

The news came so suddenly that Rorschach almost fell out of bed in shock.

"Ho-ho-ho...... You said...... Ahem. The half-swallowed flesh was stuck in his throat, Rorschach's face was flushed, but his heart was breathless by the words of the young soldier in plate armor in front of him, and he could only lie on the bed in embarrassment, retching desperately towards the ground.

"What's weird, isn't that a great thing? The prince finally decided not to go any further north. Thassarian, who was inexplicably surprised by Rorschach's fierce reaction, touched his head, then let out a hehe smirk, and continued to babble: "It's okay now, although I haven't caught the mastermind behind it, but I can finally leave this hellish place, and when this war is over, I will go back to my hometown to visit my sister Tanasha." Speaking of which, I haven't seen her in a long time, and when I get back, I'll have to introduce her to you......"

Good...... What a ghost!

Not noticing the death banner that a certain sister control soldier had unintentionally erected, Rorschach was shocked by this information, his mind was at a loss, and only one thought echoed in his heart-

Lordaeron's Crown Prince...... Alsace...... The second Lich King, destined to bring up the sorrow of frost in the Warcraft plot, the generation of Dead Monarch in history who immersed the entire Azeroth in darkness and fear, actually chose to retreat at the moment before falling in the pursuit.

So what to do with the Death Sword "Frost Sorrow", and what to do with the conspiracy of the Lich King Naozu, the most important thing is ...... What should I do with the task of "magic sword escort"?

"Wait, things may not be as bad as I thought." Rorschach took a deep breath, barely settled down, looked at the happy Sassarian, and said in a deep voice:

"What about His Royal Highness the Prince? I want to meet him. ”

Naturally, this reasonable request was quickly granted. The second meeting was in the central tent of the army, and the prince did not rebuke him for being rude, but was silent for a moment and explained calmly.

"Since it is impossible to defeat that demon and the mysterious master behind it with my current strength alone, why should I die with a one-in-ten thousand luck?"

"But......" Rorschach was speechless, but strange thoughts flooded his heart.

But in history, don't you also know that there is a huge disparity between us and foe, but you still stubbornly can't pull ten cows back to the north, how did you get here...... But just admit it? Wait a minute...... How did he know about the Lich King's prowess at the time?

Rorschach was taken aback and stunned on the spot.

…… It turns out that Alsace, who led the Northern Expedition in the plot, actually didn't know how strong the enemy was. Now that I think about it, from the very beginning, the enemies he encountered were deliberately displayed in front of him......

At the beginning, the wandering undead of the Eastern Kingdom were actually a team cobbled together after Kel'thugad infected the peasant poor with the plague, although there were many of them, but most of them were low-level miscellaneous soldiers such as zombie skeletons, neither the command of the necromancer, nor the cooperation of a series of high-level troops such as the abomination and death knights. Therefore, at that time, the human kingdom did not pay much attention to this disaster, and was only worried about the casualties of civilians and the widespread plague, but they sneered at the combat effectiveness of these dead people, which ...... It is also the confidence of Arthas to lead an army and dare to hunt down the Dreadlord across the seas and oceans.

Even the undead he encountered along the way in Northrend were carefully measured by the Lich King, and although slightly stronger than Lordaeron's time, they were not too outrageous, and they always allowed him to barely hold on. This kind of deliberately designed "hard victory" is always easy to give rise to strong hopes, so that the belief collapses even more completely after a defeat.

It's just that the Lich King's complete plan is now in tatters.

With the survival of the remnants of Eldraine who should have died silently in the pit three nights ago, they have successfully communicated and shared information with the prince, although those bugs who have been isolated from the world for a long time do not know the exact strength of the Lich King, but just the tens of thousands of crypt demons that they have resurrected after their own extermination are enough to plow the expeditionary force back and forth several times, as a battle-hardened general, Arthas will naturally not be stupid enough to die in vain.

In fact, what Rorschach didn't know was that Arthas made this decision not only because of the intelligence of the worms, but more importantly, because of his own introspection.

No one knows that in the Battle of Stratholme, the most serious damage to this prince was not the slaughter of the subjects of the entire city and the blood on his hands, nor the disgrace of his reputation and the disgrace of the royal family, but the real fatal blow was actually the double betrayal of his mentor and lover.

Whatever the reason, Uther, one of the founders of the Paladin's organization "Silver Hand", chose to part ways with his disciples, although he repeatedly claimed that it was a decision that was powerless to stop the prince from going crazy, but from the moment he handed over this mess to a paladin disciple who was still in the process of training, it also represented a break between the paladin group and the royal family.

As a lover Gianna, whether it is from a political perspective or her own considerations, she is no longer suitable for associating with a crown prince who is known as a yellow flower, and the meaning behind the breakup of the two parties lies in the rupture of the intimate relationship between the "Kenrito Council", the most advanced group in Azeroth, and the Kingdom of Lordaeron.

It is precisely under this premise that it is clear that in a fantasy world full of holy light magic, the most powerful country of mankind sent an expeditionary force to crusade against the Dreaded Demon King, there are no priests, paladins or even mages accompanying them, so that the only range of weapons in the entire army is actually the immature engineering gunpowder of the dwarf. This phenomenon is already very clear.

It is entirely conceivable that if this expeditionary army wins, the prince can naturally take the majestic momentum of "killing the 'Stotherol plague mastermind' and crossing the sea to eradicate the evil spirit" to suppress the undercurrents of all parties, and his own reputation can be completely restored, and even thick-skinned, on the contrary, it is not too much to be praised for "decisive killing"; But if it fails...... Even the total annihilation of the army not only represents the fundamental lack of the military foundation on which the royal family relies to rule the people, but also the mediocre and brutal reputation of the royal family of Lordaeron may resound throughout Azeroth, and the absolute name will be remembered for thousands of years, and there will be no chance to reverse it.

And in this situation, the Holy Light Church and the Kentori Mage Council, which have the two supernatural powers of holy light and magic, actually did not send a single soldier to participate in it, and watched coldly...... This attitude has become extremely intriguing.

(Some people say...... There are some priests who follow in the mission, but not all of the Holy Light Indulgers belong to the "Holy Light Church", and the royal family must have cultivated some priests and priests who are loyal to them over the years, but the paladins only exist in the hands of silver because the history of their birth is only less than a hundred years. In other words, the priest may belong to other forces, and the paladin must represent the Church of the Holy Light, and the fact that there are a very small number of priests accompanying the Northern Expeditionary army, but not a single paladin and mage, is already very telling. )

It is probably because of this that the prince, who finally fell in despair, killed his mentor and former colleagues, and burned the thousand-year-old arcane city of Azeroth, "Dalaran", to ashes, without a single psychological burden. Even if you think about it a little evil, maybe at that time, this king who has turned into a death knight, in the process of killing the humans who were about to kill him in the past, thought that it was the behavior of these guys who killed him back then, that caused the pain that he can only eat and brew his own bitter fruit now, and the death knight probably really felt the pleasure of "revenge" in his cold heart that stopped beating.

In this way, everything makes sense.

In history, the prince who suffered many betrayals had already suffered from serious mental illness...... In other words, when his beloved abandoned him in a row, he naturally sprouted an extreme concept called "the world is not credible, only oneself is strong". Driven by the madness of this blind spirit, he could mercilessly kill two thousand Northrend native mercenaries, because they belonged to "outsiders who might betray"; After the defeat and the loss of troops, and the face of the enemy's endless outpouring of real power, the first thought was not to "go back to contact the other forces of the human kingdom and gather everyone's strength to defeat this hidden terrible evil", but to pin his hope on a holy sword artifact that only existed in legends, trying to rely on his own strength to turn the tide and destroy the natural disaster.

It's just now...... Under the influence of the Rorschach Devil, Arthas's army was able to survive, and he himself gained information on his new ally, Eldraine. This pivotal turning point allowed him to free up time to think calmly and overcome his mental barrier during the three days that Rorschach spent in his hospital bed. In other words, at this time, Alsace was no longer obsessed with being alone in the face of evil, although the hatred in his heart did not disappear, but he regained the calm and square of the general, and began to plan all the means used to destroy the enemy.

More critically...... This time, he didn't have to worry about his allies, coveting greed for his kingdom.

In fact, this approach is in line with the image of the crown prince who is like the arrival of the Holy Son in the early part of the story, rather than the paranoid man who goes to death in the game. In movie games, often due to the conditions or technical limitations of the editors and designers themselves, the originally smart and wise characters must follow a fixed rigid routine all the way to the black, so that the upright are "righteous" and the villains are stubbornly stupid, and once the plot is off the track, those heroes and heroes who will go down in history will naturally bloom with their own glory.

So, now that the rage was gone, the prince made a decision that left Rorschach dumbfounded.

Withdrawal...... It seems easy to be wise, but in fact, it is already impossible, and he has lost a lot of troops along the way, and now it is difficult to ride a tiger. If you flee back like this, let alone gather strength, I am afraid that you will not be able to suppress the small actions of those churches in the country that are not satisfied with the royal power, plus the power of the Mage Council that originally supported you has been alienated with Gianna's departure, and the royal power that has been overthrown by the Holy Light Church for most of it has no possibility of recovery from now on.

Advance...... There is no doubt that it is an egg hitting a stone and sending it to death in vain, and it is even more impossible.

No matter how you analyze it, Arthas has no way out now, and with his proud surname, he would definitely rather die in battle than return to the kingdom to be a puppet of divine power, so in the end, he can only be forced to continue to go north and repeat the dark fate.

But at this moment, Eldraine's new ally, who survived Rorschach's reckless meddling in history, gave him a new way out.

That is, to join the horizontal and vertical, and jointly resist the violent Qin...... Ah no, it's "working together across the sea to punish the witch king".

Although Azeroth does not have the legendary history of the famous princes vying for hegemony, in the end, the political and military strategies of the world are the same, and it does not prevent Arthas from taking similar measures.

"That undead who calls himself the 'Lich King' is the mortal enemy of all living by nature, and the only way to grow is to build it with endless corpses and souls. The Northrend continent is not connected to any continent in the endless sea, and the Lich King's wanton slaughter will not be resisted by powerful forces, but on the other hand, he can only grow by slaughtering the natives of Northrend. Since there is an example of the spider demon, it also shows that the aborigines here are not actually without resistance, but they were only broken one by one because the ice field was remote and there were very few ** streams of various races. Now, with the help of those Eldraine allies all over the underground passages in Northrend, they can rely on the Zermen's burrowing to communicate with each other, and as long as they join forces to form a force, if they can't defeat the Lich King, they will be able to stop the growth of his power. A cold chill suddenly appeared in Arthas's eyes, but he said with a faint smile on his face:

"I didn't know it before, but now that I know that the dark power contained in this land is beyond the reach of my country of Lordaeron, how could I be so stupid as to hit a stone with an egg? The Human Kingdom Alliance, which was dissolved in the Second War, is bound to win! If they are not stopped, if one day they are allowed to slaughter the entire Northrend continent and create an undead skeleton fleet that can cross the sea, then who will be able to fight against the scattered Eastern Kingdoms? And I, as the crown prince of Lordaeron, since I was the first to discover all this, it is naturally my duty to risk my life to go back and reveal the truth and lead the human kingdom to fight against this darkness! ”

Listening to this impassioned speech, Rorschach was in a trance, almost thinking that he had traveled to a famous time stream in the Celestial Empire against foreign races, and what he heard in his ears was the famous speech of a certain great man "uniting all living forces", and he was speechless, and by the time he regained consciousness, he had been in his tent for a long time.

"Now...... Trouble. Rorschach sighed suddenly, "I'd rather you'd be a tenacious fool than a politician with a lot of skills......"

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