Chapter Twenty-Three: Honkai History, Black-Eyed Relics

The history of Azeroth is shattered.

Originally a brave demon king, he was possessed by all kinds of toys, and finally personally incarnated as a villain to destroy his own homeland.

What's even more devastating is that he actually did it.

Originally, according to the primitive civilization of Northrend, the scope of a race's activities is often narrow and extremely xenophobic, and even many ethnic groups are in a long-term war of infighting, and there are countless ancestral resentments, so it is impossible to unite easily, let alone convince the command of outsiders from a foreign continent.

But the strange thing is that the villain of the Lich King is too perfectly done.

For it, each creature killed represents the growth of a soldier, and it also means the growth of its own strength, if in the early days of its arrival in the north, it was still limited by its lack of strength, but since it personally destroyed the ancient kingdom of Eldraine-Nirub, tens of thousands of hierarchical undead spider demons have entered the account, and the pace of expansion has been out of control. Whether it is a jackal, a kobold, a human, or a bear monster, in short, as long as it is a living life, even the beasts that generally wander the ice field, are slaughtered by its sea of undead for thousands of miles.

Originally intended to isolate the Alsace army from any foreign support, and thus pinning its hopes on the "magic sword, Frost Sorrow", it has now become the fuse for the prince to gather power.

After all, Northrend itself has a long history of thousands of years, and many of the natives above are the remnants of the lost bloodlines of the ancient elf era, although most of the civilization and knowledge have disappeared with the disaster of the invasion of the Burning Legion, but through the shadow of the ancestors, there is always a trace of the background, the large-scale massacre of the Lich King has caused the uneasiness of many intelligent races, but their strength is scattered and too weak, and the northern border of Northrend is such an isolated island, even if the other party surrenders, he will never accept it, so he can only migrate and flee in vain to slow down his death.

The arrival of Alsace gave them a chance.

"With the help of the underground network of spider demons, I have contacted the indigenous humans in the vicinity, most of their ancestors were pioneers from the Eastern Kingdoms, and through this connection, there are already many villages that have promised to provide food and minerals as long as we protect them from the undead, but because of their own sparse population, they cannot provide too many troops to support,"

Stretching out his finger to draw the scope of the map, some of the princes who were now in high spirits paused, and sighed, "In fact, if it is not for discipline and cooperation, humans are actually not suitable for use as soldiers, according to the spider demon, there are a large number of bear monsters in this vicinity, although those savage creatures are not very friendly, but they have rough skin and thick flesh, and brute force is infinite, which is the most suitable for infantry battle formations." ”

He suddenly showed a look of regret: "It's a pity that I don't have much contact with the Council of Cenarius, it is said that some of them have druids who can communicate with the bear monsters, maybe they can help them, so that the addition of the druids may be able to fill the gap left by those mages." Well, after going back this time, in addition to publicizing the threat here, we should also highlight the rich land and mineral resources of Northrend, especially ...... It's a large number of natives who have no faith, and only in this way will those jackals be tempted. Don't write down the last sentence. ”

He turned around and said half-jokingly and half-seriously, and Rorschach on the side nodded with a bitter face, so he had to brush up on two notes.

The reason why he suddenly became the prince's personal clerk inexplicably, and who had the privilege of listening to the confidential information in the depths of the expeditionary force, also started with the basic welfare "translation" of the Book of Reincarnation.

Translation in infinite space is not an illusion of sound and words, after all, if you encounter natives such as spies, agents, etc., who are proficient in lip-syncing, it is easy to cause suspicion and unnecessary surprise. Therefore, at the beginning of entering this plane, the Book of Reincarnation directly converted the corresponding Azeroth "lingua franca knowledge" according to the "Chinese skills" mastered by Rorschach, and with the popularization of education in the Celestial Empire in the 21st century, with the level of Rorschach alone, 80% of the people in this medieval background are illiterate in a different world, and it is not a problem to mix low-level linguists.

And it just so happened that the scribe brought by Alsace was a civilian official with no combat effectiveness, and his physique was weak, and he could not withstand the environment and pressure, and was killed early in a surprise attack by the enemy. And most of the reckless men in the barracks are illiterate, even if there are some low-level aristocratic children who are roughly knowledgeable, it is impossible to use those political terms with a triple meaning of one sentence, so that he has to write documents with a pen in person with the dignity of a prince, and he has long been busy, and now with the arrival of Rorschach, he is finally relieved, and he is not allowed to catch him to take on this kind of role.

"Also, it is said that on the other side of the Spider Demon Kingdom in this land, there are some strange dwarf tribes, I don't know if I can let the mentor contact them...... After all, the musketeers he brought with him were too restrained. There is also a legend in the depths of the snow field that there are some trolls with ice blue skin, their regenerative physique is not afraid of the plague infection of the undead, and the individual strength is strong, although there are some cannibal savage habits, but they can't care so much, it's a big deal to let the dead zombies take them to eat, maybe you can try to contact them, maybe it can relieve our pressure. ”

Listening to these military information, Rorschach absentmindedly recorded, but knew in his heart that these strategies seemed to be comprehensive, but I was afraid that none of them would be realized.

For the Lich King will not tolerate the seeds of such rebellion growing.

Although Arthas's approach coincided with the decision of a certain dynasty Taizu, the backgrounds of the two sides were very different - the Scourge Legion was not a certain unlucky man who had most of his troops bound by the invaders[***], and Nao Zu himself was not comparable to a bald head who was forced to rise and fall several times by the heavy internal voices. On the contrary, as the leading party of the Burning Legion, if he does not let go inappropriately, the Lich King is like a warlord who has been jointly cultivated by the United States and the United States, and has occupied more than 80% of the land; On the side of Alsace, the local people are short-sighted and racially strife, and it is absolutely impossible to shed blood for the red faith, and the big brother who is supposed to play the role of the Soviet Union is actually a greedy demon who is even more desperate for himself.

This kind of situation, which can be called a tactful internal and external difficulties, is actually extremely bad. And after all, people's energy is limited, and it is impossible to cover everything. Arthas's talent at the Knight of the Light was amazing, but when it came to his turn to be a soldier, it paled in comparison to a certain ancestral dragon who was accustomed to being open-minded, could rely on a few hundred peasants to start a business, and once the storm surged, he wiped out tens of millions of powerful armies.

If Alsace can still reverse the situation in this environment, then it will definitely not be a gap in strength, it can only be said to be a crushing IQ. Unless Alsace changes its name to Auror. Dragons, while exerting the aura of brain-dead, the army under his command has transformed into anti-Japanese war heroes one by one, tearing demons alive and eating dragons alive, but the kind of outdated plot that second-rate novels are too lazy to use, obviously cannot happen in the real history in which Rorschach participated.

"So...... What exactly will the Lich King do? In the past two days, Rorschach's mind has been echoed with such a question.

In fact, if it weren't for the fear that His Royal Highness the Prince's war hammer would have slapped him into meat sauce, Rorschach would have learned from Han Xin and fled overnight, after all, if he woke up and suddenly faced an army of undead all over the mountains, it would be a word of suffering. It's just that in the past two days, Arthas, whether it is contacting the natives, transporting supplies and supplies, or the joint plan of spiders and demons, has gone very smoothly, and the undead on the other side seem to be really decomposing with the corpse, turning a blind eye and not sending any interference.

Someone behind the scenes, obviously, would not watch this happen.

Therefore, the fourth day of the counterattack of the natural disaster was finally belated.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, it was not a spider and demon surprise attack that collapsed, nor was it a boundless sea of skeletons, in fact, when everyone was loose on the outside and tight on the inside, holding weapons and nervously waiting for the enemy's expected attack, they did not realize that the real danger had been secretly laid inside.

This trick...... And it seems to be taken for granted, because it was used in the Eastern Kingdom, almost drove a prince crazy, and also used it when Northrend came, adding tens of thousands of original troops, and repeatedly tried and tested, it can be called the signature weapon of the undead natural disaster, which is the infamous "plague natural disaster".

The first to notice symptoms were the soldiers on duty at night.

When he was carried into the camp, his face was shriveled and pale, and his cheekbones were deeply sunken, not so much a young man in the prime of life, but a skeleton in human skin, and when he saw Arthas, tears fell from his bewildered eyes, and his lips twitched slightly, apparently still sane, but at this moment he turned into the most cruel torture.

"Hold on, soldier......" Arthas took his hands and said a word of reassurance, then raised his hand to let the royal priest who was already on standby behind him step forward and prayed to use the magic of healing.

When the white light filled the frail man's body, he temporarily regained his blood color, but after the light receded, it passed like a funnel, and his whole body shrank more completely, and his mind fell into a deeper coma again. Arthas lowered his head and fell silent, even if he didn't say a word, but the people around him clearly felt a kind of panic that the mountain rain was about to come and Mount Tai was falling.

After a long time, it was not until all the holy power was exhausted that the two priests turned around and looked at each other, and one of the elders stepped forward, shook his head and said, "Although the Holy Light has some effect, it cannot completely eradicate this plague. Then, the old man, who was also a medical officer, pondered for a moment, organized his words, and continued to explain:

"The plague in his body, in addition to the plague from natural disasters, there is also a part of the toxin from a certain plant, the two injuries are interdependent, the undead infection will reduce his physical resistance, which will cause the toxin to enter his body to cause further damage, and when the holy light treats, although most of the plague can be eliminated, it does not have a very good effect on parasite-like plant toxins, so there is always a small amount of undead plague mixed with residual toxins. After the light is consumed, the plague hidden in the toxin will reappear, and it will draw the vitality of the human body even more violently......"

Finally, the white-haired old priest spread his hands and said: "This plague sacrifices the lethal surname, but it is more difficult to eradicate, and it probably requires at least twelve holy power treatments to recover, but because of the human body's resistance to the holy light, the twelve treatments are divided into twenty-four days, and because of the repeated destruction of the body, it takes at least three months to recuperate completely." ”

In other words, for at least four months, all soldiers infected with the plague will become a burden to the living dead...... Everyone present immediately understood another meaning of the old man's words.

"Guards officer...... Tell me, what the hell is going on? Arthas nodded, closed his eyes with difficulty, waved his hand to carry the sick man away from the ground, and then said to Faric, who bowed his head silently. However, the captain of the guard had not gone far before another order sounded in his ears, "Also, check how many people in the army are infected with this symptom!" ”

No one wants to face His Royal Highness the Prince like a powder keg, and the course and outcome of the incident will soon surface.

The root cause of the plague was in the food - not the reserve military rations brought by the Northern Expeditionary Army from their homeland, but the local specialties that had recently been exchanged with the natives.

Originally, according to the lessons of the countless Resident Hazards in Lordaeron, the Alsace military system was extremely strict on the logistics side, and the rations and fresh water were both tested and processed by both manual and holy light to ensure that there was no foreign object infiltrated. It's just that with the passage of time, the expeditionary force has not much of its own armament left, and there is a large amount of support from new allies in the account, and there will inevitably be a slight omission in the handover of a large number of materials, and more importantly, ...... In a world of magic, it's hard to fool a mage, but there are countless ways to fool the seemingly real eye.

"By the time we arrived at the logistics department, Colonel Alpha was already missing...... However, where he was, this one was left behind. Falik whispered, handing over a purple-black object.

The scales, which were as thin as leaves, were covered with a purple-black strange pattern, with jagged edges and countless sharp edges.

Looking at the strange object in his hand, Arthas was silent for a moment, and suddenly let out a roar like a wounded beast, and the war hammer in his hand was even more radiant, and countless brilliant silver rays burst out as the hammer slammed downward.

"Boom--"

At that moment, the air centered on the giant hammer suddenly exploded into a white wave of air, and everyone in the entire tent was kicked back by the fierce wind, and the eardrums that were close were obviously bulging, and they were almost shocked by the twisted air pressure brought by the giant hammer, and it was not until the purple-black scales turned into ashes that the prince's angry voice echoed.

"Melganis, I...... I'm going to kill you with my own hands! ”

Melganis, only this Dreadlord from the Twisted Void, proficient in change and playing with people's hearts, can let the plague hide from the detection of the Holy Light, and can transform into the form of others without revealing any horses, and only this mortal enemy who once forced the prince to slaughter the city with his own hands, hating even more than the Lich King himself, can seduce the deepest anger of Arthas.

"Oh, it's really the wailing of a defeated dog."

Seeing the soldier with scales coming early, he suddenly felt that Rorschach, who was hiding in a corner of the camp, was not good, but because of the difference in physique, the impact was more serious, and it was easy to recover from the dizziness, listening to the hero's roar, and couldn't help but sneer. However, although he was unhappy with Arthas's obvious anger and mistakenly hurt the soy sauce party, on the other hand, he was deeply impressed by the Lich King's brilliant move.

The strategy of this gloomy old man, who is cunning to the point of wisdom, is very simple: don't you want to unite all forces, okay, then I will let you unite, but ...... When your own power is weakened to the point that it is weaker than that of your allies, who will take the initiative in the hands of the allies who seem to be distracted?

This scheming **oss knew in his heart that unless he flipped the table and turned his face to pick up tens of thousands of troops, let the prepared "Black Sick Prince Cultivation Plan" all the hell, and directly gather tens of thousands of undead armies to slaughter Arthas and his immature indigenous allies cleanly, otherwise, the right amount of but not lethal army pressure will only force them to unite more out of fear. Therefore, he simply abandoned the use of force, and took advantage of the embarrassment of the Alsatian army that there were no spellcasters, and sent his Dreadlord to infiltrate the camp and plant the plague in the food sent by the natives. In this way, even if the paladin's healing is strong and can save all people, the strength of the army will fall into a long trough, although those indigenous alien races are united because of the life and death crisis, but they are not noble enough to worship their heads, and without the integration and unification of strong strength, it is almost a sure thing to pull each other's hind legs. More importantly, once the seeds of suspicion and struggle for power are planted, no matter how strong the Allied forces are in unison, the strength of the allies will not increase but decrease, just by constantly guarding the guns in the rear.

But compared to these distant troubles in the future, the embarrassment in front of me is enough to make people collapse.

"Of the two thousand four hundred men of the expeditionary force, there are seventeen hundred plague infected people......" Thassarian, as the herald, hardly dared to look up into the prince's eyes, but he continued to tell the bad news, "Moreover, there are alarming rumors in the army...... Say yes ......"

"What rumors?" Arthas was obviously prepared in his heart, and he couldn't see the look of joy and anger, but asked flatly.

"They say that this plague cannot be cured with holy light and potions, Your Highness the Prince...... It has already been decided...... Kill all sick people to prevent contagion. ”

In fact, what he did not mention was that there was a near-mutiny in the army. If it weren't for the inability to resist the plague, most of the soldiers would have run out of steam. After all, it is indisputable that soldiers died on the battlefield, but if they died in the hands of their own leaders because of this grievance, they would really not be able to turn a blind eye, and changing a general may not cause such a big backlash, but Alsace itself has a history of slaughtering cities, which is really difficult to remember.

Just when everyone was silent, not knowing what to do, the savior came.

It was a burly dwarf with a white beard and a round mound who threw a bombshell, and he said loudly: "I know the solution to the plague!" ”

"In the depths of Northrend, there is a divine sword that has been sealed since ancient times, which can dominate all the undead and eliminate all natural disasters and plagues, and it is said that it was an artifact created by the dark god himself 10,000 years ago!"

"What's the name of that sword?" Arthas, who had grasped the straw for his life, looked up and asked word by word.

Rorschach, who had poured himself a sip of tea, raised his head unconsciously when he heard this, and while grunting, he looked at the changes in the camp for a long time.

"The sword that rules death and soul - 'Frost Sorrow'," the Copperbeard Dwarf King replied as he stood up and replied in a solemn voice, "Actually, the reason why I came to this land from Ironforge is to search for the traces of the legendary sword in history, and if I guess correctly, the power of the so-called 'Lich King' may not be separated from the sword that rules death, but ...... The sword can only be in the hands of the living, and all the undead will either be destroyed or unable to do so if they get close. ”

"So what are we waiting for?" Arthas stood up and turned to his armor.

"No, we can't find that divine sword, the clan that sealed it because of the power of this artifact back then set a curse, and only the descendants of its bloodline can lead the way to truly find the hidden artifact," Muradin shook his head, and as everyone sighed, he smiled strangely for some reason, "But—"

"But what?" Arthas asked.

According to historical research...... The bloodline of that clan is very distinctive, with black hair and black eyes, and a face that is very different from ours, which can be seen at a glance. Muradin smiled "honestly" and continued.

"Poof--"

Rorschach, who was halfway through the water, squirted out on the spot.

And he was immediately shocked to find that everyone present was looking at him with a strange eye, and one of Arthas's hands had already touched the edge of the warhammer, obviously as long as he said a "no", this prince, who was forced to the verge of madness by heavy pressure, would definitely let him taste what it means to "be in pain" in advance.

This...... What the hell is going on?

Rorschach blinked blankly, confused in the bottom of his heart.

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(ps:

According to the original plan, it was probably for Arthas to establish a "Northrend Disaster Fighting Front", uniting natives such as the Iron Dwarves, Alduin Creations, and Prehistoric Giants to fight against the Scourge led by the Lich King "xxx", and play a love and kill script.

Of course, the author considered that this plot was too complicated and boring, and the description of the scene of the war of tens of millions of people was too difficult.

It seems that some readers are interested, and when the new book period is over, there is no need to slow down the update speed, and the author will upload some old manuscripts in the relevant ones.

In the next few chapters, the final stage of The Frozen Throne, the protagonist and Arthas embark on a journey to find the Frost Sorrow and officially face off against the Lich King. As for Armageddon, it's naturally a story of the future.

The next mission world has been decided

"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", the protagonist will encounter some interesting things By the way, in this story, what I admire the most is not a boy with a scar on his head, but a blonde little Shota, so, a certain Mr. Savior, probably will be more unlucky)

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