At the same time, at the foot of the northern mountains of central Lordaeron.

The Valley of the Hearth is a fortified city more than twenty times larger than the city of Carlin, and unlike Carlin, which has only been established for more than twenty years and has just since become a small town, this majestic fortress has stood on the land of Lordaeron for more than two hundred years.

The floor of the entire city is covered with white and cyan marble, the walls of dozens of large castles built on the mountain are covered with jade bricks with high magic resistance, and eight magic towers of seventy or eighty meters high completely encompass the entire city.

However, at this time, in this valley, where the birds are singing and the fragrance of flowers are calm and pleasant, a battle of life and death is nearing the end.

On the city wall more than forty meters high, hundreds of rangers and dozens of magicians numbly cast magic and shot arrows outside the city, the huge city gate up to three meters thick shattered into blocks, and more than a thousand exhausted warriors were fighting desperately in the gap.

Countless undead creatures poured into the city, numbering in the tens of thousands, and these tireless and fearless monsters constantly pounded the impenetrable defenses at the city gates, killing dozens of undead every second.

Rumble!

With all his strength, he smashed more than a dozen hateful zombies into pulp, and even the monsters within a few tens of meters were all knocked down, and the shock wave with the golden light curtain made the undead creatures within nearly 100 meters howl miserably, and the monsters who were stimulated dodged in all directions, revealing the young human prince standing at the front of the breach in the city gate.

"Warriors, for Lordaeron, for the people, keep fighting!" gasping for air, Arthas lifted the hammer from the ground, endured the deep exhaustion in his body, and strode towards a position where the undead creatures were about to break through the defenses.

After killing the leader of the necromancers who had been revolting in central Lordaeron a month earlier, Arthas led his army to follow the trail of the remnants of the necromancers to Hearthvale and capture a group of nearly 100 necromancers who were about to escape.

Immediately, during the torture of the necromancer, Arthas learns of an evil plan that surprises him!

While the necromancer Kel'thugad wreaked havoc in central Lordaeron, another large group of undead scourge creatures, led by an even more powerful and terrifying demonic creature, had already made their way to eastern Lordaeron.

Demons belong to legends in the minds of ordinary people, and even the vast majority of nobles do not know the truth about the existence of demons. But Prince Arthas, who is the only heir to the kingdom of Lordaeron and will become king in a few years, is no stranger to this creature.

With the exception of some of the most powerful and loyal beings in the human race, only the king of every kingdom can know more about demons. However, this did not prevent the prince of Arthas, who loved Lordaeron and his people, from making a private inquiry.

After years of accumulation, with the secret support of King Minechel II, Arthas learned a number of legends about antiquity. At the same time, the young prince also knew that for thousands of years, a certain part of the mystical people of the many kingdoms of mankind had been engaged in a fierce struggle with demons.

According to the information obtained, Arthas can definitely lead the demons of the massive undead scourge creatures, belonging to a high-level demon called the "Dreadlord". Each of these demons is at least at the top or super level, and even if they are the only ones, they can torture and kill low- and middle-level human powerhouses in pieces.

And the troops that followed Arthas to kill Kel'thugad were nothing more than his hand-picked convoys. Except for a few captains who have reached the highest level of strength, most of the members of the escort team are only low-level professionals.

Arthas knew very well that in order to defeat and kill the demons that threatened the stability of the kingdom of Lordaeron, he would destroy this huge army of the undead once and for all. It was not enough to rely on the more than 3,000 people who followed him, so he asked his fiancée, Miss Gianna Proudmoor, a powerful high-ranking ice mage, to call for help from the Silver Knights stationed in Tirisfa.

Arthas and the Prince's Escort were stationed here, correcting in place and waiting for reinforcements to arrive. Who knew that less than half a month later, something unexpected happened to the young prince.

I don't know what the reason is, one brave warrior after another fell ill, although Arceth and the few priests in the Fort of Hearthvale treated him day and night, but the ambulance team of less than 100 people still watched nearly a thousand soldiers lose their lives.

And what made Arthas angry happened, the dead soldiers actually came back to life in another way, and when they regained their mobility, they lost their human emotions and will, and became undead creatures who only knew how to kill.

What makes people feel terrifying is that the strength of every soldier who has come back from the dead has been greatly enhanced on the basis of the original, and the first-order high-level has become the second-order lower, the second-order high-level has become the third-order lower, the third-order high-level has become the fourth-order lower, and so on.

Even more terrifying is that every soldier killed by these undead creatures joins the ranks of the undead soon after. The soldiers they wounded contracted the plague and eventually became undead.

Caught off guard, chaos ensued in the fortress city of Hearthvale, and a large number of beginner professionals lost their lives. Fortunately, the stronger the professional, the stronger the resistance to the plague, and if he was injured and infected, he only needed a few days to recover, so in the end, under the leadership of the Prince of Arthas, the disaster was successfully saved.

However, this also caused the already small army to be reduced again, and counting the soldiers who originally existed in the Hearth Valley, there were only about 4,000 professionals. After some research and experimentation, Arthas finally learned that the root cause of all this was the consumption of food that had arrived from Andorhar.

This discovery shocked the Prince of Arthas, because the location of the necromancer's lair that he had previously destroyed was Andorjar, which was one of the largest granaries in the entire kingdom of Lordaeron.

Not every territory in the Kingdom of Lordaeron is suitable for growing grain, and many of the noble domains need to transport food from the outside, while a small part of the Central Lordaeron realm and most of the Eastern Lordaeron fiefdoms need to rely on supplies from Andorhar.

However, Andohar has been completely contaminated by necromancers, and the food transported has spread to more than half of the kingdom of Lordaeron in this time!