Chapter 754 Deeper Depravity

It’s hard to leave the homeland, and the fallen leaves return to their roots.

This is an emotional bond that humans in any era and in any world have.

The land gave birth to life, and the land also gave birth to feelings.

Duke understands the feelings of the soldiers of Lordaeron very well. Unfortunately, as a commander and a time traveler who knows the historical process, he knows exactly what he wants to do.

He could not stop the tragedy that had already occurred. He could only allow the tragedy to expand and spread further.

That night, he received some bad news.

Sure enough, the Scourge has more than one attack direction, because Lordaeron is very deeply infiltrated by the Cult of the Damned. The latest report is: In Tirisfal Glades, more than ten towns have been poisoned by lords who have surrendered to the Cult of the Damned. , either poisoned in well water or poisoned in barns, causing tens of thousands of people to die and turn into zombies.

Coupled with the partial division of the Scourge from Lordaeron, most of Tirisfal Glades has fallen.

However, there is good news.

The [Emergency Evacuation] drill that Duke stopped that year played an unimaginable role. Duke's butler Macaro actually successfully used the water transportation of Lake Lordaeron to rescue nearly 100,000 Lordaeron citizens. More perfectly, he used the fleet behind him as bait, tricking Arthas into thinking that all the refugees had fled south to Dalaran.

In fact, most of the refugees circled around Fenris Island in the middle of Lake Lordamre, then went west into the Silverpine Forest area, and have now arrived at the coast of Beiliu, waiting for rescue.

Well, this can be explained by the dark face of the old man Mao Antonidas, because the old man believed that Duke's men had tricked Dalaran, otherwise the undead army of Arthas would not have been the first one to find him. Dalaran.

The old man didn't catch up with the Dread Lord. As soon as he came back, he directly announced that Dalaran would focus on clearing out the undead in the territory, and even Duke refused to see him.

However, they agreed to send two mage groups to Kael'thas to attack with the Scarlet Cross Legion led by Duke.

Counting the Dalaran Infantry Regiment protecting the mage regiment, Duke finally had a hundred thousand troops at his disposal.

Duke was very dissatisfied with Antonidas's refusal to see him. But I could only reluctantly accept this fact. Because in the original history, Antonidas also became more stubborn as he got older. In his later years, just like Terenas, each thing he did was worse than the last.

Kael'thas was quite excited about having the opportunity to lead troops in a foreign country this time.

"Duke! Please give me your guidance this time. I will fully cooperate with you."

Duke nodded, accepting Kaizi as his younger brother.

Duke finally chose to follow the pace of the orcs regarding the direction of dispatching the 100,000-strong army, but the target was not the Nanliu coast, but the Beiliu coast. As soon as they arrived, more than 300,000 refugees gathered there but there were not many troops to protect them. Secondly, Duke really didn't dare to go to Stratholme via the Alterac Mountains.

In the steep Alterac Mountains, the battle formations most commonly used by humans have no place at all. In that kind of narrow and steep terrain, there is no need for an army of 10 million undead. If you have 500,000 skeletons, you can jump down from the top of the mountain at every turn, and then jump down the cliff with your soldiers. No matter how elite the human race is, it will be useless. .

Human beings are not immortal, and even the most elite soldiers will get tired. On this night, Duke had to let the soldiers have a good rest.

And throughout the night, Duke had to run to the South China Sea city-state arduously, because the sky near Dalaran had been shrouded in the undead canopy, and communications became very poor. Only in the South China Sea city-state, Duke could relatively smoothly use magic communication to contact various countries.

at the same time.

Alsace was having a hard time.

He found that his soul seemed to be in a state of confusion.

When he came back to his senses, he suddenly found that he had returned to the place where he led an army of millions of undead from - the outskirts of Lordaeron.

He finally recognized the guy who saved his life.

The Dread Lord Tichondrius, who looked almost exactly like Mal'Ganis, was equally bitter and vicious, but also had nothing nice to say about Arthas.

Arthas subconsciously raised his broken right hand with his left hand, which was holding "Frostmourne" tightly.

"Oh, I'm not your enemy." Tichondrius said, twisting his lips into a smile, but it looked more like a taunt: "But don't expect me to comfort you. Even if you kill yourself His biological father handed over the kingdom to the Scourge, which is regarded as passing the first test. The Lich King is initially satisfied with you. But you... look what you have done?"

Alsace was silent.

"You actually still retain so many human emotions, which makes you completely unable to exert the power of [Frostmourne]! It's ugly! It's too ugly!"

Arthas felt two completely different emotions hit him at the same time - shame and anger.

"Yes!" he replied, trying to maintain a calm and powerful voice in front of this big devil: "I was wrong! I failed to completely forget the people and things I once loved. I feel regret and regret for my failure. Unfortunately, I feel ashamed for losing to Duke Marcus."

"Very good!" The Dread Lord smiled ferociously. He was satisfied with Arthas' frankness.

"Next time! Next time I will definitely kill Duke! Imprison his soul in [Frostmourne]! Let him suffer eternal torture! I will also kill Jaina and make her a banshee!"

But at this moment, another voice came from deep in his heart, not from Frostmourne: You lied! You don't have the heart to kill Jaina!

For some reason, he suddenly felt very envious, jealous, and hateful toward Duke, who had completely owned Gianna even when he was missing.

Although he knew that a real death knight should not have feelings.

But he just couldn't help it.

He suppressed his feelings.

right! The voice in my heart will always disappear. He couldn't bear the growth of tenderness when he thought of Jaina. If allowed to develop, it would spread like gangrene and engulf him.

The Fear Lord pretended not to see his inner emotional struggle, but smiled and said: "There is no need to be so anxious. Maybe Duke Marcus will become your right-hand man... as a lich. But , the Lich King can’t bear to see your miserable situation. Now I’ll give you a chance to become stronger and bear more of the power of [Frostmourne]!”

"You say it! I'll do it!" Alsace said firmly.

"Now there is a group of uninvited guests who are trying to break into the throne room that belongs only to you and steal your father's remains! Go and destroy them! As long as you succeed, you will have more power!" After that, The Dread Lord touched [Frostmourne], and Arthas was shocked to find that the power from the magic sword was repairing his mutilated body at high speed.