The homeland is difficult to leave, and the fallen leaves return to the roots. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

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

The land gives birth to life, and the land gives birth to feelings.

Duke understood the feelings of Lordaeron's soldiers, but unfortunately as a commander, as a time-traveler who knew the course of history, he knew exactly what he was going to do.

The tragedy that has already happened, he can't stop it, he can only let the tragedy expand and spread.

That night, he received some bad news.

Sure enough, the Scourge's attack direction is more than one, because Lordaeron has been very infiltrated by the Cult of the Damned, and the latest report is: in the Tirisfal Glade, more than ten towns have been poisoned by the lords of the Cult of the Damned, either in well water or in barns, causing tens of thousands of deaths to become zombies.

Combined with the Scourge Legion's division from Lordaeron, most of the Tirisfal Glade has fallen.

However, there is good news.

Duke's [Emergency Evacuation] exercise that year played an unimaginable role, and Duke's butler Makaro successfully used the water transportation of Lake Lordanmere to save nearly 100,000 citizens of Lordaeron. Even more perfectly, using the flotilla behind him as bait, Arthas was tricked into believing that the refugees had fled to the south, and fled to Dalaran.

In fact, most of the refugees circled Fenris Island in the middle of Lake Lordamere and then headed west into the Silver Pine Forest, where they have now reached the shores of the North Stream to await rescue.

Well, this can be explained by the fact that the old man Antonidas Mao has a dark face, because the old man believes that it was Duke's men who tricked Dalaran, otherwise it would not have been Dalaran that the army of the undead in Arthas would have been the first to find him.

The old man didn't catch up with the Dreadlord either, and as soon as he returned, he directly announced that Dalaran would focus on clearing the territory of the undead, and even Duke refused to see him.

However, he agreed to send two mage regiments to Kael'thas and the Scarlet Crusader led by Duke.

Counting the Dalaran Infantry Regiment that guarded the mage regiment, Duke now had an army of 100,000 at his disposal.

Duke was very unhappy with Antonidas's refusal to see him. But I can only reluctantly accept this fact. Because Antonidas in history also became more and more stubborn as he got older, and in his later years, like Terenus, he did things more stinky than the other.

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

"Duke, please give me a lot of advice this time. I will fully cooperate with you. ”

Duke nodded, and accepted Kaizi's little brother.

For the direction of the 100,000-strong army, Duke finally chose to follow the steps of the orcs, but the target was not the south-flowing coast, but the north-flowing coast. First, there were more than 300,000 refugees gathered there, but there were not many troops to protect them. Second, Duke really didn't dare to go to Stratholme in the Alterac Mountains.

In the steep Alterac Mountains, the most accustomed battle formations of mankind are useless. In that kind of narrow and steep terrain, you don't need an army of 10 million undead, come and have 500,000 skeletons, jump 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 is useless.

Humans are not immortal, and even the most elite soldiers can get tired, and this night, Duke had to let the soldiers rest well.

And this whole night, Duke had to run to the city-state of the South Seas, because the sky near Dalaran had been shrouded in the canopy of the dead, and the communication had become terrible. Only in the city-states of the South Seas can Duke be able to communicate with various countries with magic relatively smoothly.

Meanwhile.

Alsace was very upset.

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 outskirts of Lordaeron City, where he had set out with an army of millions of undead.

He finally recognized the guy who saved his life.

The Dreadlord Tikdios, who looks almost exactly like Malganis, is just as bitter and vicious, but also has nothing to say about Arthas.

Arthas subconsciously raised his severed right hand with his left hand, which was holding [Frost Sorrow].

"Yo, I'm not your enemy. Tikdios said, twisting its lips in a smile, but looking more like a mockery: "Don't expect me to comfort you, though." Although you killed your own father and handed over the kingdom to the Scourge Legion, you can be considered to have passed the first test. The Lich King is initially pleased with you. But you...... Look what you've done?"

Arthas was silent.

"You still retain so many human feelings, so you can't exert the power of [Frost Sorrow] at all!

Arthas felt two very 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 the archdemon, "I was wrong! I failed to completely forget the people and things I once loved, I felt remorse and regret for my failure, and I was ashamed of my loss to Duke Marcus. ”

"Good!" the Dreadlord grinned, pleased with Arthas's honesty.

"Next time, I'll kill Duke, I'll imprison his soul in Frostmourn, I'll let him suffer for eternity, I'll kill Gianna and make her a banshee!"

But at this moment there was another voice in his heart, not from Frost's sorrow: You are lying! You have no intention of killing Gianna!

For some reason, he suddenly has a feeling of envy and jealousy towards Duke, who completely owned Gianna even during his disappearance.

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

But he just couldn't control it.

He forcibly suppressed his feelings.

That's right, that voice in my heart will always disappear. He couldn't bear the warmth that grew when he thought of Gianna, and if he was allowed to develop, it would spread like gangrene and swallow him up.

The Dreadlord pretended not to see his inner emotional struggle, and instead smiled, "There's no need to be in such a hurry. Maybe Duke Marcus will be your right-hand man...... As a lich. However, the Lich King can't stand your misery. Now for you a chance to make you stronger and endure more of the power of Frostmourn!"

"You say, I'll do it!" Alsace snapped.

"Now there is a group of uninvited guests who are trying to break into the throne hall that belongs only to you and take your father's remains! Go ahead and destroy them! if you succeed in doing so, you will have more power!" With that, the Dreadlord touched [Frost Sorrow], and Arthas was shocked to find that the power coming from the magic sword was repairing his mutilated body at high speed. (To be continued.) )