There is no doubt that the throne of Lordaeron is a taboo for Arthas.
At the same time, it is something that he has long recognized in his heart as belonging to him, and no one can touch it, not even his biological sister.
Therefore, the announcement of Calia as the queen was very exciting to him, just like the Lich King Ner'zhul became angry and hysterical after his background was exposed.
To some extent, the experiences of these two people are indeed similar.
They were all respected and loved by the people around them, had a very lofty status, and were eager to do something to help their tribe and country.
Even the way of depravity is the same: falling into a trap carefully woven by the enemy, and then making one wrong step after another, until there is no way to turn back and you can only go to the dark side.
The only difference is that Alsace's stubbornness and recklessness prompted him to actively embrace his dark destiny and quickly complete the transformation in an extremely painful and violent way.
Ner'zhul is a typical coward. After making an unforgivable mistake, he just wanted to escape. In the end, he was caught and could only reluctantly continue to serve the Burning Legion.
This is why Zuo Si would be full of contempt for Ner'zhul, and he would even mock Ner'zhul unceremoniously to his face when speaking.
In his eyes, even a guy like Gul'dan who was full of evil was hundreds of times stronger than Ner'zhul.
I really don't know what Kil'jaeden was thinking at the time, that he would turn such a waste into the Lich King and let him continue to serve the Burning Legion.
You must know that from the devil's point of view, such a soul that wants to shine but has no shining points, is dark and depraved, and is not completely depraved, has no special value at all.
It is only worthy of being thrown into the torture chamber and tortured repeatedly, and finally all the soul energy will be completely squeezed out.
On the contrary, a soul like Arthas, who was once full of bright hope, but later actively embraced darkness and evil, has unimaginably great value.
In comparison, the soul quality of Sylvanas, who has a strong obsession with revenge, is even worse, but it is still a rare treasure.
The most important thing is that through these two personally observed cases, Zuo Si suddenly discovered that the so-called "psychic magic" is actually summoning the complete soul or part of the soul of the deceased back from the Shadow Realm.
Rather than like Faerun's necromancy, low-level undead can be driven solely by negative energy and a little soul mark remaining in the remains.
Like those ghouls, zombies and skeletons with low intelligence, their souls are often incomplete, only less than one percent or even one thousandth or one ten thousandth of a complete soul.
This kind of low-level undead does not have the ability to think or have personality, and will only mechanically obey the orders given by the high-level undead in the Scourge Legion.
Those who have a certain level of cognition and independent thinking in everything, and who even retain complete memories of their lives, have at least retained at least a quarter of their souls.
In other words, the success rate of psychic magic is not 100%.
Once the soul of the owner of the remains has completely disappeared, the magical ritual of resurrection will fail.
Although some necromancers have figured out how to tear other relatively intact souls into small pieces, and then stuff them into artificially-made sutured abominations to create more and more powerful undead creatures.
But this obviously does not belong to the category of necromancy, but to necromancy.
Precisely because the size of the soul contained in each undead is different, the level of intelligence difference between similar individuals is very huge.
Some ghouls only have primitive instincts left, while others can communicate and speak like normal people.
What's even more interesting is that even with the Helm of Dominance, a super psychic amplifier, the Lich King simply cannot remotely control every undead creature.
Therefore, he needs to create many generals or commanders with thinking and independent consciousness like Arthas, Sylvanas, and Kel'Thuzad to help him manage the Scourge and the millions of undead armies.
So an interesting paradox arises.
That is, the larger the scale of the Scourge, the more self-aware undead there will be, and the Lich King's control will plummet.
This can be seen from the fact that after the Frozen Throne was attacked by Illidan, Sylvanas immediately became out of control and launched a rebellion.
According to this logic, wouldn't it mean that the stronger the Scourge Legion is, the weaker the Scourge Legion will be?
After all, once there is no absolute control over all undead creatures, each of those self-aware undead creatures may turn around and become the enemy of the Scourge like Sylvanas and the Knights of the Ebon Blade.
And he is also the kind of terrifying enemy who knows his roots and is not afraid of death.
Through the fight with Arthas and Sylvanas, Zuo Si successfully understood the Lich King's true ability and the upper limit of what it could achieve. He also understood the reason why Kil'jaeden never looked at Ner'zhul.
It's not that the deceiver is too conceited, but that the Lich King's upper limit of ability was doomed from the moment it was created.
There was no way he could turn all living creatures in the world into undead and then create an eternal kingdom, as Arthas imagined.
The number of undead, ranging from millions to tens of millions at most, will push the Lich King's control to its limits.
Perhaps this number is already quite terrifying for the native creatures of Azeroth, and can even be called a natural disaster.
But in the eyes of the Burning Legion, which has conquered countless worlds, it can be easily crushed by just sending out an army of demons at random.
Therefore, even after the integration of the Lich King, the upper limit may only be slightly stronger than the Wild Demigod.
After coming to the conclusion he wanted, Zuo Si quickly broke away from contact and took a boat to the island of Quel'Danas where the Sunwell was located, and returned the Joy of Fire to the King of Anasteria.
However, after the latter touched the Sun Chaser family's inherited artifact affectionately, he stuffed it back into Zuo Si's hand and said in a slightly emotional tone: "Please help me give it to Kael'thas.
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Tell my son that from now on the responsibility of leading this country falls on his shoulders.
There is no need for you to force yourself to continue to fight against the endless army of undead. Just leave as soon as possible before the enemy attacks.
The remaining battle is our final elegy.
I want to use my tragic death to let all high elves remember the suffering and humiliation they have suffered today, so that they can move forward in the difficult years to come and rebuild their homes from the ruins.
This is the only thing I can do as a king."
"As you wish."
Zuo Si did not continue to persuade the other party to leave, but instead put one hand on his chest to express his respect for the king who was about to die generously.
He understood that the reason why Anasteria made such a choice was that on the one hand, she felt guilty for not taking the Scourge seriously, and wanted to atone for her sins through death; on the other hand,
It is to take all the councilors who hold high positions in Silvermoon City to another world, so as to clear the way for Kael'thas to take power and make a series of reforms.
After all, the king is guarding the Sunwell, and these veteran nobles and parliamentarians who usually claim to represent the people naturally have no excuse to run away.
By doing this, Anastria could not only preserve his own reputation, but also take away all the vested interests of the country's die-hard conservatives when he died generously.
What's more, his body has already aged and he doesn't have hundreds of years to live. Being able to play like this when his life is about to come to an end will definitely make a lot of money.
Facts have proven that anyone who can stand at the top of a country's political system is someone who is not guilty of evil.
No matter how kind, generous and just they behave on a daily basis, they are still a power monster at heart, and their way of thinking and ruthlessness at critical moments are far beyond the imagination of normal people.
Following Zuo Si's departure, Arthas soon led a mighty army of undead into Silvermoon City, completely razing this city full of art and magical miracles to the ground to vent his inner anger.
At this moment, he stood in the empty port and looked at the islands across the strait, with a biting chill in his eyes.
Sylvanas obviously enjoyed seeing the incompetent and furious look of her enemy. She raised her lips and asked in a slightly sarcastic tone: "How do you plan to cross this strait to launch an attack on Sunwell Highlands? You know that the sea can
It’s not a small river, even if you throw the entire undead army into it, it won’t help.”
"Hmph! Do you think this strait can stop me from moving forward?"
Arthas turned his head and glanced at the banshee he had transformed from the corner of his eye.
"No, I'm just waiting for you to demonstrate, dear master..."
Sylvanas bowed gracefully according to the etiquette of high elves, without hiding her eccentricity and gloating at all.
She didn't realize at all that she was obviously running on the road to darkness, and her heart was becoming darker and darker.
However, Arthas ignored this offensive language and attitude, and directly drew the rune sword.
moment!
The biting chill began to spread rapidly around him.
The death knight seemed to feel something, and said in a voice without any emotion: "Did you hear the whisper from Frostmourne?"
Sylvanas' expression suddenly changed.
Because as an undead, she undoubtedly felt the power from the Lich King, as well as the words that echoed in her mind all day long.
Just a second later, Arthas suddenly swung his rune sword forward.
boom!!!!!!!
I saw a flash of white cold air, and the strait between Silvermoon City and Quel'Danas Island was frozen by ice on the spot, forming a bridge of frost that could allow a million troops to pass through.
Such a powerful force simply surpasses everyone's imagination.
Because Frostmourne can freeze the sea today, tomorrow it can freeze a well-defended fortress or city.
No hesitation!
To be continued...