Kel'Thuzad's appearance in Dustwallow Marsh was a complete coincidence.
Since the Lich King's unexpected defeat at the Light's Hope Chapel, millions of low-level undead under his direct mind control have begun to become restless. However, Arthas, who was seriously injured, obviously had no time to pay attention to the ants' emotions, so he put the Scourge's affairs under his control.
I threw it all to Kel'Thuzad and went to the Frozen Throne to heal.
As a result, the Chief Lich of Northrend ended his holiday trip early and returned to Northrend to start dealing with a series of troublesome problems. The first thing he had to face was Tirion Fordring and Darwin.
The two armies led by Rhian Mograine - the new Silver Crusade and the renegade Knights of the Ebon Blade
Ordinarily, for the vast ocean of undead creatures, the number of these invaders is really not enough, but in fact, the problem is not the comparison of numbers: the commander of the Northern Expedition, Tirion, is himself an unparalleled powerful paladin lord, and now he has
With the blessing of the bloody holy sword Ashbringer, he alone can kill tens of thousands of low-level undead. Even if Arthas comes in person, he is not without his strength!
After Regan returned to Stormwind City and spread the news of the Northern Expedition to all parts of the continent through Varian, the survivors of the Silver Hand also put on their war robes and traveled across the ocean to the high lord's beachhead base to join the crusade against the witches.
The ranks of the Demon King gave the Silver Northern Expedition more confidence to fight
As for the members of the Knights of the Ebon Blade who announced their separation from the Scourge and turned to crusade against Alsace, their strength must not be underestimated. Remember, Acherus was to the Lich King what the Seventh Legion was to the Alliance.
The meaning - the so-called strongest thugs and minions are nothing more than this!
With these two thorns on his back, Kel'Thuzad would naturally not be able to settle down, but just when he was deploying his troops to intercept Tirion and Darion's offensive, a piece of worse news came from the location of his flagship floating city - the Dragon Bone.
Coming from the Wilderness: The main force of the Scarlet Crusade, namely Abidis of the Eastern Plague, under the leadership of this female general, sailed across the ocean on hundreds of warships, landed in the Dragon Bone Wilderness, and began
Launch an attack on the Scourge
As a result, the Scourge Legion was in a situation of being attacked from three sides, and the Lich King's inability to see things dealt a huge blow to the undead minions: the early battle with the invading legion could not be described as a collapse at the first touch.
However, Kel'Thuzad decisively adopted a contraction strategy, surrendering the areas around Northrend, and instead concentrated its forces on the defense of several important strongholds such as Icecrown and Dragonblight.
Although this move allowed the three armies to gain a firm foothold and be able to more calmly fight positional battles with the undead, the impact it brought was something that the Lich himself did not expect: First of all, the Scarlet Army did not know whether to eat
What kind of medicine was wrong? They actually split their troops into two teams in a good situation, hoping to use one of the elite forces to break through the undead defense line and enter the Icecrown Glacier, the location of the Frozen Throne. The remaining team not only fought with Kerr
Sugard's army was fighting, and actually bit the Silver Northern Expeditionary Army like a mad dog, which shocked all three warring parties.
Kel'Thuzad is worthy of being the chief think tank of the Lich King. Although he does not know what is wrong within the Crusaders, the cunning Lich will never let go of this great opportunity - he orders the army to start shrinking more boldly, and will
A large area of Dragonblight was given to the two parties, so that the Scarlet Occupation Zone and the Northern Expeditionary Army's defense line were stuck together. Faced with the Crusaders who were as unreasonable as a mad dog, Tirion had no choice but to ask for negotiations many times to no avail.
The earth can only fight with them
The three-party siege was over, and the Lich began to take action against the Knights of the Ebon Blade who had infiltrated Icecrown Glacier. Although the death knights relied on their familiarity with the terrain to deal with the legion, and from time to time they assassinated high-ranking commanders of the Scourge, bringing serious consequences to the legion.
It caused a lot of trouble, but who knew that Kel'Thuzad didn't care at all about the casualties of several of his subordinates, and blindly used superior troops to compress the opponent's defense line, so that the death knights who were at a disadvantage in numbers could only cope with it and were unable to launch more deadly attacks.
attack
In this way, the Chief Lich of the Scourge used a small plan to pin the three revenge armies with different motives but the same goal to the ice fields of Northrend, making them unable to even move forward.
Feeling that the Scourge had improved across the board, Alsace, who had never paid attention to the matter, also expressed his praise for the Lich from the spiritual realm and encouraged him to keep up his efforts and try to postpone the war to next year. He believed that he would be able to recover from his injuries by then, thus eliminating these ants.
Catch them all in one go!
The results of his work were affirmed by his master and superior, and the Chief Lich was naturally in a happy mood. At this time, there was also a call of energy in the distant Kalimdor. It seemed that the "little thing" he left there half a year ago had awakened.
, now that the crisis in Northrend has been temporarily lifted, there is no need for him to do more supervision, so Kel'Thuzad took the second-in-command of the Knights of the Lord of Suffering, who was regarded as a lich, to the western continent.
Take a walk
The "little thing" left by the Lich is naturally the monster that Kevin is holding now. If we want to talk about its origin, we have to go back to the dragon-slaying battle half a year ago.
At that time, Kel'Thuzad was ordered by the Lich King to come to help Onyxia, but he did not expect that there would be a large-scale crusade by the Storm Army. The Lich planned to go to find out the news, but happened to bump into Kevin, who was still a rookie at the time.
After he and Sam easily captured these two unlucky guys, Lich tried to have a tentative fight with the tens of thousands of storm troops... but the result was obvious. Not only did he lose one of his trophies, but he was also embarrassed.
It was so unbearable that I could only roll back to Northrend in despair.
but!
The above is only the first half of the story. As for the second half, it happened a few hours after the soldiers of Stormwind City returned victoriously.
After Onyxia committed suicide, in order to take care of Bolvar's mood, Varian did not cut off his head as a trophy to appease the public. However, the Storm King ruthlessly destroyed the other remaining black dragons and dragon eggs.
After receiving the order to kill all the black dragons in the Dragon Swamp, all the black dragons in the Dragon Swamp were slaughtered. After confirming that no one had escaped the net, the Stormwind Kingdom army returned to the city.
However, as a warrior, Varian apparently ignored one thing, that is, so many black dragon ghosts gathered in one place and abandoned in the wilderness without any treatment would definitely cause a lot of trouble.
However, everyone did not think so much at that time. As their impression of the undead, most people were still limited to humanoid creatures. Little did they know that once the dragon's resentful soul was used, it could become an incredible monster!
A few hours after the Storm Army left, the Lich who had returned to Northrend actually reappeared in the Black Dragon's Lair - he had taken advantage of Onyxia's unpreparedness and placed a teleportation beacon next to the Dragon's Lair.
That's why he was able to return here so quickly. Seeing that the human army had already left, Kel'Thuzad took out a black crystal ball and waved the cursed staff in his hand to remove the black dragon's resentful spirit that filled the air and had not dissipated.
collected together
As a wizard, Kel'Thuzad is still an expert in necromancy. Of course, he will not let these good materials go to waste, but right now, the other side of his teleportation beacon is located in Icecrown Glacier, where there are few living creatures.
There are so few that they cannot satisfy the flesh and blood demands of these resentful souls.
So Kel'Thuzad could only take a risk and stuff these tumbling terrifying ghosts into a passing wild horse. In an instant, the unlucky horse was as if it had been burrowed into the belly by man-eating ants, and it was miserable.
It turned softly into a piece of skin as it screamed, and the flesh and internal organs all over the body were hollowed out.
But after a moment, the soft skin seemed to be invigorated again, and slowly stood up from the ground, holding the shape of a horse and resurrected, but the lich saw with satisfaction that the so-called "horse" look in his eyes
The light of bloodthirsty and killing shines through, and the cold air spurts out of the nose, which is more trembling than the nightmare of a war horse in hell!
Seeing this scene, Kel'Thuzad was relieved. It should be noted that although there was a lot of blood in Dustwallow Marsh, there were still many ferocious beasts after all. The newly born wraith creatures would be killed if they had no ability to protect themselves, and this little one now
The guy's strength is not inferior to that of the dragon, so Kel'Thuzad is happy to let it roam here, devouring other species to strengthen its own strength.
Less than three months after returning to Northrend, the energy crystal originally implanted in the monster sent a signal, indicating that this guy had almost absorbed enough living creatures to become a new mount sample for the Knights of the Lord of Suffering for development.
, to replace all the previously lost black-blade horses.
As the second-in-command of the Knights, Kevin is naturally obliged to accompany the Lich here to inspect this extremely ugly looking "new mount".
"How is it, dear General Kevin, are you satisfied with the mount I created for you and the Knights of Suffering?" The Lich asked as he touched the monster's head, which looked more and more like a dragon.
"Infinitely grateful, respected Lord Kel'Thuzad!" Kevin lowered his pale face and replied respectfully, "As the sharp sword of our lord the Lich King, what the Knights of Suffering lack is a mount that matches our abilities.
, but your creations have filled this gap in time. Please allow me to use the psychic orb on the sacred Ice Crown City to describe your wisdom that can illuminate all planes!"
Kel'Thuzad waved his hand reservedly, indicating that he had accepted the compliment: "There is no need to be too exaggerated. You and I are both ministers who swore under the Frozen Throne to dedicate everything to His Majesty the Lich King. There is no reality in this.
It’s better to take less pictures of horses that have meaning…”
"I've learned a lesson from my humble position, sir!" Kevin bowed his head more respectfully.
"Well... give this little monster another meal, I guess there won't be many opportunities later," the Lich pointed at the cold corpse of the soldier on the ground, "You also need to reply to Fu Neng, people may come later.
Quite a few, it’s enough for us to teach these unscrupulous humans a lesson before we leave!”
Kevin glanced at Herod, who was glaring with anger, and then nodded and said: "I understand, sir! This humble position will certainly allow the humans who come to join in the fun to experience... what is cold and despair!"
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