nashuaworldcup Chapter 245 Death Knight
Chapter 245 Death Knight
The Death Knight's secret has been discovered, and Lorraine can hear the enemy's shouts from afar.
He can understand common human language and share the vision of his subordinates... but this is affected by distance and requires the use of some vengeful spirits. Right now, his right eye is overflowing with vengeful spirits...
The downside is that the vengeful spirit seems to be connected to his right eye.
The moment Valiant fell, Lorraine felt a sharp pain in her right eye, and a black aura emanated from it...
In a fleeting moment of confusion, Lorraine seemed to see a shadow slip into his right eye again. Whether it was Valean's remnant soul, he couldn't tell. Because two more waves of pain followed in quick succession...
This means that two more immortal death knights have fallen...
This time there was no groaning, but two names flashed through Lorraine's mind: Razoklau and Reshigor...
Two werewolf death knights, masters of blood magic, fell...
Of Lorraine's eleven death knights, three have now fallen...
There are still 6 people persisting by the lake...
The previously solid fan-shaped defensive perimeter suddenly revealed three gaps. Standing at a distance as a target for artillery fire was extremely foolish. Even more so, standing upright and unprotected, ready to be blown up.
The young human commander laughed: "Brainless undead! What undead? Smash them! They're just flesh and blood, bluffing!"
With victory in sight, the knight captain smiled broadly. He felt he could now return to Stromgarde with his head held high, mocking his brothers who had looked down on him...
As the last honor of the Kingdom of Stromgarde, a member of House Thorbain, he is currently the youngest cavalry captain in Stromgarde...
That is, the so-called Prince Garin & Prince Trollbane...
This all-out attack was initiated by Archmage Anslem of the Kirin Tor, and guided by Master Yuvel and others, who immediately came to annihilate the invading undead...
Stromgarde has been feeling stifled for too long.
Since Darnass Trollbane, one of the five heroes of the Alliance, took away the elite of the Sons of Lothar, the strength of Stromgarde has declined again and again, and the people of Arathi Highlands have all fled.
Once the ancestral homeland of the Arathor Empire, now only the crumbling ruins of the Wall of Thoradin and the abandoned Aldor Bridge remain...
The Thorbain family, which claims to be of the true bloodline of Arathor, has also dwindled in number.
The Sons of Lothar were once among the elite of the old human Alliance. Their knightly legions from Stromgarde once helped the Alliance retake Blackrock Mountain, driving the orcs to nowhere to hide...
However, this elite force was taken to the Outer Realms by Dallas & Torbern.
At that time, the Stormwind Allied Forces included Paladin Turalyon, Windrunner Alleria & Windrunner, Wildhammer Dwarf Gryphon Rider Kurdran, Human Guardian Archmage Khadgar, and Lothar's Sons Commander Darnassus.
The five heroes are also known as the Five Heroes of the Dark Portal or the Five Heroes of Stormwind. Their statues stand at the entrance to Stormwind...
In order to completely eliminate the orc threat, they destroyed the Dark Portal and, incidentally, investigated the more terrifying truth about the Burning Legion behind the orcs.
These five led their expeditionary force through the Dark Portal straight to Outland.
When the expeditionary force arrived in Outland, Ner'zhul was attempting to use the three artifacts to save the orcs' homeland and reopen the Dark Portal to another world. Outland was already unable to withstand the power of the artifacts.
Ner'zhul's actions ultimately led to the collapse of the world. Not only did he explode into dust, but his soul was also captured by Kil'jaeden, imprisoned in ice, tortured, and transformed into the first lich.
The Dark Portal closed again, and the expeditionary force was cut off from Azeroth for a full thirty years.
Danas Thorbain, this seemingly unremarkable fellow, is actually the commander of the Outer Alliance expeditionary force, the militia captain of Stromgarde, the leader of the Sons of Lothar... the nephew of the former King of Stromgarde, and now the uncle of the dying Prince Garin of Stromgarde...
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Speaking of the origins of human paladins, Turalyon, the current leader of the Knights of Light, was one of the original five human paladins, and he was originally born in Lordaeron.
Archbishop Faol trained the first five paladins of the Knights of the Silver Hand.
He combined priests and warriors, creating demon slayers capable of wielding weapons imbued with holy light, holy priests and fearless warriors clad in plate armor...
The Scarlet Monastery was once the training ground of Alonsus & Faol, and at that time it was the Cathedral of Light in Lordaeron... He trained five paladins, who were the founders of the Silver Hand.
Uther the Lightbringer was the first human paladin in Azeroth and the leader of the Knights of the Silver Hand.
Dansordir & Dathrohan, who was the Grand Commander of the Silver Hand at the time, later founded the Scarlet Crusade, the Grand Cross... and was also known as the Grand Commander...
Tirion Fordring, the Lord of Hearthglen, a noble landowner, and one of the leaders of the Knights of the Silver Hand and the Argent Dawn. His son, Taelan Fordring, is now active in the Scarlet Crusade, hoping to restore his father's honor.
Turalyon, Lothar's lieutenant... successor to the commander of the Stormwind Alliance, a paladin in the Alliance Expeditionary Force.
The fifth paladin was Gavincard & Doom, who had died in the first battle against the Scourge of Andorhal... He perished along with Lordaeron, dying at the hands of the death knight Arthas, just like his friend Uther.
They had trained together with Arthas, the Dwarven Hill King, and Arthas had once been proud to join the Knights of the Silver Hand, learning the paladin traditions of justice and benevolence...
Prince Arthas has always aimed to become the strongest paladin of the Silver Hand. He hopes to gain recognition and convince the knightly nobles that he is qualified and capable of successfully inheriting the throne of Lordaeron.
To become the glory of the Menethil family...
To become the leader of the old alliance...
Unfortunately, everything changed when Kel'Thuzad, following the Lich King's orders, began spreading plague-infected food. Arthas, the most powerful human paladin prince, corrupted and degenerated in the fight against the plague, becoming the Lich King's chief henchman, a death knight who murdered his king, father, and destroyed his kingdom...
They stood completely on the opposite side of the Holy Light...
The five Paladin pioneers, as the initial evangelists and defenders, guided and trained many more human warriors, including nobles like Arthas, as well as dwarves, gnomes, and others...
The original wielder of the artifact weapon, the Hand of Ash... Old Mograine... Alexander Dros & Mograine was also a prominent figure in the Silver Hand. He once became a high lord of the Silver Hand, and later, together with Grand Crusader Dathorhan and Prosecutor Iselion, he established the Scarlet Crusade to fight against the undead.
The Scarlet Crusade were essentially remnants of the Silver Hand...
The Silver Dawn is a neutral group whose goal is to eradicate plague and war.
The Scarlet Crusade, however, is led by the Eagle, its main force seeking revenge against all enemies, whether they were the original orcs, the current Scourge undead, or even the Forsaken...
So what does this have to do with the Thorbain family of Stromgarde?
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The key point is that all paladins actually originated from the original Church of the Holy Light in the Kingdom of Lordaeron.
The Holy Light spread from Lordaeron, and so did the plague of death...
Stormwind once sought help from Lordaeron because, during the First War, after King Llane of Stormwind was killed by the half-orc assassin Garona, the humans actually lost a large amount of territory, and the orcs advanced rapidly.
On the eve of the Second War, Stormwind fell to the Orcs.
The remaining forces of the seven kingdoms, under the leadership of Lordaeron, organized resistance and counterattack.
King Tenaris of Lordaeron sheltered the young Prince Varian and Duke Lothar of Stormwind in the north. He also sent troops to help Stormwind reclaim its territory, enlisting the help of many allies.
This includes, but is not limited to, dwarves, gnomes... mages of Dalaran, high elves of Silvermoon City, and those from surrounding Kul Tiras and Gilneas...
Similarly, the last remaining pride of Stromgarde's guardians, the Sons of Lothar of the Red Stromgarde Kingdom, were among the main forces of the Alliance's counter-offensive. Old King Tyrese invited Thoras & Thorbell of the Stromgarde Kingdom to join the Old Alliance.
Compared to other kingdoms that were hesitant and fearful, especially the Alterac Kingdom, Stromgarde advocated taking the initiative to eliminate the primitive orc invaders.
Under Duke Lothar's leadership, they formed an allied army and fought countless battles against the orcs.
They once held the upper hand, defeating the original orcish old tribe... However, the cunning demons always learned from experience and found weaknesses. They used the undead plague to turn Lordaeron into a plague-ridden land, and Arthas's gradual corruption caused the collapse of the old Alliance.
One by one, the seven kingdoms fell or were crippled.
Now the situation has reversed; Stormwind, after its reconquest, has become the leader. Lordaeron no longer exists... Stromgarde has also been decimated in the war, its voice weak and its influence waning, its population drastically reduced, its land lost, and its nation on the verge of collapse...
It's barely even worthy of being called a city-state...
This is also related to Princes Galin and Trollbane's plot to seize power and kill their own father, King Solas. Solas and Tyrese were close friends, and both died at the hands of their own sons, a truly tragic end.
One of the five heroes, Danas & Thorbain, took away the elite of Stromgarde for thirty years... Now, only Galin & Thorbain and his group of young knights are still holding on in Stromgarde. This battle is Stromgarde's chance to show its might.
The young knight captain, Garin, was triumphant... it seemed the undead were utterly vulnerable, and the so-called death knights were nothing more than that...
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