After the battle of the Black Rock Valley, the top leaders of the human side, led by King Ryan, retreated back to Stormwind City. However, the guardian they rely on, Medivh, fell into a coma for some unknown reason. He was ridden by Kadega and Garona on King Ryan's griffin and sent back to the Karazan Mage Tower for cultivation.

It can be said that except for Lothar, the father, the rest of the people tacitly ignored Karen and what happened to him.

Although Karen was in danger to protect the king's retreat at that time, his mutation happened in full view of everyone. Everyone present at that time felt the heart-pounding dark power of Karen.

Before the original pattern of Azeroth was completely broken by orcs, the Church of Holy Light can be said to be the most extensive belief in human society.

The Kingdom of Storm is no exception. From King Ryan to ordinary soldiers, it is the Church of Holy Light of faith.

During this period, the rest of the faith was excluded in human society, except for the same powerful magicians.

Especially the power of darkness, which is also called the power of shadow in Azeroth, is an absolute heresy.

This is a power that only a certain evil sect called Twilight Hammer, or an evil troll, will use.

At the same time, it is also because of the various extremely evil ways of acting in this evil sect that humans in Azeroth were extremely disgusted with the power of darkness.

So when Karen became a super strong man with dark power, he was almost immediately regarded as a cult hidden in the Storm Kingdom by Storm City.

Especially after Karen flew away directly after relieving the danger, he didn't even explain.

This attitude is even seen by most people as Karen's faceless face to face his past relatives, friends and comrades.

Even many soldiers looked at their commander, and Anduinlosa's eyes were filled with a hint of suspicion.

However, the relationship between the king and Lothar was too strong, and these soldiers were also elite. They didn't say much before the upper class determined this matter.

Lothar was obviously very depressed about this situation, but he had no choice but to say anything. As Karen's father, he wanted to know more than anyone else what happened to Karen, but Karen can't find anyone at all. What can he do?

"Don't think too much. We believe in you and Karen. There must be some reason why we don't know!" On the way back, Ryan looked at his old friend's mood a little depressed and said comfortingly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty the King!" Ryan's comfort made Lothar feel better, he reorganized his thoughts and temporarily let go of his worries about Karen.

After all, Karen doesn't know where he is now, but the orc threat is so close!

King Ryan understands this, too.

So after returning to Stormwind, Ryan immediately convened a military meeting and began to deploy the upcoming war.

However, this time, Ryan and Lossa had huge differences in strategic decision-making.

Lothar tried to convince King Ryan to continue to adopt the previous strategy, concentrate all existing troops, attack the Black Swamp, and destroy the Dark Gate.

But King Ryan believed that the most important thing now is to protect the people of Stormwind City. If according to the way of Lothar, Stormwind City will definitely end up with a city destroyed and people killed. Therefore, he believed that he should deploy defenses in all important and key positions in Stormwind City, prevent the orcs from attacking, and protect Stormwind City.

This is also a big problem, that is, the existing troops of Storm Kingdom are actually not enough to protect all existing defense lines.

And just as the two were arguing.

Medivon, the guardian who had been "recovered", appeared in the hall.

"I have seen Durotan, and the forces against Gul'dan are growing. The forces of the three regiments, the Frost Wolf Clan and other clans that resist Gul'dan, plus my strength, are enough to destroy the Dark Gate." After understanding the situation, Medivh gave a very constructive suggestion.

When King Ryan heard this, he immediately recognized it in his heart.

After all, Medivh was the guardian and was also a friend who saved Storm Kingdom from danger countless times in his youth.

"Your power? Forgive me, Guardian, but it turns out that your power doesn't seem reliable recently." But at this moment, Lothar questioned the various abnormalities that have happened to Medivh recently.

The two broke out in a fierce conflict.

In the end, Ryan took Lothar under house arrest from the overall situation and followed Medivh's advice.

Then Ryan began to prepare for the war, and Medivh also said he would go back to Karazan to make some preparations.

The next day, King Ryan, dressed in military uniform, bid farewell to his queen and young son Varian and prepared to set off.

Garona followed him as King Ryan's escort.

However, at this warm moment.

Garona, who had already gained the trust of the king and queen, suddenly pulled out the dagger that the queen gave her by herself, and stabbed into King Ryan's neck without any defense.

The hot blood splattered the young Varian's face, and he stared at his kind father in front of him, and his head was cut off by Garona.

This sudden situation shocked everyone present who was preparing to send the king to war.

Even Garona herself was shocked.

Looking at King Ryan's head in his hand, Garona looked confused.

What exactly did she do???

It turned out that she just felt a daze. After she came to her senses, she had already had a dagger with one hand.

However, seeing the extremely hatred gazes of the humans around him, especially the desperate gazes of Queen Talia in front of him, Garona knew that she had to run away.

It's not that she's afraid, but that she needs to figure out what's going on.

What happened just now was definitely not her own will.

Gul'dan must have been Gul'dan's move on her.

At this time, Gul'dan was dealing with the betrayal of the Frost Wolf clan, and he had no idea that a big pot had been inexplicably held on him.

If we follow the plot of Blizzard's official novel or the plot of the game, it is indeed Gul'dan who tampers with Garona's consciousness and successfully assassinated King Ryan.

But in this world based on movies, Gul'dan really didn't do that.

However, if Gul'dan knew about Ryan's death at this time, he would only applaud and take on the big pot happily. After all, this is a good thing for the tribe.

Back at the gate of Stormwind City, facing the threat of the human army, Garona decisively escaped into the shadow and prepared to escape.

As a toy carefully cultivated by Gul'dan, Garona's legendary assassin has mastered her shadow power and the detection magic of most royal mages cannot see through her stealth technique.

But unfortunately, this time, Garona had to face, not the royal mages of Stormwind City, but the assassins of the same level as her.

Not one, but three!

Just as Garona was about to escape from the scene of the crime, three sharp attacks attacked Garona from three different angles, completely blocking all her actions.
Chapter completed!