After in-depth investigation, Arthas discovered that anyone infected with the plague would become an undead warrior, a member of the Scourge, and a Ner'zhul thug!
What he saw made Arthas very shocked and sad. Overnight, almost all the people in Andorhal turned into the walking undead. Arthas was very distressed by the huge panic caused by the plague to the Kingdom of Lordaeron.
, worry.
Arthas' strong sense of responsibility made Arthas hate the arrival of the Scourge. At the same time, he felt helpless that the Holy Light was unable to save the people infected with the plague. The strength of his opponent also made his heart gradually occupied by fear and despair!
And this scene is exactly what Ner'zhul wants to see. It all stems from Ner'zhul's layout. He needs this sense of helplessness, fear and despair to expel Arthas' inner reason!
Later, Arthas went through many hardships and finally discovered the source of the plague - Kel'Thuzad. The angry Arthas executed him without hesitation.
Although Kel'Thuzad died, the plague did not end. A large amount of plague-infected food was transported to the large city of Stratholme.
So Alsace immediately set off for Stratholme, trying to intercept the food. Finally, after he chased Stratholme, he found that it was too late. The food had been distributed to civilians. Arthas suddenly realized that these innocent people
Citizens will surely be, or have already been infected with the plague, and they will eventually become the new force of the Scourge.
So he ordered Uther, another paladin who was sent to the south to quell the orc uprising with him, and the Knights of the Silver Hand to massacre the citizens to prevent them from becoming the minions of the natural disaster.
But Arthas' order was undoubtedly rejected by Uther. Uther was a paladin, how could he massacre civilians? When Uther angrily refused to carry out the order, Arthas actually pronounced the sentence directly.
How could he endure the treason of Uther, a highly respected Paladin? Frustrated, Uther and most of his Paladins left Arthas angrily, and Arthas's lover Jaina also
I was shocked by Alsace's behavior and left him extremely disappointed!
The departure of Uther and Jaina, two close relatives and trusted people, was a fatal blow to Arthas - at the most desperate and helpless time, no one was willing to support the young prince's decision, leaving him with only
Endless pain.
At this time, Ner'zhul sent someone to stimulate Arthas again. He laughed ferociously at the prince's futility, and declared that Stratholme would soon become a hell where the undead were rampant. In order to stimulate, come
Force Arthas to strengthen his determination to massacre civilians!
Without Uther's supervision and guidance, without the support of his lover Jaina, no one can curb Arthas's strong desire for revenge! Under the stimulation of the devil, Arthas finally put his plan into action.
After all was carried out, he ordered the soldiers to massacre all the innocent citizens and burn all the buildings in the city to the ground!
At this time, all the soldiers under Alsace have noticed the changes in Alsace. Although he looks more arrogant and cold than before, he is also more brave and decisive. The soldiers seem to be happy to accept the prince's advice.
This change, because it relieved them of their psychological burden, they only needed to obey the orders - especially in the current environment, it was Alsace who gave the order anyway, and they were just the executors.
They don’t need to take the blame! What’s more, in the current environment, with continuous wars across the continent, an indecisive prince is destined to be unable to survive. In troubled times, only those who use unscrupulous means can lead them to survive!
In the process of massacring civilians, Arthas' extremely depressed and sad mental state made him doubt the Holy Light and his faith. He no longer believed that the Holy Light could save civilians. As a Paladin, how could he
This kind of thinking? The massacre of civilians caused Arthas' spirit to finally collapse due to excessive inner pressure and pain. In this way, Arthas gradually changed from a prince who believed in the Holy Light to an avenger who thirsted for all power. He was originally kind-hearted.
The righteous prince of Lordaeron,
From this moment on, the real transformation begins!
In the end, Arthas's heart was occupied by darkness and hatred, and his sanity was gone.
When he finished slaughtering the civilians and left Stratholme, he also left most of his humanity in the ruins and scorched earth. He vowed to destroy the Scourge Legion that had committed numerous crimes. To this end, he could
at all costs!
However, if he wanted revenge, his thoughts alone would not suffice. He needed strength, so under the prompts of others, Arthas embarked on a journey to find the legendary ancient rune sword with infinite power - Frostmourne.
Journey!
Finally, deep in the glacier of Northrend, Arthas finally found the place where Frostmourne was sealed. When Arthas came to the cave where the Ancient Sword was sealed, a mysterious and ancient ghost guardian appeared.
Trying to prevent Arthas, an uninvited guest, from entering the cave and preventing Arthas from getting involved in Frostmourne.
But at this time, no one could stop Arthas' determination to obtain Frostmourne. When the ghost guardian was wiped out under the prince's fierce attack, Arthas proudly asked, "Do you still want to protect this sword?"
?"
But the guardian replied, "No... the one I want to protect... is you..."
At this time, Muradin, an old friend of Arthas, discovered that Frostmourne had a powerful evil curse attached to it. Combined with what the ghost just said, he advised the prince not to draw the sword.
But Arthas replied, "For the dead people, no matter what the price, I am willing to bear it!" In the end, he resolutely uprooted the cursed Frostmourne.
After hearing the prince's oath, Frostmourne broke free from the ice that sealed him, as if to recognize his master, the ice fragments suddenly flew everywhere, one of the fragments knocked down Muradin, but Arthas ignored it
and the life and death of his old friend, he impatiently held Frostmourne in his hands. At this point, Arthas became the new master of Frostmourne.
But Arthas never thought that the Lich King, Ner'zhul, was actually the real master of this sword. All of this was Ner'zhul's conspiracy. At the moment when he pulled out Frostmourne, the powerful force
Flooding toward Alsace, this power froze his blood, swallowed his soul, and wiped out the last trace of his humanity!
At this point, Ner'zhul's conspiracy finally succeeded! Ner'zhul tore apart the last trace of humanity in Arthas, and dark knowledge flowed into Arthas' consciousness. Arthas learned to use dark magic. In fact, the former
From the moment he uprooted Frostmourne, the prince of Lordaeron has become a thing of the past forever. He was replaced by the Lich King's loyal servant, the death knight Arthas.
After regrouping the large army, Arthas showed extremely powerful strength. When the soldiers saw that the undead creatures were as vulnerable as ants under the Frostmourne sword, their morale suddenly rose, and their confidence in the prince also increased.
They became even more determined, even if they risked their lives for him, because they firmly believed that Arthas would protect everyone and the entire Lordaeron.
Under Arthas' unstoppable offensive, all the minions of the Scourge in Lordaeron were wiped out. However, Arthas did not have the slightest joy of victory. When everything was over, the lost prince left his bewildered comrades
They were left far behind, and the lonely figure disappeared into the wind and snow of Lordaeron!
Looking back on the entire process of Arthas's fall, when he was the prince of Lordaeron, he did not blindly pursue power. What he pursued was just to protect his homeland from persecution by external forces. In order to maintain the peace of Lordaeron, he
He firmly believes that as the future leader of the kingdom and as a paladin of the Silver Hand, he is fully capable of handling these disasters. He indeed has extremely strong courage and confidence. Without Ner'zhul's intervention, Arthas can indeed be perfect.
Counterinsurgency!
But Ner'zhul intervened, which made Arthas deeply realize that pursuit alone is useless, only strength can enable him to defend his homeland!
Just when he was pursuing power, he fell into the trap of the Lich King Ner'zhul! Arthas was still too young after all, and the sophisticated Ner'zhul took advantage of his fatal weakness to lead Arthas to the point of no return.
the road.
Subsequently, under the control of Ner'zhul, Arthas killed the king of Lordaeron, his father, and killed all the Lordaeron troops who tried to stop him!
Later, Arthas, or the death knight Arthas, became Ner'zhul's pawn, going to conquer the world for him. Of course, this was just for Kil'jaeden to see. In fact, he had been being manipulated by Kil'jaeden.
Jaeden sent people to monitor him. Once Ner'zhul rebelled, he would be killed immediately, so he still had to show off his skills!
But as the Lich King, Ner'zhul is actually a three-year-old child without any scheming. He openly built a plank road, secretly visited the old warehouse, and openly sent Arthas to obtain the Book of Medivh, so as to open the portal for the Burning Legion to enter this world.
, in fact, he ordered Arthas to secretly win over the demon hunter Illidan Stormrage, because it seemed that they had common interests!
In the end, the portal was opened, and Archimonde, the powerful demon lord of the Burning Legion, came to this continent. After stepping into this world again, Archimonde believed that the Lich King had no use value and wanted to get rid of him.
Soon after, this also confirmed Ner'zhul's original premonition.
Therefore, Arthas was ordered by the Lich King to rush to the continent of Kalimdor to secretly thwart the Burning Legion's plan. On the other side, Arthas successfully instigated Illidan to steal the skull of Gul'dan, making Illidan a powerful warrior.
demon, and with the help of Illidan's power, he got rid of Titodios, who had been monitoring Ner'zhul.
Once Tithodios dies, Ner'zhul's whereabouts will no longer be monitored by the Burning Legion!
With the joint efforts of humans, night elves, and orcs, the war situation in Kalimdor took a miraculous turn. Archimonde was besieged by many ancient spirits on Mount Hyjal and died among them. Of course, he secretly used Trip.
His son Arthas also contributed a lot, but this kind of thing cannot be brought to the forefront. After all, Ner'zhul is still nominally taking orders from the Burning Legion!
With the defeat of Archimonde, the remnants of the Burning Legion were also wiped out! The Lich King Ner'zhul, who saw the situation was not going well, immediately announced that the Scourge would break away from the rule of the Burning Legion. At this point, Ner'zhul's plan finally came to fruition.
Entering the most critical final stage.
While Arthas was busy purging the remnants of the Burning Legion and expanding the strength of the Scourge, Illidan Stormrage, who had been exiled by the night elves, was invited by Kil'jaeden, who lured Illidan to join the Burning Legion.
Legion, promising to give him great power, but as a condition, Kil'jaeden asked him to destroy the Lich King Ner'zhul!
After careful consideration, Illidan finally could not resist the temptation and agreed to Kil'jaeden's invitation. However, due to Ner'zhul's majesty, he did not dare to directly destroy Ner'zhul. He needed a handy tool -
-The Eye of Sargeras, he wants to use the power of the Eye of Sargeras to destroy Ner'zhul!
After Illidan obtained the Eye of Sargeras, and was about to use the Eye of Sargeras to destroy the entire Northrend continent where Ner'zhul was, Illidan's brother, Malfurion, appeared.
Malfurion, who is the archdruid, believes that even if the purpose is to eliminate the Scourge, it cannot be at the expense of the entire continent of Northrend. Is it necessary to use nuclear bombs to attack civilians indiscriminately in order to eliminate a certain leader?
Therefore, Malfurion stopped Illidan, destroyed the Eye of Sargeras, and banished Illidan.
Afterwards, Illidan fled to the broken world of Draenor in order to escape Kil'jaeden's punishment. However, despite this, Kil'jaeden still found him and ordered him to attack Northrend immediately and destroy the wizard.
Demon King!
In desperation, Illidan
They had no choice but to bite the bullet and launch a general attack on Northrend.
Soon, the Lich King Ner'zhul discovered that Illidan was heading towards Northrend, so he immediately ordered Arthas to return to the rescue. He must return to the Frozen Throne before Illidan and intercept Illidan. If Illidan
Dan arrived at the Frozen Throne before Arthas, and Ner'zhul's entire plan came to nothing!
Finally, Arthas got ahead of Illidan and successfully intercepted Illidan at the foot of the iceberg where the Frozen Throne is located!
In front of him is the final obstacle to Arthas's trip - Illidan Stormrage, who has transformed into a demon, known as the Demon Hunter!
Under the frozen mountain, the demon hunter and the death knight started a one-on-one fight to the death. Frostmourne and Azzinoth were at hand-to-hand combat. This was a shocking battle that made ghosts and gods cry. After an earth-shattering duel,
Arthas became the final victor, and the defeated Illidan and his cronies fled back to Outland in haste.
Although Alsace won the final victory, he only breathed his last breath. It was his perseverance and tenacity that allowed him to win!
In the end, Alsace was alone, stooped and staggering forward on the mountain road of the Frozen Throne. At this time, there was no joy of victory in him? No arrogance at all.
In the overwhelming arrogance of the heroes, there is not even a trace of the arrogance of the king of the undead! What appears in front of you is a lonely man who is dying of torture by fate and curse, and is being exhausted and dragged to the end of his destiny.
Those painful and helpless memories were repeated over and over again in his mind, just like flashbacks. These memories were the tragedy of his life.
Alsace ignored the voice that always lingered in his mind. It was the Alsace of the past, the kind and just Alsace. It was the only trace of conscience left in Alsace's heart. However, the Alsace of the past
Si failed to stop him from crowning himself the Ice Crown.
Finally, the new Lich King was born - Arthas!
When I saw Arthas holding Frostmourne and sitting firmly on the throne, the whole world seemed to be isolated from him, letting the wind and snow cover his body without moving at all!
This kind of lonely and desolate artistic conception, combined with the bleak and desolate victory elegy, echoes constantly on the top of the iceberg, just like the Frozen Throne standing between the ice sea!
A generation of kings was born!
The king is destined to be lonely. Perhaps the king is far less glorious than he looks on the outside. While enjoying the admiration of thousands of people, he is also suffering from the tragic experiences along the way!
Next, Arthas sat on the Frozen Throne and began a protracted war with Ner'zhul over control of his body.
At first, Ner'zhul had more advantages because he had enjoyed the power of the Lich King for a longer time than Arthas. Neither his proficiency in the power of the Lich King nor his depth of understanding of the power of the Lich King were the same.
Alsace can compare!
However, Arthas's character was more resolute and tenacious. Later, he discovered the weakness in Ner'zhul's soul, which was that Ner'zhul felt guilty for leading the orcs to serve the Burning Legion!
On the other hand, Alsace himself had already buried all his humanity and guilt. His murder of his father, his massacre of innocent people, and all his betrayals - he could no longer feel any grief.
In this way, through Ner'zhul's mental trauma, Arthas completely shattered Ner'zhul's will, defeated Ner'zhul's soul, and gained complete control over the power of the Lich King.
The Lich King is officially born!
Looking at the entire development process of Alsace, the first impression given is one of tragedy. A paladin who yearned for peace and vowed to protect his kingdom ended up going into darkness due to lack of power! But in addition to tragedy, there is also power.