There is no doubt that this is part of the power that Roy passed on to Alsace through Frostmourne, allowing Alsace to experience what the Demon King level is.
Arthas was intoxicated by this powerful power. He now felt that if he wanted to, he could even freeze the entire continent of Lordaeron with one blow.
It's just that this kind of power comes and goes quickly. Roy let him experience it and quickly took back this power. This feeling of suddenly falling back to the original point made Alsace very uncomfortable, as if all of a sudden Become empty.
Looking at Frostmourne in his hand, Arthas was not as happy as he was at the beginning. He was afraid of comparison in everything. If Arthas still felt that the power given to him by the Lich King Ner'zhul was very powerful before, he no longer felt that it was powerful. Thinking about it this way, a more powerful existence easily crushed the shock that Ner'zhul brought to him.
"The King of Demons?" Arthas suddenly understood why those warlocks liked to summon demons so much. Even ordinary demons were already very powerful, let alone the one behind Frostmourne. Demon King.
"What...should I do to gain your power?" Arthas asked Roy through Frostmourne: "Do you want me to betray the Lich King?"
"No! No need!" Roy said: "On the contrary, you can just complete the order Ner'zhul gave you as usual. Soon, he will ask you to find the Book of Medivh in Dalaran. Then let you use the Book of Medivh to summon Archimonde... You follow all the steps, but after summoning Archimonde, you must continue to hold the Book of Medivh and find a suitable one. When the opportunity is right, activate the Book of Medivh again and summon me!"
"Yes, I understand, Lord Osiris!" Arthas breathed a sigh of relief. This task sounded easy.
"That's it. Ner'zhul doesn't know my highest authority over Frostmourne, so let him continue not knowing!" Roy said: "You continue to obey him, and the power you get from him has already been It’s enough for you to complete your mission, and when I come to Azeroth, I will give you even more powerful power!”
After saying that, Roy released the control of Frostmourne, and the boundless whisper of Frostmourne echoed in Arthas' mind again.
Although the exchange only lasted less than a quarter of an hour, Alsace felt as if he had experienced a lifetime. When he came to his senses, he couldn't help but let out a long breath.
Deep in his heart, there was both greed for power and fear and cowardice of such a powerful being as the Demon King. Faced with the covetousness of the Scourge and the Burning Legion, Arthas knew that Lordaeron was the Unable to resist this powerful force, undead monsters and demons will sweep across the entire Eastern Kingdom. Every time he thinks of such a scene, Arthas feels powerless, and at the same time he is glad that his surrender is correct...
If you can't defeat it, then join. Lordaeron would be destroyed in the hands of the Scourge and the Burning Legion rather than being destroyed in your own hands...
All kinds of negative thoughts kept interweaving in Alsace's mind, making his depravity deeper and deeper...
More than two months later, Arthas' ship docked, and he once again set foot on the land of Lordaeron and returned to his homeland. However, the homeland he once devoted himself to protecting could no longer attract Arthas' attention. No nostalgia for Sri Lanka.
The return of the prince made the entire people of Lordaeron feel joyful. The royal capital of Lordaeron rang crisp bells. The ceremony to welcome Arthas' return was so grand that the long carpet was even laid out. Outside the city gate, civilians spontaneously sprinkled flower petals on both sides of the road to welcome their hero's triumphant return.
Yes, hero! Under the help of King Terenas, the tragedy of Stratholme was covered up. Terenas exaggerated the devil's conspiracy. Sender's act of hunting down Mal'Ganis was described as a heroic act, and now, although only Arthas has returned, no one from the rest of the expeditionary force has mentioned it. People only know that Prince Arthas personally Kill Mal'Ganis and avenge Stratholme.
This is simply ironic. Uther and the paladins of the Knights of the Silver Hand, who really knew the inside story, were strictly bound by Terenas and were not allowed to tell the truth.
Terenas was very happy for Arthas' safe return, which meant that the heir to the kingdom was safe and sound. In fact, Terenas did not want Arthas to become an upright paladin like Uther, who would not be able to lead him. For a country, on the contrary, Alsace's decisive killing was what Terenas really wanted to see. In Terenas' view, some moral flaws were not a big problem at all.
So he arranged such a grand welcoming ceremony and waited for the arrival of his son in the palace.
However, he didn't know that Alsace at this moment was no longer the son he remembered. He had... become another person.
Alsace walked into the palace silently. Under the cover of his hood, no one could see his expression clearly, and naturally no one could detect the... coldness on his body! But after arriving in front of Terenas, Arthas still saluted the king, but the Frostmourne in front of him made Terenas feel a little weird no matter how he looked at it.
Not only that, the paladin armor decorated with lion and eagle heads that Alsace wore in the past is gone now, replaced by a set of armor that looks like a winter coat, with the uppers, knees and other parts of the cloak exposed. , or a gloomy decoration like a skull.
Although he felt that there were many changes in Alsace, Terenas did not pay too much attention to it. After all, he was in a very happy mood at the moment. He sat on the throne and said happily: "Ah, my child, I am very happy to see you. Returned safe and sound..."
However, Arthas didn't seem to hear him. He held the rune sword with both hands and lowered his head.
[You no longer have to sacrifice yourself for your people...]
Terenas was a little confused and called Arthas again.
[You no longer have to bear the heavy burden of the crown...]
[I have... arranged everything! 】
It is not known whether Frostmourne conveyed these thoughts to him, or whether Alsace came up with them himself, but after these thoughts, Alsace suddenly raised his head, stood up straight, and put on the hood on his head. He opened it, revealing his long golden hair with gray in it.
His eyes were sunken and his cheeks were thin, but his eyes were full of coldness!
Holding Frostmourne in hand, Arthas stepped forward in two strides and came to Terenas' throne. He stretched out his left hand to hold Terenas' shoulder.
"What are you doing? My child, what on earth are you doing!?" Terenas was confused and asked urgently. He looked at Alsace's cold eyes and suddenly felt an extremely bad feeling. .
"Inherit your throne, my father..."
After saying that, Frostmourne, which Arthas held in his right hand, pierced Terenas' body without hesitation...
Terenas fell, and the crown on his head clattered to the bottom of the throne. The blood stained on it left a dazzling mark on the carpet of the palace.
All the palace guards who witnessed this scene were shocked. They couldn't believe it anyway. Alsace actually killed his father with his own hands in front of everyone...
But after doing all this, Arthas held the blood-stained Frostmourne and strode out of the palace without looking back.
No one dared to stop him, and everyone was still in a dream-like state. This allowed Arthas to easily leave the royal capital, and waited until Uther and the Knights of the Silver Hand heard the news and came. By that time, Alsace had already disappeared.
The bell is still echoing, but at this moment, the bell has turned into a death knell, so desolate, so soul-stirring...
【This kingdom will be destroyed...】
[A new ruling order will be born among the ruins...]
[It will shake the foundation of everything in this world...]
[And I will be crowned king...]
Alsace was gone, but his act of patricide shocked everyone, especially Uther. When he was in Stratholme, he had already discovered that Alsace was becoming a stranger, but he ignored him anyway. Unexpectedly, Alsace would do such a heinous act.
But before they could arrest and attack Arthas, they discovered that the natural disaster and plague had already spread in the capital of Lordaeron.
This is the last gift that Alsace left to the people of the royal capital before he left...
Uther was completely helpless against the spread of the plague and could only evacuate the royal capital with the Knights of the Silver Hand and some surviving troops. They could not even save ordinary civilians because the plague spread too fast.
Just overnight, the capital of Lordaeron fell and became a city of death. The undead monsters transformed from the civilians attacked everywhere, driven by instinct, looking for the breath of the living in Lordaeron. Floating around.
As these undead monsters spread, they spread more natural disasters and plagues into the territory of Lordaeron, and the undead natural disasters began to sweep across the entire Kingdom of Lordaeron.
The glory of the past has now become nothing more than an empty shell...
Everything was happening just as Roy knew about history. Roy knew that the patricide was Ner'zhul's final test for Arthas, and Arthas was just as Ner'zhul expected. Completely depraved.
From this moment on, the former paladin Arthas has disappeared, replaced by the death knight Arthas, the Lich King's most powerful minion was born.
But what Ner'zhul probably doesn't know is that before Arthas became a minion, he had already become a... double agent...
(End of chapter)
