klisemfg Chapter 574 Mr. Bigworth
Chapter 574 Mr. Bigworth
Kel'Thuzad was the second-in-command of the Scourge, or more accurately, the true human archlich after the Lich King Ner'zhul.
Before Arthas became the new Lich King and was still a Death Knight, he personally intervened, destroying the alliance of the Seven Kingdoms and allowing the plague to spread across human territory...
Death descended upon the world of Azeroth, shattering the dream of the mighty Kingdom of Lordaeron becoming the future of the Empire. Even the last paradise of the High Elves, the Quel'Thalas Elven Empire, went from victory to decline, and the Sunwell fell.
It could be said that Kel'Thuzad, the necromancer archmage who was originally one of the top archmages of Dalaran and one of the six chairmen of the Kirin Tor, destroyed the world single-handedly.
The Kirin Tor have always considered it their duty to protect the order of Azeroth, believing that humans are the new masters of the Eastern Kingdoms, surpassing the High Elves and inheriting the flame of civilization... However, humans not only learned magic from the Elves, but also developed a desire to surpass them.
The brevity of life makes human magicians unwilling to die, and they dare to experiment with all kinds of dangerous powers.
Anton Danis, an elder of the Lawful Order, former Lord of Dalaran, an arcane archmage, and a top-tier ice archmage, discovered that his apprentice was obsessed with evil necromancy and abyssal magic. He angrily warned him that this was playing with fire and getting burned.
Anton Danis knew of the dangers of exploring necromancy and abyssal magic from ancient elven tomes...
After Medivh's death, access to the records in the Karazhan Vaults was completely cut off. Many mages could not obtain more powerful spellbooks and manuals, and could only explore and study other powers.
Before Kel'Thuzad was banished from Dalaran, he didn't have many friends, only a few like-minded disciples and a little cat, Mr. Bigglesworth...
Why didn't Kel'Thuzad, even after becoming an undead lich, turn Mr. Bigglesworth the kitten into an undead...?
It is said that this is because Mr. Bigworth was the favorite pet of Kel'Thuzad's only daughter.
Kel'Thuzad, heartbroken by the early death of his daughter, is said to want to find her spirit. However, even with his mastery of necromancy, he cannot resurrect his beloved daughter... Death seems irreversible.
No one can be brought back to life. Legend has it that only followers of the Holy Light can be resurrected by the Holy Light. Even if you send your daughter to a holy priest, the high-ranking priests and bishops will not help a mortal, no matter how much money Kel'Thuzad offers. Instead, they will disdain to help, saying that mortals have their own destiny.
In fact, aside from a few mysterious magical artifacts, death in Azeroth is an irreversible event.
Until a piece of millennia-old ice descended from the heavens, encasing the remains and remnant soul of Ner'zhul, along with the Crown of Domination, the Armor of Domination, and the rune-inscribed sword Frostmourne. This power of domination is the legendary three-piece set for brainwashing.
Whoever dons the crown of dominion can influence the spirits of the dead from the depths of their minds and souls...
Whoever dons the Death Domination Armor can feel the tipping point between the power of ice and the power of souls and bones...
Whoever plucks Frostmourne can use it to kill the living, extract their souls, control their bodies, and transform them into routers capable of receiving the power of the Crown of Domination...
The Lich King's three treasures were nothing special. The moment Arthas pulled out the Sorrow of the Lich King, it became a manipulated puppet, amplifying its desires and fears, indulging in illusions of killing and death, until it was summoned to the Frozen Throne and merged with the first Lich King, Ner'zhul.
The Lich King Arthas, whose body was a composite of two souls, had his physical form taken over by Ner'zhul. Logically, Arthas should have died, his body possessed. However, the High Lich Kel'Thuzad clearly sensed that the new Lich King was neither Arthas nor Ner'zhul, nor even a combination of the two. He seemed to be another life form, possessing both of their memories, yet its intentions remained vague...
As a subject, as prime minister, and as the de facto ruler of the Scourge, Kel'Thuzad has been fulfilling his duties ever since the day he swore allegiance to the Lich King, to the Scourge, and to the power of death.
Because the Lich King did indeed grant him power beyond that of a human necromancer, granting him immortality. As long as the phylactery remains, Kel'Thuzad can be reborn at any time.
Including the first time he was killed by Arthas when he was still in his human prince form, and the time he was resurrected by Arthas, the death knight who wielded Frostmourne, at the Sunwell, Kel'Thuzad didn't know how many times he had died and been resurrected. In any case, liches are immortal beings, essentially alternative soul beings that don't need a physical body.
Even so, Kel'Thuzad understood that neither he nor the king were immortal; the lich's phylactery was more important than the eunuch's treasure, and it had to be hidden away carefully...
That is the true essence of the soul, the initial step onto the path of a psychic...
Everything was related to that necromancy rune. Before the Council of Six members reported him before Dalaran's destruction, Kel'Thuzad had only shown curiosity about necromancy...
No one knows who Kel'Thuzad's wife was or how many women he actually had. It's just that when he was a court mage in Lordaeron, he met a female mage of equally extraordinary talent. Kel'Thuzad, under the pretext of discovering the power of a magical rune, gifted her...
As for what happened next, 50,000 words will be omitted here...
Kel'Thuzad recognized the low-level necromancy rune; it was that rune that gave him a beautiful daughter, and whose untimely death caused him to fall ill with grief...
In the face of life and death, in the pursuit of arcane magic, and in the contrast between the mysterious powers of abyssal magic and necromancy.
The learned Kel'Thuzad disdained merely following his teacher Antondanis in studying how to summon a few water elementals to spray water guns, and he also despised the arrogant high elf mages like Prince Kael'thas, the fire archmage who looked down on humans and rode around on a phoenix...
He was obsessed with the power of the soul, researching the fifth element of immortality...
Explore the power of life, and perceive the beauty and power of death.
In the ancient ruins discovered alongside the necromancy runes, more records and studies of necromancy and undead summoning magic were found... Kel'Thuzad, filled with doubt, found evidence of the lich's existence.
It even learned the truth about the Dalaran spatial rift nodes and the otherworldly demon incarnations that had appeared in the past, which ordinary people could not understand. Death magic was one of them in the abyss.
The fifth element, the soul, has a bug; it can be tempted by evil whispers.
Through his interactions with the undead and numerous inhumane experiments, Kel'Thuzad confirmed that soulless bodies could be manipulated... This research was quickly reported, by the ever-unfriendly, self-righteous Archmage Drendon...
The latter died alongside Archmage Anton Danis in the battle when Kel'Thuzad led the Death Knight Arthas into Dalaran, so everyone remembers the death of Anton Danis, the Water Elemental Summoner, the Lord of Dalaran.
One of the reasons is that Jaina erected a monument specifically for her teacher in Dalaran Memorial Square.
As for Drendon, he was forgotten. Whether his name was Drenkar or Drenkarren didn't matter. On the eve of the earth-shattering Battle of Mount Hyjal, Dalaran was crushed by Archimonde, the leader of the Burning Legion, who was a quasi-god.
The mages who died in battle led to the Burning Legion killing countless mortals, creating a chain reaction.
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The portal summoned by Arthas and Kel'Thuzad using the stolen artifacts marked the beginning of the Battle of Mount Hyjal and the tragic destruction of Dalaran.
That portal was used by the fleeing Blood Elf prince and Lady Nagavash, and it was from there that they escaped to Outland, which led to the Blood Elves' tragic current situation of constantly shifting allegiances.
Was the Lich King Ner'zhul the instigator?
After all, he had experience using the three artifacts to open a portal. Perhaps it was him, who had always hoped to break free from the Burning Legion's control, take revenge on the demons, and save the orcs? Kel'Thuzad heard his whispers when he was a human mage and came alone to the Frozen Throne in Northrend to receive the blessing. Ner'zhul promised to grant Kel'Thuzad eternal life.
The price was the lives of all mortals in Lordaeron and the human kingdoms.
This wasn't just part of Ner'zhul's plan; Ner'zhul was merely a helpless, remnant soul, filled with pain and sorrow. Even if he gained mind control abilities, it was only the effect of the three-piece set bonus...
The answer is still the Lord of Fear...
Along with the Scourge, who thought they had successfully merged with the Lich King, the Dark Queen Sylvanas, who had broken free of control, and the Death Knights of the Ebon Blade, who thought they were invincible, they were probably all being played with in the palm of someone's hand.
Let alone the bigwigs of the undead forces, even Sargeras, the leader of the Burning Legion and the Dark Titan, is probably just a big, dumb guy being led by the nose...