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Chapter 432 Time Freezes (2)
Twenty years after the opening of the Dark Portal!
(Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos - Part 3, 2003)
The Dark Portal has reopened... that is, opened for the second time. This time, Ner'zhul was persuaded by Talon and Bloodlord, the first death knights to escape from Azeroth, to reopen the Dark Portal in order to seize the Eye of Dalaran, the Scepter of Sargeras, and the Book of Medivh.
Talon & Bloodlord appears human but is actually an orc warlock. After his death in battle, he was resurrected by Gul'dan using new fel magic, taking a human body... becoming the first Death Knight...
The process of seizing the three artifacts went smoothly because Deathwing, the Black Dragon King, secretly cooperated with the Horde.
It sent its son Nefarian to control the orcs of Blackrock Spire, and its daughter Onyxia infiltrated Stormwind City to influence the political situation of the Kingdom of Stormwind under the guise of the Prestor family...
Sensing something was amiss, Khadgar, Turalyon, and others, intending to reclaim the artifact, decided to cross the Dark Portal and head straight for the orcs' stronghold.
Thus, in the eighth year since the Dark Portal opened, the five heroes of Stormwind led the elite of humanity through the Dark Portal and marched towards the orcish stronghold...
Here's the crucial part... Khadgar and the others went missing for a long time afterward. Because Ner'zhul, attempting to open a portal to other worlds using the power of the three artifacts, was unable to control the Titan-level power, directly causing the orcs' homeworld to collapse...
The original orc homeworld exploded, leaving only a large floating continent, which is now the Outer Realms...
To avoid impacting Azeroth, Khadgar and his allies chose to close the Dark Portal, even destroying it... From then on, the Alliance's five heroes' Outland expeditionary force was temporarily out of contact... Many years later, neither Turalyon nor the Son of Lothar were ever heard from again...
Until Khadgar of Dalaran returned first...
After the Dark Portal was closed a second time, or rather, forcibly destroyed once, the orcs began a history of exile and imprisonment on the continent of Azeroth... The new Horde was not established until more than a decade later...
It appears that the human race on the continent of Azeroth endured an arduous eight-year war against the orc invaders... which ultimately ended with the destruction of the Dark Portal.
(Lorraine's teacher believed that time flowed differently inside and outside the Dark Portal, otherwise the contradictory plot points would be inexplicable...~(*^▽^*)~)
In short, the chaotic war that erupted during the opening of the Dark Portal... ended with the mutual destruction of the human expeditionary heroes and the orcs' homeworld, the surrender and capture of many orcs in Azeroth, and a victory for the Alliance...
The Guardian Archmage Medivh has vanished from the world... The Alliance celebrates its victory, even reveling in orc gladiatorial combat! Many orcs have been enslaved...
However, in the long river of history, this opening of the Dark Portal was just one of many recorded openings by humankind...
A similar portal opened once before, ten thousand years ago, when the Well of Eternity exploded. The battle then was far more difficult than against the orcs; countless demigods perished, shadow elves died... and the world crumbled...
The Burning Legion's demonic invasion ten thousand years ago ended in failure.
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Unfortunately, demons cannot be killed; they will be resurrected in the Twisting Nether!
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Archimonde and Kil'jaeden, the commanders of the Burning Legion at the time, along with the pit lords, began plotting the next Burning Legion invasion. The orcish invasion arose because Kil'jaeden, the Deceiver, had taken advantage of the orcs' simple-minded, bloodthirsty, and savage nature...
They were able to gain the upper hand against the Draenei, former Eredar fugitives, which is why Kil'jaeden deliberately tricked the orc shaman Ner'zhul, inciting the orcs to attack the Draenei.
When Ner'zhul realized something was wrong, he discovered the truth.
After Kil'jaeden failed to seduce Ner'zhul, he chose Ner'zhul's apprentice, Gul'dan, who craved power, and bestowed upon him fel power. Gul'dan then tricked the orcs into drinking demon blood, thus initiating the Burning Crusade experiment.
Due to the resistance of the human alliance, Gul'dan failed to achieve the demon lord's plan. Ner'zhul indirectly destroyed the Burning Legion's temporary base, at the cost of the orcs' homeland being almost destroyed.
The cunning and shrewd Kil'jaeden decides to try a new approach, convinced that the fortress must be breached from within...
Archimonde, the Corruptor, scoffed, but he had no better way than to open a new portal...
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Between the 8th and 20th year after the opening of the Dark Portal...
(Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne - Human Edition 2004)
Kil'jaeden, in punishment for Ner'zhul's destruction of Outland, captured it from the Twisting Nether, skinned it alive, and extracted its soul...
Ner'zhul prayed for death, but Kil'jaeden the Deceiver forcibly stripped his soul, transforming it into a ghost... which he then wrapped in a piece of ice from the Twisting Nether and hurled towards the north pole of Azeroth.
Ice fell to the top of Northrend, and with the aid of the Helm of Domination offered by the Dreadlord, Ner'zhul was used as a vessel for his mind, beginning to spread the power of death... Ner'zhul was transformed into the first lich... or more accurately, the Lich King, or even more precisely, half of the Lich King's soul...
A tool controlled by a demon, an enhanced version of a mind controller, commonly known as WiFi...
Soon after the Dark Portal opened, a plague of undead appeared in Lordaeron, and was most severe in the territory of Lordaeron.
By this time, the Prince of Lordaeron had become a powerful human paladin... He was ordered to investigate the truth behind the plague and quickly found the mastermind behind its spread: Kel'Thuzad, the necromancer banished from Dalaran, and his cult of the Damned.
Kel'Thuzad was the first powerful mage from Dalaran to willingly respond to Ner'zhul's whispered spirit and become a lich...
Prince Arthas of Lordaeron personally dealt with Kel'Thuzad, but he failed to stop the spread of the plague. More and more ordinary people were infected, and fear spread endlessly.
The seeds of plague have been sown and cannot be eradicated...
As Arthas fought against the undead plague, he became increasingly anxious and distressed, and he had to personally kill many infected soldiers... When he saw that tens of thousands of civilians in Stratholme might have already been infected, Arthas resolutely decided to personally purify the entire city and kill all the infected in advance.
His teacher, Uther the Lightbringer, the first human paladin, and his girlfriend Jaina both objected to his decision, but he persisted, ultimately leading to their separation...
Arthas slaughtered all the civilians in Stratholme and was then provoked by the dreadlord Mal'Ganis, who lured him to the Northrend continent...
Unaware of the trap, Arthas led his army across the sea northward...
They fell into the trap step by step!
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