The Great Thief - Chapter 905

Chapter 905: 905
Baron Rivendare was enraged; he must have thought that fighting was a very noble matter . Even after turning into an Undead Paladin, he had still retained his pride .


He didn't expect someone to be so shameless .
Not only had Lu Li interrupted a civilized conversation, he had also appeared behind him and used Cheap Shot .
Despite the courage that Lu Li had shown, he wasn't the kind of person to lower himself just because he was angry .
Before the dagger could cut him, the Baron teleported behind Azure Sea Breeze, which gave him a bit of a scare .
The battle had officially begun!
Baron Rivendare was a Death Knight, and players rarely came into contact with this profession . Although many Paladin players could trigger the Death Knight quest early on, most of them didn't fully complete the chain of quests to become one .
According to the official definitions, a Death Knight was just a human Warrior, Paladin or Orc that admired the Shamanism of the ancient Draenor World .


They either accepted the call of darkness and gave up their glorious past to sell their souls, or were helplessly resurrected and enslaved after being killed by the Lich King . In short, they were all given eternal strength .
In the same way that there were rare races like the Pandaren, Worgen and Goblins, the Death Knights and Monks were popular professions in the west, but only a small number of players managed to become them .
Hundreds of years ago, the simple and harmonious Draenor World was inhabited by a group of Orcs who admired simple Shamanism .
Before the darkness fell, the Demon Deceiver Kil'Jaeden lured the old Shadowmoon tribe to sacrifice Ner'zhul and abandon Shamanism, which advocated for the use of natural elements . This created the first Warlock that used chaotic arcane power .
After his subordinates were given dark power and eternal life, he became a wicked creature that lived on in the Blood Shadow Valley with a bloodthirst known as Gorefiend .
This dark Strength continued to spread among the Orc tribes, and the Shamans eventually accepted the new doctrines . The simple Orc race gradually became more corrupted and their society which was once driven by heroic warriors and wise shamans collapsed .
The Orcs began to drink the blood of the demons and started killing the innocent Draenei .

Although Ner'zhul became the leader of the Horde after forming various tribal alliances, he found that the bloodthirsty way of the demons was ineffective and refused to work with them .
The demons then found a young apprentice, Gul'dan, to create a Shadow Council and replace Ner'zhul as leader of the Horde .
Gul'dan led the Orc army through the Dark Portal to launch an attack on Azeroth and its World Alliance .
After their defeat, Ner'zhul returned to save his Orc compatriots who were enslaved in Azeroth . He led the Blackwater Marsh army through the Dark Portal to wage war on the Alliance Army, but was eventually defeated .
Once again, he used the power of darkness to open a number of doors that led into the Twisting Nether . He led his subordinates to flee into them, hoping that they could escape into a new world .
In the Twisting Nether, the Demon Legion was waiting for him . As punishment was acting against the will of the demons, he and his subordinates were stripped of their flesh, but their souls were persevered and tortured . Under the torture, Ner'zhul was once again corrupted . He was given a new strength and was frozen before the throne at the top of Northrend, becoming the Lich King .
His trusted subordinates, the Gorefiends, became Death Knights and the Lich .
These were the first generation of Death Knights .
The second generation was actually made up of humans, who were led by Prince Arthas .
A number of adventurous humans who lived in the mainland of Lordaeron used part of the fleet to explore the northern part of Northend, establishing towns in the area . The Lich King Ner'zhul quietly chose to kidnap some of these humans and conducted experiments on them . Eventually, he managed to establish a skeleton regiment of a reasonable size .
They ran into the Arachnid Kingdom that lived deep underground for tens of thousands of years . The brave Arachnid army attacked the earliest Scourge regiment that had just been established .
Because the Arachnids were immune to the mind control of Ner'zhul, this battle almost caused himto mobilize all the Lichs and Death Knights that were still loyal to him . In the battle, there were a great number of Arachnids died, and their bodies were manipulated by his Gorefiends . As they continued to fall, the number of Scourge increased . With this tactic, Ner'zhul finally won the war and achieved dominance of Northrend .
He deceived the Mage Kel'Thuzad, who had similar ambitions, and created a cult sect in the country of Lordaeron which continually grew in believers and spread various plagues .
Word of this eventually reached the Lordaeron government at the time . The Paladin Arthas and his mentor, Uther, were ordered to find out what was happening .
The young prince fell into one trap after another, which grew his hatred of the Scourge and finally led him to embark on a journey to the Northrend . There was no turning back from this journey, as he pulled out the cursed Frostmourne and sacrificed his subordinates to defeat the fearsome Demon Mal'Ganis of the Scourge . With his mission completed, he was left alone and wandered around aimlessly in the cold .
After a few months without any news, Arthas returned triumphantly and the plagues receded . In the celebrations, he met up with his father and personally killed him . This disrupted the local politics, and heralded the start of the second generation of Dark Knights .
This was the origin of the second generation of Dark Knights and also the height of their power . During this period, Arthas defeated Uther, the invincible leader of the Silver Hand .
However, there was an important point to be made here . A pure Paladin could not be summoned by a Necromancer, even after death .
The Strength of a Paladin came from their soul, but Uther's defeat made his Paladins lose their loyalty to the faith . All the converted Paladins had actually changed their minds before dying .
Many of the Paladins died in anger, despair and fear . This meant that they could be summoned to join the ranks of the second generation of Death Knights .
The remaining Silver Hand members then either established or joined the Scarlet Crusade .
The Scarlet Crusade was splendid for a while and blossomed like a flower . Its leader, Mograine, forged the Ashbringer from the Shadow Crystals of the Draenei people who had been captured during the Orc invasion . Later, he was sold out by his son when he raided the city of Stratholme and was slain, filled with anger, sorrow and vengeance . He joined the Death Knights, and from that point onwards, the main force of the Scarlet Crusade was devastated as they were controlled by the Scourage and the Dreadlord .
All this had happened prior to the emergence of the sad character of Illidan .