Chapter 0980 ? Alsace's redemption (2)?(1/3)
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When the noise and noise in the auditorium of Hogwarts Castle gradually subsided, when a "white devil" did not plan to continue to meddle in other people's business and quiet down to watch the movie, about an hour later, when the teachers and students present were a little impatient to watch, the paladins of Uther's Silver Hand Knights, including the last two warriors Hermione Granger and Harry Potter, finally arrived at the magnificent city of Lordaeron, outside the city of Stantholm, and successfully joined the army that had long been camping here with the Prince of Alsace, who had not seen for many days.
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Arthas did not care about Jaina's behavior of rushing towards the little witch Hermione to welcome the other party. Although he knew the price and contributions the little wizards paid for Lordaeron, he, who was worried about other things, did not care about them. Instead, he looked at the old paladin who jumped off the horse and walked towards him with a cold face.
When the battle in Fireplace Valley ended and Uther rescued Arthas and smashed the undead's attack, he led his infantrymen and Jaina to take a shortcut to Stantamsom, and stayed outside Stantamsom for a few days.
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"I'm glad you chose to come to Stantamme as soon as possible, Uther, I thought you might not come..."
However, I don’t know why, but Arthas’s current mood seems a little wrong. Not only does his expression be cold, but his tone of speaking is also accompanied by a gun and a stick. He seems to be very dissatisfied with Uther and others’ behavior late? Of course, it may also be because of other things, but no matter what it is, everyone present, including the generals of the Silver Hand can hear it:
It seems that the crown prince of Lordaeron, His Highness Alsace, was very dissatisfied with Lord Uther, or all of them?
“!!”
"Note your tone, child, even though you are a prince, as a paladin, I am also your elder and your teacher. This is how you speak to me?"
Uther didn't understand Alsace's attitude towards him now, so he was stunned for a moment and directly gave up the idea of saluting the other party that he had just planned to salute, and then stood there, staring at the other party with a few steps away from him.
He didn't understand that they had rushed to the Fireplace Valley from Dalong County, and marched thousands of miles from the Fireplace Valley through Andorhal and the Korlin intersection, and walked through most of the Dongtirisfalin land before finally reaching Stantam. The march lasted for more than a month. He Uther and his Paladins of the Silver Hand did not complain. What qualifications did the other party have to speak to him in that tone?
Besides, let alone the other party, the young boy, even King Terenas has always respected him very much, so he didn't understand and didn't know what the other party was making a fuss?
"All right……"
"Sorry! Uther, I lost my composure. I forgot what I just said..."
Alsace, who was stunned for a moment and found that his speech was indeed a bit inappropriate, quickly reacted, and then had to sigh heavily, then turned around and looked at the towering city wall of Stantome.
Now, although there was still a blue-bottomed gold-edged lion flag of their Lordaeron and a badge flag representing the royal family flying there, he knew that in the near future, this Stantome would no longer belong to their Lordaeron.
"Alsace!"
"What's wrong here? I discovered that you seem to have sent troops to block the main city gate in the south and prevent citizens from entering and leaving. What's going on?"
After taking a few steps forward, walking to Alsace, standing not far away, and looking in the direction of Stantosom for a while, Uther discovered an amazing fact, that is:
Arthas seemed to have sent a large number of soldiers to block the city gate, and there were many soldiers eyeing the city wall. Moreover, he could see that the soldiers were not defending outside the city wall, but mostly facing the city. If you think about it again, if the other party did not drive the soldiers into the military camp in the city, but instead set up camp here outside the city gate, it seemed that something terrible really happened here?!
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"Listen, Uther, you may have a few more things to do about this plague..."
With the other party, he silently looked at the magnificent city, and after looking at Stantamme for a while, finally, Alsace spoke:
"Do you know?"
"Uther, you're late... In fact, I'm like you, all of us are late..."
"After my investigation over the past few days, the grains polluted by the undead plague in Andorhar have long been transported to Stantam, and have been sold and distributed. The soldiers who were originally guarding the city and the least majority of citizens have been infected..."
"Although they don't seem to have changed now, they can't find out... But, please believe me, you must have seen the battle report in Fireplace Valley, so I'm very sure now that it's only a matter of time before they transform into the dead."
When Alsace thought of this, his expression became gloomy again.
You should know that the reason why Stantam is called Lordaeron's Northern Pearl is enough to prove how huge it is! And here, even without statistics, the original residents and refugees who fled in the surrounding areas will have at least 200,000 or 300,000 or more! And there are so many people in Stantam, once the undead plague completely breaks out and spreads, Alsace dares not imagine the terrible scene!
They all know very well that not only those infected with the plague will become undead after death, but those killed by the undead will also become undead. Now, here, together with the people brought by Uther, there will be less than 6,000 troops. What will they use to fight against the undead with hundreds of thousands?
By then, everything will be irreversible...
Under the invasion of the terrifying number of undead spirits, ordinary local troops and farmers will not be opponents of the evil undead spirits at all. I am afraid that the situation in the entire Dongtisfalin land will be out of control, and the Sitisfalin land will be difficult to defend. Most of the land in the Kingdom of Lordaeron will be completely destroyed, and even the capital of Lordaeron, even the Hindland, Ultrarank and Silver Song Forest will be attacked by that terrible undead plague. By then, everything here will probably be finished!
"What?!"
"How could this happen...Arsace, do you have any solutions?"
When Uther was so scared that he was shocked and asked directly without any composure.
On the way to Stantam, he saw the environment around the main road and the abandoned farms, and he thought that the situation here would not be very good, but he didn't even think that the situation here would be so bad?
At the same time, many people around who heard the conversation between the two, the Paladin generals of the Knights of the Silver Hands, Hermione and Harry, who had a gloomy expression, looked at them, and wanted to know what they could say.
"way?"
"Oh……"
Arthas shook his head in pain, then held the hammer of justice in his hand tightly, and stared blankly in the direction of Stantosom.
for a long time,
As if he had made a decision, he turned around resolutely and looked at the Uther's messenger of light beside him...
He has thought a lot in the past few days, and has been thinking a lot for a long time. If he has plenty of time and sufficient troops, there are indeed many ways, such as: identification, isolation and treatment, etc.
But in the present situation where Lordaeron had no time and opportunity to react, the only way he could think of was to successfully prevent the situation from moving in the worst direction and save his kingdom and save Lordaeron's millions of people:
"Uther..."
“The whole city must be purified!!”
finally,
Arthas resolutely said the way he had just circled in his mind and had never dared to say it, that was - massacre of the city!
This is the fastest, most efficient, and the only way he can think of in the past few days, and the only way to stop the terrible undead plague from continuing to spread on the land of Lordaeron!!
“!!”
"Are you crazy? Alsace?!"
"How did you think of doing this? No! I object to your decision, there must be something else!"
Not beyond Arthas' expectations at all, the upright Paladin Uther LIGHT, the messenger of Light, refuted his decision without thinking, and attracted more generals to watch here.
"Crazy? Maybe..."
"So Uther, that's why I was angry with you just now! Because you came late, I was late, and we were all late!!"
"Now, we probably don't have time to find a way!"
"Based on the time when Andorhal's food arrived in Stantosom, it is not difficult to calculate based on what happened in the Fireplace Valley. Those terrible undead plagues should have erupted within these two days! Just within this Stantosom, which may have hundreds of thousands of people!"
"We have to do that, we have no choice!!"
Arthas roared hysterically, and this was the reason why he was not only unhappy after seeing Uther's arrival, but also lost control of his emotions and couldn't help but speak directly and ridicule the other party.
Because he is angry with Uther, with his own, with everyone!
Of course, more of it is the endless indignation of the evil spirits, the curse of the plague that spreads the plague and the fearful demon king Marganis mentioned in the information of the Kaolin intersection!!
"No!"
"Absolutely no! We can think about it again, believe me, Alsace, we will definitely have other solutions!!"
Obviously, Uther was also a little anxious, but it was definitely impossible to let an upright paladin go to massacre the city, not to mention that in his own kingdom and his own city, was it the same thing that slaughtered his own compatriots?
So, although he subconsciously knew that the situation was not good, Uther, who was upset, firmly rejected Arthas' proposal and said that he would not do that kind of crazy thing.
"Damn it!"
"Uther! I, Arthas, in the name of the future king, I order you to lead your troops into the city with me, kill all the residents of Stansom, burn the bodies and prevent any possibility of them becoming undead!!"
His temper had become increasingly irritable. After hearing Uther's two rejections, Arthas finally broke out and issued the seemingly crazy but had to do that in front of countless people.
"Nation, in the name of the king?"
"No! Arthas, you are not the king yet. Even if you are, I will not follow such a crazy order!!"
After a moment of silence, Uther finally shook his head firmly and rejected the other party's order.
As he said, Arthas was just a prince without real power. All the other party could order was the other party's leadership, the more than 2,000 troops who came out of the Fireplace Valley and the defenders controlled after they came to Stantosom. The Uther and the Paladins of the Silver Hand only followed the orders of King Terenas!
In Stantam, the Paladin of Silver Hand only listens to him, and whether he wants to listen to Arthas' orders is his personal choice. He can choose to obey or refuse. No one can pick out the faults in terms of legal principles or military regulations.
"Are you sure what you are talking about?"
"Uther, I can even regard it as treason based on your actions just now!!"
He stared at the other party with gritted teeth. After seeing that the other party was also fearless and looked at him for a while, he had no choice but to force the arrest of the other party, because the army brought by the other party was far stronger than his, and he seemed to be unable to defeat the other party's Alsace, so he could only threaten again with words.
"Treason?"
"Arsace, are you crazy, do you know what you're doing?"
And treason...
That kind of crime is not something that the other party can impose on him casually without any utterance! Moreover, Uther also knew that King Terenas Minaisheil would definitely have his own judgment and would know the right or wrong of what he, the leader of the Knights of the Silver Hands, is doing now, so he is not worried about the false crimes the other party said.
"Alsace!"
"You are heading towards a very dangerous road now, not what I want to see, nor what your father, King Terenas Minaihill, wants to see. I hope it's better to be cautious before you decide how to do it?"
If the plague in Stantolmuli had begun to break out and the people inside had turned into undead zombies, then nothing was said. As long as the other party gave an order, Uther would just copy the hammer and go into the city and start working. Even if he fought with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of undead inside for ten days and ten nights, he would never say a word.
But, it's not possible yet...
Because, Stantome is still fine now, at least it looks good! Before the plague broke out completely, before the citizens inside became undead, no rational leader who was not blinded by anger should have issued that terrible and crazy order to massacre the city, even if that order seems to be the most beneficial to Lordaeron!
Especially when Arthas was the crown prince of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, he should not issue such crazy orders! However, what should be paid attention to in governing the country and governing the people? That should not be explained to the other party by Uther. That is where King Terenas has the right to enter. Uther will definitely not interfere too much. He is just the other party's paladin mentor, not the court teacher.
To be continued...