Return of the Death Knight

By Joshua Maldonado

An ordinary and uncontested player is forced to clean up the mess left by his best friend's departure.

When he is forced into a desperate situation, he gets the last artifact left by the Lich King in this world.

He will return as a vengeful spirit.

He will start a new era of gaming.

He will become a new Lich King.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joshua Maldonado
• Release date: Mar 28, 2024
• ISBN: 9798869292056

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Copyright ©2024 By Joshua Maldonado,

All rights reserved.

No parts of this book may be copied, distributed, or published in any form without permission from the publisher.

This is a work of fiction in which all events and characters in this book are completely imaginary. Any resemblance to actual people is entirely coincidental.

Ebook ISBN: 979-8-8692-9205-6

Cover designed by Joshua Maldonado

Edited by Joshua Maldonado

### Wedge One: The Sorrow of Shadows ###

Su Mu stood on the Ancient Road, and the Ice Crown Fortress was on the top of the mountain not far ahead.

The road broke, as if a huge sword had swung down unmercifully from the firmament, cutting the road off at the waist, and the huge break made it impossible for him to pass through.

The Frost Giant Dragon hissed uneasily as he sat down, below the Ancient Road was the Land of Buried Bones, and countless undead were hissing underneath. Su Mu woke them up completely as he rode past on the Frost Dragon, and the residual power of the Shadow's Sorrow on his back activated the violent restlessness within them.

Since entering the Northrend region, the bitter cold wind swept in, Su Mu was caught off guard, riding the Frost Dragon from the air and fell headfirst into the forbidden sea. The good thing is that there are no other monsters in this area except for the North Sea Beasts, which are huge and sparsely distributed, and can be avoided when seen from afar. Su Mu swam in the Forbidden Sea for twenty minutes, drank all the speed swimming potions on his body, and finally stepped onto the land of Northside.

The cold wind was so fierce that it could cause damage even when it blew on his body, and a single violent impact could take away more than 20 points of his life value. The almost uninterrupted impact of the cold wind made it impossible for Su Mu to get out of the combat state, and without external assistance, his life value couldn't be restored. Although he had the Withering Twist skill, which could be used to restore his life, the energy needed to perform the skill couldn't be gathered in this state, so Withering Twist had no effect. When his life value dropped to about 20%, Su Mu took out a bottle of special effect healing potion from his package and drank it.

Having stood here on the Ancient Road for more than an hour, Su Mu was waiting, waiting for her to arrive.

There were still 13 bottles of Special Effect Healing Potion in the package, left over from last night's preparation. The undercover Emotional Alliance player sent back information that the Wind God Throne's rare boss Elemental Lord Orkila might refresh that night, but the Emotional Alliance was going to go to the Isle of Conquest to duel with Righteous Battle World that night, so it was a chance to pick up the pieces. But Su Mu led the group out of the south gate of Twin Moon City, and before they could leave the Surge Wind Grassland, the guild's five elite groups were surrounded and killed by more than ten times the number of players there.

Su Mu closed his eyes and took a breath of the cold air, the elites of the two guilds, Emotional Alliance and Righteous Battle World, were basically present during last night's battle.

Three days ago, a post appeared in the forums saying that a Legendary level two-handed axe, Shadow's Sorrow, had appeared in the game. It was accompanied by a picture, claiming that there was a picture of the truth, and the fire was placed at the top.

The guild has a player found after the guild channel told Su Mu, Su Mu heard, logged into the forum. The attached picture is the scene of him standing in the auction house buying and selling things with the Sorrow of Shadows on his back, Su Mu looked at the picture with some sadness, in fact, this picture is slightly different angle is estimated to reflect a little bit more of his handsomeness, at the moment are next to the partial head of the girl snatched half of the scenery. The picture is real, but the accompanying text on the introduction of the Shadow's Sorrow is false. The article says that Shadow's Sorrow has an unbelievable attribute of 2054-3082 physical damage, which is bullshit! It's only 963-1446 Physical Damage, which is a lot higher than current conventional weapons, but it's not unbelievable. Saying that Shadow Wound comes with a bonus skill that allows you to become the next Witch King after using it is also bullshit! The weapon you're talking about is the original Frost Sorrow, right? Su Mu, not to mention that up to now is not even the king of meow, incidental skills can also be activated after the use of the remnants of the power of the frost mourning, the remnants of the power in the end, Su Mu held in the hands of the so far has not been used. The accompanying text also said that holding the Sorrow of Shadows will be able to order the world's undead to listen to its orders! Bah! He went to the Silent Graveyard the other day to single brush the undead boss Ajamand's Shadow when he was pushed to the ground and repeatedly rubbed to come.

The person who posted the post does not understand the Shadow of Sorrow, just out of thin air, but the imagination is amazing, is a talent. Su Mu took a look at the forum ID, Wanted small steamed buns, I do not know and game ID is the same, turn back can look up, see if you can pull into the guild to do a copywriting publicity.

Su Mu exited the forum and didn't care much about the false post, but this post was violently flaming with 100,000 hits per hour.

That night, Su Mu received a greeting from Sword Setting World: Brother, is Shadow's Sorrow really in your hands?

The post did not disclose the Shadow of Sorrow in the hands of whom, but the players in the guild still know, Su Mu does not believe that Jian Ding world did not plant undercover agents in their own guild, this kind of lack of morality can not be only their own to do it out and he can not do it out, at least Su Mu to the Jian Ding world's guild arranged for undercover agents, and still two.

Yeah. Su Mu admitted frankly, unable to hide it after all.

Is it really that powerful? Sword Setting World asked again.

Su Mu was dumbfounded, already able to imagine the green light coming out of the eyes of Jian Dingwang at this moment, at least he was the head of a group, how can he have this kind of judgment?

Admirable, right? Su Mu secretly laughed while writing the message, We'll piggyback on you guys when our guild unifies the server later!

It was only after half a minute that I got two words from Sword Setting World's reply, Looking forward to it.

Until last night, Su Mu led the team out, even he including 125 people in the Surge Wind Grassland was besieged, the plague potion with engineering ** shells, and a variety of long-range skills, the other side is just a wave, this side of all the people will die to the resurrection point, and even the opportunity to counterattack did not find.

This was a purposeful interception, which Su Mu realized when he saw the guild logo of Righteous Battle World in the crowd across the street, because of the Shadow's Sorrow in his hand. If that was the case, then the corpse and the surroundings of this resurrection point must have been ambushed by them. Su Mu didn't dare to issue instructions in the guild channel, only the message was privately conveyed to the other four leaders, who then gave it down in the team channel, and together they changed the resurrection point to resurrect.

All of them ran in a soul state from the resurrection point of the Surge Wind Grassland to the resurrection point of the Western Wilderness, resurrecting in a weakened state, only to be surrounded and killed again the moment they resurrected.

Su Mu understood that the opposite side had enough manpower and wanted to bury all their living.

If you don't have a way out, you'll fight with your back to the ground, and who else is willing to bow down and become a grandson! The graveyard is the place where the corpses of all the people are located, waited for 10 minutes, until the weak state disappears, resurrected and fought with them to the death. The enemy was still several times larger, and the result was another one-sided massacre.

It's too much of a bully!

Su Mu gripped the Lament of Shadows tightly.

This legendary weapon originated from the Frost Lament, which was shattered in a battle thirteen years ago, leaving a hilt and two blades. Su Mu brought the sword hilt back from the time copy thirteen years ago, and it originally belonged to a quest prop.

The game is set thirteen years ago in a time of darkness, when the entire world was fighting against the legions of demons pouring in from the twisted void torn from the Forbidden Sea. Darian, the then High Lord of Blackfront Fortress, which belonged to the city of Twin Moons, found the Frost Sorrow from Northrend, brought it back to Twin Moons, and cast the forbidden magic of the Death Knights, the Army of the Dead, with the power of the Frost Sorrow in the already dilapidated Twin Moons at the time. The army of the dead skill needs to use the remains of corpses to perform, at that time, the most scarce thing outside the city was the remains of corpses, incomplete remains even in the darkness under the power of each other to put together, combining into a horrifying undead monsters stood up. But the number of corpses summoned up by the power of Frost Sorrow far exceeded what Darian's power could control, and the army of the undead spiraled out of control. After tearing apart all the demons in the city of Twin Moons, the army of the undead began to sniff at the scent of the living and turned to attack the guards and civilians who had survived in the city. By the time the power of the forbidden magic was completely exhausted and all the corpses had fallen again, the ground of Twin Moon City was almost entirely dyed red with blood. Grand Lord Darien of the Black Blade knelt in agony amidst the remains of his broken arm for a day and a night. The heavy rain that fell from the sky washed away the congealed blood on the ground, and the blood-red rainwater gathered into a stream that flowed under his knees.

Su Mu dressed in a piece of pieces in the Darien squatting behind a day and a night, do not know what to say. Before coming to consider the war factor, equipment dropped no place to replenish, specially in the black front fortress casting hall extra enough to buy a set, do not want to this moment on the body is still incomplete.

Frostbite was thrown on the ground in front of Darian, the rain having completely drowned it.

In that copy of time, he was only there as a spectator, unable to influence the ending, with a task given by the current High Lord of Blackfront Fortress, Bivis: to bring back the hilt of the Frostbite before the trial of the High Lord.

The last person to come and take away Darian was Leah Delin, the Paladin Commander of the Secret Temple of Holy Light, who angrily slammed the Hammer of Naru in her hand heavily into the Frostgrave before leaving. At that time, the Frost Sorrow had already run out of power and could not recover in a short period of time, and was so fragile that it could not withstand the impact of the power of Naru's Hammer, and shattered into three pieces the moment it was struck, splattering out in all directions.

Bivis said that that stupid woman just took the High Lord at that time and abandoned the Frost Lament aside, and by the time the Silver Liming Judgemental Temple sent more people to look for the Frost Lament fragment later on, the hilt could no longer be found. It was presumed to have been taken by the person who was standing beside Darian at the time, who that person was, the Silver Liming Judgment Temple has not looked up to this day. I have also spent thirteen years searching for that person's whereabouts, and it has become clear who he is.

Bivis said that he had advised the High Lord that he could not use Frostgrave without the legendary Helm of Unity, and that no one could harness that dark power. But the High Lord said at that time, his power itself was not enough to resist the will of the Helm of Unity, let alone use the Helm of Unity to suppress the Frost Sorrow. Bivis said here, uncovered the black cloak that covered most of his face, revealing half of his ugly face that seemed to have been burned by the flames as if maggots were lying together, sighed, what he said, turned out to be true.

The hilt of the Frost Lament that was brought back was thrown into the soul furnace in the foundry hall by Bivis and Master Nord, adding some Salon Evil Iron, and some other magical materials, and finally recasting a Shadow Lament and a Cursed Throat. The Sorrow of Shadows was handed over to Su Mu as a quest reward. When handing it over to Su Mu, Bivis cautioned him that he should use the power of the Sorrow of Shadows with caution.

Although Shadow's Sorrow was far inferior to the original Frost's Sorrow, it was still enough to slaughter the group of scum in front of him.

Su Mu explained in the guild channel that everyone should not be revived.

He himself, however, chose to be resurrected.

The instant he was revived, Su Mu slammed the Shadow Sorrow heavily on top of the ground, activating the power of the Shadow Sorrow.

You want to rob me? Come and get it if you can!

The army of the dead, and he will!

##Wedge II: The Army of the Dead###

The ground was filled with the corpses of their guild members, as well as the corpses of small monsters that had been cleared away by the opposite player's strikes, and the Army of the Dead skill, with the help of the residual power of Frostbite, summoned up thousands of ghouls and ghosts!

The scenes of the army of the dead devouring the demonic legions that Su Mu had witnessed in the Time Replica, these players in front of him weren't even in the picture.

But the army of the dead was equally out of control, the opposite players were already terrified the moment they saw the army of the dead, and after they died they didn't dare to resurrect at all, the small monsters in the western wilderness were also slaughtered, and the ghouls that lost their target began to scatter towards the surroundings, looking for other targets that they could attack. There were even some that ran to the west gate of Twin Moon City, attacking players entering and exiting the main city and even the Twin Moon City gate guards.

Su Mu flew in the air on his Frost Dragon, looking at the ghouls that had killed the guards at the city gates, knowing that things could not be undone.

Darian's body was buried under the Cathedral of Holy Light, rather than so that his soul could rest in peace, it was better to use the power of holy light to completely ** his soul. A death knight, but also once the black front fortress great lord, a high-level NPC, in the silver dawn judgment temple of the trial are such an end, not to mention that he is just an ordinary player.NPC catch yourself probably do not need to escort to the judgment temple, on the ground directly to the matter.

Su Mu took a deep breath and flew towards Northside on the Frost Dragon before a bigger commotion arose.

Last chance to get a look at the legendary Unity Helmet.

It was already the early morning of the second day when he stepped onto the land of Northrend, and he had stayed up all night. The road to the Icecrown Bastion was not smooth again, and after standing on the Ancient Road for a while, he received an invitation to form a group from Zhang Xueqing.

The last thing Su Mu wanted to face at the moment was her.

Where are you? The first words spoken by Zhang Xueqing in the team channel.

Northside, The Ancient Path.

Zhang Xueqing was silent for a while before adding, Wait for me to go over.

Good.

Zhang Xueqing said that she would wait for her to come over, but after saying her words, she directly went offline. However, since she said she would come, then she would definitely come, it was just a matter of time, Su Mu stood on the Ancient Road and waited, thinking about what she would say after the meeting. Last night, when she got offline early, she also said that she wanted to take advantage of the weekend to go shopping with her friends, so if she spoiled her date, would she become very annoyed?

Zhang Xueqing, or Little Snow Drifting Down, was indeed annoyed at this time, especially when Li Yiran called while she was brushing her teeth with a hazy eye, saying that Su Mu had used Shadow's Sorrow to summon an army of the undead near Twin Moons City, directly blindsiding her. Did this guy even know what he had done!

She became even more annoyed when she entered the game and asked about Su Mu being on the Ancient Road at the moment! When did he know about the existence of the Unity Helmet?

Zhang Xueqing went straight to the company after quitting the game, such a mess couldn't be handled with the account she had on hand now.

When Su Mu took back the hilt of the sword of the shadow of grief, she began to worry, Silver Dawn Judgement Temple so many years are looking for the whereabouts of the hilt, if he learned that in his hands, not to mention the release of the wanted mission to allow players to kill him, that is, directly sent the camp NPC elite to hunt him down and kill him are possible. Later, the sword handle was cast into the Shadow of Sorrow, no longer the model of the Frost of Sorrow she was a little bit relieved, but such a powerful attribute of a piece of equipment to stay in the hands of the player is not a good thing, the company's operations ** even let the data supervision department set up a special three-member team, shift to take him as a guinea pig to observe, in the middle of the week, he did not have out of the ordinary behavior, but his night owl game life let Those three people suffer, every night can stay up until 12:30 in the morning, responsible for the evening shift monitoring people every night is after 1:30 to get home. So a few days ago in the ** questioning no less exaggerated, until later Zhang Xueqing out of pocket in the Wanda shopping mall inside the three people please rub a meal, but also in the game politely repeated tips to stay up all night hurt the body things are only somewhat better. A meal 388, there is no place to reimburse go.

Two weeks ago, just as Zhang Xueqing was following up her coffee with a paper cup in front of the coffee machine, she received a message from Operations** on WeChat, asking her to come to the Data Security Department. So she sat at the water bar with her coffee for a while, first running through the vain things she had done down in the game recently. In fact, the first thing that came to mind that was related to her and on the table was that there was a problem with the Shadow's Sorrow in Su Mu's hands, but the Data Security Department's main duty was to monitor the behavioral activities of players in the game, and at this time, it was impossible for Su Mu to be online. She thought about other things, such as the alchemy recipe in her game warehouse, Transformation: the Essence Gold Ingot, which she had cut off someone else's quest based on her knowledge of the game and intercepted to obtain it halfway through, doing something that was not only unkind, but also suspected of violating the rules.

She did so for a reason, because of the appearance of another engineering structure chart, Structure Chart: Turbo Accelerated Flying Vehicle. Learning this structural diagram would allow one to create flying machines, with effects equivalent to flying mounts. In an era where most people were still running on the ground except for a few players who got flying mounts by luck, the appearance of the drawings was even more troublesome. The person who obtained the drawings was Sword Definition, and with his guild's strength, Zhang Xueqing believed that he would soon craft a batch of flying machines and then use the air superiority to crush other players.

After the appearance of Structural Diagrams: Turbo Acceleration Vehicle, there was news that Structural Diagrams: Magic Steel Stabilizer and Structural Diagrams: Kryptonite Energy Core had been obtained by players of Righteous Battle World. The engineering parts produced by the latter two structural diagrams and the other yet to appear Structural Diagrams: Fine Gold Frame would be the main production materials for the Turbo Acceleration Vehicle. If it was said that obtaining the structural diagrams for the Vehicle was Jian Dingworld's luck, then obtaining the structural diagrams for the Magic Steel Stabilizer and the Kryptonite Energy Core one after the other was such a fast, accurate and stable operation that it had to make Zhang Xueqing wonder if Jian Dingworld had received any information from the company's insiders. Zhang Xueqing had to make Zhang Xueqing wonder if Jian Dingtian had gotten some information from the company's insiders.

The trend of flying machines being mass-produced by Sword Definition World was already unstoppable, but the speed at which she was producing them she could still hold back, or else in less than a month, the entire Twin Moons City would be dominated by the Righteous Battle World Guild. The production of Essence Gold Frames required the use of Essence Gold Ingots as materials, and Essence Gold Ingots could be obtained by forging Essence Gold Ore, or by transforming other ores through Alchemy. The purpose of her getting her hands on Transformation: Essence Gold Ingot and throwing it in the warehouse was to reduce the number of Essence Gold Ingots in the game, thus reducing the number of Essence Gold Frames.

The facts proved that she was right, at the same time she got the transformation formula for the Essence Gold Ingot, Sword Setting World got the structural diagram of the Essence Gold Framework. Zhang Xueqing thought about how this behavior of hers was actually out of consideration for the balance of the game's operations, **knowing that she could only give a compliment for a job well done, there was no reason to say anything else.

Other than that, there was nothing else worth caring about that was on the table, and the leader was too busy to take time out of his day to glance over his shoulder. So she drained her cup of coffee and headed for the data security department with a little catwalk of a clear conscience.

I just felt bitter in my mouth all the way through, remembering that I had just forgotten to put sugar and frothed milk in my coffee.

Zhang Xueqing saw Li Yiran, as well as Duan Yuche, Wu Qilin, and Ren Qianqian when she pushed the door in, and her heart was slightly relaxed. These four people weren't from the operation center, but like her, they played the game very well, but other than Li Yiran, the other three weren't in the same main city as her. Since they were called here at the same time, it was much less likely that the cause would fall on their heads. The four were standing **behind** her, huddled in front of a few computers, not paying attention to her entrance. Just as she had closed the door behind her, it was pushed open again and a sweaty head poked in, Luo Jie, yet another in-house game master.

Luo Jie received the message is also unclear about the situation, she did not ** WeChat friends, was her department manager to do the middle of the conveyance, said the leadership above looking for you, to the data security department to go to a trip. She ran all the way in a hurry, go panting, bent down and pushed the door in to see Zhang Xueqing's smiling face, seems to carry a gloating, instantly more uneasy.

Zhang Xueqing put her hand on her shoulder and lightly spat out two words, Condolences.

With a bad smile on his face, he exerted a little force on his hands, causing Luo Jie's feet to soften, and almost plopped down on the ground in this way.

Come over here and take a look. **Then he turned back to the computer screen and pointed to it, leaving an opening and stepping back as he finished.

Zhang Xueqing and Luo Jie walked by together, also gathered in front of the computer, only to see the image on the screen, her heart instantly thumped, just by glancing at the back, she already recognized the person. This is a video in the game, the person in the screen is standing in the wilderness between the graves, not far away from the standing is the Agamand Shadow, an undead type of boss. only to see Su Mu slowly drew out the Shadow's Sorrow, aiming at the boss to begin to guide the skill.

He's going to solo the boss? Ren Qianqian was already shrieking.

Zhang Xueqing covered her face, Su Mu that guy was really going solo to brush the boss. The night before he got the Sorrow of Shadows, the next day he flew up to the sky and the sun shoulder to shoulder, rode the Frost Dragon all over the world, and in the end he really let him meet in the Silent Graveyard and just refreshed Agamand's Shadow. But since that attempt, Su Mu has been honest.

Zhang Xueqing looked at the screen, Su Mu's Skill Guidance had already ended, and ten Ghouls crawled out of the graveyard, pouncing towards Shadow of Agamande with open teeth and claws. Goodbye Su Mu swung Shadow's Sorrow, and the Undead Servant Nightblade Leopard Lokahana rose up from the ground, roaring lowly at the boss.

An army of the dead... And the resurrection of the dead? How is that possible!

Legendary weapons!

Aside from Zhang Xueqing and Li Yiran, the remaining four were no longer calm.

Zhang Xueqing understood their nonchalance, the acquisition of equipment and skills in the game needed to be obtained through quests or monster drops, but some specific equipment and rare skills could only be obtained through quests, and not just any quests.

Legendary weapons are weapons that are orange in quality, there are still a lot of these weapons in the game, but they are unique, unique, or even just once existed. For example, the Ezinos Warblade, the Etiyesh . Guardian's Staff of Lore, Ashbringer, and the like, but they basically exist in the hands of NPCs, or used to exist in the hands of NPCs, and are now damaged or lost, and Frostbite is a good example of this.

As for the Army of the Dead skill, even as a Death Knight, this type of skill of manipulating corpses still belonged to the taboo skills because of some historical original factors present in the game setting. Even NPCs rarely dared to use it openly, let alone pass this skill to players as a quest reward. But Su Mu surprisingly still learned it. The good thing is that he has a clear perception of the pros and cons of the existence of this type of skill, and has not yet used it in public, and his mouth is also very strict, in addition to individual trusted friends, other people don't even know the existence of this skill.

The company doesn't have a particular view on whether players will have these kinds of skills, it's only the NPCs of different camps in the background setting that have a view.

Several people gathered around the computer and watched Su Mu with a group of ghouls and Lokahana rushed up aggressively, and then it was kicked out one by one by the Shadow of Agamand, after a bam hammering, the ghouls' skeletons had been scattered all over the place, and Su Mu had already been on the ground with his panther on the ground as a corpse. But Lokahana was supposed to be the corpse to come.

What about single swiping off almost 20% of the boss's blood, that's too powerful, isn't it? Wu Qilin muttered.

Zhang Xueqing thought to herself: actually, this guy thought he would be more powerful before this fight.

This is still a full level boss, can and boss so positive just like this, not to see it still can not believe. Ren Qianqian said.

Besides his weapon, the other equipment on his body is also a camp set, right? Luo Jie said.

Camp sets, they're easy to obtain after joining a camp, aren't they, and they can be replaced with levels.

Didn't you notice the materials for that suit of his? Enhanced at the same level, it's not something that can be purchased at the camp just by leveling up, it also requires honor value. Luo Jie explained.

As soon as she said this, the others also came to their senses, and they all took a closer look at Su Mu, who was lying on the ground.

All think he's unnaturally strong, don't they? ** asked the question.

Several people nodded, Yes.

It's okay. This was Zhang Xueqing's opinion.

Yukari doesn't think it's a problem? **Turns her head.

Yiran and I are both in Twin Moon City, we both know this person, if he had acted against the rules, the two of us would have reported it long ago. At critical moments, being sisters meant having a pit to fall into together. Zhang Xueqing explained this, not forgetting to squeeze her eyes towards Li Yiran.

Li Yiran scalp a little numb, Sister Xue you want to protect him you own on it, why do you have to pull me?

Oh? Yiran knows him too? ** asked.

Yes. Li Yiran replied stiffly.

So his game stats, too, are viewed in the same way as Yukari's?

I didn't find any irregularities in his behavior either, I just think that his game stats can't just be attributed to good luck, but rather some of his way of thinking is more similar to our colleagues in the planning department. In other words, that way of thinking of his makes him do missions smoothly. As you know, Leader, our mission design will have multiple possibilities, and among the multiple possibilities if you go along with the most unlikely possibility, there is a chance that you will get unexpected rewards, and he's quite talented in this aspect.

**Nodded, I see, which means that if there is a problem, then the problem is not with this player.

Li Yiran shrunk his head, this is the planning department colleagues all to the pit?

Duan Yu Xie's face was already dark, he was from the planning department.

Okay, y'all go back. **Waves his hand.

##Wedge III: The Helmet of Unity###

When leaving, Zhang Xueqing is considering, want to remind Su Mu convergence, the company is already noticed you, out of the moth can no longer protect you. But in addition to the game, she did not have his additional contact information, WeChat phone or anything else, if you go to ask him for a phone or something will not be too reserved? Zhang Xueqing thought before and after the thought of brain pain, but also did not make a decision to. Forget it, there is no reason to care about him so much ah, I am not his sister!

Zhang Xueqing expected him not to cause trouble in the game, but who knew that after only a few days, he would cause such a big trouble!

Northrend is located in the northernmost part of the game world, and in the setting, it is cold and windy all year round. If you don't learn the Cold Weather Flight riding skill, no flying mounts can fly there, not even the Frost Dragons. However, the Cold Weather Flight Riding Technique was not something that could be learned in an instant, and required a series of quests plus a large amount of gold coins. Zhang Xueqing's current account didn't know this riding technique, she needed to adjust her account's data, and in a hurry, she also needed to file the data back and write a review.

When Zhang Xueqing's Little Snow Drifting Down character rode the snow-colored Horned Eagle Beast and saw Su Mu on the Ancient Road in Northside, he was standing there dazed, as if the person had already left for the time being. His dumb look made her nose sore, Li Yiran also said on the phone, several guilds joined together to block them in the resurrection point, from the Surge Wind Grassland to kill the western wilderness, it is said that they also lined up a shift plan, not to his Shadow of Sorrow burst off the meaning of the oath will not stop. Su Mu is also a man, that kind of situation behavior out of control is understandable. Zhang Xueqing looked at Su Mu's desolate back, eyes wet, but you say how you are so stupid? A moment of impulse is a relief, but the disaster brought to you later on you simply can't bear it ah! Even if you are blocked at the resurrection point, so what? Endure to endure to the next night is not still have me?

Zhang Xueqing stayed in the air on her Horned Eagle Beast and looked at Su Mu who was standing frozen with a sudden movement, pulling out a bottle of potion from her package and drinking it.

Zhang Xueqing rode the Horned Eagle Beast to hover in front of Su Mu, then landed.

Su Mu looked at the Horned Eagle Beast that fell from the air and was a little surprised, the surprise quickly passed, only to reveal a stiff smile to, opened his mouth, and only after half a minute did he utter a sentence, You're here.

Zhang Xueqing wanted to cry. She let out a soft hmm, "Yes, I'm coming.

She asked in a low voice, Next... What are you going to do?

Su Mu thought for a moment and asked, Twin Moon City, am I not going to be able to return?

Yes... Zhang Xueqing lowered her head, her eyes already wet.

You can't go to the other main cities either?

Zhang Xueqing was unable to speak again.

Su Mu did not hear her answer, also guessed the answer. Looking at her hair that was scattered by the wind as she looked down, he had a bit of an urge to straighten it up for her, reached out his hand, and then stopped it stiffly. Su Mu raised his hand upwards, pointed at the distant Ice Crown Fortress, and said, I want to stand up there and take a look.

Zhang Xueqing raised her head and flicked her long hair to her ear, looking in the direction of his finger, the Ice Crown Fortress was at the top of the mountain. I can take you up. Zhang Xueqing said.

How do I get up there? Su Mu suddenly laughed.

Zhang Xueqing patted the Horned Eagle Beast's snow-white head, and the Horned Eagle Beast gave a cheerful coo, It can take us up.

The two of us?

Uh-huh.

The Horned Eagle Beast was originally a single mount, and while Zhang Xueqing modified her character's Flight Riding skill, she modified her Horned Eagle Beast's stats.

The Horned Eagle Beast was not big, far from the size of a Frost Dragon, and when Zhang Xueqing was sitting on it and Su Mu was still trying to climb upwards, it had already cooed to express its dissatisfaction, but Su Mu didn't pay any attention to its dissatisfaction. When both of them were sitting firmly, they flapped their wings and flew up.

The cold wind blew the Horned Hawk beasts hard, making the flight a long one.

Su Mu sat behind Zhang Xueqing, feeling that this was the only warmth under the cold wind.

Still want to play on? Zhang Xueqing, who was sitting in front, asked in a low voice.

Think.

I'll help you apply for a new character, all the gold props on your character will be transferred to the new character, equipment and skills... I'll try my best to help you replace them at the same level, and the sub-professional skills, do you still want Alchemy?

... It's all good.

Level I'll try to help you apply to the same level as you are now, it doesn't matter if you can't apply, I can take you upgrading every day when the time comes.

... Good.

There was another moment of silence.

Zhang Xueqing's arrangement was considered to be the best help for him, his current account that couldn't return to the main city but could only wander outside was already almost a waste number.

Su Mu has always been very grateful to her, he knows that he used to do things in the middle of how many risks, and she has always been silent to help him withstand the risk. Li Yiran once pointed out to him, the tree is a big risk face is big people flat know, you can not converge or let the snow sister easy some, he was just smiling, said he is obviously a law-abiding good young man, you snow sister at first, but take me with others to compare the pass. Now that I think about it, I really gave people a lot of trouble. There's also this president position, you hold it for me.

Okay, I'll catch up and wait for you to come back.

... When I come back, I want to go around the other main cities. The amount of money owed to her was growing, and it had finally gotten to the point where he didn't dare to owe her any more.

... Want me to hold the presidency all the time? Zhang Xueqing asked in a low voice.

Su Mu didn't know how to answer, Zhang Xueqing's identity was not suitable to get involved in too much strife between players, if she took on the duties of president, that strife was something that was rare every day. Su Mu thought again and said, Turn around and go find Old Panda and the others, just say I'm leaving.

What else is there to say?

Tell them to help guard the brothers in my guild from being bullied. Saying that, the always lazy and casual ones would always have someone come over to help take over the guild, right?

In fact, you can give the guild to Heart Like Water. Zhang Xueqing said.

Heart Like Water was currently the lowest leveled one inside the guild and hadn't been in the guild for very long, so Su Mu didn't understand why she was saying that.

You just don't know who she is. Zhang Xueqing added.

Heart Like Water is a little mage girl that according to Zhang Xueqing was picked up in the game. She said that her little snow drifting down idle to go to the north of the barren land wandering when she saw this little mage alone in the barren land to pick herbs and fight small monsters, upgrading is not easy, so can not help but pull into the guild. At that time, the general level of the guild players more than 40 levels, a level 10 out of the small mage is not qualified to mix in the almost full of strong guild, but the good thing is that it is a girl, the majority of the players do not oppose. Su Mu for Zhang Xueqing that picked up in the barren land statement is very skeptical, you a level 40 player nothing to run to level 10 map wandering what words simply can not stand. Also because of the identity of Zhang Xueqing, Su Mu asked her privately, this girl is not your colleague, is if I promise not to molest her. Zhang Xueqing rolled her eyes to the sky and said, "I guarantee she's not my colleague, so you can molest her to your heart's content. Since then, Su Mu has stayed away from this new girl.

Later on, he met a mage girl in the auction house, and she came up to greet him and introduced herself, and Su Mu recognized this person. Later on, he often met at the auction house, and Su Mu noticed that this mage girl often sold some low-level herbs, fabrics, or materials and props dropped by low-level monsters at the auction house. The value of those things for sale are a few copper coins dozens of copper coins ranging from the trinkets, like Su Mu, such as a visit to the auction house in and out of dozens of gold coins, her small business is really not enough to look at. Su Mu thought that maybe it was because of the low level, if the level is high, you can brush some high-level materials to sell, so I thought of arranging for her to follow the guild team to upgrade, but she pushed back, saying that it was her fun to play small monsters and brush materials to save gold, and didn't care about how much, so she was already happy with her way of playing the game. This is an easy to satisfy the girl, Su Mu is not good to force, and also said Zi Sakura in the management of the guild warehouse, you want to go over to give her a helping hand? It's always more fun to play with everyone. This word exported on some regret, this girl from inside to outside reveals the breath of white, really want to throw her to the purple cherry nickel, in case the purple cherry nickel turn hand sold don't know where to go to re-pick her back. Good thing this girl at that time just faintly smiled, said really don't need.

After that, Su Mu's socialization with her was to smile and say hello when he met her at the auction house, and nothing else.

Su Mu thought to himself that he really didn't know her well.

Aren't you going to ask who she is? Zhang Xueqing added.

When I see you again, I'll ask.

Zhang Xueqing didn't say anything else.

The snow-colored horned eagle beast carried the two of them and landed on the Ice Crown Fortress, which was a large open platform on the top of the mountain, and on the north side of the Ice Crown Fortress were layers of steps, and on top of the steps was the cold ice throne that was covered with ice and snow all year round.

The Ice Throne is located at the top of the world, sitting on the Ice Throne, the whole world is under your feet.

Su Mu stepped on the steps towards that Ice Cold Throne step by step.

Zhang Xueqing didn't stop him, she just looked at his back and said, The new character, what is it going to be called?

There's no one in the herd. Su Mu said. After looking at the Unity Helmet to fulfill his heart's desire, he should not be fighting and killing, right, and just be a quiet blood-boosting priest, which is also quite good.

Out of sight, out of mind... Zhang Xueqing sighed lowly, You're still not happy about it...

Su Mu stood before the Ice Throne and gently brushed away the snow on the throne, revealing the black helmet on the throne... This is the Unity Helmet? Su Mu looked and stretched out his hands. The moment he touched the helmet, it was as if he touched the hot iron in the forge, accompanied by the sound of sizzle, the life value began to drop rapidly.

Su Mu looked at his hands, which had been scorched to a charred black, and laughed out loud, It really is the Unity Helmet!

In that instant, Su Mu suddenly turned around, laid his body back, leaned back and sat on the Ice Throne, and put the Unity Helmet on his head.

The entire body was subjected to a general burning, and an unquenchable hatred burned in Su Mu's chest. His life value was already few and far between, and in the final moments, he roared in grief, Scums! I'll damn well be back!!!

Zhang Xueqing looked at Su Mu's body, which had been scorched to a charred black by the power of the Commanding Helmet, and stood alone on the Ice Crown Bastion for a while before finally walking slowly up the steps. Su Mu's corpse, still wearing the Helmet of Unity, was lying on the Ice Throne, with the Sorrow of Shadows falling to the side. Zhang Xueqing walked over and righted the body on the Ice Cold Throne, picked up the Sorrow of Shadows on the ground and stuffed it into Su Mu's fisted hand, then turned around and slowly walked down the throne.

She mounted the Horned Hawk beast once more and left Northrend alone.

### Chapter One: The Town of Falling Stars ###

Su Mu stood by the mailbox, reading the letter unfolding in his hand.

The letter reads, Little Hessa, Void has left the Hall of Magic and gone to Twin Moon City, I've discussed this with him and we'll follow up by traveling to Twin Moon City together. Play well.

The letter comes from Decadent Old Panda, once president of the...

The last game he played was with a group of like-minded brothers and sisters, under the leadership of his decadent president, offering the banner of Immortal Cultivation wandering around all day and night, how to enjoy how to play, how to mess how to come. Later, a new game appeared, that is, this one, the Lost World, the people get together a total, they decided to turn together to travel over to skate around, get high and stay in the new game, do not get high and then come back.

It was just a few days, and the people each entered the game successively.

At this moment, Su Mu stood in the town of Falling Star, tearing the letter he had finished reading into pieces and throwing it into the wind with a raised hand. This town, or novice village, was a novice village that belonged exclusively to the Death Knight profession, and all players who aspired to become Death Knights would be born here. When he browsed through the official website earlier, he had instantly chosen the Death Knight among the twelve professions. Knight already sounds handsome enough, let alone a dead knight, handsome on top of handsome, so handsome that he could not wait.

Without any hesitation, he selected the Death Knight and created a character, using his previous name Little Hessa, which fortunately no one had taken up yet.

Su Mu did worry about the name being taken up, especially after fighting with someone in the group that day.

At that time, we were chatting about how to get a name after going to a new game, if the name is occupied and will choose what name as a backup, each other clear some good contact. Smokey spoke up, he said he was going to call it Smokey Eats Poop, as for the alternate name, he could not say, said for fear of the crowd eye-catching to snatch the note. Su Mu was very disdainful at that time, said you smoker can think of what good name? It's just smoker poop, smoker eat poop, can there be other tricks? The crowd laughed and the smoker said angrily, "Wait for me, Hesa.

But it's a good thing Smokey ran for his preferred name and didn't give Suomo a hard time.

When Su Mu appeared in the town of Falling Star, he found himself in rough linen clothes, bare and exposed with his calves, the leg hairs on his calves that were visible down low swaying with the wind, very refreshing. Then looked down to the left and right waist side, there was none, reached out and touched behind his back again, also none. Su Mu incredulous, find the package location, open and look, still empty.

The system is so cheap!

Being a Death Knight at birth it's amazing that you don't even have a weapon.

Is it hard to believe that you're not a Death Knight yet?

If you're not a Death Knight, is it possible that there's something else going on? Su Mu found the quest panel, after opening it, he saw the quest that existed: Arriving at Acherus Fortress, Quest Description: adventurer, welcome to the lost world, next you need to reach Acherus Fortress in order to receive training to become a true Death Knight.

So, after choosing a profession and building a character, it's still just a cottage. Su Mu looked up and saw that there were quite a few players in this town of falling stars, most of them were the same as him, with simple coarse linen clothes that could barely cover their bodies. Su Mu glanced a few more times, and felt that the system was quite generous to female players, at least the fabric used on their clothes was obviously sufficient, able to wrap their calves. Su Mu looked left and right, and finally saw weapons on a few players. Some people were carrying an iron sword with rust stains behind their backs, some people had a shorter iron sword hanging between their waists, and then there were axes, hammers, and the like, there were quite a few types. In that case, there was still a weapon store in this town.

Su Mu read the old panda's letter after feeling can start the adventure, but before the adventure, or to return a letter, this is a little respect for the old president, otherwise he will yell dissatisfaction: you this group of heartless, need me when I use me as a summoned beast, do not need me when I use me as a ball, too angry. At this time, the crowd can only be good to comfort: President you say this is a thinly veiled your national treasure status. The old president will also be very dissatisfied: last time the group said and withdrawn, when I did not see it? Again at this time, the group will take the lead to admit fault: I want to play brave to come, typing the wrong word, back to me this will uninstall the input method to go. I'll uninstall the input method and go back. I always have to make a lot of trouble before I can stop.

Su Mu opened the mailbox and began to write the letter, writing again while chanting, Ah, honorable old president, see the letter anon, I'm very smooth, will soon be able to go and join you, do not miss. Su Mu finished writing the letter, and again read through it, did not find any typos, felt it was okay, then added the name of the recipient, Decadent Old Panda, and then shoved it down the delivery port into the mailbox. All is well!

The resulting mail was spit out and dropped to the floor.

What's the situation? Su Mu bent down, picked up the mail, and shoved it into the mailbox again.

The mail fell to the floor again.

A system message appeared under the chat interface, You need 5 copper coins for postage.

I need 5 coins?

I can't believe I don't have 5 coins?

Su Mu unbelievably opened the package, it turns out that I really don't have 5 copper coins!

The system is so cheap!

Su Mu let out a sigh, Chairman Lord you are so understanding you must be able to understand me, right? After sighing, he tore the written mail into pieces and threw it in the air with the wind.

There wasn't a single coin in the package, so where would he buy a weapon later? Su Mu didn't believe that the system that was as stingy as this would still give away money for nothing.

Su Mu stood in place, looking at the players who came and went running around, how many had anxious looks on their faces and empty bodies, this was the person who realized that the problem existed. Of course, there were also those with senselessness written on their faces, overflowing with splendor. Su Mu opened the map and began to study. Falling Star Town, quite a small town, horizontal and vertical fifteen streets totaling fifty-six houses. Outside the town, there is only a small road that twists and turns and extends to the north, called the Road of Trials. Su Mu looked along the road of trials, the end of the road of trials, that is, the edge of the map, was labeled with the words leading to Acherus Fortress.

So that's how it was, Su Mu nodded.

Su Mu saw groups of players walking towards the north of the town in groups of three to five, thought to be discovering the location of the Acherus Fortress, even if the body is empty, can not wait to become a real death knight so on this directly to the Acherus Fortress.

Su Mu didn't agree with this kind of behavior, this Trial Road production was twisted beyond recognition, lengthening the journey quite a bit for no reason, and there would probably be quite a few obstacles in the middle. If you want to do a good job, you must first make a good tool, it was too risky to just head there, not to mention that he was still just one person.

Originally he can not be a person, those companions are also someone who wants to choose the death knight profession, awakening shorty. Unfortunately, the short boy is too indisputable, last semester final exams very sour failed three, the beginning of this semester make-up exams and pleasantly did not pass one, so they were lovely fat escorted to the study room, every night after eight o'clock before he will be released under his pleading.

Su Mu looked at the time, Shorty should be in the middle of serious study at this time, waiting for him to come on line was not expected.

Surrounding the town of Falling Star is called the Falling Star Plain, and in the southwest of the Falling Star Plain, there is a river called the Shattered Star River.

Su Mu took a close look at the map, especially the buildings in the middle of the Falling Star Town, and failed to see any stores like the blacksmith store tailor store pharmacy grocery store coming. But the weapons on some of the players were real, and there were even a very few players who still had nearly a decent set of armor equipment on them. So, Su Mu took aim at those very few players. In particular, they had ** equipment on them but still didn't leave Falling Star Town, but instead went around into a small alley in the town in a group.

There was something fishy, and Su Mu followed.

When Su Mu walked into the alley, he saw the people, five to be exact, half surrounding an old NPC man listening to someone ramble on.

When Su Mu walked over, one of those five people was already noticing Su Mu's arrival and looked back at Su Mu with what seemed to be a wary look in his eyes.

Su Mu has a kind of stirred up people together with the embarrassment of gay, but this game is everyone's, NPC is also everyone's, found the task naturally should also be everyone's it, a slight pause, the embarrassment will be thrown aside, continue to walk over.

Su Mu ignored the man's unkind eyes and royally perked up his ears on the side.

I only heard the NPC say, ... It wanders around the Shattered Star River, it's not clear exactly where it will be, the villagers always have to be on guard against being attacked by it when they go to the river to fetch water. After a long time, we have also organized the young and strong people in the town to round up, but it is very cunning, and every time we let it escape, can you help us get rid of it?

It's too capable ah, although I don't hear much, I can still guess that it's a rhythm to get rid of a powerful monster.

Another one of them was heard following the NPC's words, Don't worry, we will definitely exterminate the Plains Wanderers.

The NPC smiled happily, Excellent, after destroying it please bring me its claws and I will pay you for it.

Good.

The five took the quests from the NPCs in turn, and when they looked back, they just happened to meet Su Mu's face, which was smiling even more happily than the NPCs: Brothers, can you give me a lift?

###Chapter 2: The Longest Journey to Nothing###

The player who had spotted Su Mu earlier and expressed his wariness frowned and said, I'm sorry, there are five of us, and the team is already full.

When his words left his mouth, the player who had been communicating with the NPC waved his hand and said, Six people, splitting into two teams is fine, and an extra person is an extra strength. It's just that brother, you don't even seem to have any weapons, right? As he said this, he looked behind Su Mu.

Asked to the point, Su Mu was worried about weapons.

The player added, The quests received here are for Wanted Plains Wanderers, and the rewards are silver coins and experience, and if you're lucky, there will be equipment. Of course it's not an absolute thing, and it has to be on the premise of being able to complete the quest. We've never seen a Plains Wanderer before, so there's no guarantee that we'll be able to find and kill it. However, I think it's imperative for you to get a weapon first brother, it's not cost effective to follow us in case you end up with nothing.

The meaning of the words Su Mu heard and understood, and could only try to keep from being embarrassed and said with a sad face, "But I don't see a blacksmith store, and I don't have a single