Chapter 336: Wrath of the Lich King (V)
The Wrath of the Lich King trilogy contains a lot of information, so the word count is also very high. The previous trilogy has more than 500,000 words, while Wrath of the Lich King has more than 700,000 words. The extra 200,000 words are all to explain the excessive information.

The first part, “Gate of Wrath”, covers part of the story of Draenor and explains the origin of Garrosh.

There are also situations of various races recruiting armies, and some situations in the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor. If I have to tell the story in detail, I can’t finish it even if I write another million words. Liu Hongmin can only pick out some of the main points to talk about, and the main points are basically those with dungeons.

The humans focus on the Westfalls, which has the Deadmines dungeon. The dwarves and gnomes focus on Gnomeregan, the lost gnome city, which is itself a dungeon. The night elves focus on Ashenvale, which also has the Blackfathom dungeon.

The orcs talk about Orgrimmar, where some Blackrock orcs conspired to build Ragefire Chasm and prepare to overthrow Thrall’s regime. The tauren mainly talk about the Barrens, where there is the Wailing Caverns. The Forsaken mainly talk about Tirisfal Glades, where there is the Scarlet Monastery. The blood elves talk about Eversong Woods, where there is the Zul’Aman.

The second part, “The War of the Ancient World”, covers part of the story in ancient times.

Liu Hongmin did not write “War of the Ancients”, but divided it into many small plots interspersed with the plots of night elves, dragons, and the Burning Legion. Alexstrasza used more than 10,000 words to describe the fall of Deathwing.

The story of rebuilding Dalaran and restoring the Sunwell also took up a lot of space, and the story of Graymaw Keep took up a lot of space.

Although these are side quests, they can intuitively reflect the ecology of Northrend, the survival problems and conflicts among various races.

The third part, “Titan Guardians”, covers a lot of stories about the origins of the three races: humans, dwarves, and gnomes.

They are formed by the weakening of the Vrykul, Earthen and Mechanical Dwarf by the Curse of Flesh and Blood. The reason why they are close is that their ancestors followed Tyr south and fought side by side. Although they separated later, they still remembered the original oath and became the most steadfast allies.

In contrast, there was a betrayal between humans and blood elves. The blood elves were not to blame for this, but the people in power who believed in human supremacy, including General Garithon, who imprisoned Kael’thas and forced him to Draenor.

If Kael’thas had not gone to Draenor, the blood elves would not have suffered so much and eventually been forced to join the Horde.

Under the guise of war, Liu Hongmin also added some core to the trilogy.

“Gate of Wrath” compares Arthas and Darion. Arthas willingly walked into the abyss, but could only sink deeper and deeper into the abyss and ultimately could not be redeemed.

Darion’s heart is towards the light. Even though he became the darkest Death Knight, he still chose to fight for the light.

Both of them are strong-minded people, but because of different choices, they embarked on two different paths. Arthas is certainly sympathetic, but Darion is the role model for everyone to learn from.

“The War of the Orion Core” uses the tragedy of Malygos to tell a story of being betrayed and then embarking on a path of no return. Malygos’ life is a huge tragedy.

The brother he respected the most suddenly went mad and killed his wife and children. Malygos could not accept this and was tortured by it for 10,000 years. How much he respected Deathwing before, how much he hated him now. When besieging Deathwing, he was the most ferocious. If possible, he was willing to die with Deathwing. But unfortunately, Deathwing was too powerful, and his suicide attacks left him seriously injured.

His remaining sanity made him fulfill his responsibilities, but he ended up being brutally plotted against and went completely crazy.

This is also a reminder to people that if your relatives or friends suffer a major blow, you must pay attention to them, otherwise they may suffer from mental illness or even show suicidal tendencies.

“Titan Guardians” mainly uses the stories of Titan Guardians to tell how terrible it is to have insatiable desires.

The nine Titan Guardians originally had no desires. They only had the responsibility to complete the tasks assigned by the Titans.

However, the sudden fall of the Titans left them confused. Yogg-Saron took this opportunity to give the Titan Guardians desires. So Thorim wanted to have sex, so he married Sif. After Sif was killed, he wanted revenge again and wanted to kill Hodir. In the end, he was trapped by these desires and stayed in the Storm Temple for 10,000 years, depressed.

Odin had a desire to rule over all creatures, so he built Valhalla. Eventually, he was used by Loken and trapped in the sky, unable to leave Valhalla forever.

Loken had the most desires, and he also wanted to have sex, so he had an affair with Sif. He was also greedy and did not allow Sif to break up with him. He shirked responsibility, and after accidentally killing Sif, he put the blame on Hodir. After the incident, he did not repent and killed Mimiron again. After knowing that Tyr and Archaedas knew about it, he chose to cooperate with Yogg-Saron and sent the Faceless Men to hunt him down. In this way, in order to cover up a mistake, Loken kept making mistakes, and eventually walked step by step into the abyss.

Little did they know that all this was a conspiracy by Yogg-Saron. Yogg-Saron was trying to take advantage of the conflicts between the Titan Guardians to get out of the cage. As a result, he did too much, which made Loken notice something was wrong.

Therefore, during these ten thousand years, Loken’s surveillance of Yogg-Saron not only did not decrease, but increased. Yogg-Saron also died because of this, following in the footsteps of C’Thun.

Liu Hongmin had finished writing the manuscript before the Chinese New Year. After Richard received the manuscript, he immediately found a translator and finally translated it all into English in early March. Then he handed the manuscript to the printing factory for typesetting and printing.

Five million copies were printed in 10 days and shipped to warehouses across the United States.

On March 3, once all warehouses had sufficient supply, the product was immediately promoted on the book website, other high-traffic websites, and on television.

As soon as it was launched on the 15th, orders kept coming in. Five million copies were sold out in less than ten days. Fortunately, the printing factory did not stop working during this period and continued to print, which ensured that subsequent orders were not affected.

The traffic on the book website skyrocketed, and the number of registered users increased to more than one million. Many people who did not use the Internet registered accounts specifically to buy the Wrath of the Lich King series.

During this period, the sales of point cards also soared. Although it was only 10% cheaper, a set of “Wrath of the Lich King” costs nearly $100, which can save about $10. And $10 is a white-collar worker’s daily food expenses.

(End of this chapter)