Once again, an earnest plea for monthly tickets. Jiaoshou had been very farsighted-I really did end up dead drunk. I wrote this during the day and kept it in reserve to prevent a missed update.
Rex left Ironforge. With a faint smile, he walked out of the city, tore apart a Hearthstone, and returned to the Greymane Wall.
Good news came one piece after another. The dark clouds hanging over Gilneas seemed to have vanished completely with the rout of the Undead Scourge's army. Barely had Rex returned to Gilneas when he received a message from Osborne: a fleet had gathered along the North Coast, and the Undead Scourge's army in Lordaeron City had begun marching toward it.
This news was no less welcome than the prospect of forging the Mightiest Artifact. Rex knew where the North Coast was. The entire map of the Eastern Kingdoms lay vividly within his mind, and as he considered it, the coast's location appeared. It lay directly north of Lordaeron City. This North Coast was not the North Flowing Coast mentioned earlier. Their names differed by a single word, but their locations were worlds apart.
The North Coast was the stretch of sea closest to Lordaeron City. The fleet's appearance there did not surprise Rex. Precisely because he had considered it the likeliest place for Arthas to depart the Lordaeron Lands, he had stationed plenty of men there, ready to send word back to Gilneas.
Rex was in no great hurry to forge the Mightiest Artifact. The divine sword, which he had named Ashbringer before it was even finished, was chiefly intended to counter Frostmourne. Now that Rex had held out until Arthas's departure, there was no telling when Arthas would return to the Lordaeron Lands. It had taken five years altogether for Arthas