Herad had no intention of attacking the Dreadlords before confirming their numbers and locations.
However, efforts to suppress the Kingdom of Lordaeron were already underway on all fronts.
One example was persuading the kingdom's powerful nobles to rebel.
What little the Church of Eternal Life offered held considerable appeal for commoners and minor nobles.
The powerful nobles, however, had no interest.
What was the point of gaining eternal life by becoming one of the living dead?
Permanently losing their senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and so on, and relying on the undead's special perception to observe things was little different from being dead.
Anyone who knew the truth looked down on the inferior eternal life obtained by becoming an undead creature.
No one wanted to continue serving this kingdom only to become a rotting, stinking living corpse.
They investigated the kingdom's secrets through various channels, seeking out suspicious individuals who were deeply concealed.
The local power brokers of the Kingdom of Lordaeron were less efficient at investigating than the fern treants keeping watch around the clock.
But their formidable networks of contacts reached every corner of the Kingdom of Lordaeron.
The Dreadlords believed they had this kingdom under their control.
Their internal defenses had grown quite lax.
Who could have imagined that even after the king drew Frostmourne and became a living Death Knight, there would still be troublemakers among his subordinates?
The powerful nobles were not particularly efficient investigators.
However, through smuggling routes they had cultivated over many years, they brought some special fern treants into the kingdom and planted them in important areas.
Those fern treants looked quite ordinary, with emerald-green leaves.
They looked like normal ornamental trees.
Yet their detection abilities were no different from those of other fern treants.
Whether their leaves were darker or