The backend of each Death Knight has a sad story. —— Great Cthulhu
In fact, as the Great Cthulhu said, behind every death knight is a sad past. Earl Barrick is no exception. Just like his title, Barrick was a well-known earl during the empire. His ancestors followed the emperor to fight in all directions and created the empire.
This is how Barrick Molowent grew up under the aura of his ancestors. Compared with ordinary families, Barrick's childhood was very happy. When he became an adult, he inherited the title of the family and continued to serve as earl.
Barrick did not live up to the brilliance of his ancestors. He was later appointed as the commander of the empire, led the imperial army to fight fiercely against various enemies, and made great achievements in battle. With the hard work of him and other generals, the empire has a brilliant foundation.
It is precisely because of his outstanding talent and military exploits that Barrick is honored to be the Duke's son-in-law.
But the good times didn't last long. Not long after his marriage, Earl Barrick was arrested by the empire for "rebellion" and put on death row. Under the harsh criminal laws of the empire, although Earl Barrick was beaten all over his body, but Earl Barrick never admitted the crime imposed on him.
The imperial executioners were outraged, and they inflicted cruel punishments on Earl Barrick. In one execution, Earl Barrick's legs were crippled.
It's just that what he didn't expect in the end was that his wife, the Duke's daughter, testified in court, accusing Earl Barrick of treason, and also produced so-called "evidence".
From that moment, Earl Barrick understood that the so-called marriage recruitment was nothing more than a conspiracy by the Duke. It turned out that the Duke was colluding with the enemy country in the dark, but Earl Barrick defeated the enemy's army one after another on the battlefield, which threatened the position of the Duke in the enemy country. Therefore, the Duke made this bad plan and conspired to frame Earl Barrick.
After seeing that his wife did not support him, Earl Barrick was desperate, but he still had one last hope, which was to ask the emperor for a holy order. With the title of Earl Barrick and the glory of his ancestors, he believed that the emperor would spare his life.
Therefore, Earl Barrick filed a complaint on the day of the judgment, requesting the emperor to make a holy judgment. This is a special right enjoyed by the nobles of the empire.
No matter how big or small a nobleman is, he can apply for the emperor's holy order when he is accused. If the emperor rules that the nobleman is guilty, the nobleman will be sentenced by the court. Otherwise, he will be forgiven.
This is the legal right of the nobles, and even the Duke cannot veto it, so Earl Barrick was suspended from sentencing, and his case was directly delivered to the emperor.
In fact, even a fool can see that this case is an imposed charge. The so-called evidence is not sufficient at all, and there are too many doubts and loopholes. However, the emperor listened to the Duke's slander, so he convicted Earl Barrick.
Count Barrick was finally sentenced to death and beheading by the court. On the day before the execution, in order to prevent Earl Barrick from saying something bad during the public execution, under the instruction of the Duke, Earl Barrick's trachea was brutally cut open so that he could not speak.
On the day of the execution, Earl Barrick was taken to the execution ground in embarrassment. He could not speak, and could only glare at the Duke. This expression remained the same until his head was chopped off.
Earl Barrick was beheaded, his head was hung on the city gate for public display for three days and then buried in a mass grave outside the city.
Earl Barrick's death, his soul came to the underworld. After the Great Crusu collected his soul, he found that he had a strong ambition for revenge. The soul of Earl Barrick strongly appealed to revenge on mankind, so the Great Crusu did not seal his soul, but collected it and remodeled it to become a death knight who killed countless people.
In this way, after the undead war started, Earl Barrick came back to the world, but this time he appeared as a terrifying death knight. He led the undead army to wantonly slaughter and ravage the people of the empire, spreading death and destruction across the world. He turned one city after another into a hell on earth filled with bones, and his butcher knife was stained with human blood.
He led the undead army all the way south, conquered the capital of the empire, surrounded the mansion of the Duke, and ordered a fire to be set on fire, burning the Duke, his daughter and more than 300 other people to death, leaving no survivors.
Not only that, he and Locke's legion slaughtered wantonly in the capital of the empire, turning the entire bustling capital into a dead city.
After that, Earl Barrick led the undead army to continue southward and trying to elimate the human civilzation. Under the call of Queen Ovelia, the surviving humans formed the Kingdom of Carolan to resist the attack of the undead army.
Earl Barrick's undead army was finally completely defeated by the general Krostende under the command of Queen Ovelia. Earl Barrick led the remaining army to escape, and his whereabouts have been unknown since then.
General Krostende led his troops to search the entire southern part of the empire but could not find any trace of Earl Barrick and his subordinates. In the end, he could only write "The whereabouts of Earl Barrick is unknown" in his battle report to the queen and the court.
