Less than 10 minutes passed from the moment the butler led Lothar and the others away until the entire magic tower began to shake. When Lancer reached the air on the Gryphon, the battlefield was a scene of chaos.
A gigantic golem was chasing Khadgar, and Lothar was struggling to resist a mage's attack with the Great Royal Sword and a shield. As for the Orc female 'Garona,' she was nowhere to be seen.
'Did she run away?'
Lancer didn't know what had happened, but after assessing the battlefield, he decided to aid Lothar first. After all, Lothar was the key to this battle.
He pulled the reins to make the Gryphon fly above the magic tower, whose top had been blown off, and then leaped down from the Gryphon's back without hesitation.
"Whoosh~!"
The sound of air friction was extremely harsh, but Lancer seemed to pay no attention to it. He gripped the spear with both hands until ——————
「Murloc ———— Triple Stab」
"Get out of here!!"
There was no doubt that Medivh, whose body was almost controlled by Sargeras at this time, did not regard Lancer, a person he had never even seen, in his eyes. In his opinion, Lancer was nothing more than high-level cannon fodder.
He didn't even need to chant a spell. Fel energy instantly condensed in his hand into an eggshell-like shield, which he raised into the air.
The terror of Fel energy goes without saying. As an energy that exists purely for destruction, its most terrifying aspect is its ability to corrupt other elements. The green shield condensed from Fel energy possessed extremely strong defensive capabilities. However ——————
「Luck Check ———— Medivh · A, Special Effect activated!」
"Bang~!!"
Lancer, holding the Gae Bolg, fell straight down from a high altitude. The long spear in his hand directly struck the Fel shield Medivh was holding up, but that was all. Besides a ripple spreading across the tiered Fel shield, there was no other reaction. But just when everyone thought this was over ——————
"Crack~!"
No one other than Lancer expected that a crack would actually appear in the Fel shield Medivh was holding up.
Even Medivh himself was stunned for a moment, and Lothar, who had just been forced back by the other party, naturally wouldn't miss such a good opportunity. He fiercely slashed his sword against the crack in front of him ——————
"Crack~ Crack~! Bang!!"
The huge Fel shield was directly shattered, and he himself rushed towards Medivh like a cannonball.
The fact that Lancer was able to shatter the shield he created completely exceeded his expectations, and the fact that Lothar was able to seize that momentary opportunity made him couldn't help but let out an angry roar.
"Lothar!!"
Facing his friend with a ferocious expression, Lothar only felt a surge of sadness.
When he saw Medivh dressed in the mage robe, he had already realized that the arrogant man in front of him was no longer the man he knew.
That's right, he could confirm it without even needing to exchange words, just by looking into the other party's eyes.
Medivh, himself, and King Llane; the three of them grew up together. It could be said that their understanding of each other surpassed even their understanding of themselves, because often, many things can only be seen clearly from the perspective of an outsider.
So, after the sadness, what remained was a raging anger.
"Bastard! I don't care who you are!! Get out of my friend's body!"
The blood-red long spear descended straight from above, and the long sword, carrying its owner's anger, forcefully broke through the barrier from the front. Under the pincer attack, the twisted Fel flames on Medivh's body suddenly flared up.
"Get out of the way!!"
'Not good!'
Before Lothar could even give the warning, Lancer instinct told him he had to dodge.
After the Gae Bolg struck the ground, he strongly leveraged himself, trying to dodge, but the terrifying Fel energy directly exploded.
Lothar had personally witnessed the horror of 'Fel energy.' This terrifying energy seemed to exist inherently for destruction and possessed strong corrosiveness. The entire room was virtually destroyed by the opponent's Fel attacks, and with a near-zero distance explosion at this moment, he seemed to have already foreseen the scene of Lancer being annihilated by the Fel energy. But an unbelievable scene appeared.
Lancer right hand instantly burst open, and crystalline ice instantly filled his surroundings.
This ice crystal was just ordinary solid ice, so it naturally could not stop the attack of the Fel energy, but it was enough to buy Lancer some time.
"Snap~ Snap~ Snap~"
The ice instantly shattered and was completely burned away, and Lancer stood beside Lothar with a look of distress.
At this time, several new gaps had appeared on the armor he was wearing, but just then, Lothar suddenly whispered a reminder into Lancer ear.
"Stall him first. Khadgar went to look for the 'key' to cut off the mana pool. The two of us will hold him off!"
Mana pool?
It was at this moment that Lancer noticed the small pool glowing green behind Medivh, but now it was more appropriate to call it a Fel pool rather than a mana pool.
The formerly pure mana had been assimilated by the Fel energy's corruption. It could be said that this was the only chance for Lothar and the others to win now.
Medivh possessed vast magical power inherited from his mother, and it was not an exaggeration to call him the strongest mage in the world today. And there was no need to elaborate on who Sargeras, who possessed his body, was: the former most powerful warrior of the Great Pantheon, the Protector of the Pantheon, the Supreme Avenger of the Gods, the mentor of Aggramar, and now the creator and first leader of the Burning Legion.
It could be said that manipulating Fel energy was almost instinctive for him, but after all, the one controlling this body was not he himself but the consciousness-corrupted Medivh. This led to a mismatch between hardware and software, and Medivh's strength had even decreased significantly.
The reason why he was displaying such terrifying power now was also due to the corrupted mana pool behind him, and Khadgar had proposed destroying the mana pool first, but unfortunately, Khadgar, as his apprentice, still hadn't found the clue until now.
And just at this moment, new reinforcements appeared.
A group of Gryphon Knights, armed with javelins and longswords at their waists, also arrived.
"Sir Lothar!!"
As soon as they appeared, they noticed Lothar, who was desperately resisting the Fel energy with the Great Royal Sword.
They naturally knew the distinguished status of Medivh, but before coming here, they also knew what their mission was. So, when they found Lothar under attack, they also pulled out the javelins hanging beside the Gryphons without hesitation.
"Prepare! Volley fire!!"
More than a dozen metal-headed and enchanted metal javelins descended from the sky with killing intent, but ——————
"Annoying insects! Get out of my way!!"
"Whoosh~!"
The mana pool behind Medivh surged, and then streams of Chaos Bolts were fired into the air.
Unlike his approach with Lancer earlier, where Lancer was only one person and he couldn't waste too much Fel energy, as his most crucial target now was still Lothar, facing more than ten Gryphon Knights at this time, he had no intention of conserving anything. The sky was filled with arrows that almost painted their heads green.
Instantly, countless feathers fell from the sky...