Was Duque's strength already above Antonidas'?
Of course not. Antonidas had used his spare magic power to summon the water elementals in order to prevent Gul 'dan's minions from interrupting his spellcasting. The core was still the magic itself. The fireballs and ice arrows flying randomly in the air were the real killer moves.
Duque did the exact opposite.
He thought of himself as a summoner.
The magic circuits were operating at full power, and every circuit burst with a bright arcane light. The magic reaction was so strong that the light even penetrated through the muscles and veins of his body, and many of Duque's magic circuit lines could even be seen on the surface of his body.
Duque was clearly in a bunker on the defensive line, but there was an illusion that the light was going to penetrate the outside of the bunker.
Gavinrad and Ilusia, who were guarding near Duque, were shocked. They had never heard of Duque's spellcasting method of squeezing out all of his magic power.
Just like how a person could not exert 500 pounds of force just because he had 500 pounds of strength, the power of the magic circuit could rarely be pushed to the limit. The limit that a person felt was not the limit that they could bear in the real sense.
To explore that limit, they needed to practice, analyze, perceive, and improve themselves bit by bit.
Similarly, there were many mages who accidentally went overboard when exploring their own limits, and their original magic circuits were overloaded and burned.
Duque's pushing was the limit, but it felt like he was walking on a high wire.
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That kind of exquisite control made Elucia gape and tongue-tied.
He could overload and die at any time, but he lingered on the edge of the gate to hell like a horse on a cliff, refusing to take even half a step in.
The effect was obvious. One after another, huge circular magic circles unfolded in the air above the top of the bunker. The magic waves were so strong that Ilusia could feel them even through the thick stone layer.
The magic array slowly rotated in a clockwise direction, and the lines constructed by the Arcane Light expanded along the magic array, rapidly expanding the area of the magic array.
"Glug glug!"
With a strange sound, a huge, translucent, illusory waterfall appeared in the air. It was a huge drain with a width of more than fifty meters. Copious amounts of water poured down from the sky.
There should have been a sound like a landslide or a tsunami, but in fact, there was no sound at all.
"Ah!" Illucia let out a low cry.
Did all the water disappear?
No, the water had already entered the bodies of some elemental creatures. In the world that mortals could not see with their naked eyes, Ilusia could clearly see the huge waterfall split into two hundred and fifty-six.
He constructed 256 huge Water Elementals.
Ten seconds later, the water elements crossed the boundary between the Illusory Elemental World and the Azeroth Material World, appearing in front of the Orcs.
Therefore, it looked as if water elements had appeared from the void.
The Wolf Cavalrymen were petrified. For a moment, they didn't even know whether to continue attacking or to retreat from the narrow bridge in a sorry state.
In fact, no matter which choice they made, it was a dead end. They could only watch helplessly as death approached them step by step.
Through the firing hole in the bunker, Gavin Rade saw the water elementals on a killing spree.
The biggest characteristic of elemental creatures was that their core was an element. If the elemental group was not destroyed, there was not much meaning in simply physically destroying its body.
If you cut a ball of water with a knife, could you cut the water in two and kill the water?
If you smashed the arm of the earth elemental giant with a hammer, it would not be able to withstand the earth elemental's call. The earth would rise from the ground and automatically repair its body.
The key to dealing with elemental creatures was to destroy the energy structure of its elemental core.
The Wolf Cavalrymen were in a difficult situation.
They had wanted to rush up, find Duque, and kill Duque with a knife. Who would have thought that there would be so many impenetrable water elementals coming out?
And they were f * cking elites!
Knives could not cut them, and the wolf teeth could not bite them to death.
Against the impenetrable water elementals, the Wolf Cavalrymen could only try their best to avoid them.
But the water elementals could still shoot Frost Arrows!
The entire northern position of the bridge fell into a one-sided massacre.
"Let's go." There was a clear weakness in Duque's voice.
Illucia looked at Duque and said to Gavin Rade, "I don't have much magic left. I'll support Master. You open the way and cover us. "
Duque felt that something was wrong. The unexpected feeling of weakness forced him to put half of his body on Illucia's soft but firm shoulder.
Gavin Rade did not waste any time. He pulled out his hammer and strode ahead to open the way.
His and Illucia's worries were a little unnecessary. With the protection of the water elemental army and Cirvanas, the god of death, it was impossible for any Orcs to get close.
When they saw a large number of water elementals emerging from the position, Zuluhid's Dragon Cavalrymen also did not dare to get close.
After a few turns, it actually did not take much time. Duque and his party had already passed through the tunnel under the hill. They came to the back of the hill.
The view in front of them suddenly opened up.
A hundred fully-armed Highland Knights of Riptide Castle were waiting there.
After Duque sent away eighty percent of them without anyone noticing, these promised knight candidates had already come to Duque and swore their loyalty to Duque. Duque also followed the ancient etiquette and used the magic staff he inherited from Medivh, the incomplete Atiesh, to touch the shoulders of these knights on both sides.
The official knighthood ceremony was to touch the left and right shoulders with a longsword.
Firstly, Duque was a Pharaoh, and the rule of the Mage Lords was to use a staff instead of a longsword.
Secondly, Duque only now realized that he did not even have a suitable staff other than the head of Atiesh. In order to show respect, he had to tie a sandalwood stick to Atiesh and use it as a temporary staff.
What made Duque's head hurt the most was that even though it was only the head of Atiesh, it actually provided a magic boost that surpassed all the common goods on the market.
No matter what, the swearing ceremony was sacred.
King Solas even snuck over to witness the ceremony with his own eyes. He then rushed back through the night.
When a hundred of them were raised and lowered in unison, when the neat and uniform movements were displayed in front of him, he could not help but feel a thrilling power in his heart, and he had the urge to immediately cheer.
"Greetings to our Lord, Grand Duke Duke Marcus." The uniform roar pierced through everyone's eardrums like thunder.
That's right! These outstanding knights were now Duque's strength.
Duque smiled. "Let's go, we're going to give the Orcs a big gift."
Big gift?
What kind of gift?
A gift that could cause more casualties than the thousands of soldiers who volunteered to cover the retreat?
Although the knights were extremely determined, everyone was curious and excited about the 'big gift' that Duque mentioned.
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