CHAPTER 701: PROLOGUE

What exactly is moral integrity?

This is an extremely profound question.

A person without moral integrity must be a hooligan.

A person with full moral principles is probably a saint.

But for a person whose moral integrity always fluctuates randomly, whether he is a human being or not, only God knows.

In Antonidas’s view, Duke is a super collection of contradictions.

He had seen Duke, who had a holy face and behaved more like a saint than a saint.

I’ve also seen a treacherous version of Duke who cheated and deceived people, hiding the fact that Deathwing was Lord Prestor, and even betrayed his own leader Terenas, and abducted someone else’s princess.

After all, I have known Duke for more than ten years, and Krasus for more than thirty years. Now Krasus has suddenly changed his style, and this experienced magic dragon has changed his previous strategy of fighting on the roaming ground. The rich combat experience has saved the life of this old wizard and new great lich.

attack!

Arrived as expected!

Antonidas was keenly aware of the magical fluctuations behind him, which were inconspicuous but real, and he simply used a Flash to leave the spot.

Sure enough, within less than a tenth of a second he left.

A shining golden hand made of magic suddenly appeared where he was before. Five fingers condensed with powerful magic quickly closed together, but unfortunately they grabbed nothing. The huge force that was enough to crush an ogre into a meat paste in an instant was useless.

"This is..." Antonidas’ gray facial muscles twitched.

What a waste!

There was simply no aesthetic sense or skill in injecting huge amounts of magic power into a large palm model.

If it wasn’t Duke who cast the spell, Antonidas would definitely have expressed the deepest disdain and contempt for this magic that seemed to be at the level of a magic apprentice.

Why do we need to chant spells when performing magic?

Why do more powerful magic spells take longer to chant?

Over the centuries, countless magic apprentices have asked their mentors this question.

Third-rate mentors will tell their students that this is how magic was when the senior masters of magic developed it, and changes are not allowed. Then when the students ask why the metamagic feat can shorten the time between castings, they become speechless.

A top-notch academic wizard will carefully analyze the components of this magic with his disciples.

Using magic to open a channel to the elemental world and attract elemental power is indeed the most core component of the spell.

This part is not the most important part.

The most important things are actually the spells added later that shape the elements, stabilize their properties, indicate targets, etc. This actually limits the scope and effect of magic, making magic more controllable and safer.

However, what Duke is doing now has almost overturned most of the theories of magical knowledge.

First there was one flaming hand, then ten, then a hundred...

From the beginning, it was barely shaping, to the end, it was just throwing fire elements at Antonidas. It was as if I dug up the levee, and I didn’t care what happened to the downstream!

In the sky, a large stretch of beach near the southeast was completely turned into a sea of fire.

The seawater was steaming up, and the high-temperature steam that could burn or choke a mortal spread across the sky, but it condensed in an entire area and did not disperse. With Antonidas as the center, the beach with a radius of more than five kilometers was surrounded by a small volcano that suddenly rose up.

Small volcanoes spewed golden flames into the sky.

Antonidas was so frustrated that he was almost going crazy.

As a veteran Antonidas, even though Duke had taken away many of his magic circuits before, he still used his rich magical knowledge and the magic power stored in the Dalaran Mage Tower to quickly replenish his lost magic circuits. He could declare without exaggeration that he could defeat any Antonidas mage he met.

But now, he felt a tremor from the depths of his soul.

For a moment, he almost thought that the one he was fighting against was Anasterian in his prime, not a mere Archmage-level Duke.

"That’s impossible!" He yelled subconsciously, but then he refuted himself: "But if it’s Duke..."

All the magical things Duke did in the past came to his mind.

I still remember that in the Broken Ridge of the Alterac Mountains, Duke borrowed his magic power to create an ice tornado, which cut down hundreds of young and young red dragons...

I still remember that when facing the Dark Gate whose magic power was so strong that even he was afraid, it was Duke who used his extraordinary control power beyond his own level to close the space gate connecting the two worlds...

Remember, when Dalaran fell, those mage towers suddenly went out of control, turning the Scourge’s plan for encirclement and annihilation into an unfinished war of attrition.

Looking back, Duke was not very good in one-on-one combat, but once he was given a strong advantage, his combat power would soar, he could literally fly!

At this moment, Antonidas wished there was a regret pill for sale in the world. He would definitely spend all his money to buy one.

It was certainly a good thing that he and Arthas forced Anasterian to surrender. Arthas was advancing in the front and destroying the defenses of Sunwell Plateau, which was also a good thing for the Scourge.

Who would have thought that if the Sunwell lost its most important owner, Duke would have an opportunity to take advantage of it? Without a controller, Duke could easily control the mana veins flowing out of the Sunwell.

Because of the conflict in their attributes, the two great liches, with their powers of the Sun’s Dawn, were no match for Duke, who had mastered the magic of the Sunwell’s tributaries.

That would be so stupid as to give the knife to Duke and then give his own neck to him.

For a second, Antonidas almost wanted to ask Arthas to stop advancing and go back to deal with Duke first. Unfortunately, it was impossible to think about it.

Invading the Sunwell was the highest-level mission given by the Lich King, and Arthas would not care no matter how much sacrifice he made.

Just now he felt that the Sun King had run away, and within three seconds, the soul punishment from the Lich King arrived. Now the soul circuits of the entire Scourge Army’s high-level leaders were filled with the screams of Anasterian.

"Duke! I’m going to fight you!" Antonidas roared, gathering every drop of dark power he could, and flashed towards the direction he sensed.

"Fight? What can you use to fight me?" On the beach, a huge volcano that was at least ten stories high, the magic of the Sunwell, which could not be measured, was gushing out crazily from the crater.

Miraculously, almost every bit of magic power bypassed Duke, who was in the middle of the crater. It passed by Duke, ejected into the air, and transformed into various forms to hit Antonidas.