Malfurion felt his worldview was collapsing and he was captured.
To his surprise, he had already prepared for the worst as he had destroyed the Burning Legion's plan. In the dark power hood that held him captive, he saw how the two female demon lords guarding the spell shield were punished, and he also heard the strange human lord who held him captive say that a vanguard of the Burning Legion was destroyed because of him.
Logically speaking, since he caused such great damage, the Burning Legion would definitely not let him go.
Malfurion kept thinking to himself to comfort himself: Tyrande, I finally saved the Kaldorei, at least for the time being.
Malfurion believed that he could greet the end of his soul with a smile.
Even if what awaits him ahead is the most terrible torture.
However...
There was no torture of any kind, not even a small punishment of the soul.
He was like a spectator, imprisoned in a small soul ring worn on the finger of the infernal lord.
Although he clearly heard this strange lord claiming that he would torture him and force him to reveal the means he used to infiltrate Azshara, he seemed to have been forgotten, and the human lord who defected to the Burning Legion ignored him at all.
Forgot?
He really hoped this was true.
Malfurion soon discovered that this infernal man was punishing him in the most brutal way in the world.
First, Wu Jiandao put the soul ring against a metal tube. It was not until he heard an image from outside and the sound of the slight vibration of the metal tube that he realized the despicable face of Queen Azshara. As the queen who brought in the Burning Legion, she would actually choose to send an assassin to kill her loyal minister because he resisted the Burning Legion's destruction.
Late at night the next day, when Malfurion saw Ravencrest's head with a clear expression of disbelief through the protection of the soul crystal, Malfurion felt that his world began to collapse.
Perhaps, this loyalist army leader who was willing to sacrifice his life and soul for the Queen was unwilling to believe until the moment of his death why the Queen's personal guard captain would kill him...
The assassination of Ravencasse and the fall of the royalist army into a state of leaderlessness were not the worst thing.
The most terrifying thing is that the talisman shield that Malfurion originally thought would take months to repair was repaired by Infernal Affairs.
Although the destruction of this magical mechanism by the power of nature was not quite complete, the creation of the spell shield was more than three hundred years ago. A lot of the information from that time was lost in the war, and even Queen Azshara said that it was impossible to provide complete information.
However, this calm and collected Infernal Lord, as if playing with mud, took it easy and comfortable, and in front of several demon lords, he recreated a brand new spell shield in just three hours.
Malfurion was not an arcanist, but through the soul crystal, he could clearly see that nearly ten powerful mages with strength at or above the Dawn level, including Xavius and the Eredar arcanist, and the twin demons who injured him, all had shocked expressions on their faces.
That is a skill far beyond this era.
From the beginning when only a few powerful mages were watching, to later when even Kil'jaeden's will came in person, this infernal lord did not stop for even a second.
Restoring the period of time in history that several great Antonidas wizards had toiled for years, and ignoring the lack of drawings, he recast the incomparably sophisticated multiple control array control linkage system. With his extremely nimble fingers, this human lord lifted and pulled nearly a hundred magic filaments thinner than a hair, and easily accomplished what so many magic lords could not do.
At the moment Duke finished his work, Kil'jaeden didn't even take another look at it, nor did he consider whether the rune shield Duke had remade needed testing. He just said, "Well done, Infernal Affairs. After you open the door, you will receive a reward above your standard."
Kil'jaeden's will left immediately, obviously he had more important things to do.
Previously, because the Well of Eternity's magic power was diverted, the matter of opening the portal had to be put on hold, which directly caused the Legion fleet waiting in the twisting void to stagnate. Now, there must be a commander to restart the stagnant preparations. That commander must not be Archimonde, who was responsible for the charge.
Duke bowed and sent Kil'jaeden off. He stood up again. In his shadow form, a cold and arrogant look was drawn on his face. "Tell Mannoroth that his enemies will lose the magic they are so proud of the moment before the army attacks!"
With just one word, the Duke sentenced these loyalists to death.
In fact, since he went back ten thousand years and accidentally entered the Twisting Nether, Duke has been wondering whether he should save these night elves who were endlessly committing suicide in the War of the Ancients.
The part of the upper elves who brought in the Burning Legion was certainly not worthy of sympathy, but after much consideration, Duke gave up on those loyalists.
What would happen if Ravencrest succeeded in his quest to save Queen Azshara from the Burning Legion? This is a topic worth exploring.
Too bad Duke wasn't interested.
Duke didn't believe that the nobles in the Loyalist Party, who were also upper elves, had not heard any news beforehand. Deep down, the Loyalist Party was still pursuing endless arcane magic and absolute rule over the continent. It was just that they were the ones abandoned by the Queen. Everything they did was purely subconsciously unwilling to be abandoned losers, and they wanted to fight for power and revenge.
War requires sacrifice. In order to inflict a heavy loss on the Burning Legion, Duke, as a human, had no psychological burden in abandoning the Kaldorei, who were not even considered a human alliance at this point in time.
Besides, no matter how cruel it was, Duke was only maintaining the original history.
So half a day later, Duke received the news, without surprise, that the 500,000 elves were almost completely defeated.
I say almost, because several heroes who surprised the legion lords, with their extraordinary personal combat power, managed to block the fierce attack of more than a dozen lords including Mannoroth and a full 100,000 elite demons, and bought the remaining elven army an extremely precious half an hour.
"Master Duke, your 'Grom' has defected to the enemy! He even killed the Abyss Lord Bluegardon with his own hands." Queen Sarolas reported meaningfully.
While complaining about the Abyss Lord's nemesis halo in his heart, Duke, the movie star, sneered: "Let him be. Anyway, Lord Archimonde will be here soon. All the rebels on this planet will meet their end."
On the seventh day after Malfurion destroyed the shield, Duke opened the largest portal in history at that time as scheduled according to the agreement with Kil'jaeden - Archimonde, the commander of the Burning Legion, arrived!