The demon invasion was over. All 185 demons were killed on the first floor without any escape. No heroic warriors were lost.
Duke was pleased with the result.
But Duke was more satisfied with the connection between the things in Karazhan, the Mage Tower, and himself. Through system control, he could almost grasp all the details of the first and second floors. As long as he wanted, he could "see" every space inside as if his soul had left his body.
"Ah! What a wonderful feeling. If only my mastery of magic could be so meticulous, and I could control the overall situation so powerfully and control the power of every element." Duke said to himself.
Control every elemental force inside...
Wait! Control every element?
When Duke thought of this, he suddenly felt enlightened.
Do it when you think of it!
He slowly injected arcane energy into his eyes at a pace that his eyeballs could adapt to. When he closed his eyes and then opened them again, Duke suddenly discovered that he was seeing a new world.
Different from the various basic substances that make up the world, it is a pure elemental world.
What you see is that the thick walls around have turned into masses of solid yellow earth elements. They are almost still and not flowing, in a state that is almost solidified.
In the relatively empty places, where there should be air flowing, the situation was completely different. Duke sensed the wind element, which was floating almost irregularly in the air with a little water element. It just flowed along the space defined by the earth element and the long and narrow corridor.
With an idea in mind, Duke stretched out his hand, and a ball of fire suddenly appeared in his palm.
In this elemental world, Duke clearly saw that countless lights, which were initially very tiny, quickly gathered on his hands from all directions. The yellow light spots grew larger and brighter, and finally gathered into a ball.
It was just a small flame, but Duke felt a great sense of accomplishment. Just looking at the fire element gave Duke a feeling of creating a new star. From the light of a grain of rice, it gathered light that was tens of thousands or hundreds of millions times brighter than the original, and finally became a dazzling light that even the naked eye dared not look directly at.
Duke gently closed his palms and reached out to the earth elements around him.
Duke found that he had control over the earth element. As he pinched, kneaded, and rubbed his fingers, the earth element that his palm pointed to also changed. It was like a piece of clay for shaping ceramics, allowing Duke to roll it into a round shape or flatten it.
Khadgar, who was beside Duke, looked at Duke in amazement as he stirred the huge stone wall in the air like stirring a dough. At that moment, Khadgar completely lost the ability to speak.
In Khadgar's opinion, the power of magic is only suitable for destruction. How could such a thing be possible?
Duke ignored Khadgar. He was still immersed in this rare experience.
By manipulating the earth element in this way, it stands to reason that his power should be released like a flood. But in fact, when he truly mastered the earth element, Duke even discovered that it was the power extracted from the earth element that helped him further transform it.
This is true not only for the earth element, but also for the fire element and the water element.
Duke easily extracted the heat from the water element, and huge, slender ice prisms suddenly appeared in the void above Duke's head. And by combining that heat with the free fire element in the atmosphere, dozens or even hundreds of fireballs of various sizes suddenly appeared at Duke's feet.
"What!?" Khadgar couldn't believe his eyes - Duke was using fire and ice magic at the same time. Aren't these two kinds of magic conflicting?
Either using fire or using ice to connect two opposite elemental realms at the same time is simply a suicidal act.
So is Duke courting disaster?
In Khadgar's sight, Duke flicked his fingers lightly, combining the ice prism and the fireball one-to-one, blending them into a Frostfire Arrow that possessed both the power of ice and fire.
Gently shot out at the distant wall, the Frost Fire Arrow suddenly pierced through the first wall, leaving a bowl-sized burn mark, and then pierced through the second wall behind, leaving behind a large hole covered with ice. Finally, it exploded at the third wall, collapsing half of the wall.
There were clearly traces of fire burns on the first wall, but within a second they all turned into ice sculptures and then exploded.
The second wall was the opposite, with flames bursting out from the ice like molten lava.
Khadgar was completely confused: "How is this possible..."
Duke didn't answer, but he was talking to himself: "I understand why the adept stage is so. That's because the adept mage can only be like something fixed to the earth. He can't move at all and can only passively accept the power floating around. But the archmage is different. Everything in this sky is used by him, changed by him, born for him, and destroyed for him. Therefore, the archmage is the...master of the entire sky!!"
As the word "dominant" was pronounced, Duke felt that in his lost spiritual world, in the dark chaos where he could not find a way forward, a bright light seemed to flash. The light was like a spark that set the prairie on fire, splitting into two, then four, and splitting endlessly. In a moment, it lit up Duke's entire spiritual world.
And the infinitely extending flames will eventually warm up the entire spiritual world!
It's getting brighter and brighter! It's getting hotter and hotter!
Then the illusion of light in the spiritual world shattered and turned into information that Duke could understand and the system AI could accept.
Countless green lights and characters flashed across Duke's retina, eventually transforming into a line of extremely eye-catching green characters.
"Congratulations! Host! You have successfully been promoted to an archmage!"
Duke suddenly realized that this was also the legacy left to him by Medivh. If he had not accepted Karazhan, he would not have started the spatial transformation. Without the spatial transformation, there would be no such profound understanding of space.
Without this understanding, he would not have been promoted.
This is not something any book can teach you.
Only by experiencing it personally, and feeling it personally, can you master the power to dominate the elements of heaven and earth through countless changes in the elements of heaven and earth!
"Huh!" Duke let out a long breath.
At this moment, a line of red words suddenly popped up on the system prompt: "Your servant Reginald Windsor is in a dying state!"