Duke still underestimated how much the Queen cherished her eggs.
First of all, a rough man is destined to be unable to understand a woman's feelings. Even before the time travel, not many women were willing to their eggs.
Then Alexstrasza is not only a mother dragon, she is also a dragon queen with god-level life powers. Her dragon eggs can even make the scarce and almost extinct blue Dragonflight thrive again.
You can imagine how precious such dragon eggs are.
Finally, Alexstrasza lied a little bit, if he used her dragon egg in exchange, not only could he avoid Malygos's wrath, but he could also get a higher level Sunfire. As the name suggests, this means that in addition to being promoted to a Lunar Mage, Duke can also lay a solid foundation for being promoted to a Sunfire Mage.
In the world of magic, nothing can be achieved overnight, unless you have a god of magic as your parent, like Medivh has a guardian mother, Aegwynn. Apart from Medivh, which mage didn't endure hardships? Either like Antonidas, who endured until he had one foot in the coffin; or like Khadgar in the original world, who gained strength through countless near-death experiences.
Even the opportunity to exchange for the Fire of the Stars and Moon was gained by Duke by facing Nefarian, one of the strongest and most evil beings in the world.
The queen never expected that, no, she should have thought too much. She thought Duke gave up the opportunity to step half a foot into the realm of Dawn in order to protect her precious dragon egg, and her favorability towards him could not help but rise.
Because of ignorance, Duke is... very calm.
Under Alexstrasza's gaze, he actually went to find Malygos.
In the highest level of Wyrmrest Temple, Ysera's will has already faded. Nozdormu is expending the power of time to rebuild Neltharion's ashes into a "model" of Neltharion's remains.
Only Malygos squinted his eyes, as if he was dozing off, but in fact he had a premonition that Duke would come to him to ask for his reward.
"You're here?" Malygos seemed to be struggling to keep his eyelids open.
"I'm here." Duke said calmly.
A blue wave enveloped the man and the dragon, and in an instant, Duke found himself in another pavilion hanging outside the Dragon Sleep Temple.
Obviously, the five guardian dragons each have their own independent space in the Dragon Sleep Temple.
The space of Malygos, the King of Magic, seems a little different.
If Alexstrasza deliberately reduced her space into a small room temporarily in order not to make Duke uncomfortable, then Malygos directly showed Duke the original space.
It was a huge space with a diameter of at least 10 kilometers.
Duke was on an isolated island in the middle of the blue ocean, with nothing but sea water around him.
There seemed to be an existence of supreme power in the sky. Thick white clouds were rolling and surging, making it difficult to see what was above the clouds. But somehow, one could naturally feel that there was a mysterious existence there that was powerful enough to destroy everything in the world.
Its nobility and greatness transcend everything in Azeroth.
Duke responded with a poker face and Dead Eye.
But only the momentum is left.
Alexstrasza, the person with the most say in Wyrmrest Temple, is protecting me. Do you dare to eat me?
Duke looked up at the sky with such a bad look and expression, and muttered to himself: Ah, the ancients said that only fools like to stand at the highest point waiting to be struck by lightning, the ancients were right.
It was not the first time he met Duke, but it was the only time he looked Duke in the eye.
He never believed in humans. It should be said that he was suspicious and even hostile to all races other than dragons.
The first time Duke approached him through Ysera in order to fight against Nefarian, it was forced by the situation.
Duke went through so much trouble to rescue Alexstrasza, but that was just a coincidence. In the end, it was still the four of them who fought against Deathwing.
Duke miraculously discovered that Neltharion had disguised himself as a human and sneaked into the Lordaeron Palace. Duke used this to lure the four of them and they finally destroyed Neltharion, and the credit still went to the four of them.
Without the other dragon kings, it would be impossible to kill the rebellious black dragon king.
Anyway, in Malygos's arrogant vision, creatures other than dragons are always secondary, and Duke has gained a transcendent status in Wyrmrest Temple without doing any real work.
Considering that he had finally killed his archenemy after thousands of years to avenge his spouse, Malygos didn't mind giving this little human a little favor.
However, Duke's unyielding attitude made him very unhappy.
A cold snort was heard, like thunder striking from the sky above.
Duke is still a combination of Dead Eye and poker face.
"Is this how you beg for a reward from the great Lord of Magic?"
Based on this one sentence, Duke sentenced Malygos to death.
You want me to work for you.
You have taken revenge and vented your anger, and you still have the nerve to make things difficult for me?
No reward, right? Haha! When you become the boss, I will kill you and take it for myself!
Duke cursed in his heart while expressing his attitude.
"Haha, you don't have to give it to me. If you don't, then I'll leave first. Can you please open a space door for me?"
Duke's nonchalant attitude made Malygos even more angry.
"Insignificant human! Recognize your identity. In front of my power, you are nothing." The clouds were boiling violently, as if the wrath of heaven would be brought down in the next moment.
The rage of the Dragon King is no joke, and the terrifying aura that emanated from Malygos' temple room caused the dragons that were still in the temple to tremble.
Damn it, who on earth angered the Dragon King Malygos?
Alexstrasza could no longer bear it and shouted across the void: "Hey! Malygos, what are you doing? Why are you being so mean to my savior?"
Malygos' anger subsided a little. After all, this was Wyrmrest Temple, and he was still very afraid of Alexstrasza who had recovered her strength.
"I'm just teaching a human to be polite to dragons!"
"What are you doing? Duke is our honored guest at the Wyrmrest Temple. We invited him to witness the ceremony today. We agreed to let him take over as the guardian, and you also had a part in it. Why are you so crazy all of a sudden?"
Only Duke knew that, after all, his strength was too low.
It was so low that even if he asked for a reasonable reward, it would be regarded as a charity. In the past eight hundred years, when had the previous guardians Aegwynn and Medivh ever been troubled?
A demigod can easily make other beings forget his original identity and instinctively respect him.