"Huh? I already follow the Light." Gavinrad responded immediately.
"I'm not asking you to change your faith. I'm just asking if you're interested in mastering a new, stronger power." Duke answered seriously.
"I think I'm strong enough." Gavinrad was a bit skeptical about Duke's suggestion.
"Come on, I'm not saying the power of the Light is bad, but the strength of the Light lies in the devotion of the soul. Your devotion is just above average. So even though you have a good foundation, you're still at the back of the pack among the first generation of paladins." Duke had hit a sore spot for Gavinrad.
In terms of martial prowess, Gavinrad wasn't much worse than the first three. The only one who truly made Gavinrad admit defeat was Saidan Dathrohan. But the power of the Light comes from the soul, the more devout, the more fanatical about the holy, the stronger the power of the Light.
After being blessed by the Light, the strongest turned out to be Uther. He and Turalyon were tied for second to last, well, the weakest was Reginald Windsor.
"Alright, what kind of power is it?"
"The power of the Storm! To be precise, the power of Thunder."
"Ah!?"
At this moment, Gavinrad was moved.
This had nothing to do with the professional characteristics of a paladin, on one hand, it was a matter of development potential. The path of the Light, he had reached the end of it.
He was better than some, worse than others, but he couldn't become the most outstanding.
On the other hand, as a knight from Stormwind, Gavinrad Doomsayer had good virtues and a martial family heritage. And what fundamentally differentiated him from Uther and the other first-generation paladins was—hatred!
The hatred of having his relatives slaughtered by orcs.
In a country where every household had victims, any citizen of Stormwind had deep hatred and resentment towards the orcs, his grudge was nothing special.
But the path of the Light did not allow for personal vendettas.
Gavinrad could only suppress his anger, trying to numb himself, telling himself that it was a selfless war. In fact, he failed, so his power of the Light was almost at the bottom among the first generation of paladins.
"If I'm not mistaken, you can change your profession to a Storm Knight."
"Are there any risks?"
"Calm down, when there's danger you won't use Divine Shield... oh, use [Divine Shield]!"
With that thought, Gavinrad decided to go for it.
With the same trepidation as the ogre he had faced before, Gavinrad stood in the center of the altar. At this time, everyone was shocked to find that the altar was still in an unactivated state. According to the simplest estimate, it would require five mages to activate it.
At this time, Duke put on a magnificent performance.
[Mirror Image]
Duke's figure suddenly became blurred, and a blue figure of Duke walked out of Duke. Obviously, the one who walked out was a clone, but in less than a tenth of a second, as if a child was playing a coloring game, the Duke who walked out was quickly dyed with real colors.
In the blink of an eye, there was no visual difference between the Duke who had split out and the original body.
Two Dukes came out, three Dukes... in the end, a total of five Dukes walked out from the original body.
Unlike the [Mirror Image] of the orc Blademaster, which was rigid and had the same actions as the original, Duke's clones seemed to have completely independent actions from the original.
The steps they took had different speeds, the Duke who walked to the farthest position even jogged over there. The two farther Dukes were walking quickly, while the nearest Duke clone was almost crawling.
Different expressions, different actions.
Such a lifelike performance left the Windrunner sisters speechless.
"Sis, sis, am I seeing things? Why does it look like there are so many brother-in-laws?" Vereesa, shocked, was shaking her sister's shoulder, not even realizing she had used the wrong title.
Sylvanas was also witnessing Duke's magical skill for the first time. She tried hard to observe, spreading her perception, and it took her a while to find the difference between the clone and the original.
The clone didn't breathe, it had no scent!
However, the clone did have a 'physical' presence in the true sense.
She felt the faint wind formed by the air displaced as the clone moved forward...
Alleria was dazzled and fascinated. Naturally, she thought back to the first time she met Duke. It was a chance encounter, she thought she had met a ghost, but found a magical mage prodigy. And when Duke was killed for the second time, she happened to witness it.
To be honest, she still didn't understand what had happened then.
But now, she felt that most of her doubts had been explained—Duke was definitely a super magical genius. Of course, no one would know that Duke had slaughtered the chieftain of the Burning Blade clan, Blademaster Dar Bloodblade, to get [Mirror Image].
After everything was ready, the five clones of Duke, controlled by the system sprite, began casting spells at the same time. The principle was not much different from controlling [Mage Hand]. To the others, it just looked cool.
Five clones that could simultaneously chant different spells!
Such talent, such magical means, the Windrunner sisters began to understand why Duke could rise so quickly in such a short time.
It was almost identical to the vision when Gul'dan activated the altar.
Only because the pollution of the altar had been removed by Archbishop Faol, the tornado that rolled up in the sky was a mix of gold and white.
The power of the thunder in the sky was broken down into countless thin streams, drilling into Gavinrad's body, transforming the body of this unfortunate first-generation paladin who was killed by Arthas in history.
Lightning flashed and thunder roared!
Such a large-scale, wide-ranging vision couldn't be hidden from anyone!
Forty kilometers away, Gul'dan, who was breaking through the second layer of the rune stone defense line of Eversong Woods, was suddenly disturbed!
"Someone has actually restored the Storm Altar!? This is impossible! You—go check it out quickly!" Unfortunately, Gul'dan, Gorgall, and the few remaining warlocks of the Shadow Council were busy at the moment, they were planning to use a new batch of rune stones to build a new altar, and they couldn't leave at this time.
With no other choice, Gul'dan could only order the world's first Death Knight—Teron Bloodfiend, who had been strengthened again by the Storm Altar, to go and investigate.
Distance is a very important factor.
Warlocks indeed have the ability to summon teammates across space, provided that there are their own warlocks and two helpers at the destination.
Now, there was not a single Horde within ten kilometers of Duke.
At this time, the transformation of Gavinrad was completed.