"Gandalf, if you had a way like this, why didn't you use it sooner? I drank all those potions for nothing!"
Gandalf's maneuver left Li Wei speechless. If you'd taken me away earlier, I wouldn't have drunk them, would I?
"Aha... well, this sort of thing can't be done too often. You understand what I mean. It doesn't come without a price..."
Gandalf let out an awkward laugh, but his feet never stopped moving. The two of them were still sprinting outward.
The army behind them came to its senses at this point and noisily gave chase along the path. Gandalf struck backward with his staff, shattering the top of the Watchtower behind them. Massive falling stones crushed a whole group of pursuing Orcs flat and blocked the road as well.
Were they safe?
Just as Li Wei thought that, wisps of black mist suddenly appeared before them.
Rumble—!
A hollow phantom resembling a gigantic eye formed before them, completely blocking their path. Looking closely, there was a figure surrounded by flames in the center of that eye.
Sauron.
Now Gandalf was numb.
So was Li Wei.
Because—
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He had no health bar. Or rather, this was not Sauron's true body at all—perhaps it really was only an external phantom.
There were still dozens of seconds left on his potion effects. Li Wei felt eager to make a move.
He bit into another Golden Apple.
"No light can defeat darkness, wizard."
Within the violent black fog, Sauron murmured.
The moment he finished speaking, a roiling, boiling wave of black mist surged toward Li Wei beside Gandalf, seemingly intending to eliminate the troublesome bystander before dealing with the wizard.
Yet this attack received an unexpected response. Li Wei instinctively slashed with his sword, cutting the black mist in