The dagger hung in midair. Ricky went rigid and crashed to the ground.
The sudden Psychic Blast gave Ricky no time to react. Yazir's Destruction Storm had planted a soul shadow inside him beforehand.
Ricky had failed to put enough distance between them to evade it. His fate had already been sealed.
The Spider God Shadra's Destruction Doppelganger drew its power from within a cursed creature. The shadow of the soul pulled out the victim's soul and copied it into a dark doppelganger.
If the victim could shatter the doppelganger themselves, they could completely break the Destruction Doppelganger spell.
But Ricky had no power of foresight. At the final moment of their one-on-one showdown, the dark doppelganger dealt him a fatal blow.
The collision of soul power knocked Ricky straight to the ground, unconscious.
Yazir was considering how to kill Ricky, but he felt that letting Rowan's lackey die so easily would be letting him off too lightly.
Instead, he crushed part of Ricky's soul, leaving him mentally impaired.
The Militia Force's fighting strength was astonishing. Without help from the Shadra Guard, the orc and troll squads that had landed were actually held back in the harbor district.
After seeing these burly soldiers, who were even stronger than the Lordaeron City Guard, Yazir marveled inwardly, Where did they find all these freaks?
"Brothers, take out the soldiers using Holy Light spells first. Rear units, push forward as fast as you can."
Without Ricky's stealth unit to keep them in check, Yazir and the Shadra assassination squad had no natural enemies.
Soon, the defensive line Mayor Maleb had built began to crumble.
Militiamen fell one after another without a sound. Panic hung in the air, gradually spreading across the entire battlefield.
To cut their losses, Maleb ordered the militia to fall