"Lord Rowan...?" Saurfang was overcome with anguish. He pressed his broad palm to his chest, his grief plain to see.
Sylvanas never missed, driving arrow after arrow into the Elemental Giant's spirit eyes and crippling its senses.
"Don't worry. Rowan is fine." This was not the first time Sylvanas had seen Rowan slip free of death. Though she felt a little nervous, the absence of a fallen soul told her he had already revived through another Spell Clone.
When Rowan had been crushed to death by an elemental stone pillar earlier, he had escaped death in exactly the same way.
Saurfang did not question her. He nodded, collected himself, and helped Ascension's army of mechanical centurions fight the elemental host created by Metri, one of the Arcane Aberration Spirits.
When Rowan vanished, he took with him the Legendary Shard from one section of Metri's modules.
Without the legendary soul fragment's support, the fourth section of modules in Metri's body instantly fell apart.
As the hundred-meter giant's body began to wither and crumble, Metri moved quickly to fill some of the gaps.
Losing just one Legendary Shard had drastically reduced Metri's strength. Clearly, the guardian inheritance power was not born of simply adding together the power of seven Legendary Shards.
The inheritance power was more like a complete structure. With one vital core missing, its strength would diminish-and diminish enormously.
That wretched living human. How could he possibly possess the power to steal Legendary Shards?
Every legendary fragment contained the essence of a Guardian. Even someone as powerful as Metri, an Arcane Aberration Spirit, needed a long time to refine and absorb a fragment before he could control its power.
Yet Rowan, that shameless thief, had not only taken a fragment with ease, but also gained the recognition of the Soul