"Who are you looking at with those pitying eyes?" Gul'dan burned with rage and raised several more waves of fel fire, ready to kill the high-ranking human archmage in one blow.
But before he could unleash the fel flames, Guardian Evans raised his hand slightly, instantly cast a Teleportation Spell, and vanished from the Fountain of Night.
The towering fel flames struck nothing. Only a drifting trace of azure light remained on the open rooftop.
"Go inside the palace and retrieve the energy core from the well shaft. I have great use for it," Kil'jaeden's voice rang out again.
Gul'dan nodded and transmitted his reply. "Yes, Lord Kil'jaeden."
Before searching for the energy core, Gul'dan summoned Tichondrius to the Fountain of Night.
The strange look Evans had given him before leaving infuriated Gul'dan.
Humans were creatures whose emotions easily affected their state of mind, yet he had watched his leader being swallowed by fel fire without any expression at all.
The more Gul'dan considered it, the more suspicious he became. Somehow, the thought that Rowan was still alive rose in his mind.
First that damned beast Rowan had insulted him, and now he might very well have been made a fool of. With his anger doubled, Gul'dan decided to vent it on the city's elves.
"Order every siege unit to kill all the elves in the city. Throw every last corpse into the Soul Engine and wring out whatever value remains," Gul'dan ordered.
Tichondrius nodded in acknowledgment and returned to the Nighthold.
Narrowing his eyes, Gul'dan slowly approached the Nightwell's shaft.
He raised his muscular arm and punched straight through the shaft's energy barrier.
Arcane energy surged out of the passage, turning the rooftop Fountain of Night into a true fountain of night.
Powerful arcane energy surged upward, reaching the