The Eredar lord named Baladul was imprisoned in the Violet Hold... Antonidas had also been visiting the Violet Hold frequently of late.
Dalaran's residents near the Violet Hold had often heard agonized screams recently, but they had long since grown used to them and paid them no mind.
Karin discovered that the two mages who had helped Antonidas subdue the demon had disappeared from Dalaran... The two powerful mages of the eighth ring or higher, a High Elf and a mysterious figure concealed beneath a black hood, were nowhere to be found.
It was difficult to deduce their identities from the available information and his memories of his previous life... If the All-Knowing Eye were here, there might have been a chance. Unfortunately, he was still a considerable distance from the sixth ring.
There was another piece of saddening news: Khadgar had broken through!
The kid had already been at the fourth ring for some time before coming to Dalaran. After another two years of study in Dalaran, a breakthrough was only natural.
A fifth-ring mage at just sixteen could rank among the very best in Dalaran's history.
It was easy to imagine how smug Khadgar had been...
"Hahahaha! Karin, you puny low-level mage, I'm stronger than you again..."
Then Kel'Thuzad had given him a fierce glare, and he had immediately stopped daring to say another word.
Over the past few months, Archmage Antonidas had gone to the Violet Hold whenever he had time to interrogate the demon lord named Baladul.
Neither he, Meryl Winterwind, nor Nalaras Sunstrider had gained much of anything.
The demon was tight-lipped. No matter what torture he suffered, he refused to reveal a single word.
Meryl had even used a forbidden necromancy spell, the eighth-ring spell Death and Decay... It had made the demon's