The Scepter of the World pressed down upon the altar, and a more mysterious symbolic power fixed the constantly shifting dimensions firmly in place.
That did not mean Dick could simply reach out and take the Keystone. The spinning dark green stone was still in another dimension. It truly existed above the altar, but without penetrating the secrets of dimensions, touching it was out of the question.
That was something Dick was utterly incapable of at present.
However, these dimensional shifts had nothing to do with the Keystone itself. They were a spell the Nightblade Spider Queen had placed upon the Sargerite Keystone using her innate talent. Now that the Scepter of the World had completely suppressed the dimensional shifts, the spell's effects had been reduced to a minimum, and Katherine's continuous control over the dimensional space surrounding the Keystone had been cut off!
An old saying circulated in Azeroth: if you could not unravel an ongoing spell, killing its caster might be the only thing you could do.
Once Katherine died, the spell would naturally unravel. A divine artifact like the Keystone would not be destroyed so easily, either. Without the Scepter of the World's suppression, however, Katherine might well choose, at the moment of her death, to leave the Keystone in some dimension forever, or for a very long time.
That would make things quite troublesome... and as everyone knew, Illidan disliked trouble!
"Aaaah! Feeble human, get out of here!"
Katherine roared wildly. The clever demon had immediately realized that her greatest trump card had failed. Although she had considered Illidan an extremely difficult opponent, she still discovered, pessimistically, that she had underestimated the Lord of Outland's abilities. Just as this human who had appeared without a trace had said, manipulating dimensions as a mortal was itself almost