Azeroth: Starting with Eagle Eye in the Necropolis

"The power of Thunderbolt is sufficient. Although this move is powerful, it is not as powerful as Thunderbolt," Rhodes said with a smile.

Thunderous Ice, without water magic bonus, consumes 8 mana and can deal (strength x 20) + 10 damage.

Basic water magic reduces mana cost by 2 points, requiring only 6 mana to use.

Intermediate water magic adds 20 points of damage, while advanced water magic adds 50 points of damage; the power is multiplied by 20 for both.

This skill has a lower cost than Thunderbolt, and its practicality is quite good among level 2 damage spells.

"Then I'll accept Rhodes without hesitation."

"Yes, it's for you."

Jaina happily put away the magic scroll, then ran a distance away to test the power of the Thunderous Ice.

A white ray shimmering with blue light shot out from the female mage's hand, blasting a layer of frost into the ground.

In terms of power, it was much stronger than the Magic Arrow. Jaina studied the magic scroll with great excitement.

Rhodes opened the building page. Actually, Rhodes no longer needed the Thunderbolt spell scroll, because the Thunderbolt spell had already appeared in the level 2 magic guilds of Elemental City. Now he could cast it himself without equipping a spell scroll.

Magic scrolls are indeed very useful, but they take up a slot in the miscellaneous equipment inventory. The Thunderbolt magic scroll frees up a slot, and my subordinates can also learn this terrifying damage spell through the Magic Guild.

Rhodes of the Cemetery City also chose to build a level 4 magic guild and obtained two level 4 spells.

Two level 4 spells, one of which is a damaging spell called Meteor Shower. To be honest, when I first started playing Heroes of Might and Magic III, Rhodes always thought it was a fire spell, but he only found out at the end that fire spells can't be enhanced at all; it's an earth spell.

Why does the Meteor Shower spell exist within earth magic? This is a question worth pondering.

Meteor Shower, an earth-attribute damage spell with no basic earth magic bonus, consumes 16 mana points and deals (strength x 25) + 25 damage to targets within range.

In Heroes of Might and Magic, this spell can even damage 2-3 squads of troops, making it a super-large damage spell with an area effect similar to Archimonde's Rain of Chaos.

The basic earth magic bonus reduces mana cost by 4 points, requiring only 12 mana to use. The intermediate earth magic now has a base damage of +50.

Advanced earth magic, with a base damage increase of 100. This area-of-effect magic is quite interesting, as it can cover a large area. Rhodes also plans to try combining it with Archimonde's Rain of Chaos.

Another level four spell is the famous Reincarnation, which has no effect on the undead, but can directly revive living units.

It's considered an essential strategic spell in Heroes of Might and Magic III. If you can find this spell in a magic guild, you should be happy!

Of course, if your main character in the game is an undead, and this magic appears in the Undead City, you can only sigh helplessly. It's strange, really. Of course, you can only borrow the stronghold of a level 3 magic guild in the swamp. Their magic is still only level 3.

The initial effect of the Reincarnation spell is to consume 20 mana points to revive a selected non-undead friendly unit. The revived unit will have (strength x 50) + 40 health points, but the revived unit will not be retained after the battle.

Basic Earth Magic effect: Reduces mana cost by 4 points, costs 16 mana. Intermediate Earth Magic effect: Revives a character with (Strength P × 50) + 80 health, and permanently revives them.

The effect of advanced earth magic is that the resurrected life points are (strength × 50) + 160, and the resurrection is permanent.

He is currently a high-level earth magic user, plus 12 points of strength, 12 x 50 = 600 plus 160, for a total of 760 points of life resurrection. If converted to archangels, Rhodes can resurrect 3, while the 4th archangel restores 10 points of health.

Using this magic, his resurrection ability is even more terrifying than that of the archangels. Moreover, in the world of Azeroth, with 760 points of life, even if some demigods are killed, Rhodes can resurrect them.

Furthermore, as his power increases in the future, Rhodes' resurrection ability will be enhanced. However, his resurrection skill is also limited. First, there must be a corpse, and second, the soul must not have entered the Shadow Realm. In other words, the time of death must not exceed 24 hours. Otherwise, Rhodes' resurrection skill will be useless.

Thinking of this, Rhodes immediately summoned Cenarius, Tyrande, and Thrall of the Horde. He now had over 200 mana points, enough to cast Resurrection more than 10 times.

Chapter 161 Reincarnation and Rebirth, Tyrande's True Identity, Your Highness?

"Lord Rhodes, what brings you here?" Thrall asked first.

“Here’s the thing, guys, the Titan Guardians have rewarded me with a new spell. Now I can cast a magical resurrection spell. You can bring me any well-preserved corpses of warriors who died no more than 24 hours ago, and I can resurrect them all,” Rhodes said.

Upon hearing this, the demigod Cenarius and Tyrande exchanged a glance. The two archangels that Rhodes had summoned earlier had already demonstrated their resurrection abilities.

Then, in their era, Rhodes also possessed the ability to resurrect, and it seems that this war was what granted Rhodes this ability.

"Is this true? Lord Rhodes, you can resurrect all the fallen warriors?" Thrall asked in astonishment.

Shamans do have a spell to heal the seriously wounded, but it's called Summon Ancestral Spirits and doesn't actually resurrect. (In Azeroth, resurrection abilities are extremely rare. Only the female member of the Scarlet Monastery, Uther, and the Archdruid have explicitly been known to possess resurrection abilities, but these have many limitations. The power of the Reincarnation spell, and the resurrection abilities of the Archangels, would easily surpass theirs.)

“However, there are some prerequisites. First, the time of death cannot exceed 24 hours, and I cannot resurrect those who died of natural causes or illness. Second, the body must be preserved, and the more complete it is, the easier it will be to resurrect it,” Rhodes said.

"Understood, Lord Rhodes. I will immediately send all the warriors to collect the corpses and try to bring over any that are intact." Thrall nodded excitedly, mounted his twin wolf mount, and galloped away. He summoned his orc overseers, as well as Cairne Bloodhoof, the chieftain of the tauren forces, and Vol'jin, the leader of the Darkspear trolls. The Horde had already begun collecting the corpses.

Tyrande and Cenarius nodded to each other, then went to gather all the sentry units to collect the bodies.

"How many times can you cast this spell? A lot of people died in this battle," Tyrande asked.

"If you had seen me ten thousand years ago, wouldn't you know how powerful my resurrection ability is?" Rhodes smiled and asked in return.

Thanks to the bonuses from Intermediate Intelligence, Mathematical Wisdom, and Blessing of Wisdom, Rhodes now has a magic power of 215, and using Reincarnation only requires 16 magic power.

If we calculate 215 divided by 16, Rhodes can cast the Reincarnation spell a total of 13 times, and he can also drink a lot of magic potions to recover. So as long as it doesn't exceed 24 hours, Rhodes can resurrect as many people as he wants.

“Of course I know your resurrection magic. You’re becoming more and more like the person I remember. Time really flies, my friend.” Tyrande nodded to Rhodes, then rode away on her white tiger-shaped Nightblade Panther.

“Professor Cenarius, I think I have a question I’d like to ask you.” After Tyrande walked away, Rhodes looked at the demigod Cenarius.

He had a question in his mind: Tyrande's attitude towards him was obviously not right, but Malfurion was right next to him.

This gave Rhodes a feeling of being scratched by a cat, so he couldn't help but want to ask Cenarius.

“I know what you want to ask, but I’m sorry, Rhodes, I can’t tell you. You’ll find out the answer later,” Cenarius said with a sigh.

Rhodes rolled his eyes. He had only wanted to ask indirectly what the demigod Cenarius knew.

Damn it, what's going on between me and Tyrande?

“Okay, I won’t ask anymore, that thing.” Rhodes shrugged.

“I’m going back to the Emerald Dream. All the druids must come with me. We need to heal the wounds of the Battle of Mount Hyjal.” Cenarius said, and left without waiting for Rhodes’ reply.

Watching Cenarius Rodríguez leave, he shrugged helplessly. What's going on? Things are getting weirder and weirder.

At this moment, Tyrande came to Malfurion's side. The two looked at each other, then left together and ran to a deserted corner of the mountain.

“Your Highness, you shouldn’t have too much contact with Rhodes, you know that,” Malfurion said, looking at Tyrande.

“I know, but sometimes I just can’t help it, please, it’s so strange,” Tyrande sighed.

At this moment, Tyrande was filled with divinity, radiating a strange aura. The light in Tyrande's eyes was not blue but a dazzling gold.

They looked remarkably like the Light of Light; among the night elves, only two had golden eyes.

"Your Highness, you must wait for him to return from 1 years in the future. By then, my mission will be over."

"And if you use Tyrande's body repeatedly now, it will put a great burden on her. Even Tyrande cannot withstand your power." Malfurion said, looking at the divine Tyrande before him.

“I know Malfurion. I will return the real Tyrande to you in due time, and my body will also be fully formed,” Tyrande said to Malfurion.

“I’m just worried about some misunderstandings, since you’ve been using Tyrande’s body and coming into contact with him,” Malfurion said.

Seriously, you're using my wife's body to have a relationship with someone else! This will definitely make Rhodes think Tyrande is an unfaithful woman!

But the truth was far beyond his imagination.

"I will return Tyrande's body to her for the time being. After some time, I will appear before him in my true form," Tyrande, who was radiating divine light, said.

“Your Highness, the body most suitable for you to walk among mortals is not Tyrande. Perhaps I can tell Rhodes something indirectly,” Malfurion said.

"Don't mention that octopus monster to me. She gave up this blessing herself, gave up this great honor. I'm leaving, Archdruid." The golden divine light departed from Tyrande.

Tyrande's eyes returned to blue, and she let out a heavy sigh.

"My love, has His Highness already left? This time it's been so long!" Tyrande said, slumping to the ground.

Her body seemed to be severely overdrawn, and she was now very weak. Malfurion immediately stepped forward to help Tyrande up, and then emerald green light emanated from his palm as he healed his lover's injuries. If Rhodes were present at this moment, he would probably immediately recognize that the spell Malfurion was casting was his own healing magic, not the power of a druid.

"His Highness has left, but he's caused us a lot of trouble. Now Rhodes is starting to suspect things. Honestly, I can't even imagine what he thinks of you now," Malfurion said with a sigh.

“What can I do, my love? But Her Highness promised me that she would stop using my body after a maximum of two times,” Tyrande sighed.

“I hope so! Sometimes I really want to bring back that Light of Light, or pray that another Light of Light will be born from among the Night Elves,” Malfurion said.

“That princess no longer looks down on the current Light of Light, and her power is growing stronger and stronger. I can only barely contain a part of her soul,” Tyrande said.

I have been nourished by the divine power of the Moon Goddess, and my body is the most divine among all the night elves. I am also one of the few night elves who can bear that soul.

After all, this one is a true god, and even more powerful than Elune, whom he worships. Elune can only be considered an eternal being.

“Let’s go, we have things to do! Let Rhodes deal with this prince himself from now on.” Malfurion nodded to Tyrande, and the couple rode down the mountain together on their stag and nightblade.

Soon, the night elf troops and orcs brought some soldiers who had died in battle but whose bodies were well preserved to Rhodes.

None of these people had been dead for more than 18 hours, because Rhodes held out for 8 hours on the front lines with zero casualties.

There are various races here, including tauren, orcs, trolls, night elves, and dryads.

"Rhodes, please have the angels resurrect these warriors. These are all the ones we can find; resurrect as many as you can," Cenarius said to Rhodes.

Rhodes nodded to Malfurion, Leo, Tyrande, Thrall, and Cenarius, then took a deep breath and cast the Reincarnation spell for the first time in Azeroth.

A verdant light enveloped some of the corpses present. Nourished by the green light, their damaged bodies began to repair themselves, and soon a night elf opened his eyes.

Next came the minotaurs, orcs, trolls, dryads, and bear-men; these newly resurrected beings were still somewhat bewildered.

“You’ve just been resurrected, so don’t move around too much. Your bodies are still very weak. The druids will heal you in a little while. After resting for a while, you’ll be fully recovered,” Rhodes said.

Just like before, Rhodes only restored 10 points of health to them during this resurrection. 10 points of health was just enough to leave them in a weakened state, but not seriously injured.

"All those who have been resurrected, come here, I will heal you." Malfurion walked over, and a large number of druids skilled in healing magic had gathered around him.

“We can help too. The shamans are preparing healing totems and healing waves,” Thrall said.

Rhodes then used Reincarnation once again, and the miracle of resurrection was once again performed on Mount Hyjal.

Over the next few hours, Rhodes used Reincarnation more than a dozen times, resurrecting all the warriors whose corpses were still intact.

Chapter 162 The Last Guardian, Medivh's Parting Gift, the Power of the Guardian

During this time, Rhodes also drank a magic potion to fully restore his magic power. He then cast a resurrection spell, performing nearly 30 reincarnations and resurrecting a total of four to five thousand people.

The 30 spells cast gave Rhode a clearer understanding of the reincarnation skill; it was an extremely powerful spell.

His resurrection requires not only the driving force of life energy but also the participation of death energy. Life alone cannot achieve resurrection, nor can death alone.

Now Rhodes understands a little better. Alexandros has realized that the ultimate form of Holy Light is Shadow, and the ultimate form of Shadow is Holy Light.

The same seems to apply to life as well. The end of life is death, but isn't the end of death also life?

At least in Azeroth, life is born, grows, and dies, and after death, they are reborn in the Shadowlands.

Even before time travel, ancient Eastern mythology also had the concept of reincarnation, where life and death were often inseparable.