As long as the Wind Wall remained active, anyone trying to attack him from the other side would have to either break through the wall or wait until it disappeared.
Ternas had already tested the defensive capabilities of this Wind Wall.
Ordinary light weapons posed no threat to it, and bullets fired at him would all be blown into the air by the wind.
Likewise, weaker spells could not penetrate the Wind Wall.
To break through it, at the very least, an adult wizard would need to launch a full-powered attack.
This, in turn, gave Ternas enough time to recover and make an appropriate response.
After the Wind Wall rose, all of the magical projectiles fired by the Doreke brothers were blocked by it.
Not a single projectile managed to penetrate the barrier.
Seeing this, the other Doreke brother could no longer wait.
Because of the limitations of the surrounding terrain, the two of them had no way to split up and restrain Ternas from different directions.
As a result, they had no way to specifically counter the defensive nature of the Wind Wall.
After all, the Wind Wall’s defense was still rather rigid.
It could only form a barrier in one direction and could not protect against attacks from multiple sides.
Under these circumstances, they could only confront Ternas head-on.
Otherwise, they would have no way to attack him at all.
If that happened, their operation this time could be declared a failure.
At the same time, they would have provoked a wizard with such formidable strength.
That was something they absolutely could not allow.
Therefore, after seeing that his brother’s tactic of using magical projectiles to keep Ternas occupied was ineffective, he stopped waiting for an opportunity.
He swung his wand, and a ghastly green spell shot toward the Wind Wall in front of Ternas.
“Avada Kedavra!” At the current stage, this could be considered the most powerful and most lethal spell among the Dark Arts.
The strength of this spell did not lie in its destructive power, but in how concentrated its power was.
A massive amount of terrifying magical power was concentrated into a single point and then continuously released.
That was what made it so terrifying.
Moreover, the spell’s effect was extremely powerful.
It could directly separate a person’s soul from their body.
In other words, if someone were struck by this Dark spell, then the Soul-Burning Lamp Ternas had brought out earlier would not even be able to collect their soul.
When they saw this spell, the people hiding in the surrounding darkness all drew in sharp breaths.
Even they had to deal with this spell cautiously.
One mistake could cost them their lives.
When Ternas saw this Unforgivable Curse appear before him, with himself as its target, he was honestly somewhat flustered.
However, when he remembered that he had an extremely powerful protective artifact on his person, he realized that he did not need to worry about his own safety.
With that thought, his panic subsided considerably.
Instead, he calmly cast another spell.
“Thunder Flash!” This was a low-level lightning-element spell.
Its power was fairly decent, with respectable single-target destructive force, and the spell itself traveled extremely quickly.
As lightning shot from the tip of Ternas’s wand toward the wizard who had been continuously firing small magical projectiles, Ternas did not stop.
He cast another spell.
“Torrent Spray!” A highly pressurized stream of water shot from the tip of Ternas’s wand, rushing toward the other man’s Killing Curse.
Just as Ternas completed his attacks, the Wind Wall also happened to dissipate under the assault of the Killing Curse.
As a result, Ternas’s water spell met the other man’s Killing Curse head-on.
Seeing this, the spectators surrounding them could not help shaking their heads.
All of them had come into contact with the Killing Curse to one degree or another.
They understood its power extremely well.
Trying to use a mere stream of water to withstand the Killing Curse was obviously nothing more than wishful thinking.
Some of them had even begun secretly shaking their heads and preparing to move in at any moment to claim a share of the spoils.
In their eyes, Ternas’s action was undoubtedly tantamount to seeking his own death.
But very soon, an astonishing scene appeared before them.
The stream of water shooting from the tip of Ternas’s wand was indeed being pushed back bit by bit under the ghastly green power of the Killing Curse.
Yet, for some unknown reason, it remained remarkably resilient.
Although the point where the two spells collided continued to shift toward Ternas, it did not retreat as quickly as they had imagined.
What shocked them was that the point of contact was not being pushed back with overwhelming ease, as though the water would collapse the moment it encountered the Killing Curse.
Instead, it was like a tough blade of grass standing firm against a fierce wind, stubbornly holding its ground and refusing to be completely overwhelmed by the Killing Curse.
On the other side, the Dark wizard who had been continuously firing magical projectiles was caught completely off guard by a sudden bolt of lightning from Ternas.
A powerful bolt struck him directly.
The numbing sensation of the electricity and its intense destructive force made his entire body jolt.
He lost control of himself, fell to the ground, and struggled there in a disordered state.
The other Dark wizard saw his brother suffering under the enemy’s spell and grew anxious as well.
He immediately increased the amount of magical power he was channeling, wanting to defeat the man in front of him as quickly as possible so that he could check on his brother.
But to his despair, even after increasing his magical output, he still could not immediately defeat Ternas.
All he managed to do was push the point where the two spells met farther and farther toward Ternas.
This left him extremely frustrated.
His brother’s condition was unknown, while even increasing his magical output seemed insufficient to do anything to his opponent.
To make matters worse, Ternas had now extended his left hand.
In it was an extremely strange magical artifact, one brimming with magical power.
It gave the Dark wizard a very bad feeling, especially after Ternas aimed the magical artifact directly at him.
That feeling became even stronger.
And his instincts were not wrong.
The object Ternas had taken out was indeed a magical artifact, and it was an extremely useful one.
It was a magical artifact capable of casting spells without relying on a wand.