Hearing Morinehtar's words, Kael and Rómestámo immediately felt uneasy.
The next second, those attacking giant bats stopped their assault, circling around the tower and surrounding it completely, all emitting piercing, dizzying ultrasonic waves in unison.
Kael and Rómestámo showed pain, feeling like their heads and internal organs were about to explode.
Kael gritted his teeth and quickly cast a Silencing Charm to envelop himself, Rómestámo, and Morinehtar, finally breathing a sigh of relief.
But the giant bats' ultrasonic attacks grew stronger, causing cracks to appear in the surrounding tower's stone walls, which were rapidly disintegrating.
Rómestámo quickly reminded. "Kael, blow the Victory Horn now!"
Hearing Rómestámo's words, Kael quickly drew the horn and blew it forcefully.
Instantly, like the majestic rising sun at dawn or spring thunder bursting forth, a bright, brilliant horn call filled with light resounded throughout all of Minas Harad!
The Victory Horn released powerful sound waves that not only canceled out the giant bats' ultrasonic waves but instantly disabled their hearing, making them like blind creatures unable to distinguish direction or objects, crashing about wildly.
All the Haradrim and orcs who heard the horn call lost courage and fell into fear, unable to even lift their weapons as they fled in panic.
Seeing this, Kael prepared to Apparate away with Rómestámo and Morinehtar, but his expression changed, instantly becoming grave.
Because he discovered he couldn't Apparate!
This situation was remarkably similar to when he'd been hunted by Saruman before.
Simultaneously, the surrounding air suddenly became cold as darkness and malevolent aura spread.
Three Nazgûl emerged from the darkness, emanating powerful, terrifying presence as they surrounded them from three sides.
At the same time, a fell beast flew from afar with Saruman's figure prominently on its back.
Saruman looked at Rómestámo and Kael in the damaged tower, his face showing a cold smile.
"Aha! Let me see who we have here? I originally intended to catch one big fish, but didn't expect such a pleasant surprise!"
Saruman's gaze was full of malice, staring fixedly at Kael.
"Black-Robed Wizard Kael, how was living in my Orthanc Tower? I've thought day and night about how to get you into my hands and torture you properly to vent my hatred. I never expected you'd deliver yourself to me!"
"Saruman, you actually colluded with Sauron to harm Morinehtar! Have you forgotten your mission?" Rómestámo saw that Saruman held his friend Morinehtar's staff and was immediately furious and disappointed.
When they first came to Middle-earth together, the two Blue Wizards had traveled east with Saruman, staying in the east for some time before Saruman returned west. They could be said to have had good relations.
Now that Morinehtar suffered such calamity, Saruman's hand was surely behind it.
After all, only Saruman understood them so well, knowing their methods and how to counter them.
Faced with Rómestámo's accusation, Saruman was full of cold laughter, completely unconcerned.
"Mission? My mission is to gain power and strength, to become master of this world!"
"You want to become world master? Then what about Sauron? Don't tell me you want to replace Sauron?" Kael mocked.
Saruman ignored Kael's provocative words, ordering the Nazgûl. "Go deal with the other Blue Wizard!"
Then he stared coldly at Kael with cat-and-mouse playfulness and contempt.
"As for this Black-Robed Wizard, leave him to me."
Hearing this, the three Nazgûl raised their Morgul weapons, quickly becoming three black shadows surrounding Rómestámo in attack.
Saruman pressed toward Kael.
As for Blue-Robed Morinehtar, he'd already been tortured to weakness, his staff taken. He posed no combat threat.
Rómestámo protected Morinehtar while wielding his staff in battle against the three Nazgûl.
The Nazgûl themselves possessed powerful strength; now wearing the Nine Rings for Men, their power increased severalfold as they released terrifying dark sorcery, their Morgul blades deadly with every strike.
For a moment, both sides were evenly matched in combat strength.
Kael's pressure was no less than Rómestámo's, perhaps even greater.
"Avada Kedavra!" Kael released the Killing Curse, but Saruman casually blocked it with a stone fragment.
Kael's attacks continued ceaselessly, various offensive spells shooting out continuously with dazzling magical light flashing and explosive sounds echoing endlessly.
The massive, solid tower was continuously destroyed by the aftershocks of their battle, swaying precariously.
Saruman easily blocked Kael's various spell attacks, mockingly saying. "Your little tricks can't touch me, Black-Robed boy. If you have no other means, stay here today!"
With that, he directly released a massive, scorching fireball toward Kael.
Kael cast Protego to block it, but the fireball exploded like massive TNT, producing power even greater than Confringo, instantly creating towering flames.
The tower's top floor was instantly destroyed and flattened by the explosion, forcibly shortened by a section.
At the explosion's center, a solid magical shield protected Kael, Rómestámo, and Morinehtar within it.
A golden ring appeared on Kael's right middle finger, releasing a powerful magical barrier that blocked Saruman's attack.
"My Ring of Power!" Saruman immediately spotted the ring on Kael's hand, his eyes instantly reddening as he spoke through gritted teeth.
Then he frantically attacked Kael, trying to break through the shield and reclaim the Ring of Power he'd worked so hard to forge.
But the ring had long been filled with magical power by Kael, and with the Ring of Power's own abilities, as long as the magic wasn't depleted, Saruman couldn't possibly break the shield.
At the current consumption rate, Kael estimated he could hold out for at least a day.
But Kael couldn't just let him continue depleting the ring's magical power. Looking at the swaying tower, then at Saruman riding the fell beast, he raised the Victory Horn and blew it.
When the horn sounded, the Nazgûl's momentum weakened, Saruman covered his ears as if hearing massive noise, and the fell beast became so agitated it nearly threw Saruman off.
Taking this opportunity, Kael released another brilliant Killing Curse.
Saruman had just been jostled by the fell beast beneath him and nearly fallen when he saw Kael's Killing Curse approaching.
He immediately cast spells to block it.
But he hadn't anticipated that Kael's target this time wasn't him but his mount, the fell beast.
The Killing Curse directly struck the fell beast, which died instantly without even managing a death cry, its body briefly suspended in air before plummeting headfirst.
Saruman wasn't as aged as his appearance suggested. His physical reactions were extraordinarily agile and resilient. The moment the fell beast fell, he quickly leaped from it in several bounds, landing steadily on the tower.
But before he could catch his breath, Kael activated the Ring of Power, holding his staff and striking the tower floor forcefully.
With massive impact force spreading throughout the entire tower, huge cracks rapidly appeared, and the whole tower could no longer sustain itself, completely cracking and collapsing.
Everyone lost support, falling toward the ground along with the collapsing tower.
Rumbling sounds echoed as all of Minas Harad shook, and Haradrim and orcs below who couldn't escape in time were directly crushed to death.
During the rapid fall, Kael's magical shield still firmly protected him, Rómestámo, and Morinehtar, floating down gently like a light balloon as they neared the ground.
The three Nazgûl, being spirits, weren't affected.
But Saruman had truly fallen from hundreds of meters high.
Even so, Saruman didn't die. Besides being extremely disheveled, he wasn't even lightly injured.
Seeing Saruman's physical resilience, Kael was secretly amazed.
Saruman knocked away a stone fragment that had struck him, standing up with a bruised face, his multicolored robes covered in dust and debris.
His eyes were full of fury and killing intent. "Kael, you deserve death! Today is your death day!"
With that, he raised his staff skyward, the sky's winds and clouds changed color, and a massive lightning bolt struck down, following his staff's direction straight toward Kael.
The bucket-thick lightning collided with Kael's magical shield, instantly creating flashing electrical light and deafening explosive sounds.
The magical shield released by the Ring of Power successfully blocked the lightning.
But Kael's mood grew heavy because the lightning attack accelerated the depletion of the Ring's stored magical power several times over.
If this continued, the shield that could originally last a day would completely fail in half a day or even less time.
Then it would truly be his death day!
Kael made an instant decision to release Fiendfyre like before, burning down all of Minas Harad city, possibly destroying whatever was preventing Apparition.
Blazing Fiendfyre was released by Kael, rapidly spreading in all directions, instantly devouring all combustible materials, including Haradrim and orcs, and then condensing into a Fiendfyre dragon.
But seeing Fiendfyre appear, Saruman snorted coldly, waving his staff to release magical shock waves that violently knocked away the approaching Fiendfyre dragon.
Then, chanting ancient spells, he summoned a tornado.
The tornado grew larger, whipping up sand everywhere and quickly drawing the Fiendfyre into it. Even the manifested fire dragon was trapped within the tornado.
The Fiendfyre dragon tried to struggle but couldn't break free from the tornado's bonds. Covered by sand, the flames quickly grew smaller until completely extinguished.
In the raging tornado, sand became sharp weapons comparable to bullets, shooting the Haradrim and orcs caught within into sieves.
But Saruman didn't care, controlling the tornado to attack Kael directly.
Kael desperately controlled his magical shield, gripping the ground firmly to resist the tornado's suction.
But the terrifying tornado swept away even surrounding massive stones and buildings. Kael couldn't hold out long before he, along with Rómestámo and Morinehtar within the shield, wassucked into the tornado.
Suddenly everything spun wildly. Protected by the magical shield, they were like ants in a balloon, carried by the tornado in constant spinning flight while countless sand particles struck the shield at high speed, creating dense impact sounds.
In the howling winds, Kael felt like he was inside a washing machine drum, constantly tumbling up and down, dizzy and nauseous, ready to vomit everything in his stomach.