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The sky turned a sickly shade of green. A rain of fire—Infernal meteors—slammed into the clearing, crushing Human and Elf alike. From the craters rose behemoths of burning green stone. The burning legion had arrived.

"Back to back!" Valerius roared, signaling his remaining men to form a circle around the Elven archers.

The fog of Ashenvale was thick, smelling of damp earth and ancient magic. For Kaelen, a footman of Lordaeron, it felt like a shroud. He adjusted his heavy steel spaulders, the metal cold against his neck, and looked toward his captain. Games Warcraft 3

"Steady," Captain Valerius whispered, his hand resting on the hilt of a glowing runeblade. "The Prince says the plague stems from these woods. We find the source, we end the rot." But the woods didn't feel sick; they felt angry .

As Kaelen struggled, he saw Captain Valerius face the stag-lord. But before steel could meet wood, a third sound pierced the air. A wet, guttural shriek. The sky turned a sickly shade of green

"Night Elves!" Kaelen cried, raising his shield just as an arrow clattered against the crest of the lion.

For the first time in history, the lion of Lordaeron and the silver moon of Kalimdor stood together. They weren't fighting for land or glory anymore; they were fighting so that there would be a world left to bleed for. The burning legion had arrived

Suddenly, the shadows leaped. Not the shambling, necrotic husks of the Undead Scourge they had fought in Andorhal, but something lean and violet. Archers with eyes like silver moons materialized from the trees, their bows singing.