Mockery from the Holy Light

Elsewhere, Roy had been leading a group of Burning Legion demons on an idle patrol through an asteroid belt when he suddenly received intelligence that the Eredar defectors had already fled Argus, and that the course of their escape ships was headed in his direction.

After truly receiving this news, Roy could not help but sigh. He realized that the inertia of this so-called timeline was truly powerful. This trip to Argus seemed destined to confirm the history of Shattrath City.

The more Roy came into contact with time, the more reverence he felt for this power. Just as Lilith had said, even a time controller like her had always been cautious within the river of time, fearful of suffering time's backlash.

The same was true for Nozdormu and Murozond. Though they were time guardians and pulled all sorts of tricks along the timeline, who could guarantee that their interference with the course of history was not itself an event meant to occur in history? Those who toyed with time might be toyed with by time without even realizing it...

Shaking his head, Roy cast aside the distracting thoughts in his mind. Since Velen and his fleeing people had run into him, Roy could not simply ignore them. He ordered the demons to turn the starships around and prepare to intercept the fugitives.

However, something Roy had not anticipated happened just as the Burning Legion's starships finally caught sight of the Eredar refugee fleet through their optical viewports.

One of the Eredar refugee fleet's four starships suddenly suffered a massive explosion. Though sound could not travel through space, against the pitch-black backdrop of space, the flames from the exploding starship were seen with perfect clarity by the surrounding Burning Legion demons.

Realizing that something might have gone wrong among the