21: Azeroth Today Is a Run-Down House

21: Azeroth Today Is a Run-Down House, Kil'jaeden, Go Kick It Already

While the great powers of the Shadowlands gathered in Zereth Mortis to deliver their final backstabbing blow to the crumbling system of fate, the Material World was anything but peaceful.

The Legion Invasion, having already ramped up in intensity, had unleashed terrifyingly large-scale wars across various places. Although Kil'jaeden was not optimistic enough to believe that the thousand-plus demon warbands he had personally trained over twenty thousand years could simply steamroll Azeroth, the Supreme Star Soul's response to this move had truly shattered his composure.

Because the "Swarm" that had recently thrown the Twisting Nether into chaos had appeared again!

Of course, Azeroth's Swarm was not the Shadow Chasing Swarm, which had somehow settled comfortably in the fel heartland even while under assault from tens of millions of demons. However, bolstered by its peculiar "war specialization," the Saviors Swarm had achieved terrifying "exponential growth" in a very short time.

Commanded by Daughter of the World Anveena, they had initially been capable only of engaging elite demons in brutal meat-grinder battles during the first three days—and the demons had won every one of them. After all, Kil'jaeden's elite aces never lacked battlefield-clearing firepower, and those demon commanders were highly proficient in tactics.

Yet no matter how overwhelming the firepower, it could not withstand the specialized abilities developed after the Swarm underwent four "evolutions" in three days. At midnight on the fifth day, the casualty report from the first elite ace warband to be surrounded and annihilated by the Swarm was delivered to Kil'jaeden's command room. The instant he saw it, The Conqueror knew things had become troublesome.

What followed unfolded exactly as he had expected.

The demons had destroyed three Saviors Swarm nests in Northrend, Khaz Algar, and Silithus