27. Azshara's Confusion: Should the People Follow Their Sovereign, or Should the Sovereign Respond to the People?

Deathly stillness filled the Nightwell hall.

Only the echoes of the old trolls' hoarse roars, delivered by those who had cast life and death aside, lingered within. The cheers and applause of the troll god of death whistled through like gusts of sinister wind. Diakum, who had been invited to observe, maintained a solemn expression. He even stopped Liadrin when she tried to step forward and rebuke the trolls for their mad fantasies.

Just watch the show obediently. Don't disturb the queen's arbitrary decision!

That seemed to represent Diakum's stance on this matter.

Azshara did not speak either.

Yet the turmoil churning within the queen's heart was plain from her expression.

The trolls were not merely twisting logic. Having received the gift of Azerite crystals, they truly stood on the verge of evolving their life form. With the elves' precedent before them, they could never allow themselves to walk the old path of becoming a "Magic Addiction race."

This meant the trolls would cross the river by stepping on the elves.

They truly would become more outstanding, more exceptional "elves" in the future. The forms of those mysterious Haranir were the perfect templates the trolls had chosen for themselves.

They would become Azeroth's "avatars."

Who dared say the Haranir were not elves?

They were a transitional form that perfectly combined the trolls' formidable vitality with the elves' affinity for energy. They had guarded the holy tree in the hidden city beneath Un'Goro Crater for a very, very long time. They were the first true "world guardians."

Once the trolls began evolving in that direction, it would only be a matter of time before today's magic-addicted elves were cruelly eliminated by nature.

Sun King Kael'thas had clearly recognized this. That was why he had established the Sun State Religion at all