Boss Hu's good days of lying paralyzed at home, freeloading and stuffing his face, finally came to an end. The fish of Darkshore could finally catch their breath and peacefully go make babies.
Reports arrived simultaneously from the elven border guard and Feathermoon Stronghold in Feralas: large-scale Aqir activity had appeared in Silithus, at the southernmost edge of the continent.
After so many years of lying dormant, these fallen minions of the Old God C'Thun could no longer stand the loneliness and had once again popped out to plague society.
Back when the Aqir ravaged the continent, the Troll Empire had mobilized its entire nation. Only after a long and bloody war had they finally wiped them out, while the surviving insects retreated underground to hibernate.
But now, the Troll Empire had fallen apart and was no longer a force to be reckoned with, so this responsibility naturally fell upon the Night Elves.
Of course, the Night Elves had no intention of shirking that responsibility. Kalimdor Continent was the foundation of their people, after all. If the Aqir were allowed to reach the scale they had possessed in ancient times, exterminating them would become far more difficult.
The four leading figures of the Night Elf Council held a meeting and ultimately formulated a battle plan.
They would contact the Dragon Aspects and launch a joint attack on Silithus, exterminating the Aqir on the surface and driving them back beneath Silithus, where they would be sealed away forever.
Oh, the fourth leading figure, Archdruid Malfurion Stormrage, was still sleeping like the dead in the Emerald Dream, so Archdruid Fandral Staghelm was temporarily acting as the Druids' representative.
Meanwhile, the Four Color Dragon Aspects had originally wanted nothing to do with this mess. They were living comfortably in Wyrmrest Temple on Northrend,