Eastern Kingdoms, central-eastern region, Twilight Highlands.
Under Grand Duke Bolvar's personal command, the Alliance expeditionary force had established a foothold in the northernmost coastal region and built a permanent fortress.
Grand Duke Bolvar's combat style was conservative. He had always advanced steadily, securing each step before taking the next, and never rushed recklessly forward, even against a cultist warlord organization like Twilight's Hammer.
The soldiers loved and trusted him as well. No one was a fool; everyone could see how this great nobleman, filled with a sense of justice, treated commoners. He had never treated ordinary soldiers' lives as disposable, nor did he fight wars of attrition, even if piling up lives could quickly secure a victory.
Thus, within an elite legion like the Seventh Legion, aside from His Majesty the King and Marshal Windsock, only Grand Duke Bolvar possessed such prestige.
For this campaign against Twilight's Hammer, the dwarves of Ironforge had contributed greatly as well. After all, a large number of their Wildhammer Dwarf brethren lived in this region, and several dwarf settlements had already suffered Twilight's Hammer attacks, sustaining severe losses and facing an urgent situation. Thus, the Council of the Three Hammers had dispatched an entire full-strength legion to assist the Stormwind Kingdom in launching the offensive.
This was considered a local war. Compared to the full-scale war taking place on the Pandaria Continent, the conflict in the Twilight Highlands had not drawn much attention from the outside world.
After all, people did not like news without suspense. No one believed those Twilight's Hammer cultists could win. It was only a matter of time before the Alliance wiped them out, and the fallen archbishop Benedictus would be captured and brought back to Stormwind City for a public trial.
Moreover, Twilight's Hammer of the Cthulhu faction had