World of Azeroth, Kalimdor Continent, Eternal Night Palace.
"Binding succeeded?"
Xuen the White Tiger sat crouched on the ground in an extremely catlike pose, licking her right forepaw before using it to wash her face.
Boss Hu lay sprawled over the desk before him, wearing the lazy expression of someone thinking, No, no, I'm exhausted, I'm exhausted, as he reluctantly worked through a batch of administrative affairs he had put off for far too long.
"Yeah... the parallel world of Draenor has already begun building the Dark Portal. That young fellow Garrosh is quite the smooth talker. What a waste of talent that he didn't go into pyramid schemes—he talked those Orc brothers over there onto the pirate ship so quickly. Tsk, tsk, tsk... I figure they're planning to attack the Azeroth corresponding to their parallel world and launch a parallel-world version of the Tide of Darkness."
Xuen sneered at that. "Unfortunately, they'll never make it to that parallel world. This time, our Pandaria Continent finally caught up with an invasion and colonization operation, and we came thoroughly prepared."
"Ha... the divine power I smuggled over by exploiting the Temporal Anomaly has now completely fused into the Dark Portal under construction. Once they finish it, once they activate it, no matter where they intend to set the coordinates, the final destination will only be the Dark Portal on our side. You could call it forcibly choosing for them."
"That is truly a despair-inducing maneuver." Xuen shook her head.
"That's right, there is such a maneuver. Impressive, isn't it? Want to learn it? Hehehe—hic..."
All across the World of Azeroth, it was as though time had turned back to the eve of the expedition to Outland. The feverish atmosphere of war filled the air.
The arms and munitions retail industry welcomed