Boom! A massive explosion echoed through Razorfen.
Rend hurriedly dressed in the darkness. Last night's revelry had left him looking particularly disheveled. He had lavished affection on the newly arrived female Orc.
Naturally, the entire Blackrock camp had done the same. There was plenty of fine liquor, but not quite enough female Orcs. Still, everyone was very polite, taking turns and lining up so no one got shortchanged.
And as the boss, Rend naturally had the right to choose the best one.
Yet before dawn had fully broken, they were attacked from outside.
"What's going on?" Rend rushed out of his cave, pulling armor onto himself with one hand while carrying a battle axe in the other. He grabbed an Orc passing nearby and loudly demanded to know what had happened.
"I don't know either. There was an explosion outside just now, and then everything turned chaotic." The Orc he held was equally confused. He had spent the entire night with a female Orc and had only dozed off at dawn, never expecting an attack before daylight.
"Pick up your weapon and prepare for the enemy." Rend was furious. There were attackers outside, while his men were in complete disarray.
"Yes! Yes!" With their boss issuing orders, more than a dozen Orcs gradually gathered. Rend led them toward the site of the explosion.
They soon encountered several Orcs fleeing back in defeat.
"Stop!" Rend shouted. "Cowards! Great Orcs never retreat. Tell me what happened!"
Seeing their boss, the defeated soldiers finally had a chance to catch their breath and were no longer as frantic as before.
"Lord Rend, the patrol outside was attacked. They ran back to report it, so I and the brothers guarding the entrance went to support them, but we were driven back by something. The enemy