Portal

Of all times, of all times, a problem had to arise. Faced with the Sin'dorei's disastrous performance, Zul'ra felt the same urge as Jaina to strangle the Alliance's frontline commander—to strangle the Sin'dorei responsible for teleportation in Silvermoon City.

Although he was furious, no amount of anger could help. After careful consideration, Zul'ra became increasingly frightened, because the Sin'dorei's failure reminded him that a certain tragic prince seemed to have defected to the Legion in the storyline.

It was only at this moment that Zul'ra realized that although the Sin'dorei were in the Horde, their nominal leader seemed to have no real connection with the Horde. If this traitor really defected to the Legion, he would bring disaster to both the Horde and the Sin'dorei.

Although Zul'ra knew Kael'thas would ruin her life, there was nothing she could do. The Sin'dorei still trusted Kael'thas, and if any inappropriate remarks were made within the Horde, the royalists would definitely stir up trouble. Archmage Rommath, for example, was a seasoned royalist.

Despite her headaches over Kael'thas and the Sin'dorei, Zul'ra urged the Foothill Industrial Zone to produce fel iron and process fel iron bullets and cannonballs. Regardless of anything special, she first sent 150,000 regular bullets and 50,000 fel iron bullets to Theramore. By this time, the Horde had delivered more than half of the bullets ordered by the Alliance.

Despite having ample ammunition reserves and being able to fight freely, the allied forces were still embroiled in a fierce battle. Telegrams kept arriving, reporting that waves of demons from Outland had been killed, and now they were aided by Fel Cannons and mechs. The allied forces that charged forward were driven back again and again.

In the fierce battle, the Alliance's 20,000 muskets began to break down, and some were even rendered unusable due to frequent firing. The lead Minié bullets were also causing significant damage to the rifling. In response, the Alliance placed an order with Orgrimmar for another 10,000 muskets and 300,000 rounds of ammunition at a price of 50 gold coins per musket and 1 silver coin per bullet, as a precaution.

Faced with the fierce battle, Zul'ra had no choice but to accept the order and dispatched 5,000 muskets to Theramore. With Vol'jin's approval, he prepared to organize 10,000 Darkspear and Amani Trolls Warrior to fight, and the six bastards from the Council of the Black Harvest also went to help.

The first group of soldiers who rushed to the front lines by airship included more than two thousand Trolls and the six-member Council of the Black Harvest, as well as an artillery regiment carrying fifty-eight Warhammer Type I and five hundred cannon shells. In addition, there was a pile of weapons, food and grenades containing magic iron steel balls to replenish the troops.

In addition to the airships in the sky, Zul'ra also began mobilizing the Horde's navy, moving the Bat Nest, which had been guarding the northern air routes and the Northrend forces, along with its entire fleet, to Zul'Aman and Jintha'Alor to pick up the Amani Warrior and head south, providing the Horde with air and ground combat power.

Zul'ra had once considered escaping this world if he couldn't withstand the Legion's arrival, but when that possibility actually came, he found himself unable to let go of anything. He was thinking about how to extract every last bit of strength from the Horde to fight, because he realized he couldn't escape. Where could he escape to?

Just as Zul'ra was making its maximum mobilization and even considering whether to issue a full-scale war alert, news came from the Eastern Kingdoms that, just like the Horde that had mobilized in large numbers, the Alliance had also made a major mobilization, deploying 80,000 soldiers in succession. Even the Gnomes, who rarely appeared in public, joined the battle by flying planes.

After a bloody battle, the Allied Forces finally destroyed the Legion's Fel Cannons, shattered the Fel Reavers, pushed the battle lines back into Outland, and discovered the secret of the Legion's demons: the reason those demons were endless was because there were six portals in Outland beyond the Dark Portal, as well as numerous demon logistical camps.

To deal with the endless stream of demons, the demon portals must first be destroyed—this is an inevitable outcome. However, destroying the portals is no easy task.

The two most famous disasters caused by portal explosions are: the first was the battle that decided the outcome of the War of the Ancients, when Malfurion, Illidan, and others detonated the Legion portal located in the center of the Well of Eternity; the second was when Ner'zhul, the Warchief of the Old Horde, used an artifact to open an unstable portal there in order to escape Draenor, causing the explosion.

The first portal explosion triggered a massive energy burst across the entire Well of Eternity, shattering the entire Kalimdor into four major shards and countless smaller ones. The subsequent portal explosion shattered the entire world of Draenor, transforming it into the Outland we know today.

With the previous two portal explosions as a precedent, how to close the Legion portal became the first problem the Allied Forces had to consider. Faced with this problem, Zul'ra, who was in Theramore, and Jaina, who had just returned from Kul Tiras, were at a loss.

Just when they were at their wits' end, Zul'ra suddenly remembered that this method would be difficult for them, but it shouldn't be difficult for Aegwynn. And wasn't the former Guardian in Theramore right now? Why not ask her!

Zul'ra told Jaina her idea, and Jaina immediately slapped her forehead and remembered it. She quickly called Aegwynn over. Aegwynn was currently disguised as a High Elves serving as an advisor in Theramore. She was a familiar face; she was the female High Elves who had caught his and Tyrande Whisperwind's attention when she laughed during the discussion meeting of the Second War of the Shifting Sands.

Faced with this extremely urgent problem, Aegwynn remained as composed as ever. He first made a couple of jokes with Zul'ra without any panic, and then said something rather cryptic: that every door has its own purpose in being open, and that it is not appropriate to close or blow up these doors. If one really wanted to do so, then one would have to use a different approach.

Aegwynn's cryptic words nearly made Zul'ra kneel in despair, Jaina could only wryly beg for mercy, saying, "This world might fall at the Legion's feet at any moment, so please, sister, don't say things like that. Is it really meaningful?"

Despite Zul'ra and Jaina's repeated pleas, Aegwynn refused to give a direct answer, saying things like the door was destroyed and the house was going to collapse, but if the house was destroyed, then it didn't matter whether the door was destroyed or not. In short, she just wouldn't give a straight answer.

There was no other way; Zul'ra and Jaina could only grit their teeth and try to understand Aegwynn's words, piecing together the relevant information. However, their conjectures contained many possibilities, much like a multiple-choice question. If they chose the wrong answer, it would have irreversible consequences.

Unable to figure it out no matter how hard she tried, Zul'ra had no choice but to ask Aegwynn again. Although she didn't understand the problem, she felt from this former Guardian that the world wasn't that dangerous. If there really was danger, she probably wouldn't be able to sit still either. And those dragons—those guys still hadn't shown up!