Tyrande Whisperwind's Request

After forcibly subduing Astalia with violence, she still struggled without pause. Zul'ra had no choice but to bind her with vines, then reset her ribs and cast a healing spell. However, it could only heal her physical injuries, not her mind.

Astalia seemed to have suffered an immense mental shock. In her confusion, she constantly felt that someone was approaching her and babbled incoherently. Her disturbed state of mind left her condition extremely unstable, affecting injuries that should otherwise have healed quickly.

As Zul'ra and Airulin treated Astalia and tried to stabilize her, the forces within Darnassus had already quelled the battle. Large numbers of people began gathering. Elune's priests helped Tyrande Whisperwind strengthen the pillar of moon-white light, while others came to help restrain and calm Astalia.

Zul'ra handed Astalia over to a huntress. Looking at the Kaldorei woman, who was still out of her mind, he took Airulin toward the Faceless creature in the distance, which had been completely pinned down.

Beneath the towering pillar of moon-white light, the eight-yard-tall Faceless creature burned all over with white flame. The flesh within those flames continuously shriveled, causing its body to shrink like a candle.

By the time Zul'ra arrived, the Faceless creature had already shrunk to three yards tall. After waiting several minutes, it shrank to a height of two or three yards—roughly two meters—and stopped shrinking. Only the flesh on its surface continued to burn away beneath the white flames, until all of it finally receded, revealing a green-bearded, purple-skinned male Kaldorei.

"Fandral..." Tyrande's face paled at the sight of the Kaldorei revealed beneath the Faceless creature's flesh, while Zul'ra frowned.

At Tyrande's signal, a huntress stepped forward to inspect Fandral Staghelm. He no longer breathed, nor did his body retain any warmth. His corpse also lost its