Facing the Zandalari Golden Fleet

After Prince Kael'thas found a solution from MOTHER, the combined fleet did not linger. They immediately set sail for home, afraid of being intercepted by the Zandalari Golden Fleet.

The journey was calm, but just as they were about to leave Zandalar waters, a massive ballista bolt struck Rend's flagship, the carrier Hand of Noxus, from the sky.

"Enemy attack!" Red warning lights flashed and piercing alarms blared instantly. Before they could react, more ballista bolts came flying down from above, striking the Iron Fleet's warships. The massive explosions made even the steel vessels tremble uneasily.

It was not only the Iron Fleet under ballista attack. The Blood Elf Magic Fleet and the Forsaken fleet were suffering the same assault.

Prince Kael'thas turned to look behind him, only for a massive ballista bolt to fly straight at him. Instinctively, Kael'thas raised a hand and formed a shield of flame before him, blocking the damage from the bolt's explosion.

On the other side, Dark Queen Sylvanas aboard the Banshee's Wail also raised her bow. She gathered dark power onto her arrows and continuously fired at the incoming ballista bolts. Arrows infused with dark power met the bolts in midair and exploded.

Behind the combined fleet, on the horizon, over a hundred enormous vessels of the Zandalari Golden Fleet were launching their attack.

The Zandalari Golden Fleet's ships were immense, several times larger than the Alliance First Fleet's sailing vessels. They were not inferior in size even to the Iron Fleet's steel warships. Their lead flagship, with a gigantic tyrannosaur head as its prow, was comparable in size to an Iron Fleet carrier.

Aboard Rezan's Ripple, the flagship of the Zandalari Golden Fleet, a female Zandalari Troll dressed in royal robes watched the combined fleet in the distance and said to the