Chen Stormstout and His Itchy Fingers

For the assault on Utgarde Keep, Rend naturally brought Beastmaster Rexxar, Pandaren monk Chen Stormstout, and Shadow Hunter Rokhan along. The deeper they went into Utgarde Keep, the more dangerous it would become. With a squad of powerful fighters like Rend leading the way, they could avoid unnecessary troop losses.

Continuing on from the Ritual Hall, Mount Tai, the giant panda who had replaced Misha as Beastmaster Rexxar's companion, let out a pained howl and humanly waved a forepaw in front of his nose.

"A huge stench? Like tens of thousands of rotting corpses?" Rend could understand Mount Tai through his necklace.

Beastmaster Rexxar had always lived alongside beasts and understood as well. Chen Stormstout, though pandas and Pandaren were different, also grasped Mount Tai's meaning.

After descending a staircase, everyone finally understood why Mount Tai had smelled such an overwhelming stench. The enemies they encountered ahead were all Ymirjar transformed by the Scourge.

The Ymirjar had once been fallen Vrykul warriors, revived and transformed by the Val'kyr. Since they had already died once, their bodies had decayed severely and gave off a foul odor.

After killing a great number of Ymirjar Vrykul and the direwolves they had tamed, Rend could not understand it. What was the point of the Vrykul joining the Scourge just to become these grotesque Ymirjar?

The Forsaken hated their own curse and cried, "What joy is there beneath the curse?" Yet the Vrykul of Howling Fjord scrambled to accept that very curse.

They became rotting corpses, staggering along with weapons in hand, chunks of putrid flesh constantly dropping from their bodies as they walked.

After killing who knew how many Ymirjar Vrykul, even Beastmaster Rexxar, who had the strongest stomach of them all, could not help covering his nose.

They then arrived at a hall