Alleria Windrunner fired another arrow, intending to kill Rend outright.
But a Pandaren with a round belly charged out of the crowd. The seemingly ordinary bamboo staff in his hand struck the arrowhead with perfect precision. Powerful chi dispersed the Void energy clinging to it and knocked the arrow to the ground.
Beneath Chen Stormstout's conical hat, his panda eyes glared furiously at Alleria Windrunner. He had not wanted to involve himself in the battle between the Alliance and the Horde. Even if Rend had been killed by Archbishop Turalyon in a fair fight, he would not have intervened. But Alleria Windrunner's sneaky attack had thoroughly enraged Chen Stormstout.
Neither Archbishop Turalyon nor Alleria Windrunner had ever seen a Pandaren, but Alleria Windrunner had no intention of giving up on killing Rend. She rapidly fired several more arrows in succession.
Facing arrows infused with powerful Void energy, Chen Stormstout swung his bamboo staff. Powerful chi coated it, and with exquisite martial techniques, he flicked aside every one of Alleria Windrunner's arrows.
Over a thousand years of fighting the Burning Legion, Alleria Windrunner had encountered powerful foes capable of blocking her arrows. But most had relied on brute strength to shatter them; she had never seen anyone deflect them with martial techniques like Chen Stormstout did.
Though equally shocked by the strength of this unfamiliar race, Archbishop Turalyon still decided to hold him back and create an opening for his wife, Alleria Windrunner.
The moment he exchanged blows with Chen Stormstout, Archbishop Turalyon suddenly felt as though his entire life had been called into question. He had fought the Burning Legion for over a thousand years and possessed exceptional combat experience, yet he discovered that the fighting experience he had accumulated over those millennia was completely suppressed by Chen Stormstout's martial