The Fierce Battle at Wyrmrest Temple

Both the hand-to-hand combat and magical duels ended in defeat, even with Red Dragon Prince Korialstrasz and Red Dragon Queen Korialstrasz personally taking the field. The Red Dragonflight's morale plummeted.

This was precisely Rend's objective: to pour a bucket of cold water over the originally impassioned Red Dragonflight.

Delays invited complications. Rend nodded to Blue Dragon Prince Arygos, who immediately understood.

Blue Dragon Prince Arygos transformed into his dragon form and used magic to amplify his voice across the battlefield. "Warriors of the Blue Dragonflight, for the will of the Spell-Weaver, all who obstruct us from safeguarding Azeroth's ley lines are our enemies!"

At Blue Dragon Prince Arygos's cry, the Blue Dragonflight, already buoyed by victory in the duels, surged into action at once.

The first to attack were naturally the Proto-Drakes supplied by the Blackrock Clan and enslaved from Howling Fjord. Upon receiving their orders, these dim-witted Proto-Drakes crazily hurled themselves at Wyrmrest Temple, attacking the Red Dragonflight guarding it.

Though Proto-Drakes were not as powerful as the five-colored dragons, they possessed tremendous resistance to fire. They were highly resistant to the Red Dragonflight's fiery breath, and with their savage melee fighting style, they were more than capable of serving as meat shields against the red dragons.

Thanks to their racial gifts, Nether Dragons lacked both offensive and defensive power, but they could appear from the void at any moment and strike from behind the red dragons. Even a red dragon could only howl in agony under their strange void breath.

The Blue Dragons served as long-range spellcasters and commanders. Rend naturally would not send the sparsely numbered Blue Dragons into close combat, and this arrangement also allowed them to unleash their greatest strength.

With the combination of meat shields, rogues, and mages, the Blue Dragonflight was far more