Sure enough, not long after the launch platform was established, the Alliance forces could no longer sit still. They emerged from the forest and continuously launched charges against the Horde army.
Human forces, Night Elf forces, and Draenei forces all appeared, while large numbers of Night Elf Hippogryph riders also took to the skies.
However, with the powerful involvement of two top-tier experts, Archdruid Malfurion Stormrage and High Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind, the Horde army, already disadvantaged in terms of powerful fighters, began to fall behind, and their defensive lines steadily collapsed.
After several unsuccessful assaults, High Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind decisively grew anxious. She threw aside her bow, had the most elite Sentinels guard her sides, and came to a raised hillock. She sincerely knelt halfway to the ground, closed her eyes, and began to pray.
Rend, who had just repelled a wave of Alliance troops, heard the voice of Agamaggan, the boar demigod, in his mind.
"Rend, Tyrande Whisperwind has begun praying. She is going to cast Starfall."
Warned by Agamaggan, the boar demigod, Rend instantly spotted High Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind's praying figure. Moonlight tore through the gloom over Darkshore and shone upon her alone.
Rend had personally witnessed the power of Starfall before. Once unleashed, it was a divine skill capable of turning the entire battle around. So, he quietly closed the distance to High Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind, then took out the artifact Claw of Ten Thousand Claws, gathered Agamaggan's power, and hurled it straight at her.
The Claw of Ten Thousand Claws shot toward High Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind with unrivaled force. The Night Elf Sentinels who tried to intercept it could not stop the artifact's power at all.
Just as Rend thought victory was assured, reality left him dumbfounded. The Claw of Ten Thousand Claws struck a point