After killing the Boulderfist Ogres, large numbers of equally gleaming warriors and massive golden constructs marched out in neat formation behind the golden figure.
Weapons at the ready, they established a defensive line near the Dark Portal.
"Boulderfist Ogre markings, combined with the descriptions from those outsiders—it seems this is the Blasted Lands!" The one who had cut down the Boulderfist Ogres with a single scythe was a Draenei, but not an ordinary Draenei. He was a Lightforged Draenei.
At the same time, he was an old acquaintance: Akama.
Only, he was not the duplicitous leader of the Broken Ones from Outland, but Archbishop Akama, an unblemished Draenei.
These Lightforged Draenei called themselves the Lightbound. They came from another parallel universe—the parallel Draenor from Blizzard's official Warlords of Draenor expansion.
That world of Draenor had not been destroyed. With the help of the Alliance and Horde, it had defeated the Burning Legion.
However, in the more than twenty years since the Alliance and Horde had left, Draenor had undergone tremendous changes.
The Iron Horde's defeat had brought decline to the Orcs, once the dominant race of Draenor. Nearly all the great Orc clans had been destroyed, leaving only the severely weakened Warsong Clan and Frostwolf Clan to keep up appearances.
As for Draenor's other great race, the Draenei, they too had paid a tremendous price, but their situation was far better than that of the Orcs.
The Draenei had become the most powerful race in Draenor.
At the same time, Archbishop Yrel, the Draenei leader who had received the power and blessing of Prophet Velen, opened Shattrath and received the blessing of the great Naaru, A'dal.
From then on, Archbishop Yrel became exceptionally fanatical. She believed the Light was the truth of this world, and that only by converting to