An oppressive atmosphere filled the hollow tree.
Every Dark Night Elf who had helped with the excavation was consumed by a thirst for revenge... Its source lay nearby: seventeen elven corpses.
Death and soil had done nothing to diminish their beauty, but their lives had ended all the same.
"Blood for blood..."
The icy whisper slipped through Kael'thas's clenched teeth.
So many of them had died. They had found nothing, and they had lost Irilanze too...
"What are the High Elves doing!?"
Every Elf returned to the World Tree after death. With so many Dark Night Elves dead, why had the High Elves guarding it shown no reaction?
The only good news was that they had not found Irilanze's body.
But given the way those humans operated...
"Inform the Elders' Council," Samael Night Song said.
With so many Elves dead, this was beyond what the Dark Night could handle alone.
The first thing the Elders' Council did upon receiving the news was order the High Elves to check the World Tree.
"Their souls never returned to the World Tree..."
That was what the High Elf Elder stationed at the World Tree's Tree Root said.
Had the souls of seventeen Elves simply vanished into thin air? Here, in the Emerald Capital?
The Elders' Council ordered Samael Night Song to identify the dead. Most were Dark Elf members.
The rest included everyone from Blood Elves to Wood Elves... They had probably uncovered the humans' identities by chance and been murdered for it.
Besides those seventeen Elves, one more was missing—Irilanze. Her body had yet to be found.
"Irilanze... Annan Reeves's friend?" Another female Dark Night Elf Elder, who had taken over the matter, seemed to recall something.
"Yes..."
"Why did you seek her out?"
Samael Night Song lowered his head. "I needed