The light mist slowly thickened. A purple vortex appeared before everyone, and a portal took full shape beneath the enormous gateway.
"We can go through now." Medivh lightly rubbed his forehead, then slowly put away his staff.
"Let's go." Rex strode forward, taking the lead without hesitation. In a few steps, his figure blurred and vanished into the portal.
Rex's movement set off a chain reaction. One after another, the others stepped into the portal. In the blink of an eye, everyone gathered around it had disappeared. Medivh was the last to enter. The moment his figure vanished, the purple vortex slowly dissipated.
Only a few watching mages remained nearby. A breeze blew past, and it was as though nothing had happened.
Mount Hyjal stood in central Kalimdor, surrounded by Ashenvale, Felwood, Winterspring, Azshara, and Moonglade.
The moment Rex emerged from the portal, his attention was drawn to the World Tree piercing the heavens. Clouds and mist shrouded the distant view. They were already at a considerable altitude, high enough to reach into the clouds, yet the World Tree stretched farther still, with no end in sight.
Magnificent. The sight stunned everyone who laid eyes on it for the first time.
Gazing at the World Tree standing in the valley between Hyjal's twin peaks, Rex let out a quiet sigh. This was merely one of the World Trees, yet it was already so spectacular. Considering that its self-destruction had been powerful enough to kill Archimonde, how mighty must their mother tree have been? Rex had not forgotten that the seeds of these World Trees came from G'Hanir, the mother tree where the raven demigoddess Aviana had lived, which had withered during the War of the Ancients.
Too many demigods had died in the War of the Ancients. It had not