As the sun was about to set, nineteen hundred elves marched cheerfully into the Expeditionary Army Corps' camp. Countless elves gathered to watch, along with some of the human allied troops who had arrived earlier.
Six hundred raptors pulled with all their might, dragging the orcs' worgs on wooden stretchers. Every elf riding a hawkstrider also had a huge bundle of armor, weapons, and other loot loaded onto the bird's back.
Of course, the returning force was also escorting more than fifty orc prisoners. Sylvanas had forcibly sold these orcs to Yu Lin Bloodhawk for three gold coins apiece, and refusing was not an option. So, apart from the worgs, everything represented gold coins for Sylvanas.
Sylvanas kept stressing to Yu Lin Bloodhawk that these spoils had been earned through the soldiers' blood and sweat. Our esteemed city lord reportedly expressed considerable doubt and distrust, but that did nothing to dampen Miss Sylvanas's enthusiasm for the first deal of her bandit career.
As commander of the Expeditionary Army Corps, Alleria naturally took a special interest in its first major battle. She went out to welcome them herself and was especially surprised to discover that they had not only wiped out the orc force but also seized more than six hundred worgs. Hearing that no one had died and only a hundred or two had been wounded left her even more bewildered.
None of those fifty-odd orc prisoners looked like easy opponents. How had their force been wiped out so effortlessly? After making arrangements for the victorious soldiers, she sought out Sylvanas to hear how the battle had unfolded.
After hearing the battle report, Alleria's jaw dropped. *You could fight a battle like that? Throw a party and win? The orcs must have been playing around with them! Either that, or