A bolt of purplish-black lightning suddenly shot out of the mist like a nimble venomous snake, wrapping around Yu Lin Bloodhawk in a flash just as he was about to beat his wings.
A tremendous pulling force came from the direction of that black lightning. Helplessly, Yu Lin Bloodhawk was dragged before the Death Knight by the black chain of energy.
The Death Knight swiftly reached out and seized the owl by the neck.
That grip made Yu Lin Bloodhawk feel as though his own neck were being strangled, leaving him struggling to breathe. Meeting the Death Knight's icy gaze, he shuddered involuntarily.
What kind of gaze was that? Indifference was no longer enough to describe its chill. Yet that single glance also let Yu Lin Bloodhawk finally make out the shadowy figures behind the Death Knight: a whole crowd of human soldiers covered in blood.
The soldiers' eyes likewise glimmered with a cold white light.
Death Warriors! That was the only thought Yu Lin Bloodhawk managed before an immense wave of pain struck him.
"Aah!" Yu Lin Bloodhawk screamed, but the sound emerged as a bird's pitiful dying cry.
The Beast's Eye spell was forcibly interrupted. Yu Lin Bloodhawk felt his consciousness return to his own body. When he opened his eyes, cold sweat poured down his forehead and his face had gone pale, as though he had truly died once.
The cold sweat on his face came entirely from fright. At the same time, he felt the mysterious bond with his pet sever completely.
"What happened to you?" Sylvanas noticed something was wrong.
"Nothing..." Yu Lin Bloodhawk shook his head and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. "There's a Death Knight up ahead. He's raised the corpses of a lot of human soldiers. He killed my owl