Everyone in the Orc Wolf Rider Squadron had thrown out large numbers of smoke bombs, creating a dense curtain of smoke. Neither side could clearly make out the terrain within it.
Still, this was the southern Singing Forest of Quel'Thalas, and the High Elf Rangers were on their home ground. Besides, they had surveyed the area before planning their ambush.
Even though the High Elf Gryphon Riders could no longer see the exact positions within the smoke, they could still drop their caltrops in roughly the right places.
But there was sometimes a considerable difference between roughly right and precisely on target. A few poisoned caltrops might now be lying along either side of the road because of the Gryphon Riders' misplaced drops.
Few as those misplaced caltrops might have been, they still kept all ten High Elf Ranger hunting squads operating within the dense curtain of smoke from venturing too close to the roadside to search for the scattered Orc Wolf Riders.
The High Elf Rangers all carried antidotes for those poisons, but even with an antidote, getting poisoned would be a serious nuisance. The poison was so potent that, even after taking the antidote, they would lose virtually all their fighting ability for quite some time.
Every High Elf Ranger and Mountain Lion battle pet in this hunting squad had entered Stealth as they cautiously made their way through the smoke in search of targets.
Only the Gorilla Ranger's pet following behind them remained visible. The gorilla battle pet wore a heavy, full-body suit of plate armor that wrapped it up like a tin of meat.
Everyone in the High Elf Ranger hunting squad searched through the thick smoke one careful step at a time.
The Mountain Lion Nightstalkers were fully armed, and their mountain lion pets had