Under normal circumstances, these Death Knights might not have considered the Nets much of a threat. Their Death Warhorses were highly maneuverable, allowing them to evade the relatively slow-moving Nets with ease.
But visibility was already poor within the vast smokescreen created by the Smoke Bombs. By the time the Death Knights saw the Nets spreading out above them, they might already have been caught in the High Elves' snares.
So even the Death Knights themselves could not say whether they would still be alive if all five of them had entered the smoke back then-or how many of them might have survived.
Faced with the Orcs Vanguard Commander's harsh accusations, the five Death Knights were resentful, but none dared talk back. After all, Gul'dan was no longer in power.
The Death Knights could only protest inwardly: Go in and support them? How were we supposed to help once we got inside? All that would accomplish was adding a few Death Knight corpses to the scene!
Even if they had entered the mist, the most they could have done was send those few Voidwalker demons back and forth through it. But would those treacherous, cunning High Elves of Quel'Thalas really have let the Death Knights move around inside so freely?
After all, the Voidwalker demons had merely been summoned. If the Death Knights who summoned them died, the Voidwalkers would inevitably return to the Twisting Nether.
Given how cunning and treacherous the High Elves of the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas were, why would they foolishly attack the Voidwalker demons instead of targeting the Death Knights themselves?
Were the High Elves stupid? Of course not! Did they know nothing about summoning magic? Their understanding of magic ran far deeper than that of the orcs. They had summoned the Burning Legion ten thousand