After dropping the few bombs he had carried into the air, Yu Lin Bloodhawk turned his gryphon around and headed back. He had achieved his objective for this sortie. The death knights had left, so he had no reason to linger over the battlefield.
Seeing Yu Lin Bloodhawk leave the battlefield, the other Elf Gryphon Riders dropped the rest of their small supply of bombs and returned one after another to Lordaeron's Inner City.
When Yu Lin Bloodhawk returned to Lordaeron's battlements, he spotted King Terenas and several court mages standing atop the walls, watching the battlefield outside, before he had even landed.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk found this strange. Didn't that old man Terenas usually stay cooped up in his palace? What had gotten into him today? He had actually brought those trusted court mages out to bask in the sun?
What Yu Lin Bloodhawk did not realize was that his method of fighting was practically unprecedented in Azeroth, with little chance of anyone ever repeating it. No one had expected anything from a petty trick that seemed almost like a joke.
Yet to everyone's astonishment, this childish, make-believe trick had actually achieved tremendous success on the battlefield.
Once all the orc death knights had left, the vast numbers of death soldiers had no one to control them. As they slipped out of control, they gradually turned the entire battlefield into utter chaos.
At that point, the defending commanders watching the battle from the walls of Lordaeron's Inner City naturally sent men rushing into the palace to report the rapid change to King Terenas.
Terenas, the court mages, and the large crowd of nobles in the palace could hardly believe their ears when they heard the soldiers' reports. But the messengers insisted that every word was true.
Thus, King Terenas,