"Fine, you can have it! All right!" Yu Lin Bloodhawk said with a headache. "We haven't even caught sight of anyone yet, and you're already asking me for your share of the spoils. Is that any way to do business?"
Once Sylvanas had secured Yu Lin Bloodhawk's promise, they could finally settle down to discuss their marching route and battle plans.
A few days later.
All the necessary supplies were ready. Food, jerky, fruit, weapons, armor, cannonballs, and everything else brought through the Portal had arrived in quantities that exceeded their needs.
The Steel Torrent of one regiment of the Quel'Danil Standing Army was ready as well. The Snow Leopard Squad had arrived in Trial Valley early, and the four hundred Rangers of the City Lord's Household Guard had completed their Soul Links with their newly acquired Second-Generation Giant Bloodfang Boar battle pets.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk's only regret was that the hundred members of the City Lord's Household Guard who had received lions captured in Desolace as battle pets had not completed their Soul Links. But he could not wait any longer. If they had not finished, they would just have to bring the cages aboard and keep working at it during the voyage! A fleet carrying several thousand people could not delay its departure for just a hundred of them.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk certainly could not blame them, either. These wild lions were different from the crossbred Giant Bloodfang Boars raised at the boar breeding farm in the Hinterlands. The crossbred Giant Bloodfang Boars from the farm had lived alongside High Elves and humans since birth. They were familiar with their scents and were not particularly wary of them.
But the wild lions captured in Desolace were another matter entirely. They had grown up in the harsh wilderness from