"Demons! The Burning Legion!" Yu Lin Bloodhawk sat in his chair, rubbing his temples with a headache. Those two terms weighed far too heavily on him, especially the latter. Just hearing it made his head hurt.
The undead Scourge, which would become the greatest enemy of the High Elf kingdom of Quel'Thalas, was merely a minor pawn of the Burning Legion. It was nothing before the true Burning Legion. Yet even that insignificant undead Scourge could bring the High Elf kingdom of Quel'Thalas to the brink of destruction, leaving fewer than one in ten of its people alive. How could Yu Lin Bloodhawk not have a headache?
He had originally planned to visit Alleria in the Swamp of Sorrows once he finished his business in the Hinterlands, but now he had to reconsider where to go next.
Judging by the intelligence, the two portals built by the Orcs Remnants should only be medium-sized portals, incapable of transporting major boss-level figures. Transporting demon bosses of that caliber required enormous amounts of energy, which meant the portals had to be built atop major energy nodes, such as the Sunwell or the Tomb of Sargeras. Without enough energy, large portals were unstable, and the resulting turbulence in space and time could tear anything apart-even the mightiest god!
The Orcs Remnants were building portals in a location that was not a ley line node, so there certainly could not be any large-scale influx of Azeroth's native energy. That left them with only two ways to activate the portals once they were complete. The first was to use an artifact's power, if they possessed one. The second was to activate them through sacrifice, paying with lives. But even if they opened the portals that way, without a ley line node, there could be no continuous