Just as Elisande fell into despair, the elements erupted.
An earth elemental shattered the sky-blue stone slabs, and seawater surged upward, forming a towering water wall.
Melandrus had yet to see who had taken the blow for Elisande.
A brilliant blue light shot through the air, closing in like lightning. An Arcane Sword Shadow slashed down and severed Melandrus's right arm.
"Aah...!" Melandrus cried out in agony. He hurriedly flung away his longsword and darted behind Vandros, putting a safe distance between himself and his attacker.
"We're preparing to teleport, Grand Archmage," Eilor said calmly, looking at the archmage kneeling on both knees, her eyes vacant.
Elisande stared at the corpse on the ground as it slowly dissolved into a silhouette of energy. She clenched her fists, terrifying arcane energy flaring in her eyes.
As though she had gone mad, Elisande drew endlessly beyond her body's limits.
Her form kept growing larger, the arcane energy she released replacing her smooth skin until she became a hazy apparition.
"Unforgivable!" A hoarse cry of grief mingled with Elisande's voice. With a raised hand, she summoned twelve arcane elementals in different states, ready to trade her life to kill these damned traitors.
"Mentor! She's lost control of her emotions," Eilor said.
Standing atop the water wall, Guardian Evans shifted the arcane energy attached to Elisande's back and gave it a gentle tug.
Consumed by fury and out of control, Elisande never noticed the teleportation energy attached to her.
With a dazzling flash of arcane light, Elisande was teleported to the Meredil Ruins, over two hundred kilometers outside Suramar City.
The elven ruins Thalyssra had discovered earlier had now become a refuge for Suramar's Nightborne.
Most of the Nightborne civilians and surviving soldiers were hiding within the crowded ruins.
Elisande appeared in a dim