The threat posed by the murlocs roaming the Wetlands had largely come to an end.
Over the past month, 90% of the murloc lairs in this land had suffered devastating attacks from the mages and dwarves.
Murloc corpses lay everywhere. Those monsters of the water had been cut down like grass, wave after wave.
Lately, the transport ships traveling from Grim Batol to Antonidas Harbor had scarcely suffered any more murloc attacks.
As for the gnolls of the Mossflayer Clan, although several of their larger lairs had been destroyed, some remnants still remained.
However, Karin had long since issued a bounty: any Mossflayer Gnoll's head could be exchanged for ten gold coins beneath the Floating City of Naxxramas.
The gnolls of the Mossflayer Clan had a clearly visible patch of white, mossy skin on the backs of their heads, making them easy to identify...
Lured by such handsome rewards, large numbers of adventurers entered the Wetlands and began hunting gnolls. For the Mossflayer Gnolls, this endless hunt left them all but facing the end of their days.
It was foreseeable that the gnolls' complete disappearance from this marshland was only a matter of time.
As the obstacles to the Wetlands' development were gradually cleared away, work began on reclaiming its wastelands and marshes.
The delta lands of the Wetlands were inherently among the most fertile and suitable for cultivation... With the disappearance of the murlocs and gnolls, thousands of orc peons began taking up farming tools to reclaim uncultivated fields.
Meanwhile, the rapid development here also drew the attention of commoners in other regions.
In the Arathi Highlands to the north, many commoners of Stromgarde began fleeing across the Thandol Span to the Wetlands, unable to endure the barren land there. Alterac farther north and the Kingdom of Stormwind