Cruel time waited for no one. While the bigwigs were busy escaping with their lives, solving problems, or nursing headaches, the World War in the mortal world entered its eighth day.
From small-scale exchanges on the first day to full-scale offensives on the second and fever-pitch fighting on the fifth, by the eighth day, Azeroth seemed completely shrouded in blood and death.
Stormwind City's foothold in Kalimdor had been uprooted. The enraged Tauren swept away all Alliance forces throughout the Stonetalon Mountains, including two Night Elf camps.
The Wildhammer settlements in the Twilight Highlands were almost overrun from end to end by the Dragonmaw Orcs' surprise assault. To retaliate, the legendary hero Kurdran Wildhammer personally led the heroic air force from Outland in a textbook night raid, burning the Dragonmaw camp to the ground along with the 578 wounded and civilians inside.
The burning of Menethil Harbor drove Muradin to issue an uncompromising order, regardless of the cost. Engineering flying machines carrying 3,000 Gnome and Dwarf pilots joined Wildhammer Gryphon riders from Aerie Peak, and after a brutal aerial battle, they annihilated the main Dragonmaw force and captured Malkorok, the madman who had started the war.
Most regrettably, after the battle, all 2,167 prisoners... were executed. With that, the Dragonmaw Orcs became a name in history. Apart from the 3,000 "deserters" who had followed the veteran Warlord Zaela to Orgrimmar beforehand, every Dragonmaw Orc was hunted down and killed. It was said that the fleet of the Black Demon King, the great pirate of the South Seas, also joined the hunt.
This was also the Black Demon King's final appearance in history.
On the eighth day after war broke out, the defensive line in Eversong Woods still held. Elven Rangers and mages who had traveled from the distant rear stubbornly