"Those bastards can count. They're here to roll us over, plain and simple."
The enemy had done the math: five of them against four of the defenders. They planned to use raw numbers to forcibly evict Arthas, Leonidas, and the others from the premises.
What they hadn't calculated was Orion.
His recent arrival in the Ashenheart Domain had balanced the scales, turning a massacre into a fair five-on-five fight.
And that wasn't even accounting for the ace in the hole. Hidden deep within the cavern were two elite guards—the "Royal Guard" of the operation. They were the final line of defense for the Ever-Burning Volcano, the hidden bulk of the iceberg beneath the surface. Their job was to watch for opportunistic scavengers trying to sneak in the back door, freeing up Edward and Arthas to face the frontal assault without looking over their shoulders.
