Sylvanas Windranger, Aurelia's second sister and Winlessa's second sister. Her mother, Liresa Windranger, was the last Ranger General, but was killed in World War II during the initial invasion of Quel'Thalas by the Orcs of the Old Horde and their Amani trolls.

The eldest sister, Aurelia was free and easy by nature, and did not want to be bound by these things, so she left the political center of Silvermoon City after accepting the transfer of her family heirloom artifact Salados from her second sister Sylvanas, and Sylvanas inherited her mother's title. As a Ranger, she deserves to be a very powerful being, but as a general, she, like all immortals, will make some arrogant mistakes due to ignorance.

Now, for example, when Sylvanas received a report from the scouts stationed at the Elven Gate, "the army of the undead is rapidly approaching our first gate". The confident Ranger General led his men to meet the enemy.

However, Sylvanas does have the capital to be confident, because being able to join the Far Wanderer army under the command of the Ranger General is a very difficult thing to do among those who like to fight with dexterity. Subjects must undergo rigorous training and testing, during which time they will be tested for archery, stealth, and survival skills.

The Far Wanderer forces don't absorb any newbies who don't know anything about it.

Subjects must have excellent archery, stealth, or survival skills, and after passing such an initial test, congratulations on the fact that you can follow the rangers for a period of targeted ranger training before you can become a long-distance traveler. Newly recruited rangers also had to undergo a lot of training in guerrilla tactics and anatomy.

The senior members are almost all killing machines, they can quickly find hidden targets from 500 paces away, and shoot through the heart of the target, during which if their actions make a lot of noise, this is an inferior performance, and the Far Travelers are good at both group and solo combat, and their endurance is also very good after rigorous training, they can even accompany the Lycobo to run for an hour to carry out the feat of rushing.

So Sylvanas felt that in front of her and her Far Wanderer troops, the army of the undead was even less threatening than the MI7 in the Stormwind Kingdom.

So, ignorance is also an original sin.

Ignorance and arrogance had made Sylvanas almost ignore Haduron's previous messages, and since the Silvermoon Council had stated that it was not necessary to take the undead wreaking havoc on Lordaeron seriously, the Ranger General had not taken it too seriously. So now that she is facing the arrival of the army of the undead who have invaded her country, she has chosen to try to make Arthas retreat through dialogue first.

Intrigued by the discovery of the ranger force that had chosen to appear head-on to fend off the undead army, Arthas approached him to see what the woman who asked him to come out for a conversation meant, only to hear the joke that his sense of humor seemed to be somewhat restored after becoming the king of the Death Knights.

"This is not a place for you filthy undead to set foot!

"Oh, I should have known that you arrogant elves were fools at the same time. You have no idea what you're up against......" Arthas smiled as he opened his bow to Sylvanas, "I just wanted the Well of the Sun, but now that I've changed my mind, I'm going to teach you fools a lesson you'll never forget." ”

As Arthas stumbled away the arrows fired by the Ranger General, an army of the undead swarmed into the thin line formed by the Far Wanderer Rangers outside the fortress of the Elven Gate......

At the beginning of the battle, the Ranger offensive was very effective, they quickly retreated into the fortress, while they began to rain arrows one after another, and pieces of skeletons and zombies fell, and the Ranger who seized the opportunity was very bold and jumped down from the elven gate, holding elven blades in both directions, under the cover of their companions, quickly approaching the mortal members of the Cursed Sect who played the role of front-line commanders.

With the superb martial arts and cooperation of the rangers, those necromancers are almost completely powerless! The army of the undead who have lost their front-line commanders is even more scattered, and their numbers are being rapidly reduced under the ruthless blows of the rangers.

However, such a rapid speed of destroying the enemy is based on the use of arrows regardless of attrition, although there is a lot of inventory in the station in the elven gate, but Sylvanas who returned to the city still frowned, after ascending to the heights and looking into the distance, she clearly saw that the rangers' efforts in these short ten minutes have killed at least tens of thousands of disgusting undead, but this is nothing to the dense army of undead who can't see the end at all!

According to his fanatical followers, Sylvanas Windranger had the sweet scent of the rose garden in Silvermoon City at all times, but now, only a dozen minutes later, the heroic Ranger General was inevitably no longer graceful. The continuous vigorous exercise and the smoke of the war made her, like the other rangers, covered in stinky sweat, and left ugly black marks like smoke.

The army of the undead is pouring in one after another, and some rangers' right hands are so sore, that they can't open their bows, but it doesn't matter, they can switch to their left hands and continue to shoot arrows, but the deadliest thing is that they are running out of arrows!

The hundreds of thousands of arrows sealed in the elven gate have not been touched for more than a thousand years, but now, they have been used up by the 4,000 ranger troops led by the ranger general in half an hour, and each ranger now has only about 1 quiver and 100 arrows, this is the last arrow, and the nearest station to the first elven gate is still far away, and they can't be effectively supplied.

Although they fought bloodily to kill almost the same number of undead with the same number of arrows, if this was the army of the living, it must have either fled or been wiped out, but as the evil necromantic magic continued to awaken the dead life, the psychological and physical pressure felt by the rangers also increased, and finally as the corpses behind the undead army continued to be thrown onto the city wall through meat grinders, more and more rangers were forced to start close combat!

Similarly, although the rangers are also very powerful in close combat, the combat consumption at this level is far from being able to cope with this point.

The profession of rangers, although they are very powerful from near and far, is an agile profession after all, and their combat training is not suitable for frontal combat, their positioning in the war should belong to the type of long-range strikes and fast fights, rather than relying on a not towering fortress to block the enemy on the basis of the lack of a solid avant-garde, this kind of work should be completed by a well-equipped regular army, and the rangers should take on the heavy responsibility of harassment and guerrilla.

It's just that due to the high elves' long-term national conditions, military system, traditions and many other reasons, this race, not to mention avant-garde professionals, even ordinary melee soldiers are very few. Either they are pure magicians, or they are dual cultivators of magic and martial arts, or they are ranged professionals, or they are close or far like rangers.

In the High Elf's army system, ranged units make up 70%, panacea units make up 29%, and the remaining 1% is the poor melee ...... In addition, the population of the High Elves is too small, which also makes it very difficult for them to develop an effective melee professional tradition, at most the private troops of some nobles, and there are really few in the regular army.

And the famous law-breaker is the personal guard of the Wang family, which is even rarer......

Now, as more and more of the newly killed rangers are immediately awakened by the evil magic, they join the army of the undead, swinging the butcher's knife at their own people!

"Oh, I think I've found the best marksman for my army, and I'm thankful for that, stupid Ranger General! But soon, you'll be one of my men...... too" Arthas didn't go into battle himself, it made no difference if he didn't go into battle at this level of warfare where his own army of millions was constantly pouring into the enemy, he wasn't like a ranger army with only a small number of troops, and in his opinion, any action to stop the Scourge in front of him was stupid.

Because they usually have only one fate, and that is to die in battle, and then become a member of the Scourge Legion.

"Ahh

At this time, in the midst of the soul tormented by the frost sorrow, Arthas's thoughts were interrupted by the "cry" of Uther's noble soul, which never gave in, which frustrated Arthas's desire to transform him into a Death Knight, which also left the position of the High Lord of Death in his Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse still empty, which made him very dissatisfied.

However, Arthas has time, Frost Sorrow also has time, and Uther's soul also has time, so he decided to continue torturing this soul first, after all, the most holy soul falls, which will burst out with the greatest power, if Uther's soul falls, then he will become the most powerful death knight, I'm afraid even Arthas is not his opponent, but it doesn't matter, the stronger the fighter, the happier Arthas and Neozu will be.

Arthas didn't pay any attention to the situation on the battlefield, because the appearance of the Crypt Demon near the Elven Gate was the last straw that broke Sylvanas's idea of staying here.

Although Anubarak did not appear, these spider monsters, which were enough to kill many rangers through long-range attacks, made Sylvanas decisively give up the defense here, and quickly lead the troops to retreat while the city wall was still alive, otherwise if they didn't even have time to escape after the city wall was gone.

Because this scale is beyond the reach of Sylvanas' Far Travelers, Silvermoon City must be notified as soon as possible, and only those large and powerful legions of mages can stop those disgusting undead.

The exhausted rangers quickly carried out their orders, and they all rode chocobos to retreat, and several squads were ordered to disperse to various places to report. (I want to complain here, the high elves have been established for more than 7,000 years, right?) There is no beacon warning, and there is no one to transmit information through scouts to various important places...... ）

Sylvanas glanced at the Elven Gate that separated Quel'Thalas from Lordaeron, she was unwilling, but she couldn't do anything about it, and the desire for revenge in her heart had never been stronger than it was now. And here, in the "Hereafter" there will be an inscription on a plaque that reads, "In memory of the heroes who shed their blood for the survival of the people." Although the eternal sun will set on the darkest of days, it will eventually rise at dawn. ”

The rangers retreated, and on the way to Taquilin, Sylvanas quickly counted the remnants of the army, and the good men of Orestes, Lesevalin, and Crean were killed, and their bodies were desecrated by evil magic, and they became dark rangers in their deadliest nature.

After being awakened by the defeat in battle, the quality of the Ranger General was revealed, and she quickly made a new deployment, and after arranging for the personnel to continue to inform all parties, she began to let the Ranger start to play to their strengths, ambushes, harassment, traps, and even destroy roads, bridges, and other guerrilla tactics that can be used to delay the undead army, rather than facing the enemy head-on.

This does have a certain effect, but due to the large consumption of arrows in the battle of the Elven Gate, it is really difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

So Sylvanas had no choice but to return to the second Elven Gate as soon as possible, because it was the boundary between the Eternal Song Forest and the Wraith Land, and that place had a magical barrier that had protected Quel'Salas for a long time!

The second elven gate is a defense system linked to the magic barrier, and opening this door is equivalent to opening a gap in the magic barrier, but this is not an easy task, first of all, there must be a "password" passed down by the noble family master and the royal family at the level of the Silver Moon Council, and there must be a "thing" called the key of March to open.

And this magical barrier has indeed protected the safety of the High Elf land for thousands of years, which makes them all very convinced of this, even the Far Travelers who often carry out missions outside the magical barrier, so Sylvanas's first instinct is to tell Silvermoon City to get ready and withdraw the people of the Wraith Land to the Eternal Song Forest.

But soon, Sylvanas discovered the anomaly, the sky of the Ghost Land was too quiet! This abnormal and unknown silence scared all the rangers, and the smell of the forest was no longer permeated by the Salas path, but a rancid stench, which undoubtedly made the rangers more vigilant, until they found the exposed feet of a hard gargoyle, which was shot down by an arrow, and the ranger general realized that his every move was under the surveillance of the army of the undead!

Sylvanas no longer scattered her forces, her responsibility as a general made her understand that the team she had sent out to inform each Yao Di that it was likely to have died at the hands of this gargoyle, so she had to make a choice, whether to abandon the populace to protect the large army and return to the Yongge Forest to report the news, or to disperse the troops into several large teams again to organize the evacuation of the people?

"Ariel, you take 500 people to Windranger Village and Golden Mist Village, and make sure to bring our people back to the Eternal Song Forest!"

"Yes!"

"Solana, you take 500 people back to the Far Wanderer territory and go north to evacuate the people!"

"Yes!"

"Cetina, you take 100 people back to Silvermoon City first, tell those old guys that trouble is coming, and then call the Dragon Eagle Legion over, I need air support!"

"Yes!"

"Lila Enza, you take 100 people to the village of Sunrage, the people there need your help!"

"Yes!"

"Alright, Vitoran, you tell us that we have to continue to wreak havoc, and we must not let those disgusting things pass through here so easily!"

Under Sylvanas's orders, the rangers quickly dispersed, and she led more than 1,800 rangers to lay some traps on the main road of Taquilin, and began to lurk in the nearby mountains and forests, after all, fighting in such terrain is the best and most comfortable terrain for the rangers.

Three hours later, when the first ugly ghoul was burned to death by the trap planted by the rangers, the dense army of the undead appeared in the sight of all the rangers again, and the army of the undead who followed behind simply ignored the units that were burned in front of them, stabbed to death by sharp blades that emerged from the ground, frozen into ice, bitten by poisonous snakes, and so on...... Countless feet trampled down, trampling those units that were originally "companions" beyond recognition, and none of the undead would rescue them.

In addition to blocking the road with falling rocks and giant logs, and cutting off bridges, Sylvanas was desperate to find that the guerrilla tactics that the rangers excelled at had almost no way to delay the attack of these undead armies who had no feelings, no fear, and no fatigue!

Sylvanas realized that something was wrong, because those undead began to divide into a large group in an organized way and began to slowly surround the mountains and forests of Taquelin, which made Sylvanas have to choose to turn north from the mountains and forests to prepare to escape, but she never thought that the gargoyle monsters that she thought were scattered by their undead masters to hunt scouts converged again, and they are now appearing in large groups above their troops, if it were not for the cover of the woods, it is estimated that those monsters have caused a lot of casualties to the rangers.

So, for the safety of the mountain, the few arrows of the rangers began to attack the gargoyle monsters soaring in the air, and the effect was remarkable......

But this is not good for the status quo, because by these monsters so delayed, Sylvanas's hope of leading his troops to break through was shattered, they just ran out of the forest, the ghouls chased after them frantically, after the battle, the rangers gained a lot of experience in dealing with undead monsters, but at this time they were also exhausted, in order to hide in the mountains and forests ambush and ordered the chocobo back to the Yongge Forest, now it is unrealistic to rely on the feet of the rangers to hurry.

In desperation, Sylvanas fired the last arrow and drew her elven blade, and like the other rangers, she was a true warrior and rushed into the overwhelming flood of undead corpses......

However, in Sylvanas's eyes, the endless tide of corpses is just Arthas's leisure "play", and he has not yet been able to break the magic barrier of the Eternal Song Forest without getting the internal response of a certain traitor, so after he scattered many troops to find a new "source of soldiers", he personally came here and rushed forward with hundreds of thousands of undead in the number of 5,000 undead in each round, little by little, so that the other party could see the hope of escape!

He enjoyed the despair in his prey's eyes at the end, and the Ranger General, who had lost a lot of time to his legion along the way, was the best target for his revenge. After all, Arthas didn't want to waste too much of his strength against Quel'Thalas, and his main army was assembling in Dysom, where the Cursed Sect loyal to the Lich King killed all the local guards in a single wave, acting like a base camp for the Scourge army. And what Arthas has to do is just to kill this ranger general who spoils his good deeds while waiting for the "opportunity". But as Arthas drove his horse up a high slope to admire the Ranger General's expression after his last efforts came to naught, he felt the energy that disgusted him start to rush in this way!

Looking down the source of energy, Arthas found that it was a team of several hundred people, mixed with paladins and rangers, "When did the paladins become so close to these rangers? no, that's ......"

At the head of the paladin, the man he had turned to ashes and whom Arthas knew, Adelan Anaheim, his best friend and the right-hand man of the future who succeeded to the throne......

Unbeknownst to everyone in the game, "history" had changed slightly, including Edlan, because Arthas was supposed to personally sit in Dysom to gather his army and attack, but now he was in pursuit of "prey".

Now, the corners of Arthas's mouth, which had long since lost its expression, seemed to twitch a little on Arthas's pale face, which had just been repaired by some evil force......

P.S1: Although there are many wow novels that write about the human protagonist soaked in the state of the high elves, in fact, in the official short story Dark Mirror, Sylvanas has been in love with Nathanos for a long time, and Sylvanas even chased Nathanos to the wilderness of Lordaeron after Nathanos chose to retire in order to save her reputation, and the two spent a night of spring supper.

Originally, the relationship between the two could have continued to develop intimately into another Tulayan and Aurelia, and Ronin and Winlessa, but the subsequent tides of darkness eventually broke the two apart, and when they reunited, they were undead creatures of free will, uncontrolled by others.

Therefore, even in terms of the high elves' concept of love, in their long years, having a wonderful relationship with a human is just an embellishment in this long life, but it is undeniable that when Nathanos is still alive, it is even more difficult for pig's feet to soak in this arrogant and belonging royal sister.

P.S2: I don't know how to write emotional dramas, the difficulty factor is MAX.

P.S3: This generation of Windrangers has a soft spot for human men.