Sylvanas felt somewhat uneasy. Strictly speaking, she was deceiving a god. She was clearly a ranger, yet she was pretending to be a mage devoted to the God of Magic. If the god took offense at this, she would be in serious trouble.
She could feel the remaining magic in her heart carrying her prayer to a very distant place. The air around her seemed to begin trembling, and the pervasive magic grew ever denser. The god had received her prayer. Now, all she could do was wait. If the god was willing, divine intervention would naturally descend.
A gust of arcane wind suddenly appeared in midair, mixed with black void energy and green fel energy. The surrounding trees began to change. Dense arcane energy altered the insides of the towering trees, turning them into crystal trees that emitted a faint glow.
Just then, all the energy suddenly contracted, swiftly converging into a tiny point in the sky. Then, as if exploding, it formed a Divine Eye.
The Divine Eye gradually gained vitality, then fixed its gaze on the somewhat nervous Sylvanas.
"Sylvanas, the lover of my Divine Emissary, and Alleria's younger sister." Hu Feng openly took advantage of the situation. After all, presumably no one would dare argue with a god...
"Do you understand that your actions already count as blasphemy?" The Divine Eye's tone was calm, though it carried an edge of interrogation.
Sylvanas took a deep breath. "Please forgive me, great God of Magic. As a ranger, I could never have summoned you without borrowing external power."
The Divine Eye suddenly flashed. A ripple like water spread out violently, and more than a dozen mages in splendid robes revealed themselves one after another, landing on the ground in a sorry state while clutching their chests. Cold sweat immediately broke out on Sylvanas's forehead. Anasterian, the Sun King, was among them!
"Pathetic rats. You thought you could hide your tracks before a god? Wait obediently where you are. I will deal with you soon enough." The Divine Eye snorted coldly. Tendrils of arcane energy instantly appeared, binding the hands and feet of the dozen or so Silvermoon Council mages and Anasterian, the Sun King, leaving them utterly unable to move.
Sylvanas keenly noticed the difference in the god's attitude toward the two sides, and her confidence immediately grew. Her thoughts raced as she stepped forward and dropped to one knee. "God, please help us Windrunners! The Windrunners are in dire danger. Those Silvermoon Council members have tried every possible means to target us. If you had not sent down the Divine Punishment of Madness, they would have acted long ago."
The moment Sylvanas finished speaking, the Silvermoon Council members bound in place glared so furiously that their eyes seemed ready to split. They wanted to speak in protest, but their mouths seemed sealed with cement. No matter what they did, they could not open them.
"Oh? What does your dire danger have to do with me? Divine Punishment exists only to punish those without faith or those whose faith is impure. Must I send down Divine Punishment for your insignificant Windrunners?" The Divine Eye stared at Sylvanas without the slightest emotion, and ecstatic delight immediately appeared in the eyes of the Sun King and the Silvermoon Council members.
"Great God, the insignificant Windrunners are naturally not worth you personally sending down Divine Punishment. But perhaps you do not know that your most beloved Divine Emissary, Hu Feng—his lover Alleria, who is also my sister—is in a very dangerous situation. The Silvermoon Council members and the nobles behind them are determined to strip my sister of her authority. They even intend to force her into marriage!"
As she spoke, she carefully watched the Divine Eye's reaction. When she saw a trace of anger emerge in it, Sylvanas was overjoyed and immediately continued. "At first, we could withstand the pressure, but we are only weak women. We cannot resist like this forever. Surely, great God, you do not wish to see your Divine Emissary's lover stolen away by these useless nobles, do you?"
Hu Feng was grumbling endlessly inside. Weak women, my ass. If the trolls who died at your hands did not number a thousand, there were at least eight hundred! Since when had weak women become this brutal?... Still, thoughts were thoughts. He had to keep up the act.
The Divine Eye cast down more than a dozen beams of light, enveloping everyone present before slowly fading away.
"It seems there truly are rats attempting to lay hands on something that does not belong to them."
The Divine Eye looked coldly at the trapped group. Suddenly, one council member screamed. His restraint had been lifted, but he was now kneeling on the ground, both hands clutched tightly around his throat, his eyes bulging painfully. Green flames burst from his eyes, mouth, nostrils, and ears. His eyeballs evaporated instantly, and his vocal cords were burned away completely. Before everyone's eyes, a handsome High Elf uncle became a black, charred thing kneeling on the ground and clutching its own neck.
"Such reckless arrogance, such spoiled insolence—you must be punished." The god's voice suddenly resounded throughout Eversong Woods.
"Sylvanas, I now command you to lead your people and bring all those who have disrespected me here. I give you only one hour."
Her heart filled with wild joy and satisfaction. "Great God, if there are those who resist or refuse to admit it, then..."
"Then let them die immediately." The Divine Eye gave Sylvanas a meaningful look.
Queen Sylvanas keenly understood the god's other meaning: That's right. There was no need to mention the Blasphemers or the nobles plotting to seize the Windrunner Family and its women. She had temporarily been granted a special privilege. As long as she wanted to arrest someone, she could arrest them. Those who had always opposed the Windrunners at every turn... well, they could also be said to be guilty! Queen Sylvanas was not like her sister. She had not the slightest pity for political enemies and factions that constantly sabotaged them merely because they were of the same race.
Ha, worthy of a powerful and wise god. This was exactly to her taste! Sylvanas and the rangers raced forward, and all of Quel'Thalas immediately descended into panic and chaos.
A graceful figure suddenly blocked Sylvanas's path, simply standing there in silence.
"Continue the operation. I want the targets brought in within half an hour." Queen Sylvanas waved her hand, and the rangers immediately pressed onward. Alleria wanted to stop them, but the rangers seemed to have collectively gone blind and deaf, swiftly vanishing into the forest.
"Sister, are you really going to carry out mass arrests? I will not say anything about the Blasphemers and those... nobles who have set their sights on us. But now you even want to arrest people who merely disagree with us politically? They are our compatriots. They have done nothing threatening or wrong!"
Sylvanas gave her sister a charming smile. "That's right, and this is also permitted and encouraged by the god. I do not know why the revered God of Magic is helping me so much, but now, you cannot stop me, Sister. Divine power is surging within me. Now, move aside."
Alleria lightly bit her lip, her face full of sorrow. "You will regret this, Sister. If this is also the god's will, then... the god may be wrong as well."
Sylvanas shrugged, lightly leaping onto a tree. She then turned back to her sister and said, "Perhaps... but perhaps the great god likes mortals with a little ambition, so the god has favored me. Isn't that so?"
With that, she turned into a green afterimage and vanished into the forest.
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