Rachel's condition had stabilized, and the news delighted everyone.
A Hero Rank powerhouse was a towering pillar of support, and Gilneas was now caught between generations. The next generation had yet to mature, while Darius, a leading figure among the second generation who formed its backbone, had been stuck at Ninth Rank Peak for more than a decade. There was little hope of him breaking through.
The same was true of King Genn. He did not believe he had any hope of reaching Hero Rank in the future.
But circumstances were unpredictable. No one could have imagined that both Darius and King Genn would eventually reach Hero Rank. King Genn's breakthrough, in particular, involved something of a shortcut: he relied on becoming a worgen. Otherwise, given his condition, he would have had no hope.
And worgen were something Rex loathed. The source of Gilneas's tragic upheaval was the outbreak of the undead Scourge. More precisely, worgen had been summoned to resist the Scourge. Although they successfully repelled one of its detachments, they also planted the seeds of disaster. The future worgen crisis took root in Gilneas and eventually spiraled out of control. Gilneas seemed cursed by ill fortune, suffering one calamity after another.
First came Darius's rebellion, followed by an attack from Sylvanas, the queen of the Forsaken, with the worgen uprising in between. The vast, once-prosperous Gilneas, whose territory had ranked behind only Stormwind City and Lordaeron in human history, vanished into nothing. Its plight was even more miserable than Stromgarde's. Stromgarde had been occupied by ogres-a great kingdom reduced to such a state.
The people of Gilneas even had to leave their homeland, crossing the ocean to Kalimdor, where they barely scraped by on aid from the night elves. How miserable that was. Different perspectives naturally brought different