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Nathanos looked at Sylvanas, and the elf nodded only to him. "I'm waiting for you here."

"Take me, Stephen."

Stephen walked in front and told Nathanos that two military people had come to the Nathanos Farm. As soon as they reached the door, the cry of their mother Daphne came from inside.

"Please, don't follow them."

The voice of a strange man was immediately followed.

"This is the order of His Majesty the King."

"What's going on?" Nathanos pushed the door and saw two soldiers with the blue logo of Lordaeron engraved on their shields, right around his father Brad.

"Son?" A smile appeared on the corner of Brad's mouth, but it gave people a very bitter feeling.

"Father!" Nathanos shouted, then glared at the two soldiers. "What's going on?"

The soldier standing on the left of Brid looked at Nathanos carefully, then looked at the other soldier. The other party nodded and took out a thin volume from his waist. It was a household registration.

"Nathanos Maris, seventeen years old, not yet old."

The soldier on the left nodded, then looked at Nathanos and explained: "Child, King Terenas ordered that in response to the war, men over 18 and under fifty years old must join the army."

"What!" Nathanos almost ran away. He clenched his fists angrily, trying to teach the two soldiers a lesson. "Have Terenas now started to squeeze his people?"

"Note your tone, little devil. Slandering the King is a serious crime!"

"Please don't blame him." Bred immediately stopped Nathanos and the soldiers. "I'll follow you, Daphne, take care of Nathanos." The husband looked at his wife who was crying. Daphne cried for a long time before nodding.

Bred turned to Nathanos and patted his shoulders, his eyes filled with tears. "You must take good care of your mother, too."

"Father?" Nathanos opened his eyes wide and could not believe all this. "Please don't leave." He begged softly. Brid shook his head, he was helpless, and he didn't want to leave. The Maris family has never had a precedent for joining the army for generations, and has always been a peaceful farmer. Nathanos knew that Brid was forced to do so, so he looked at the two soldiers, hoping that they could let their father, who was about to be over fifty years old.

"A few days ago, King Terenas had sent the last group of soldiers to the battlefield. In desperation, the king could only order the conscript of civilians. Please understand." The soldier bowed to the people present. These words were very convincing. Nathanos even suspected that he had faced such a situation many times before coming here. If the war failed, their homeland would be destroyed and they had no choice. In the end, Breed only stayed with his relatives for a while and was taken away, but Daphne followed them all the way.

Anger completely occupied Nathanos at this time. He shouted in the wilderness day and night, frightening the sheep chewing the grass. Unconsciously, Sylvanas had come behind him. He wanted to calm down now, but he didn't know how to drive away the female elf. Although he knew that Sylvanas would leave with just one word, he didn't want to do so. Nathanos covered his forehead with his head and quickly thought about how to make Terenas change his government orders, but he immediately shook his head again. How ridiculous it was impossible.

"Did you know this long ago?" Nathanos asked.

"I'm so brave, I dare to talk to me like this." The female elf said with unconcealed sarcasm, testing Nathanos's patience.

"You still didn't tell me the purpose of you coming to me," he said in a rough voice: "If you don't know about this, how could the timing of your appearance be so coincidental?"

Sylvanas squatted down and carefully scrubbed the black hair that was blowing Nathanos on his face with his hands. "I thought it was you who was taken away." Her face was close, and one hand was placed on Nathanos' face. "It seems that it is your father, unfortunately." This sentence mixed with false sympathy, Nathanos turned his head gritted. "I originally planned that if the soldiers took you away, I would come forward to stop them and declare you were my soldiers."

"And you think I'll be grateful to you and rethink your original suggestions?"

"Yes." Sylvanas agreed faintly. "I believe it's better to be a Ranger than to be a soldier in the Alliance, and you'll think carefully."

"You really praised me, and thought I would consider becoming a traveler?"

"Why don't you want to? You're totally qualified." Sylvanas asked, she wanted to know the answer to this question.

"What do you think of me?" Nathanos asked: "Why should I be a Ranger? What does my outstanding abilities have to do with Ranger? Why do I have to be recognized by you!" His voice became louder and louder, and he became more and more angry, trying to defeat the indifference on Sylvanas's face. He also wanted to make the female elf angry, so that she might not come to him again in the future.

"Is this why?" Sylvanas's eyes were cold. "Since you would rather fall into the wilderness of Lordaeron than play for Quel'thalas or the Alliance. I will see you all the time..."

"What do you mean?" Her words made Nathanos look back in surprise. He was increasingly unable to guess what the female elf was thinking.

She raised her eyebrows and replied, "This time Terenas only recruited civilians. What about the next time? Will he reduce his enlistment age?"

Nathanos looked at her, and she was right, and there was no such possibility.

"I don't need your protection."

"This is not protection, it is due to the duty of a ranger general. I believe that one day your abilities will be able to be displayed, but this is not a good thing for Quelcelas. Anastarien does not want a ranger unit to suddenly appear in the Kingdom of Humanity. Do you understand what I mean?"

Nathanos snorted coldly. The female elf's meaning was very clear, that was, he would never be allowed to serve the human kingdom. Her worries were very wise, and Nathanos could not be sure that he would not do anything in the future. If he was recognized by a certain country, the king would definitely ask him to train a Rangers unit. He also believed that he had such ability.

"You are the first...elf to truly recognize me."

"You just need someone to believe you," she said. "We are all the same, we need it occasionally." The desire in her tone made him wonder about Sylvanas's childhood.

As the last ray of sunlight gradually faded, they became quiet. The cries of insects replaced the singing of birds until the silence was broken again.

"When are you going to leave?"

"You're going to drive me away so soon?"

"No." He replied, "It is only in this dark time that your people need their Ranger General."

"Do you know? When Aurelia left, I begged her to stay, as well as my sisters Winleza and Liras, but there were so many things that I couldn't help myself."

"Yes." Nathanos looked in the direction of his parents' disappearance. "But you still didn't seem to answer my question."
Chapter completed!