Arcane splendor begins with the throne

Chapter 79 Drawing the Line
The silence in the forest fell without warning, only the faint sound of the hippopotamus combing its feathers with its sharp beak.

A black raven flapped its wings and circled above the two of them, screaming and disappearing into the depths of the dense forest.

When the elf leader Adlan withdrew his gaze from the direction of the temple, his expression softened significantly.

He took a deep look at Brian, his eyes gradually softened.

He once again ordered in a hoarse, low voice, in an unquestionable tone: "Follow me!"

"I reject!"

Brian directly refused without even thinking about it. He rubbed his right hand against the hilt of his sword to add weight and determination to this refusal.

Adelan didn't care, he stroked the hippogriff's mane lightly, and the hippogriff shook the loose mane on its head and rubbed against his arm affectionately.

He pushed the Hippogriff's coquettish head to the side, tried to speak as calmly as possible, and said to Brian:

"Humans hate all races that are different from their own, even if it is a difference in ears, so the army of the human kingdom took away the land from us elves, drove us out of our homes, and forced us into the wild mountains..."

"So, you have to avenge the mistakes humans made for the elves." Brian interrupted in a cold tone: "And I am honored to be a tool trained by you for revenge. Bar?"

He recalled the thoughts he had been indoctrinated into, and he couldn't help secretly rejoicing that he was a reborn person, and he was able to make the most rational choice from beginning to end and stay out of it.

If not, there's a good chance he's also a mad Elven Avenger.

"I admit that because of your special status, I did have this kind of thought." Adelan admitted generously, and continued: "But it is no longer necessary. The reason why I told you so much is because It's just stating a fact to you."

"Fact?" Brian snorted coldly.

"1000 years ago, we sat and watched the Riyao family being eaten away by the human army, hiding in the forest and ignoring it, and we didn't wake up until we caused trouble." The elf leader said calmly and slowly:

"So, we can't make mistakes anymore. Mistakes will only bring terrible losses. The army of the human kingdom takes the land from us bit by bit, and we retreat again and again, always thinking that this is the last time, always feeling that the enemy is not good. It will continue to erode us, and we will retreat step by step, but in exchange for every step of the way, we will not make this kind of mistake again."

The cold wind in the forest whizzed past, strange and desolate.

Brian looked up, thinking he heard the croaking of a crow or a raven, but it was just the wind.

wind?

He had never heard such strange news.

"Endless revenge can't solve any problems at all." Bryan was silent for a while, then tentatively said: "If you refuse to live in peace, you are condemned to death."

He always felt that a person who could say this on such a contradictory issue was like a naive fool, but he still couldn't help but say it.

He also understands the truth of not persuading others to be kind without others suffering.

But he just wanted to see what kind of reaction the leader of the elves in front of him would have when he heard his words, that's all.

He just wants an attitude before he can plan his future plans.

"Live in peace?" Elf leader Adlan smiled contemptuously.

Although his expression was completely covered by the cold mithril mask, making no one see any changes at all, Brian, who observed the subtleties, could feel that he was showing such a smile.

Immediately afterwards, he saw the leader holding the rein tightly with his right hand.

Those eyes were as dark as his, but they were as blazing as burning flames, carrying the purest hatred.

Even so, he deliberately lowered his volume, and said to him very calmly:
"How to live in peace? Ask us to obey human laws? Identify with human kings? Give up the existence of individual races? Then do you know what they treat us as? Slaves? Untouchables? Good! We don't even care about these things, and then What? Then what do we do? I tell you! Then, they will force us to hand over all the land, hand over the entire Blackman, and divide us into an area dedicated to non-human races.

For they need oaks, cedars, and firs in the forest, and redwoods, birches, yews for bows, and pine for siege engines. , gold and copper mines.

The greed of human beings is endless. They not only want to control every inch of land in the kingdom, let us clamp our tails and obey their wishes, but also want to not hear the whizzing sound of arrows when digging mines and cutting trees .This is what you call living in peace!

Such peace!We were doing it thousands of years ago, and we were as stupid as ostriches with our heads buried in the sand, refusing to face the threat head-on, always blindly thinking that if they occupied so much arable land, there would be no more Come on, all these are childish ideas!Therefore, in order to achieve peace, we must surrender the land we once defended with our lives, and we must surrender Blackman so easily. This is impossible! "

Brian silently stared at Adran El Adonis, the leader of the elves, his eyes gradually became firm.

Because he has already got the answer he wants and knows how to do it.

He is very clear that in this magical world where strength is paramount, no amount of gorgeous rhetoric, no amount of sonorous and powerful arguments can compare to a sharp sword in his hand.

Just like a saying in the real world: rich people fart for reason, and poor people, no matter how reasonable they are, they fart.

For example, if a rich man with huge wealth says that he has never been interested in money, he will get praise from countless people.

Now that he has decided to save the future of this world, he must keep this world relatively peaceful and become a unified country that serves him before going to the main material world.

Moreover, the magic net has begun to gradually recover, and he feels that it is necessary to establish a wizarding force of his own.

After all, he is a wizard, whether it is the wizard tower in the future or the floating city in the future, in addition to consuming inestimably huge resources, he cannot complete all the complicated links alone.

As for how to achieve this peace, Brian believes that there is nothing easier to accomplish than the power of absolute rule.

As long as he has the strength to crush the entire world, no matter whether it is a jumping elf or a prickly human, anyone who dares to show up and make trouble will be suppressed.

This is like meeting two people who are fighting, how to persuade them to fight simply and quickly.

It's very simple, it can be easily done by both of them.

"Why don't you speak anymore, Brian?" Looking at the silent Brian, Adlan asked ruthlessly:

"You keep saying that you want to live in peace, so as a half-elf half-breed, tell me, how do you live in peace with them? Can you do it? When they ruthlessly trample on your weakest line of defense in front of you , how did you do it?"

Ask yourself, Brian really can't do it.

Because he knows that with many things and many people, when you try to talk to them well, you often need to hold a sword to make people more convincing.

But at least he will not get along with his arrogance and prejudice, and he also knows that if he refuses to get along with many things, he will be sentenced to his own demise.

However, he will not talk nonsense to the other party, because it doesn't make any sense.

"If that's the case, then we have nothing to say." Brian said as slowly as possible, "Get out of the way, I'm leaving."

"I told you before, you must come with me!" The elf leader Adlan stared at Brian coldly, and said every word.

Hearing the other party's unquestionable tone, Brian once again recalled the scene when he was forcibly taken away by him when he was a child. He suppressed the anger in his heart and said patiently:
"You just said that I am no longer your tool of revenge, so the me now has nothing to do with you. Get out of the way and don't force me to do it. "

"It doesn't matter at all?" The elf leader said with uncontrollable anger, "I am your mother's elder brother and your only relative. How dare you do anything to me? I taught you swordsmanship. You Fight me with something."

Hearing this, Brian stared at the angry Adlan expressionlessly, and suddenly he smiled back in anger and said to him:

"Dear? Are you saying this out of conscience? Yes, you did take care of me and taught me swordsmanship. I don't deny this. When I was five years old, you put me in your Living under the nose, and never considering my wishes, they forced me to undergo extremely strict and cruel training, am I right?
Great, then let me ask you, do you know how I spent those five years?Um? Leader of the 'Flower of Stars' El Adonis family, it's really strange, why do you avoid my sight?Didn’t you keep saying that I am your relative?Are you not even willing to listen to the complaints of a loved one?
You are so cruel. I was only five years old at the time, and what accompanied me every day was muscle soreness and bruises all over my body. These things prevented me from continuing to complete the training all the time, but how did you do it?As long as my concentration is a little off, slaps and whips will come whistling. I am like your plaything, tortured every day so that I can't breathe again and again, and I can hardly walk.This is your so-called 'only' relative?Is this how you treat your loved ones? "

Brian admits that these cruel trainings have indeed laid a solid foundation for him, which has benefited him a lot to this day.

Therefore, he didn't bother to worry so much about the past, but the other party took the initiative to mention this point, and he felt that it was necessary to distance himself from him.

After all, during the five years of living beside this elf leader, all he felt was indifference and pain, as well as countless forcibly instilled hatred.

He didn't want to be affected by this indifferent blood relationship, so he just took this opportunity to draw a clear line so that the other party would not worry about it.

"I'll say it one last time, get out of the way!"

Brian pressed the hilt of the sword with his right hand, and began to gather dangerous magical energy in his left hand, and scolded him coldly.

The elf leader Adlan looked at Brian holding the sword hilt and the magical energy surging around him.

He was silent for a moment, with a strange look of relief in his eyes.

Immediately with a cold snort, he tightened the reins of the eagle horse, and rushed to the sky.

Adlan looked down at Brian on the ground from a high position, and the two just stared at each other in silence...

After a long time, Adlan suddenly said in an extremely calm tone: "Words are superfluous, and no matter how gorgeous words are, they can't change anything. The world has changed, and an era will come to an end, whether you want it or not , this is an indisputable fact.

So, dear Brian, goodbye, until the day we burst out of the forest and die with honor, we may meet again, hope you don't let me down. "

Accompanied by a resounding howl of the eagle, the wide wings of the hippogriff concealed Adelan's figure and disappeared into the blue sky together.

(End of this chapter)