Arcane splendor begins with the throne

Chapter 86 Memories

When Brian was in a daze, Toviel lowered his eyes, stared at his toes, bit his lower lip again, and said in a sad tone:

"Brian, do you want to know why I hate humans so much?"

Toviel recalled the scene when the other party accused herself of killing human children in the forest. For some reason, she just wanted him to know why she hated humans so much.

At this moment, she just wanted to explain the reason to him clearly.

"I'm sorry, I don't want to know." Brian was stunned, stretched out his fingers and gently pushed aside a strand of hair covering her cheek, and said apologetically.

That's right, as a neutral bystander, he really didn't want to know at all, and he didn't want to learn about other people's painful memories.

Because apart from touching his heart, these stories could not help him, and what was the use of listening to them.

Hearing Brian's cold refusal, obvious disappointment appeared on the elf girl's sad face.

She felt that her heart was empty, she could only turn around stumblingly, step by step on the thick rotting leaves, and walked in the direction of the hippogriff.

Bryan turned and watched Torviel go.

Looking at her lost back, he could clearly feel that the way the elf girl walked seemed to be hollow from head to toe, and even turned into a fragile body with only an appearance.

This made him realize that his clean refusal just now was a bit too cruel for her.

"Let's talk about it." In the end, he couldn't bear to say:
"Don't hide some things in your heart. Only by expressing them to others will you feel better inside. If you want, just chat casually, eh?"

Brian felt that what he said was a bit against his will, because he knew that this method would work, but he had never tried it for himself.

Maybe he didn't meet the right person, Brian thought.

Only then did he realize that he was so lonely in his heart.

So lonely that there is no one to talk to.

He felt as lonely as an alien who accidentally came to this planet, but his spaceship was damaged and he couldn't return to his home planet.

When Toviel heard Brian's words, she paused, then turned around, looked up at him, pursed her lips, nodded vigorously, and then walked back.

"Find a place to sit down." Brian pretended to smile relaxedly, and pointed to a fallen tree stump not far away.

Toviel sat on the tree trunk, hugged his knees with his hands, put his head on his knees, curled up his body in the cloak, recalled his past to Brian, and murmured:

"My original home was in the city of Ajmaar in Tigrila, a woodland city where humans and non-human races mixed. Our ancestors were hunters for generations, and we were like fish in water in the forest. My bow and arrow skills are still my dead father. Leave it to me."

"Then why was the city of Ajimal massacred by the human army?" Brian asked while taking advantage of Torviel's pause.

"I just turned 16 that year, so I don't know too well." Toviel shook his head on his knees, and continued:
"I only know that that night, the city was in a sea of ​​flames, the relentless fire engulfed the tightly clustered wooden houses, licked the outer walls of the castle, there was the noise of fierce battles everywhere, and even the muffled sound of battering rams hitting the city walls.

My parents were all killed in that massacre, except for me, who was inadvertently transported out of town by a fleeing caravan in a barrel. "

As painful memories surfaced in his mind, Toviel narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth at the same time, his expression twisted a bit.

"It was a moonlit night, and the flames of Ajimal City made the sky red. I could only run aimlessly in the woods, trying to avoid the pursuit of human beings. But when I was about to reach When I was in a human village, I was caught by a trap rope around my ankles, and I was hung on a treetop that suddenly stretched..."

Brian finally remembered the reason why the city of Aguimal was massacred.

It seems that Blackman's elves want to occupy a human city. After all, this forest city is very close to the wild mountains of Blackman.

Therefore, they incited all non-human races in the city and launched a premeditated war.

In the end, under the cooperation of the inside and the outside, the city was indeed breached, but it was taken back by the human army not long after.

Since then, a massacre against non-human races has spread in the city of Ajimal.

However, this kind of thing has passed nearly 50 years ago, and for human beings, it is almost half of life.

It is said that time can forget everything, even hatred.

But this sentence obviously doesn't work for elves, because 50 years is not even a minor in the eyes of this long-lived race.

This is also the real reason why most elves hate humans so much.

Because these long-lived races can almost live to witness the prosperity and decline of a kingdom, many elves have personally experienced the pain of family separation, and the hatred in their hearts will naturally become more profound as time goes by.

So Brian was not wrong to say that they were sad sometimes.

Because they have unforgettable hatred and are clearly aware of their own powerlessness, they can only suffer in their long lives.

In the end, unable to bear it, he rushed out of the forest without hesitation, and blood was spilled on the spot.

They are not like human beings, even if they have hatred, they will be nothing more than a pile of loess after a hundred years.

This kind of hatred will be gradually forgotten as it is passed down from generation to generation, and may even be directly deleted from history textbooks.

In other words, among the elves who have survived in Blackman for more than a hundred years, which one has not personally experienced the pain of Toviel, and then these people with the same goal get together again, and it is strange that nothing happens.

Brian patted Toviel's shoulder deeply, giving her silent comfort, and continued to listen to her painful memories.

"I was hung in the air by a rope, and I couldn't shake off the fear that spread all over my body. I could only feel the creaking sound of the rope, the swaying shadows, the upside-down earth, the upside-down night sky, and the upside-down trees. All the scenes were shaking. …….”

"Then how did you get out of trouble." Brian took the initiative to interrupt her in order to prevent her from falling deeply into painful memories.

"When dawn came, I was surrounded by a group of human children. They looked at me, cheered excitedly, and sang songs." Toviel murmured with a pale face: "Muppet, shake, shake! , a little puppet, with its head down and its feet up in the sky..."

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(End of this chapter)