Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1175

Chapter 1175 Painful Past Part 1

Only after the girls’ wands, Morok’s eyes, and Nalrond’s own arrays and senses failed to detect any trace of deception did the fever leave him, allowing the Rezar to relax. _{fгeewebnovёl.com}

"Back when I arrived here, you told me that at first, you believed your Fringe had expanded and that only later your tribe understood it had merged with that of my people." Nalrond said.

"Exactly." Kimo nodded.

"Yet I don’t understand what need you have of a second Fringe. I get that over time your tribe grew in numbers to the point of needing more land, but even taking into account the other villages, there is few of you and a lot of woods.

"Why didn’t you move there?" Nalrond asked?

"Because that’s the territory of the elves, brother. It’s not wise to mess with them unless strictly necessary. They are a wise and powerful people, but after everything they went through, they would rather die than give up on a single centimeter of their land." Kimo replied.

"Elves?" That word shocked Nalrond.

Even though he had lived inside a Fringe, he still considered them a myth, just like everyone else considered Fringes.

"Yes. They were already here when we entered. After hearing our story, they overcame our differences and allowed us to occupy the plains in exchange for the promise of never getting inside their woods.

"Over time, however, both our and their people have grown in number to the point that the Fringe couldn’t sustain us all. We were even thinking of starting a colony in the outside world when your Fringe got added to ours." Kimo turned pale at the thought.

Without Dawn’s massacre, he and everyone else in the new village would have been forced to leave.

"What differences? According to what little is known about elves, humans defeated them in a war millennia ago and forced them into exile just like they experimented on us, turning us into hybris just to better kill their neighbors.

"Elves may belong to a different race, but our history is so similar that they should treat us as cousins." Nalrond was surprised by how easy it was for him to use the word "us" even though he barely knew his new hosts.

He had never done that with Lith’s family, not even after spending months with them.

"Alas, when the Elves see us, they can hardly go past our human half." Kimo sighed while thinking about how many things the two races could have learned from each other if only the elves managed to let go of the past.

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City of Reghia.

After Lith had left for the extermination mission, Phloria and Tista had to find their own way to contribute to the beasts’ society in order to get access to precious resources like enchanted metals and mana crystals.

Even though Phloria came from one of the most powerful families of the Kingdom, Adamant and Davross were outside her reach. The Royals had a monopoly of the Davross and Adamant was so expensive that Orion had forbidden her to use it for her crafts until he made sure that she wouldn’t just waste it in failed experiments.

Tista was in an even worse boat than her. She had no access even to Orichalcum because it was too expensive for her and the Royals didn’t trust her skills enough to provide her with the precious metal.