Chapter 14: Seven Years Ago

"Just a little curious. Regner smiled, "But if you don't want to say it, forget it." ”

"Actually, there's nothing you can't say. It's just that looking at you reminds me of my brother. Vera looked at Regner, her soft gaze containing an inexplicable taste.

"Brother, how did I not know?" Regner learned that Vera had a younger brother.

Vera took a shallow sip of wine and said, "Do you know why the big guys take such good care of you?"

"Maybe it's kind, Sister Vera, the boss and Big Brother Selenos are all good people!" Regner said sincerely, and then pointed at himself with a smile: "I'm also a good person, and I'm lucky to meet you." ”

"Even the personalities are very similar, and they are a little improper. Vera looked at Regna, who was boasting about herself with a hippie smile, and thought to herself, but she pursed her lips and said, "What kind of good person are you, just a timid, scared, thin, dirty, dirty, lustful, lustful, profit-seeing......, and forgetful little rascal!

Vera's last words were spoken in a quiet tone, but Regner didn't hear them.

"Didn't you say that I look like your brother, and your brother is also a little rascal?" Regna smiled slyly and said, "Sister Vera, when will you introduce your brother to me?"

"I want to ...... too But there was no chance. Vera sighed and continued, "He died seven years ago, in the second orc invasion. ”

"Huh?!" Regner was stunned.

"Actually, everyone has been taking care of you like this, mainly because we are all orphans like you. Vera said slowly.

"What?!" Regner opened his mouth in disbelief, but if you think about it, he has lived with Kordak and the others for some time, and it is true that he has never heard them mention his relatives.

Vera showed a look of reminiscence, but there was a deep sadness in her eyes: "I was born in a family of Orion, originally lived near the Nightsong Forest in the north, we are a family of five, I have an older brother and a younger brother. At that time, my father was a well-known local archer - a mid-level ranger, he would go to the forest to hunt during the day to earn money, and teach us a few to practice archery at night, the elder brother was diligent, the younger brother was smart, and both of them were much better than me.

At that time, life was not exciting, but there were fathers, mothers, brothers and younger brothers around me, and I think that although it was ordinary now, it was very beautiful, and it was so beautiful that I envied it.

Because I am the only girl in the family, both my father, mother and brother love me very much, and they protect me everywhere and do not let me suffer any grievances. And that brother, who is two years younger than me, is just like you, giggling all day long, occasionally playing some pranks, but he is always honest in front of me, screaming around me one sister after another. I think my stinky temper may have been cultivated at that time.

One day seven years ago, my father went out hunting as usual, but he never came back late. We thought that my father was delayed today because he was tracking a certain prey, because this has occasionally happened in the past, so we didn't care. In the middle of the night, we heard a commotion, and my mother, thinking that my father had returned, hurried to open the door, but outside the door was a group of hideous-looking orcs......"

"......" Regner listened to the story attentively, but he didn't know what to say, looking at Vera with tears in his eyes, Regner couldn't help but feel sad for her experience, and at the same time sad, a strange emotion welled up in his own heart, he didn't know whether to rejoice or mourn for himself.

Because he can listen, he can comfort, but he has no way to understand it, he has no way to share it. It's not that he doesn't want to, it's that he can't, because he has been an orphan for as long as he can remember, and the pain of losing a loved one is a distant and foreign feeling to him.

Also an orphan, Vera can cry bitterly with the good memories of the past, because she has lost the beauty of the past, and Regner can only comfort her with a strange mood and feel sad for what happened to her, but he can't shed a single tear, he can't cry.

Because he can't understand it, because he doesn't have the qualifications, because he didn't have these good things, because his memories are only rotting and smelling garbage heaps and pest-infested sewers, and he has never had relatives. Is this a blessing? or is it the greatest sorrow in life?

Vera took a sip of wine to adjust her mood and continued: "Mother was beheaded by the rampaging orcs at that time, and my brother reacted quickly, he asked my brother and I to leave through the back door, run south, and run to Elite City, without looking back. And he himself...... He himself was torn to shreds in order to fend off the orcs. At that time, my brother and I managed to escape, and I was really frightened, and my brother was holding my hand all the way to Meteorite City. Although the two of us are not very old, we have been able to stimulate our fighting spirit under the guidance of our father, so although we are embarrassed along the way, there is not much danger to our lives. But just as we were about to arrive in Falling Star City, we met a mage. ”

"Human mage?" Regner asked.

"Yes. Vera nodded.

"He must have brought you to ......," Regner said suddenly, for he saw the bitter hatred and the look of shame in Vera's eyes. And he also thought that if that mage was really so kind to bring the two to Meteor City, then his younger brother should still be safe and sound, at least not being called "dead in the second orc invasion" by Vera.

Therefore, the final problem must have been with the mage, but he couldn't understand that the two siblings who were rescued by his brother did not die at the hands of orcs, did not die in harsh circumstances, but died at the hands of humans of the same race......

"That's a necromancer. Vera had a pained look on her face: "At that time, he started attacking us without saying a word after he met us, but he obviously underestimated the two of us. I had a third-level Dou Qi at the time, and my younger brother had already cultivated to the fourth-level, and that person was obviously only a low-level mage, so although the two of us were not his opponents, if he really wanted to kill us, I am afraid that he would also pay the price. So, he spoke. ”

"What did he say?" asked Regner.

He said......" Vera's eyes flashed with a hint of struggle, but finally gritted her teeth and said, "He said that he needs a clean boy soul and body to cultivate necromancy now, so he has no interest in me." Let me leave quickly if I don't want to die, and don't get in his way here. If I choose to stay here, he swears he'll defeat both of us at any cost, my brother will be stripped of his soul for magic, and I'...... I will be raped and then killed by him, and then my soul will be stripped out and used to make a **puppet, so that I will never be free, and I can only be imprisoned in a body and suffer his torture and insults forever for endless years......"

"This perverted scum!" Regner gritted his teeth, although Regner asked himself if he couldn't be considered a good person, but let alone let him do such a unconscionable thing, even if he thought about it, he would feel creepy. He looked at Vera, who was lying on the table with her head buried under her arms, and asked in a trembling voice, "So what...... You...... You abandoned your brother?"

"I'm scared! I'm really scared!"

Vera finally collapsed, bean-sized tears rolled down, and her long silky fiery red hair was also wet and stuck to her face with tears, and she had five points of self-blame, four points of guilt, and one point of grievance on her face, and she almost screamed and said: "The two of us have tried our best, but we have no chance when facing that necromancer! My father is dead, my mother is dead, and my brother is also dead! The people who ate and slept with me a few days ago are gone, there is nothing, I can't even find a corpse!" The bloody axe of the orcs appeared in my dreams every night, and I was really scared, I was afraid of death, and when I died, there was nothing. So...... So I fled, I turned my back on my brother, I turned my back on my only relative, I turned my back on the little boy who ran errands with me all day and called my sister for me......

Looking at Vera, who was crying so sadly, Regner's heart felt infinite pity for this poor and helpless woman.

"Am I turning my back on her, then?" Regner thought bitterly, opening his mouth but only uttering the words "Sister Vera".

"You know what?" Vera snorted and continued, "I've been comforting myself all these years with 'if we resist, we're both going to die.'" But I can't forget the scene when I fled, my brother didn't say a word, he just looked at me in silence. That look, that look of anger, sadness, disappointment, and resentment, haunted me like a curse.

It's been seven years, and I can't forget that look for seven whole years. Yes, I survived, but almost every night I cursed this person who I have lived until now, and I would rather stay there now. You say I'm a good person? No, I'm not, I'm just a coward who left my loved ones and ran away alone, I'm not a good person! I don't deserve to be a good person!"

"Sister Vera, Sister Vera!" Regner hurriedly went over to grab Vera, who was cursing and slapping herself. He knew that Vera was starting to look a little crazy because of her excessive sadness, but luckily they were sitting in the dark corner of the chaotic tavern, and it wasn't too noticeable. But Rao was like this, and there were still sharp-eyed people who found them and came over curiously.