Chapter 28: Steadfast

Many years later, when the elderly Morka picked up his pen and decided to dabble in this history of Angel...... He was actually a little confused.

Unlike Gray, and unlike Jones, Angel's life trajectory is clear. He grew up in Cartier, and there were many people who watched him grow up who could tell Morka all sorts of truths about Angel, all sorts of pasts.

However, these "truths" made Morka even more confused.

He complained to his assistant, the equally elderly Bubbles, "He has a very eccentric personality. Stubborn, stubborn to the extreme, but with almost no oppression, he gave up his loyalty to the blood elves and betrayed the entire blood elf clan. There were no signs. This is a very abrupt change. Normally, isn't it supposed to be something upheaval to be like this? I've never written about a protagonist like this. ”

Bubbles thought for a long time, then told him, "Maybe he was never loyal." ”

"Never?"

"Yes, just like I used to. Bubbles smiled and said, "You know, I'm just an orphan, and I don't even have a memory of my mother." For as long as I can remember, I've been wandering. It wasn't because of that famine that he wandered. In fact, I wandered until I met you. Who was around me before that?"

"Other street children?" Morka asked, frowning.

"Yes, but more than that. And the homeless. It could be an old man, it could be a young man, a woman, all of it. And thieves, robbers...... The position where I live is the lowest level of the whole world, and all the evil is played out around me. That's all I have. And I don't have anything to do with them. Any homeless person can sleep through one winter and never wake up. I could be taken away at any time, I could disappear at any time, no one would care about them, and no one would care about me. We don't even need names for each other. The only help we can help each other in the winter may be to keep each other warm, but more often than not, it is bullying and enslavement. You can't understand Angel, maybe not because he's too complicated, but because he's so simple, unbelievably simple. ”

Morka looked at the bubbles silently, and after a while, he opened his notebook and picked up the pen: "Go on, tell me what you think of him." I want to hear it. ”

"Okay. Bubbles shrugged his shoulders and continued, "He's actually a person who hasn't entered the normal value system at all, or rather, he's not a normal person at all. How can I say that...... If a person is loyal to the country, he will not be loyal to the country from the beginning, but someone will tell him that he should be loyal to the country, and he will be loyal to the country when he believes it. If a person is loyal to the race, he will not be loyal to the race in the first place, he must be told that he should do so, and then he will be loyal to the race. If there is no initial recognition, there is no so-called betrayal, let alone so-called, betrayal only if you need to be oppressed. ”

"You mean no one told him?"

"Someone must have told him that, no doubt about that, but whether he believed it or not, that's another story. Don't forget, he's wary of everyone, including his parents. In a way, because of his brother's affairs and his dedication and yearning for magic, he was hostile to the whole world from the beginning. He has no sense of belonging to all. In his eyes, there is only the dividing line between himself and the whole world. Therefore, betrayal does not have any psychological burden for him. ”

......

On the long school road, Angel walked alone. Closely behind him was a little devil with flapping wings.

Countless students have staggered with him, some of them are angry at him, and some of them are respectful of him. But either way, he didn't respond.

......

"In his memoirs, we see a fragment of 'the bard often laughed at him'. But in fact, we didn't find any ballads about him. No one has ever made up such a song, and no one has ever sung it. No one in the entire inhabitants of Cartier has ever heard of it. Before he actually became a ghast, most people didn't know who Angel was, and they didn't know that the traitor Andrew actually had a younger brother. As for the little devil in the memoir...... There is no evidence of his existence. From what we have managed to obtain, there is no record of heaven and hell. Do you think that with Angel's strength at the time, he could hide the devil to the point where even angels and demons could not detect it?"

......

The wind was blowing gently, and the shadows of the trees were swaying outside the window. Angel slowly closed the curtains of the laboratory, then took out the potion given by the toad demon, closed his eyes, and drank it slowly.

The surging magic began to stir in his body, seeping into his veins little by little.

In the midst of pain, he laughed slowly, a hideous smile.

......

"So ......"

"It's all imaginary. Bubbles smiled and said, "I used to imagine it a lot when I was a kid. When you isolate yourself from the whole world and are full of distrust of the world, only imagination can sustain you to continue to live. Sometimes, things that are imagined seem to be real. Many times I can't even tell the difference between the real and the fake, and sometimes, the illusion is even more real than the real thing. No bard had ever laughed at him at all, it was himself who laughed at him. No devil has ever deceived him, and it is himself who has deceived him. ”

Morka gasped and stared at the bubbles in a daze. Eyes widened.

Bubbles smiled and continued, "When I was so hungry that I thought I was going to die, I also wondered if I could eat human flesh. When it was so cold that I was about to freeze, I also thought about it...... If I die, what is the purpose of the existence of this world? I just don't have the ability and determination of him. So I understand ......."

......

"Great...... Hahahaha...... That's great. The potion from hell is really different. Is this the first step in the transformation? This growth rate is what I want. If there were more...... More would be nice...... Hahahaha, the power of the abyss!"

Beads of sweat were already on his forehead, and Angel kept struggling, struggling in pain. The instruments on the laboratory table had been overturned by him, and he fell to the ground, clutching his chest, but his face was covered with a hideous smile. Constantly muttering to himself.

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"But he didn't experience the upheaval of you. Morka said seriously.

"Yes, but he, like me, has stripped himself from the whole world. Bubbles pursed her lips and continued, "When he is stripped of himself from the whole world, he will not hear any kindness or advice. What's more important is what I just said...... He can't enter the normal value system. He doesn't know what patriotism is, and he doesn't know what racial stance has to do with him. All the declarations of Top Gun are all nonsense to him. He would only ask what he could get. ”

"Extreme selfishness?"

"Yes. It's extreme selfishness. In fact, everyone is selfish, but the degree of selfishness is different. Starting with the individual, then family, friends, country, race, if he is exposed to normal culture, then he will instinctively accept the conventional morality. But he didn't, he was blank for everything, and he put himself on the opposite side of the whole world. Plus...... He is also very talented. In fact, the root is here. There is no betrayal, because there was no loyalty in the first place. He was always alone. ”

Morka looked at the bubbles silently, silent, and paused for a long time as he clicked on the notebook.

Bubbles smiled and continued, "Some people say that a child's goodness is really good, but sometimes, in fact, a child's evil is also the real evil. He is proof of that. He's different from the whole world. All the irregularities are just projections. ”

......

The curtains of the lab were pulled back open.

The light poured in from the window on Angel's white and cold face,

Everything in the lab was neatly packed up as if nothing had happened.

Looking out the window, Angel laughed slowly, then turned around and left the lab.

......

After a long silence, Morka took a deep breath and smiled, "I'm glad you didn't become like him. ”

"Because I met you, and you saved me. Bubbles said, "Actually, I've always been a little curious, why did you choose to save me at that time? ”

"I ...... too I don't know. Maybe it's because I want someone to treat me the way I do to you. It may also ...... I thought you were my hallucination. As he spoke, Morka suddenly laughed, unnaturally.

......

"Almost all of the mines have been put on increased alert, and it's no longer as easy to sneak in as it used to. ”

"That's bad news, but it can't be helped. If you can't get the benefits, then what's the point of destroying the mining area? After all, you have to negotiate first, and then do things. You can't sell all the mines before the results are out. That means nothing to you. ”

"Yes, that's it. This time the prize finally made me feel like a prize. But then you have to be more careful. There must be someone investigating it now, and we have to be careful. Get as much of the benefits as you can before you get discovered. ”

"Are you mentally prepared to be discovered?"

"Hmm...... Sort of. If I reach this level of a mana potion that allows me to jump three levels in one go, then I just need to be strong enough before I am discovered, and everything will be solved. ”

"Have you figured it out?"

"In ten years, to raise to the level of a thousand years, that is equivalent to me earning nine hundred and ninety. It couldn't be better. ”

"Okay, now that it's decided, let's do it!hahahaha!"

Under the setting sun, the sunlight shines quietly through the gaps in the branches of the sacred tree, illuminating the road ahead of Angel. It's like a sea of fire.