Chapter 142: What is Justice?]
The union between humans and metal dragons is considered a curse by the metal dragon clan.
So most true dragons don't choose a human as their mate, but choose other dragons.
After all, dragons' lives are so long that they can easily survive their mates after just a nap.
In the underground cavern, Gelin looked at Stan Goen in surprise, and it seemed to remember something, and hurriedly said.
"Uncle, do you mean she, Queen of the Sword Coast, Serasha?"
The Sword Coast is the name of the sword bay in Karando, and only the first humans know what the name is here, but this does not include the bronze dragon.
Stangorn nodded slightly, shook his head again, and the bronze dragon's prominent emerald ball-like pupils dilated slightly, as if he was reminiscing about the past, and he pondered for a moment before finally speaking.
"At that time, she was indeed the queen of Sword Bay, but after she met the human, she disguised herself as a tower mage and took the human as an apprentice, it was no more. ”
"At that time, she had more time to transform into a human creature than the state of a bronze dragon!"
"But I think that the human doesn't seem to meet the standards of our bronze dragon, and in the records, he was a robber and a thief!
Gelin interrupted.
Stangorn shook his head, looked at the young bronze dragon in front of him, seemed to remember something, and asked a question.
"Do you know, Gerin, what justice is?"
"Of course, justice is to destroy all those evil, chaotic, and depraved creatures, and restore the world to order, so that the good people can be duly rewarded, and the evildoers will be duly punished!
Gelin replied categorically.
When Er Stein Gorn heard Gelin's words, he smiled and looked at the bronze dragon path where the horns on his immature jaw had not yet opened.
"You must know that there is no absolute good or evil in the world!"
It sighed, propped itself up on its forelimbs, dragged its long dragon tail, and ascended from the water, to the top of the platform, and looked around at the underground caverns that radiated bright spots.
sighed.
"When you reach my age, you will know that good and evil are blurred, and there is not much true goodness and simplicity in the world, maybe not at all. ”
"The little girl you saved from the pirates may turn out to be a bitter old woman, who will curse the nuns who give alms only because she is missing half a loaf of bread. ”
"The shipwrecked merchant who was rescued from the sea was in fact a liar, who had abandoned a dozen bastards in various parts of the country. ”
And those who steal and rob, they also have an unspeakable side, maybe he has a wife or child who is seriously ill and needs treatment, he prays to the gods, but the gods do not respond, he pleads with the nobles, but the nobles only give him a kick, and in the end, he can only take a sharp knife and a sharp blade to keep himself alive. ”
"Gerin, you say, are they evil, or are they good?"
Stangorn asked as he rubbed his tail against the dust on the ground and sat down, looking at the bronze dragon, which was still half-soaked in the sea.
Stangorn has lived long enough, and it has passed the time when he was desperate for justice, and now unless it endangers a country or a city, it generally does not take action, and when it has time to do so, it prefers to bask in the sea on the waves.
And Gelin was also the first time he heard Steangosn say this, and he was stunned for a while, and he muttered that he didn't know what to say.
Seeing him like this, Stangorn only smiled lightly.
"Of course, Geryn, I know that my words may have a great impact on you, but I am not asking you to show mercy to those thugs, nor to make you die no longer to save you. Rather, evil and good are inherently ambiguous, and you have to remember that. ”
"Sometimes, a good person is not absolutely good, and an evil person is not absolutely evil. ”
Gelin couldn't digest this, so he could only look at the bronze dragon opposite, stunned.
In its world, it is more inclined to the stories that its parents once told it.
How does the bronze dragon act bravely, how to punish evil and promote good, and how to leave a noble reputation......
But at the end of the story, they never say whether the people saved by the bronze dragon in the story will be good or bad in the future, and how many families will be ruined because of the aftermath caused by the villains killed by the bronze dragon.
Gelin thought about it, and seemed to understand a little.
In the story, the good people are absolutely good, and the evil must be evil, but the reality is not the story, no matter what intelligent creatures they are, they are all changeable......
Before Gerin could figure it out, Stangorn continued.
"So, Gelin, we must know how to tolerate, so that we can persevere in the fight against evil!"
It looked at the idealistic Gerin in front of him, like the other young bronze dragons, and shattered its illusions with cruel and indifferent words.
It wanted to talk to it when it heard that Gelin had come to destroy the cultist's warehouse alone.
After all, for the other older bronze dragons, they can accept the evil dragon's nesting nearby, or they can accept the evil plan of who knows what, of course, this is provided that they do not invade their territory.
But with a group of bronze dragons, they are like paladins, they can't accept any evil creatures near their territory, and if they do, they will fight the evil to the end!
Although it sounds great, the disadvantage of this is that it is easy to die halfway through like Goliath, and often die in the middle of growing up.
“......”
"Uncle, I see!"
Gelin was silent for a moment, and under the empty cavern, feeling the bone-chilling coldness of the sea, he spoke.
"That's why Serasa took that human as an apprentice, it wanted to change him, to lead him to the right path, like those crystal dragons. ”
Seeing that Gerin seemed to be listening, Stangorn nodded with satisfaction and began to tell the unfinished story.
"However, at that time, the relationship between them was only between master and apprentice, and Serasa was only thinking about how to bring back the human boy who was about to fall into darkness with half a foot in front of him......
After a while, Gerin asked.
"But why did Selasha fall in love with a human? It stands to reason that accepting a human as an apprentice doesn't mean that she likes him, does he do anything that moves a bronze dragon? Or does he become an upright paladin?"
Gelin was a little curious.
Stangorn was a little embarrassed, but when he saw Gel's thirsty eyes, he knew that even if he didn't say it, he would ask his parents, and he could only say it.
"No, he became a mage, and Selassar was with him because the human apprentice once picked up a bottle in the valley that contained a wind djinn that could fulfill his three wishes. ”
"His first two wishes were to gain a clever head, like those great arcanists, and to give him a mage inheritance that would allow him to take revenge. ”
"What does that have to do with Serasha?" asked Gerin again.
His lifelong wish came true after the first two wishes, so he had a whim to try to make his cold-looking mentor fall in love with him! ”
"In the end, he succeeded, and the Wind Djinn's Prayer Technique gave him an extra Bronze Dragon's wife!"