Chapter 113
Chapter 113
When the elves of the Elf Forest turned 100 years old, they looked as fresh as a human in their twenties.
That was normal.
However, her appearance, who had lived a tragic life, had changed to look well past her late thirties.
Deep wrinkles settled around her eyes, and her hair was so dry and lifeless it had lost all shine.
Malnutrition had left her gaunt, her bones showing through her thin frame.
Due to the decreasing number of customers, she was not even given proper meals anymore.
She was slowly wasting away, treated as a has-been.
What remained in her were only the hatred and resentment towards those who had made her this way, and the malice that filled her eyes.
One day, a man entered her room, saw her, and cursed, angrily demanding a refund from the pimp.
“Hey, look! An elf, you said? Is this an elf?”
“She is an elf! Look at her ears, her ears!”
“No! No matter how you look at it, is that an elf? Give me my money back right now!”
He was already the tenth man who had rejected her. The pimp sighed and said,
“Then I’ll take half the price. Is that okay? Now have fun!”
“Hey, hey! Hold on!”
Bang!
The pimp closed the door without listening to the man’s protests. The man tried to complain but, recalling the half-price offer, reluctantly took off his clothes.
It seemed he found some solace in the idea of having intercourse with a non-human.
“Please, come over here….”
She served the rare customer with utmost care, and he, seemingly satisfied with her long years of experience, began to have intercourse with her.
“Ah… Ah… Ah….”
It was then.
As she moaned coquettishly, a voice echoed in her mind.
“The time has come. You who can make a contract with me….”
Startled by the clear and gentle voice resonating in her head, she opened her eyes wide and asked,
“Who… Who are you?”
“Huff… Huff… What is this wench saying now?”
“Who are you?”
“Can’t recognize your customer all of a sudden? Huh?”
‘I am the Water Spirit King, Naiad. Do you desire my power?’
‘The Water Spirit King? Power, you say?’
Power. It was what she desperately needed.
Without hesitation, she said she wanted that power.
“Yes, I need it.”
“What? Asking for more money? What kind of daylight robbery is this? What kind of woman is this?”
The man raised his hand high to slap her.
But the next moment, the man’s head flew across the room, hitting her shabby vanity and shattering the mirror, then fell to the floor.
The headless man’s body collapsed onto her, spurting fountain-like blood onto her face.
Drenched in the man’s red blood.
But the red blood was absorbed into her skin and disappeared.
Soon, her face began to regain vitality, her rough skin transforming into smooth, baby-soft skin.
Her lifeless, dry hair turned into a glossy, beautiful black.
When she opened her eyes after a while, she lay there with a completely different appearance.
Her eyes were filled with a new confidence.
Her body floated up, and she reached out toward the old, shabby door that had always blocked her path.
Naiad, who was wrapped around her body, responded to her will and blew the door away.
Boom!
The building instantly turned into chaos.
A waterfall-like stream of water erupted, destroying half of the building.
The destruction did not stop there.
It swept away and destroyed dozens of houses in a row.
It was as if a village was being swept away by a wild torrent.
Looking at the trail of destruction before her, she stared at her hands in disbelief.
Her hands were no longer the dry and rough hands of the past.
They were delicate and soft, as if she had gone back 50 years.
And now, in those hands, she felt a power that seemed capable of destroying anything in the world.
“Is this the power of the Spirit King, Naiad?”
“No, it is now your power.”
Hearing Naiad’s words, she gazed at the destruction she had caused for a while, then let out a distorted smile and laughed madly.
“Hahaha!”
She laughed while crying.
The reason was simple: she was happy.
She was that happy.
It was because she now had the power to exact revenge.
Knowing her feelings well, Naiad asked a deliberate question.
“What would you like me to do?”
Naiad’s question made her smile cruelly as she answered.
“What do you think I want?”
“Revenge on this world?”
Naiad’s words precisely pinpointed her desire, making Green so happy she asked back,
“Will you do that for me?”
“Of course.”
“Then first, kill everyone in this village. Leave no one alive.”
Although Naiad had no facial expressions as a water spirit, it was clear he was smiling.
And it was a cruel smile.
Everything was going according to their plan.
“I’ve been waiting for that answer.”
In an instant, Naiad’s transparent body transformed into ice and shattered.
Sharp ice shards, like glass fragments, shot up into the sky. Soon, they swirled violently, then scattered like blades of ice in all directions.
“Haaaaaam!”
As if waking from sleep, she opened her eyes to find it was already the dead of night.
The village, engulfed in thick darkness, was frozen solid, and countless corpses lay torn apart on the ice.
The village had vanished.
The humans who had treated her harshly were all gone.
Nothing was left to bind her.
She was now free.
She savored the liberating sensation that surged through her body like electricity from head to toe.
“I’m free now! I’m free!”
Naiad spoke to her again.
“Now, I have killed everyone as you wished. What do you want next?”
“What do I want next?”
She pondered Naiad’s gentle question. She thought about the things she had wanted to do.
Then, as if deciding on something, she clapped her hands and spoke.
“I want to see the sunrise from above the clouds!”
“Above the clouds? That is not a difficult request.”
Naiad enveloped Green in a transparent barrier and soared into the sky.
Cutting through the darkness, they moved quickly toward the east.
Beneath her feet, an expansive world she had never seen before spread out.
She felt an indescribable sense of injustice realizing how vast the world was.
Having been confined for 100 years in such a wide and beautiful world made her feel pitiful and miserable.
Anger surged within her.
The fact that such an expansive world was occupied by those vile and dirty races enraged her.
Moments later, she achieved her second wish.
In the distance, dawn began to break.
She could see the sunrise from above the clouds as she had wished, instead of through a small window.
She could hardly believe it.
It felt like a dream.
“It’s so beautiful….”
The massive clouds, dynamically moving while bathed in the red hue of the rising sun, were so enchanting.
Soon, the sunlight embraced her whole body warmly.
Tears of emotion flowed endlessly from her eyes.
“Naiad….”
“I am listening.”
“The world is so beautiful. Why are all the inhabitants of this world so ugly?”
“Who knows?”
“Naiad, look at this sky. Isn’t it incredibly beautiful?”
“Of course.”
“I have discovered the reason.”
“The reason?”
“Yes, the reason why this place is so beautiful.”
“What is that reason?”
“It’s because the ugly ones aren’t here.”
“Who are the ugly ones you’re referring to?”
“All of them.”
“All of them?”
“Humans, Orcs, Dwarves, Elves… all those vile creatures that occupy this world.”
It was the perfect answer.
Naiad felt immensely pleased hearing her words.
To him, they were all parasites disrupting the harmony of nature.
Well, except for the Elves, but even they didn’t concern Naiad much.
Their existence was neither here nor there for him.
What he desired was the purification of this world through her.
The exponential increase in humans and orcs had already caused severe destruction to nature.
The reckless use of mana by humans greatly threatened the order of the natural world.
Additionally, the indiscriminate mining by the Dwarves left the entire mountain ranges suffering.
The spirits, most affected by such environmental destruction, were losing their place in the world.
Thus, the Spirit Kings, their rulers, had stepped in.
To purify the world.
And the one chosen by them was Green.
From the beginning, she was a creation made according to his plan. A being born from the impossible union of an Elf and an Orc, by Naiad’s will.
She remained unaware that everything was going according to his script, flowing smoothly as per their intentions.
“So, what do you want to do?” he asked.
“I believe the world can only achieve true beauty without them. So, I’ll do it.”
“Do you intend to drive them out of this world?”
“Yes, I will definitely do it.”
Naiad feigned reluctance.
“I can do anything my contractor wishes, but that is one thing I would never recommend. It won’t be easy at all.”
“I know that well. But I will never give up until I rid this world of all those vile, rotten beings.”
Hearing Green’s firm resolve, Naiad whispered into her ear,
“I hope you never change that heart.”
And so, her blood-stained path began.
### 36. The Life of a Prisoner
As the total war dragged on and battles reduced to small skirmishes, there were those within the Allied Forces’ camp who bore the brunt of everyone’s contempt and oppression.
They were the Green Elves who had been taken as prisoners.
Even today, a group of soldiers was harassing them.
“You filthy bastards! Eat this! Ptooey!”
A Green Elf glared at him as if to kill.
The soldier, enraged by the elf’s fierce gaze, shouted,
“You cockroach! What are you looking at? What are you glaring at? Huh? Do you want a piece of me?”
The furious soldier picked up a rock and threw it through the bars of the animal-like cage, hitting the Green Elf’s head and drawing blood.
The soldier, staring at the wounded elf, asked,
“What? Are you mad? Do you feel wronged? Don’t you want to kill me? Then scream loudly! Beg for help! Huh? Hahaha!”
As the soldiers mocked them, the Green Elves bowed their heads with forlorn expressions.
“When it’s time to execute you, I’ll personally behead you! Look forward to it, you bugs! Let’s go!”
