Chapter 260 - TROLL MAIDEN (1/2)

The lady in green with a solid black eye greeted their group with a warm smile.

”I am the troll that guards this hanging bridge. May I asked what you need?”

The girl who claimed that she was a troll asked the group of young warlocks.

When the group heard how the other party addresses herself, they were dumbfounded.

They were curious to know why the other party was calling herself a troll when she obviously does not look like one.

They have seen a troll themselves before, during their Mystozoology class with Teacher Wei. In fact, they all had a chance to talk to them.

So its no exaggeration to say that they were familiar to one. But the other party before them clearly does not have any resemblance with the trolls that they used to know.

The trolls they knew had neon-colored eyes that match the color of their frizzy hair. Not a solid black one that it almost looked as if she came straight out from a horror movie.

Also, as a lover of music and arts, the troll tends to speak in rhymes. A tendency that the other party clearly does not have as well.

Aside from that, trolls are palm-sized creatures with disproportionate facial features.

While the lady in green before them looked like an ordinary human if she will just close her eyes and if they will just turn a blind eye and won't mind the thing that was trailing behind her back.

In fact, she even looked enchanting at first glance, with her porcelain white skin that looked as if she used to bath with milk on a daily basis. She definitely does not look like a troll.

Most importantly, the greatest bane of Trolls is sunlight. According to Teacher Wei's introduction about these mystical creatures, Trolls will turn into stone as soon as they were exposed to sunlight.

But this one before them is definitely out in the open and she does not look like she fears getting exposed under the sun at all.

When the lady in green named Ecia, saw the doubt reflecting in the eyes of the group of warlocks, sadness clouded her features.

It is not that she was lying when she said that she was a troll. But it was just that she was just saying half of the truth as well.

She is a Troll maiden. A half-troll and half-human, an offspring of two different races. In short, a halfbreed.

Halfbreed creatures just like her were condemned by humans. They looked down on her because of her origins.

After all, who would have thought that a troll and a human would actually fell in love with one another? Moreover, for that inexplicable love affair to bear a child. That is what they called absurd.

As such no human community accepted her kind, so troll maiden just like her was cast in the forest to live their life alone. Away from human interaction.

Due to her difference, they fear her. They believed that she will bring misfortune to anyone who would get close to her.

Some even think that they were vile creatures that will use magic to bewitch a man into falling in love with them.

But that is not true. Troll maidens were made out of pure love between two worlds apart. A love that does not look at the differences of two races.

Every once in a while, every once in a great while, a troll maiden is born in the shape of a human or almost a human with only branches growing from her back to mark her trollness.

When humans see these lovely human-shaped troll maiden, they either wonder for their beauty and fall in love with them or fear their strangeness. But most of the time, it was the latter.

But when trolls look at these human-shaped troll maidens, they see sorrow and a passing and a life lived flitting on the borders between the two worlds.

These lovely troll maidens do not live long troll lives. They live to what humans may think to be extremely old age, but for a troll, it is but the blink of an eye.