Chapter 9 (1/2)
”Hoo ~ ~”
Arrow lights up the oil lamp and lights up the bar on the first floor. Napa continued to lie on the bar and didn't even look at the little girl who was sitting in a chair with a stiff face.
”President, the door is closed.”
Bradra pulled up the bolt and took Buffy to stand behind ello.
Arrow sat on the dining chair with a smile on his face and looked at the girl carefully from top to bottom.
She looked a little timid.
The small body hid in the wide robe, and there was a sense of mismatch, which further set off the child's short stature.
Two skinny legs emerged from under the robe, dirty feet superimposed on each other like shyness, and toes bent.
A pair of small hands grasp the broken branch, but they don't know how to put their hands in general, sometimes shrink up and sometimes put behind them.
After a long silence, Brad brought a cup of hot water. After taking a drink, ello finally stood up, and the corners of his mouth tilted slightly: ”necromancer? I'm young and have strong magic. ”
Napa yawned and went on sleeping on her stomach.
Cocoa trembled, and the twig in his hand turned around, and the thinner side trembled at ello.
The combination of Buffy and Brad continued to look like a question mark. It's ok if Buffy doesn't understand. Brad giggled happily and looked like he wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask.
”I... I'm not... Necromancer... Sir... You're mistaken...”
The voice of weakness and fear came from the little girl's mouth, and her eyes turned involuntarily and dared not look in the direction of arrow.
Arrow got up, poured himself a cup of hot water and went over to put the fortress in her arms. But the little girl looked so stiff that arrow could only gently drag her to the table and sit down and put the hot water in front of her.
”No one has taught you that the key point when you lie is to sincerely believe that the lie you tell is not a lie?”
Arrow took a sip of the hot water in his hand, turned his head and told Brad to bring some hot milk. Soon, the hot milk was in front of cocoa. The little girl stared at the liquid in the cup and swallowed a mouthful of saliva involuntarily.
”If I admit to being a necromancer, I won't do anything to you. They are all members of the magic department. I don't have so many prejudices.”
Perhaps it was the warm milk in front of the little girl who relaxed her guard. Or maybe arrow's voice is full of a gentle feeling.
Cocoa raised her head and glanced timidly at the president's brother in front of her. Finally, with great courage, she loosened her right hand, picked up the cup and took a drink.
With one mouthful, the little girl licked her lips covered with milky liquid, picked up the cup in one breath and drank all the milk in the cup.
”Hee hee. Brad, go get some more food（ Buffy, have another glass of milk and sprinkle some flowers. ”
Before long, cocoa had a pile of bread and baked eggs left over from dinner. Buffy poured her a glass of milk and dotted it with aroma.
Facing the big meal in front of her, cocoa finally couldn't hold back. Her other hand finally put down the dead tree branch and grabbed bread and milk with both hands.
After eating two mouthfuls carefully and seeing that arrow had no objection at all, he completely let go and ate in a big mouthful.
Arrow did not speak, but continued to smile and watch the little girl eat.
Brad next to him continued to hold his tongue and ask no questions. But Buffy, the flower goblin, couldn't help but ask: ”(goblin language) what's the origin of this child?”
Arrow glanced at Buffy and then at the question mark on Brad's face, but with a silent expression, he smiled——
”Well, I have to tell you sooner or later. The child is a magician. The faction used belongs to the necromancer faction in terms of magic taxonomy. ”
Hearing that ello spoke to the flower demon in another language, cocoa's head was raised from the food pile, and his eyes showed a curious color. But in the end, she couldn't resist the smell of food and continued to bury her head in the pile of bread.
”In this world, some people have a certain magic affinity since they were born. Different races have different magic affinity. Just like Buffy, each member of your flower demon clan will have magic affinity. For humans, I'm afraid only one percent, one thousandth, or even one ten thousandth of people will have magic affinity. ”
”If these people with magic affinity undergo some systematic magic training, they can become magicians. Although magicians have many detailed classifications in this world, in the most fundamental case, magic belongs to a natural force. Since it is a natural force, there are only two basic categories of magic. ”
”One, the most widely classified, is collectively referred to as life magic. Whether it is the fire system, the lightning system, the earth system, the blessing system, etc., it can be regarded as one of the life magic. ”
”The other is Death Magic corresponding to life magic. Curse, namely death, pain, so that driving the dead belongs to death magic. ”
After explaining it in two languages, arrow looked at Brad and buffy's expressions and was still a little confused.
He thought about it and decided to correct their ideas before they misunderstood the necromancer, and then said——
”Because we are living humans, most magic affinity is biased towards life magic. Only a few people have affinity for the power of death magic. It is precisely because of the human fear of death, and sometimes for the characteristics that the necromancer can drive away the dead, and have prejudice and fear against the necromancer, and even think that the necromancer is naturally a link of evil and the opposite of life magic. ”
”But basically, life magic and Death Magic belong to natural magic. Death is an inescapable part of life and a part of the process of life. Life is also a part of death, which can give more meaning to death. Neither life without death nor death without life can exist independently. The two are complementary. ”
”Therefore, I hope you two don't have any prejudice against the necromancer, and you don't need to label someone because of the words' necromancer 'or' Death Magic '. So, can you understand? ”
Buffy sat on Brad's shoulder, shook her feet and said with a smile: ”(goblin language) so you humans have so much research on magic? I have no opinion. After all, I don't know how many plants I've seen born and died. ”
Brad touched the back of his head and smiled at Cocoa over there: ”although I don't know such a complicated thing, I think the president is right. Since people are alive, they must die. Is death really a part of life? So, I won't discriminate against you. Don't worry, ha ha. ”
The bread, eggs and milk in front of cocoa had been eaten up, and the little girl's lips were covered with bread crumbs.
However, her ears were pricked, and she was full of food and drink. She restrained herself from the appearance of a hungry ghost just now and became cautious again.
But the way she looked at ello was no longer so afraid.
”... i... I'm not that great... My magic... Is still very weak...”
It's going well. At least the child admitted that he was indeed an affinity of the magic of death.
Now I think I'm really lucky to enter laotengshu college! It's lucky that the books of the Department of magic can be read casually! But now it's not self explosion. These theories are memorized from books.
”Too weak?”
Ello repressed his inner excitement, and the expression on his face was still a faint smile that people couldn't see through——
”Our guild soldiers may not have experienced systematic training, but your dead soldiers have light steps and excellent swordsmanship. That's no reason why the magic is too weak. ”
”That's not what I called!”
Cocoa involuntarily shouted out, but perhaps she realized that her voice was too loud. She became timid again, timidly grabbed the dead tree branch, held it in her hand and whispered——
”I... I summoned it a long time ago... But later I found... I can't remove... Magic... Brother President... You saw... That thing... It just... Wanted to kill me...”
This is indeed true.