251 Lunatics (2/2)

Everybody nodded.

At this point, Roland said, ”I have a question.”

Ans looked at Roland. The elves had enough respect for spellcasters too. He said, ”Please ask.”

”According to you, the two villages and the town that were slaughtered did take part in slave deals.” Roland stared the elf in the eyes and said, ”From the perspective of the elves, Nature's Wrath should be heroes. Why would you destroy it?”

”Like I've said too many times, Nature's Wrath will consume the elves very soon.” Ans rose and shouted in agony and fury, ”You think I like this? But my teacher and his partners are truly mad! Let me tell you the truth. I don't care how many human beings my teacher killed, but he shouldn't have pointed his weapons at his own people. Alashee was executed just because he opposed my teacher's policy, and Barns, another opposer, is now missing. I can't find him at all.”

Everybody looked at Ans, who suddenly burst into rage, in surprise.

Ans breathed hard. He was quite emotionally unsteady after the catharsis. ”I can see that more and more conservatives will become my teacher's worshipers, until all the elves will be radical and aggressive.”

”Isn't it great?” Suel snorted and said, ”From the perspective of the elves, that's a sign that you will conquer the world.”

”Great?” Ans jumped to his feet in fury, his handsome face twisted. ”Are you mocking me, young human boy? Don't think that I don't know that the elves' doom will be underway once we become aggressive. This world belongs to human beings. We can kill the humans who enslave our people because we have the right to, but if we start a war, we will lose our justification, and all humans will consider us an enemy.”

”You're not scared of human beings. You're so strong and proud.” Suel chuckled.

Ans took a deep breath to calm himself down. ”We have every reason to be proud, because we're more beautiful and cultured than you. But it does not change the fact that human beings are the dominators of the world.”

Margret was angry to hear that. She raised her head and said, ”Dragons are the dominators of this world.”

Ans looked at Margret and said scornfully, ”Individually speaking, the dragons are indeed the strongest, but collectively speaking, dragons are no better than elves. You are just a peripheral race that only has deterrence but no actual power of governance.”

Margret jumped to her feet and shouted, ”What did you say, chump?”

Legend had it that all elves were the children of the World Tree, so other races would call the elves chumps when they were pissed.

Ans maintained his mocking smile. ”Am I wrong? If the dragons are really a powerful race, why don't you reign over mankind instead of hiding on Rhodes Island?”

Margret's face was pale with fury. ”It's because we don't want to reign over them.”

”The kobolds dig tunnels every day. They certainly don't want to admit that they're related to dragons either.”

Kobolds were essentially miniature lizards. It was said that they were a sub-dragon species created by a male dragon and a half-meter-long lizard.

There was no telling how the male dragon did it.

All in all, the kobolds did have a dragon bloodline, though it was quite diluted.

There were often dragon-bloodline Warlocks among kobolds, but due to their congenital deficiencies, they could rarely grow strong.

Hearing Ans's sarcasm, Margret almost assumed her dragon from and spewed fire at the elf.

Schuck put his hand on her head in time and calmed her down immediately.

Seeing Margret fall silent, Ans decided not to argue with her anymore. He continued, ”The elves can't afford to be aggressive. If we declare a war on humanity, we will be wiped out for sure. There are more than two billion humans on this continent. Even if every elf can kill a thousand human beings, we can only kill fifty million humans in total, which is too small a portion. We can't win at all.”

At this point, Margret asked in surprise, ”How many human beings? Two billion?”

”You don't know?” Ans chuckled coldly. ”It seemed that dragons are even more egotistic and ignorant than elves. I'm told that you are a princess? Well, well…”

Margret was enraged, but she couldn't come up with a rebuttal. She could only seek comfort in Schuck's arms.

As for the players, they were all stunned.

Ans had revealed a lot of information just now, including the total population of elves, which was about fifty thousand.

Looking at the silent players, Ans went on, ”I understand that you might distrust me or despise me for betraying my people, but I would like to make it clear that I'm inviting you to kill my teacher and my compatriots not because I want to help humans, but because I want to save the future of the elves.

”In any case, if my teacher joins the Council of Elders and the radicals come into power, the conflicts between elves and mankind will reach a peak within a hundred years.”

There was grief in Ans's left eye and ruthlessness in his right, and on his face, there was the holiness of self-sacrifice.

When the three expressions mixed into one, he appeared like a complete lunatic.