Chapter 161 Erchius Ghost 4 (1/2)

John returned to the moon's surface and Peri tagged along since Lenny simply didn't want to teleport once again.

”Why did you come, Peri?” John asked as both him and the Floran woman walked side by side.

”Just feel like screeching my legs.” Peri answered dismissively, ”I'm tired of that spaceship already.”

John sighed, ”We'll be at the Ark Outpost very soon, you just need to hold on for a few hours.”

”Yeah...I'm not looking forward to it.”

”Why? Wasn't you working there?”

”No, I was working for Jevil Redhook. I only stayed there because I had a debt to pay him, and after I payed it up, I simply left. I don't like that place, the Ark Outpost is controlled by Letheia Corporation, that means, the Hylotls. You know how the relationship between Florans and Hylotls are, right?”

”Do both races still has grudges with each other because of that ancient war?” John couldn't help but shake his head as he wondered how narrow-minded these people are.

The Hylotl-Floran War that happened in the past was the first and only war that happened to between two of the seven main races.

It was a bloody conflict that lasted for centuries and the lost of lives were simply huge, more than a billion Hylotls and and Florans were killed in that war.

No one knows how it began, the reason behind the war have been long lost in time.

But the consequences of the conflict ripples until today.

It was because of this that the Hylotls ran away from the surface to hide deep in the oceans, far away from the Floran warriors.

Before the war, Hylotl were a race that lived at coast cities, and valued the preservation of their culture above everything else. They disliked conflict and never really expend time training in warfare and neither developing weapons. The political party that dominated the Universal Hylotl Government was the Sea Faction, the pacifists.

But the war changed them. After the war, they became more agressive. Their development of weapons and economy was put fort with full steam. The ones who made what they are today was the Ocean and Reef Factions. They rose in power after the ridiculous loses in the Hylotl-Floran War.

The Hylotls were no longer the race of peace and culture, but they became greedy and developed a deep hatred with Florans and some distrust and dislike with any other race they deem inferior as their own.

If you think the war ended you would be wrong.

It never reached a conclusion.

300 years ago, the Greenfinger Council and the Universal Hylotl Government signed a ceasefire treaty because the Terrene Protectorate forced them to do so.

The war that had been ongoing for who knows how long finally stopped, although temporarily.

But the hatred between two races stand strong. Albeit Florans don't really care that much about the events of the past and just moved on, the Hylotls, on the other hand, kept their grudges throughout the years and, in fact, it grew overtime with the Ocean and Reef Factions instigating the hatred.

It was obvious the results of the conflict, after all, Hylotl were not a race of fighting before the war, but the Floran were always fighting. Every single Floran, even a merchant or just a cleaner were seasoned warrior that fought their entire lives.

Hylotls didn't have a chance against the Floran, they could only hide deep within the oceans. Because of this, year passed but they forgot their shameful past even after centuries...