Chapter 35 - Desire To Protect (2/2)
”Subsequently, why are you harboring no hate for me? I was the one killed your family. And now I have the goal of destroying Gillian and Ysabeau, so why have you got no hate for me? You've hated the humans for a bit now, but not me.”
”Because I know, deep down, both you and the humans are raiding us due to fear. The humans are constantly fretful about their loved ones dying. After all, everyone has a family, has people that they want to protect, that's why they fight. It's called Rebellion because of my shield rebels against the pain of war. It screams out in pain and agony, not of hate, of anger that war is being flourished around it.”
”I'm not assaulting you because I'm intimidated. I want to exterminate you because you are in the way of my goal. How does that make me undeserving of being hated by you?”
”Why are you so intent on making me harbor hatred towards you?” asked Mavislin, raising her eyebrows.
”Because I refuse to believe your power comes from only protecting others. You are a monster within the human community's eyes. Don't you hate it when someone assumes something that you aren't?”
”Indeed, we don't see eye to eye, but it provides no reason for me to hate others, let alone executing them. Wholly because I don't agree with you, automatically means that I've got to slay or detest you. No matter what, Human or Mage, no one desires war, and the conjoined wishes of all who suffered through it are all represented when the shield completely takes form.”
”The shield possesses what?”
”The wishes to prevent war. Human, Mage or Monster. That's how strong people's desires to preventing war genuinely are. They don't want others to go through what they had lost, they had witnessed and they felt. No one should ever have to feel the pain of screams, reoccurring nightmares, and knowing their lost loved ones will never come back. That is what truly fuels Lord Atlantia, which is part of Rebellion of the Seas,” explained Mavislin.
She held up Lord Atlantia with pride. The Poisoned Pond merely scoffed at the Valkyrie's words as he prepared to summon something sinister.
”The desire to protect won't be enough to thwart me. You need hatred and anger to execute someone.”
Mavislin smiled as she placed her hands in position at the back of Lord Atlantia.
”Who mentioned anything about killing? This power is enough to do what is meant to do, to protect,” said Mavislin, as the Aura around her started to morph and change.
”I won't give you a chance to use that bottle of yours,” warned Mavislin, as her eyes shifted to another color.