Chapter 248: 9.21

**Warning: some violent and disturbing scenes**

[Pupa: Ding! A hidden plot has been triggered! The Elven Race's superiority complex and the Extermination of Filthy Beasts.]

[From the title, I can sense something ominous.]

[Pupa: Really? Why would you think that?]

[I just have the feeling that the Elves in this world are quite… racist.]

Pupa checked the hidden plot by itself and confirmed. 

[Pupa: I will send the hidden plot in your head, this will be pretty heavy, so be prepared.]

Pupa poured the hidden plot inside Yunyu's head slowly, it knew the content of this hidden plot would be pretty heavy, so Pupa purposedly poured the plot slowly.

Yunyu took a deep breath, and the first thing he saw in the hidden plot was… blood. Blood flowing on the ground like a river, he heard screams and cries of women and children getting slaughtered by the elves. 

He was standing in the middle of a massacre done by the supposedly gentle and guarded elves.

"No! Please spare my child!" a mother beastman said while hugging her sickly child. An elf soldier holding a sword looked down at this mother beastman like she was a disgusting flea. 

"You are all primitive animals, disgusting," the elf stabbed the mother beastman alongside her sickly child. The wailing and crying were so real for Yunyu because he knew that he couldn't do anything. All of this was just a flashback of something that had happened long ago. 

The elf flicked his sword after stabbing the beastman because he was disgusted by the blood on his sword. Another elf came to him with the same blood-stained sword. He laughed at the dead mother and child beastman. "How many have you killed?"

"Eight," the other elf answered. "These filthy savages really need to be exterminated. They are ugly and disgusting."

"Indeed, look at their tribe. They skinned their enemies' skin for a quilt or a tent. What a disgusting creature," they nodded in unisons. 

"Don't you feel pity at these savage beasts?" 

"Not really, they deserve to be exterminated. We, the elves, have been graced by the mother earth to exterminate the pests. We are the superior race. We have the highest magic affinity, the longest age, and we are directly connected with mother nature."

"Indeed, our Elven Priest is the messiah that brings peace upon the land."

CLANK!

Their attention was immediately drifted to two figure fighting in the middle of the massacre, the Elven King with his greatsword. His facial feature was quite similar to Elduin, so he assumed this Elven King was King Elduin's ancestor. 

He pointed his greatsword towards the tiger beastman. "You are just a lowly beastman! Look at your savage tribe. They deserve to be exterminated!"

Yunyu's focus shifted at the beastman covered with wounds, but he still stood straight with full vitality. 

'Maroch?!' Yunyu was 100% certain that the tribe chief was Maroch. His face was the exact same. Even his growl and gaze were the same. 

[Maroch didn't lie when he said that he died long ago.]

[Pupa: Yes. Apparently, Maroch was really the tribe chief of the tiger tribe in the past. Before he turned into the beast of corruption, Urduk.]

Yunyu looked around the dead beastmen. He noticed some familiar faces that he saw when he first entered Urduk's village. Yunyu clenched his heart when he saw their lifeless bodies. Because when Yunyu saw them alive and well, they seemed to be scared of the elves.

Maroch growled at the Elven King and shouted. "My tribe has nothing to do with you! We never hurt anyone from your Elven Kingdom! You have no reason to attack us!"

"Oh, I do have reason to attack you," the Elven King said arrogantly. "We are the superior race, while you are just savage beastman, not different than a regular beast. You will only shed blood on the earth."

"Your Majesty, we caught his weak little brother!" an elf soldier walked in with a scrawny boy in his clutch, "This is his little brother!"

Maroch's veins popped out immediately, his fangs grew bigger and sharper. "Release my brother!"

"Big Brother, help me!" Mewro struggled, but he was weak compared to the elf soldier, and the elf soldier purposely tightened his clutch and made Mewro cried out of pain.

"Mewro!" Maroch couldn't hold it anymore, he dashed towards the soldier to save his brother, but the Elven King blocked the way and thrust his sword towards Maroch. Maroch was forced to retreat. 

He got even angrier when he could hear Mewro crying. Mewro had a fragile body. Even a clutch would actually hurt him. Without thinking twice, Maroch charged towards the Elven King again.

"How many times should I tell you your resistance is futile!" The Elven King thrust his sword again, but Maroch skilfully jumped and stepped on the greatsword. He directed his sharp claw towards the Elven King's neck, but when he was about to kill the Elven King, a protective barrier engulfed the king and pushed Maroch back.

"Argh!" Maroch was pushed far. The Elven King was stunned for a moment. He looked towards the Elven Priest, his long-time friend. "Thank you so much, Euran." 

Elven Priest Euran nodded and sighed in relief, "It's best for you to end this soon, Elyon. Kill that scrawny boy and kill everyone here. We don't have much time. I don't want to stay in this filthy place for so long."

"Yes, Euran," the Elven King glanced at Mewro and grinned. "Kill them all because they are lowly things." The Elven King quickly slashed Mewro's head, giving him a quick death. 

[NOOO! MEWROO!] Yunyu screamed as he tried to reach the dead beast boy. But he couldn't touch Mewro because he was like a ghost here. 

"MEWROOO!" Maroch screamed out in desperation. He felt that his world had been shattered at this moment. He glared at the Elven King and Elven Priest and charged at them without tactic. All he wanted to do was to unleash his fury.

Elven Priest Euran raised his staff and chanted. "With the powerful seal of the earth, grant my wish to protect my king, bind the filthy beast!"

The ground beneath Maroch shook, and dozens of wood vines popped out. The vines bound Maroch, and he couldn't move no matter how hard he struggled.

Elven King Elyon walked towards Maroch and scoffed. "Be glad that you will be the one who sees your tribe's extermination."

Elven King Elyon stabbed Maroch in the stomach slowly, and he intentionally planted his sword. Maroch's gaze started getting blurry, but he didn't die quick. He saw how his people died under the Elven King and Elven Priest's order.

'How can the supposedly beautiful and peaceful race kill us in cold blood like this?' Maroch thought. 

'We are indeed beastmen, but we never harm the elves. We only fight against fellow beastman, and we never hurt humans unless those humans attacked us first. Is mother nature really this cruel?'

'I… I cannot accept this. I refuse to accept this. I want justice…. I want justice!'

Maroch died in a slow and painful death, seeing his tribe getting massacred with torment in his heart. The moment he died, he heard a voice calling him.

'Maroch, are you angry?'

Maroch didn't know who was talking to him, but since he asked the question, Maroch replied, 'I am angry! I am more than angry! This is injustice! Those elves attacked us without reason except because they are the superior race! Mother nature is really evil!'

'Then, if you had abandoned the mother nature, come and embrace me…' a shadow appeared in front of Maroch, Maroch couldn't fathom what was in front of him, 'I am Urduk, the corrupted.'