Vol.1 Ch.07 About the World.

Vol.1 Ch.07 About the World.

"There's no need to act so anxiously, Ryan," Yoona said with a smirk.

"You think I'm anxious?" Ryan realized his poker face was slipping in front of the High Priestess under all this pressure.

Yoona chuckled, then summoned the servants to place some bread and meat onto the plates. "You are clearly anxious, how could you not be."

"Haah... It's that obvious, aye?... All of this is hard for me to accept. I mean, so much stuff has happened to me in such a short time," Ryan said as he looked Yoona in the eyes.

"You will be fine," Yoona said as she took a bite of her bread. "The Goddess of Nils seems unorthodox in her choices, but it's only because we can't fully comprehend her visions. And is never wrong."

"Who is the Goddess of Nils?" Ryan asked.

"Our Goddess, Nils, is the Dark Goddess. Her true form is kept hidden away in Darkness." Yoona explained as she took a sip of her wine. "But she's our goddess of rebirth, of life, and death."

'Huh? Hidden in shadows? Did she come to me in my dreams last night? I don't like this.' Ryan shivered at the thought of the goddess messing with his dreams.

"You said she's the goddess of life and death?"

"In this world, we have two kinds of people. Those who live, and those who die. As they say 'Only the strong survive.' Plus there's the nonliving of course." She says with a smirk.

"So, how bad is the division between the races?" Ryan asked as he felt a sense of déjà vu as if he'd seen this cliche scenario in anime before.

'This sounds way too familiar. It's starting to feel too similar to fiction. I don't need to be caught up in a war of the races.' Ryan thought.

"Very good, Ryan. You're a smarter one, aren't you," Yoona looked him straight in the eyes with an amused look.

'Shit!' Ryan accidentally let his facade of acting dumb slip in front of Yoona. 'Now it's going to be harder to play dumb in front of her in the future. Maybe it has something to do with the food they gave us or this mana that's absorbed into my body? I'm having a tougher time trying to play coy with the Sorellians.'

"Yes, we share this world with many other races."

"Which races?" Ryan asked.

Yoona smiled. "There are other Dark Elves, also humans, dwarves, and demi~"

*SLAM!*

Hiro slapped both of his hands on the table and yelled.

"And d-d-d-demi-humans!?" Hiro screeched with excitement, interrupting Yoona. His outburst caused everyone to jump in their seats as they all turned to look at the human. The dark elves at the table had a look of shock or annoyance written all over their faces.

'Damnit Hiro! I almost had a heart attack because of you!' Ryan thought as he tried to calm himself and noticed some Dark Elves glaring at Hiro.

Yoona shook her head. "Yes, there are demi-humans. I don't know why that's such a big deal. They are a migratory race. Quite a boring species if you ask me."

'I've never seen Hiro so starry-eyed before. Haah... He has a one-track mind. I need to ignore him and find something edible to eat. I'm going to need my strength if I'm going to get out of here...'

Ryan looked around at the food on the table, 'God, this meal looks disgusting... J-Just don't look at it and try it, Ryan. You ate their crap earlier and it was fine... I think,' Ryan thought as he summoned the strength to try eating his unusual elven dinner.

He picked up some dark blue meat. Or maybe it was a vegetable, it was tough to tell as he brought it closer to his lips. He didn't want to eat such disgusting-looking food again, but he was so damn hungry that he had to try.

Religion was supposed to be a set of morals or standards used by people to live by. However, some religions took it too far. People in power would use religion as an excuse to oppress others who were different from themselves or the scientific community.

It didn't help that religion and politics went hand in hand because in most cases, people with wealth and political influence were the ones to create religion, not the gods themselves.

But here in this new world, gods and magic existed together, while science seems to be nonexistent. And the gods seemed to be more hands-on in this world than what he was used to. He had to accept that higher powers were in play in this world. And he had to assume that most of the gods here are not benevolent either after hearing about the creeds of other races.

This was the first time he had felt so lost in his entire life. He wasn't prepared to be thrown into a situation like this. He could barely comprehend the events that had taken place so far, and it seemed like things were going to get even more complicated. But Ryan couldn't give in to his despair. He needed to be strong and fight his way through this. No matter how scared and confused he was, he had to push forward.

"Hmm..." Yoona smiled back at Ryan and Elianna was nodding as well.

After a moment of reflection, Ryan asked. "Is the entire human race against you?"

Elianna shook her head, "No, there are some human kingdoms to the north of the Divine Three that have no hostility towards us. They're neutral kingdoms but they will unite under the threat of extinction. So we can't rely on them to stop their brethren."

Ryan nodded back at her after he thought for a minute to digest what he just learned.

Then he turned towards Yoona, "So, you're okay with us because we got summoned? You don't mind the goddess summoning humans?"

Yoona looked back at him with a surprised look on her face. She tilted her head to the side and then she laughed out loud. "You are so funny, Ryan." She teased him playfully before she could answer his question.

All Ryan could do was wait for her to stop laughing at him. It wasn't malicious laughter but it was still annoying because he wasn't trying to be funny. He was curious how she really felt about summoning humans instead of some other dark elves. He relaxed a bit after seeing Yoona and the other elves acting so indifferent now.

'If she wanted to kill us and eat our souls or something, then it probably would have happened by now. Or at least that's what I hoped. But I can't shake this feeling that Yoona was disappointed when she saw me the first time I came to this world... Whatever, at least I don't have to worry about them killing us for no reason.'

After she calmed herself, she smiled warmly at him and started to answer his question. "Of course, we don't mind! Why wouldn't I want you here? You are our Chosen Ones."

Ryan still couldn't tell if she really meant what she was saying, because it was hard to shake the feeling that she was extremely disappointed when a second human, with no mana, was summoned into their world. He knew what he saw when she first laid her eyes upon him and it was so weird that her attitude towards them did a 180-degree turn in a day.

He couldn't shake the suspicion that she might be hiding something from him. But he has no concrete evidence to back up his gut feelings right now and he wished his gut feelings were wrong about Yoona and the rest of the Dark Elves.

'Maybe I'm being too paranoid?' Ryan told himself.

He then looked around at everyone else in the dining hall. Everyone seemed like they were enjoying themselves and Ryan started thinking that things might be better than he first thought. But that's when Hiro suddenly decided to stand up and slammed his hands on the table to get everyone's attention again.

'Oh, fuck me... Why now Hiro?' Ryan was so invested in everything Yoona and Elianna were telling him that he completely forgot about Hiro until he made another outburst.

Hiro on the other hand was happy to have all eyes on him as he began to announce, with enthusiasm, "I know what my next goal, as your Chosen One, shall be!"

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All of the dark elves in the dining hall went silent and stopped what they were doing so they could give Hiro their undivided attention. Even the servants stopped what they were doing as they too listened to the human male that stood before them.Nêww chapters will be fully updated at (n)ov(e)l/bin(.)com