Grimm's Fairy Tales: Chapter 3: Merlin's Tale
"Please come into the town and talk." After hearing Su Jin's statement, Master Meilin waved to remove the magic barrier guarding the sky above the town, put away his staff, and said to the people in the foreign land outside the town.
Su Jin led people into the town and faced the suspicious and scrutinized gazes of countless villagers, he came to Master Meilin: "Can we ask why those werewolfs were desperately attacking the town?"
Master Meilin was silent for a moment, and saw hundreds of villagers participating in the town's resistance war looking at him, and said seriously: "I know, this is also the doubt of all of you. In recent years, although werewolfs have come to the villages and towns from time to time to find food, they have never attacked the villages and towns in large numbers. Today is not even on the full moon night, and werewolfs will not fall into a state of tyranny and bloodthirsty. Therefore, in my opinion, there is only one reason that can explain this phenomenon..."
Speaking of this, he suddenly paused, as if the blank space in the words had swayed everyone's appetite.
Fortunately, he was not a storyteller, so he didn't say the previous sentence and listened to the next chapter to decompose it. He quickly continued: "The reason is that the wolf king among the werewolf is now hidden in the town, and has been greatly stimulated in the past two days, which has caused the inability to perfectly cover up his breath for a while, causing wolves to turmoil, attacking the town crazily, trying to welcome the wolf king back."
"The human and wolf tribes are irreconcilable. The wolf king must have an ulterior motive for hiding in the town. This secret will surely threaten the safety of all of us!" said a burly old man with gray hair and big and red nose.
"Can Lord Meilin find that wolf king?" asked a man with a bad appearance in the crowd.
Meilin shook his head and said, "The wolf king is very alert. When the werewolf starts to go crazy, he notices something wrong. He forcibly restrains his violent emotions, calms himself down and covers his breath again."
"The town is not big. If you look at who has experienced drastic changes in the past two days, you will probably find some clues." said the old man with red nose.
Master Meilin shook his head and said, "Doing this can easily cause panic in the whole town and lead to unjust, false and wrong cases. The best way is to wait and see if I am still here, the wolf king will sooner or later reveal his wolf's tail."
The old man with red nose had no idea what was hiding in his mind, and a trace of loss flashed in his eyes and said depressedly: "Yes, respected Lord Meilin."
"Can a few friends who have come from afar, can you drink?" Meilin seemed to be unaware of this and asked Su Jin and others with a smile: "If possible, I would like to invite you to have a drink at the Tree Cave Bar."
Su Jin himself also had the idea of understanding the world through him and smiled: "As long as the topic is interesting, you won't get drunk with a thousand cups. If the topic is boring, you will pour it into one cup."
Merlin laughed, shook her robe and said loudly, "Please follow me."
Walking on the bumpy ground and looking at the dirty streets and some messy buildings, backwardness and dilapidation became the first impression of Su Jin and others of this small town.
Fortunately, the bar chosen by Merlin was very clean. In order to prevent disturbing the wizard of Merlin who saved the entire town, when they walked into the tree hole, the owner of the bar changed the sign on the door to a closed business, and ran around in person to serve them tea and wine.
"My name is Meilin. I used to be a court wizard. Where are you?" Sitting on the side of a dark yellow table, Meilin raised the wooden wine glass in his hand and toasted the five foreigners in front of him.
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Su Jin raised his glass to respond, briefly explained his names and the girls, and then asked curiously: "Your Excellency said that you were a palace mage, what about now?"
"Now it is the target of the court's pursuit." Merlin said with a smile.
"Is it convenient to explain the reason?"
"I have an affair with the queen," said Merlin.
Su Jin: "..."
Is this righteous tone showing off to them?
"It's not just showing off something, it's just simply telling something." Mei Lin's eyes seemed to be able to see Su Jin's heart, and explained very seriously.
Su Jin nodded and said, "I believe it."
"I am a person who desires freedom in a very extreme way."
Merlin drank two more glasses of wine, as if he had opened up his conversation, and told everyone about his life: "But since I was born, I have lived in a world bound by various rules.
Parents, teachers, friends, colleagues... many people keep saying to me, you should do this, you cannot do that. You should consider reality and daydreaming.
I kept listening, listened, and after listening for more than 40 years, my ears were calloused.
But no one knew that I was silently accumulating strength in the secret, and in the year when I was forty-five, I started the mode of resistance."
Su Jin couldn't guess Meilin's plan, and he didn't know what he wanted to express. However, he was in a bar and drinking sweet wine, and he was more patient and willing to listen to the other party telling this story.
"That year, I was elected as a court wizard because of my excellent grades.
That year, the queen, who was loved by the people, died of illness. The king brought an extremely beautiful woman from other places, so beautiful that she seemed like a poisonous apple with bright red color. Even though she knew it was poisonous, she wanted to die in this toxin.
The king fell into the toxins of this woman, and I, like the king, could not escape her charm."
"But poison is poison after all. Those who eat poison apples will never have any good endings.
The king lost authority because of his obsession with her, and I lost myself because of his obsession with her.
After I did a lot of mistakes for her, one day I woke up and realized that my hands were covered in blood."
"I couldn't accept the fact that I became a slave to others, so I ran out of the palace and became the first court wizard to escape in hundreds of years.
No one knows why I want to escape, just as no one knows how dangerous their queen is…”
As time goes by, the story gradually comes to an end. Meilin, who is drunk but not drunk, expressed his thoughts: "You regard subduing demons and eliminating demons as a cost, and are willing to attack the wolf pack for a group of people whom you have never known each other. So are you willing to do something for justice?"
Su Jin drank the wine in the glass and suddenly smiled and said, "Sorry, we don't want to."
Meilin narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Can you refuse after listening to my request first?"
"You said." Su Jin raised his hand and said.
"That's still something in this kingdom."
Merlin took a breath and said, "The king has a very beautiful daughter. For many reasons, this girl became a thorn in the eyes of the new queen, and was locked in the palace like a wild animal by her...
Chapter completed!