Sorceress - Chapter 260

The lady in green with a solid black eye greeted their group with a warm smile.

“I am the troll that guards this hanging bridge. May I asked what you need?”

The girl who claimed that she was a troll asked the group of young warlocks.

When the group heard how the other party addresses herself, they were dumbfounded.

They were curious to know why the other party was calling herself a troll when she obviously does not look like one.

They have seen a troll themselves before, during their Mystozoology class with Teacher Wei. In fact, they all had a chance to talk to them.

So its no exaggeration to say that they were familiar to one. But the other party before them clearly does not have any resemblance with the trolls that they used to know.

The trolls they knew had neon-colored eyes that match the color of their frizzy hair. Not a solid black one that it almost looked as if she came straight out from a horror movie.

Also, as a lover of music and arts, the troll tends to speak in rhymes. A tendency that the other party clearly does not have as well.

Aside from that, trolls are palm-sized creatures with disproportionate facial features.

While the lady in green before them looked like an ordinary human if she will just close her eyes and if they will just turn a blind eye and won’t mind the thing that was trailing behind her back.

In fact, she even looked enchanting at first glance, with her porcelain white skin that looked as if she used to bath with milk on a daily basis. She definitely does not look like a troll.

Most importantly, the greatest bane of Trolls is sunlight. According to Teacher Wei’s introduction about these mystical creatures, Trolls will turn into stone as soon as they were exposed to sunlight.

But this one before them is definitely out in the open and she does not look like she fears getting exposed under the sun at all.

When the lady in green named Ecia, saw the doubt reflecting in the eyes of the group of warlocks, sadness clouded her features.

It is not that she was lying when she said that she was a troll. But it was just that she was just saying half of the truth as well.

She is a Troll maiden. A half-troll and half-human, an offspring of two different races. In short, a halfbreed.

Halfbreed creatures just like her were condemned by humans. They looked down on her because of her origins.

After all, who would have thought that a troll and a human would actually fell in love with one another? Moreover, for that inexplicable love affair to bear a child. That is what they called absurd.

As such no human community accepted her kind, so troll maiden just like her was cast in the forest to live their life alone. Away from human interaction.

Due to her difference, they fear her. They believed that she will bring misfortune to anyone who would get close to her.

Some even think that they were vile creatures that will use magic to bewitch a man into falling in love with them.

But that is not true. Troll maidens were made out of pure love between two worlds apart. A love that does not look at the differences of two races.

Every once in a while, every once in a great while, a troll maiden is born in the shape of a human or almost a human with only branches growing from her back to mark her trollness.

When humans see these lovely human-shaped troll maiden, they either wonder for their beauty and fall in love with them or fear their strangeness. But most of the time, it was the latter.

But when trolls look at these human-shaped troll maidens, they see sorrow and a passing and a life lived flitting on the borders between the two worlds.

These lovely troll maidens do not live long troll lives. They live to what humans may think to be extremely old age, but for a troll, it is but the blink of an eye.

The trolls rejoice and grieve for these fleeting creatures, who are neither one thing or the other.

As they delight in watching a butterfly flutter in the air or a bee dance above a flower, the trolls delight in caring for and watching over these delicate, humanlike creatures.

Trolls guard them and guide them and nurture them as much as possible, knowing as they do that those troll maidens will soon fade away.

Precisely for this reason that some trolls are perceived bad. Yet the truth is, they were just merely guarding the troll maidens while they linger on a bridge.

For protecting these delicate creatures is the duty of all trolls

With such a big difference in treatment, it is no wonder why the Troll maidens like Ecia use to address themselves as a troll. Not a human nor a half-human

Rather than claiming that half of their existence also came from the human race, a race that does not accept their existence, to begin with. It is better to just perceive themselves as trolls and call themselves one, not just a half-troll.

Troll maidens like Ecia had no choice but to spend their short lives dancing on the hills or forest where they were abandoned by the human community.

Sometimes, they haunt the bridges and stepping-stones of streams and rivers that flow between the two worlds.

For these humanlike troll maidens are drawn to bridges and used to spend much of their time sitting or standing on a bridge if there is one close to where they dwell.

Bridges are places of transition. They do not just span a stream or a river but also the air itself. When a troll maiden sits on a bridge, she is in a place particularly suited to her own state of being — a link between two worlds apart.

Whenever they guard a bridge, these troll maidens can’t help but relate themselves to the bridge that they were guarding.

Water rushes under a bridge, flowing away to unknown places, speeding by even faster than a troll maiden’s time in the world.

Details about Halfbreed creatures like Ecia were only taught in the latter years of the students in every school of magic.

Their existence was considered highly confidential that only warlocks and sorceresses that manage to reach the Green realm or higher can learn of this matter.

Even their records were severely limited and sparse. Lessons about their existence barely touch its specifics and were not given much attention. Because they were considered a shame for their human counterparts.

Mostly because it was the itinerant warlocks who usually fell in love with these Troll Maidens. As such, Mu Lingxi and her friends were not aware of their existence yet.

To the point that even Fan Lei, a wide reader haven’t come in terms with this so-called, Troll maiden.

But more than that, the reason why the mage community use to shun these halfbreed creatures is not just because of what they believed their ‘shameful origins’.

It is because of what happened thousands of years ago during the Great War of Magi. These half breed creatures together with the necromancers chose to join hands with the creatures of the dark to oppress everyone living in the continent.

Maybe because of the oppression that they suffered from the hands of the humans, they chose to take their revenge.

Nevertheless, forces of good emerge victorious over the evil forces. As such, the halfbreeds and the necromancers together with the other creatures of the dark were defeated.

Traitors were sentenced to death. But those who pleaded for leniency were also given a chance.

After the war, Halfbreed creatures like Ecia who chose to pledge their loyalty to the newly established mage community were lifted from their death penalty but they were exiled to the far end corner of the continent.

Those creatures who decided to turn a new leaf in their life like the Vegan merfolk, Arya and this troll maiden Ecia were given a chance to prove themselves.

By guarding portals that lead to the uncharted territories discovered by the Ancient Domains of Mystery.