Chapter 172: The Bond He Dare Not Name
He only knew about it because he had stumbled across it by chance in the past.
"Light elves and dark elves were once one, but due to their different elemental affinities, they came to live apart. However, the two are inherently complementary. Every dark elf spends their life searching for their destined ’soul-bounded partner’—but such a bond is rare and cannot be forced."
Illiya didn’t dare think any further. That possibility... was more far-fetched than the idea of his teacher not secretly reading porn novels behind his desk.
Was it really possible for something with such an impossibly low probability to happen to him?
And yet, aside from the explanation that he might be the dark elf’s fated soul-bounded partner, there was no other reason that could explain why Drow was so protective of him.
This thought began to take root in Illiya’s mind, growing larger and more tangled with every passing moment. It’s roots sinking deep, so deeply that even if he wanted to pull them out, it would be impossible to do so cleanly.
Illiya wanted to control himself, to stop thinking about it but he couldn’t. He could only let it run wild. Yet this theory troubled him deeply.
The idea of suddenly having a soul-bounded partner truly caught him off guard.
Could something with such a ridiculously small probability really have happened to him? Did Drow know it from the very beginning? Or had he already discovered that Illiya was his soul-bounded partner and deliberately gone to Haneulseong City just to orchestrate a "chance" of meeting him?
Countless thoughts swirled through Illiya’s head like a storm, refusing to be driven away. The more he thought, the more frustrated he became and the more his head throbbed.
Light elves didn’t have particularly strong emotions about the idea of a soul-bounded partner. But the dark elf clan was a different story entirely.
Their attitude toward their soul-bounded partner was extremely solemn—so cautious it was almost obsessive.