Chapter 1421.2
Chapter 1421.2
Sure, some of the tree trunks had struck her and torn her clothing at the shoulder, drawing blood. Even so, she wasn’t in a critical state. Yet, she couldn't easily regain her composure. The living beings she saw in the memories were just that horribly ugly and evil in their actions.Of course, she knew not all living beings were like that. Yet, nonetheless, the memories she was seeing were apparently authentic.
The problem was that the more of those memories she saw, the more her anger toward living beings began to grow. Having peered into the deepest parts of the inner mind that others couldn't sense, Willow felt like throwing up.
“Why the heck would you let things like this live... Hup!” Willow, who was murmuring instinctively, clutched her mouth shut. She reminded herself, “Snap out of it! This is just a miniscule example picked deliberately. I can't generalize just by looking at a few bastards.”
If she hadn't lived through so many experiences, including her past connection with Bae Seung-Woo, she felt like she might've instantly crumbled right there before the disgusting memories.
The pain she felt while trapped in the sword and the pain now were totally different.
Swoosh!! Boom!!
Then, two strands, much thicker than the others, fiercely dug toward Willow. She managed to wrap her hands around them and hold off their advance.
“You dense idiot!! You're trying to overpower me now?!”
Thud!!!
“Kyaaak!!”
At the same time, tree trunks whipped at her back like lashes, leaving large wounds. She worried that they were so severe that they would leave a scar.
The trunks showed her terrible memories every time they came in contact, as if determined not to let her compose herself and approach the statue.
The memories had nothing to do with Darian or Willow, instead being memories filled with fundamental hatred toward the existence of living beings.
She saw a kind elf who saved and healed suffering humans be betrayed by the man she saved. Her village was burned, and her family was taken as slaves. She herself was caught by that man and suffered unspeakable pain.
Another memory showed a man who dedicated himself to entering the elven forest, appealing to the notion that humans could become good. Striving for harmony between humans and elves, he was instead betrayed by them and torn into pieces by demonic beasts.
A human and demon fell in love, but the intense conflict between the two races ultimately led the couple to tragedy.
An infant who hadn't even been weaned was brutally murdered under the pretext of an inquisition.
There were dozens, even hundreds more. Entrenched in that storm of memories, which could make anyone with even an exceptional level of mental fortitude go insane, Willow gradually failed to even register the things coiling around her body.