Ch.192192. Fairy (1)

Fairy.

Among the countless and diverse dimensions overlapping with the material world, like the spirit realm, this race is a type of outsider originating from the fairy realm. Despite being outsiders (Outsiders) from an entirely different dimension, they are a unique group that has completely settled in the material world.

However, in the process of settling, they adapted to the world, and fairies evolved from their primitive forms into various appearances.

The basic fairies include Fairies, who settled in nature without significant environmental changes, and Nymphs, who are personifications of specific natural elements.

There are also those derived from animals, such as Melusines, born from absorbing aquatic dragon genes, or Black Dogs, which emerge from animal carcasses.

Others include Spriggans, who merged with abandoned golems to become rock giants, or Sprites, which formed from natural elements mixed with abandoned human traces.

Typically, these fairies, being close to natural objects or extensions of nature, have personalities quite similar to pure and innocent children….

But purity doesn’t always manifest positively.

Fairies, being life forms manifested as personifications of natural phenomena, can purely commit good deeds but also purely commit evil.

A representative behavior demonstrating fairy actions is “changeling”—a “prank” where fairies swap a human baby with one of their own.

However, the outcome for the human victim is invariably horrific.

Fairies, being closer to “children with power,” naturally lack parental responsibility or patience, so most abducted human children are neglected and die.

They might also use magic to cut a child’s vocal cords because crying is annoying, or magically seal bodily openings because excretion is dirty.

Unless a miracle occurs where they play with the child for a day and return them out of boredom, the fate of a changeling victim is nothing but tragic.

Meanwhile, fairies—especially the most common type, Fairies—are famous for playing with children who live near forests.

The mental ages of both sides are nearly equal, and since fairies are merely pure rather than evil or vile, many people who lived near forests have memories of playing with fairies as children, but…

This too often leads to tragedy.

Flying fairies might push children off cliffs claiming to help them fly, or children playing in the forest might be ambushed and killed by passing wild beasts.

One can easily see that there’s no malice due to their extreme purity, yet fairies frequently cause all sorts of human casualties….

Sometimes, such things happen.

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Generally, fairies often lack social skills.

Regardless of intelligence, their personalities closely resemble those of children, so they completely lack the empathy and consideration necessary for forming societies.

At most, they can form groups of equal fairies sticking together, or hierarchical groups where higher species dominate lower ones.

Since fairies are inherently similar to innate psychopaths, they cannot and should not form complex societies.

Despite these characteristics, fairy societies exist worldwide. Strictly speaking, this is only possible because of a special “exception.”

Among the common fairies with insect wings and diminutive forms, there exists the Fairy Queen, a type of higher fairy who has continuously grown through combat experience.

If a Fairy Queen exists, fairy societies can form thanks to her special abilities.

The Fairy Queen has the special ability to interfere with the minds of her subordinates, connecting their thoughts around herself to create a pseudo-hive mind.

Through this process, fairies gain some ability to empathize with each other’s emotions and develop minimal social skills to form a society, but…

The problem is that this society develops in an extremely abnormal way.

Their intelligence is quite mediocre and abnormally structured, and given their origins, fairies have fundamentally twisted ways of thinking.

They completely fail to understand the concept of taking responsibility for their actions, and if forced into a situation where they must take responsibility, they try to escape it by any means.

Moreover, when fairies themselves are subjected to something, far from recognizing it, they become indignant, act self-righteously, or pour out complaints.

Fundamentally, they are a race that concentrates and compresses the worst aspects of humanity—myopic and selfish, concerned only with their own welfare.

Particularly problematic is when fairy societies clumsily imitate other intelligent beings, resulting in disasters when combined with fairies’ poor judgment.

One Fairy Queen observed events happening nearby—in the Rom Empire—and thought it was a very fun game that she wanted to recreate—

Thus, this Fairy Queen and her fairy nation, viewing war as play, began invading neighboring powers.

Unfortunately, this fairy kingdom was located in a great forest, and the closest neighboring power was—the Dawn Empire.

The Dawn Empire.

Despite being established just one year ago, they were implicitly treated as the strongest regional power, with territories marked by their flags across the world.

Whatever method they used, their ability to transport troops and supplies was truly admirable.

They built fortresses near the great forest inhabited by all sorts of bizarre magical beasts, claiming the territory and moderately harvesting forest resources.

However, the fortress itself was modest in scale, capable of housing only about 500 troops as the entire regional base.

This base was invaded by the fairy army led by the Fairy Queen.

Of course, the fairy army was predominantly composed of level 10 monsters, Fairies.

With durability comparable to urethane that could be easily crushed by bare hands, speed that was incredibly fast for their size but just average in terms of movement, and magical bullets with the power of a baseball bat swing—that was the extent of a common level 10 Fairy’s power, but…

[Now, go! My army! Sweep them away!!]

The problem arose when they were commanded by higher fairies.

From level 7-8 commander fairies to Fairy Warriors riding beast-type fairies like Black Dogs.

When various bizarre variants enhanced fairies with command skills, combined with their good scalability, their danger level increased instantly.

Frankly speaking, when about 20-30 fairies gather and just fire magical bullets, ordinary foot soldiers below intermediate level can’t even think of doing anything.

And now with various enhancement skills and buffs abundantly applied, their pure firepower surpassed that of mediocre mages.

Thousands of such fairies attacked.

Fortunately, since this great forest was such a high-risk location, nearly 10 of the 500 stationed troops were intermediate-level, which gave hope of somehow repelling the attack, but…

“Hah!! 《Wave of Wood Dragon》!!”

KWAGAGAGAGAGAGA───!!!

The Fairy Queen’s casually cast 4LV area attack spell collapsed the fortress, causing serious injuries or deaths to at least 300 people.

And in this completely collapsed situation, fairies enraged by the death of their friends—or more accurately, intoxicated by their own image of being angry for their friends—poured in.

What followed resembled the innocent evil acts of children made real.

Undoubtedly, they were responsible for attacking first and for some of their own deaths, but… if humans openly disregard this, why would fairies be any different?

Especially when most of them are complete psychopaths lacking any empathy?

They dismembered corpses, fired magical bullets at those still breathing to crush them, and performed all sorts of torture-like acts on the living.

After giggling and committing atrocities for quite some time, the fairies of the fairy kingdom eventually grew bored and left the corpses behind───

Later, the investigation team from the Avenger Legion, dispatched to the fortress after communication was lost, discovered the bodies of the Black Sun Legion bearing what anyone would recognize as signs of torture.