Chapter 106: 106.Neil Hartman.
Neil slammed his clenched fists on his desk as he recalled how the elf prince had been smiling and chuckling with three beautiful women while he and the other students in Stella Hall had to be coordinated by a tall muscular professor.
'Who does he think he is, huh?' Neil gritted his teeth as he uttered these words in his mind and slammed his fists on his desk once again.
'Why does he get to be taken on a tour around the school by women while we were left behind to be coordinated by a scary-looking professor.'
'Just because he is the elf prince doesn't mean that he gets to do whatever he wants.'
'This is so unfair.'
'The academy needs to treat everyone equally.'
'Also, the female elves were gushing over him as though he was the only male in the academy.'
'What's up with that?'
'They must have been charmed or something!!!' He refused to accept that the female elves truly liked him.
'Stupid c*nts.'
'Those fucking retards!!'
'They were clearly trying to get into the prince's pants.'
'I hate those ladies already.'
'I hate the elf prince too.'
'In fact, I hate this entire academy.'
'Not only were the female elves fawning over him, but I could also hear the girls from our kingdom whispering about how cute he was.'
'I bet he likes being the center of attention as well.'
'I'm certain he's been living this way since the day he was born, not knowing how it feels to be despised by hundreds and thousands of people.'
'He clearly doesn't know how much I've suffered before getting to this point of my life.'
'I lost both of my parents when I was five years old while he's been living a life of luxury with his mother by his side, not knowing that his mother ruined my family.'
During the war, Neil's father had been a strong battle mage who was famous for winning battles, and he had also been the General of the royal army.
His father had been well-loved and respected in the human kingdom, and he'd had a strong desire to help the human kingdom become the greatest kingdom ever.
During one of their raids to subdue the elf kingdom, Neil's father led an army of five thousand men, but their opponent hadn't been the army of the opposing kingdom. Instead, they had fought against just one individual.
Back then, Evelyn hadn't become an Apex Mage, so very little was known about the young female elf who stood against thousands of men, and with little more than a wave of her hand, Evelyn wiped out more than four thousand Knights and Mages.
It had been absurd and unheard of.
No one in the mortal realm had ever heard of such a thing happening in a battle before.
Even the demons from the demon kingdom weren't crazy enough to send just one mage or knight to fight against an army of four thousand mages and knights. However, the elves were able to accomplish something that had never been done before.
More than four thousand knights and battle mages were killed, and the remaining few hundred soldiers were either badly injured or had their mana core destroyed by Evelyn's attack.
Neil's father was one of the few battle mages whose mana core was destroyed, and he was never able to manipulate mana again.
This led to him losing his position as the General of the royal army.
He was also blamed for being a coward and not being able to protect his men against a single mage.
The shame of having more than ninety percent of his army wiped out by a single mage continued to haunt him and he was seen as a disgrace to the nobles and ministers in the kingdom.
The wives and mothers of the dead soldiers also blamed and hated him for being unable to bring back their sons and husbands from the war alive.
Neil's father continued to live a life of solitude in the woods of the human kingdom.
He became no different than a walking dead and was simply waiting for nature to take him away as well.
He had no reason to live anymore, and he felt this way until he met Neil's mother, which happened a few years after the war had ended, and the kingdoms decided to live in peace with one another.
Neil's father and mother decided to live peacefully as a family in the woods where they would be alone.
They continued to live this way until something terrible happened to Neil's father and mother when Neil was five years old.
Soldiers from the royal family marched into the woods and killed both of his parents.
Neil was lucky enough to survive because his uncle protected him while his father and mother stayed behind to confront the soldiers and distract them.
It turned out that Neil's father had been training a group of mercenaries who had lost either a father or a brother during the war.
They were training very hard to seek vengeance for the death of those they lost, but the King found out about it and ordered his men to kill every single one of them because if he didn't do this, it would mean that the king was in support of this, and it could clearly be misinterpreted as a declaration of war to the other kingdoms in the mortal realm.
Neil's uncle, Phil Hartman, protected Neil and managed to raise him on his own, but just like Neil's father, he also had a strong desire to kill the Elf queen.
The elf queen ruined the life of his brother and forced his brother to resort to things like creating and training a group of mercenaries.
Neil's father only decided to train these mercenaries as a way to redeem himself in the eyes of society.
It wasn't like he had wanted to do it, he had just felt like he had to do it.
Although the world was at peace, there were hundreds of mages and knights within the kingdom who still harbored the desire to take revenge for the loved ones they lost.
Neil's father capitalized on their desires and decided to give them a chance to seek the vengeance they wanted.
Too bad the king noticed this and ordered his men to kill every single one of the rebels.