(eng) M. K. Gibson - The Shadow Master 01 by Villains Rule

Author:Villains Rule [Rule, Villains]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Where I Shine a Light on Fantasy Tropes and Go Swimming

Go back and read, or watch, ninety percent of books and movies. They always seem to have the same line: “A thousand-plus years ago . . . ”

Whatever was going on back then was exactly the same in the current time. Wizards, armor, and swords. It was like their gods kept them from ever advancing past the corollary middle ages. And the few that did were then struck by a great cataclysm, which effectively hit the reset button.

Consider the master JRR. The elves talk about the Battle of the Ring three thousand years prior to the Fellowship. And since then, nothing had advanced. In real-world human history, we went from achieving flight with only the most rudimentary understanding of electricity to landing on the moon in less than seventy years.

The reason for this disparity is very simple. In fantasy realms, the gods and their children, the elves, refuse to allow advancement.

“In my lands,” I said to the group, making sure I smiled while looking at the Lord Protector, “mankind has discovered how to harness lightning for power to run great and terrible machinery. We have carriages that fly through the sky. And, in only one hundred years of our time, those carriages reached the stars. We have machines that print books in the thousands, replacing scribes, and our vast libraries of knowledge are shared by all through wondrous devices called computers. In addition to sharing every scrap of knowledge ever written down, they allow us to communicate over vast distances instantly without the need of letters. I know you think I am only speaking in campfire tales, but it is true. And the people of the Eld knew this as well. Their advancement in science and medicine were a threat to the elves. So they were eliminated.”

“Leave these woods,” the Lord Protector growled through clenched teeth as he threw my gift of clothing and short swords to the ground.

“So, no formal sign of the leaf? No blessing for me either?”

“Valliar himself has marked you as a disruptor of the peace. Your existence is a blight on all sentient creatures. Your very mind, coupled with your actions, sickens, offends and corrupts. It is against the will of Valliar to wish death upon any creature that is redeemable. But in your case, I see only a lowly human boy scared of his betters who surrounds himself in webs of corruption and lies. Therefore, I wish you nothing but misery until the end of your pathetic days.”

I smiled. At least that was an honest moment.

But I was not the kind of person to not have the last word.

“Your allegiance to yourselves over every other race in the realms retards the growth of all. Were it in my power, I would see your entire race burned alive in your very woods.”

“Sadly, little man, it is not in your power,” Talisarian’de said. “Valliar protects us.”

“For now,” I said, smiling at the tall elf. “For now.

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