Alien world

Chapter 1643 Chapter 276. Old Things
"You are Griffin... Damn it, how did you become a lich?!" Gary, who thought nothing could make him emotional, screamed.

"I have made some unforgivable mistakes."

"How is this possible?" Gary couldn't believe it. "You can't even step on an ant to death."

"We all grow up. Even you who aspire to be a priest will eventually go to the battlefield with a weapon of killing."

"I don't have the talent of a priest, so I can only be a warrior..."

Gary sighed as he looked at his best childhood playmate. He thought he was miserable enough, but he didn't expect that Griffin even lost his life... just like John.

"Jorn is dead," he said sadly.

"I know that he has a weak character and Blackwatch can't change him." Griffin said bluntly.

Gary wanted to say something in rebuttal, but in the end he just smiled bitterly and shook his head.

There's no point in explaining it any further.

"Why did you come to Liberty City?"

“I found my purpose in life here.”

Gary suddenly realized that Griffin liked to do strange research when he was a child. He was always dirty and was called little mud. He was bullied a lot. He and John lived with their family in the princess's territory for a while, which stopped Griffin from being bullied.

He spoke well of his childhood playmate: "Lord Annan, I don't know what Griffin did wrong to become like this, but I can assure you that he is a good man."

"Good guy?" Annan asked in a strange tone.

Gary was stunned: "Isn't it?"

Griffin didn't say anything, and Annan didn't tell his childhood friends who still believed in Griffin about his sins.

If they were still teenagers, they would hug each other happily. If they were adults, they would tell each other about their experiences in a tavern. But now, one of them has lost his legs, and the other has become a lich. They are not the most familiar to each other, and can only bury the sincere emotions of their childhood in their hearts.

After Annan and Griffin left, Gary got up and climbed into the wheelchair that the medical staff had prepared for him.

"Come on, let's go walk around the corridor too."

"Go ahead."

Edwin, who had tried his best to pretend not to care in front of Annan, was too lazy to hide his vulnerability anymore and covered his head with the quilt.

"The noise next door never stops," Gary pulled back Edwin's blanket, "We have to do what we can."

……

After visiting all the first batch of wounded soldiers, Annan stabilized the emotions of the Blackwatch soldiers with the help of Gary and Edwin.

At least it is no longer like when I first arrived, surrounded by deathly aura and having lost the desire to live.

When I came out of the hospital, the lights in Liberty City were just coming on and the streets were crowded with people.

"Little Mud?"

Who could have imagined that a crazy alchemist would have such a...simple and adorable nickname.

"It's just a nickname my playmates gave me when I was a kid."

"You seemed like a good person in his eyes, so why did you become like that later?" Experiences can change a person, but since Griffin got along well with Gary and others when he was a child, it shows that he is not a born bad person.

Griffin lowered his head and recalled his childhood.

He was full of curiosity when he was a child and liked to ask why, why the clouds float in the sky, why the stars don’t fall down like fruits, and why heavy objects that cannot be lifted can be pushed when placed on a cart of the same weight.

When he was older and started to have hands-on skills, he began to do interesting experiments.

For example, if you wet the mud and then dry it, it will become a clod, but if you add some straw to it, it will become extremely hard.

For example, the summer sun is so hot that it can melt people. Some glass can gather light and even ignite straw. So, is it possible to make a larger glass to gather all the sunlight?
When he was eight years old, he met Gary and John who had just moved in. The outsiders brought new things from the outside world, and also brought the knowledge that he was interested in. The two brothers stayed in the princess's home for five years, and Griffin also spent five years with friends.

When they were eleven or twelve years old, they followed their families back to the empire, and Griffin was left alone. The children in the princess's house were unwilling to play with him, so Griffin became more closed to himself and dealt with experiments all day long.

Change - or rather, misfortune - occurred on a quiet afternoon when a girl who used to play with Gary came to Griffin and took him to meet other children.

They were arguing about which was heavier, a pound of iron or a pound of cotton. Some said a pound of iron was heavier, some said a pound of cotton was heavier, and some said a pound of wet cotton was heavier. When the argument got heated, someone thought of "Little Mud" and called him over.

Griffin said that a pound of iron is heavier than a pound of cotton.

The oldest child found a piece of iron and smashed it hard on Griffin's shoulder, saying mockingly, "I said a kilogram of iron is heavier than a kilogram of cotton."

The children laughed and no one helped him.

Griffin became famous and began to be the target of children's pranks.

Deliberately teasing, arranging, pouring water on his head, making trouble in his secret base... The boys showed their bravery by bullying Griffin, and the girls fit in with the boys by belittling Griffin.

If Princess Territory was heaven when Gary and John were still there, then Princess Territory was hell after they left.

Gary and John opened the door to the outside world for Little Mud, but also made him more eccentric.

When he was thirteen, he had the worst day of his life. In the evening, Griffin returned home from his undiscovered secret base and saw his home burning. His parents died in the fire while trying to take out money.

Perhaps Griffin was so pitiful now that the kids who bullied him suddenly disappeared.

But a child secretly told him that on the day of the fire, he saw the shadows of the children who always teased him near Griffin's house...

One night, Griffin left the princess territory.

Annan knew what happened afterwards: Griffin grew up to be successful and returned to his hometown, perhaps for revenge, perhaps to conduct experiments, and he chose the boys and girls who had hurt him as his targets.

After listening to Griffin's past quietly, Annan sighed. Rather than "there must be a pitiful side to every hateful person", this was more like a story of revenge that was recognized by the mainstream of Allen's world.

"Why didn't you explain it before?"

"That's not necessary." The soul fire in Griffin's eyes stabilized, "I did do something wrong."

"Even if my motivation is revenge, will I be released?"

"Just revenge also has to face the laws of the city-state, not to mention that your revenge is not just." Having said that, Annan also understood why Griffin did not explain.

Griffin crouched down, the soul fire in his eyes flickering slightly.

“So there’s no need.”

(End of this chapter)