01.
The dinner was held in a stone palace, with white stone pillars twined with green vines and dotted with flowers. There are many works of art in the palace, all of which are exquisite and beautiful-these are the works of elves. The top of the palace is dark blue inlaid with some glowing gems.
"This symbolizes our family's belief in the night." A dark elf explained to the human next to him, "Gems represent stars."
Hill pricked up his ears to eavesdrop, something he didn't know either.
"Does your family believe in the night?" the human asked with great interest.
"Yes, but our family used to believe in the sun. We came from the human world to the demon world after being nearly wiped out by humans. At that time, the human world was not actually called the human world. After humans gradually expelled and exterminated other races, the human world It's called the Human Realm. When we arrived in the Demon Realm, we gave up our original beliefs and created new ones instead," said the dark elf.
In fact, elves used to be white-skinned, similar to the good-looking elves in fairy tales. There used to be elves who married humans, usually female elves. Because the lifespan of the elves is very long, so after their husbands die, they will continue to find the juniors in the clan to marry, and then marry the second wave, the third wave, and guard their first-generation husbands in this way this family.
Hill was in a bad mood after seeing this period of history. This is not the same as the love story between elves and humans he imagined. Hill's first reaction was: I have an ancestral elf. The second reaction is: the elves are forever, and one is passed down forever.
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Hearing the presence of the dark elves, the human beings immediately felt uncomfortable. Theodore has also come into contact with this kind of thing a lot, and he has a special status, so he is not particularly uncomfortable, but continues to ask: "Why do human beings and Are you going to war?" He has gotten along with the demons a lot, and he understands that the demons don't pay much attention to etiquette in this regard. You can ask directly, and the other party will answer if they want to answer. If they don't want to answer, they won't answer. I won't blame you for being abrupt. Of course, this is based on the equality of the two parties.
"Because we look different, and many of our organs are good potion materials." The dark elf said succinctly.
The human beings present were speechless. Many people thought that humans hunted monsters for medicine. From the perspective of those who killed the dark elves, they might be the same as those monsters... "I don't understand," said the actress named Ai Ni angrily. Drummingly said: "Why are some people so vicious? You, you look a lot like humans anyway."
"Because of this, humans are more likely to hunt and kill them." Theodore said in a deep voice, "Humans are such a race."
The human actors who were eating suddenly felt that the food in their hands was not tasty. Yes, if you think about it from another angle, it really is.
Theodore was a little emotional, and he continued to ask: "Then do you hate humans?"
"Hate?" The dark elf repeated, "The humans who slaughtered us are already extinct. The people of that race were almost wiped out by the people of another race, and then the people of the third race were killed by the white-skinned people of the Magnolia Continent." Humanity is almost wiped out. Who are we to hate?" he asked.
Theodore faltered, as a human being he couldn't say 'you can hate all human beings'.
The dark elf continued: "It is not hatred that supports our family. Hatred can only lead to destruction, not continuation. We understand that we migrated to the Demon Realm not for revenge, but for the survival of the race. His Excellency also said , if it is hatred that makes people unwilling to die, but it is love, faith and hope that make people live."
"Uh, uh, did His Excellency the Pope say that?" A human actor asked.
Theodore suddenly felt that the conversation was a bit weird, and he explained: "It's the Pope of the Dark Holy See."
"Ah, that's right." The actor was a little embarrassed, "Because I'm used to it, when I say the Pope, I subconsciously think of the Pope of the Illuminati Church."
"That's a wise motto," said another human actor. "I'm going to make it my motto."
Hill listened to their conversation and crunched a fruit salad.
He understood that the dark elves made this judgment not because they were kind, but because they were rational.
Dark elves have always been a very smart race, they are so smart that they can control their emotions. The reason why Albrecht became an idiot, he naturally knew from the book in the Demon World.
02.
The filming was not very smooth, but all the problems were overcome in the end. After the finale, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It was the first time for two actors to participate in the filming. They thought it was fun, but unexpectedly It was so tiring afterward...but it was really interesting.
After the shooting, Hill gave them some souvenirs and let them go back to the human world, and then he started the intensive post-production.
Then there were problems in post-production.
Hill is freaked out by some clips...
The main reason is that during the production, it was necessary to zoom in on the picture, and some ghosts and monsters in it were too realistic. Well, it was true, so Hill naturally felt creepy.
What a crime... Hill was doing post-production while looking at a maggot on a certain thigh.
Now he can't wait to see how the human audience is terrified, which will ease his trauma.
After finishing the later stage, Hill thought for a while, and first screened it in Demon Realm.
After watching the movie, the demons felt that the movie was quite scary, but they were not overly frightened. After all, the blood and gore could not scare them. Some of them even recognized some ghosts directly which demons played them.
"After watching this movie, I realized that our Demon Race is really scary, and I feel that my national self-confidence has been restored." Elder Skeleton said.
Hill laughed and cried.
Well, using horror films to enhance national self-confidence... This method is a bit funny, but according to the elder skeleton, it seems that you can try it
Then Hill thought about it, and maliciously aimed at the Paladins sent by Theresa.
Since they are glorious paladins, they shouldn't be afraid of ghosts, right
With this in mind, he called the Holy Knights over, let them read the collection of fairy tales first, and then showed them the movie the next day.
These paladins haven't seen the movie yet, and they were all novel at first, and they were still discussing with each other.
"Shooting stage plays for entertainment with precious projection stones?"
"But if it's that Demon King, he can indeed do such a thing."
"It's quite interesting."
Hill sat invisible at the edge of the room, eavesdropping on their exchange.
"Are the actors human? Oh, the door of each room is the name of the fairy tale I watched yesterday."
"It feels so romantic... what the hell?"
"Heller, as a paladin, what is WQNM that you shouldn't curse?"
At this time, the picture in the movie has become terrifying.
Hill was almost killed laughing by those two paladins.
Then the horror deepened level by level.
"It's terrible... I'm a paladin, I believe in my lord, I shouldn't be afraid of the devil."
"Impossible, how can such a thing be done, impossible... Is there such a terrible thing in the world? Is the devil so terrible? Will the Holy Light bless us?"
"No... it's pure horror... God won't bless us..."
Eh wait... This doesn't seem right
Hill felt that he was wrong. He thought that paladins should not be so afraid, but it seems that he made a mistake
Then suddenly a paladin inside screamed, "My lord!" Then he spat out blood and fell to the ground.
Hill was stunned on the spot.
ah? !
03.
The paladin almost died, but he survived after careful treatment by the demons, but he can no longer use the power of the paladin.
Hill and Monroe discussed the matter, Monroe thought for a while, and gave the answer: "The light power of the paladins themselves is endowed by the God of Light, so they must maintain some qualities, such as firmness, such as being steadfast to the light." unconditional trust and contempt for darkness—they must believe that light can overcome darkness.”
"Oh, I get it." Hill also understood at this time. Horror movies gave them a feeling that darkness was invincible. In addition, they had a lot of mental pressure in the devil world during this time. After being stimulated by horror movies, some people just collapsed.
"My guess," Monroe said, "is that the ones who break down are the strongest of their faith. It wouldn't have happened if the faith wasn't strong."
"How do you know?" Hill was very curious. He asked the friendly paladin beforehand. The paladin whose faith collapsed after being frightened by the horror movie was indeed the one with the strongest faith among them.
"It's just personal experience." Monroe said lightly.
Hill recalled Monroe's past and sighed, "You've been through a lot."
"A lot of experiences are made by you," Monroe said.
Hill smiled and said, "Yes, I did a lot of bad things to you back then."
"So it's my turn to do bad things to you now?" Monroe asked.
Hill smiled and took a step back, "Don't make trouble, there is still business to do now."
His hair brushed against Monroe's fingers, and Monroe gathered his five fingers, his expression still calm, "I heard that the demons pay attention to equal exchange, and all debts must be repaid."
"That last line is from the Lannisters," Hill said, and then he continued to laugh and took a step back, his hair flying in the orange sunset. "Since you're all daedric now, it looks like I'm I can't escape. However, let me continue to squeeze you until the day when I will be completely debt-collected by you."
When he said this at the moment, his tone was brisk, with a little smile, and he looked very relaxed.
The person on the opposite side only responded in a deep voice, "Okay."
The two looked at each other, and the wind blew past.
The wind in early summer is still very comfortable.
04.
"Fairy Tale Hotel" officially premiered at the Devil's Emporium a week later.
Paladins are forbidden to enter.
Some of the paladins in Mülheim are outraged: why aren't the paladins allowed in? Why should we listen to the demons? We want to go in and see!
Well... there is no way.
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