The 1st Great War

The wizard was already teaching by the time we arrived and the magitech device displayed the image of a giant, an orc and a dwarf.

"The 1st Great War originated from minor conflicts erupted from the difference in customs and values between the five races."

"The Giants and Orcs didn't get along because they both strive for strength and often compete with each other. The Orcs and Dwarves didn't get along because the Dwarves looked down on their intelligence, but the Orcs typically annihilated them from Minstanacia because their strength couldn't be measured with the that of Dwarves." Says the wizard called Kendro Hullin.

He had black bushy hair with a long face. He looks like he is in his thirties but looks older because of the slight wrinkles on his face and hollow eyes, probably due to stress. He wore a black long coat and not the typical bogus wizard clothing that more than seventy percent of all the wizards in the schoolwear.

"Humans and Elves didn't have any problems, but it was the four different species of elves that had conflicts amongst each other. At that same time, the Humans saw the Ape-men and started developing fear towards them because they could not comprehend the limits of spiritual energy."

"The Ape-men were strong but because of the overwhelming population of Humans, they started losing, until they sought help from the special specie of Giants called Cyclops. They are two times the size of normal Giants and have only one eye." Wizard Kendro's voice sounds calm but a bit rough.

"Wizard Hullin! What are the--" Kendro stops the boy from asking his question with a slight gesture of his hand.

"All questions will be answered after I am done with the lecture, and you all should call me 'Teacher' not 'Wizard'."

I look around and notice all the students were putting all ears down to listen to Teacher Kendro's lecture.

"The war between the Humans and Ape-men ended due to the intervention of the Greatest Mage that had ever existed, Merlin. Merlin tried talking them down but all to no avail, then he decided to use brute force and threatened to annihilate both the Humans and Ape-men if they do not co-operate, but it was just a bluff."

"They would have refused, but Merlin was the leader of the Druids, a ragtag bunch of monsters that one could wipe out a city with one spell. The Cyclops didn't back down so Merlin cast a big spell on them that made them sleep, and that's how they got the name 'Sleeping Giants'." Kendro pauses then swipe his gaze across the whole class.

"Merlin used the same method on the Dwarves and Orcs, then left the conflict between the Elves to his subordinate in the Druids, Meldred; who later became the First Elf King."

"This whole war took place on one battlefield and that place is now what we call the Dwarven Ruins in Minstanacia. The Dwarves that are here in Wricontien are the descendants of the survivors of the war." Kendro ends his lecture with that.

Nearly immediately, almost all the students raise their hand to ask a question.

'Hey, kid! Having a rough time?' The sudden voice caught me unawares, but I quickly realize who it was.

'Long time no talk, Garmi.'

'So you got the system overdrive?'

'Yeah.'

'Sheesh! Too bad for you. I'm just here to say that starting from tomorrow you're gonna be sorry you're alive.'

'Garmi?' I said, hoping to get an answer, but I don't.

"Teacher Hullin, Aren't there five species of elves?" An elf girl sitting four seats in front of me asks as Teacher Kendro permitted her.

"At that time, there were only four species of elves, namely – Light elf, Wood elf, Snow elf and Blood elf. The Blood Elves were the main conflict creators in the war amongst the elves even though they suffered discrimination."

"The Blood Elves were created when a group of light elf researchers drank an Ecrimony, a failed experiment in an attempt to create a Philosopher's stone. It made them crave for only human blood and increased their physical and magical abilities drastically, but it came with limits."

"They are affected by sunlight, and they become superbly weak when they don't drink human blood. It can be passed on to other elves by drinking their blood, but not to humans because the human body cannot handle the evolution process."

"They are termed 'Vampyrz' by other the elf species meaning 'abomination'. They see themselves as the chosen race, so they hardly ever turn other elves." Teacher Kendro was so engrossed in talking about the Blood elves that he forgot the most essential thing...

"Err... Teacher Hullin, you haven't... answered... the question." Says the elf girl that asked the question.

Teacher Kendro becomes pale in an instant and the class burst out laughing.

"Ok! Ok! I will answer your question now. The fifth species, which are now the Dark elves are the descendants of King Meldred. So they arrived after the 1st Great War." Teacher Kendro has an embarrassed look on his face as he answers.

The students ask some more questions that I deem aren't that relevant and smart. I stop listening and sink into my thoughts because there is something that isn't sitting right with me with the whole race thing, so it's better to just ask about it.

I gently raise my hand. Teacher Kendro sees me and ignores the other kids that are also raising their hand and permits me to ask my question.

I stand up and ask, "Why are their different species of the same race?"

The whole class falls silent, and they are all probably thinking 'what type of dumb question is that', but that is none of my business, currently, at least.

"That question everybody...." Kendro pauses and swipes his gaze across the class, "Is the smartest question I have ever been asked in my 17 years of teaching!"

All the students suffer from perplexia because of what Kendro just proclaimed.

"I will give any student that can answer that question my 10 years saved up salary."

Kendro stops to look at the reactions in their faces, and he noticed it was the one of 'I am sure his salary can't even buy my whole family a deluxe meal' or 'his whole ten years salary is likely even my pocket money divided into four.'

A bulge grows on Teacher Kendro's forehead, "It is 3 emeralds!" He says.

The whole class gasps for air, even me, because 1 emerald equals 100 gold.

They all started pouring out answers, which were mainly useless hypothesis. I didn't even bother to answer since I knew it was something I couldn't just come up with since Kendro was willing to give his 10 years worth of hard work away.

"Enough! None of you got it! And therefore, nobody wins my salary." Kendro breathes out in relief.

"Most of you must have already heard of the unknown entity that granted powers. Let's not see it as 'granted', let's see it as more of a 'plague' that spread and infected people and animals."

"This plague only spread once, and the sickness or infection varied from how far people and animals were from the source of the plague, the 'unknown entity'."

"The closest to the source had their body structure and physical forms altered and the rate of change reduces the farther an individual or animal was from the source. Therefore, we can now say Orcs were the closest, then Elves, then Giants, then Ape-men, then Dwarves and finally, Humans."

"The humans that aren't cursed with the ability to perform magic are the ones the plague didn't affect. But now we can't justify and say that people just happened to be clustered up then and at that very second."

"Take for instance three horizontal points are evenly away from each other and by chance, the plague passed by from the first point horizontally, do you think all those three points will get the same infection? No, and why? Because the points after the first point are farther away from the source of the plague, although they will be a bit similar."

"Then after that two points were spotted but were way further than the first three points, and when the plague passed, the infections were not equal but similar but are now entirely different from the first three points. This is why there are different species of the same race." Teacher Kendro pants after like he just ran a marathon.

Sincerely, the answer makes so much sense I start clapping for Teacher Kendro, and soon after, the whole class start clapping.

*clapping* – "Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it."

Only a few minutes after, the class ended as the bell rung. I and the boys bid the girls goodbye and went back to the dorm with Zeus and Hades.