'He wants to see my face, huh?' Jacob easily guessed Bryan's intention behind offering him the Spirit Cold Ale!
But he didn't mind as he removed his mask, revealing his tattooed face, and then opened the cork as well.
Bryan's eyes flashed with astonishment when he saw it was a barbarian. Frugal and Aven's races were easy to guess because of their size, and only Jacob's background was ambiguous.
"I never thought I would see a barbarian working with giants. What a sight." Bryan chuckled.
Jacob coolly asked, "Why is that?"
He then drinks a mouthful of the ale within gourd, and instantly an icy cold sensation enriched with a unique tipsy flavor spread in his mouth. His pupils dilated as he felt an ice bomb gone off his mouth.
"Strong!" He exclaimed as frost mist exhaled with his breath.
"Hahaha… you are the first outsider I've seen who hadn't spit the Spirit Cold Ale on their first try." Bryan laughs with a pleased expression.
"What a waste." Jacob chuckled with disdain before he took another large mouthful and again felt the frost spreading in his entire body before it was replaced by intoxicated warmth.
Bryan's eyes widened ever so slightly since even he didn't dare to drink too much Spirit Cold Ale, "It seemed I encountered a kindred soul. As for your question, I only said that because barbarians and giants are always on bad terms with each other.
"Especially the Bronze Barbarian. Those guys are too arrogant and racist. They are the strongest barbarian tribe of the barbarian race, so they consider themselves the natural-born leaders of the Barbarian Race.
"But you see, the giants are even more arrogant, and they are the strongest when it comes to combats, especially the Flame Iron Giant Tribe, the tribe of Alliance Chairman!
"Yet, the Bronze Barbarians refused this notion and insisted on challenging the Flame Iron Giant Tribe. Giants are rather peaceful if not provoked first, but once they are provoked, it's impossible to stop them.
"So, when the Bronze Barbarians showed their intention to challenge them, the Flame Iron Giants crushed them by sending a single Elder of their tribe. From that point on, the tension between the two races only grew.
"Nowadays, you won't see giants and barbarians teaming up. Even if they did, they would not want their people to hear about it, especially the barbarians. They are simply too unreasonable. Sorry, I don't mean any offense; not everyone is the same." Bryan explained.
"None taken. I don't even know about this, and some idiots fighting for supremacy have nothing to do with me." Jacob calmly stated.
Bryan laughed while nodding, "I completely agree. Racism has no place in epic alive plains. But some people are just too stubborn to let go. The annihilation of the demi-human race from the epic plains is proof of the dark history of racism."
"Oh? What happened?" Jacob asked with a hint of interest.
"You don't even know about such a huge event?" Bryan was astonished.
"I live in peace and seclusion, away from all the politics and madness if I say so myself." Jacob plainly replied while drinking the spirit cold ale.
"Hah, you got a point. Cheers to that." Bryan chucked while proposing a toast before speaking again, "You see, about nine years ago, someone found the secret of the demi-human race and made it public. It turned out demi-humans were a bioproduct of mix-breeding between Magic Beasts and the orc race, which wasn't the entire truth either!
"First, it seemed absurd since magic beasts are all wild, and we orcs are intelligent species despite having some beastly traits ourselves. So, people just ignored that person and thought he just wanted to sow discord and earn some dirty fame.
"However, the very next day, a video was posted by the same person, and it shocked the entire not only the orc and demi-human communities but the elves, dwarfs, and goblins were also dragged into the dirty waters.
"In that video, the fornication between an orc woman and a magic beast was shown. It was an experiment video and the entire process of how that woman got impregnated and then gave birth to a demi-human 14 months later.
"But it wasn't the end, as the next day another experiment video appeared, and this time, a fornication between a female goblin and magic beast was shone, and then the next day between a female elf and magic beast and last between a dwarf female and magic beast. And you know the result?
"They were all the same, they all gave birth to a demi-human with slightly different traits, but their physical traits were the same! Everyone noticed that in every video, the male was always a magic beast!
"Now, you could imagine just how great the shock had been when all those noble races discovered that the demi-human race was the bioproduct of a combination between their females and some four-legged magic beast. Especially the elves, who abhor other races and seldom marry outside their races, and dwarfs weren't any different.
"So, every race involved in that video was enraged by shame. All hell breaks loose on the sixth day. The elves and dwarves declare war on the 'abominations,' and orcs and goblins also join them. And you know what? The three hegemonies do nothing since the leading faction of that one-sided slaughter was the Ice Elves!
"And no one can do anything to them because just like the Flame Iron Giant Tribe, the Ice elves are the strongest elf tribe, and their leader is none other than the Universal Zodiac Taurus Bank, the Bank Manager, and the most beautiful woman of the alive epic plains, Lucy Gabriel!
"So, the demi-humans were fully exterminated within a month. Not even infants or children were spared. They were chased to every corner of the alive epic plains. That slaughter was the most horrifying thing ever done to the epic alive plains." Bryan spoke with a hint of sorrow as he drank more spirit cold ale.
Jacob wasn't expecting the demi-humans would have such a background, not to mention their tragic past.
Furthermore, Jacob also thought that the demi-humans were the bioproduct of humans and orcs or even magic beasts. Because demi-humans have not only 'humans' in their name but also have human traits like elves, dwarfs, giants, and barbarians. But it didn't turn out this way.
Jacob looked at Bryan as he could clearly tell this guy might have lost someone close in that slaughter by the expression on his face.
He drinks some ale with a creepy intent in his eyes as he thinks about a famous saying of his world, 'A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek the guidance of him who is master of himself!'