Super Righteous Player
Chapter 498 - 39 Dorin and Her Teacher_1

Chapter 498: Chapter 39 Dorin and Her Teacher_1

Dorin hugged her knees and squatted fearfully in the corner of the room.

The Frost Beast she had brought was crouching in front of her, staring intently at her.

It had eaten its fill—at least it wouldn’t attack others out of hunger within the next two days.

As a mind thief, Dorin was very clear about this.

But her fear wasn’t because the Frost Beast was watching her...

It was because of his Excellency "Giralda."

—How could a merchant from Noah have the technique to instantly tame a Frost Beast?

And how could Dorin, a werewolf who wanders from place to place, subdue a tamed Frost Beast?

If she had a tame Frost Beast, the selling price alone would be enough for her to live happily for more than a decade, indulging in food, drink, and pleasures... So why would she need to use "The Charlatan and the Missionary" to lure passersby and risk stealing their minds?

Her Frost Beast had never been tamed.

It was simply because Dorin had taken it "to eat a few meals," and when it wasn’t particularly hungry, it wouldn’t consider her as a priority target to attack.

The relationship between her and the Frost Beast was more appropriately and properly described as a "collaboration."

Yet, this Frost Beast was instantly tamed in the presence of His Excellency "Giralda"...

Without a doubt.

This "Giralda" must possess the Blood of the Frigid Winter!

Even if he disguised himself as a wealthy merchant from Noah, he couldn’t hide this power. If any ordinary Transcendent could tame Frost Beasts, then they wouldn’t be a scourge.

One who could tame Frost Beasts must be, if not Duke Ivan, someone definitely within two generations of Duke Ivan’s bloodline... That, without a doubt, would make him a personage of great importance.

If she had lived her life as originally intended, Dorin would never have encountered such a personage.

But why... did "Giralda" choose to hide his identity and return to Winter after making a detour from Noah?

Dorin didn’t dare guess or ask.

All she could do was blame her teacher for everything.

She always felt as though she had inadvertently become involved in some conspiracy pertaining to the highest echelons of the duchy...

Merely being glanced at by Lord Giralda made Dorin so nervous that her back stiffened and her palms wouldn’t stop sweating.

Now she desperately wanted to run away, just waiting for the words "you may leave now," yet she didn’t dare escape on her own.

Fearing that it would reveal she had guessed Giralda’s true identity.

She wouldn’t have any undue curiosity, nor would she inquire about any matters.

Dorin was very clear—

The less you know, the safer you are.

Moreover...

"... I’m just a werewolf, after all."

She buried her head in her knees, muttering softly.

Werewolves were not well-regarded by the people of Winter. Only the dwarves, also fond of ale, strong in labor, and not particularly carnivorous, could get along with the Winterfolk in the resource-deprived duchy of Winter... On nights close to a full moon, the occasional berserk episodes and loss of reason made the werewolves untrustworthy to the public.

It could even be said that werewolves are subject to discrimination by other races.

Of course, werewolves were also citizens of the Winter duchy. Within the Winter duchy, minors, disabled people or those with serious illnesses, or those who worked in exchange for compensation for more than a month, are protected by law.

But adults who are healthy and without calamity and do not work are not protected by the laws of Winter duchy.

The problem is... unless they are exceptionally capable, werewolves can hardly find jobs.

And at the same time, there is such a law in the Winter duchy:

——Killing a berserk werewolf is not considered a homicide, and is treated as a non-offence.

There is inherently nothing problematic with this law.

Once a werewolf goes berserk, it will attack others just like a Frost Beast——werewolves prioritize attacking the young of other races, followed by the adults of other races, then their own young, and finally, other werewolves. Other than their own immediate blood relatives, a werewolf might attack anything.

The goal isn’t to consume, but merely to bite to death. Thus, it’s an attack with a rather high efficiency in killing.

Even a werewolf without transcendent abilities can potentially defeat a bronze-tier combat transcendent after going berserk.

According to scholars’ studies, this seems to be a racial ability that werewolves acquired in ancient times to compete for resources and living space with other races. Adult female werewolves, after the breastfeeding period, and young male werewolves during a certain period in spring, are particularly prone to enter a berserk state.

For self-protection, there is no holding back when dealing with a mad werewolf.

So, to ensure the safety of other races, this law is very necessary.

But the problem lies in the fact... that werewolves do not necessarily go berserk on the night of the full moon.

Some werewolves might not go berserk for years, while others might do so twice a month. A werewolf gone mad, unable to speak or drink water, is in no other way different from its usual self.

To prove that a certain werewolf that was killed had not gone berserk is, in turn, more difficult than proving innocence.

This peculiar racial habit also makes many villages reluctant to accept werewolves——especially underage male werewolves, who can only live outside the small enchantments, in caves... forming werewolf tribes.

As for female werewolves, they are relatively safe and can stay inside the small enchantments when not pregnant. But once they conceive, they would also be driven out of their dwellings——after the breastfeeding period, a mother werewolf would nearly go berserk once to twice a month, a state that continues until the child reaches six or seven years of age and is able to hunt independently.

Werewolves have a short lifespan, averaging only thirty to forty years. A six-year-old werewolf already has the physique of a human teenager, sixteen or seventeen years old.

Ideally, Dorin, as a female werewolf, could live within the boundary as long as she remained unmarried... learning a skill, getting a job as a factory girl, or saving some money to attend an adult university wouldn’t be particularly difficult.

But the problem lies in the fact... that Dorin’s mother had once gone berserk in the village.

Her mother had a good nature and thus had earned the trust of the people in the village, even being able to marry a human and have children——yes, Dorin was actually a half-werewolf.

Yet no matter how good one’s nature, it can’t resist the racial instinct.

Dorin’s mother still went berserk twice.

Fortunately, Dorin’s father was a Transcendent, and moreover, an idol Wizard graduated from the Frigid Wight Tower.

He had each time swiftly suppressed Dorin’s mother——

Afterward, until Dorin reached the age of five, she did not go berserk again. Her father also gradually relaxed his vigilance.

——Until a foreign woman carrying a child knocked on their door at night, asking for directions.

By the time Dorin’s father awoke, she had already bitten the child to death and was close to doing the same to the child’s mother.

Dorin’s father hesitated for a long time.

In the end, after the suppression, he decided to help Dorin’s mother clean up the traces and hide the body.

There should have been no problem.

But the next day, as little Dorin played in the yard, she accidentally unearthed the yet-to-be-disposed body...

Considering the victim was not a villager, Dorin’s mother was not killed or reported by the villagers. However, having killed someone, the villagers could not accept living with her—her entire family was driven out.

Later, for some reason, her father’s illegal use of spells to hide others’ crimes was exposed.

Both Dorin’s father and mother were apprehended by Winter’s Hand——Dorin’s mother was to be incarcerated for twenty years, while her father was sentenced to solitary confinement labor for three years.

Dorin was left all alone.

Unlike other werewolves, her childhood had been too happy, so much so that she didn’t even possess those "survival skills"——such as theft or robbery.

After that, she met her "teacher".

The one who specialized in raising werewolf orphans, turning them into phantom thieves, mind burglars, spies, assassins...

The "Wolf Professor" Frederick Wolfheart.