Getting a Technology System in Modern Day

Chapter 877  Dreznor II

For hours, Dreznor spoke, recounting every memory that surfaced. His voice wavered at times, thick with emotion, but he pressed on. He told Little Protagonist about his past, the life he once had, and the chains that had bound him ever since he was fifteen.

His civilization had lost a brutal war against a neighboring power, and the terms of surrender had been merciless. Anyone who had played a role in the war—whether as a soldier, a medic, a logistics officer, or even a mere clerk in the government—was stripped of their freedom. Families of these individuals were not spared either. Some were forced into indentured servitude, while others, like Dreznor and his mother, were outright sold as slaves. His father, being a valiant General who had fought to the very end and perished on the battlefield, sealed their fate. Yet fortune intervened, as Dreznor and his mother found themselves purchased together by a single owner.

For thirty years, Dreznor had known nothing but servitude. He had grown accustomed to the weight of chains, to the reality that his existence belonged to another. Then, one day, his path intertwined with hers, his wife, a woman whose fate had been just as cruelly dictated by war. She, too, was the daughter of a fallen soldier and had been purchased by the same master who owned Dreznor. Their shared suffering forged a deep connection, and despite the bleakness of their circumstances, they found love in the darkness. From that love, their son, Lirien, was born, a small glimmer of hope in a life that had offered them so little.

As he spoke of his wife and child, his voice faltered, his grief raw and unfiltered. The pain was almost unbearable, but he forced himself to continue.

By law, the children of slaves were not supposed to inherit their parents' status, and Dreznor had clung to that hope for his son’s future. He had dreamed of the day his child would walk free, unburdened by the chains that had weighed him down for decades. But the reality was far crueler. Slave owners often ignored the rules, exploiting loopholes or outright forging documents to keep the next generation in servitude.