On my second playthrough, they were full of malice towards me.

The atmosphere reached its peak, and even the turbid space seemed to distort slightly, as if it could not withstand their pressure. At this moment, only one word remained in the minds of the two.

war!

Boom!

Liao Ji flapped his wings, moving so fast that it created sonic booms. The young man transformed into a fiery red meteor, instantly shooting straight towards Polika, who was suspended high in the sky.

Facing Liao Ji, who launched the first attack, Polika was equally formidable. She spread her arms, and dozens of tough tentacles behind her began to wriggle and gather in front of her chest, as if transforming into an indestructible wall of flesh and blood.

And so, the wall of flesh and blood formed by tentacles collided with Liao Ji's blade, officially beginning this fateful duel.

then.

It took less than a fraction of a second.

Even before Liao Ji's knife had actually struck Polika's body, the battle was forcibly ended. It was as if Liao Ji's knife had just sliced ​​through Polika's defenses like tofu.

"what!"

After a scream, the dark-skinned elf high in the sky lost her balance and plummeted downwards. The tentacles behind her, as if struck down, lost all strength and lay limp.

With a loud "thump!", Polica, already in a sorry state, tried to support herself with her hands, but failed several times. In the end, she could only lie on the ground with resentment, as if she no longer had the strength to move a finger.

After Liao Ji landed, she looked at the young man walking towards her and let out a resentful and unwilling sound from the black-skinned elf's mouth.

"Damn it, I underestimated you after all?"

Liao Ji: "."

No, I underestimated you.

Liao Ji really wanted to say that.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Do you think I'll beg for mercy?" Polica, lying on the ground, gritted her teeth and cast a resolute gaze at the young man opposite her with a strange expression.

"Stop dreaming, Ashes!"

"Kill me!"

Chapter 175 Tears of the Elf

Seeing the dark-skinned elf who had seemed so powerful just moments before, only to turn out to be a paper tiger, easily crushed and unable to get up after being touched, Liao Ji realized a problem.

"Polika, you wouldn't happen to have inherited Anno's body's attributes, would you?" the young man couldn't help but ask.

Liao Ji had discovered and verified this in the previous Turbid Space, but the reason he didn't think about it this time was because he believed that the dark-skinned elf would definitely try to solve the problem after discovering such a weakness. Given Turbid Space's ability to modify the physical body, Liao Ji thought it wouldn't be difficult for Polika to get rid of this legacy of Anno.

But from the current perspective

"How...how could that be! Who would like that kind of thing?!"

Before the dark-skinned elf, who seemed to have been exposed and immediately panicked, could finish speaking, Liao Ji directly stepped in to verify. He slashed at the elf's tentacles with his sword, and in response, Polika, who was lying on the ground, immediately let out a symbolic scream.

The dark-skinned elf seemed to be trying to prove to Liao Ji in this way that, as you can see, I only feel pain.

really?

Liao Ji then continued to slash several more times at the tentacles behind Polica.

All that could be heard was the dark-skinned elf at the front, still only letting out a scream of "Ah!" But by the fourth cut, that "Ah!" had turned into a soft "Ah!" And by the sixth cut, it was just a soft "Ah~" sound. And by the tenth cut...

"Ahhh!"

A flush rose on the elf's coffee-colored skin. After a scream and a shudder, he was completely powerless and collapsed to the ground.

Polica's eyes were tightly closed as she gasped for breath, and a few glistening remnants could still be seen at the corners of the elf's mouth.

Hey.

Seeing the dark-skinned elf like this, what could Liao Ji say? He sighed inwardly, feeling an indescribable sense of loss.

He had clearly prepared for this battle with such seriousness.

"So... you went through all this trouble to see me just to spar with me like this?"

"No, no!"

When Liao Ji angrily chopped off another tentacle, the dark-skinned elf couldn't even utter a word, his eyes rolling upwards.

Uh

Liao Ji hadn't expected this kind of plot development, but it wasn't something he hadn't seen before.

To be precise, I've seen quite a few.

They're all in 18+ doujinshi.

The problem is that the game I'm playing, "Falling," while not exactly full of positive energy, is still a perfectly healthy and legitimate game.

How come we're already on the second playthrough?

Liao Ji recalled Styutia, the Dragon Girl, and now Polika.

TM said it was a little hentai, and Liao Ji believed it!

Of course, Liao Ji had already guessed the logic of the dark-skinned elf. Because of Anno's characteristic, the more it is attacked, the more its attribute value will increase. Although it is only temporary, it is highly likely that Polica did not realize this and thought it was permanent, which is why the current situation has occurred.

Liao Ji naturally wouldn't expose this, and was happy to see it, as it conveniently made things easier for him to get to the important business ahead.

"What is that!?"

After returning from the afterglow, the dark-skinned elf closed his eyes and waited for a while, but Liao Ji made no further move. He couldn't help but open his eyes and saw that Liao Ji had taken out something that looked like a crystal bottle, which puzzled him greatly.

After that, Liao Ji naturally didn't explain. He went directly behind the black-skinned elf, and when he got his hand close to the tentacles, this time he didn't use a slash, but instead...

"optimization."

After Liao Ji whispered two words, the Holy Armor of Healing on his body suddenly radiated a divine light. This radiant power flowed through Liao Ji's hand and reached the location of the target being optimized.

The tentacles behind the dark-skinned elves.

"What do you want to do!" When she felt the tentacles enveloping her in holy light, Polica was initially quite excited, but then she realized something was wrong.

Because these holy lights were surprisingly gentle. Instead of the ashes punishing her with holy light as she had imagined, they were actually transforming her with holy light.

"No! No! Take that filthy thing away!!!" Only then did Polica completely panic, realizing that the situation was spiraling out of control.

To her, Sthija's holy light was filth, and now that filth was being fed into her body by the ashes was something Polica could never accept.

However, because she had enjoyed herself too much, she was still limp and had very little strength. Polica couldn't even resist and could only watch helplessly as her turbid tentacles began to get shorter and smaller under the optimization of the holy light of the ashes.

"Stop! Stop now! I'm telling you! I'll tell you the truth: it's a succubus! The nun's corruption is all because of that succubus! Enough! Stop!"

"Sorry, I already found out about that a long time ago. I just need to take one thing from you."

With a cold expression, Liao Ji completely ignored the black-skinned elf's wails. Instead, under his holy light optimization, all the tentacles retracted, and in their place grew a pair of radiant and holy wings from Polika's back.

As the pair of noble and dreamy butterfly wings belonging to the elves emerged, Polika's skin tone began to rapidly change from brown to light white.

In the eyes of humans, this is purification, a great thing. But in Polika's eyes, it's like a demon being transformed into an angel. She struggles frantically, feeling the greatest humiliation. But she is helpless and can only watch everything happen.

After the optimization was complete, Liao Ji focused his attention on the butterfly wings on the elf's back, now that the elf had transformed back into its "Anno" form.

Lena told herself that the elves' so-called "magic" actually came from the wings on their backs, which contained magical circuits.

All you need to do is reach into the feathers of these iridescent wings, find the magic circuit, and then rub that piece of feather continuously.

Polica bit her lip hard, but in reality, her heart was already in complete disarray.

It's clearly an evil spirit, but why did it react so badly the first time?

Oh no! I'm going to turn into an elf! No! Her heart ached. She didn't want to become an elf, but why did touching her wings make her so horrified?

Ugh, how could she be defeated by Ashes like this?

but

My body and soul are both defeated! Ughhhh!

The magic circuits stored in the elven wings could no longer withstand the pressure and erupted with powerful magic. This surging magic was quickly absorbed by the crystal bottle that Liao Ji had prepared in advance. In the end, the mist condensed inside the bottle into solid, sparkling droplets that, upon closer inspection, seemed to shimmer with iridescent light, like teardrops.

Elf Tears

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Chapter 176 Changing Skins

After successfully obtaining the "Tears of the Elf" from Polica, when Liao Ji was about to search for the succubus again through the Dream, this time Lena was not in her true form. Instead, she used a pre-prepared afterimage to leave him with the half-finished patch that looked like some kind of plant seed in the Dream, and told him how to make the complete patch.

The method is very simple, just like cultivating a seed. You just need to drop the Elf's Tear on it. After Liao Ji did so, the crystal clear water droplets were quickly absorbed by the seed. Fortunately, it didn't sprout or anything like Liao Ji had imagined, which would have been too absurd. It just grew larger and its shape changed from the original "seed" to something like a "capsule".

【Zero Patch (Power Up Version)】

[Effect: Repairs mechanical malfunction]

(Note: Oral administration is recommended.)

Still a little uneasy, Liao Ji brought up the item panel. Everything else in the description was the same, except for the addition of "enhanced version" and the last suggestion of "oral administration".

Although the suggestion was a bit strange, after confirming that it would work, Liao Ji quickly and carefully put the patch into his backpack.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that although the Dream is a virtual space, the patch that Lena gave him could be brought from the Dream into reality, which is enough to show that it is special and not as simple as it appears.

Having prepared the most crucial items, in order to avoid a "nuclear peace" ending, Liao Ji now needs to apply this repair patch to Zero before the "observation objects" that Zero has deployed around the world over the past five hundred years awaken and go berserk.

After spending another night sleeping in the same bed with Jiu You and Si Xiutiya, Liao Ji finally comforted them with his hands and words, and told Si Xiutiya that she should take this time to heal the dragon girl's injuries.

Although they couldn't go to the Mechanical Alliance "offline" with him, they could reunite with him "online" once he found a way to cover the Dragon Kingdom with the Dream Network.

Then, I'll bring two max-level accounts that have "logged in from different locations" back to find Zero in the Dream World. Even if Zero resists, I can force her to take the capsule patch.

After the initial general plan was set, Liao Ji quickly found Caroline, Lena's personal secretary, the next day.

It must be said that because he had previously glimpsed Caroline's dream, Liao Ji felt a little awkward when he saw this secretary with a golden ponytail, wearing quiet glasses, and exuding professionalism and competence.

Of course, Liao Ji quickly put all of this aside. After explaining the situation to Caroline, Caroline must have received a message from Reina, so she quickly made arrangements for Liao Ji.

In less than a morning, everything was ready.

"Lord Liao Ji, these are your professorship credentials, your Special Academician badge, and your laboratory registration information from the 'Shanghai University - School of Ancient Studies'."