The Heartbeat of the Cruel Elves

Before Li Yin could think about it, he saw the shorter of the two figures, Myrcella, falling backwards at a very fast speed. In the blink of an eye, she fell to the ground with a thud. Even though he was outside, he could hear the heavy sound of the body hitting the ground clearly.

At first, he thought that something had gone wrong with the ritual, that the magic had failed, and that Myrcella had met with an unexpected disaster. But then, Cassia's figure also lowered. However, unlike Myrcella just now, her figure was not completely on the ground, and there was no sound of someone falling in the room again. Although her figure was half a head shorter, it still maintained a vertical angle with the ground, and it looked more like she was squatting or sitting down.

Then, just as Li Yin was in doubt, a faint panting sound suddenly came from behind the curtain, and the frequency of the panting increased rapidly as time passed. Li Yin was very familiar with the owner of the panting sound - it was Myrcella, and the texture of the rapid panting was also... very familiar. After a while, as the figure in the center of the curtain swayed, another subtle and low panting sound also joined this rhythm, turning the solo into a symphony of mutual interest.

Soon, the name of the Spider Goddess was accompanied by a series of humming sounds, which spread violently in the room. Li Yin looked at the two overlapping and swaying female bodies through the veil, raised his hand, and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Is this the secret technique of the Spider Goddess?" he thought in surprise.

About half an hour later, Cassia opened the curtain and walked out of the prayer room contentedly. Her pretty short hair was a little messy, her red cheeks and forehead were sweaty, and she was only wearing a loose white silk robe, and her shoulders, elbows, chest and other parts were slightly transparent due to the sweat.

Li Yin tactfully rushed over and handed her a glass of water. After she finished drinking, he asked with concern, "Did you succeed?"

Cassia raised her eyebrows slightly and said jokingly, "You care so much about the life and death of your little lover?"

Li Yin gritted his teeth. He and Myrcella were not lovers, but he could not tell Cassia the details, so he paused for a moment and said, "I am just concerned about Your Highness. After all, from the moment she swore allegiance to you, she has been your property. If the ceremony fails, it will be your loss, Your Highness."

Cassia gave him a sidelong glance but didn't continue arguing with him. She was still beaming with joy, as if she agreed with what he said.

"The ritual did not fail," she said with a relaxed look.

Then, her casual tone turned into a majestic command, and she shouted:

"Come out!"

With her command, the curtain was lifted again, and the naked Myrcella walked out with her arms folded across her chest, and stood trembling in front of them.

In an instant, Li Yin's entire attention was drawn to her.

It wasn't because of Myrcella's body itself - he had seen this scene before, and in this situation, it was not worth being particularly surprised. What attracted all his attention was Myrcella's slightly bulging belly below her muscular waist. There, on the originally white and smooth skin, a complex and gorgeous dark purple pattern suddenly appeared. The huge pattern almost covered her entire belly, and the hideous and twisted outline resembled an octopus spider, but the rich details inside made it look like a charming flower with layers of petals blooming.

After a while, Li Yin slowly came back to his senses from the shock and subconsciously looked at Cassia beside him, with a layer of confusion on his face. There was no doubt that she was the culprit of the strange pattern.

At this moment, Li Yin noticed that, as if sensing his gaze, a cunning look suddenly flashed across Cassia's face. She stretched out her right hand, and spread out her long, white fingers. On Myrcella's white belly, the dark purple pattern suddenly glowed. At the same time, an uncontrollable groan escaped from the corner of her tightly closed mouth. She trembled all over and fell to the ground.

Li Yin was worried that she might get hurt, so he instinctively went forward to help her, but Cassia held his shoulders.

"This is just one of the many wonderful uses of that ritual magic." Cassia bowed her head slightly, put her face close to Li Yin's ear, raised the corner of her mouth mischievously, and whispered, "How is it? Is it useful?"

Li Yin's cheeks flushed. He glanced at Myrcella, who was lying on the ground, struggling, with lustful eyes and a look of pain, and then calmed himself down and said carefully, "Your Highness, why bother? Didn't you just... have a good time?"

"What are you talking about?" Cassia leaned her slender body on his shoulder and laughed, "This is not entertainment, but a little punishment."

"I can't just let this bold servant who doesn't follow the rules and secretly eats the master's 'stuff' go so easily, can I?"

"As a punishment for your greed and stealing food," she walked lightly behind Li Yin and put her hands on his shoulders. Her scarlet eyes looked over Li Yin's shoulder and looked at Myrcella who was a few meters away. "I will let you experience the feeling of having 'food' right in front of you, being hungry and thirsty, but always out of reach."

Myrcella looked at the two of them with difficulty. Before Li Yin had time to figure out the meaning of her complicated eyes, her gaze and her expression were distorted in an instant, accompanied by a long and high-pitched moan, under the impact of another intense and powerful emotion.

Li Yin's mouth twitched slightly, and he did not comment on Cassia's bad taste.

However, Cassia's soft hands gently roamed over his shoulders, and in the next moment, she said something that shocked him:

"Okay, now that the matter with this little bitch is over, now it's our turn."

"us?"

A faint fragrance filled his face, and Cassia bit his cheek lightly.

"You just made a mistake."

"When did I ever say I had enough fun?"

Upon hearing this, Li Yin tensed up and subconsciously waited for her next move.

However, at this moment, he felt his shoulders relax and the figure behind him floated away.

He turned around and found that Cassia had walked briskly to the table beside him, opened the drawer, and pulled out a slender object.

"Snap!" She grabbed both ends of the thing and pulled it hard, and the lacquered red leather whip suddenly made a crisp sound.

Li Yin suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

Looking at Cassia's obviously raised mouth corners, her scarlet eyes with slightly shrunken pupils, and the lacquered red leather whip tightly between her hands, he shuddered and subconsciously stepped back.

"Your Highness, what are you doing?" He still couldn't believe it. After all, this scene had never happened before between the two of them, so he asked without giving up.

"Oh, are you talking about this?" Cassia lowered her eyes, relaxed her hands holding the whip slightly, and then tightened them again, causing a chilling crisp sound in the air again.

"This is a new gadget shared with me by my sisters in the Spider Academy." She looked at the whip in her hand and smiled leisurely.

"I'm going to use it to teach you a whole new lesson."

"You haven't tried it yet, have you?" She looked at Myrcella, then at Rein. Myrcella shook her red, painful face vigorously.

"That's good," Cassia nodded, "As a master, you can't lose to your servant. This is a very shameful thing."

Li Yin was quite surprised and confused, and murmured: "Lose?"

"Your Highness..." At the same time, Myrcella squeezed out a confused call amidst her painful groans.

"What? Are you still pretending to be stupid?" Cassia turned her head and looked at Myrcella with a sneer on her lips.

"Myrcella, besides being stupid, you have a bigger flaw, which is greed."

"Maybe if you just use Li Yin to get close to me, you won't expose yourself so easily."

"You know, apart from the abnormality of Turner's death itself, are there any other obvious clues in your case?"

Myrcella, who was groaning and struggling on the ground, looked more and more painful and confused.

"I think," Cassia said slowly, "any master, after discovering that her innocent, timid little slave has mastered many new tricks that she has never seen or heard of in just a few days in a certain place, will be curious about what happened to him there."

"Although I have to admit that the skills you taught him really pleased me greatly, as the master, how could I lose to others in such matters?"

"So," she turned to Li Yin and said with a smile, "I sought help from the sisters in the Spider Academy, and under their guidance, I urgently added this course."

"They assured me that this course would be something you would remember forever, something that would surpass all 'ordinary' techniques." When she mentioned the word 'ordinary', she raised her eyebrows slightly and glanced at Myrcella.

"I..." Li Yin's voice trembled. Looking at the other party's excited face, he unconsciously took a few steps back, "Can I refuse?" He looked at Cassia weakly.

Cassia's face darkened, her eyes dimmed, "What do you think?"

However, in the blink of an eye, she put away her serious expression, pulled the whip with both hands, walked quickly towards Li Yin, and said in a clear voice:

"Be grateful, my lovely little slave, be grateful for your master's selfless and hard work for you, and be grateful for her careful pampering of you."

Her snow-white cheeks were smiling like flowers, her scarlet eyes were shining, and suddenly a look of both distress and helplessness appeared on her face:

"But there's nothing I can do about it. You're my most beloved little one."

Chapter 1 The Beggar and the Princess ()

On Blackthorn Street, the Borginia family marched in a line. Cassia was at the head of the team, and to her left was Rein, slightly behind her, and to her right was Myrcella, who had recently "sworn allegiance" to her, and behind them was a team of personal warriors.

Li Yin held the reins tightly and carefully controlled the huge giant lizard under his crotch, making it try to follow the overall rhythm of the team and not make any abrupt movements.

It was not long since he had started riding this unique mount of the dark elves. Although he had extensive experience riding horses in the earthly world, it was clear that horses and lizards were not the same. In particular, Li Yin had an innate fear of this cold-blooded reptile covered with scales, with cold skin and strange shapes. When the size of this creature was magnified geometrically compared to its counterparts in the earthly world, Li Yin's fear was also magnified by the same multiple.

As for why he had to ride this mount, it was related to Cassia's recent activities. These days, he began to go out frequently - of course, with Cassia. Because the latter organized an expedition team and was actively participating in the expedition mission issued by the city of Nevvell.

These expedition missions - according to Turner's memories absorbed by Rein, are similar to bounty missions on the ground world. They are mainly accepted by the middle and lower-level warriors among the dark elves, especially the civilian warriors with weak family power. They rely on earning bounties to survive. But slightly different from the ground world, although it is not necessary from the perspective of economic conditions, the nobles among the dark elves, especially the young nobles, also have the tradition of expeditions. They regard it as a way to hone their skills and enhance their understanding of the cruel and dark underground world. At the same time, if there is any unexpected rich harvest during the expedition, it will also help to improve their reputation and status in the family.

In addition, if a dark elf proves herself to be a qualified explorer in the generally less difficult missions issued by the city, then she will have a better chance of being assigned by the family to undertake special missions that are more secretive, more dangerous, and of course, more rewarding. However, based on Turner's memory and Rein's own conversations with Myrcella, in some cases, these important missions issued through internal family channels may also be a dangerous trap. The young nobles, filled with a passionate desire for power and status, accept the missions, set out ambitiously, and then never return, and there is one less strong competitor on the road to the pinnacle of family power.

However, that was not what Li Yin should consider. There was only one thing he could do, which was to watch Cassia accept the mission and complete it with her. If one day he, or rather Cassia, "won the jackpot", he shuddered. He did not expect to survive, but only hoped that he could die quickly and without pain.

After all, the dark elves themselves were cruel and evil enough, and Li Yin simply couldn't even imagine what the traps designed to trap them would look like...

"For a beginner," a voice suddenly interrupted his thoughts. Myrcella turned sideways from the saddle of another giant lizard and said to him with a smile, "Your skills are pretty good."

"Thank you," Li Yin responded politely, somewhat embarrassedly.

Misella also taught him how to ride a giant lizard. In this case, she once again demonstrated her expertise as an instructor. However, what made Li Yin a little flustered was not her judgmental tone, but her gaze.

The female dark elf's blazing scarlet eyes were looking at him with great interest.

Strangely enough, after Cassia used ritual magic to sign a soul contract with her, Li was afraid of the power of the mysterious magic and did not use charm on Myrcella again, fearing that the conflict between the two spells would alert Cassia. But despite this, Myrcella's attitude towards him did not return to her previous level of domineering and overbearing. Instead, she was still quite intimate and gentle to him.

Li Yin didn't know the specific reason. Maybe it was to please Princess Cassia, or maybe he had helped her plead for mercy and moved her? In any case, Myrcella had a very strong "interest" in him. After the two of them got along well, this desire became more intense and intense due to the intimacy, almost to the point of being abnormal. Although Li Yin, who had the inexhaustible physical strength of an undead creature, could handle it physically, psychologically, this kind of constant demands and hints made him a little overwhelmed.

Fortunately, in public, with Cassia beside him, she just looked at him with eyes as if a big bad wolf saw a lone little white sheep, and did not dare to pounce on him like a big bad wolf.

"Do you know which family the group of people in front belong to?" Li Yin asked casually to divert her attention.

Mircella turned her head and looked straight ahead, her chin tilted and her gaze slightly raised.

"The Dinitya family." She said in a clear tone. At the same time, the frivolous and playful expression on her face disappeared, and became stern and respectful.

When Li Yin heard this, his heart tightened slightly.

The Denitia family is the second largest family in Nevre after the Vie family. It is a family that is many times more noble and powerful than the Borgia family he is currently in.

During the days in the Borgia family, he had personally experienced the power of the seventh family in Nevre. And the strength of the Denitia family, the second family in Nevre, was...

"Get out!" A loud shout suddenly rang out.

The marching team suddenly stopped, and Li Yin hurriedly pulled the reins to prevent his mount from crossing the line.

Then he looked forward, because the reason why the team stopped moving was that the Dinitya family in front also suddenly stopped, and the loud shout came from their team.

"Don't you understand the Elvish language, trash?" Another irritable scold came from the Dinitya family's team.

At the same time, Li Yin's ears keenly caught a subtle sound of metal breaking through the air, and a series of glittering objects flew out from the Dinitya family's team and shot towards the side of Blackthorn Street.

The sound of ding ding ding came continuously, and a row of three or five silver coins were inserted into the hard rock ground.

An inch in front of the silver coin, a ragged dark elf beggar with only half of his arms left shuddered and let out a trembling scream, obviously frightened.

The next moment, he suddenly realized what was stuck in the ground, and a hint of joy suddenly emerged from his fear. He raised his head and carefully looked in the direction of the Dinitya family team, then pulled his knees back and bent down without hesitation.

At first, Li Yin thought that he was going to kowtow to ask for forgiveness or to express gratitude. Then, when he saw the beggar's neck stretching and shrinking and his head pecking at the ground, he realized that the disabled beggar was using his mouth to pick up the silver coins stuck in the ground.

Chapter 2 The Beggar and the Princess ()

"Filthy beasts," a cold snort followed by a slightly calmer, but still contemptuous and disgusted voice floated out from the Dinitya family convoy again, "It's disgusting just to look at you, take the money and get out of my sight."

The disabled dark elf beggar ignored the insults coming from the caravan. He just opened his mouth and used his two broken teeth to bite the remaining coins on the ground.

"Haha," another female voice came from the Dinitya family's convoy, "Princess, look at what this guy looks like now. Doesn't he look like a dog lying on the ground chewing shit?"

"What's so good about dogs?" the previous voice replied unhappily, "What do those people in charge of municipal affairs in Nevre do for a living? Stray dogs like these should be cleared out of the city as soon as possible. Is our city just a garbage dump, specially used to hold these maggot-like debris?"

"You are right, Princess." The laughing voice in front immediately became serious.

Then, Li Yin saw a female dark elf riding a giant lizard break out from the ranks of the Dinitya family and walk towards the beggar on the side of the road.

As she walked, she pulled out the long whip from her waist.

"Snap!" The pitch-black whip tore through the air with a loud bang, and bit towards the beggar crawling on the ground like a poisonous snake.

The crippled dark elf beggar shuddered in response. In the severe pain, he couldn't help but open his mouth and let out a scream. At the same time, all the silver coins that were previously in his mouth fell back to the ground, making a tinkling sound.

However, despite being beaten suddenly, the beggar did not argue or resist. He did not even look at the person who beat him. He just saw the silver coin slipping out of his mouth. He looked very anxious, and without thinking, he endured the pain, bent down, and put his mouth back to the ground.

However, just as he was about to get a silver coin again, there was another loud bang, and the dark elf warrior's snake-like whip hit him hard again.

The dark elf beggar couldn't help but scream in pain again, and the silver coin he had just held slipped out of his mouth again.

"Sir, please spare my life..." This time, he finally diverted his attention from the silver coins on the ground and turned to look at the female warrior who was whipping him tremblingly, begging pitifully.

The dark elf warrior sat high on the giant lizard's saddle, curled her lips slightly, and sneered, "Keep picking up, why don't you pick up anymore?"

The dazed beggar took her ridicule and threats as permission, and a hint of joy appeared on his haggard, thin, dirty and wrinkled face, and he leaned down hastily.

"Snap!" Another whip cracked, accompanied by the dark elf beggar's scream again.

"Sir..." the dark elf beggar called out in pain.

"Bang!" Another explosion sounded.

Amid the wailing, the dark elf beggar seemed to realize that no matter how he begged for mercy, it was useless. So he simply gave up begging and fell to the ground like he did at the beginning, concentrating on chewing the scattered coins on the ground again.

However, time and time again, just like before, his body trembled and wailed under the beating of the dark elf female warrior, and the coins he had just put into his mouth fell into the air again and again.

Li Yin saw this and couldn't help but tense his cheeks and frowned slightly.

"Haha," the dark elf warrior turned around with a wild laugh amid the cracking of the whip and the beggar's screams, looking in the direction of the family convoy, and said in a tone of flattery, "Princess, look at this guy, he really is like a dog, no matter how you hit him, he doesn't know how to fight back, all he cares about is those few coins, just like a dog that only knows how to eat shit."

There was a burst of laughter in the Dinitya family's team. The laughter gradually faded away, and the voice at the beginning was heard again, cold and crisp, and seemed a little impatient:

"That's enough, let him pick up the money and get out of here."

The voice paused and said, "These stray dogs are disgusting to look at, and it's also annoying to hear them barking non-stop."