The Heartbeat of the Cruel Elves

"To be fair," Li Yin touched his nose, "I still think her knife-flying skills are amazing."

Myrcella looked at him in surprise, a provocative look appearing on her cold and pretty face.

Li Yin hastily added: "However, considering her identity and status, I have to agree with your opinion, Archbishop Mircella. This seems to be a very unwise behavior."

"Right," Myrcella glared at him before nodding.

"So I'm saying that her flying knife skills are nothing more than trifles in front of our princess. There shouldn't be any problem, right?"

"After all, how can an uneducated and unlearned dude compare to the priest of the noble Spider Queen?"

"——Not even close." She concluded bluntly and without hesitation.

Li Yin nodded repeatedly, agreeing with her idea in his heart.

Objectively speaking, how could a dark elf abandon the glorious mission of being a priestess of the Spider Queen to become an ordinary warrior, a profession that only commoners would choose? This was like throwing away gold bricks to pick up stones. Li Yin really couldn't figure out the thoughts of this strange female elf.

Myrcella was still muttering to herself about this unique princess.

Li Yin was curious and nodded in agreement from time to time.

but--

Suddenly, his eyes slightly opened and his drooping head froze.

A thought flashed through his mind like lightning.

Wait!

He raised his eyes and looked at Du Feiya who was sitting leisurely in the distance with great excitement.

This is a princess who does not know divine arts. In other words, she is not a priestess, and she is also a princess of a powerful second family...

He suddenly realized something and his heart began to pound.

If, if he could use his charm to subdue the princess, wouldn't that mean that he would have one more safeguard in this dangerous city? And it would be a very strong safeguard!

Failure? The thought just came to Li Yin's mind and he wiped it out. His charm spell could even affect the genuine Spider Queen Priest Cassia, not to mention this "ordinary" dark elf. Charming her should be as easy as charming Myrcella and Turner.

Thinking of this, Li Yin could no longer suppress his excitement. He secretly gathered his strength and once again cast his gaze towards Du Feiya, observing his target carefully.

In the distance, the princess of the Denitya family just took a sip of wine, pursed her lips, placed the glass back on the table, held the handle of the glass in one hand, turned her head, and talked to a female companion with a dimpled smile.

As his mind focused, a familiar tide of energy began to emerge in his mind. Li Yin guided the power to converge towards his pupils, and focused his sight on Du Feiya's slightly swaying figure as she laughed and talked.

"But her good days are coming to an end." On the side, Myrcella was still whispering about the princess of the Denitya family. Her deliberately low voice became increasingly vague under Li Yin's concentration, and was just barely audible, and Li Yin almost ignored it.

But he didn't completely ignore it after all, so he asked casually: "Good days? The end?"

Myrcella nodded, "Because her support is about to be gone."

"backing?"

"Aren't you curious?" Myrcella's voice was filled with laughter. "She is a princess. Even if she herself is unwilling to serve the Spider Queen, her family will not allow her to continue such a rebellious and blasphemous behavior."

"Indeed." Li Yin nodded, and devoted a little energy to the conversation with Myrcella, because this was indeed a topic he was quite interested in. What Myrcella just said was also the doubt he had not had time to express before: Why would Denitia, as the second family of Nevvell, allow a member of his family to give up the way of serving the gods and become an ordinary warrior?

"So, who is her backer?"

"It's her father," Myrcella's voice was filled with a rare seriousness, even revealing a hint of awe. Li Yin suddenly realized that it was unique for Myrcella to use such a tone on a man. "Lucien Denitia, Nevre's chief swordsman - and chief wizard. But..."

Chief... Archmage?

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"——Puff," a breath could not be blocked and gushed out from his throat. At the same time, his feet became weak and his body staggered. The wine glass in his hand tilted forward, and the wine in the glass shook and flew out, splashing on the head of Myrcella who was sitting beside him. Myrcella immediately let out an angry scream. However, Li Yin did not pay attention to her immediately. His sight continued to move to the right in the direction of Myrcella, and after contacting the next target, his face suddenly became ashen.

The splashing wine not only splashed Myrcella, but also Cassia beside her! The princess of Borgia looked up in surprise, her eyes slightly startled, and looked at him with confusion in her bright eyes. The red wine poured down from her head, soaking her light and neat short silver hair. Lines of red flowed along her wet hair, crawling over her snow-white cheeks, chin, neck, and then the collar of her shirt and the silver-white chain mail.

"Your Highness," Li Yin was at a loss and spoke with his mouth open.

He hurriedly took out a handkerchief, rushed over to her, and wiped her hair. However, as he wiped it hastily, Cassia's already wet hair instantly turned into a mess.

Chapter 2: The Unlearned Princess ()

Seeing this, Li Yin became increasingly flustered. He immediately decided to let go of this difficult part and start with the easier part, so he quickly brushed his handkerchief across Cassia's snow-white, stiff cheeks, neck, shirt collar, and then the mithril chainmail. He held the handkerchief and wiped it across the chest of her mithril chainmail, while muttering to himself, fortunately it was a relatively smooth armor, easier to take care of, so a slight wipe should be enough?

At this moment, an angry shout suddenly came from the side.

"Bastard!" A female warrior who followed Cassia pushed him away. After a period of continuous astonishment, she really could not tolerate this lowly slave doing whatever he wanted to her mistress, especially in such public.

She turned around, took out a handkerchief from the gap in her leather armor, and carefully and gently wiped it on Cassia's body, while apologizing softly, "Princess, please forgive me." It was as if it was she, not Rein, who spilled the wine on Cassia.

"It's okay." Cassia, who had recovered from her shock, was quite calm.

She turned her head, looking past the servant's elbow who was wiping her hand, and looked at Li Yin, her eyebrows slightly frowned, but she didn't get angry: "What are you doing?"

"I, I..." Li Yin was speechless and couldn't speak.

He couldn't say it was because of that little bitch Myrcella - wait, he shouldn't curse like that, he shouldn't be infected by them, Li Yin suppressed his anger and corrected his thoughts in his mind - in short, he couldn't say that she was hiding the truth and caused him to almost make a big mistake, right?

Wait...almost?

No difference!

Deep in his soul, he felt a sense of relief after the pent-up energy was released. Although it was quite comfortable, it gave Li Yin a chill in his heart.

In the panic just now, it was not only his body that lost control - but also his mind! He lost his balance, his mind trembled, and the charm that was full of spiritual energy and ready to be released was leaked out involuntarily!

He looked up in shock and looked into the distance. Dufiya Dinitya's lavender eyes were looking at him with interest without blinking.

When their eyes met, the female dark elf's mouth corners slightly raised, and a meaningful smile appeared on her snow-white jaw.

Li Yin's heart exploded like thunder.

Discovered? This thought flashed through his mind.

A slave who could cast spells, and a slave who attempted to use spells to influence the dark elf nobles - if such facts were to be exposed, Li Yin himself would not dare to imagine what would become of him.

"Slave!" A familiar voice interrupted his thoughts with an unusually sharp tone.

Li Yin came back to his senses and saw Myrcella wiping her cheek while shouting at him with a hint of anger in her eyes, "Her Highness the Princess is asking you a question, why are you standing there?"

"I...I..." The situation was complicated and Li Yin was extremely anxious. If he handled either side improperly, he would be in big trouble.

"I didn't get enough rest last night. I just... fell asleep." After hesitating for a while, he gave a very funny answer, and then pleaded in fear and trepidation, "Please forgive me, Your Highness."

Cassia was slightly stunned.

"Didn't you get enough rest?" she asked in confusion, "I remember..."

Her voice suddenly stopped, and at the same time, Li Yin thought to himself that something was wrong. Because he happened to have spent last night with Princess Cassia, and his performance last night was as usual, which could be described as "very brave" and he did not show any signs of fatigue at all.

"Is there a time when you can't hold on anymore?" Cassia pursed her lips and chuckled, "It's really unexpected."

"Forget it, I'll be more careful next time."

It was her servant who bumped into her, but she, as the master, said that she would "be more careful" in the future...

Her inexplicable remarks caused most of the dark elves around her to look at each other in confusion, while the few dark elves who knew the inside story kept their lips tight and remained silent.

Li Yin breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Cassia did not question his abnormal "sleepiness" because of his "performance" last night, but attributed his "sleepiness" to her own reasons.

"Please forgive me, Princess," he added again, still in shock. Although Cassia didn't seem to care, as a servant, he couldn't help but show his sincerity in apologizing.

Cassia nodded slightly, "Okay, don't do it again."

Li Yin nodded repeatedly.

Then, he slightly shifted his gaze and looked at Du Feiya in the distance again, only to see that she was still looking at him with bright eyes.

No... calm down, he suppressed the panic in his heart. Although her father was a wizard, and the chief wizard, he was not here now. As for herself, didn't Archbishop Myrcella just say that she was an uneducated and unlearned princess, a playboy who devoted all her energy to flying knives, so... maybe things were not as bad as she thought?

When he thought of this, he immediately asked anxiously to Mircella, who was wiping the wine off her body with a dissatisfied look on her face:

"Archbishop Myrcella, according to what you said, it seems that this uneducated Princess Dufia has no redeeming qualities at all. She is only able to thrive and run rampant in Nevre with the help of her father, the chief wizard?"

"That's not the case," Unexpectedly, it was not Myrcella who took over Li Yin's words, but Cassia. She raised one arm and let a female warrior wipe the wine stains that had slightly flowed down her armpit, and said with a smile:

"Actually, what Myrcella just said was biased."

"It is true that Princess Dufia did not listen to the goddess's teachings in time, but she did not devote all her energy to throwing knives. For her, it was just a special hobby and a pastime."

"Her real interest lies in the arcane. Yes, she inherited the excellent arcane bloodline from her father, the chief wizard Lucien Deniteja, and she was also deeply influenced by his unique magic in the entire city of Nevre since she was a child."

"Princess Dufiya Dinitya, she is actually a mage with considerable accomplishments."

Cassia's calm words sounded like a thunderclap in Li Yin's ears.

His feet felt weak and he almost lost his balance again, spilling the remaining wine in the glass.

"You two, master and servant, are teaming up to play a trick on me?!" He couldn't help but scream in his heart, "Is there any important information that can't be told earlier?"

He couldn't help but look at Cassia, his surprised eyes faintly revealing three points of grievance and a bit of complaint.

Cassia keenly caught the abnormality in his eyes, so she couldn't help but show a hint of surprise in her eyes while she was talking:

"What's wrong?" she asked curiously.

Chapter 3 The Unlearned Princess ()

Only then did Li Yin realize that there was something unusual about the look he involuntarily revealed, especially the complaining emotion implied in it - that was not the look a servant should show to his master, at least, not in person.

"No, nothing..." His voice weakened and he immediately suppressed his anger.

The hesitation on Cassia's face has not completely disappeared, but fortunately, Myrcella has finally done the right thing from the beginning to now.

"It's almost the same," she complimented with a smile, "Of course I know that Princess Du Feiya is a talented magician, but is there any problem with that?"

"Does this affect the insurmountable gap between her and Your Highness the Princess?"

"Generally speaking, arcane magic is something that poor men who cannot beg for the favor of the Spider Queen pursue. It is nothing compared to the magic bestowed by the Spider Queen herself. Therefore, naturally, how can Princess Dufia, who practices arcane magic, be compared with our talented Princess Cassia?"

"Myrcella," Cassia grinned, "Your words sound too flattering, and I don't like it."

"As a noblewoman, you are unwilling to serve the great Spider Queen wholeheartedly. This is indeed a very unwise act. However, arcane magic itself is not a force that can be underestimated. Ignoring it will surely cost you a heavy price."

"Yes," Myrcella nodded immediately, "Your Highness is right. You are well-informed, thoughtful, and insightful. I am shallow."

Li Yin secretly cursed her for being a flatterer, but at the same time he sincerely thanked her for interrupting him in time to divert Cassia's attention.

He breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately remembered another dilemma he was facing.

Speaking of which, why hasn't Princess Du Feiya responded? Thinking this in his heart, he instinctively looked over there.

It would have been fine if he hadn't looked at it, but when he did, he was frightened again, his calves went weak, and he almost fell to the ground.

Princess Dufiya's beautiful violet eyes were still looking straight at him, but the difference from before was that it was not only her sight that was straight - but also her pace!

She was walking towards this direction step by step, without a doubt!

The princess of the Denitya family had already attracted the attention of all the elves with her previous knife throwing competition with Eugenius. Her obvious and abrupt actions at this moment naturally attracted the attention of all the elves. Her every step attracted the attention of all the elves and created an obvious commotion in the tavern.

The elves were talking among themselves.

And this obvious commotion obviously could not escape the keen eyes and ears of another princess, Cassia of the Borgia family.

Cassia turned her head and stared, and Li Yin noticed that Du Feiya's gaze also shifted slightly from himself to Cassia.

Their eyes met, and under Cassia's calm gaze, Du Feiya continued to walk towards them step by step without haste.

Cassia realized the other party's destination and slowly stood up.

"Princess Cassia," Du Feiya walked closer, raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and bowed.

Cassia also bowed in return.

"Princess Du Feiya," she said with a smile, "I am so lucky to be able to meet the distinguished members of the Second Family at such an occasion, and to witness you perform your flying knife skills with my own eyes."

"Princess Cassia, you are too kind," Du Feiya said with a charming smile, "Throwing a flying knife is just a juggling trick. How can it be compared with the wonderful magic of the Spider Queen Priest? My flying knife is nothing compared to your magic, isn't it?"

As she spoke, her posture was relaxed and her tone was casual, giving off a carefree and unrestrained vibe, as if she was strolling in the garden, in stark contrast to Cassia's rigor and solemnity.

However, when she mentioned the word "not worth mentioning", although her tone was as frivolous as usual, she glanced at Myrcella intentionally or unintentionally. Myrcella's body trembled.

"I wanted to be a little more modest," Cassia said, her eyes twinkling as she smiled gently, "but the facts do not allow it."

When these words were spoken, not only Li Yin, but all the dark elves around were stunned, wondering when their princess had become such an arrogant person - although in their hearts, their princess's magic was indeed better than those acrobatic flying knives, but how could they say such words in front of the members of the Second Family?

Even Princess Du Feiya herself couldn't help but show a look of slight surprise on her face.

Cassia continued slowly, "After all, my magic does not belong to me, but is a gift from the great Spider Queen."