The Heartbeat of the Cruel Elves

She once said that even if he was the "son of a witch", as long as he served her wholeheartedly, there would always be a seat for him under her.

Therefore, this raid might be an opportunity, an opportunity to win Cassia's favor by fighting hard.

In this way, even if he is completely exposed by Du Feiya later, he may hope to gain a chance of leniency by relying on the goodwill he has earned now.

Another male dark elf warrior broke through the blockade of Cassia's personal warriors and rushed in. At this time, Li Yin had just pulled out a sword from the body of a male dark elf warrior lying on the ground. He could have drawn his sword immediately to fight back, but he suddenly had an idea and changed his mind. He slowed down his movements for a moment. As expected, the target of the male dark elf warrior's long sword was not him, but Cassia beside him.

After a short delay, Li Yin was too late to swing his sword to block - or rather, he subjectively believed that he was too late to swing his sword to block. Anyway, he leaped forward and directly hit the blade of the male dark elf warrior with his shoulder.

With a "puff", the tip of the long sword pierced his shoulder, but was also deflected to the side by the inertia of his body. The dark elf warrior was furious when his determined blow was blocked by the flesh and blood of a lowly human slave. He drew out his long sword and swung it again, but this time his target was no longer Cassia, but directly at Rein. His face was ferocious, and veins on his forehead were throbbing. It seemed that he would not stop until he chopped the slave who was obstructing his actions into a pool of meat paste.

However, on the other hand, Li Yin felt that acting should be stopped while it is going well. So he turned his right wrist, held the sword, and swung it forward with force. "Clang" - another sharp sound of metal clashing, just like the previous times, the male dark elf warrior's sword flew out of his hand. The dark elves were agile and their sword skills were not bad, but in a head-on confrontation, they only had strength similar to that of normal humans, and they were no match for the ghoul-like self.

Li Yin swung his sword back and cut off the head of the still stunned male dark elf warrior. Then he turned around, "ignoring his own injuries", and looked at Cassia with an anxious and worried look on his face:

"Your Highness, are you okay?"

Then he let out a soft hiss, a look of pain appeared on his face, and at the same time "subconsciously" reached out to support his injured left shoulder.

Cassia smiled.

Her eyes first fell on his shoulder where the blade had stabbed him, and then on his face.

"Don't worry about me." She said softly and calmly.

Chapter 2: For Men ()

She stretched out a hand, the palm of which radiated a soft glow, and reached for Li Yin's shoulder.

Li Yin had seen her use this spell before. It was a priest's healing spell. Cassia's white and soft palm pressed on his shoulder, and the soft and warm positive energy penetrated into his wound, relieving the severe pain and replacing it with a soft and itchy feeling, as if he was in a hot spring. He knew that the newly added wound was healing rapidly under the effect of the magic.

"Princess." He couldn't help but hiss at the pleasant feeling. He looked at Cassia with gratitude.

Cassia's usually calm face still responded with a gentle and warm smile.

"Your Highness!" At this moment, Li Yin's expression suddenly changed.

Because, right behind Cassia, another male dark elf warrior broke through the blockade, entered the inner circle, and pointed his eyes directly at Cassia, ready to thrust his sword forward.

He moved his body slightly and was about to make a move, but at this moment, Cassia suddenly put her other hand on his other shoulder, and with both hands she was unable to move.

"Don't worry," she smiled slightly, seemingly oblivious to the situation behind her, "It's not completely healed yet."

The warm and gentle positive energy continued to flow into Li Yin's body, but he looked shocked because the male dark elf warrior had already stretched out the sword in his hand, and the tip of the sword with a cold and shining light was pointing directly at Cassia's vest.

"Your Highness!" he exclaimed again.

"Quiet." Cassia's voice was slightly low, and she used both hands to hold his body firmly in place. Her eyes were as calm as water, and she didn't even glance back.

Li Yin looked behind her in horror. The sword of the male dark elf warrior was getting closer and closer, and it seemed that he was about to pierce Cassia with one sword. Even with the fierce force of the sword, even she herself behind her would be caught in the disaster.

However, at this moment, the situation suddenly changed. The dark elf warrior suddenly changed color, and he stopped his forward steps. Not only that, his empty left hand suddenly grabbed forward, firmly grasped his right hand holding the sword, and desperately dragged it back. His facial muscles were tense, his face flushed, and he stood there alone, but he seemed to be fighting with something in the dark. Looking at the posture, it was as if there were two completely different souls living in his body, one with a strong resentment towards Cassia, and wanted to get rid of her as soon as possible, while the other soul was resolutely obstructing his current actions, not wanting him to cause any harm to Cassia. The two souls fought endlessly in his body.

Li Yin looked at the strange scene in front of him in shock. Cassia in front of him remained calm as usual, as if she was still unaware of the changes behind her. She only stared at Li Yin's body and observed the progress of his wound recovery.

"Quide!" A furious voice suddenly came from the back, "What are you doing? Kill that bitch!"

"I...I..." The male dark elf warrior in front of him responded tremblingly, his flushed face full of entanglement, hesitation, doubt and fear, "I, I can't do it!"

The tip of his sword dropped to the ground, and he struggled to retreat, "...I can't do it."

"What bullshit are you talking about!" the distant voice roared, "Kill her now!"

"No," the male dark elf warrior muttered in horror, "I can't, I——"

His voice stopped abruptly as a silver light suddenly rushed over and pierced his throat.

"Sacred Domain?" A refreshing voice came from the side, with a hint of surprise. At the same time, blood spurted out from the neck of the dark elf warrior - the flying knife that had just pierced his throat seemed to be caught by an invisible hand, rolled up, and flew back in a rotation, landing in a slender hand.

Dufiya Deniteya picked up the flying knife with her finger, glanced at Cassia with her bright violet eyes, and said in a casual and relaxed tone, "Can you give me one too?"

Cassia pursed her lips slightly, and although she didn't look away, she responded very appropriately and promptly: "I'm sorry, I only prepared this spell once today."

"I'm sure it happened more than once." Du Feiya looked at her meaningfully and responded mischievously, then grinned, "But never mind."

Suddenly, she seemed to notice Li Yin's confused and astonished gaze, turned around, and gave a playful smile to the person she had just accused and cruelly threatened.

"This magic can protect the object of the spell, and arouse a completely opposite will in the mind of any enemy who attempts to attack her, thereby hindering the opponent's actions." In the center of the battlefield surrounded by enemies and blood and flesh flying everywhere, she actually explained to a human slave quite leisurely.

After that, she turned to look at Cassia: "Princess Cassia, it seems that your slave is really interested in magic."

This time, Cassia did not respond to her immediately. Cassia closed her eyes slightly, placed her hands on her chest, and muttered something. After a while, she opened her hands, and a dark, cold energy suddenly exploded around her. At the same time, she opened her eyes, and the red light in her scarlet pupils became brighter.

"Men," she suddenly said, her voice as cold as ice and sharper than a knife, "you must be afraid!"

As if in response to her almost commanding scolding, Li Yin immediately heard terrified screams coming from all around.

He looked up and saw several attackers who were fighting with the princesses' guards suddenly turned around in fear as if they had seen something extremely terrifying and fled. The great fear even made them ignore the sword flashes of the opponents who were close at hand. Of course, their endings were without exception, and they were almost all pierced by the swords of the guards the moment they turned around.

Further away, in places not directly involved in the fighting, many male dark elf warriors turned around in panic, screaming and running away, just as they had done in the riot they had caused in the hall not long ago.

"Quiet! Quiet! Do not be afraid!"

Among the attackers, there were a few male dark elves who were still conscious and shouted loudly, trying to stop their companions who were fleeing in panic, but those overly frightened guys ignored their shouts and stumbled past them and their arms that were stretched out to stop them, making their angry faces even more furious and ferocious.

Chapter 3: For Men ()

"Fear," Du Feiya explained again with a tilt of his lips, "The same spell effect can also be caused by arcane magic. However, it is not an easy task for a wizard or warlock to remove fear."

She looked at Cassia with admiration, "Only the Goddess's priest can do this easily."

Fear… Li Yin knew this spell. In the arcane magic system, it was a fourth-level spell, a high-level magic that Li Yin could not yet reach. However, he had mastered its lower-level version, the second-level intimidation spell, which could also inspire fear in the target's heart, but the number of targets that could be affected was far less than that of fear. As Du Feiya said at this time, it was not an easy task for a wizard to remove the effect of this spell, that is, to drive away the fear in the target's mind. At least, in his memory, he did not come into contact with any spell that could directly remove such effects in the magic academy. There were only some spells that increased the success rate of resistance by strengthening people's will, but they were useless for targets that had already been affected by spells.

As for the magic… According to Du Feiya, it seems that the priests have a way to easily deal with this situation. However, Li Yin didn't know what the specific method was. The country he came from, Lahea, was a country composed of non-believers. They refused to believe in any gods and advocated the development of people's own power. Therefore, neither the priests nor their magic were accepted by this country. Therefore, unlike the princess of the Deniteya family who was also a mage next to him, Li Yin, who grew up in such an environment since childhood, knew almost nothing about magic.

In short, it seems that the group of attackers in front of them have no way to deal with this spell. Because if they want to deal with it, they must have a priest. As we all know, only women are qualified to be priests among the dark elves, and these attackers who shouted "for men" are all men without exception...

However, despite this, this spell did not cause all the attackers to surrender. Some male dark elf warriors still relied on their tenacious will to resist the influence of the spell, persisted, and continued to fight.

"It is such a blessing to be able to travel with a priest of the Spider Queen." Du Feiya looked around at the situation and smiled sweetly.

"But it's not good to keep watching the show like this." She crossed her left hand across her chest, supporting her right elbow with the back of her hand, and supporting her chin with the back of her right hand, still looking very leisurely.

"After all, these guys' targets should include me." She smiled thoughtfully.

"So, I'll try to help out a little bit."

After saying that, she suddenly stretched out her right hand, with silver light flashing on the tip of her index finger, and drew a line in the air.

Immediately, not far away, in front of the dark elf warriors who were guarding them, a large area of ​​dim yellow magic light flashed. Wherever the magic light passed, there was a constant sound of plop, plop. After a short moment, the dim yellow magic light completely disappeared. Li Yin looked carefully and saw that the number of enemies in front of the dark elf warriors had decreased by more than half. At the same time, a burst of shouting came from the ground.

He lowered his eyes to the ground and found that most of the "disappeared" enemies were lying on the ground. They twisted their limbs and struggled to get up. In return, they heard "thump" and "crack" sounds again and again.

The reason for the "crackling" sound was that their bodies were not in direct contact with the ground at this moment. Between them and the flat rock floor, there was a thick layer of grease with a dim yellow luster. Every time the attackers tried to get up in vain, they would fall back into the grease with a crackling sound.

Du Feiya used the power of magic to spread a thick layer of grease on the ground, causing the male dark elf warriors who were rushing up to slip and fall to the ground one after another.

"Grease spell", Li Yin, who is also a mage, immediately recognized the spell that Du Feiya had just cast.

This was a fairly commonly used spell, and he himself had mastered it before.

However, even so, a look of surprise still appeared on his face, and that surprise was no less than when he saw Cassia unleash a divine art that he knew nothing about.

Grease is a first-level spell in the Conjuration Department. Li Yin is very familiar with its principle, using the power of magic to "create" grease on the target ground. The problem is that, generally speaking, these created liquids should spread freely around the target location, and eventually naturally form a nearly circular grease area.

And now - Li Yin looked around, the grease created by Du Feiya was evenly distributed around them, forming a huge circle, but the center of the circle, where they were, was completely clean, without a trace of grease. This grease spell was like a moat, separating them from the enemy. While making the enemy lose their balance and fall down, it prevented their own people from suffering the same fate.

When creating grease, one cannot accurately estimate the scope of impact and choose the appropriate release location, thus causing trouble for one's own people - this is one of the biggest difficulties for novice mages when releasing Grease.

Even experienced mages can only try to avoid friendly forces and cast spells in a conventional manner. The distribution characteristics of Grease spells themselves determine that they are not suitable for some complex terrains and may even have a counterproductive effect.

In Lahya, at the magic academy where Li Yin was studying, one of the key topics studied by the professors was how to plan the form of the entity created by magic and limit its range of influence when releasing continuous area magic such as Grease. However, until Li Yin fell into the underground world, this research had not made any significant progress. Now, he actually saw such a free and easy way of casting magic on a dark elf female wizard.

How on earth was this done? He widened his eyes in curiosity. For a moment, his strong interest in the new type of magic even overwhelmed the cold fear that this cruel and hideous dark elf woman had inspired in his heart. He stared at her intently.

However, after a while, he withdrew his gaze in dismay. The mystery of magic cannot be seen thoroughly with just the eyes. And as a slave, he couldn't just rush up and have an impromptu magic seminar with the other party.

He raised his eyes and looked around. Due to the dual effects of fear and grease, only a few male dark elf warriors were left on the originally fierce battle line, fighting with the princesses' guards. They often had to deal with the attacks of several guards at the same time. It can be said that the offensive and defensive forces changed instantly, and they themselves became the "besieged" party.

Farther away, in areas not covered by the grease spell, there were more male dark elf warriors standing. However, after the first batch of male warriors who came forward to support fell into the grease without any suspense, they all stopped and watched, and fell into hesitation.

"Elf Bridge Tactics!" At this moment, an unknown male dark elf in the elf group shouted, "Step on them!"

Then, while Li Yin was stunned, he saw those dark elf warriors who were originally outside the range of the grease suddenly leaped into the grease. But they did not fall immediately - because the place where they landed was the companion who had fallen to the ground before.

Amidst their companions' groans and screams, they lowered their knees slightly, rose up again, and then landed on another companion...

The elves were originally known for their well-proportioned limbs and flexible athletic ability. They did this without any accidents. Each dark elf landed steadily on his companion, and then used it as a fulcrum to jump to the next companion, turning on these struggling companions like the wind and quickly approaching the battle group again.

But... Li Yin widened his eyes, looking at the figures that suddenly moved up and down and flew at high speed in amazement, and couldn't help frowning.

This can be considered as "succession after succession" in the true sense. Are they willing to kill Cassia and Dufiya at this cost? What grudge do these male dark elves have against them?

Li Yin was in doubt when a voice suddenly came from the side. Cassia reached out and touched his body again. Her soft and radiant palm pressed against his chest, and a vast and powerful force poured directly into his body from her palm. In an instant, Li Yin's muscles swelled and his breathing became rapid. He clenched his fists and felt a huge force that was difficult to release all over his body, as if a beast sleeping in his body suddenly revived.

"I don't need protection." Cassia's eyes were gentle, but her voice and appearance were extremely majestic and stern. "My 'good man', the best way for you to protect me is to kill all the enemies in front of you for me."

Li Yin nodded heavily, turned around, took two steps at a time, rushed forward quickly, squeezed aside two female dark elf warriors, and instantly arrived at the front line of the battle.

A male dark elf warrior raised a long sword in both hands, and slashed at him from midair with a strong wind. Li Yin roared, without even frowning, and felt that the power in his body that was difficult to dispel seemed to have finally found an outlet. He immediately swung the long sword back, from bottom to top, and swung it back at the male dark elf warrior.

The two swords collided, and a startling, sharp sound erupted in midair. Then there was a horrifying sound of "crackling". The male dark elf warrior who was still in the air screamed, and his hands loosened from the hilt, and his wrists bent in a strange arc. Before his body could fall to the ground, the sword blade rushed back and pierced straight into his skull and chest, carrying him flying backwards.

"Kill this good dog first!" The astonishing destructive effect caused by Li Yin's incredible force immediately attracted the attention of the attackers. One of the male dark elf warriors who looked like a leader was both shocked and angry, and immediately shouted.

Several figures immediately came from the air, the ground, and all angles, and several swords with flashing cold light attacked him at the same time.

Li Yin swept across and knocked away the three swords aimed at his chest. At the same time, he leaped up and barely avoided a sword that was slashing at his feet. There were two more long swords attacking from the air, one on the left and one on the right. Li Yin was in mid-air and could no longer dodge. He thought he could dodge one of the swords by leaning sideways, but he would be hit by the other one anyway. Just as he was thinking about how to move to minimize the injury, there was a sudden "hiss" sound behind him, and a blazing red ray passed over his shoulder and instantly pierced the chest of the enemy to his upper right, leaving a blue flame on his chest.

Without thinking, Li Yin immediately turned his body to the right to avoid the sword attacking from the left, then raised his left leg and kicked the last enemy away.

There was a cracking sound from the chest of the male dark elf warrior, and he flew back several meters, landing heavily on the grease on the ground, splashing with a crackling sound. His hands scratched the ground lightly for a few times, and then dropped down. It seemed that even without Du Feiya's grease spell, he would not be able to get up again.

At this time, Li Yin turned around and looked behind him. The scorching ray was an arcane magic, and it could only have one source.

The chic and frivolous female magician was holding up one finger and blowing on her fingertip seriously, looking as if she had been burned. Li Yin noticed that the tip of her raised index finger, which was as white and soft as jade, was indeed slightly red. That was a normal reaction to the release of the burning rays, but it was only slightly warm, not hot at all.

Sensing Li Yin's gaze, she raised her head and blinked at him with her bright violet eyes, as lively as the twinkling stars in the sky. The corners of her rosy mouth curled up playfully, and her snow-white cheeks had shallow dimples. Her bright smile was clear and shallow, like a stream in the shade of trees under the sunlight, without a trace of impurities.

Li Yin was slightly stunned. For a moment, he found it difficult to connect the bright smile in front of him with the cruel and evil female dark elf who solemnly said that she would "at least keep a piece of it intact". The cunning but harmless smile like a fox spirit and the meaningful cold smile before overlapped and separated in front of him, separated and overlapped again, and he could never completely put the two together.

He couldn't figure out the true intentions of the female dark elf in front of him - but reality didn't give him much time to guess. Suddenly, there was a sharp sound of metal breaking through the air behind his head. Li Yin turned around and saw another male dark elf warrior holding a sharp blade and slashing at him in mid-air...

After about ten minutes, the battle came to an end. The hall was filled with blood and corpses, but most of the corpses were male dark elves, the attackers. Although they were numerous and aggressive, Li Yin and his men had Cassia and Dufia, a priestess of the Spider Queen and the daughter of the chief wizard, in charge. However, many of the people around the two princesses were also killed, including Li Yin, who had been healed by Cassia's healing spell before, and had several more wounds on his body, but fortunately, none of them were fatal.

Chapter 1: Blooming ()

Myrcella dragged a surviving attacker from a pool of blood, her tall, muscular figure contrasting sharply with the short, skinny captive, like an eagle dragging a chick.

"Tell me, bastard!" She slapped the thin male dark elf in the face, causing his head to tilt and a mouthful of blood mixed with a few broken teeth spurting out of his mouth. When she forcibly turned his head back to face her, one side of the male dark elf's cheek was already swollen.

"Who ordered you to do this?" Mircella asked with her eyes wide open, waiting for him viciously.

Cassia, Dufia, the dark elves around them, and Rein all looked down at the prisoner, waiting for the answer to come out of his mouth.

The male dark elf took a long time to refocus his gradually blurred eyes. Then, he looked around, passing Myrcella, passing a group of dark elf warriors, passing Li Yin, and finally slowly moved upwards, his gaze climbing to the faces of Cassia and Dufia.

"Pa!" His gaze did not reach the end successfully, and another slap slapped his slowly raised head down.

"Male!" Myrcella snapped. "Watch your eyes."

The male dark elf's head hung low, with blood dripping from his jaw onto the ground. When he raised his head again, Li Yin noticed that his other cheek had also swollen beyond the shape of an elf.

He rolled his eyes with great effort, and it seemed that it took a lot of effort for him to come back to his senses from the dizziness.

"Answer my question." Myrcella grabbed him by the collar. "Who ordered you to do this?"

The muscles on the male dark elf's distorted face kept twitching, and he slowly moved his lips, as if he had to use up all his remaining strength just to utter a single word.

It took him some time, but he finally opened his mouth, and then—

"Puff!" - a stream of blood shot straight at Myrcella's face. Myrcella stretched out her hand in time to block the blood mixed with saliva, but sporadic blood foam still splashed through her fingers onto her snow-white cheek.

"Bitch!" These two words were the only ones that came out of the male dark elf's dry throat.

Myrcella was furious. She slapped the male dark elf in the face with her backhand, and the blood in her palm was slapped back onto the dark elf's face, pushing the male dark elf's face back to the ground.

"You're looking for death." She spat in the male dark elf's face and stepped on his chest. She looked around and asked the other dark elves who were cleaning up the battlefield, "Are there any other survivors? Drag one over here quickly. I'll just step on this fool to death."

Looking at Myrcella's ferocious appearance, Li Yin could not help but sweat a few drops of cold sweat secretly. However, what this female elf is doing is indisputable. In the dark elf society where nobles and commoners are clearly divided, women are superior to men and the hierarchy is strict, there is actually such an incident of male dark elves launching an organized and large-scale attack on noble women. This can be said to be the worst terrorist incident. If this incident is allowed to continue, the cornerstone of the entire Nevelle society may be shaken. Therefore, the organizer and planner behind the scenes must be found as soon as possible.

Of course, Rein himself had no good feelings towards this "foundation" of Nevelle society, but his protector was the beneficiary of this system, so he had no choice but to support this system with all his might.