The Heartbeat of the Cruel Elves

The old dark elf beggar's eyes were dazed, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. He did not pick up the silver coins on the ground at the first moment, but looked up at the strange human male. He had already turned around and left without saying a word.

"Thank you...thank you."

Li Yin suddenly heard a dry voice coming from behind him.

He turned around and saw the male dark elf beggar looking up at him. The fierce light in his two scarlet eyes was no longer there, and his fierce face suddenly relaxed, as if he had let down his guard, revealing deep powerlessness and desolation, and at the same time a trace of... gratitude.

Li Yin smiled and shook his head. He turned around and was about to leave, but then the hoarse and dry voice sounded behind him again.

"Respected human... Your Excellency, may I ask... who your master is?"

Li Yin stopped.

There was no way he could reveal any trace of Du Feiya's involvement in this matter.

So he paused, then turned around and smiled:

"I have no master."

The shock on the dark elf beggar's old face became more intense. He seemed to have fallen into a state of trance again. Then, after coming to his senses, he hesitated and asked again:

"Then... may I ask your honorable name?"

"No need." Li Yin raised his lips slightly and shook his head. He turned around and was about to leave, but then he seemed to suddenly remember something and stopped again.

He reached into his other pocket, took out a silver coin, held it between his thumb and index finger, turned around, exerted a little force with his fingers, and flicked it towards the dark elf beggar.

The silver coin fell beside him, making a crisp sound, and then turned with a jingle, merging into the original pile of coins.

"I almost forgot, there is one more." In the surprised eyes of the dark elf, Li Yin explained calmly.

Then he turned around and walked away briskly along the way he came, whistling.

The old dark elf kept watching Li Yin's figure until he was completely far away and disappeared at the corner of the alley. But in the deep alley, he could still hear the faint, cheerful whistle from time to time.

He lowered his head and looked at the pile of glittering silver coins in front of him again. He bent down, but did not immediately put the pile of silver coins into his pocket. Instead, he bowed deeply in the direction where Li Yin left.

"Unknown benefactor," he muttered in a hoarse voice, "Balikel remembers——"

From his dry throat came out two unfamiliar words that had not been heard for hundreds of years: "Your generosity and kindness today."

Chapter 1: No One Left Behind ()

In front of the Night's Blade Tavern. No, it should be said that in front of the former Night's Blade Tavern.

Li Yin's eyes were slightly stunned, staring at the ruins in front of him in astonishment.

Although he was mentally prepared, he was still speechless by the shocking scene before him.

The entire Night's Edge Hall had been reduced to a charred ruin, with the remaining flames licking the crawling corpses. The magnificent beams and walls were gone, leaving only a few sparse ruins. The spellcasters of the Nevril Guard summoned heavy rain over the area, and the flames trembled and faded in the rain. The hot ashes rose up with wisps of green smoke under the heavy raindrops falling from the sky, and soon mixed with the diffuse water vapor.

Li Yin's gaze penetrated the fog and rain, and he wandered in the ruins for a while. Based on his memory, he deduced his previous location and then looked in that direction.

What he saw was a thick pile of ashes and a few long strips of charred charcoal, which seemed to be the remnants of the burning tables and benches. He did not find any traces of corpses at that location at first. But then, his sight moved back along that location and saw more than a dozen charred corpses piled up together. Those already black corpses still had obvious female features. Judging from the scene at the time, they should have been blown back by the shock wave generated by the explosion and piled up together. In other words, before that, they should have been near the location where Li Yin was before.

In other words, they should be members of the Borgia family...

Li Yin's heart suddenly tightened.

He subconsciously wanted to rush forward and check it thoroughly, but the guards standing guard around the ruins raised their spears to stop him from leaning forward.

Li Yin stopped at the moment before the spear tip pierced his chest. He gave up the idea of ​​moving forward in disappointment, but still stretched his neck and looked inside, trying to see the scene more clearly.

He tried to judge whether Cassia was among the dozen corpses by their body shapes, because she was obviously taller than other female dark elves. But the corpses were piled up in all directions, entangled and obscured, and it was impossible to see the full appearance of any corpse, so there was no way to judge their body shapes.

However, his heart had sunk to the bottom.

After all, it seemed that most of the members of the Borginia family had met with misfortunes, so the possibility of Princess Cassia surviving was slim.

Is she...already dead?

That's right, Li Yin thought silently. After all, Du Feiya is the princess of the second family. Not everyone has the ability to cast fourth-ring magic like her. And the Borgia family to which Cassia belongs is only the seventh family. There is a clear gap in the strength of the two families. It is understandable that there is a difference in the backup means to deal with sudden dangers...

A faint feeling of regret and sadness welled up in his heart.

After a long time, this strange emotion turned into melancholy, melancholy about his own future.

Where should I go?

Do you want to contact Du Feiya?

Subconsciously, Li Yin's right hand climbed up to his chest again, and he rubbed the communication stone on his chest nervously through his clothes.

Suddenly, a large hand patted his shoulder heavily from behind.

"Where the hell have you been?" A familiar voice came from behind without any courtesy.

Li Yin turned around, looked up, and saw the face of the person coming. He was slightly startled: "Myrcella?"

Then, his gaze passed Myrcella's ear and caught sight of a taller figure behind her.

"Your Highness, Princess!" The look of astonishment turned into surprise.

Cassia smiled slightly: "Where have you been? We thought you were dead in there."

I want to ask you the same question... Li Yin was speechless. However, he resisted the urge to ask back, regained his respect as a servant, and answered Cassia's question honestly:

"Princess Dufiya, at the last moment before the explosion, used a spell called... something called 'Anywhere Door' to transfer me and her out together."

"Oh?" Cassia was slightly surprised. "She saved you?"

Li Yin nodded.

"In that case," Cassia mused, "why are you here now?"

"Princess Du Feiya released me." Li Yin answered truthfully.

"Oh?" Myrcella was quite curious, "Since she had already taken you away, why did she suddenly let you come back?"

"Princess Du Feiya is indeed interested in me," Li Yin paused, his face slightly blushing, "I am a little interested in you."

"But she doesn't dare to take me away by force and risk causing conflict between the Dinitia and Borgia families." He looked at Cassia, "Anyway, even if she wants to... get me, she must get your approval and beg for your transfer. She is not so arrogant as to ignore you."

Cassia smiled slightly and did not comment. She did not answer immediately, but raised her eyes and looked towards the center of the ruins, in the same direction as Li Yin's previous gaze.

"She is interested in you more than a little." Cassia looked at Li Yin meaningfully.

"Those buried here include not only members of the Borginia family, but also her subordinates. She would rather sacrifice the dark elves of her own family to save you, a human slave from another family."

Li Yin met her eyes and couldn't help but shudder.

"This," he deliberately acted a little timid, "this is not good news, Your Highness."

"I want her to be as less interested in me as possible."

"Why?" Myrcella asked jokingly. "A princess's favor is not good, you lowly slave."

"Lord Myrcella," Li Yin bit his lip, his eyes filled with fear, "Didn't you hear what Princess Dufia said before?"

"That's not a 'mercy' at all. She just treated me as a rare experimental subject and wanted to slice me up for research."

"And the reason why she didn't do that," he turned to look at Cassia, his face showing sincere gratitude, "is entirely because she is afraid of you, Your Highness."

Cassia remained noncommittal. She curled her lips into a playful smile that was quite similar to Myrcella's just now:

"But she saved you after all. Don't you plan to repay her?"

Li Yin was stunned. He stood there with his lips tightly shut, his eyes rolling around, as if he was lost in confusion.

After a while, he blinked and seemed to come to his senses.

Then, he suddenly curled his lips, revealing the same playful smile as the two dark elf women.

"That's your business, Your Highness." He looked at Cassia with shining eyes, "It has nothing to do with me."

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Chapter 3: No One ()

"Your Highness," the captain of the security team rushed to Cassia and called out again, smiling, "Are you looking for clues about the criminal who attacked you?"

Cassia nodded slightly.

"Our soldiers have just discovered the body of an attacker that is still well preserved. If you don't mind," she bent over, turned sideways, and pointed to the side, making an invitation, "please come over and take a look."

Led by the captain of the security team, they came to the southwest corner of the original site of the Night's Edge Hall. Here, an extra cordon surrounded a relatively intact corpse.

To say it was relatively complete was only relative to other corpses. This corpse was still completely black and hairless, and it was impossible to determine its identity from its damaged face. However, its overall structure was still relatively intact, with no missing arms or legs, or obvious missing parts.

Judging from his flat chest and short stature, he should indeed be a male dark elf. In fact, there are also men in Cassia and Dufia's guards. However, judging from the corner position of this male dark elf, he cannot be one of the guards surrounded at the center at that time, and the bright silver curved blade in his carbonized hand shows without a doubt that he has participated in this battle.

However, despite this, Li Yin was still quite confused. What clues could be found from such a charred corpse that was almost completely bare?

Of course, he thought silently in his heart that this might be because he was not familiar enough with the dark elves and did not understand them well enough, so he could not perceive the most subtle traces like they did. Although he had absorbed the memory of a dark elf, Turner, as a man, his position in this female-dominated society was still too marginal, and the information he knew was limited.

Several people stood there, staring at each other for a while, and then suddenly, Li Yin caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye that Cassia turned her gaze to Myrcella and raised her chin.

Myrcella nodded, as if she understood, and then stepped forward, one hand on the hilt of the sword at her waist. She came to the side of the male dark elf's body, suddenly, she drew her sword, and stabbed the carbonized lower body of the corpse.

Li Yin, who was watching from the sidelines, felt the same way and immediately shuddered all over, feeling a chill in his lower body.

However, he soon discovered that the situation was not as bad as he had imagined. Myrcella did not destroy the body. She only swung her sword lightly, and wherever she passed, she only broke the carbonized fragments of cloth still attached to the surface of the body. Those fragments turned into ashes and fell down, revealing the bare lower body of the body.

If it is not to vent anger, what is the purpose of such action?

Li Yin was confused by Myrcella's strange behavior, but saw that she had turned around in the blink of an eye. She raised her eyes and looked at Cassia with a flattering smile on the corner of her mouth.

Li Yin followed her gaze to Cassia, only to see that Cassia was also looking into Myrcella's eyes, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised.

"Sure enough, it's them." Mircella said coldly with a hint of disdainful sneer.

"Who?" Li Yin was surprised.

"No successor." Cassia replied calmly.

"No successor?" Li Yin was stunned at first, and then a series of related information naturally emerged in his mind.

At the same time, Myrcella's explanation, still full of disdain and ridicule, came unexpectedly, corroborating the information in his mind from Turner's memory.

"That's the stupidest, most vicious, most ignorant, most overconfident, and most incompetent male waste!"

"They are part of a movement that has been gaining momentum recently - the men's rights movement. They are the most extreme and radical of them all."

"However," Myrcella sneered, "They are so arrogant, but they are also the most ridiculous, even pathetic and pitiful among them."

"They covet the power we women hold, but at the same time they clearly recognize that our power comes from the will of the Spider Queen, from her gift, from -" Myrcella bent her arms and clenched her fists to show her strength, "our innate strength advantages, both physical and intellectual."

"Power is the only law that governs the operation of all things in this world and determines the status of all creatures. The male dark elves who realize that our power is naturally superior to theirs also realize how naive and unrealistic their desire to seize power from the female dark elves is, and how fragile their illusory dreams are."

"After realizing that they would never win," Myrcella paused, "a small group of them came up with an unprecedented and ridiculous slogan."

"Their doctrine is: Our bloodline must never give birth to another bloodline that oppresses us."

"So, in order to escape their function as reproductive tools, they, driven by hysterical but cowardly anger, chose to -"

The sharp tip of Myrcella's curved sword flashed with cold light, and pointed at the body of the male dark elf again. At this time, as her sword tip pointed again, Li Yin suddenly realized something -

"Self-castration!"

"What a ridiculous move." Myrcella laughed uncontrollably, not disguising her sarcasm. "They can't defeat their enemies, so they choose to swing the butcher's knife at themselves - it seems that as long as they take the lead and kill themselves before their enemies kill them, it is also a disguised victory!"

Amid Mircella's arrogant and defiant tone, Li Yin stared at the corpse of the male dark elf, and a huge sense of absurdity swept over him.

The collective self-mutilation of the male dark elves made him shudder and feel an extremely strong physical discomfort. But at the same time, a huge sense of sadness spread in his heart, which was a resonance with those desperate and angry resisters.

Yes, there is such a resonance in his heart.

He couldn't agree with all of Mircella's words - because deep in his heart, there were also memories from another dark elf, a male dark elf - Turner.

In Turner's memory, these male dark elves who were so radical that they harmed themselves were not cowardly evaders, but real warriors and martyrs. Although he himself did not dare to openly resist the female dark elves, he silently admired these dark elves called "No One" from the bottom of his heart...

What Myrcella said about not daring to resist and thus self-harming was of course not true, it was just a slanderous statement. Turner's memory was not needed for this, the logic of reality was very clear - if they really just wanted to escape, then their bodies would not be lying here.

However, the slogan that Myrcella said was not wrong. "Our bloodline must not give birth to a bloodline that oppresses us" - this is indeed the creed of these "no descendants". But this is not a way to divert hatred, but a desperate means. According to Turner's memory, they used this method to show their determination to resist to the end. If their ideals did not succeed, then they really did not need to give birth to offspring. If they succeeded, then the bloodlines of other male dark elves would also be able to continue the results of their struggle - a dark elf society where male dark elves can live with dignity, rights, freedom and equality.

"A group of the most vicious criminals!" The captain of the security team made the final judgment. She adjusted her helmet and turned to look at Cassia with a serious face. "Your Highness, I will immediately report the latest developments of this case to the ruling council."

"The criminal acts of this group of perverted maniacs not only pose a threat to your personal safety, but also challenge the stability and harmony of our entire society and the supreme authority of the Nevile ruling parliament."

"I will suggest that the parliament raise the assessment of the heinous nature of this case to the highest level, and then use all manpower and resources to find out their remaining accomplices, even if there is only one, and kill them all."