The Heartbeat of the Cruel Elves

"This is truly amazing," she sighed. "You have many excellent dark elf soldiers, but your leader is a human slave?"

"It seems that Princess Cassia really loves you, Li Yin." She looked at Li Yin again, with a hint of amusement in her violet eyes.

This was the first time she called his name since they parted last time, and Li Yin suddenly felt a sense of familiarity. But he didn't know how to respond to the content of the words, so he could only bow slightly and give her an awkward smile.

"So, Li Yin," Du Feiya cleared her throat and spoke in a very formal tone, "which means that you are now the representative sent by Princess Du Feiya."

"At this moment, the troops of the Borginia family and the Denitia family simultaneously appeared in a maze hundreds of miles away from Nevre and several miles deep. I believe that each of us has a mission."

"Then, I, Dufia of the Denitia family, would you please have the honor to invite you, as the representative of Princess Cassia of the Borginia family, to come over and have a private conversation about our respective missions and the difficulties we are facing?"

"It's my honor." Li Yin was slightly stunned, then smiled.

After receiving Li Yin's response, Du Feiya turned around and walked towards a cave entrance. Several warriors from the Deniteya family wanted to follow her, but she stopped them with her hands.

"Are you questioning the goodwill of the Borgia family? Or are you denying my ability to protect myself? Or both?"

Chapter 135 The Damned Slave

Several warriors from the Dinitya family immediately knelt on the ground, terrified and said, "We dare not, please forgive us, Princess."

Du Feiya waved her hand calmly, signaling them to disperse.

At the same time, on Lein's side, Myrcella and several female dark elf warriors also surrounded him.

"Don't worry about me." Li Yin said with a smile.

"We are not worried about you." The tall and strong Freya frowned and lowered her voice coldly, "I just want to remind you, slave, you are loyal to the Borgia family, your master is Princess Cassia, what to say and what not to say, you'd better know it in your mind!"

Li Yin's wishful thinking and comfort were frustrated. He nodded awkwardly, and when he looked up, he found that Myrcella was looking at him with a playful look on her face, as if she had already expected his current embarrassing situation.

Then he turned around and followed Du Feiya towards a tunnel entrance at the edge of the cave.

Two people, no, one person and one elf entered the tunnel and walked through the deep and winding darkness for a while. During this time, Li Yin, who was following behind Du Feiya, was nervous and didn't know what to say.

He stretched out his right hand and touched the communication stone hidden in the inside pocket of his shirt.

That was a gift from Du Feiya when they parted last time. She said that even if we couldn't meet in the future, I could still communicate with her through the communication stone.

Having said that, since their last separation, the two sides have not spoken a word to each other until today.

Li Yin didn't know what was going on with Du Feiya. As for himself, it was mainly because of guilt. He wanted to treat Du Feiya as a friend, but it was difficult to face the fact that he had used "charm" on this friend. He didn't know how to explain it to her.

Therefore, although he always had a very strong desire to communicate with her again, every time his fingers touched the communication stone through the clothes, he always put it down in a huff out of guilt and not knowing what to do.

"Tell me, what is your purpose in coming to this maze this time?" Du Feiya suddenly asked coldly after turning a corner.

"Explorers from the Borginia family discovered the ruins of a lost dark elf city-state behind this maze. We are here to explore the ruins, hoping to find some treasures there."

Li Yin answered without hesitation and without reservation.

After he finished speaking, a very strange feeling rose in his mind. He was stunned for a long time before he realized where this strange feeling came from - Du Feiya's voice revealed a very obvious alienation. This voice was obviously different from the last time they were alone, and the coldness was even more than the pretentiousness in front of the many dark elves just now.

"Oh," before he could think about it, Du Feiya spoke again, her clear and mellow voice still very cold, "What a coincidence, our family's goal is the same."

"But, is there really such a coincidence in the world? Our family and your family each have an explorer who discovered the same maze at the same time period?"

"I think one of us must have lied. What do you think?"

"I don't know, Du Feiya," Li Yin paused when he said this. The last time they met, Du Feiya asked him not to call her Your Highness, but to call her by her name, but Li Yin is still a little uncomfortable with it. "This is the information Princess Cassia told me. I don't know the authenticity yet, and I don't rule out that they have some hidden plans. However, based on what I have seen these days, I think it is unlikely that they have other purposes. She-"

Du Feiya suddenly turned around, grabbed his collar and lifted him up from the ground.

"You should address me as Your Highness, lowly human!"

She lowered her head, glaring at him fiercely with her violet eyes. Her snow-white cheeks flushed red at some point, and she clenched her silver teeth in anger.

"Du——" Li Yin was confused and suddenly startled, and spoke subconsciously.

Snap—with a clean and crisp sound, a slap suddenly hit his face and threw him several meters away.

"I said, call me Princess, you damned human!"

Li Yin's neck tilted, and with a "puff", blood and several broken teeth spurted out of his mouth. The force of Du Feiya's slap was so great that he almost felt that his cervical vertebrae were about to break!

His body fell heavily against a rock wall, and his head collided with the rock, causing another sharp pain. For a moment, he felt dizzy and dazed.

Finally, when he recovered a little, he turned around and saw Du Feiya's lips moving, muttering something. Then, she raised her hand and pointed her five fingers at Li Yin.

The next moment, a ball of white stuff sprayed towards Li Yin. In the blink of an eye, Li Yin found that he could not move. He was firmly stuck to the wall by a large piece of sticky and tough silk-like substance.

This is second-level magic: web magic.

It was similar to the last time when the spider elf used its silk to stick to him tightly.

However, at this moment, Li Yin had no intention of paying attention to the wonderful cycle of fate. His mind was filled with only deep confusion and great surprise.

"Du——"

He received another slap on the other cheek.

This time, he finally recognized the situation.

"Your Highness, what is going on?"

"Pa", another slap - but this time he was allowed to finish his words.

"You forgot to add the honorific, slave." Du Feiya said coldly.

"Your Highness...Gu..." A wisp of blood foam overflowed from his toothless mouth, interrupting his words, "Your Highness the Princess...Gu..."

"Puh..." Li Yin tilted his head and nodded, spitting out the blood foam in his mouth. "What's going on?"

"Are you still pretending?" Du Feiya snorted coldly and said disdainfully.

"I want to ask you what's going on!" She put her hands behind her back, held her head high, and looked arrogant.

"Tell me, what is Princess Cassia's purpose in sending you close to me?"

"What?" Li Yin was startled at first, and then he felt like he was falling into a fog.

"Princess Cassia...sent me...to get to you?"

"It's 'you'!" Du Feiya shouted harshly.

"Okay, 'you'——" Li Yin replied hesitantly, and then looked confused, "But I really don't understand what you are talking about."

"Your Excellency...Princess Dufiya..."

"I...we..."

"We?" Du Feiya suddenly laughed, and then she put away her smile, raised the corners of her mouth, looked playfully cold, and said in a long tone:

"You don't think I'm still under your charm, do you?"

"Of course not," Li Yin shook his head sternly, "I have already removed the charm a long time ago—"

"Wait!" After saying this, he was extremely surprised, "How do you know——"

"I told you!" Du Feiya turned pale and kicked him in the stomach, "It's 'you'!"

"You lowly human slave, you don't think that you can confuse me forever with that simple introductory spell, do you?"

"Ah——" Li Yin opened his mouth wide and let out a scream.

His face was pale and his veins were twitching. He took a few deep breaths, barely suppressing the severe pain in his abdomen, then raised his head and looked at Du Feiya again.

"You are quick to see the opportunity," Du Feiya said coldly, with a curled lip. "When you knew you were exposed, you immediately changed your story and said that you removed the charm on your own initiative."

"However, you are so arrogant. Do you think that I, the daughter of Nevre's chief wizard Lucien Denitia and a fourth-ring wizard, need a stupid human slave like you to remove the spell on my own initiative before I can discover the fact that I am under a charm?"

Li Yin looked at her with anger, contempt, and extreme hostility, and felt very bitter.

He finally understood why Du Feiya's attitude towards him had changed so much. It turned out that she had figured out the fact that he had used charm on her... No wonder she was so furious and regarded it as a special move instructed by Princess Cassia.

However, Li Yin did not lie - after realizing that Du Feiya was different from other dark elves, he felt a strong sense of guilt in his heart, so after he reacted, he took the initiative to end the charm in his mind.

However, it was very likely that the action of removing the spell was unnecessary, because Du Feiya had already realized the fact that he was under a spell before that and removed the spell on his own. What remained in his mind was only a one-sided spell imprint.

After figuring out the whole story, Li Yin suddenly fell into deep despair.

Because his hesitation and timidity over the past few days made him miss his only chance - the chance to take the initiative to explain and confess to Du Feiya.

Now that she has noticed it herself, the inferences and judgments she formed in anger and misunderstanding will probably be difficult to reverse.

"I..." Despite this, Li Yin still pursed his lips. He decided to try his best and try to defend himself.

"I advise you to tell me everything honestly, and stop trying to fool people. Put away your crude and foolish tricks, you little devil!"

Li Yin was about to say something when he suddenly choked. His eyes were slightly angry: "Little Japs?"

"Isn't it? You little, filthy, pathetic son of a hag."

"Didn't Cassia deliberately send you to use charm to get close to me?"

"And I was bewitched by your evil magic, and even racked my brains to try to use the ridiculous excuse of 'son of a witch' to help you."

"I didn't expect that I would hit the jackpot. You have eyes of different colors and are good at bewitching and confusing people. If you are not the offspring of a witch, then what are you?"

"I..." Li Yin was speechless and could not argue.

Du Feiya, on the other hand, vented his endless anger wantonly, talking non-stop and interrupting him mercilessly:

"I was thinking that after this period of time, I would settle accounts with you and drag you, a transgendered devil, into the laboratory and cut you open for a thorough study. I didn't expect you to come to me on your own."

"Oh, right." Her eyes flashed coldly and she laughed coldly, "This is also part of your plan. You deliberately followed my troops and tampered with our road signs, so that we could not find a way out in the maze. Then you showed up in time, stepped forward to rescue us, and earned my gratitude."

“I’m really—” She gritted her teeth, her violet eyes widened as if sparks were about to burst out, but the corners of her mouth twitched in a sneer, “I’m so touched!”

“Even those claw monsters were released by you on purpose,” she frowned, her face suddenly becoming gloomier. “You guys even released them on purpose!”

"But," Du Feiya continued to sneer, "you never expected that I had already seen through and removed your charm."

"All your clumsy and stereotyped performances are as ridiculous as a monkey trying to learn to walk like a human."

"Tell me," she said viciously at last, "you are so deliberate in approaching me and deceiving my trust and favor. What exactly do you want to do?"

"No——" Li Yin shuddered all over, and was stunned for a moment, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. How could the matter of the claw monster be blamed on him? Could it be that this princess had been suppressed in the dark elf society for too long and suffered from paranoia?

After a brief hesitation, he continued, trying to explain one thing at a time:

"I...we didn't do that. In fact, we are also lost. As I said before, we are the advance team sent by Princess Cassia to find a path."

"Are you still talking nonsense?" Du Feiya was furious.

With a sharp sound, a dagger was already across Li Yin's neck. The pain of the blade cutting his skin made his hair stand on end.

"I, I didn't lie to you." Li Yin stuttered.

"Humph," Du Feiya snorted, exuding a strong sense of disdain, "You are still harboring evil intentions!"

"There is a huge loophole in your lie - if it is really not you who are following us, and if you are really lost, then why did you split up to explore?"

"You should know very well that even if you find the right way out, you can't go back and share it with Cassia."

"Because you can't find your way back through the changed signs!"

Li Yin had to admit that what she said made sense.

but--

“This is God’s will.”

Du Feiya frowned, was stunned for a moment, and then said unhappily: "Which god?"

Li Yin was surprised: "Who else could it be? The Spider Goddess."

"Princess Cassia prayed to the Spider Goddess and this is what she answered."

How come you, a dark elf, are even less reliable than me... At the same time, he thought to himself. However, seeing her like this, Li Yin instinctively felt relieved. Judging from her true attitude towards the Spider Goddess, she had no feelings for this evil and cruel god. This proved that she should still be the one he remembered before. He did not misjudge that she was not a bad person. It was just that she misunderstood him and regarded him as an enemy who was deliberately plotting to murder her.

Then, he recounted the whole story of why he was here, including Cassia's prayers, divination, her intuition about the location of the revelation, her decision to send a team, and even the dark elves' shirking of responsibility due to sacrifices and offerings, and his own rash and reckless initiative...

Chapter 1: Treat others the way they do ()

"It looks just like the real thing." Du Feiya thought.

However, if those details were deliberately designed, with the brain of this human slave, no, even if it was Princess Cassia, a dark elf noble, who did it, Du Feiya would find it hard to believe that it could be so realistic.

In particular, the sacrifices and offerings that were not explicitly mentioned in the prophecy were tacitly understood by the dark elves, which led to them shirking responsibility from each other, and eventually led to the inexplicable appearance of Rein, a human slave, here, and for the first time ever, he became the leader of a group of dark elves.

Based on Du Feiya's understanding of her compatriots and their social culture, the goddess would issue such a revelation, and they would respond with such actions. Although it sounds incredible at first, it is actually very reasonable upon closer examination...

She rolled her eyes, hesitating a little, but then regained her firmness and sternness.