Volume 6, Chapter 8 – Conversation with the Elven Girl

…Something was very wrong.

Staring at the smiling Dark Elf in front of him, Danqiu Yibai sensed more and more that there was something out of the ordinary about her.

Thinking back to that attack just now that even he himself had not noticed… although judging by her aura this Dark Elf called Seles should not be as terrifying as a Throne-tier being, for some inexplicable reason she still gave Danqiu Yibai the feeling that dealing with him, a Legendary, would be as easy as settling things with a casual wave of her hand.

So… I am not her match.

With that thought, Danqiu Yibai drew that conclusion.

Although based on the System’s detection skills and his own sense of her aura, the Dark Elf before him was only a Legendary, this suffocating pressure she gave him made it obvious that if he forced himself to fight, he would definitely die.

With that in mind, Danqiu Yibai’s brain started racing, searching for every possible way to get away from this Dark Elf named Seles.

“Huh?”

Just as Danqiu Yibai was lost in thought, the Dark Elf Seles suddenly spoke.

He saw the Elven girl’s lips press together slightly and the look she turned on him became meaningful.

“You seem like you want to run?”

As Seles’ voice fell, Danqiu Yibai felt his heart stop for a beat.

“Run?”

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Although he did not understand how the Dark Elf before him had so quickly seen through his intention to flee, Danqiu Yibai still kept the calmest expression he could manage on his face.

“I was just thinking… why would you Dark Elves, who have always lived in the underground world, invade the Main World… and of course, I, I am also wondering why there is someone as strong as you among you…”

“Mm? You mean I am very strong?”

Hearing that, the Elven girl’s eyes lit up, then curved into crescents.

Her pretty Elven face blossomed with a delighted smile that made it hard not to stop and stare.

One could say that if he ignored the pressure threatening his life coming from the girl, Danqiu Yibai would have to admit that the Elven girl before him had a charm that could make a person’s heart move.

“Of course I know I am strong. Though actually, I was not this amazing before. But because of some reasons, I had no choice but to become this strong.”

Reasons?

Danqiu Yibai stayed silent.

He could not understand why this Dark Elf, after noticing he wanted to escape, still chose not to fight him and instead just talked about something else.

Danqiu Yibai had no interest in that kind of story.

However, under the crushing pressure, he still put on an attitude of listening respectfully, while at the same time thinking hard about how to escape.

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After all, he was no match, and now that he had a True Template he did not want to die here. So slipping away while the Dark Elf in front of him was not paying attention was the best way to handle this.

“Well, the source of my power is actually very easy, you know. I just have to hold on to the strongest emotions.”

“Intense emotions are actually very easy to maintain, right?”

“Well, I feel like you would not understand even if I explained. Still, I do not have any ill will toward you. After all, strength is only secondary for me. What I want to do now, and the only thing I want to do, is to take back everything I lost before.”

Seles spoke with a smile, as if she had no intention of making a move at all.

Yet after hearing Seles’ words, Danqiu Yibai’s heart was full of doubt.

She wants to take back what she lost?

Why did that sound like the plot of some melodramatic third-rate script?

Of course, that complaint existed only in the deepest part of Danqiu Yibai’s heart. For him, what mattered most was the line Seles had just said, that she had no ill will toward him.

“You want to reclaim what you want?”

He murmured Seles’s words under his breath. At the same time, he more or less understood that Seles did not intend to attack him.

The Dark Elf before him did not want to make a move against him.

Strictly speaking, the NPCs from the underground world were not truly an “invasion”.

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Instead, it was because the Elven girl before him wanted to take back some lost “treasure” or some kind of precious “thing” that so many troops had been sent.

In reality, the NPCs from the underground world did not have his territory as their target, they had just happened to appear on his lands.

Of course, all of this was just Danqiu Yibai filling in the gaps in his own mind. Although he faintly felt that he had already guessed the truth, the war had already broken out and there was no way the two sides could just return to peace that easily.

Even so, the Elven girl before him had said so much without attacking, which could still be taken as a sign of goodwill.

“Phew… since you do not have any ill will toward me, does that mean your goal is actually not to fight us or seize my territory?”

After thinking so much, Danqiu Yibai was ready to have a proper talk with Seles.

What surprised him was that after hearing his words, the Elven girl in front of him tilted her small face in puzzlement.

“Mm? What are you talking about?”

“Not wanting to fight you? Why would you say that?”

Seles showed an utterly baffled expression.

“All I said was that I do not have ill will toward you. I never said I would not fight you. You are really strange, you know?”

“You…”

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“Forget it, I do not feel like talking to you anymore. Feels like a weird outsider is not worth my breath.”

As Seles said this, one mysterious magic circle after another began appearing out of thin air behind her.

“Instant cast… no, even a Legendary Magician can only instant cast one B-rank spell at a time… yet she just instant cast over a hundred spells…”

Looking at the dense cluster of magic circles that had suddenly appeared behind Seles, Danqiu Yibai felt his scalp go numb.

“Wh… what kind of monster is this… she is clearly the same rank as me, just a Legendary…”

Complaining like that would not help him.

Then, before Danqiu Yibai’s eyes, powerful spells shot out from those magic circles that had appeared and flew toward him at extreme speed.

“I cannot take them head on, I can only dodge.”

Although the sight of hundreds of instant cast spells made his scalp prickle, Danqiu Yibai still managed to choose the best possible way to respond in this crisis.

‘While dodging I also have to get closer. When you are dealing with a Mage, the best way to fight is at close range…’

As he thought this, Danqiu Yibai started searching within the all-encompassing barrage of magical attacks for any chance that would let him stay alive.