Lathel raised her head and saw a girl wearing a cloak and a mask covering her face. However, he still recognised her as an elf thanks to her characteristic long ears.
“You are…” Lathel frowned and asked.
“You are not worthy to know my name, you dirty human.” The masked girl spoke up, her voice carrying disdain as if she were looking at a maggot.
Lathel: “…”
‘Are all elves in this world arrogant? As soon as we meet, they immediately call the other person dirty and rotten. It seems… humanity in this world is looked down upon too seriously.’
“She’s right.” Iritellis avoided Lathel’s arm, stood up, and said: “You should find another place to hide; she came to find me.”
“Why? Does she want to save you?” Lathel frowned and said.
“Save me? Hahahaha… Are you kidding me?” Iritellis smiled and said: “She came to kill me, right? Venfina.”
“Don’t say my name.” “You make me feel nauseous, you dirty Dark-Elf,” Venfina said uncomfortably.
“Dark-elves like you are already very dirty; you even worship the ‘Goddess of Lust’; talking to people like you makes me feel like I want to vomit.”
Venfina saw the shackles on Iritellis’s arms, legs, and neck and snorted in contempt: “Huh! How humiliating! You are being enslaved by humans; you are tarnishing the honour of the elf race.”
Iritellis wasn’t angry; she just glanced at Lathel, then sighed and said: “You’ve been chasing me for more than 10 years; don’t you feel tired?”
“Even if I chase you for more than 100 years or 1,000 years, I will not feel tired.” Venfina said contemptuously: “As long as I kill you and make the elves clean, I will never feel tired.”
“Say…” Venfina held a bow, and the surrounding winds began to gather, forming an arrow that pointed straight at Iritellis: “How do you want to die?”
Iritellis bowed her head. She looked at her arms, legs, and neck bound by the magical shackles, and she could only sigh, knowing that today was the day she would die.
“I’m so tired of running away for the past 150 years, maybe… it’s time for me to rest.” Iritellis sighed and said: “However, can you let that idiot leave?”
After saying this, she didn’t quite understand what she was thinking: ‘Ah~ I’m really crazy; I’m suddenly worrying about the safety of a dirty human male.’
‘Do I really like him? Has the curse of the ‘Eyes of Lust’ come true?’
“Hm?! Human… Killing him will only make my arrow dirtier.” Venfina said.
Lathel: ( ; ￣ Д ￣ )
‘Oy! Can you talk normally?’
‘Every time you talk about humanity, you put the words rotten, dirty, and stupid behind it. Does that make you happy?’
Iritellis suddenly walked up to him, sat down, and smiled a bit in despair: “I don’t understand why I want to save you.”
Lathel frowned. He glanced at Venfina, then looked at Iritellis and asked: “If I unlock your shackles, can you escape?”
Iritellis was startled; she did not expect that Lathel wanted to open her shackles.
However, Iritellis shook his head and said: “No need; whether there are shackles or not, the result won’t change much.”
“She is strong enough to kill me easily; you don’t need to worry about me.”
“How strange… Lathel, if I had more time, maybe I could lower my standards and start getting to know you better.”
Lathel: ( ￣ ￣ |||)
“I know you mean well, but… do you have to add the phrase ‘lowering standards’ like that?”
“Hahaha…” Iritellis smiled and said: “You are really interesting.”
Pock!
Iritellis used her index finger to point at his nose: “Run, don’t look back.”
Having finished speaking, without waiting for Lathel to answer, she stood up and looked towards Venfina.
“How nauseating…” Venfina said uncomfortably: “I didn’t think an elf would have feelings for a lowly human like him.”
“Iriteillis, your actions have only reinforced my desire to kill you and purify the elf race.”
“Huh!” Irittelis also said contemptuously: “You all consider yourself clean and noble, but… how can anyone know that your family tree is circular?”
“Hahahaha… hahahahaha…”
“Shut up!” Venfina shouted angrily. She pulled her bowstring tighter and then let go.
Whoosh!
The wind whistled as the arrow left the bow and flew straight towards Iritellis.
Iritellis was not afraid at this moment; she just calmly received that arrow with calmness and comfort.
‘After more than 200 years of hiding, finally… I can rest.’
Suddenly, in her final moments, Iritellis felt a hand pulling her backwards.
Then a warm and masculine scent hit her face, and a kind of safe feeling that she had never felt before enveloped her.
But… a warm liquid splashed onto her face, startling her.
Iritellis opened her eyes and saw Lathel embracing her; the wind arrow had pierced his arm, leaving a hole in it.
Iritellis could even see Venfina through the hole in Lathel’s arm.
‘Damn it! I didn’t think that arrow would be so powerful that it would pierce both my cloak and my arm.’
‘Fortunately, the cloak had magical protection, plus the extra layer of fire and lightning elemental energy that I used to cover my hand. If I hadn’t activated them, my hand would have disappeared…’
‘That was too strong; even my gondori was easily pierced by the arrow just now. Is this the difference in class?’
Lathel felt like crying because of the pain in his arm. He really wanted to use Cauldron, but Cauldron was in the process of recovering, and he had no more energy for him to use.
“You… what the hell are you doing?” Iritellis shouted incredulously.
“You are worth 130 million gold coins. I don’t want to just buy you and not have time to use you before you die.” Lathel spoke harshly.
“You… you are crazy!” Iritellis shouted, her eyes were wet as if she were about to cry. She didn’t understand why she wanted to cry for the person she just met.
He was just a lowly human being, an ordinary human being. Humanity reproduces a lot, and their ability to reproduce is also very strong, so the death of one person is not too meaningful.
‘However… Why does my heart hurt so much?’
Lathel also wanted to cry right now; he didn’t know where Akna had gone, but he believed that she was also facing a strong enemy like him, so she couldn’t save him right away.
‘In the end, we can only rely on ourselves.’ Lathel said silently.
He took out the red card, crushed it, and immediately the shackles on her neck, arms, and legs opened of their own accord and fell to the ground.
“You run first; I will stop her.” Lathel said.
Iritellis was very surprised when Lathel blocked Venfina’s wind arrow for her, now she was even more surprised when he unlocked the slave and let her run first.
“You… human, don’t think you’re a hero. You cannot defeat her, much less stop her.” Iritellis shouted angrily.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, another wind arrow shot towards them. Lathel didn’t think much; he just picked up the piece of space jade that Ryne had given him and swung it.
BAM!
The wind arrow and the jade fragment collided, and a magic circle appeared, instantly dissolving the wind arrow into countless gusts of wind.
“Run!” Lathel shouted, pushing Iritellis back.
Iritellis did not expect that at the most dangerous moment, the lowly human in front of her would become so brave.
Venfina would naturally not let them go, as she quickly shot out another arrow.
Whoosh!
The sound of the wind whistled again. Every time he heard that sound, Lathel shivered in fear.
However, the piece of jade that Ryne gave him did not fall to the ground but remained suspended in the air, emitting an extremely dazzling yellow aura.
A magic circle appeared like a shield, blocking Lathel’s face.
Bang!
The wind arrow collided with that magic circle, making a metallic sound. The magic circle trembled violently, but in the end it still resisted it, but the other wind arrow disappeared.
“Huh!” Venfina snorted contemptuously. In her hand, she held a leaf, which she placed on the bowstring.
The bowstring was pulled, then shot. The leaf suddenly disintegrated, turning into five blue arrows that flew quickly towards the magic circle.
Lathel saw this scene and quickly turned around, hugged Iritellis, who was standing still, and ran away.
BAM!
The magic circle could not resist the power of those arrows and immediately shattered, and the space jade also broke into countless pieces.
However, at this moment, the objects inside the jade fragment also appeared outside.
“What the…” Venfina was startled when she saw countless pieces of food, vegetables, and even beds and mattresses falling from the sky, and blocking her way.
Lathel saw this scene and immediately felt lucky: “Hehehe… luckily I have a habit of hoarding supplies, now they have saved my life.”
BAM! 𝘪𝘳.𝘤𝑜
However, before he could rejoice, another explosion rang out, and the supplies blocking the road were blown everywhere by an explosion.
Even though Venfina was wearing a mask, Lathel could sense that she was extremely angry.
“Humanity is dirty! You have successfully angered me!” Venfina said, her voice filled with hatred and anger.
“Damn it!” Lathel didn’t want to listen anymore, so he increased the speed at which he ran.
Venfina quickly chased after him. Her speed was extremely terrifying; it seemed like she only took three steps before she immediately appeared behind Lathel.
“Hold me tight.” Iritellis suddenly spoke up. 𝑖𝘳𝑎.𝒸ℴ𝘮
Lathel now had no choice but to trust her. He tried to suppress the pain in his arm, as he held Iritellis tightly in his arms.
Iritellis looked towards Venfina and swung her hand out. A stream of pink mist shot out of her hand, surrounding Venfina.
“Run!” Iritellis said loudly: “Find a hiding place, my magic can only hold her back for a while.”
Lathel heard that, and without hesitation, he used all the strength he had to run away.
Suddenly, Lathel stopped, his eyes opened wide, and he looked forward: “I think… maybe running won’t be possible.”
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