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The question mark raised by Xue's Law is not to indicate that he himself has a problem, but rather that he thinks there is a problem with this half-elf.

Girl, you're overthinking things. What do you mean I did something to you? Or do you suspect I drugged you?
With your dirty hood and your thin body, are you perhaps on par with Fafnir?
You inexplicably harbor a great deal of hostility towards me, yet your favorability towards me is skyrocketing...

Wait... the favorability rating is rising...

Xue's Law seems to have realized something was wrong.

He has two debuffs: one is "Human Protection," which means that all humans have at least 60 points of initial favorability towards him.

There is also [Fairy Love], which greatly increases the fairy's affection for you.

He deeply resented these two debuffs, feeling that he had gotten himself into trouble without doing anything, and that he might as well have a taunt aura or a group intelligence-reducing aura.

However, in reality, it is difficult for these two debuffs to take full effect on the same unit.

Purebred humans probably only consume the favorability gained from human protection.

Purebred elves or fairies are likely to be affected by Fairy Love and, in some cases, Human Blessing debuffs.

As for other strange humanoid or subhuman races, they will probably take both debuffs, but only a small amount, enough to maintain an initial favorability level of around 50.

But half-elves are different. They are both human and fairy, suffering from both debuffs to the fullest, and might even enjoy additional favorability bonuses...

Therefore, as long as Xue Law stands here, the half-elf's favorability will skyrocket.

Why wasn't this problem discovered before?
Because Xue Law had only seen Fafnir, a living half-elf, before, but Fafnir's favorability towards him had always been 89, and her outward behavior was the same as before, so Xue Law did not feel anything unusual. At most, he just felt that Fafnir seemed to be more clingy to him recently.

But now, judging from this half-elf's performance, things might get really funny.

At the same time, the half-elf instantly misunderstood. The moment she saw Xue Luding, her favorability rating soared to 80. In that instant, she felt her heart pounding wildly for no reason, accompanied by twitching, and her whole body felt inexplicably hot.

The indescribable flutter in her heart was so intense that for a moment she didn't think of love, but rather that she had been drugged!

Therefore, she remained highly vigilant and endured the sensation in her body that seemed to be entering a period of intense sexual activity, using her limited mental capacity to think.

He discovered that the noble lady, who was also a newcomer, was perfectly normal; only he was experiencing problems.

And after seeing Xue's Law, this feeling became particularly intense, and she felt that she must have been drugged by the priest in front of her, or that he had done something to her.

There was no way around it; she wasn't the type to be blinded by love. Even when her body sent her primal urges to reproduce, she could forcefully suppress them and think about how to resolve the problem.

She didn't dislike the priest, whether it was an instinctive physical reaction or a product of her rational thinking.

Even the light emanating from him felt warm and welcoming, something she, a rat living in the gutter, had never experienced.

However, she wouldn't just fall in love with a stranger for no reason, no matter who the other person was. At the same time, this conflict between reason and emotion was more like a battle between the left and right hemispheres of her brain, so the outward manifestation was that she was hissing like a kitten.

Xue Law: "..."

See? This debuff on me is starting to cause trouble, isn't it?
"Lord Lao, do you have any water to wash off? Can I wash away these two filthy protective auras?" Xue Dinglu complained to the mimicking Lord Lao.

"Are you talking to me? What does Lord Lao mean?" the Mimic King retorted, but still said, "Generally speaking, blessings are pure good wishes, and they are mostly positive effects. It's just that the effects might be too strong. However, I can indeed remove these two blessings, but it will cause irreparable damage to the benefactor who received the blessing. Are you sure you want to erase these two blessings?"

"Well... never mind, are there any other better ways?" Xue asked.

“Yes, you can just find the source of the protection and have them remove it,” the Mimic King proposed a second solution.

Xue Law: "..."

He felt that if he found the source of these two blessings, it wouldn't just be that he could remove them; instead, these two blessings would undergo a super-evolution, and he might even be beaten to his knees and dragged into a secret room...

"Then there is a third way, which is to wear Hassan's mask. This mask will completely transform you into another state, while concealing all your original aura, as if you have become a completely new individual. It is just like putting a disguise on you on all levels."

“I understand, the suited man, right?” Xue Dinglu immediately took out Hassan’s mask.

At the masquerade ball, everyone wore masks, except for Xue Lude and Hassan.

Xue's reason was that he was a newcomer and didn't yet have a mask, while Hassan's was because his previous void power had already overflowed uncontrollably, and he probably didn't want the void power to contaminate his mask.

Furthermore, for Hassan, whether or not he wore a mask was no longer important, since the power of nothingness had completely covered his body, and he had become a humanoid nothingness monster.

Looking at this half-elf, she seemed very uncomfortable making eye contact with Xue Luding, so she slowly turned her head away.

“You may have misunderstood something. I didn’t do anything to you. It’s just that I saved a fairy queen before, and in gratitude, she gave me a blessing called ‘Fairy Love.’ The abnormality you felt was probably just the effect of this blessing on you.” Xue Dinglu said, and began to put on Hassan’s mask.

It was a comical clown mask, a gilded comedic face with exaggeratedly upturned corners of the mouth. Anyone who saw it felt as if all smiles were superimposed on it, and their mouths would even uncontrollably tear to their ears.

However, as soon as Xue Dinglu put on the mask, the half-elf instantly felt that the strange feeling and attraction disappeared. She breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, a feeling of "loss" rose in her heart.

Seeing Xue Luding wearing this mask, she slowly said, "Thank you... I misunderstood you before..."

Perhaps there's also guilt.

Xue Law doesn't know, but in any case, her favorability rating has reached 89.

Xue Law: "..."

What the heck? How come your favorability rating is so ridiculously high? Even Fafnir, who has the highest favorability rating against me so far, only has this much favorability rating.
Xue Dinglu couldn't help but complain, saying that the half-elf race is really something else, as they get a full load of debuffs whenever they see Xue Dinglu.

The two were huddled against the wall in a corner of the hall of the abandoned castle. Not far away was the noble lady, and a little further away was the baron.

In the middle of the group was a ball of holy light that provided warmth.

The object, hand-rubbed by Xue, resembles a small sun that continuously radiates heat, providing illumination while also offering warmth to others.

This is why no one doubted Xue Luding's claim of being a priest; after all, his ability to manipulate holy light was truly astonishing to people in the low-magic world.

The castle is located by the coast, and when you lean against the wall, you can almost hear the sound of the sea, as if the waves are right behind you.

"Father, do you have no prejudice against half-elves?" the half-elf asked slowly, still burying his face in his hood.

Xue Law: "..."

Oh no, why does this feel like it's coming for me?
Is it about to come up with some nonsensical phrase like "The moonlight is so beautiful" or "You are so gentle"?

Xue was very sensitive to this kind of thing, mainly because he had experienced so much that he had become numb to it. "Hmm..." he simply replied with a lukewarm response.

“I don’t know who my father is, but I do know that 17 years ago, the Elf King personally led an army to war against the Duchy. My village was one of the battlefields at that time, and I am the bastard child left in my mother’s womb by some unknown elf…”

Looking at Xue Luding's sphere of holy light, feeling its warmth, and hearing the sound of the sea behind her, she slowly recounted her past.

Xue Law: "..."

Even the Mimic King seemed to see Xue's predicament and complained, "What's wrong with you sweating so much? I didn't see you this nervous when you faced the First Apostle's oppression in the Mist Council."

"Quiet, I want some peace and quiet..." Xue Luding dispelled the unreliable Mimic King, telling Him to either watch quietly, or start thinking about how to find the Seventh Apostle, or how to complete the ritual without killing anyone.

"It's actually very simple. I can complete the ritual without killing them. Others may be helpless against this ritual that the Seventh Apostle created through his authority, but I happen to be an expert."

“Wait a moment, continue with the storyline. I can even replace the original ritual with your ‘Innovation Era’ ritual,” said the Mimic King. “At that time, you can even replace the Seventh Apostle and become the world consciousness of this subspace.”

"Okay... can we skip the story?"

"No."

……

Xue Law actually thought the Mimic King's plan was alright. He could replace this ritual with his own and then kill the Seventh Apostle.

Now, all you have to do is prepare to continue listening to this half-elf's story.

In fact, a lot of information can be gleaned from her demeanor. This half-elf is very insecure and deliberately dresses herself up in a dirty manner, while also carrying weapons such as daggers and spikes for self-defense.

Her life was tough, but it also gave her a very strong inner strength. Her so-called breath was just a way to protect herself. Most importantly, even with the double debuff of Xue's Law, she could still rationally perceive that there was something wrong with her body.

This also matches the story she told.

She was born during a war between elves and duchies, the bastard child of some unknown elf and a village girl, and was abandoned in the mountains by her mother shortly after birth.

Fortunately, the half-elf endowed her with strength far exceeding that of a human infant. Even right after birth, she could instinctively seek survival. And, by sheer luck, perhaps because there is always a way out, a doe who had just given birth saw her and began to raise her.

She lived in the mountains for several years, and after the doe died of old age, she left the forest to search for her origins and homeland.

She discovered her past, but her mother had died long ago, supposedly captured by the army, and news of her death soon followed.

The village had been completely abandoned, and she had to find more than a dozen villagers who had survived in other places to piece together her background.

Thus, he hid his half-elf identity in human society, living a life of the lowest caste.

Clean chimneys, unclog sewers, wash stables, or take on jobs hunting wild animals outside the city.

As a half-elf, she lived like this, feeling unable to integrate into human cities, nor able to live alone in the forest like an elf.

As for going to find the elf to recognize her relatives, she guessed that once she saw the elf, she wouldn't be able to resist secretly taking out her sharp awl and thinking of backstabbing the elf.

In short, a girl living in the cracks.

She considers herself human, but she cannot integrate into the human world, nor can she live alone in the forest like an elf.

This sense of identity distortion and discomfort prevented her from becoming either a human or an elf.

So I just lived like that, taking it one day at a time, and when I ran out of money, I would take on jobs. Then, after I had spent most of the money I earned, I would go back to work.

He did all sorts of petty theft, including burglary and grave robbing, but he never caused any major trouble.

“Perhaps to those in higher positions, someone like me who sells his body for work is no different from those prostitutes.” She said, slowly stroking the dagger in her hand, “Both are cheap things that can be bought with a meager amount of money.”

As the half-elf girl slowly recounted her story, Xue Dinglu could only shrug.

It's terrible, but he's numb to it now, and his heart isn't even a little affected.

Xue Dinglu then realized that he had changed a lot. He had seen too many tragedies, so his threshold had become so high that even when he heard such stories, he would only calmly say, "So that's how it is."

Perhaps, after the Seventh Apostle died, it would be better for her to leave her home in the subspace and go to the real universe?
Xue Falun thought so.

The two chatted slowly like this; the baron seemed to be resting, while the noble lady appeared to have fallen asleep leaning against the wall.

The four agreed to take turns keeping watch: Xue Luding and the half-elf would keep watch for the first half of the night, while the others would keep watch for the second half.

Furthermore, Xue's Law states that if anything unusual happens, one should scream loudly. This Holy Light Orb has a sound-sensitive function, and when the sound is loud, it can burst out with even more powerful light, even to the point of throwing an eight-point light wheel into the darkness.

Although it's abstract, Xue's Law is indeed crafting this holy light orb according to the specifications of a defensive tower.

The sound of waves rose behind him. The waves on this island of vengeful spirits were indeed quite large. Before Xue Dinglu even touched the wall, he could feel the powerful roar of the waves behind him.

"Am I the first one to die?" she suddenly asked.

"Don't worry, it won't happen. I said I would protect you." Xue Dinglu said this time with more seriousness.

After all, he came here to kill the Seventh Apostle.

The waves crashed and shattered among the rocks, and the basalt base of the ancient castle, long since eroded into a honeycomb pattern, now groaned sickly with the surging waves.

On the highest terrace, shadows writhed, and ghosts formed from seawater danced a swirling dance, their bodies growing human limbs with each wave's reshaping. When lightning cleaved the clouds, the chests of these transparent figures were clearly visible, each adorned with the same rusted iron plates as the castle's coat of arms.

[Upon seeing this stele, the courtesans felt as if they were wandering towards the Yellow Springs.]

The waves seemed to still be behind them, but in the next instant, the half-elf was horrified to find himself being gripped tightly by countless hands reaching out from the seawater. They were supposed to be in the castle, so why was there suddenly water...?

Even more strangely, why are there countless hands in the water?

She tried to make a sound, but as soon as she opened her mouth, a sudden surge of water pressure nearly pierced her lungs.

Several veterans watching from afar smiled and said, "It's finally begun. Our ultimate mission, the mission that will allow us to return to our original world..."

"The first to die was a courtesan!"

They tore up the identity plaque that identified her as a courtesan and threw it into the water, where it slowly sank. (End of Chapter)