As soon as the Human Emperor Banner came out, I became the Lord of the Old Ones

Chapter 233 Gao Ce's Heart Disease

This statement caused everyone to pause slightly in surprise.

Gao Ce's eyelids and little finger twitched even more violently.

"how do you know?"

He did not deny it, but his gaze became even sharper.

The safety on the gun at his waist trembled slightly.

Xu Yan shrugged.

“Elves are very proud intelligent beings. Even after being transformed into remnants of the past, they still cherish their former glory. But in your eyes, ‘Star Archer,’ I did not see that intensely unsettling pride. Instead, I saw resistance and disgust, as if you were wearing some kind of shackle that made you very unhappy.”

Xu Yan looked around and continued to explain, "The Spirit Guard is fighting on the most dangerous front lines in the wilderness. Every day they face all kinds of strange and vicious spirits, evil spirits, strange spirits, demon spirits, and even monster spirits. The cruelty of the battles is unimaginable to those rule-makers who sit in their offices in the rear."

"Many soldiers of the Spirit Control Corps will sign contracts with evil spirits under special circumstances and become so-called 'evil spirit masters'."

"If my perception is correct, your guardian spirit should be an uncontrollable malevolent spirit, belonging to the 'possession is a crime' type."

“In the lawless wilderness, possessing a banned card is no big deal.”

"However, having arrived in Dawn City and joined the Security Bureau, which is theoretically supposed to uphold the rules of the game, one has to cover things up to some extent."

"So, I guess you had a card-making expert engrave a new illusion rune array on your sealing card, which is equivalent to giving the evil spirit a new skin and disguising it as the 'Star Archer', right?"

Gao Ce remained silent for a full minute.

Then, he laughed self-deprecatingly.

He rubbed the card reader, muttering to himself, his expression a mix of pain and pleasure.

The starlight surrounding the guardian spirit suddenly changed from a shimmering silver to a deep scarlet.

Crimson as fire, it burned away the High Elves' disguise, revealing their slightly gaunt and ferocious true forms.

The same long ears were paired with sharp fangs.

Its slender limbs end in sickle-like claws.

Its features closely resembled those of a high elf, but the blood-red light surging deep within its pupils, like fire from the abyss, made it appear extremely cold.

With slightly dark skin, it could slip into the night at any moment and become one with the shadows that devour life.

Deadshot

The core ranged unit in the Blood Elf tribe.

Blood Elves are not a natural phenomenon.

Rather, they were products of the High Elves being corrupted and transformed by vampires, or even created using blood magic.

The original blood elves were prisoners of war who unfortunately fell into enemy hands during the protracted war between the high elves and the vampires.

The vampires' initial goal was to explore the differences between the long lifespan of the high elves and their own mystery of immortality, and to extract the special factors from the high elves' bodies so that they too could have the ability to move freely in the sunlight.

After countless failed experiments, they attempted to transform the High Elves into pure killing machines. This experiment was, to some extent, successful.

While retaining the elegance, tranquility, and marksmanship of high elves, blood elves also possess the ruthlessness and bloodthirsty brutality of vampires.

But no matter how the vampire counts and dukes tried to modify it, they could never erase the unparalleled pride and yearning for freedom that lay deep within the elves' marrow.

Ultimately, the high elves and vampires were both severely weakened in the long war.

A small number of blood elf prisoners managed to break through the encirclement, reaping the benefits and establishing their own tribe.

As artificial beings with two types of blood flowing through their bodies, they hate the vampires who bring them endless suffering.

They also harbored an almost instinctive aversion to the High Elves, who were inherently arrogant and valued the purity of their bloodlines.

The rumor that "the blood of the blood elves contains the secrets of immortality of two immortal races" made them the target of capture and research by various races and forces of the Illusionary Demon Civilization, including human dynasties.

During their long escape and period of dormancy, the blood elves became increasingly extreme and cruel.

They seemed to know very well that, as an artificial race, they had absolutely no future.

The so-called survival seems to be nothing more than multiplying the pain they are destined to endure in the past, present, and future by ten, and then shooting it at those who dare to capture them with arrows sharper than those of the High Elves.

As a notorious evil spirit, the "Death Archer," transformed from the remnant soul of a blood elf, possesses a longer range and higher accuracy than the "Star Archer" of the same level, and even has a wide-range ranged attack skill.

However, establishing a mental link with the "Death Shooter" for an extended period can also lead to neurological or even mental problems for the Spirit Master.

The most common side effect is hallucination, causing the target, even an innocent person, to be seen as those who hunted blood elves in the First Age, resulting in a barrage of projectiles raining down on their heads.

Of course, judging from Long Jianhuan's nonchalant expression, he must have known about this for a long time.

Gao Ce's problem is not that serious.

“You’re right. There is indeed a new illusion rune array engraved on my sealing card. Ever since then, I’ve felt that my guardian spirit is acting strangely.”

He withdrew his guardian spirit, took out the sealing card, and handed it to Xu Yan. "What's wrong? Is there a problem with the engraving technique? Is there a conflict between the old and new rune arrays?"

"There's nothing wrong with the card itself."

Xu Yan glanced at it and shook his head, saying, "There are also card-making experts in the wilderness area. The added rune array is quite perfect, and there is no need to adjust the hardware."

"The problem is that you shouldn't paint 'Death Shooter' with a 'Star Shooter' skin."

"Both blood elves and high elves are quite proud races, and they have completely opposite understandings of blood purity. In a sense, a top archer among blood elves would rather be transformed into a smelly goblin by shapeshifting magic than pretend to be one of his close relatives, a high elf."

"Of course, since they both come from the same source, it is technically easier to disguise the former as the latter, and it is unlikely to be seen through. Moreover, as long as the spirit master's mental state is relatively stable, there should not be any major problems in the short term. At worst, the rune array can be removed after this mission is over, and the original appearance can be restored."

"Unfortunately, your mental state is not stable."

"I don't know exactly what happened to you. It's probably not as simple as what I just described, that you were expelled from the Spirit Guard Corps for injuring your superiors and intelligence officers."

“I think your anger or fear has not been completely vented. Something deep inside you resonated with the deeply insulted blood elves, causing a kind of ‘self-excitation effect’.”

(End of this chapter)