My mom is waiting for treatment, and you're summoning me to be a hero?

"Creation".

Hearing the Star Elf King use this word to describe himself, Yin Xue was stunned and repeated it.

The king looked up at her, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

"Yes, Creator. Back then, the Sun Elves and Moon Elves were fighting fiercely within the Elven race, and the Star Elves were caught in the middle and disliked by both sides. At that time, I decided to lead the entire race away from the Elven Forest to find a new home. We wandered outside for a long time and finally met a god. He placed us here, on the moon. At first, we created monsters here."

He paused, seemingly organizing his thoughts.

"The gods need to send demons onto the continent. He said the continent needs a threat; without a threat, there will be no heroes, and without heroes, there will be no papacy."

"Initially, we did produce a batch of qualified products that were highly adaptable, reproduced quickly, and would actively attack humans. These were released onto the mainland and became what you later called 'monsters'."

"Then we created the Bloodline."

The king looked at Yin Xue, his tone calm and unaffected, without any sentimentality or remorse, simply stating the facts.

"She wasn't born naturally. We took the bloodlines of two Star Elf royal families... fused them together using a magic circle, infused them with spiritual power, shaped them, and activated them. She is the pinnacle of Star Elf creation technology. Blood magic, teleportation arrays, combat instincts—we designed every combat ability we could think of into her soul framework, but what she displayed far exceeded our set limits. She is the most perfect creation we have ever made."

Yin Xue remained silent.

Her expression was calm, so calm it was almost unnatural.

Lin Mo had seen her excitedly shouting during battle, seen her casually drinking tree sap at the Dragon City banquet, and seen her roll her eyes at him for not understanding teleportation arrays.

But now she just stood there, her slender figure motionless in the silver halo, as if someone had pressed the pause button.

"and then?"

Her voice was very soft.

"Then the gods lost interest in us."

"The king said."

"What he wanted wasn't a perfect creation, but a batch of standardized products that could be mass-produced. Yin Xue was too unique, so unique that we simply couldn't replicate her. We tried countless times afterward, but all we made were ordinary monsters. They could fight, but they weren't smart enough, they had no self-awareness, and they were incapable of growing. The gods thought we were useless."

"But he discovered that the Star Elves had another value."

The king raised his head and looked at the two thick, transparent pipes above him.

Inside the tube, pale blue spiritual energy was still flowing slowly at a fixed frequency, emitting a faint humming sound.

"The Star Elves' spiritual power resonates with the stars by nature. The gods discovered that if we extract our spiritual power, compress it, transform it, and project it onto the continent, we can accelerate the growth of monsters and the birth of the Beast King."

Lin Mo said calmly, "So you've been imprisoned here."

Lin Mo's words made the king sigh, but the queen sitting beside him gently took his hand and wrapped his fingers in her pale, slender palm.

The king continued.

"Before being completely imprisoned, we did one last thing: we sent Yin Xue away. We used our last remaining spiritual energy to activate a teleportation array, sending her to the mainland and putting her into a deep sleep. We just wanted her to live, to live freely on the mainland."

After he finished speaking, the inner hall fell silent again.

Mianmian peeked out from Lin Mo's collar, her dark eyes darting back and forth between the King and Yin Xue, before finally tilting her head up to look at Lin Mo's chin and letting out a soft "woo," as if asking, "What's wrong with Sister Yin Xue?"

Lin Mo raised his hand and gently pressed her head with his fingers, without saying a word.

Yin Xue finally moved.

She raised her hand, looked down at her slender fingers, then looked at the back of her hand, before putting her hand down and letting it hang at her side.

Her voice was two octaves lower than usual, and her speech was much slower.

"So I always thought I was a homeless demon king, but it turns out... I wasn't even a demon king. I was just an experiment."

"You are not a guinea pig!"

The king's voice suddenly rose for a moment, then quickly subsided and returned to normal.

"You are the best life we ​​created. We didn't give you a normal childhood, we didn't give you a home. That...that's our incompetence, not your problem."

Yin Xue opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

She didn't cry, she didn't get angry, she just stood there with her chin slightly raised.

He still had that arrogant posture, but he wasn't as cocky as usual.

The scene fell silent for a moment.

Lin Mo was the first to notice that the Star Elf Queen was staring at him with curiosity in her eyes.

"What's wrong with her?"

Lin Mo felt a little uncomfortable under her gaze.

The king glanced at the queen, his tone softening, carrying a hint of barely perceptible tenderness.

"She can't speak, but her mental perception is sharper than anyone else's. She said you have an incomplete skill."

Lin Mo frowned.

The first thing that came to mind was the skill I had recently acquired.

"Death in the arena."

The Queen nodded and stood up from the stone slab, her movements very light, as if afraid of disturbing something.

She walked up to Lin Mo, reached out her hand, and touched his chest with her fingertips.

Her fingers were icy cold; you could feel the chill even through her black robe.

A magic circle suddenly unfolded beneath her fingertips.

The dark purple patterns are precise and symmetrical, belonging to the same rune system as the teleportation array inside the Star Stone, but with a more complete structure.

The few law lines that appeared abruptly broken in Alduin's legacy have been reconnected in this magic circle, presenting a sense of natural order.

The magic circle flashed and disappeared, merging into Lin Mo's body.

A warm current surged into my chest and spread along my meridians to my limbs and bones.

The law imprint of the Death Arena began to reorganize itself in the sea of ​​consciousness, and the original incomplete and broken law lines were reconnected and completed by new patterns.

Lin Mo immediately checked the description of this skill in the attribute panel.

In addition to the original ones, there is now another line.

[The power accumulated in the arena upon death can be channeled into the next attack.]

Lin Mo's lips twitched, which meant that he could gain a 10-fold increase in strength without having to drag the other party into the Death Arena.

Come to think of it, this is the strength a talent skill should have.

"Thanks."

Lin Mo nodded to the Queen.

The Queen smiled slightly, withdrew her hand, turned around and walked back to the stone slab, where she sat down again.

The movements were slow and gentle, as if they had just finished a trivial task.

The king watched this scene, and his relief lasted only a moment before turning into anxiety.

"Alright. You should go now."

Let's go together.

Yin Xue's voice had returned to normal, and was even more resolute than usual.

"I can use a teleportation array to take you there. Once you're back, the continent is blessed by the Law of Life, has ancient trees of life, and..."

"Our vitality has long since withered away."

The king interrupted her, speaking calmly as if stating a fact he had long accepted.

"Having lain here for a thousand years, it's long past its limit; there's no way it could leave alive."

Yin Xue opened his mouth: "We have to try, just in case..."

The Queen looked at her and gently shook her head.

The head-shaking motion was very small, but the meaning in his eyes was very clear... No need to say more.

"You should hurry up and leave too."

The king said, his voice carrying an undisguised urgency.

"This base is guarded by two angels who possess the ability to kill instantly. No matter how high their level or how strong their defense, once they are hit by their attack, they will die instantly."

"Immediate death?"

Lin Mo repeated the two words.

"Ignores level, ignores defense, ignores law resistance. One touch and you die; there are no immunity options."

The king looked at Lin Mo, his deep purple eyes filled with seriousness.

"You're not afraid of death, but that little spider on your shoulder and Yin Xue might not be able to withstand it, so hurry up and leave."

Just then, a voice came from outside the door.

The sound came slowly and steadily from the end of the corridor.

Each syllable carried a condescending indifference, echoing back and forth in the empty corridor.

"Lin Mo. The divine being has tolerated you time and time again, but you have gone too far."