"Asteria... Goddess!"

Liu's voice was shattered in the wind, and his legs suddenly lost strength. By the time he reacted, he had already rushed towards the goddess he had been thinking about, kneeling in front of the tea table, and resting his forehead on the goddess' knees.

Astralia's white dress had a sun-kissed scent mixed with a faint white plum scent, completely different from the blood-stained hug three years ago.

"Thank you for your hard work."

The goddess's hand fell on Liu's green hair, and the movement of her fingertips running through the hair was like soothing a frightened little animal.

The soft palm was incredibly warm, as if it could melt the ice that had remained on the elf's body for years.

"sorry Sorry……"

Liu's sobs were muffled between the goddess' knees. She wanted to say something but couldn't stop sobbing. She just clenched her fingers tightly around the hem of Astraea's clothes, like a drowning man grabbing at the last piece of driftwood.

The tears that had been suppressed for three years finally burst out, leaving dark marks on the goddess's white dress.

"Lyu, thank you for your hard work..."

Astraea held the elf girl tightly in her arms, and after waiting for a few minutes, she gently lifted the elf's face.

The moonlight shone through the cherry blossom branches, falling mottled upon Liu's tear-stained face. The goddess wiped away the tears with her thumb, her movements as gentle as if she were wiping dust off a holy object.

"Look up, Ryu."

Astraea's voice carried the weight of an oracle, yet was gentler than any human words.

When Liu finally dared to look directly into those blue eyes, he found that there was neither blame nor pity in them... only waiting as pure as the first snow.

"I made your favorite evening primrose tea."

The goddess pushed the teacup in front of Liu, steam rising between them. She smiled slightly, "Would you like some honey? Just like before..."

The words stopped abruptly.

They simultaneously remembered that this sentence should have been said by a red-haired girl who was always absent.

"Um……"

Liu responded softly, the fragrance of evening primrose lingering at the tip of her nose. In a trance, she seemed to hear that energetic voice again.

"Ryu, tell me about your story over the past three years."

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Chapter 80 Level Upgrade, LV5 Level 1 Adventurer!

"Ryu, tell me about your story over the past three years."

Astraea's fingertips gently touched the back of Liu's hand, and then the goddess's gaze passed over her and fell on Xingjian behind her. The corners of her lips raised slightly, and a hint of cunning flashed in her eyes:

"By the way, could you please introduce the...boyfriend behind you?"

"No, not that kind of relationship!"

Liu's green hair suddenly exploded into a few strands, like a frightened cat's tail. He waved his hands in panic, and a few drops of evening primrose tea in the teacup spilled out, leaving small water marks on the tea table.

"We're just... colleagues at the tavern, and good friends... It's definitely not the kind of relationship that Goddess Astraea imagines..."

The elf girl's voice became smaller and smaller, and the last few words almost disappeared in the night wind.

Astraea leaned forward slightly, the breasts on her chest swaying slightly with the movement. She narrowed her eyes slightly, revealing a smile that saw through everything, and asked softly again:

"Really just friends?"

The tips of Liu's ears were red, almost dripping blood. He lowered his head, his fingers unconsciously twisting the corners of his clothes, and muttered in an almost inaudible voice:

"We haven't sworn an oath to each other yet... under the moonlight of the Elf Forest back home... so it doesn't count..."

"Oops~"

Goddess Astraea suddenly clapped her hands, making the teacups clink. "My Liu is still so old-fashioned! But..."

Goddess Astraea suddenly leaned close to the elf's red ears and said in a low voice, "In the human world, a popular boy like Hoshimi... might have already been taken by the cat girl in the tavern or the young doctor in the hospital, right?"

Liu raised his head suddenly, his lake-blue eyes shrank violently, and images flashed through his mind uncontrollably—

The cat girl Anya's wagging tail brushed against Xingjian's arm, and the black cat Chloe pestered Xingjian every day, asking if she could fart...

The staggered breathing of Ahmed, the young doctor from [Dean Kate Family], as she stood on tiptoe to bandage him...

There was even the rare smile of the blonde swordswoman Ais as she held a fried potato ball...

Ryuton felt something was wrong.

"W-what? We need to hurry up...the rice has already been cooked...?"

After the goddess Astralia whispered in his ear, Liu began to unconsciously repeat the goddess' dangerous words. After he finished speaking, he realized that he had said something wrong and was instantly petrified.

Astraea smiled triumphantly. "You've lived as a god for hundreds of millions of years. Do you need me to teach you a few tricks? Like pretending you're cursed and needing true love's kiss..."

"Goddess!"

Liu was finally ashamed and angry to the point of exhaustion. Steam was almost coming out of his head. He curled up like a cooked shrimp, his fingers unconsciously drawing circles on the ground. His pointed elf ears were red and transparent, and even the ends of his hair seemed to be steaming. It was completely impossible to tell that this was the "Ace Afterimage" that the dark faction was afraid of.

Astraea couldn't help laughing at the useless look of her family member and patted her head gently: "Okay, I won't tease you anymore."

The goddess' expression gradually softened.

"Now, can you tell me what happened in the past three years?"

Liu took a deep breath and was about to speak——

"and many more."

Xingjian suddenly stepped forward, pulled out a strange device, and said softly, "Ryu, your oral account may not be complete. Use this to show Goddess Astraea her complete memory."

It was a silver head-mounted device connected to a small projector, with a faint blue light flowing on its surface.

Props: Memory Display (Memory Projector).

Effect: Wear it on your head and set the time to project what the person sees during a certain period of time.

From: Nobita couldn't find his lucky money because there was also a portion of Doraemon's money in it. In order to find the lost red envelope, the blue fat man took out the memory projector and projected Nobita's memory to see where the lucky money fell.

On the way, Nobita picked up an empty candy box, watched wild dogs fighting and was chased by a dog, but did not drop his New Year's money. Then he helped a child fly a kite and it got stuck on a telephone pole. Later, he met Fat Tiger and Suneo who played a prank on him by taking pictures with a camera that would pop out fake mice. Doraemon was scared when he saw the mice and ran away.

Later, Shizuka came to visit and found Nobita looking at her cousin. She was very angry, and Nobita tried to stop her.

Later in the scene, Nobita ran to the toilet because he drank too much, and Shizuka was shocked——

How dare you show me such a weird movie! !

So he left angrily...

Later Doraemon said let’s watch it again, starting from an earlier time!

It was finally discovered that Doraemon took the money for safekeeping before Nobita went out for fear that he would lose it, but both of them forgot about it. Nobita blamed Doraemon for being as forgetful as him.

……

Liu stared blankly at the unfamiliar prop, then looked up at Astraea. The goddess nodded gently, "Yes, I really want to see what the world looks like through Liu's eyes."

Xingjian gently put the instrument on Liu's head, and his fingertips accidentally brushed against the tip of her ear, causing the elf to tremble again.

Xingjian adjusted the time knob: "When does it start?"

"From the day I left Orario."

Astraea whispered.

Xingjian pressed the start button, the instrument emitted a soft hum, and a beam of light shot out from the projector, projecting a clear image on the white wall of the courtyard -

On the night of the annihilation of the clan, in the empty clan base, Liu was kneeling on the ground, soaking wet, with the blood-stained clan badge in her hand.

The memory was so vivid that even the sound of the wind outside the window seemed to reappear in her ears. Astralia's blue eyes trembled slightly, and she unconsciously tightened the teacup in her hand.

The sound of rain in the picture gradually subsides, and the scene changes like fading ink -

Deep in the dungeon's rocky depths, Ryu stood alone before a massive white skeleton. The Zagnath, who had once annihilated Astralia's family, was now nothing more than a hollow shell, like a cicada shell drained of its life force.

The tip of the elf's wooden blade gently scraped across the monster's pale carapace, leaving a hollow echo. Within this body, not even a trace of resentment that could warrant revenge existed.

【Thus, the blade of revenge turned towards the human world.】

Three years ago, in the dark alleys of Orario, the figure of a blonde elf transformed into gray lightning, the wooden sword in his hand stained with the blood of different people: the remnants of the dark faction, and the corrupt officials of the guild.

[She used all means to kill almost all the people involved in the incident.]

Astraea, who was outside the projection, clenched her teacup and watched attentively.

[Ryu cut the throat of a noble in the rainstorm, letting the man's blood and the rain wash over his trembling hands.]

[The wanted poster has a reward of 8000 million Faris and a cold note: "Life or death, regardless."]

Guild staff and members of the Ganesha Familia, the city's military police, spoke privately: "Just pretend you didn't see it... Gale cleans up the scum that deserves to go to hell."

[Under the circumstances of "Hayate" using all means, he finally wiped out all the dark faction collaborators lurking in the guild, ending the dark period of Orario.]

(The main force of the dark faction was almost wiped out by Finn and others six years ago, and she only eliminated the remaining remnants).

"Ji Feng" has become a hero in the hearts of ordinary people.

Later--

In the bloody dawn, a bloodstained figure stumbled through the alleys of Orario. Ryu's blond hair was stained with blood, and the wound on his abdomen continued to bleed, leaving a winding trail on the cobblestone road.

Revenge was accomplished, but her life also came to an end.

Just as her consciousness was about to fade away, a pair of warm hands supported her.

The gray-haired girl Xier from the tavern didn't ask much, but just whispered "Please hold on" and prepared to take her back to the "Mistress of Bounty".

But the remnants of the secret faction were hunting them down. Just when they were in crisis, a black-haired boy appeared in time and prevented the worst from happening.

He used a strange flying prop to send Liu and the gray-haired girl to the "Hostes of Bounty" tavern. Because the prop was damaged during the journey, the free-falling people smashed the doors and windows of the tavern.

The dwarf proprietress Mia cursed and tore off her clothes, treating her wounds roughly but accurately. When Liu woke up and insisted on turning himself in to the guild, Mia directly threatened with a frying pan that she would need a large amount of compensation for destroying the tavern, and then threw Liu into the staff dormitory.

【The turning point of fate happened that night.】

Liu, still struggling to recover, stood on the rooftop of the tavern, watching the unfamiliar black-haired boy busy in the courtyard. Suddenly, countless potted plants rose into the air, forming a dazzling sea of ​​flowers in the night.

That night, a human boy named Hoshimi made a promise to an elf girl:

"I will definitely rescue all members of Astraea's family."

Although Liu thought the boy was joking, after all, all members of the Asteria Family had been wiped out three years ago, and she was the only one who survived. How could she save the dead now?

Unless you go back to the past before the disaster comes, but this is impossible.

But even so, Liu's life gradually became colorful:

In the dimly lit dungeon passage, Ryu's wooden sword and Hoshimi's strange gadgets work together to rescue members of the Mihe clan from the minotaur.

When Xingjian killed the LV2 baby dragon with her Lv1 body, the splattering dragon blood reflected the long-lost redness on her face of shock.

[Black Fist] Lunova's fatal blow was blocked by Liu, while [Black Cat] Chloe's poison blade was blocked by Hoshimi's electric sword that could only defend but not attack.

In the end, the bounty hunters and assassins became the new employees of the tavern...

In front of the tomb of the sword and staff on the 18th floor, Ryu burst into tears for the first time before meeting the stars, and sprinkled the tears accumulated over the years on the favorite flowers of Alyse, Kaguya, Leila and others.

In the fierce battle with the mutated Black Goliath on the 17th floor, Xing Jian took out a slingshot and a fire stone and severely injured the floor owner, bringing new hope to the critical battle situation.

And now, after countless adventures, the two finally stood under the cherry blossom trees in the Sword City.

Liu's fingertips gently touched the wooden sword at his waist. It was no longer a weapon of revenge, but a vow to protect his new life.

[The night wind blows by, and the sounds of forging in the distance intertwine with the sound of wind chimes nearby, as if telling the story of a journey spanning blood and tears.]

………………

The light of the camera gradually went out, and the last trace of light dissipated in the cherry blossom rain in the courtyard.

Liu knelt stiffly in front of the tea table, his fingertips sinking deeply into his palms.

Those bloody memories, dark tactics, and paranoid revenge—all were seen clearly by the person he cherished most.

She didn't dare look up, afraid to see disgust in the goddess' eyes, just like she always saw in the mirror.

But the next second, warmth suddenly surrounded her.

The sleeves of Astraea's white dress spread out like wings, embracing the trembling elf girl in her arms. The goddess's long brown hair fell down, gently brushing Liu's cheek with the breath of sunshine.

The pair of eyes known as the "purest blue" were right in front of me, and what was filled in them was not disappointment, but overflowing heartache.

"It hurts..."

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