Crimson Servant

The solid ice layer was covered with a layer of flocculent red veins. In a few minutes, a large shadow formed in these veins, and the color became darker and darker, just like fruits ripening on branches, until finally, the shadow became a human shape, and a little red was revealed in the dark shadow.

Selik Snow broke through the ice and fell to the ground, naked, like a newborn, curled up in a ball. This pale, dead body was motionless at first, until a cough broke the silence and spit out ice chips, and his body twitched, like a drowning person waking up again.

The red ice chips stuck to the skin began to grow. The process of these ice chips and skin bonding was not easy. Selik suppressed the sound in his throat at first, but eventually he couldn't bear it and let out a low roar that didn't sound like a human voice. As the red ice that "born" with him covered his body, it obtained a brighter and deeper red from his blood. The red ice and skin merged into one, and Selik put on his blood-colored long clothes. He returned to his original appearance, just as complete as when he walked out of this cold cave.

The black flames ignited by the sacrificial power of Cyclonfas affected Selik's rebirth. His mind still remembered the pain of being burned by the flames. When his body was eaten away by the power that melted the red ice bit by bit, Selik, who thought he had lost his sense of pain and numbness, found his fear again.

Selik propped himself up with his arms and knelt on the ground from lying on his side. There was no one around him, only the bleak cold wind blowing through the red ice around him.

His voice was trembling, as if he really felt the cold. Selik whispered in panic, and his voice echoed in the ice cave.

[Tell me, what did you get? ]

"Why do you think so?"

However, the stress response in Francis' body forced Mal to believe this fact. This was Francis who became the first place, and from his memory, Mal also found that this was not long after he became the first place again.

The year when Mal got the first place in the assessment, she was praised by Madam Silna for her favor. Since then, the eldest and second sisters have been tolerant of her in the family, making Mal believe that she is the chosen one. The indulgence of the madam made her think that all this was natural. The first place in the assessment equals a noble status. Such a concept has formed in the mind of the dark elf.

The sound of condensation appeared in the ice layer in front of Selik, and a flowing impurity emerged on the surface. His vague figure moved slightly, and frost grew on Selik's face. Red ice climbed up Selik's side face and froze his ears. Half of his face was wrapped in solid ice. Selik's eyeballs were excitedly rolling in his eye sockets, and he could only hear a voice.

Mal refuted Him.

After exiting the fantasy, Mal continued her roar. Her resentment towards her biological mother was so heavy that it could not be added. Now, Mal has begun to consider whether she will return to her family in Menzoberranzan after completing Leila's commission. She would probably find it difficult to conceal her resentment towards her mistress, and if the current mistress Brad accidentally discovered her daughter's hostility, Mal believed that she would be punished for it, no doubt.

She no longer made the voice of the dark elf, but a more gentle and ethereal female voice.

"You let me follow Francis' old path, don't you want to train me to be his second? He is too cowardly and must not meet your requirements. I can do better than him, I can satisfy you, and I can believe in you."

"Really, it is quite in line with the way of thinking of Rose's believers. Witness, why do you think you can replace Francis, who has eyes that can predict the future and is a warrior with high martial arts skills."

Feeling the state of Francis's body, Mal's muscles unconsciously recorded some of his cheap uncle's habits, some highly efficient and precise combat skills that have been tempered for thousands of times. Leila was not wrong, she did get an improvement from those memories.

A crack appeared on Leila's mask.

[Finally waited for, as a favored person of the fragment of God. 】

"Your will, Guardian."

[Here, I can better play to my strengths. 】

[I will give you another helper. 】

But Francis' body was still out of her control. Mal felt like she was thrown into a sealed furnace. The burning pain echoed all over her skin, and her heart was also burning with anger.

Mal Blade was venting her anger. She sharpened her dagger on the rock in a way that was almost like destroying the weapon. The irritable dark elf kept venting her resentment towards the young dark elf, and in this venting, her martial arts were improving in a way that ordinary people could not achieve.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up and she walked to Leila.

There was a tremor in Selik's voice, and he excitedly said everything like pouring beans: "There was a dark elf warrior with high martial arts next to the red mage. He broke through my defense in an instant, and the two scimitars directly hurt my body. And that red mage, he...his power can suppress red ice."

[Try again, my child. 】

Mal shrank his body, feeling that the existence in front of him was not hostile, and said cautiously and boldly: "So, you accept my loyalty?"

Selik seemed to hear the guardian's laughter.

[As long as you learn a lesson. ]

[The first failure can be forgiven. ]

Selik gasped unconsciously, but the ice chips on his face that did not spread told him that he was safe for the time being.

In an instant, as if some mystery had been revealed in a joke, a huge aura lingered around the two of them. Mal looked nervously at the masked woman who suddenly changed her temperament. The mirror mask on her face was reflecting her own face.

Mal thought that Francis would definitely take revenge, but when she thought that her biological mother was still the head of Brad's family, Mal had no hope for this cowardly and cheap uncle.

"It turns out that the wise make their own mistakes, and the fools are prophets."

[He will definitely come here. We are each other's imperfections, and we will contribute to each other's completeness. 】

Selik lowered his head.

[It doesn’t matter, my child. 】

…

"What's the difference? The reality of the past or the future is just the illusion of the present! What's the difference between what he saw and what you let me see?"

[And this unnecessary temptation, Selik, is just to win back the face of Snow who threw you away. 】

Laila turned back and looked at Mal with sparkling eyes, not in a hurry to deny it.

The blood-red color expanded in the ice, like a giant standing on the other side of the ice, constantly getting closer to his body. Selik felt the excitement of the red ice.

"Those eyes see reality, not an illusion that I can play with."

But what followed was not a battle, but a one-sided ravage.

Young Silna ravages Frances.

Selik's voice echoed in the ice cave, but there was no response. It was as quiet as death.

[You just need to bring Dalia back. 】

[Snow unites as one, and she will also become a container. 】

Mal said: "I also have talent, and I also have potential. As for those special eyes, as long as you give me the same ability, I will definitely surpass him."

Sirna's beating may be for this purpose. The pleasure of humiliating an outstanding brother is something that this evil dark elf cannot refuse. Just like Mal, she firmly believes in the iron law of dark elf society that women are superior to men.

"I didn't expect that you, who knew the least and had the least information, would come up with the most correct answer."

The confrontation of thoughts made Mal furious. She was in the body of Francis who was being whipped. Her anger at the injustice and disparity made Mal hate the young biological mother in front of her.

While receiving the whipping, Mal was wondering if it was Laila who was responsible. Taking advantage of his excitement, he cast an illusion of his uncle before he started practicing martial arts. The dark elf could not understand that an outstanding dark elf who overwhelmed his contemporaries with his personal strength would continue to bear the harshness of his family without fighting back.

"You want to replace him with me, right?"

Laila was silent for a moment.

"I failed, Guardian."

[A caster who can restrain red ice. 】

"But..." Selik gritted his teeth. He still remembered the power of destroying the ice. Fear drove him to boldly question, "One helper may not be enough."

[The only thing that can resist the body of God is the power of God. 】

[Don't let me down, my child. 】

Mal broke away from the illusion of the martial arts test where Francis won the championship, and excitedly begged Laila to start the next illusion immediately.

Laila agreed.

Laila shook her head.

"I'm going to kill her! I'm going to kill her!!!"

"No, there will only be one favored one in the fog shadow."

"I told you all I wanted was one witness."