Chapter 617 Chapter 74 Sword Embryo Under Starlight
“Miss Ain’s strength has improved a lot…”
Ig gestured raising his head, smiling at the wood elf girl beside him. “This level of magic array, even a Crystal Rank Titled Mage would find it very difficult to set up, wouldn’t they?”
“Ig, you noticed the magic array I set up?”
Ain’s emerald blue eyes lit up, and she looked at Ig with a touch of curiosity.
When they parted last year, this black-haired human boy was just a Silver Rank ordinary swordsman, and now he was already Platinum… Even she found it difficult to see through him, and he could discern the magic array she laid out at a glance.
However, the wood elf girl’s gaze shifted slightly to the beautiful, golden-haired girl in the white dress whom the boy was holding by the hand, and she blinked slightly, as if realizing something.
At that time, Verafia, in Ain’s eyes, despite her terrible personality, was a genuine goddess.
Even a single drop of her blood could cause “Gugu” to transform into the current Niya. Ig, who had a closer relationship with her, should logically benefit even more.
“These days… I learned from Niya.”
Gently raising her head, the wood elf girl smoothed a strand of silk from her skirt sleeve, rubbed Niya’s little head under her crimson hair, and then turned to look at Ig, sticking out her tongue slightly and complaining:
“Back then, when we escaped from your human kingdom, they were not only threatened by that dark elf, but also by some bad humans many times. If it weren’t for Niya… I’m afraid I would have been captured by them long ago. Even in Vinash City, we can’t let our guard down.”
Ig remembered that the first time they met Ain, the elf girl seemed to be being chased by some human thieves.
Such a situation was not difficult to foresee… A pure-blooded elf, even if those people didn’t know that Ain was born from ancient trees and was a noble among elves, it was enough to ignite their greed.
Ophi nodded vigorously, looking indignant at the wood elf’s encounter.
When she first left the Setting Sun Forest, she was also attacked by a group of hateful human thieves… At that time, she didn’t dare to retaliate against her attackers, fearing that she would kill them and cause more trouble. In the end, it was Elishia who rescued her.
“But, Ain, you’re saying that Niya, such a young child, is protecting you?”
Thinking of the latter half of the wood elf girl’s sentence, the Ice Dragon Girl’s gaze was slightly hesitant, as if doubting whether Niya, who was completely like a loli child, shouldn’t be the one being protected?
The red-haired loli, who had been lowering her head and playing with the hem of her black and white maid dress, heard the words and proudly raised her small face: “Niya is very strong, don’t underestimate Niya! And protecting Ain-sister is what Niya should do!”
Ig’s gaze shifted slightly. The girl in the white dress, whom he held by the hand, slightly raised her golden eyes and curved her lips. On her flawless face, she seemed to be teasing the Ice Dragon Girl, who was suddenly confused in her little head.
Ig couldn’t help but smile.
He could understand. With a Flame Spirit plus this girl’s divine blood at the time, Niya, despite her seemingly young, loli-like body, should logically possess terrifying power… Well, speaking of which, if she were to fight Little Fei, who would be stronger?
The wood elf girl smiled gently, slightly raising her pure white face, and rubbed the girl’s head. “Yes, Niya is very powerful. She made that dark elf chasing me in a mess.”
Ig had once been informed by Eggesti that the dark elf ranger named Ivansatta who appeared in the night of Lorinc that day was, to him, a rather troublesome Saint Rank… Niya could actually cause her trouble?
Suddenly, her palm was gently pulled. Verafia proudly tilted her snow-white face, with an expression that said, “You, hurry up and praise this young lady.”
Ig smiled wryly, touching her smooth, beautiful hair, his face saying, “Young Lady, you are the best, worthy of being Goddess Princess.”
“Heh heh.”
Verafia tilted her pure white chin with a rather cute expression.
“We’ve arrived. Ahead is the secret room where I usually forge weapons.”
The wood elf girl’s voice suddenly rang out. As Ig raised his head, he saw her covering her mouth with her slender hand and yawning. A trace of fatigue appeared on her exquisite face.
In fact, this fatigue had been visible to Ig from the beginning.
Naturally, it was not the weariness caused by worrying about danger… The only possibility was that this Miss Elf, half a month ago, had been working tirelessly to reforge the End for him, likely pushing aside workshop work and having very little rest each day.
He felt a sense of guilt and was preparing to express it.
“Um, Miss Ain, you don’t look like you’ve rested much… Is it because you’ve been busy with the End all these days?”
As if telepathically connected, Verafia raised her little face, her scorching gold eyes looking at her, and gently spoke.
“You’re worried about me… It’s not a big deal, I promised back then.”
Ain塞尔 seemed to be worried that they would care too much, and quickly added:
“Besides, the End that Miss Verafia gave me is the work of my sister back then… Rightly and logically, I should repair it. I’ve also learned a lot about forging knowledge these days.”
As she spoke, the wood elf girl tapped Niya’s little head.
If this guy hadn’t been greedy and taken Verafia’s divine power fragments, making her feel guilty, why would she have been working overtime like this?
“Is that so…”
As if still worried that she might care, Ain塞尔 quickly said:
“Alright, this is what I should do. However, Miss Vera might be disappointed… The End has not been reforged yet.”
After speaking, the wood elf gently pushed the door. Ig felt the fluctuation of the magic dissipating, and instantly, as if a dazzling golden, blazing fiery light rushed towards him, followed by shimmering starlight, flowing like mercury.
But when he opened his eyes, the entire room, under the dim crystal lamp light, appeared dimly cold, with intricate and obscure alchemical patterns faintly rising in the magic’s glow.
The complex magic array connected the End at the center furnace with the divine power fragments given to her by Verafia, shimmering with a golden glow, seemingly absorbing the power of the flames.
The starlight fire of “Burning Stars” had not extinguished, and still remained below the sword’s edge. It seemed that the sword shadow illuminated by the starlight when Ain had left in a hurry was still just a sword embryo in the initial melting stage.
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In the previous chapter, Niya seemed to have been written as “Nina”… Correcting it here.
