The Silver-Haired Half-Elf

"Bang----!"

With a loud crash, the walls of the Thieves' Den were smashed open, sending wooden planks raining down and engulfing Elsa.

That strike, perhaps because Fang Li was somewhat serious, caused the entire Thieves' Den to tremble slightly, as if it might collapse at any moment, making everyone present feel a chill.

Fang Li stared at this scene, then looked up and touched his forehead.

His palms were immediately stained with blood.

And the pain came just as expected.

Therefore, Fang Li confirmed it.

Elsa's headbutt just now cracked his forehead.

Fang Li couldn't help but let out a wry smile.

"I thought I was reckless enough and dared to risk my life, but I never expected there would be people in this world who were even more reckless than me."

As he said this, Fang Li wiped the blood from his forehead, slowly walked forward, came to the corner of the wall that was swallowed by wood, and reached out his hand towards the inside of the wood.

The next moment, Fang Li used force to grab the "Gut Slicer" that had been buried by the wood.

With one hand, he tightly gripped Elsa's severed wrist.

"Cough cough..." Elsa was unable to resist at all, and could only cough up some blood foam from her throat, staining the corners of her mouth red.

Fang Li held the assassin's hand tightly with one hand, hoisting him up, and looked at Elsa's face before slowly speaking.

"Isn't it a bit too vulgar to use such a method of attack when she is such a beautiful and charming woman?"

Fang Li's words elicited only a soft chuckle from Elsa in response.

"As long as they can move, they'll hunt them down to the very end, until the target lies in a pool of blood, their flesh torn open, their abdomen ripped open, and fresh red blood and warm intestines flowing out. That's how the ' Gut Slicer ' operates."

These words sent a chill down the spines of Subaru Natsuki, Felt, and Old Man Rom.

Emilia looked distressed, as if she felt Elsa was very pitiful.

Only Reinhard stepped forward and said to Elsa, "Now that the outcome is decided, could you please tell us the information you mentioned earlier before we are arrested?"

"Reinhard van Astrea..." Elsa glanced at Reinhard and said in a voice full of regret, "I was planning to settle things here and then enjoy the thrill of fighting the legendary knights, but unfortunately, that's not going to happen."

As soon as she finished speaking, Elsa suddenly raised her head, facing Fang Li's direction, and abruptly spat out the thing that had been hidden in her mouth.

It was a piece of wood.

Although it was just a piece of wood, it sliced through the air at an astonishing speed, shooting towards Fang Li's eyes with a sharp whooshing sound.

If hit, an ordinary person's eyeballs would be pierced instantly, or even their head would be pierced, and they would be killed by this sudden sneak attack.

Fang Li could not ignore this attack either.

Therefore, Fang Li's eyes narrowed slightly, and he took a step back, avoiding the wood shards that shot towards him like bullets.

"Click..."

The next second, the sound of bones breaking rang out.

Suddenly, Elsa managed to break free from Fang Li's restraints.

Moreover, he did it by breaking his own hand bones, allowing his tightly gripped arm to slip out of Fang Li's hands.

Elsa's body landed on the ground, and she immediately scurried away like a mouse, disappearing into the shadows.

In that instant, Elsa's presence completely vanished.

Only the sound remains, still echoing in the air.

"May I have your name?"

This question is naturally directed at only one person.

Fang Li withdrew his hand and sensed his surroundings, but could not detect Elsa's presence at all.

This assassin's ability to conceal his presence is truly remarkable.

Unable to detect Elsa's presence, Fang Li gave up and answered directly.

"My name is Fang Li."

"Fang Li... Fang Li..." Elsa kept repeating the name, as if she intended to remember it completely, and chuckled softly.

"I remember your name."

"One day, I will rip your intestines out of your belly and keep them in a jar for the rest of my life."

"I hope you don't die anywhere else before that."

After leaving those words, Elsa seemed to have departed, and fell silent once more.

No.

Elsa also left behind this sentence.

"As a reward for letting me have a good time, I'll tell you: if you want to find the Witch Cult, then stay by that silver-haired child's side."

"Although we don't know the exact scope of the Witch Cult's activities, their target is that Half-Elf."

One sentence caused Emilia's expression to change slightly.

"Tch..." Parker clicked his tongue in disgust, saying, "Damn Witch Cult ..."

As for the remaining people, their reactions were quite different.

"Half-Elf?" Old Man Rom looked at Emilia with the most astonished expression he had ever seen, and exclaimed, "You're Half-Elf?"

"A silver-haired Half-Elf?" Felt's eyes widened in shock as she exclaimed, "No... impossible... a silver-haired Half-Elf... and Royal Selection one at that... impossible!"

Seeing Felt and Old Man Rom's intense reactions, Subaru Natsuki was stunned and didn't react for a long time.

"Half-Elf is what you call an elf with only half the bloodline, right? What's wrong?"

Faced with Subaru Natsuki's cryptic words, Reinhard did not answer this time either, but simply closed his eyes and fell silent.

In the end, only Fang Li remained, gazing into the shadows ahead, as if watching the direction Elsa had left. After a long while, he sighed.

"Is this really the only way?"

After saying that, Fang Li turned his head and looked at Emilia.

Noticing Fang Li's gaze, Emilia looked away, as if she didn't want to see any unwanted emotions in Fang Li's eyes, and avoided him.

That's only natural.

Because silver-haired Half-Elf are a taboo subject.

Just 400 years ago, a silver-haired Half-Elf devoured half of the world, causing the foundation of the world to be shaken like never before, and almost destroyed.

She was known as the Witch of Envy.

The Witch Cult is a fanatical religious group that worships this witch.

And the witch's name also became a taboo in this world.

— "Satella".

That's the name of the Witch of Envy.

The name the silver-haired Half-Elf girl gave in the previous cycle was the real name of this Witch of Envy.

Emilia must have suffered a lot of discrimination because of this, right?

Under these circumstances, Fang Li uttered a remark that was very much in Subaru Natsuki's style.

"That's why I hate this kind of setup..."