Having to wear a mask just to face people—anyone would assume she was ugly. Anyone would feel psychological pressure living differently from normal people.
Catherine liked it here. She liked staying with the Moon Elf Race.
"Ha ha, then you can take off your mask now," Olivier said with a smile.
He had made that request long ago.
Now that he finally knew why Catherine had been unwilling to remove her mask, the problem could be resolved. He had always wanted to know what Catherine looked like.
"Ah, well..." Catherine froze at Olivier's words, unsure how to answer.
"I'm not mentally prepared yet." Though she hoped to live like an ordinary person, Catherine hesitated when it came time to remove the mask she had worn for so many years.
"Ha ha, it's fine. Come on, I'll take it off for you." Olivier reached out to remove it.
Slap. Catherine knocked his hand away and turned to leave.
"Uh... ha ha, Catherine, are you embarrassed?" Olivier called out with a laugh toward her retreating figure.
Afterward, Catherine spent a long time with Isabelle, seeking her advice on cultivation.
Both Isabelle and Catherine cultivated the Life Law. Catherine had always explored cultivation on her own before, so now that someone could guide her, she was naturally delighted.
Olivier, meanwhile, had nothing to do and grew bored. He had stayed partly to look after Catherine, but also to wait for the Beast God to come so he could capture him in one stroke, then spread the news and draw out the other two High Gods.
That day, Olivier lay atop a tree, staring blankly into the distance.
An incomparably beautiful elf woman slowly approached from afar. She had a face like a flower and the beauty of the moon, peerless elegance, and was even more stunning than Isabelle.
The bored Olivier noticed her at once. Catherine had entered the range of his divine sense.
Olivier looked once, then looked again, thinking he had seen wrong. He seemed never to have met this elf beauty before. Her peerless face made him forget that he had sensed Catherine approaching.
"Are you Catherine?" After staring for a while, Olivier's mind finally caught up. It truly was Catherine's aura.
"My God, Catherine, you're too beautiful. It's over, it's over—I'm going to fall in love with you," Olivier exclaimed.
"Olivier, I knew you were a lecherous wolf. Hmph." Catherine blushed as she spoke coolly.
"Heaven and earth bear witness, I'm telling the truth." After spending so many years together, Olivier truly liked Catherine—her kindness, and now, her beauty as well.
It did not matter if he acted like a lecherous wolf for once.
After blushing slightly, Catherine shot Olivier a cold look. Faced with his confession, she did not know what to say, so she turned and left.
"Why did she leave again?" Olivier muttered. "She must be embarrassed. If she's embarrassed, then I have a chance."
He thought to himself that Catherine had only just removed her mask and was seeing him for the first time. Faced with such an unabashed confession from Olivier, she simply did not know how to respond.
Ever since Catherine had revealed her identity as an elf, she seemed to have truly integrated into the Moon Elf Race. The Moon Elf Race had accepted her as one of their own, and two male Mid Gods often courted her.
Yet Catherine seemed deliberately to avoid Olivier. They met less and less often, leaving Olivier deeply frustrated. He even wanted to beat up every member of the Moon Elf Race.
Fifty days later, in the Moon Elf Race.
"Isabelle, an old friend has come. Hurry out." The voice spread throughout the Moon Elf Capital. The Beast God Olivier had waited so long for had finally arrived.
"Two High Gods, eight Mid Gods, and ten Low Gods." The newcomers did not conceal their auras. Such a force could absolutely raze the Moon Elf Race to the ground.
"Beast God, you've finally come." Isabelle said, "I didn't expect the Wolf God to come as well. It seems you are determined to wipe out our Moon Elf Race?"
Isabelle had not expected the Beast God and Wolf God, two High Gods, to join forces.
The four High Gods had always been evenly matched, and none submitted to another. Now that two had appeared together, she had no way to contend against them with her own strength.
The Beast God stood four meters tall, with a blue-green face and protruding fangs. He was ugly beyond description, and he held a massive axe in his hand.
The Wolf God appeared as a young man. His eyes were sharp, and he wore a black robe, seeming as though he were hidden within darkness.
"I can spare the Moon Elf Race, but I have one condition. As long as you agree to marry me, I can let your Moon Elf Race go. Ha ha ha!" the Beast God laughed loudly.
At those words, Isabelle's face turned green.
"Wolf God, the Moon Elf Race has no grudge against you. What do you mean by this?" Isabelle asked the Wolf God.
"Isabelle, as an old friend, I advise you not to resist. The Beast God has made a breakthrough. From now on, this land will revere him. What's so bad about that?" the Wolf God said.
"Impossible." Isabelle refused without hesitation.
The Moon Elf Race had never submitted to anyone. Isabelle also knew that even if she married the Beast God, he would not spare them. Moreover, the Orc Race loved eating moon elves. Over the past several thousand years, many moon elves had been devoured by orcs. Rather than die in humiliation, they might as well fight to the death.
"Since that's the case, kill them!" the Beast God ordered.
He was the first to attack Isabelle, with the Wolf God following closely behind. Two against one—Isabelle was instantly placed in grave danger.
Including Catherine, the Elf Race had only six Mid Gods, while the enemy had eight. Their Mid Gods were also fighting two against one. Catherine, in particular, was besieged by two peak Mid Gods.
Their plan was to first concentrate their superior forces and eliminate their opponents, then surround the rest. With Catherine's current strength, there was even a chance she would be captured alive by those two Mid Gods.
In an instant, she was completely suppressed and placed in mortal peril.
Battle erupted in an instant, and the situation was about to collapse like a landslide.
Olivier had originally wanted to observe the situation and find a chance to launch a sneak attack, but he could not wait any longer under these circumstances.
Am I about to die? I hope Olivier can escape.
Catherine blocked one Mid God's attack, but she had no time to stop the other's greatsword. If that sword came down, Catherine felt that her chances of survival were slim.
The greatsword was about to fall upon Catherine's head.
At the critical moment.
The Light Elemental Profundity and Darkness Elemental Profundity completely fused. Light Divine Power and Darkness Divine Power merged, and Olivier instantly appeared beside the two Mid Gods besieging Catherine. Without any unnecessary movements, he struck twice.
Swish, swish.
The two Mid Gods were both split into two halves and died.
"Catherine, hurry and help the other Mid Gods," Olivier transmitted to Catherine.
Catherine had not yet recovered from the shock of being saved when Olivier had already vanished.
"Ah, was that Olivier just now? He instantly killed two Mid Gods. Since when had he become so powerful?" With no time to marvel further, Catherine composed herself and immediately went to help a besieged Moon Elf Mid God.
After silently killing the two Mid Gods, Olivier did not pause for even a moment. He hoped that before the Beast God and Wolf God noticed, he could find an opportunity to launch a sneak attack.
However, ambushing a High God was not as simple as ambushing a Mid God.
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