Melulu, this...

With a clang, the "Nature's Lament" wand slipped from Melulu's hand and fell to the floor. The sound rang especially loudly through the empty room.

Melulu stared wide-eyed in a daze for a moment, then bit her tongue and said, "Y-you... what did you... say?" Her heart was filled with shock and disbelief. She simply could not imagine that there was someone like this in the world—someone she did not know at all, yet who was asking her to leave with him.

Th-this-this... what on earth was going on!?

Yin Kuang held out his hand. The bracelet on his wrist, woven from vines from the Tree of Life, radiated a rich aura of nature. Yin Kuang said, "Come with me. Reject this life that others have arranged entirely for you. Brave the search for your own path in life, and experience true happiness." Yin Kuang's skin was thick enough by now that he could deliver such a pretentious, adolescent-sounding line with genuine emotion and a deep, affectionate gaze.

After all, she was an elven princess. After that brief loss of composure, she quickly calmed down. She quietly looked at the handsome, elegant man before her, flickering light flowing through her clear eyes. She was clearly hesitating.

Honestly, she was not worried at all that the man before her posed any threat to her safety. As the elven princess, she was a peak "Legendary" Spirit Envoy. All she needed was an opportunity to become an "Epic" Spirit King like the queen. Unlike a half-baked Legendary like Taige Rui, her Legendary strength was the real deal!

It was only that... Yin Kuang's words had plucked at the string in her heart that longed for freedom. If not for what Yin Kuang had said, Melulu might have gone through with marrying that Child