Her skin was as fair as snow.

Her eyebrows and eyes drooped slightly.

She was pure and untainted.

She was that beam of light that dazzled through the years.

"Mei... Sai... De Si."

He exclaimed the name of the elf girl in shock.

His memory was in disarray, their encounter came earlier than expected.

It was her.

—Just that her eyes lacked some sparkle, and her lips were missing a smile.

The girl was dressed in a coarse cloth gown, her neck and limbs wrapped in chains. She had been silent, but upon hearing the young man call her name, her expression turned uneasy, and she retreated a few steps in panic.

She wanted to say something, her cherry lips slightly parted, but in the end, she bowed her head and chose to remain silent.

"Is it you…"

After being in a daze, Lu Lin suddenly became short of breath again, and in just an instant, he seemed to forget everything and rushed into the trailer without hesitation.

In other words, he lost his mind due to excessive excitement.

"Hey! What are you doing…"

The princess couldn't even finish her sentence.

But even if she did, Lu Lin wouldn't have paid attention to her—because at this moment, his eyes were focused solely on the enslaved elf girl.

"!"

The elf girl retreated a few more steps as Lu Lin now stood in front of her and was very close.

"Is it really... you?"

His expression was excited, his body shaking slightly, continuously approaching the girl whose face gradually changed from uneasiness to fear.

"Mm…"

The girl kept retreating, trying to avoid Lu Lin, but to her despair, she eventually hit a metal plate.

Nowhere to escape.

"Mercedes… Mercedes…"

Lu Lin's reason had been lost, his eyes focused only on the girl leaning against the door, almost in tears from fear.

He showed a smile, but in the eyes of the elf girl, it seemed to have twisted to the extreme, he looked like a beast.

"Is this all real? I went back in time, and you're still alive…"

He murmured, his body no longer under his control, to distinguish between reality and illusion, he reached out towards the girl and involuntarily pressed on her chest—that was where she had been pierced by an arrow.

And with that, through the rough clothes, a soft and elastic touch came to his fingertips.

"Uh—"

The elf girl let out a small cry, frightened.

"What are you doing, you pervert, stop it right now!!!!!"

At this moment, the princess's angry voice echoed through the entire transport vehicle.

…..

"Cough, cough... I'm sorry, I'm very sorry, I couldn't control myself…"

Lu Lin constantly bowed in apology, facing Randal, the princess, and Mercedes, who was hiding behind the princess.

He took a quiet glance at Mercedes, the elf girl was tightly hiding behind the princess, not even daring to look at Lu Lin.

"Perverts are always perverts!"

With a flushed face, the princess looked at the young man in front of her who had a big problem, and her anger in her heart grew even stronger when she thought about him pressing against the elf girl and peeking under her skirt.

"Do you want this slave?"

Randal looked at Lu Lin with a strange expression and asked.

"Yes."

"No! I absolutely cannot hand her over to this pervert!" The princess immediately gave a negative answer from the side.

"I... I really didn't mean it... Mercedes... I..."

"Mm!"

The elf's reaction was even stronger after hearing the boy's voice.

"Mercedes? What a strange name... It wouldn't be a bad word in Elvish seeing her big reaction to it!"

The princess stared at Lu Lin, and Lu Lin couldn't help but shrink his neck.His previously calm and confident demeanor was completely shattered by the appearance of the elf girl.

"She is the most expensive exhibit at the auction, the elf with the highest bloodline purity ever discovered on the continent so far," Lander said. "Because of her noble bloodline, the slave training institution planned to train her as their most perfect work and provide her to the most top-notch magicians or royal families. Therefore, they haven't done anything to taint or develop her. Even the staff in charge of her are all life-attribute females, and the resources allocated to her are at the top level... The original plan was to train her until she was sixteen and sell her as the most perfect slave on the continent... However, the plan was bankrupt after only a year and a half due to lack of funds, and the girl had no choice but to make her debut at the auction ahead of schedule."

When he said this, he felt a bit of pain. This elf slave was purchased at the princess's request, costing him hundreds of thousands of purple gold coins, which basically accounted for one-third of the value of all the goods they bought.

"Can't I choose her?" Lu Lin asked.

"It's not that you can't... but it's not that we don't care, what do you want this elf slave for? You are not an alchemist, and having her around might easily attract others' covetousness... Although you must be a member of a large family, you can't protect her as well as our royal family, can you?"

"So, why not exchange her for something more useful for your cultivation?" Lander coaxed persuasively.

"No, I still... want to choose her."

"What on earth is the matter with you? Why are you so stubborn! Did you get inflated after terrifying DemonKind just now? It was just borrowing a soul vessel, do you know what kind of person you are?" The princess, like an angry little lion, said, "You just covet her beauty! You're no different from those disgusting, hypocritical beasts who looked at her at the auction!"

"I'm not."

"Then do you dare to swear on your soul to the supreme god?" The princess retorted.

Swearing on one's soul to the supreme god is the highest form of oath on the Fugutel continent. Once violated, the will of the supreme god will descend to punish the violator, destroying their heart and soul.

"What's there to be afraid of?" Lu Lin smiled lightly.

"I, Lu Lin, swear to the supreme god that I will protect this elf girl forever and never harm her. If I break this promise... may heaven and earth punish me!"

With his soul fully open, resonating with the heavens and earth, the oath connected his soul with the world.

"Heaven... and earth... punishment..." The princess was stunned for a moment, as she didn't expect the young man, who had been considered a pervert, to make such a heavy oath.

"Why bother?" Lander shook his head slowly. Looking at the young man in front of him, he found him more and more unfathomable.

The elf girl also turned her head to quietly look at Lu Lin.

"Is that alright?" Lu Lin asked.

"...Yes, you can take her away," the princess cleared her throat and closed her eyes, putting on a serious look. "But if I ever find out that you've bullied her or hurt her feelings... I won't let you off!"

"Yeah, yeah..." Lu Lin answered with a headache, looking at the princess acting like a grown-up. At the same time, he saw the elf girl had already turned around, hiding behind the princess and carefully watching him.

He slowly walked towards her.

She leaned out half her body from behind the princess.

He smiled and looked at her gently.

She leaned against her chest with both hands locked in chains.

The sunlight gently touched his face, the dust lazily scattered in the illuminated air, and time passed leisurely.

He gently opened his mouth, as if tearing away the veil of time.

"Beautiful elf lady, I love you, so would you marry me?"