Free Web NovelChapter 509: Miss Black Elf
In the past, when they were in Elysian Realm, Eden would provide fine wine for everyone, Vill-V would provide convenient gadgets, Sakura would occasionally provide meals, and as for Griseo...
What she provided was something all the female Flame-Chasers unanimously agreed they could not live without...
Spiritual nourishment!
Over these fifty thousand years, the number of works created by Teacher of Stars had long since exceeded ten thousand.
Therefore, although Griseo—like Fu Hua—had absolutely no real combat experience, her knowledge reserves and imagination were the richest among the fifteen Flame-Chasers of Fire Moth.
For example, just now, she had used two extremely advanced techniques—gap moe and wardrobe malfunction...
First came the contrast of transforming from a tiny loli into a beautiful young girl, and then the clothes bursting apart from her suddenly enlarged body. The impact struck the white-haired boy before her so fiercely that his heart nearly failed to endure it.
The Immortal Phoenix beside them stood dumbfounded. Looking at Griseo’s skin, smooth as congealed cream—she only felt that she had lost completely.
"Griseo... so strong!"
(Oh heavens, Griseo accomplished so easily what I could never do!)
Elias coughed lightly a few times, then constructed a princess dress for Griseo. However, the girl’s snow-white figure from just now had already been permanently branded into his mind. There was no way he would ever forget it.
Feeling Elias’ arms tighten around her waist more than before, Griseo curled her lips slightly, thinking that today she could finally put the knowledge she had accumulated into practical use.
At the same time, Elias could not help but sigh inwardly.
Fifty thousand years had passed. Back then, Griseo had merely been a little loli who easily absorbed the colors of others, like a blank sheet of paper. But now she possessed a color that was uniquely her own.
Although it seemed to lean slightly toward yellow, she was still just as pure and adorable as ever. Even he was beginning to find himself unable to resist this girl’s charm.
"Even though you’ve already grown up, Griseo still loves acting spoiled toward me," Elias said.
"Big Brother Elias... do you not like it?"
"How could that be? I love it! Honestly, if Griseo suddenly became very mature and said, [Griseo has grown up, so from now on I won’t act spoiled toward Big Brother anymore], I would definitely faint from the shock."
As he spoke, Elias lifted his hand and gently caressed the face of the angelically adorable girl before him, as though she were the most precious and fragile work of art in the world.
In the next second, Griseo revealed a heart-healing smile.
Like a little bird, she nestled into Elias’ embrace.
With both hands, she held onto the white-haired boy’s hands, as if silently saying, [Please touch me more].
"Griseo likes Big Brother Elias the most. In the future, I will keep acting spoiled toward you, and I will keep drawing pictures about Big Brother. So as long as you don’t dislike Griseo, that’s enough."
"Of course not! My Griseo is the cutest in the universe. I’ll pamper you for a lifetime! Ahh~ how can there be a girl as adorable as Griseo in this world? This world is truly wonderful."
Elias felt completely sunk. His affection for the girl of stars skyrocketed on the spot like a rocket launch.
If a certain pink elf was still the girl he loved the most at present, then without a doubt, Griseo was the girl Elias doted on the most. He was willing to give her all the beauty this world had to offer.
Hearing him say this, the girl of stars immediately revealed an irresistibly lovable smile. In the end, Griseo turned her gaze toward a certain flat Immortal who had long since been staring in a daze.
Griseo: (Sister Hua, did you learn anything?)
Fu Hua: (...Sorry, no. Perhaps my aptitude is rather dull. Although I don’t fully understand what I’m seeing, I’m deeply shocked. Griseo, you truly have grown up!)
Griseo: (Eh~ at this rate, when will Sister Hua ever rise to the top? With your current progress, even if you’re stuck for another fifty thousand years, I wouldn’t find it surprising at all.)
From the perspective of doujinshi master Griseo, Fu Hua could already make her move at any time. However, her progress bar was like it had reached 99%, yet was forever stuck at that final 1%, unable to advance no matter what.
If some unexpected incident did not occur to break this deadlock, the day the flat Immortal would rise to the top could only be described as hopelessly distant.
Griseo: (You could win just by going in for the attack. Why does Sister Hua always choose to practice Tai Chi instead?)
Fu Hua: (...)
...
At noon.
Bronya, who usually woke up very early, had unexpectedly slept in today. It was already past eleven when she finally walked out of her bedroom with Alexandra, yawning.
No one found this surprising.
After being apart for so long, mother and daughter certainly had not simply gone straight to sleep last night. They must have had endless things to say to each other and talked until very late.
"Teacher Himeko, could you arrange a bedroom in the dormitory for Bronya’s mother?" the flat duck asked the red-haired teacher who was already holding a wine bottle in broad daylight.
"It’s rare that anyone still remembers this dorm used to be my villa. Of course, that’s no problem," Himeko replied with a smile.
"Thank you, Teacher Himeko!"
Although it was the expected answer, Bronya still felt delighted and pleasantly surprised. Not far away, Elias exchanged a glance with Cecilia. The two shared a silent understanding without needing to speak.
Cecilia immediately understood—afterward, she would arrange some position within the academy for Alexandra. Something with light duties and good pay.
"Auntie Alexandra, what did you and Bronya talk about last night?" Kiana asked curiously.
"Well... mostly about Mr. Elias," Alexandra replied with a somewhat strange expression.
After having an in-depth conversation with her daughter the previous night, Alexandra finally realized that the situation was far more complicated than she had imagined. Her daughter’s rivals were even more numerous than expected!
She herself had almost become one of them yesterday.
Yet what she did not know how to evaluate was that after listening to Bronya’s introduction of Elias, Alexandra only felt that his overwhelming popularity was entirely justified.
Flame-Chaser. Herrscher. Savior.
The many great deeds of the white-haired boy left Alexandra stunned.
She had long suspected that Elias must be someone extraordinary, but she had never imagined that he was actually a hero who saved the world.
Every person in this world has value. It is only that the magnitude of each person’s value differs.
And Elias’ value was something that billions of ordinary people combined could never hope to match.
"What what? A topic about Elias?!"
Kiana’s eyes lit up instantly, and quite a few others reacted as well, turning their heads over.
Even though by now they already understood Elias extremely well, they still wanted to know him even more deeply.
If St. Freya Academy were to open a specialized course on Understanding Elias, everyone present would definitely sign up without hesitation. Even Kiana, the queen of failing grades, felt confident she could score full marks on the exam.
After that, Alexandra briefly recounted what she and Bronya had talked about the previous night. Most of it consisted of the beautiful memories Bronya had shared with Elias while living in House of the Hearth.
However...
"Eh? Uncle-mode Elias? I’m so curious!"
"Same!!" xN
After hearing this, everyone realized they had discovered a blind spot they had never noticed before. Each time Elias traveled through time and space, he would basically change his identity and age.
Back when he founded House of the Hearth, he had appeared as a man around thirty years old.
For this group of girls who absolutely adored Elias, they naturally wanted to understand every form of the one they loved. One by one, they looked at the white-haired boy with eager, yearning gazes.
"Elias, show us, please!"
The ultimate, incomparably, absurdly adorable Kiana grabbed Elias’ hand and shook it back and forth while acting spoiled. He let out a soft laugh, as if to say—did Kiana really think he would obediently agree just because of that?
"Alright, alright. I’ll transform."
Elias ruffled Kiana’s hair indulgently.
When his own Kiana-cat was pleading like this, he was hardly made of stone. How could he possibly refuse?
Recalling his appearance from the Azure Waters scenario, Elias then activated the authority of the Herrscher of Rebirth to alter his physique.
For him now, physical growth—like that of a certain flat Immortal—had long since stagnated. The countless Meta-Morph factors within his body had permanently fixed him at his current age.
Therefore, if Elias wanted to "grow up," he could only rely on the authority of creation from the Herrscher of Rebirth to modify his own cells.
Very quickly, a figure appeared that none of them could look away from.
"Well? Do you like me like this?"
Using the authority of creation to accelerate his growth, Elias now stood close to two meters tall. The youthful immaturity had completely faded from him. What remained on that face was only firmness and composure.
Like a man who had experienced far too much, his entire being radiated mature charm—steady and reliable to the point that one would instinctively feel at ease beside him.
At the same time, Elias had changed into the clothes he wore back then: a refined silver-gray suit, black gloves, neatly combed hair, and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses resting on his nose.
"!!!" xN
All the girls collectively sucked in a sharp breath. It felt as though their hearts had been ruthlessly stolen.
W-what kind of ultimate masterpiece was this?!
"C-camera! Klein, take a picture!" Mobius swallowed hard.
"I never imagined grown-up Big Brother Elias would be this amazing!" Griseo had already begun sketching.
"Sluurp! Mei, this version of Elias isn’t something you little girls can handle. Leave him to me!" Himeko’s eyes were practically glued to him. This version of Elias matched her perfectly.
"Bronya, Seele, you monopolized something this good? That’s way too enviable!"
Mei, Durandal, Griseo—those girls whose fathers were still alive—unconsciously compared Elias to their own fathers in their minds.
And then, collectively, they felt like switching dads.
The authoritative, mature, devastatingly handsome uncle-type Elias possessed lethality that was completely off the charts.
None of the girls were frivolous people.
Yet at this moment, they could not help but fall into infatuated dazes.
"Come on, call me Daddy~"
Elias’ playful side surfaced, and he shamelessly took advantage of the situation.
"D-Daddy..." xN
"Haha~ good girls. Daddy’s going to work now. I’ll be home a bit late today. Be good at home, alright?"
Elias reached out and gave Kiana and Griseo—who were closest to him—a head pat. The two instantly turned into steam engines, faces flushed red, brains overheating, practically smoking from the top of their heads.
After teasing them, Elias immediately fled. Instinctively, he felt that if he did not leave now, he might not be able to leave later.
And although it could not quite be called work, he did indeed have something he did every day—going to the Sea of Quanta to absorb bubble worlds. One hundred per day was the bare minimum.
Taking advantage of the girls’ temporarily crashed brains, he instantly quantumized and vanished.
At this moment, Elias had no idea.
He had just missed an incoming storm of blood and chaos.
...
Somewhere in the world.
From deep within the earth, rumbling thunderous sounds echoed intermittently. The ground trembled as though a volcano were about to erupt, and as time passed, the disturbance only grew stronger.
Finally, at a certain instant—
Boom—!!!
Countless clods of earth were blasted into the air by massive surges of Honkai energy. A filthy pink figure burst out from underground. Black miasma overflowed from her entire body, and a chilling red light flickered within her eyes.
"Finally... finally I’m out!!"
Elysia looked up at the vast azure sky and raised both hands in jubilant cheer. After more than three days, she had finally dug through thousands of meters of earth and reached the surface.
Her diamond pickaxe had long since lost all durability, forcing her to bombard the ground endlessly with Honkai energy instead. Although she had made it out, Elysia was no longer the elegant and immaculate beauty she once was.
Her gorgeous Herrscher of Origin battle attire was stained everywhere with stubborn black soil. Coupled with the resentment she had accumulated underground, the girl as dazzling as falling petals now looked as though she had blackened completely.
"The current me is no longer Miss Pink Elf... but Miss Black Elf. At least for now!"
Miss Black Elf muttered to herself.
After determining her direction, she turned toward the east and revealed a smile as dangerous as the abyss.
"Hehe... my dear friends, Elysia is coming to find you. Have you all prepared... to repent?"
Images of her former companions surfaced in her mind, and her smile grew even more radiant—and more dangerous.
At this moment, she truly carried the imposing aura of a rightful queen returning to the world, with every fox spirit destined to perish.
The Staff of Origin appeared in Elysia’s hand. A pair of pink-and-black wings unfurled behind her. After gathering power for a massive charge, she shot toward St. Freya Academy.
