"Are you Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Kingdom of Aldikia?"

Huddled in a corner of the hot spring, Xue Cai stared at the girl not far away and asked. It was obvious that Xue Cai, who was shy by nature, was not used to "being naked" with strangers in such occasions.

"Don't use such a polite tone. Please just call me La Freya. I'm tired of hearing honorifics like Your Highness, Princess, and Princess. At least I don't want to hear foreign friends call me that."

Compared to the timid Xuecai, La Freya seemed much calmer. She stretched her arms and legs in the hot spring like a model, showing off her beautiful body.

“That’s what I’m saying, Setsuna. We’re all taking a bath together, so it would be boring if you were to be so polite.”

Ai Li next to her was admiring the beautiful scenery while winking at Xue Cai with a smile. The latter lowered her head and sighed helplessly.

"It's all because of you, Senior..."

After hearing what Ai Li said, Setsuna was speechless. After all, she was very nervous when they first met. Ai Li then casually invited the other party, "It's fate that we meet here. Why don't we take a bath together?" What made Setsuna speechless was that the princess actually accepted the invitation and took off her clothes and came in...

Ai Li naturally turned a deaf ear to Xue Cai's complaints. She thought, jokingly, such a good opportunity would definitely be a feast for the eyes. If it were a man, how could he take a bath together with a beautiful girl he met for the first time so quickly!

Girls are awesome!

Of course Xiaobai is also great!

"But then again, why would a princess from a country come here to play Deserted Island?"

Ellie stared at La Freya curiously and asked. La Freya answered as if nothing had happened while enjoying the hot spring.

"My ship was shot down while visiting Genkami City."

"I see. Could it be that the wizard shaped this hand?"

"Yes, I think maybe it's to kidnap me."

"Why? I don't think a company would dare to attack a princess of a country for some boring reason like ransom."

"Yes."

La Freya lowered her head and stared at the water in front of her.

"I think they want to get my body - the blood of the royal family of Aldikia, because almost all women born into the royal family are powerful psychics."

"I see……"

Hearing this, Ellie nodded, then she looked at La Freya and suddenly asked.

"So what is your relationship with Yeze Natsune?"

"Pfft! Senior!?"

Hearing this, Xuecai was so scared that she almost choked. She never expected that Ai Li would suddenly change the subject. Even La Freya looked at her in surprise, and smiled after a moment.

"I didn't expect you to be able to see that."

"If what you said is true, then I can basically guess it."

Ellie answered casually while playing with water.

"Your purpose of coming to Genshin City should be to find Yese Natsune. After all, you two look so much alike. Of course, it's not to say that there aren't people who look alike in the world, but since you came all the way from Northern Europe to get here, I think it's not just a matter of looking alike. And Yese Kensei, who adopted Yese Natsune, is a member of the Mage Technics, and your warship was attacked by the Mage Technics. All this is obviously not a coincidence. Maybe the Mage Technics deliberately spread the news to lure you here, and then launched a sneak attack. As for their purpose, it is probably related to the disgusting experiment we saw before."

“…”

Hearing this, Xue Cai and La Folia stared at Ai Li with wide eyes in surprise. They probably didn't expect that in just a moment, the other party had already seen the situation clearly. As Ai Li said, La Folia and Yeze Natsune looked almost exactly the same, only slightly more mature - to put it bluntly, if Yeze Natsune had long hair and was a few years older, she might look like this.

"As expected of the Fourth True Ancestor, the Silver Witch, you are right."

Now that Ellie had seen through her, La Freya no longer concealed anything and confessed it openly.

"Actually, Yeze Natsune's father is my grandfather."

"This is very interesting. Your grandfather is still very strong despite his old age."

"Ha ha……"

Hearing the sarcasm in Ellie's words, La Freya smiled bitterly and continued.

"Fifteen years ago, my grandfather had a daughter with a Japanese woman living in Aldikia, that is Yeze Natsune. But for my grandmother... who was the princess at the time, it was equivalent to an affair, so Yeze Natsune's mother didn't want to cause trouble for my grandfather after giving birth, so she returned to Japan. Later, my grandfather learned about this and ordered people to build a monastery for her..."

"Oh, I see."

After hearing this, Ellie finally understood where the monastery behind the school came from.

"Not long ago, the palace learned of Yeze Natsune's existence, and my grandfather fled. My grandmother was furious... Well, the palace is a bit chaotic at the moment, but we can't just abandon her. So I came here to pick up Yeze Natsune on behalf of my grandfather."

As she spoke, La Freya also showed a somewhat speechless expression.

Well, it is conceivable. After all, it is considered the orthodox royal bloodline, and it is the result of **. In the end, the instigator ran away...

If it were put in a palace drama, it might be another version of My Fair Princess.

"In fact, Kensei Ye, who was employed by the magician, was once a court magician serving the royal family of Aldikia. The many magical mysteries he knows require the psychic abilities of the royal family members..."

"So that's why you adopted Xia Yin. Are you planning to arrest you?"

Ellie narrowed her eyes and then asked again.

"So what do you remember about what the magician Gongzu is doing? We saw that Yeze Natsune turned into a monster-like appearance with wings and possessed strange and powerful powers..."

"really……"

After hearing Ellie's detailed description, La Freya also looked serious.

"Hase Kensei wants to create a 'model angel'."

"Model angel?"

Hearing this, Setsuna asked doubtfully, and La Freya nodded.

"That is a magic ritual that Kensei Ye has been studying for a long time. It uses artificial means to induce spiritual evolution, allowing humans to be reborn into higher-level beings."

“As expected…”

Ai Li raised her eyebrows. She was too lazy to even complain. After all, the villains only did these kinds of things...

“——!!!”

However, at this moment, suddenly, a roar was heard. Hearing this sound, the three girls in the hot spring were stunned for a moment, and then Ellie stood up.

"Okay, that's enough about the hot spring bath. Looks like we have to welcome guests."

The other two naturally had no objection to Ellie's proposal. They soon left the hot spring, put on their clothes, and came to the woods in front of the beach, secretly observing outside. Soon, the three saw a large military hovercraft roaring towards them, and on the outer shell of the hovercraft, there was a sign marked with the magician's plastic.

"It's an unmanned hovercraft made by the wizard."

La Freya whispered, and Xue Cai tightened her grip on the Xuexia Wolf.

"Senior, what should we do now?"

"I'll go out and check the situation first, you guys wait here."

Ellie waved her hand and walked out of the woods. At the same time, the hovercraft on the opposite side also roared to the shore, and then the gate opened, and dozens of soldiers covered in black armor walked down, holding rifles in their hands, without making any sound. The dazzling searchlight turned on, illuminating the island in front of them - and soon, they found Ellie walking out of the woods.

Then, the soldiers instantly raised their rifles and pulled the triggers.

“Da da da da!!!”

The sound of gunfire startled La Freya and Setsuna who were hiding in the woods, while Ellie stretched out her hand, and soon, a bluish-white circular barrier appeared in front of her, blocking the bullets flying in front.

"The other side actually used live ammunition!"

At this moment, Xuecai's expression was stiff, and La Freya also took out a golden pistol from her clothes.

"It looks like they have no intention of letting us live, but if it's the Fourth True Ancestor, it should be okay."

At this moment, as if in response to La Freya's words, Ellie took action.

She raised her hand, and several bluish-white balls of light appeared around her, gradually expanding, and then rays burst out, sweeping across the entire beach. In the blink of an eye, accompanied by a violent explosion, the air cushion landing craft that rushed onto the beach exploded, and the fully armed soldiers were directly blasted into pieces by the atomic beams shot by Fang Zheng.

An extremely elite and fully armed marine corps was easily destroyed by the Fourth True Ancestor, and did not even last for a minute.

"Is this the power of the Fourth True Ancestor?"

Looking at the scene in front of her, La Freya murmured to herself, while Xue Cai tightly grasped the Xuexia Wolf without saying a word.

After a moment, the two also walked out of the woods.

"Senior, those..."

"They are not humans. They are probably mechanical soldiers made by wizards."

Ellie curled her lips at a piece of coke that was emitting black smoke not far away. Through the hot incision, she could clearly see the mechanical parts and circuits inside, which made Xue Cai feel somewhat relieved. La Freya looked at the sea level not far away, and then frowned.

"But it seems it's not over yet."

"I saw that, too."

Ellie nodded and looked into the distance, only to see another hovercraft roaring towards her not far behind her. However, unlike the previous one, this hovercraft had... a white flag hanging on it.

This time, Ellie did not take action. The three of them just watched the hovercraft land again, and then the gate opened. Then the blonde beauty who had met them once before, the pilot who flew the plane to drop them off on the island, and a man in black who looked like a priest walked out and came to the beach.

"Long time no see, Kensei Ye."

Looking at the man in black, La Freya spoke without any expression, and the man in black bowed respectfully to him.

"I pay my respects to Your Highness... It has been seven years since we last met. You are truly a beauty now."

"You are using my relatives as sacrifices for the ceremony. How dare you say such a thing?"

There was no change in La Freya's expression, but her tone was unusually cold, but Kensuke Yease did not change at all.

"As you said, Your Highness, but I swear to God that I have never treated Xia Yin unfairly - you should understand this very well now."

Hearing this, La Freya raised her eyebrows.

"According to what you said, you want to turn her, who is as dear to you as your daughter, into something inhuman?"

"In other words, it is because she is like my own daughter that she can participate in all this."

“…”

Listening to the conversation between the two, Ai Li shrugged her shoulders, while Yukina's face turned pale. What La Freya said was just a general theory. In any case, for ordinary people, if they loved her like their own daughter, they would not want to let her suffer such torture. But for Kensei Yeze, it was because he loved Natsune, who was as close to him as his own daughter, that he let her undergo such a cruel ritual.

Thinking of this, Setsuna couldn't help but glance at Ai Li next to her. She was just listening to the conversation between La Freya and Kensuke Yease with interest without any expression. This reminded Setsuna of what Ai Li had said to her on the plane before.

"Your anger means nothing to them, and they can't empathize with your sadness. They may be able to come up with a hundred and eighty reasons and excuses, but none of that matters. What matters is what they did."

And the fact is just as Ellie said.

At the same time, Kensuke Yezawa became more and more excited.

"The angel models we prepared have seven people, three of whom were defeated by Xia Yin herself. Including the ones who lost midway, she has obtained six psychic centers. Together with the seven psychic centers that humans are born with, the total number is thirteen, which is the minimum number required for humans to raise their spiritual level by one level."

Hearing Kensuke Yease's excited words, Setsuna's face turned pale.

"So this is why Yeze devours his own kind? You actually did such a thing!?"

Looking at Kensei Yease in front of her, Setsuna clenched her grip on the Snow Wolf angrily, while the former remained unmoved.

"The ritual of creating an angel uses the 'poison' to make the candidates kill each other, swallow the other's psychic center, and absorb it into their own body, so as to create the best individual who survives. All humans have the same circuit, but not many people can activate it. Even for a first-class psychic, being able to use 30% is already considered excellent. If you can use all of it, then you can gain power equivalent to that of a god or Buddha!"

Hearing this, Setsuna and La Freya were silent, but at this moment, Ai Li yawned.

"It's the same old setting of seeking the source of power by killing each other. It's really boring and not original. Forget it. None of this matters."

As she spoke, Ai Li looked at Kensei Yease.

"Hase Kensei, I just have one question. Is this ritual performed based on Hase Natsune's will? Or is it based on your will?"

"Of course it's mine."

Kensei Yezawa raised his hand.

"Is there any parent who doesn't want their children to be happy? She will evolve into a being that transcends humans, and no one will be able to hurt her anymore. Soon, the child will be summoned to God's side and become a true angel - if this isn't happiness, what else can it be called?"

"you……!!!"

It's crazy!

Hearing this, Xue Cai's eyes widened in anger. However, just as she opened her mouth to try to refute, suddenly, a gunshot rang out.

"Bang!!!"

At this moment, Kensei Yezawa's expression changed from enthusiasm to confusion and coldness. He lowered his head, looked at the wound on his chest, and then fell to the ground.

"Very good, you gave an answer and made a choice."

It was unknown when Ai Li's right hand held a pistol. At this moment, she aimed the gun at Kensei Yease with a cold smile on her face.

"Then now is the time for you to face the consequences."

"you……"

Kensuke Yezase reluctantly raised his head and looked at Ai Li with a puzzled expression, while the smile on the latter's face did not change at all.

"Are you wondering why I want to kill you? It's very simple. This is my verdict on you. Whether this ritual succeeds or not, it has nothing to do with you anymore. You won't see Xia Yin become an angel, nor will you see her fail. Everything you have done will become nothing. You will never know what the outcome of your sacrifice is, because... you are going to die."

At this moment, Ellie's tone was filled with a kind of cruel pleasure.

"This is the result of your choice."

“…”

Hearing this, Kensei Yease's expression became frightened and confused. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but the next moment, he fell to the ground and there was no sound anymore.