Obviously, she still had a little fantasy about her current situation.

Seeing her like this, Iris smiled and said:

“We haven’t informed Mr. Karl about your situation, so you are still safe here for now.

We just want to discuss with you the issue of Rose's sect. Child, Rose doesn't really want to help you, I..."

Just as she was about to continue, psychic energy suddenly appeared in Iris's eyes, and the kind smile on her face turned serious, staring at Lauren very seriously.

After a moment, she stopped using her spiritual power with a sense of loss.

"Did they catch up after all?"

Just now, like Lauren before, she used her psychic power to cast a spell to detect thoughts and read Lauren's inner thoughts.

As a dream spirit, no one in Storm Bay knows the methods of the Ruiyi Drow Empire better than her.

"You can actually read my thoughts directly?"

Looking at Iris with surprise, Lauren felt a strong threat from this fellow psychic.

She didn't know that the other party was Li Meng Zhuoer, who was directly related to Meng Ling. She just thought that Elise was the helper that Ashe had found.

"Give up! Lauren, you can't even beat me, let alone the two of us..."

Ashe, who was standing aside, didn't know about the Ruiyi Drow Empire yet, and was now trying hard to persuade her former friends to join her current camp.

In today's Spirit King competition, Elise used the power of the Dream Spirit to eliminate the special power of the Spider Spirit Card and established a certain connection between Ashe's soul and the Dream Spirit.

The overall format is somewhat similar to the "Dark Game". The two completed the confrontation in the spiritual realm, which is not yet known to Carl.

As she spoke, Ashe couldn't help but recall her duel with Elise.

...A few hours ago...

In the third round of the game, I don’t know if it was fate or Carl’s manipulation, but Elise and Ashe were successfully matched with each other.

"Child, stop it. You have been abandoned by Rose. You might as well live your life for yourself."

Before it even started, Elise used her motherly and gentle voice to persuade Ashe.

But Ash didn't show any fear at all, instead, she pretended to be puzzled and replied:

"Ms. Elise, what are you talking about? I don't understand."

After taking a deep look at Ashe, Elise said nothing more and sat down in her respective seats with Ashe.

After guessing who would go first, Ashe drew the card first and started the operation to summon the Spider Spirit.

After two games, she has roughly figured out the special features of this spirit card.

The spirits defeated by it will be planted with a special mental imprint. As the players continue to use these cards, the mental imprint will be transferred to the players' souls, allowing Rose to locate these players through dreams.

However, Ashe had no way of knowing more specific details.

Glancing at the cards in her hand, Ashe frowned.

She found that she had drawn the spider elf card in the first round.

'If it can infect opponents, can it infect me too?'

With such concerns, Ashe casually summoned a card that would serve as a sacrifice later, and then ended her turn.

In the back-and-forth battle, the number of spirits on the tables of both sides gradually increased.

Just when Ashe was hesitating whether to summon the Spider Spirit card at this time, Elise on the opposite side directly summoned a Drow Ranger wearing a hooded cloak, but the clothes underneath the cloak were extremely cool.

As time passed, the ranger's appearance seemed to become more similar to Iris.

Thinking about what her spirit card could do, she couldn't help but worry whether Iris's card could also do something similar.

'Damn, if I lose here, I don't know what will happen.

I have to win this round!'

Having made up her mind, Ashe no longer hesitated and finally summoned the Spider Elf in the next round.

However, when this special spirit appeared on the table, Ashe suddenly felt herself in a trance.

In the blink of an eye, she found herself and Iris in a weird yet fairy-tale-like place.

There were cartoon-like little animals everywhere, and Ash found a blue short-haired cat named Tom and a brown rat named Jerry.

This was a character she had seen from the cartoon Phantom Show that Lisanna and Hope often watched.

However, apart from these cartoon animals, the surrounding scenery seems a bit scary.

Twisted houses and eerie bell towers rose from the ground, and it seemed as if some horrible monster was imprisoned in the house, which was now focusing on the card game.

"I didn't realize you're such a child. I thought you didn't really like the cartoon fantasy shows that Hope and Lisanna watched."

Looking around, Elise teased in an adult tone.

However, Ashe heard something else in the other party's words.

“Is this my spiritual space?”

Although she is already a pretty good psionicist, Ashe has not yet been exposed to much knowledge in the spiritual realm.

The long life span of the drow allows them to "forget" many things that are not conducive to the cultivation of psychic powers to a certain extent.

"almost."

Nodding, Elise leaned back in her chair.

At this moment, the drow ranger, who was originally only the size of a palm on the table, suddenly grew rapidly, and along with it, the spider elf on Ashe's side.

These spirits in this special space seemed to be infused with intelligence. Before Ashe gave any orders, the spider elves thrust out their claws and tried to kill the drow ranger.

Just then, Elise took out a card and placed it on the card where the Drow Ranger Spirit was staying.

In a moment, the originally pitch-black wooden longbow began to change rapidly. Not only did a mechanical structure and pulleys appear, but there were also obvious complex magic patterns on the bow.

She dodged the spider elf's claws and pulled the bowstring. An arrow made of magic power actually condensed directly on the pulley bow.

“Whoosh!”

There was an obvious sound of breaking through the air, and the arrow transformed by magic power pierced the arm of the spider elf.

Purple-red blood gushed out, but just before it was about to drip, it turned into energy and dissipated.

Ashe was thinking about whether to use any cards to make up for it, but the spider elf that had already jumped out of the table spoke.

"Ah! Eilistraee~, after all these years, you are still so pretentious. You deserve your tribe to be wiped out!"

Ashe's pupils suddenly contracted because the voice was very similar to the voice of her ancestor Rose that she had heard before.

"You haven't changed at all, Rose. You still don't take the lives of your subordinates seriously. Sometimes I really feel sorry for these children. The mother they follow can never give them the peace they really want. Instead, she will lead them step by step into the abyss of depravity."

On the battlefield, the drow ranger also spoke.

Ashe looked across the table again and found that Elise was still looking at her with a smile, but it seemed like something was missing.

(End of this chapter)