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"Big brother, look how awesome I am!"
A half-elf's voice suddenly came from the stone sculpture. Latis was startled and quickly lifted the sculpture, looking at the sleeping face, and asked:
"Ate?"
Artemis opened her eyes, put her hands behind her back, lowered her head slightly, and said shyly:
"Actually, it's all thanks to the seed you gave me, big brother..."
She took a deep breath, raised her head, and with a hint of hidden emotion in her slightly flickering pupils, explained:
"After absorbing that seed, the concentration of my bloodline increased slightly, which also raised my magic power to nearly the sixth ring level. I took a small portion of the seed and tried to put it into this stone sculpture, and to my surprise, it actually succeeded."
Ateliers reached out and lightly touched Latis's large hand, then, as if she had made up her mind, she covered Latis's hands with both of hers, which were holding the stone sculpture.
She gazed at the stone sculpture emitting a green glow and nodded vigorously:
"My consciousness can be projected into this stone sculpture at any time, so no matter how far apart we are, I can contact you, brother!"
"So powerful?" Latis stared blankly at the petite half-elf stone sculpture, then carefully placed it into his bag.
Artemis's gaze followed Latis's face, and she said with a smile:
"Besides that, there's another surprise!"
"Surprise?" Latis pondered the word, asking uncertainly:
"Did you find something like the Moonlight Lotus Core again? Oh, right! My mage level has increased, and I'd like you to teach me how to inscribe a first-level spell!"
“Great!” the half-elf said, her eyes sparkling. “But I want to tell you what this surprise is first.”
"Stop keeping me in suspense!" Latis gritted his teeth and said, "If you dare to keep me in suspense, I'll spank you hard."
Artemis lowered her head and subconsciously pinched the hem of her dress. She hesitated for a moment, then suddenly exhaled and gracefully raised her head.
"Don't take your hand away," she said seriously.
She gently unbuttoned the collar of her robe, then took Latis's hand, lifted it, and placed it inside her undergarment.
Feeling Latis's unconscious kneading, the half-elf's face gradually turned redder and redder. She suppressed her embarrassment, her voice trembling, but still managed to explain openly:
“I know you couldn’t see very clearly last night, but this intimate contact… oh, this feeling should be enough to prove it…”
Latis suddenly felt his palms sweating slightly; no, not just his palms, his whole body began to heat up.
"So soft...so comfortable...what does this prove?"
He examined the half-elf's face again more closely, from its short but soft hair, to its fair forehead, to its azure, diamond-like eyes and long eyelashes, to its small, pointed nose, and finally to its rosy, soft lips that always carried a slight smile.
"Damn it, Latis, are you stupid? This girl is obviously cute, why did you mistake her for a boy? Did you watch too much Nanliang in your past life? You've been ruined by Nanliang in this life..."
Latis suddenly snapped out of his daze and realized what he had been doing!
"No, no, no, no, it's all over, it's all over, it's all over! If Ate is a girl, if Ate is a girl, your image in her eyes is completely ruined! Oh my god! Latis, you idiot, what have you done?!"
"Something feels off..."
The half-elf's legs suddenly gave way, and she unconsciously collapsed into Latis's arms. The burning heat against his chest made her feel increasingly weak, and she helplessly lifted her face, murmuring:
"Latis..."
Latis's body jolted, and he released his grip as if electrocuted, quickly embracing the half-elf. Looking into her misty eyes, he sighed.
"What have I done...?"
The half-elf rested her head against Latis's chest, catching her breath for a moment before shaking off the heat from her head. She pulled up her collar, lowered her head, and said shyly:
"Brother, I felt a strange sensation in my body just now, I'm sorry..."
"That one sentence is enough to make someone feel so guilty that they'd wake up in the middle of the night and slap themselves twice!"
Latis stroked the half-elf's soft hair, and the jumbled explanations he had originally intended to give gradually sank into his heart.
"Arte trusts me so much, if I were to delay responding to her feelings because I'm still hung up on the awful things I did before, I might as well castrate myself! Latis, Latis, what have you done to deserve this..."
He coughed lightly, then burst into laughter, picked up the half-elf, and carried him around the arena three hundred meters. In the half-elf's flustered yet trusting embrace, he shouted:
"Ate, you are the cutest girl in the whole world!"
After the embarrassing sweat on his body evaporated, Latis finally stopped, pulled out his earring box without even panting, and let out a strange cry:
"Gift!"
"Huh? I have one too?" The half-elf, who had regained his composure, curiously opened the box and looked at the pair of exquisite earrings.
The moment she saw the earrings, it was as if a lightning bolt struck her mind.
She held the earrings in a daze, then suddenly lowered her head with tears in her eyes and murmured:
"What a fool I am, what am I waiting for?"
"I……"
The half-elf raised his head, threw himself into Latis's arms, hugged him tightly around the waist, and choked out a soft cry:
"I love you too! Regardless of hatred, lifespan, or anything else that makes me hesitate, troubled, or uneasy! Right now, right now..."
She raised her head, stood on tiptoe, and kissed Latis shyly, reservedly, yet deeply.
"Call me by my real name, call me Qiuye."
In Latis's consciousness, the real name Qiuye suddenly surged upwards, standing brightly at the very top of his consciousness.
Only at this moment did he realize how different the real name he knew from the simulator was from the real name he was told by others. That brilliant real name shone with unparalleled brilliance in the depths of his soul, placing nearly half of her life and power within his reach.
"Autumn leaves..."
Artemis felt as if a large hand had suddenly seized her heart. She pressed herself against Latis's chest, slightly breathless, listening to his firm and rapid heartbeat, and gradually a sweet smile appeared on her face.
"So this is what love is, and what it feels like to be loved..."
Chapter 77 The Alchemist's Firearms (Two-in-One)
"Brother, first spread this pile of edelweiss powder evenly on the pages of the book, then use the juice of the oil fern to draw a pattern like this on it... Hmm! That's it!"
"Finally, use a ring of magic to envelop a large amount of fire-attribute magic essence, fusing the materials and spellbook pages together... Success! Big brother, you're amazing! You've successfully inscribed the 'Burning Hand' spell! Let me see what other materials are needed for the spell..."
……
"Is it just my imagination? There seems to be a strange sense of understanding between my older brother and Ateliers..."
The robin turned her head back and continued to manipulate the alchemy hut. She looked out the window at the gradually decreasing thick roots and knew that she had left the territory of Hard Stem City.
Suddenly, her ears twitched slightly, and she glanced lightly at Yashutia, who was furiously chiseling at a magic furnace in the next room.
"Haha, failed again. Tired. Let's just destroy it."
"Another piece of trash worth only a hundred gold coins, disgusting."
"What kind of material is this? It smells like a griffin... Never mind, refine it! Refine it hard!"
bang bang bang...
"After waking up, Ms. Kurosawa stared blankly for half an hour with a look of despair, and then she turned out like this."
The robin sighed, thinking with slight worry:
"Alchemists are really crazy. I wonder what she'll create..."
She looked at the sky, which was gradually becoming covered with dark clouds, and a sense of unease suddenly crossed her mind.
"The entire Black Hat squad has been wiped out and is out of contact. How long will the Black Hat organization remain silent? I heard they have members scattered across various regions, carrying out all sorts of missions, and their recruitment speed is incredibly fast..."
She glanced around at everyone in the room again, smiled warmly, and then her eyes gradually hardened.
"This peaceful life must not be disrupted by anyone!"
……
"A brother can't become a lover. Once a brother becomes a lover, she's no longer someone you can have fun with freely. You can no longer bump into her with your strong chest like before, you can no longer..."
"Big brother, it seems like you drew the spell mark wrong?"
"Huh?" Latis suddenly snapped out of his reverie about the Brotherhood Bible, glanced at the runes painted on the half-elf's back, closed the grimoire without batting an eye, and said to the smiling half-elf:
"Let's get here first today."
"it is good."
Artemis thought for a moment and said:
“Now that you have that stone sculpture, I can easily contact you and sense its location, so I want to go out and look for any other materials worth keeping an eye on.”
Latis instinctively wanted to dissuade him:
"you……"
He shook his head, looking at the half-elf's nonchalant expression, and swallowed back his words of advice:
"...Then be careful and contact me anytime."
“I will.” Artemis nodded and smiled slightly. “With the natural healing properties of the earring, no matter how severe the injury, it can be slowly healed by turning into a cocoon.”
Latis watched as the half-elf opened the door and nimbly leaped out of the moving alchemy hut, and couldn't help but think:
"Latis, she's not just a pretty face for you to admire! How come the strong qualities you praised when we were brothers seem so unsuitable now that we're lovers?"
He sighed, opened his bag, and touched the petite stone sculpture of Ate.
"Brother, what's wrong?"
Artemis's voice emanated clearly from the stone carving, like a phonograph.
"Uh!" Latis exclaimed in surprise, quickly putting down the stone sculpture and asking:
"Arte, how did you know I was touching the stone sculpture?"
“Ah…” the half-elf paused, then said somewhat shyly:
"Perhaps it's because I told you my real name, and because my soul's essence resides within this stone sculpture, that when you touch it, I feel it being touched..."
"I see."
Latis subconsciously squeezed Arte's small feet, and after hearing a gasp, he coughed lightly and said awkwardly:
"Unexpected, unexpected! Art, you go ahead and do your work!"
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