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Chapter 867: 722: Sola's Answer

Chapter 867: Chapter 722: Sola’s Answer

For the entire night, Xu Shuo was waiting for news from the Order of the Sun Knights.

But perhaps the Order of the Sun Knights had not yet escaped, or even if they had, they found it inconvenient to communicate, so there was silence throughout the night.

However, there was news from Princess Teresa.

At that time.

Xu Shuo was reviewing the child’s background information.

Lady Hexi is now in her fifties, so naturally, that six or seven-year-old kid couldn’t be her own child, but rather her great-grandson and the only one at that.

Although the child possesses the Varo Royal Family’s bloodline.

Strictly speaking.

The other party is not considered legitimate royal blood.

Lady Hexi is extremely doting on this only grandchild, often bringing him to royal banquets, and moreover, His Majesty the King has never restricted this.

Therefore, although the royal family is inwardly dissatisfied, they dare not speak out or interfere.

“These clan relationships among humans are really complicated, but I can still understand them,” Catalina commented on the side.

“After all, you elves do the same.”

Xu Shuo laughed.

Catalina pursed her lips, “But as long as we elves are of legitimate descent, there’s no distinction between royalty, nobility, and concubines. And isn’t your legitimate lineage all human bloodline? What’s the difference among humans anyway?”

Xu Shuo: “I heard that among the Elf Clan, there are High Elves, Middle Elves, Low Elves.”

Catalina: “…”

Catalina choked.

Because it does indeed exist.

The social hierarchy among the Ice and Snow Elves depends on the strength of their bloodline power.

Some elves have extremely powerful bloodline power, able to encase miles in ice with a simple gesture, while others possess weak bloodline power, struggling even to assimilate a single Magical Beast.

Therefore, in elf society, Low Elves mostly serve as labor, Middle Elves as mid-level combatants, and High Elves as the top decision-makers.

High Elves have strong bloodline power, and if they mate with individuals from other races, the resulting elf bloodline will be purer.

However, most High Elves place great importance on bloodline purity, so even though there are High Elves who have united with outsiders, they are few.

Catalina and her sister are both High Elves.

But when it comes to the purity of their bloodline.

They seem to have some differences of opinion.

Regarding mixed-blood elves, Catalina used to think that her sister shared the same views as her, but ever since she followed someone out of the Far North Mountain Range, her worldview has been shattered many times.

So, upon hearing Xu Shuo’s retort.

Catalina contemplated carefully.

And seemed to find no grounds for rebuttal.

Thus reluctantly, she fell silent.

This elf…

Might never give up their contempt for humans and mixed-blood elves unless they reach absolute rock bottom.

Even if they eventually resign themselves to fate.

They might still loathe the mixed-blood elves.

These deep-seated beliefs indeed cannot be changed overnight after a national disaster, and Xu Shuo did not intend to completely alter this elf’s mindset.

After all, once this match is over.

It’s time to withdraw!

After Xu Shuo finished reading the child’s information.

He set aside the documents and picked up a finely sealed small bottle from the side, unscrewed the cap, and poured out a drop of blood the size of a thumb.

This blood was incidentally collected from the child by the Radiant Star Knight Order while investigating the child’s background.

Very incidentally.

The sleeping child wasn’t even awakened.

The blood rolled on Xu Shuo’s fingertip like a lively droplet, under the splendid light of the temple glistening and tinted with a golden hue.

Then, Xu Shuo glanced at Catalina, only to see that she exhibited no particular reaction to this drop of blood.

Catalina was just full of curiosity: “What is this?”

Xu Shuo offered it in front of her: “Take a taste?”

Catalina: “???”

The Ice and Snow Elf immediately recoiled in disgust.

Xu Shuo cajoled gently: “It’s not from some strange creature; on the contrary, it should be related to you Ice and Snow Elves. Why don’t you taste it first?”

Catalina took two steps back directly: “Are you insane?!”

Even if it wasn’t something weird.

She didn’t want to taste flesh and blood, alright!

Xu Shuo looked somewhat regretful upon seeing this.

It seemed that this drop of blood not only failed to trigger any special reaction from Catalina, but it didn’t even generate a modicum of goodwill.

At that moment, light magic spread from Xu Shuo’s fingertip, permeating the blood droplet that floated above it.

Then he flicked the blood droplet away.

Bang~

The blood droplet exploded in mid-air.

Catalina, who had kept her distance from the young man, suddenly turned her head to look.

Her pupils, peaceable for so long, contracted sharply like those of a cat, filled with surprise and astonishment, and a hint of curiosity and perplexity.

Umm… but still no goodwill.

“Elf Bloodline?”

Catalina watched the dispersing droplet in the air, surprised: “What kind of technique is this? I didn’t feel anything just now, and now I only faintly sense a subtle bloodline connection.”

Xu Shuo did not answer her.

But at that moment, he seemed somewhat emotional: “It seems that the real answer Sola was looking for is actually in the Royal Capital.”

That was the first adversary faction character he encountered.

The girl had appeared just to lift the bloodline curse within her, but ended up being bewitched by Xu Shuo’s words and followed him to the Far North Mountain Range in a daze.

Although Xu Shuo was not interested in her mission.

He was indeed interested in the bloodline curse within her and was slightly curious about how she was going to break the curse.

After Sola fell unconscious.

Xu Shuo took out the handwritten notes she kept close to her and had a look.

The notes were thick, a collection of various pages bonded together, showing a sense of age.

The Curse came from the giant dragon lineage.

Therefore, most of Sola’s family had been studying giant dragons.

It must be said that for the sake of this curse, the girl’s family really racked their brains, which showed that they must have been a noble house long ago.

However, even with the help of the notes, Xu Shuo figured out a way to deal with the giant dragon lineage but still failed to find an effective method to lift the curse.

This family must have researched in the wrong direction, right?

The notes held no answers.

Xu Shuo then thought of the Silver City-State.

But as for the kind of techniques that silence bloodlines, like those of the Silver City-State.

He knew them but couldn’t perform them.

After all, the bloodlines needing silencing aren’t just of the individuals now, but the lineage handed down, which means that the magic needs to have persistence spanning a thousand years at least.

Such magic is far too intricate.

Today, almost no one on the continent can fully execute it, and Xu Shuo could only temporarily suppress the bloodline curse.

However, now it seems.

The Varo Royal Family, or rather, the Wald XVIII’s generation, has their own way to confront this curse deep within their bloodline.

So, if they weren’t involved…

Sola, following her own schedule.

Would likely end up going to the Royal Capital in the end, and while doing her main quest, seek the help of her faction comrades to desperately preserve her life.

Then for the sake of the faction as a whole.

Even if there was no real sincerity between comrades, in order to not weaken their faction’s strength and thus hinder the completion of the main quest.

They would most likely offer help.

But Sola’s route.

Was inadvertently off-track from the beginning, wasn’t it?

Well, I hope she sleeps comfortably.

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