Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(1-3VOL)

Light Pollution

"Hey! How can you say that!" Nicola jumped up angrily when she heard this, pointing at the little girl and shouting furiously, "I've never done anything to you before!"

"I believe Lady Nicola! This kid was originally her prisoner, it's already very merciful that she didn't kill her, even if Lady Nicola really wanted to do something it would be completely fine." Selene was the first to unconditionally support her. She ran to Nicola's side like a dog, holding her arm with a look of disdain at the dark elf girl, "Besides, we're all girls here so nothing could really happen anyway."

What she said made a lot of sense, Everyone unanimously expressed their agreement.

But there was still one blind spot - while the others didn't know, I did know Nicola's background. The former Reilly was famously a playboy, and he had been with all kinds of girls. So hearing this, I was very suspicious that this fellow had just acted on impulse and taken advantage of the little girl.

Even if Nicola doesn't have the tools to commit a crime now, I still couldn't stop questioning her morals. My previous experience was a living lesson.

"You all..." Seeing that we didn't believe her words, the dark elf girl was so anxious she was almost crying. There were tears in her eyes and she looked utterly pitiful. "You really are in cahoots with her! You humans really are despicable, shameless, unscrupulous creatures!"

"Hey hey! Don't talk nonsense!" Brennan was a little unhappy that it had escalated to insulting all humans.

"That's right, this could be a conspiracy by the dark forces to divide us." Selene was also very dissatisfied and immediately pinned a label on her.

Seeing how wronged the girl looked, Vivianne, who always had a soft spot for cute things, suddenly softened. "Could there be some hidden meaning or misunderstanding?"

"I think there are many suspicious points here." Adrian, who had been silent all this while, suddenly spoke up. "You have to know, whether we heard about them or encountered them personally, the magical beasts we've come across are basically the low IQ types. And dark elves are dark creatures specialized in assassination, they wouldn't normally appear in this kind of large-scale battlefield."

"That's right!" Brennan was reminded and immediately realized it was off. With his rich experience fighting dark creatures, he was very clear about the enemy's methods.

"Also, with her being underage, the clan wouldn't normally allow her to wander around outside, let alone come here to assassinate someone." This was also why he was so shocked when he first saw her. After all, young dark elves like her were so rare.

"Since you're saying she tarnished your reputation, tell us everything that happened, including why you appeared here and why you wanted to assassinate Nicola." Since it involved a potential conspiracy, Adrian also started being prudent. He gently asked the little girl, trying to get her to relax her guard and explain the true situation.

The little girl sniffled a few times after crying, struggled for a good while, then finally slowly explained the whole story...

...

"So you ran out on your own to try to assassinate Nicola?" After a good half day, we had roughly figured out what happened.

According to what the elf girl said, most of her clan members had died in the various big and small battles earlier. So after losing their protection, she had to gain achievements on the enemy side in order to survive as a young child. But there were actually no real assassination targets in the forest battles this time, so she had just been benched the whole time. Later, she heard from many magical beasts who escaped back to base that a lone angel was chasing them everywhere and killing them. So, driven by her eager desire to accomplish something, she sneaked out at night to try to assassinate Nicola. But her plan backfired and she got caught instead.