Chapter 159: Hagek Kesi, I love you! Dorovai, who has regained her footing

Blood Tooth Arena.

"Who are you?"

Hagek Kesi looked suspiciously at the purple-haired young girl who was hugging his calf tightly below.

He did not expect that after the blood-red magic dissipated, the figure revealed would be so weak; this was also why he had allowed the other party to approach him.

Latise raised her head, infatuatedly looking at the heroic face of the man above, which looked like it had been carved by a knife and axe. She could no longer suppress the love in her heart and shouted with all her might:

"Hagek Kesi, I love you!"

Hagek Kesi: "???"

The young girl's declaration of love, under the influence of magic, instantly spread throughout the entire arena; in an instant, the whole audience was in an uproar.

Especially the few noble young masters in the stands who had been played around by the young girl like Tom, their faces turned livid immediately, and some even cried out with a "wah".

So, it wasn't that she didn't like meeting people, nor was it that she hated contact with men; she just didn't like you.

And the young girl's declaration of love was not over yet. After the bold confession, she continued to look infatuatedly at Hagek Kesi and said in a voice full of love:

"Hagek Kesi, from the moment I saw you, my heart could never move away from you again."

"Your copper-and-iron-like, vigorous body, your heroic face—it's like a great hero walking out of the Age of Myth!"

"They once called you a beast, but I can see the loneliness beneath your golden eyes."

"No matter if the road ahead is full of thorns or raging wind and snow, I am willing to walk side by side with you, using my hands to soothe your fatigue after battle, and using my body temperature to accompany you through every cold night."

"Accept my love, Hagek Kesi; I will offer my heart to you!"

Everyone could feel the young girl's love from those incomparably affectionate words; they held their breath and silently waited for the Molten Gold Titan's reply.

After all, a beautiful young girl publicly declaring her love to a slave under the gaze of countless people—if they really became lovers, perhaps it would become a poem in the mouths of bards, still sung by people thousands of years later.

And Hagek Kesi, looking at the petite young girl who was not even as tall as his knees, was completely lost in confusion.

It was fine to let him fight magic beasts, but to let a gladiator who had been sent to the arena for cruel training since birth and had only known killing for twenty-one years—and didn't even know how to read before—to understand love was simply too difficult!

But can she tell that I am very lonely?

A palpitation inexplicably rose in Hagek Kesi's heart.

In the countless late nights of the past, when he was tortured by sin and unable to sleep, he had also fantasized and longed for a girl to accompany him through the long night.

No matter if the road ahead is full of thorns or raging wind and snow, I am willing to walk side by side with you...

Hagek Kesi muttered the words of the young girl's declaration of love in his heart. He began to think: if he agreed to the other party's courtship, would someone accompany him to walk on in the future, never to be separated, even if his enemies were the villains of the whole world?

Looking at the wavering expression that finally began to appear on the man's originally expressionless face, Latise felt as if she had been hit by her own Boiling Blood magic; all the blood in her body became boiling hot.

"My beloved, Impaler Lord Saimen Kelai is my foster father who dotes on me. If you can accept the heart I offer, I am willing to swear to God that I will bet everything I have to persuade him to return your freedom and grant you the status of a free citizen, so that from now on, no shackles can bind your shoulders."

In order to move Hagek Kesi in one go, the young girl swore to God excitedly.

Saimen, who heard this in mid-air, had a dark face.

Damn it, does this prodigal girl know how expensive Hagek Kesi is now? He is worth at least thirty Golden Dragons today!

However, if Latise could really become lovers with Hagek Kesi, it could be considered as being under his command, and returning Hagek Kesi's freedom was not something that couldn't be done.

After all, a powerful Radiant Moon combat force that was a sure thing in the future was no longer something that could be bought with mere money.

And Hagek Kesi on the field, who had originally prepared to open his mouth to respond to the young girl's declaration of love, froze completely upon hearing Saimen's name.

What? She is Saimen's daughter!

Could all this be a plot by Saimen to win me over?

My loyalty has long been offered to His Highness, and besides, he is just a Kelai villain who tramples on the flesh and blood of slaves to make money!

Thinking of this, the emotion on Hagek Kesi's face gradually dissipated, and he became expressionless again.

"Hagek Kesi, you..."

Latise, who had been looking infatuatedly, keenly noticed the change in his expression. She wanted to ask the reason, but suddenly felt a massive force strike.

It was Hagek Kesi, in his giant form, who had flicked his foot, and the vampire girl who had been hugging his calf was thrown far into the air like a kite with a broken string.

Swish!

If it weren't for a blood-red air wave appearing in time to protect her, she would probably have collided with the hard protective wall behind her.

"Why?!"

The young girl, who had come to her senses from the dizziness of the impact, looked at Hagek Kesi in disbelief and asked.

However, what broke her heart was that the heroic giant just glanced at her coldly, then lowered his head and ducked into the narrow passage without looking back.

"Hahahaha, declaring love to a slave and being rejected!"

"I used to think she was quite noble, but now it seems... tsk!"

"But she is really brave."

At the same time, countless bursts of laughter came from the stands.

Latise was silent for a moment, then tilted her head and fainted.

She knew that from now on, she would probably be completely "socially dead" in the Slave Capital.

Northern Region, as always, the cold wind was like a knife, cutting through the gray-white sky.

The earth was submerged in ice and snow, and the vast, boundless ice field extended to the end of the horizon.

Lansen looked blankly at an open space not far away; this was the first time in ten years that he had not seen the young girl practicing swordsmanship against the cold wind in this open space.

"Lord Knight Commander, what's wrong with you?"

Some passing Eastern Region knights discovered his abnormality, so they asked.

"Lord Knight Commander, our Lord traveled day and night for several days to kill Lucas, and only returned to the village late last night; it couldn't be simpler for her to want to rest a bit more."

After Lansen told them the reason, they replied nonchalantly.

After the knights left, Lansen still had a frowning expression.

Choosing to give up practicing swordsmanship because of fatigue was the choice of an ordinary person, but it was absolutely not Dorovai's choice; otherwise, she could not have achieved the peak of the Crescent Moon at the age of twenty.

There must be another reason for her to do this.

Thinking of this, the Knight Commander could no longer suppress the worry in his heart, and his tall body turned into a gust of wind and rushed toward the young girl's residence.

Knock, knock, knock, Lansen knocked on the door lightly.

"Come in, Uncle Lansen, the door is unlocked."

A moment later, Dorovai's tired voice came from inside the door.

He pushed the door and entered, only to see the young girl with ice-blue long hair sitting on the bed, curled up with her arms around her knees, staring blankly at the drizzling light snow outside the window, not knowing what she was worried about.

Those beautiful emerald-like eyes were now like being covered by a layer of gray curtain, dimming as never before.

This scene made the middle-aged knight, who had regarded the young girl as his own daughter, feel a tug in his heart.

"Dorovai, you are the Lord I serve, and also the person I love like a daughter. May I ask you to tell me your worries? Perhaps I am lucky enough to answer them for you."

Lansen knelt on one knee and asked in as gentle a voice as possible.

Seeing this, the young girl hurriedly helped him up, then sighed and told the story of her experience after meeting the Pale Witch in a slightly sad voice.

"... The villagers of that village, in order to gain the ability to survive by eating snow, did not hesitate to be turned into monsters who could never feel warmth, and the most terrifying thing is that this is not the first one; perhaps many villages in the Northern Region have already become like this."

When she said this, a trace of despair actually appeared on Dorovai's pretty face.

"Uncle, the Northern Region is too big. If I want to completely change all this, I must overthrow the rule of the Gluttony King, but I need at least decades to reach the Sun Wheel Rank; by then, perhaps all the civilians in the Northern Region will have become monsters covered in frost!"

Thinking of such a terrifying scene, the young girl's hands hung down powerlessly, and her entire body trembled slightly.

Lansen was silent.

He knew how heavy the pressure was on the young girl's not-so-broad shoulders.

Family hatred, national enmity, the suffering of the people—the people of the Mason family always seemed to be like this, viewing everyone's suffering as their own, and viewing the tears of any innocent person as their own responsibility.

Perhaps precisely because of this, they could be so dazzling, causing a group of knights who could have easily lived the life of people above people with their martial power to travel thousands of miles to the barren villages of the Northern Region to eat black bread and suffer, just to protect the only bloodline left by their Lord.

"Dorovai, do you have time to go out with me now?"

After thinking for a long time, Lansen suddenly spoke.

"Yes," the young girl replied, although she was puzzled.

On the snow, one blue and one cyan stream of light flashed past at a terrifying speed that ordinary people could not observe at all.

The snow on the ground was lifted by the cold wind brought by the stream of light, like white waves surging, and then gradually calmed down after they went far away.

Finally, the two streams of light stopped in front of a village; it was the Ice Deer Village, which had once been trapped in famine.

At this moment, the dilapidated houses had been repaired, the children whose bodies were no longer bloated were chasing and playing together, and some villagers were sitting around the village entrance, eating wheat porridge and chatting.

The once lifeless village was now radiating new vitality.

"It's the pretty big sister who sent the food earlier!"

The children pointed at Dorovai, who was standing in front of the village gate, and shouted excitedly.

Those villagers were stunned, and after coming to their senses, they did not dare to be slow, hurriedly running to report to the headman.

Not long after, the old headman, who didn't even have time to put on his shoes, ran over barefoot.

"Benefactor, why are you here?"

The old headman said with a face full of surprise; he opened the village gate while talking, and welcomed Dorovai and Lansen into the village.

When Lansen took the initiative to ask about the recent situation of Ice Deer Village, it was like opening the old headman's chatterbox, and he began to talk incessantly:

"Not long after the benefactor left, Lucas, the former lord of the Ice Plain Territory, was killed by a heroic nameless knight. I heard his death was particularly miserable, even that thing was gone, hahahaha!"

Speaking of this, even the old headman, who had always been stern, let out a hearty laugh.

But soon he realized that it was not good to talk about these things in front of a young girl like Dorovai, so he hurriedly coughed twice and returned to being serious.

"The newly appointed Lord Roman is a good man; not only did he send relief food to all the villages in the territory trapped in famine, but he also stopped the Kelai merchants who were about to leave the territory and redeemed the villagers who had been sold as slaves at a price lower than the original price, allowing these children to reunite with their parents."

"Thank you again, Benefactor; if it weren't for you, I'm afraid what they would have seen when they returned would be the corpses of their own children."

The old headman said with gratitude, and those villagers also silently gathered around, bowing their heads deeply and kneeling on both knees toward the young girl.

After seeing this scene, the young girl, who had been listless since her return, finally showed a trace of movement on her pretty face.

"Uncle Lansen, what did you want to tell me by bringing me here?"

After the two left Ice Deer Village, Dorovai asked.

The man who was walking forward stopped his pace. He turned around and looked at the young girl in front of him with a solemn expression.

"Dorovai, I know that like your father, you are a person who likes to carry the suffering of all the people on the continent on yourself. This is very good, but it is also too tiring."

The knight said softly, his tone so gentle that it was impossible to connect him with the "Blue Steel Fury" who used to make enemies tremble with fear.

"I also know how heavy the responsibility on your shoulders is, and I am very sorry that I have always let you bear this responsibility alone."

"But I also want you to know that every knight in Snow Sheep Village, including me, is willing to sacrifice our lives for you at any time."

The knight knelt on one knee and bowed deeply.

"You are never alone."

"Perhaps the road ahead is indeed long enough to be desperate, perhaps people will encounter suffering at all times, but your efforts are definitely not in vain."

"Isn't the village behind us, as well as the vast Ice Plain Territory, happy because of you?"

"Just as that Sage in the Southern Region said, when the carriage arrives, the road will appear."

"For someone as kind as you, the Creator who created the world we live in will definitely grant you protection."

"Your father, my former Lord, Grand Duke Mason, if he could know that nearly ten million people in the Southern Region are happy because of him, I think he could also rest in peace in the underworld."

"In fact, I have always suspected that the Grand Duke's death might have been voluntary; he had the protection of Spirit Vision, perhaps he saw some kind of future and was willing to die."

"So... even if we fail in the end, as long as someone is saved and happy because of us, isn't that also very good?"

Dorovai: "..."

She thought of her father who twisted his own neck, thought of the Red Fire who lived in the past and fought alone, thought of the Highness who kept sending precious grain, thought of everyone in the Starfire Hall...

The next moment, surging emerald magic erupted from the young girl, and caught off guard, even Lansen, a Crescent Moon Knight, subconsciously took a defensive stance.

"Uncle Lansen, in the previous battle, I seemed to touch a bit of the barrier of the Crescent Moon Rank; can you please be my sparring partner?"

The young girl said calmly, the light contained in those emerald eyes now so dazzling that it was impossible to look directly at.

"Good, I'd be happy to." Lansen smiled.

He knew that the determined knight who had practiced swordsmanship for ten years like one day had returned, and even, she was stronger than before.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 160 =====