Chapter 574 - 572: Hilia Didn’t Agree with You!

In the face of the gold coins, Hilia’s anger quickly dissipated.

She looked at the gold coins, and an idea to disgust the Elf Elder popped up.

So she swiftly accepted the gold coins, looked at the Elf Elder, and asked, "Let me ask, are the words you said Elena’s meaning or your own?"

The Elf Elder said indifferently, "Of course it’s our meaning. You wouldn’t think that Elena still wants to be friends with you, right? The gap in status is here, forcing a friendship with Elena is not good for either of you, I advise you to give up."

Hilia snorted, turned around, and flew out without looking back.

The Elf Elder watched her depart, looked at the gathering pollution around, frowned, and tried to disperse it. Soon, she realized that the high-altitude pollution was not as easy to ’disperse’.

They were trying to ’disperse’ over there, all physical dispersion, directly up to high altitudes, allowing the pollution to fly upwards until it became thin.

During this process, some magic power merged with the pollution and was restored into harmless energy, and some were captured by the Abyss due to the high-speed flow.

The Elf Race’s physical dispersion is much less effective than the basic Purification Skill, let alone a Purification Skill specifically targeting pollution.

This type of dispersion works best on the ground, but in high altitudes...

After attempting for a while, the Elf Elder found it wasn’t so easy to disperse and prepared to return to Elena.

At this moment, she had not yet realized the seriousness of the issue.

A moment later, after finding it wasn’t so easy to disperse, she stopped and returned to Elena’s place.

By this time, some time had already passed.

She came to Elena’s side with an apologetic expression, "I am very sorry, Elena, that elf said she feels very inferior and is embarrassed to meet you."

Elena was taken aback, "Impossible, she couldn’t possibly have such a mentality, she is..."

The Elf Elder said, "But she truly is like this. She feels as though there’s a thick barrier between you and her, so after I extended an invitation to her, she... refused my invitation and insisted on leaving."

Pausing, the Elf Elder continued, "However, I didn’t treat her badly; I gave her 100 gold coins so she could leave and go to the Royal City on her own to receive a blessing. With these gold coins, even if she’s punished as a forest patroller, she’ll fare much better."

Elena frowned, feeling that something was not right.

"H... would she really do that? No, she must have her reasons for not wanting to see me, or... is it because I’m busy right now, so she’s planning to wait until I’m free to come back?"

She looked at the still surging waves of pollution in front of her and sighed.

"Alright, even though I really want to meet her, I should deal with the filth here first. If only she were here, working with me, we could certainly solve it smoothly."

The Elf Elder was very dissatisfied with how many times Elena mentioned Hilia’s attitude in that sentence.

Just as she was about to say something, her expression suddenly sharpened, looking at a figure slowly walking over in the distance.

Her anger erupted instantly.

Elena also felt it, quickly turned her head, and looked at Hilia in surprise.

"I knew it, Hilia couldn’t be that kind of person."

Hilia slowly walked over, looking at the Elf Elder, "Elder, what you just said goes against Elena’s meaning."

The Elf Elder’s anger seemed to materialize.

The intangible pressure seemed to materialize too, and even amidst the wave of pollution, it felt clearly visible.

The pressure rapidly surged towards Hilia.

Typically, a Tier Four Mage has virtually no ability to resist the oppression of a Tier Six.

Though it’s not so severe that it impedes movement, there’s still some difficulty breathing and speaking clearly.

But Hilia was under Rose’s protection.

Divine-level spiritual power enveloped Hilia, all the incoming pressure was divided and swept to the sides, having no effect on Hilia at all.

Hilia looked at her and smiled, "You seem very angry; is it because I exposed your lie?"

Elena looked at the expressionless Elf Elder.

When she looked over and saw that the pressure was ineffective against Hilia, the Elf Elder had already retracted the pressure, only leaving a flame of anger flashing with killing intent deep in her eyes.

"Elder, did you say something to Hi... what did you say to make her unwilling to see me? Is it truly the so-called ’status gap’ that makes her not want to see me?"

Elena’s three consecutive questions made the Elf Elder’s face tense.

She looked at Hilia and said coldly, "Since you’ve accepted the gold coins, why did you appear? Those gold coins are plenty; they should be enough to compensate for your friendship with Elena. Why are you backtracking and violating our deal?"

"Deal? Do you know what a deal is? Is deceit a practice of the Elf Royal Family?"

Hilia took out that bag of gold coins and weighed it in her hand.

"Look, what a wonderful sound, you actually spent so much money to separate others."

gold coins really were a lot.

The official exchange rate for 100 gold coins is 1,000,000 copper coins, with a loaf of bread costing about 1~5 copper coins (prices vary across regions).

In fact, 100 gold coins are worth at least 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 copper coins,

which is a very high number.

Even in the field of mages, 100 gold coins can buy 5 water-element Hearts of Natural Puppets.

High-grade materials are about the same price.

"If what you said were true, maybe I would have accepted it, but, no matter what, Elina and I are good friends. Normally, you wouldn’t agree to let me come over, so I had to use a delaying tactic."

Hilia smiled and tossed the bag of gold coins towards the Elf Elder.

The Elf Elder caught it and said blandly, "Since you’re so stubborn, then so be it. As long as I’m here, don’t think you can get close to Elena."

With that, she subtly stepped in front of Elena to block Hilia.

Hilia didn’t care, just looked at Elena and greeted, "Hello, Elina, nice to see you again."

Elena gave a disapproving look at the Elf Elder and cheerfully greeted, "Hi... Hello, if I weren’t tied down right now, I’d certainly take you to tour the Elf Forest."

Hilia looked at the surging pollution around and shook her head, saying, "A trip to the Elf Forest seems out of the picture. The concentration of this pollution is even more outrageous than during the Northern Alliance. Besides greeting you, I also wanted to tell you that merely separating the pollution and tossing it into the sky is useless; the sheer volume makes it just a drop in the bucket."

Elina said helplessly, "There’s nothing we can do, we don’t have a way to solve the pollution. Only the Holy Court has that kind of method... Oh, right, Hi... didn’t you ’secretly learn’ the Holy Court’s Purification Skill?"

Hilia’s expression turned peculiar, and she nodded.

Elina said joyfully, "Can you help me? If we work together, we can certainly..."

"Elina." The Elf Elder suddenly interrupted Elina: "The Royal Court isn’t as incapable as you think; we don’t need to rely on a mixed-blood elf, we can solve it ourselves."

Hilia smiled and said, "You heard her; it’s not that I don’t want to help, but... well, you guys carry on, I have to go, I still need to head to the Royal City to ’receive blessings’."

With that, Hilia waved and decisively left.

Behind, the Elf Elder’s eyes flickered, lost in thought.