Chapter 112 – Maid’s Leash (1/2)

Using a magic crystal that can store Lin Xiao’s magic power to bypass the restrictions of the slave contract, the method couldn’t really give Elena freedom, it could only allow her to move freely within a limited area.

The amount stored in the magic crystal was only enough to allow her to go to the outskirts of the city, it wasn’t enough for her to leave too far from Winterless City. It was still a problem if she went too far, Lin Xiao was worried that she would wander too far.

Every time he gave her the magic crystal, Lin Xiao warned her carefully like an old woman, afraid that she would get hotheaded and escape Winterless City, so it was difficult for Elena to forget even if she wanted to.

“What an annoying guy!” Just thinking of Lin Xiao’s crafty and repulsive face made Elena curse inwardly.

In order to control her whereabouts absolutely, Lin Xiao didn’t fill the magic crystal full on purpose, each time he only filled it half way. He calculated it carefully, and ensured that the magic crystal will run out within 12 hours, that way, Elena would leave with a magic crystal in the morning and had to come back at night to replenish it. She couldn’t even run away if she wanted to, she had to obediently return back to her master’s side, otherwise she would die.

Norminally, the magic crystal gave Elena freedom, but in reality, it was only a leash on her neck, and on the other end of the leash was Lin Xiao firmly grasping it, never letting go.

“You’re my maid! How could I let you run away?” That was how Lin Xiao explained his despicable behavior.

However, whether it was Elena or Lin Xiao himself, the two didn’t notice something strange. Remember when they first met, Lin Xiao looked forward to drive Elena away.

Lin Xiao actually already knew about the possible uses with the magic crystal, and at the start, he didnt see the magic crystal as a leash to keep Elena in check, but a fatal trap to kill Elena with!

Lin Xiao’s initial plan was to hide the fact about the restrictions to distance, deceive her and make her escape Winterless City of her own accord, return to the Forest of the End, then when the magic power dissipated in the crystal, Elena would suffer from the rebound of the slave contract and die on the way there!

The Demon King dying a bizarre death in the wild, no one would know what actually happened. That way, Lin Xiao could thoroughly rid himself of this troublesome baggage and continue his beautiful lifestyle!

Yet, he didn’t do that.

He didn’t hide any information from Elena, and purposely controlled the magic power, turning the original fatal trap into a ‘Maid’s Leash’. He tied up his little maid, not giving Elena any chance to escape.

At first, he wanted to chase Elena away, but now he tied her up with a leash. Two sharply contrasting attitudes, perhaps even Lin Xiao himself doesn’t know the cause.

“What should I do… should I go back?” Elena carefully analyzed the situation.

If Shen DaiYing was getting ready to leave the city, she would have no way of following her, after all, her life was more important. Although Shen DaiYing was severely abnormal today, it wasn’t worth risking her life.

“Strange… where is she going?”

She just noticed that after Shen DaiYing left the city, she didn’t choose to get on a carriage or any other means of transportation, she was still walking, which meant that where Shen DaiYing was going was nearby, and not somewhere far away.

If it wasn’t far away, then she could go and take a look! So she made up her mind and continued to follow along.

After she left the city, she hid left and right the whole way, truly annoying, it was all thanks to Elena’s magic detection radar that locked onto Shen DaiYing’s position, and since she didn’t notice herself get followed, she didn’t hide her aura to the limit.

Otherwise, with the power of the Eastern tribe’s number one assassination technique “Moonlight Soul Flower”, Elena,a discount version of the Demon King definitely wouldn’t be able to detect Shen DaiYing’s presence, she might be able to if she had her full power.

“Whew… are we still not there yet?”

Finally, Shen DaiYing waked into an unremarkable small forest outside the city and stopped in front of the door of an unremarkable small house inside the forest.

This small worn out wooden cabin looked like the residence of a lumberjack, there were many similar ones inside the forests that were outside the city, there was nothing remarkable about it.

Shen DaiYing stood in front of the door, gently knocked and said something to the person inside. After that, a voice answered and a middle aged man cautiously stuck his head out and looked around before taking Shen DaiYing inside.

“Is it just a normal wooden cabin?” Elena had no way inside, and could only hide in the nearby shrubbery, concentrating fully on Shen DaiYing’s aura, so as to not let her slip away from a secret door.

However, Shen DaiYing didn’t leave the wooden cabin, but for some reason her aura started moving downwards, until it completely disappeared. Elena was shocked.

If it wasn’t her misperception, then that meant that there was a secret passageway that lead underground hidden in this unremarkable cabin! Since there was someone guarding it, she could only follow until here.

What should she do next? Leave, or wait?

“It’s probably just some secret base or something, after all, she’s a princess, it isn’t strange to have a secret base.” Elena started to mutter.

In the end, why did she follow her all this way? It clearly wasn’t a big deal, just a secret base, so what was he hoping for?

If it was a few days ago, Elena definitely wouldn’t have taken the risk to come here and do something so pointless and foolish, but ever since Rosie said those words to Lin Xiao yesterday, she became strongly interested in Shen DaiYing.

She couldn’t even explain it herself either, was it because she wanted to help Lin Xiao expose her identity, find evidence of the killer, and annul the engagement?

No, that’s not right.

What kind of joke is that, why should she help Lin Xiao get a wife? She looks forward to Shen DaiYing marrying Caesar and watching Lin Xiao bawl during the marriage ceremony!

Or rather, she wanted to see Shen DaiYing be humiliated, and expose that vixen’s pretense?