Chapter 498: The Real and Fake Elf Queen! Welcome the Queen to the Guild

Chapter 498 -329: The Real and Fake Elf Queen! Welcome the Queen to the Guild

“This…”

Su Xuan looked at Ivsha, who was holding his wrist, and Lucia, who was standing beside her.

‘Who would have thought Alice’s “good morning” was actually a trap!’

‘If I let them in now, won’t they come face-to-face with the Dark Elf Queen, who’s covered in a white substance?’

‘Alice wouldn’t be a problem, and Ivsha could probably handle it.’

‘But Lucia…’

“Can’t we?”

Lucia noticed Su Xuan’s hesitant expression, and a flicker of suspicion flashed through her golden-red eyes.

Ivsha and the others also stared intently at Su Xuan, waiting for his answer.

This made Su Xuan panic internally, but he remained calm on the surface. After a moment of silence, he smiled and said, “Well then, please, come in.”

With that, he invited the women into his room.

When they entered Su Xuan’s room and saw the beautiful woman sitting on the edge of the bed, they all wore expressions of surprise.

“Your Majesty?”

“What are you doing in Mr. Su Xuan’s room?”

The women looked incredulous, unable to understand why the Elf Queen would be sitting so properly in Su Xuan’s bedroom at this hour.

“I was just discussing some matters with President Su Xuan regarding upcoming missions,” the Elf Queen explained with a smile.

“Discussing matters at six in the morning?” Alice was deeply perplexed. She certainly didn’t think this was a time for business talks.

But unlike Lucia and Ivsha, she hadn’t come here with her own agenda.

Alice had come simply to say ‘good morning’ to Su Xuan.

“In that case, we’re disturbing Your Majesty. We’ll be on our way.” Ivsha immediately took Lucia’s and Alice’s hands and quickly left.

Although Lucia was still suspicious, Ivsha’s quick intervention left her no time to discern the truth about this Elf Queen.

All she could do was leave the room with Ivsha, so as not to disturb Su Xuan’s conversation with the Elf Queen.

The moment the door closed, Su Xuan let out a breath he’d been holding. He smiled at the Elf Queen and said, “That was a perfect act!”

“What do you mean, ‘act’? I am the Elf Queen, am I not?” the White Elf Queen replied with a gentle smile.

A moment ago, the White Elf Queen’s soul had taken over, replacing the Dark Elf Queen to fool Lucia.

The only difference between the White Elf Queen and the Dark Elf Queen was the teardrop-shaped mole at the corner of their eyes—one was on the left, the other on the right. In every other respect, they were identical.

It was perfectly understandable that Lucia failed to notice in such a short amount of time.

“You’re right. You’ve always been yourself, you’ve never changed,” Su Xuan hurriedly corrected his mistake.

‘The White Elf Queen and the Elf Queen are the same person, after all. How could I call it an act?’

“You really are something else, leaving her in such a mess,” the White Elf Queen complained to Su Xuan. “But then again, if it weren’t for your help, I wouldn’t have been able to regain control of this body so easily.”

“Why was she the one controlling your body? Did you fail to suppress her dark persona?”

Su Xuan was confused about this as well. ‘Logically, the White Elf Queen should have appeared before me first, but it was the Dark Elf Queen instead…’

“I’m not entirely sure myself. It might be because of the Elf Mother Tree.” The White Elf Queen shook her head, unable to explain the reason for it.

“The Elf Mother Tree?”

Su Xuan frowned slightly, deeply puzzled by this.

‘Perhaps only the Elf Mother Tree knows the truth behind all this.’

“Well, let’s not worry about guessing the Elf Mother Tree’s intentions. What matters is that things are returning to normal,” the White Elf Queen said with a gentle smile. “I’m going to use the bathroom. Please stand guard and make sure no one comes in.”

“What for?” Su Xuan asked curiously.

To this, the White Elf Queen gently explained, “To wash away your Holy Mark, of course.”

“COUGH COUGH.”

Su Xuan coughed sharply. ‘Right, I’d forgotten!’

Seeing Su Xuan’s reaction, the White Elf Queen covered her mouth and chuckled softly before walking into the bathroom.

This left Su Xuan alone in the room to wait quietly.

He took advantage of the free time to pour experience into Lucia and Rosaline, who had both already reached Level 50.

The experience from the Experience Pool raised Rosaline to Level 66 and Lucia to Level 65.

There was still experience left over, but he was severely lacking the Ascension Crystals needed to level up past Level 50.

For Levels 50-60, each level-up required only one Ascension Crystal, but for Levels 60-70, it required two.

Fortunately, Rosaline’s experience-halving bond also applied to the consumption of Ascension Crystals, so she only needed half a crystal to level up.

After all that, he only had three Ascension Crystals left.

‘We’re still so short on resources…’

Su Xuan rubbed the bridge of his nose. The lack of resources meant his Guild members’ Levels were stagnating.

Though compared to Adventurers from other Guilds, their Levels were already rising much faster.

But judging from the difficulty of the missions they were encountering at this stage, it was still far from enough!

‘I need more Ascension Crystals!’

However…

Su Xuan took the Brilliant Crystal from his backpack. He had obtained it along with the Power of the Stars, but he still hadn’t used it.

The reason was the Brilliant Crystal’s special property: it was a material needed for ascending to the rank of Demigod.

Right now, his Guild members didn’t need to use this item to advance their Levels.

‘But if I were to list this on the trade market…’

COUGH COUGH!

Su Xuan shook his head, cutting off the thought.

‘The item’s value is immeasurable. I wouldn’t sell it even for hundreds of thousands of Gold Coins.’