Chapter 275: Contest begins Part3

Goblins Ginko and Gale were hired by Marvin to take care of Tang Yue silently, whereas Tang Xi volunteered herself to help them out.

In fact, Tang Yue was not the only one who experienced several life-altering things in these past few weeks.

Unknown to others, Tang Xi had also experienced a lot. 

The Tang Xi standing in the Dwarven Empire currently was a completely different person than the Tang Xi with who Tang Yue had last interacted.

Her life had taken an entirely different turn on the day she met the elven high council elder Darius. 

Unlike Dranuk and Marvin who were simply lechers at best, the elven high council elder Darius was a completely different specimen.

He was psychotic and rotten from within, fully drunk on his power and noble status.

He also hated spirit beasts and other inferior races from the bottom of his heart and believed that they were all meant to be slaves and nothing more.

So ever since Marvin had introduced Tang Xi to him, Darius had been purposefully torturing her day in and day out.

Tang Xi's previously smooth and flawless back was now covered by permanent scars from dark elemental magic, scars that even high-grade recovery potions cannot heal.

He repeatedly tortured and raped her for several days, even giving her health potions and healing her whenever needed.

Once she recovered her strength, he broke her down all over again and tortured her to his heart's content.

Once he was done playing with her in the bedroom, he then humiliated and demeaned her by forcing her to enact like a contracted beast.

He made her crawl on all fours whilst she was naked and whipped her if her performance was not satisfactory.

And when he got bored from torturing and raping her, he threw her out to his personal army to play with.

The elven soldiers knew that their Lord was doing this on purpose, so in order to please him they vented out on Tang Xi violently until she was completely broken down, sparing not even the smallest amount of kindness.

They tortured her for days together, with several men simultaneously violating her at all times.

Within the span of a few weeks, Tang Xi was already reduced to an unimaginable version of herself.

Her beautiful body was completely ruined and the woman's prideful nature was shattered.

When the men finally released her, she was very barely alive. 

Even though the hell was already over, in her mind she was still undergoing torturous pain.

Wearing a mangled set of clothes that revealed her entire body, she finally reached the Zither palace in a tattered and half-dead state.

Tang Zuelo almost died after seeing her precious daughter in such a horrendous plight.

She hugged her and lamented endlessly, but Tang Xi remained unmoved. 

Not a single tear seeped out of her tired eyes and she just sat still like a statue. 

Tang Zuelo was devastated. Her daughter was a princess of the Serpentine Empire and she was treated like this?

She couldn't bring herself to digest this face. The elves were truly frightening.

Before they came here, they had heard several rumors about the elven royal family, but seeing how

Tang Yue was being treated, they didn't think that those rumors were true.

But now, seeing her own daughter's plight, she was utterly scared out of her wits. They had vastly underestimated the vile nature of the elven royal family.

Without any hesitation, she quickly dragged her lifeless daughter and ran back to the Serpentine Clan that night itself.

But Tang Zuelo didn't dare to tell anyone about what had happened to Tang Xi in order to protect whatever was left of her reputation.

From then onward, she tried several methods to bring Tang Xi back, but everything resulted in failure.

Tang Xi didn't feel anything anymore.

As days passed by, she did slowly recover, but there was only one thought in her mind.

Anger. Tang Xi was furious. 

She was angry at the elves, she was angry at that bastard who made her life a living hell, and more importantly, she was angry at her sister, who was the sole reason for all her miseries.

Even when the elves had endlessly tortured her, violating her day in and day out, without even giving her a small second of peace, this was the single thought in her mind that had kept her tethered to reality.

If it was not for this vicious hatred that had taken over her completely, she would have lost her sanity or killed herself by committing suicide a long time ago.

But Tang Xi couldn't bring herself to do that. She didn't deserve to die. It was all of those heartless bastards who deserved to die.

Even though she was on the brink of insanity, she clutched her soul in her hands and held on, to the best that she could.

And because of that, she was unexpectedly rewarded by the heavens.

A couple of weeks after she recovered, regained at least a part of her former self, Tang Xi achieved a tremendous breakthrough.

Her mental strength skyrocketed and she stepped into the Demi-God realm with a mind as sharp and devious as a blood-soaked sword.

And since Illusion Magic in general had strong ties with mental strength, her magic spells improved as well.

The scars on her back remained, but Tang Xi felt alive again.

Hiding in the shadows, she began capturing and torturing several members of the serpentine clan and perfected every illusion spell that she could cast.

Tang Zuelo, her own mother, was now afraid to even go near her. She was also afraid for her other daughters.

She was worried that Tang Xi might do something to them out of hatred and jealousy.

She was sure that something disastrous was bound to happen if things continued this way.

But suddenly, Tang Xi disappeared from the Serpentine clan without telling anyone.

Tang Zuelo knew that she should be concerned for her daughter, whom she painfully gave birth to herself, but all she could feel was a relief.