Chapter 17: Tender and Tough

Ella laughed gleefully, wriggling her waist like a cat being caressed, her heavy breasts trembling wildly in front of Rayan's eyes without restraint.

"You were just saying I've been demonized, how come you've changed your attitude so quickly?"

Her enchanting smile was filled with anticipation, the corners of her mouth curved like a crescent moon, extremely moving.

Rayan's body had recovered from the paralysis of the poison attribute, but the Twilight Blade was still bound in spider silk. The demonized Ella, being able to perfectly control the poison attribute, must have strength above the third rank, equivalent to a sixth-tier Fighter's level, two levels higher than Rayan's strength, which made him hesitant to act rashly.

Given Ella's life experience, she might not know martial arts, but she could manipulate the poison attribute at will, every inch of her skin was a lethal weapon. In this situation, only by catching her off guard could he defeat her.

Stabilizing his mind in secret, Rayan tried to make his voice sound more casual, "After being demonized, you've become prettier than before, and, I like... what you just did to me."

Ella made a "tsk" sound, but her beautiful face showed no surprise.

"Really? You like it?"

"Yes."

Rayan's throat trembled involuntarily. It was very difficult to answer such a question because even he himself couldn't clearly distinguish how much of his answer was true, how much was false, how much was pretense, and how much was revealing his true feelings.

His rationality told him to hold back, to avoid being played by this demoness, but his body responded eagerly, completely impatient.

"What do you want?"

Ella raised an eyebrow, her blood-red pupils staring at Rayan with pride, her voice full of seduction, as if she was lightly licking his ear with her delicate tongue tip.

"I want you to continue what you were doing just now..." Rayan said stiffly.

"Oh? Be more specific..." Ella pressed on, unyielding. She seemed to enjoy deliberately teasing Rayan, her blood-red pupils slightly relaxed their vigilance.

Rayan's mouth was as dry as a volcano, but he still swallowed hard. "I want you to kneel at my feet and use your mouth..."

He couldn't finish his sentence, his tongue tying in his mouth. It was only a lie, but the feeling of embarrassment came so unexpectedly.

"Ha ha ha!"

Ella laughed unabashedly, then after laughing, she twisted her slender waist, circled to Rayan's back, and gently slid her chitinous black long fingernails from Rayan's neck down, stopping in the middle of his shoulder blades.

"Do you want me?" She leaned her body forward, her lips close to Rayan's ear.

Rayan only felt hot around his ear, while his shoulder blades felt ice cold.

"I do..."

As a reward for his satisfactory answer, Ella's hand slowly moved from Rayan's lower back to his groin, gently caressing, "When did this thought start?"

The answer had to satisfy this cunning demoness so that she would completely lower her guard.

However, Rayan's brain went blank, and he opened his mouth several times, finally managing to grasp the remnants of his consciousness and said disjointedly, "From, the moment I saw you, your breasts..."

"From the moment you saw my breasts, you wanted me, right?" Ella asked insatiably.

"Yes..."

Ella laughed forgetfully, her laughter eventually not sounding like it came from a human at all.

"I knew it, humans are all hypocritical to the extreme."

She completely relaxed her body, circled to Rayan's front, and gently kneeled on the soft soil. "You want to touch my breasts, spread my legs, want to ride on me, right?"

These words were fierce, devoid of the teasing tone, more like mockery and contempt. Rayan clenched his lips, not answering.

"Give up that thought, I won't satisfy you."

Ella cruelly laughed, "You're just my toy, I will only play with you." Saying so, her small mouth moved towards Rayan's legs.

The muscles on Rayan's neck bulged like ropes, the excitement from before surged up again, his body reacting even more intensely to the pleasure after breaking free from the paralysis, every muscle tensed up. He should have acted immediately as planned, but that pleasure...

Ella seemed to sense something was wrong, her mouth holding something hard, she looked up —

Rayan couldn't miss this opportunity, he didn't wait for Ella to react, quickly extended his left hand, and with a heavy slap, struck Ella's forehead. The power of fourth-tier Battle Qi, although not fatal, was enough to catch Ella off guard.

Ella instinctively screamed, then felt the whole world turn into a vague white . Her charming body was hit by the red Battle Qi and flew directly into a pit. When she regained her sight, she found herself lying next to a pit, covered in dust, her sweaty flesh tightly pressed together, as if about to explode.

Rayan did not rashly pursue her but concentrated the Battle Qi in his right hand, vigorously pulling on the Twilight Blade. His left palm hurt like being pricked by needles, the poison attribute momentarily paralyzed his entire arm, rendering his left hand useless. The priority was to pull out the Twilight Blade to seize a chance of survival.

Ella struggled to stand up, every inch of her skin aching terribly, but she laughed unusually, her blood-red pupils staring intensely at Rayan standing above her.

"It seems I've underestimated your intelligence."

Rayan forcefully pulled out the Twilight Blade, while delaying Ella's attack, he coldly snorted, "Women with large breasts are dangerous, but men with large penises are even more so."

"Indeed."

Ella nodded, acknowledging, "I didn't expect you to recover from the paralysis so quickly, nor did I expect you to hide it so well. But what's the use? Your body's reaction has already betrayed you, you still want me."

"That's right, I do want to touch your breasts, spread your legs, want to ride on you—"

Rayan's voice was as cold as a winter night, his gaze as hard and merciless as an anvil, every word from his mouth like a nail deeply driven into a wall. "But that's only towards humans, not towards demonized monsters!"

"You... dare call me a monster!"

Ella's eyeballs suddenly bulged, her dark hair fluttering without wind, her bones crackling, but she quickly relaxed, a cold smile hooking on her lips, "With your fourth-tier Battle Qi, there's no way you can free the Twilight Blade from the spider silk. No matter how tough you talk, in the end, you're still going to be played by me."

"I won't be played by you." Rayan retorted.

"Your lower half doesn't think so." Ella chuckled lightly, then raised her hands, spraying two thin streams of spider silk from her chitinous fingernails, instantly binding Rayan's legs.

Rayan tensed, attempting to break free with the power of Battle Qi, but the spider silk got tighter and tighter, inescapable.

"Toy—"

Ella's lewd laugh said, "Your struggle amuses me."

Rayan steeled his heart, ignoring the entanglement of spider silk, putting all his effort into pulling out the Twilight Blade. As long as he could free the Twilight Blade from the spider silk, all problems would be resolved.

With a gentle pull from Ella, the spider silk immediately hung Rayan and the Twilight Blade in his right hand upside down, suspending them above the blazing pit.

"I've always wanted to be a true demon race, to eat human flesh like my demonic spider children."

Ella walked up to Rayan with a smile, her black nails gently caressing Rayan's handsome face, "It's a pity my stomach is still that of a human, so I can only roast and eat. Let me think, which part of you should I eat first?"

The firelight reflected on her beautiful face, the dangerous sparks dancing in her blood-red pupils. She deliberately looked towards Rayan's groin, her gaze very direct and meaningful.

Rayan's heart clenched, but he clenched his teeth, showing no weakness.

Ella smiled lightly, shaking her head in a self-denying manner, allowing her grape-like nipples to sway in front of Rayan's eyes. "No, no, if I eat your penis, I'll have nothing to play with. I need to find something on you that's both soft and hard, just like it."

Her nails slid from Rayan's solid abdomen to his chest, drawing five clear streaks of blood.

Rayan's body experienced intense pain, the paralyzing effect of the poison attribute did not lessen this pain, followed by the inherent dark power of the demon race.

"I've added a little something extra for you, this is the demonization you've always rejected, I hope you'll like it." Ella laughed cruelly, increasing the pressure of her nails.

Rayan couldn't help but let out a low roar, dark power seeping through the wound, causing the Battle Qi he had barely gathered inside to collapse instantly, the red Battle Qi on his right hand also disappeared suddenly. He could feel a mysterious power stirring inside him, responding to the dark power, almost breaking through the constraints of his chest.

"Oh, this isn't good."

Ella laughed gleefully, "I heard it takes three to five days for Battle Qi to recover, but in your current state, how can you last three to five days? Why not beg me for mercy, swear to always be my toy, and I'll reward you by allowing you to lick my toes every day—"

Rayan clenched his teeth, responding coldly, "Dream on, I will never be your toy!"

"Oh my!"

Ella was not annoyed, but rather, she reached out to grab Rayan's jaw, exposing his tongue. "I finally found something just as soft and as hard as your penis. Since you're unwilling to lick me, keeping it is useless."

Saying this, she used her chitinous nails to grasp Rayan's tongue, pulling it out harshly.

The pain was excruciating. Rayan let out a beast-like roar from his throat, his right hand suddenly filled with a strange power, and the Twilight Blade immediately responded, instantly turning the binding spider silk to ash—

"How is this possible!"

Ella hastily retreated a few steps, one hand shooting spider silk at Rayan, the other preparing to flee. "Even if you luckily obtain the Twilight Blade, it's useless, my spider silk will still strangle it!"