Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

Long Ying looked surprised, her pupils reflecting Ye Ge's image.

Night Song threw the huge black fireball in his hand.

The black fireball flew at an extremely high speed, leaving a trail of black electric arcs at its tail, just like dragging a long tail.

Long Ying had never seen a fireball spell fly so fast!

Fireball, although a second-tier spell, can be almost as powerful as a third or even fourth-tier spell once it hits its target. At the same time, it doesn't consume much mana, so it's usually a mage's main offensive skill on the battlefield.

Even mid- to high-level mages most frequently use fireball on the battlefield.

However, this move also has a very obvious drawback: its slow flight speed makes it unsuitable for one-on-one combat, as it cannot provide fire coverage unless all of the opponent's evasive angles are blocked. Otherwise, the hit rate is abysmal...

But the black fireball released by Night Song was more than ten times faster than a normal fireball spell!

Could it be that the lightning element increased the speed of the black fireball?

'no......'

'We must get out of the way!'

As the black fireball rapidly approached, Long Ying leaped away to dodge.

The black fireball flew over and "grazed" past her ear, just inches away!

The raging flames even burned off a few strands of her flying hair...

'That was close...'

Long Ying was drenched in cold sweat.

That black fireball seemed to be much more powerful than a regular fireball.

If she were hit, she couldn't guarantee what would happen...

Long Ying thought she had dodged the fireball attack and breathed a sigh of relief.

However, at that moment, the black fireball suddenly exploded about ten meters behind her!

"boom!"

The huge black fireball after the explosion was like a firework exploding, releasing terrifying black lightning from its interior and simultaneously scattering hundreds of small lightning-fire projectiles!

The black lightning emitted a sound like the chirping of thousands of birds the moment it exploded, forming a terrifying black vortex with an extremely strong attraction! It sucked everything within a fifty-meter radius of the blast into it!

And those scattered lightning and fire bombs, after splashing out, suddenly exploded a second time!

Long Ying was stunned and had no time to react before her body was violently pulled towards the lightning vortex at the center of the explosion!

It turns out that the primary function of the lightning element in that fireball wasn't acceleration...

Instead, it's about gathering monsters?!

"Ah...!!!" Long Ying's face was contorted in pain as her body was mercilessly sucked into the thunderstorm vortex, then engulfed by the flames of the secondary explosion of the Thunderfire Bomb...

His body was instantly torn to shreds!

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom—!!"

......

The simulated battle has ended...

The two beams of light slowly disappeared.

Ye Ge and Long Ying returned to the combat training room.

"Did you have a good fight now, Your Highness?" Ye Ge asked.

Long Ying stood there stunned for a long while.

What happened at the last minute was just too fast.

I never expected it to end like this.

She didn't even have time to react before she was swallowed up by the thunderous vortex created by the explosion of the black fireball...

Long Ying looked at Ye Ge with mixed feelings: "Was that last move... magic or supernatural ability?"

Ye Ge thought for a moment: "Well... to be honest, I'm not really sure either. Anyway, it's not important. I just came up with it randomly."

"Did you really invent that skill yourself?" Long Ying's expression was complicated. She had been wondering if it was a unique spell taught to him by Principal Lan Mi...

Night Song: "Yes."

Long Ying: "......"

"How...did you do that?"

"That black fireball just now actually contained a 'Lightning Summoning' and a 'Fireball'... How exactly did you stabilize these two volatile elements? Aren't you afraid of energy overload?"

Ye Ge looked bewildered: "Isn't this a simple thing? It's just like that... like this... like that... and then you mix the three elements of darkness, fire, and lightning together... isn't that all?"

Long Ying: "......"

"......Been taught a lesson."

Long Ying bowed slightly, bending down towards Ye Ge: "Thank you for accompanying me in the combat training today, Ye Ge."

Ye Ge raised an eyebrow, thinking to herself that she hadn't expected the royal princess to be so polite when she was young, unlike other royal princesses who were so spoiled and willful.

“But next time, I will definitely not be defeated by you so easily,” Long Ying said with a serious expression.

Night Song: "..."

Is there going to be a next time?

Ye Ge sighed, "You probably have some masochistic tendencies."

Long Ying: "?"

......

With the change in the royal family's attitude towards the Ye family, the Ye family's status in the empire rose rapidly during this period.

Night Owl became one of the branch presidents of the Southern Federation's Superhuman Association, gaining real power as a border lord and beginning to manage the border wall and border import and export trade.

As a result, the family gained a lot of business, and large sums of gold coins were pocketed by the Ye family.

The news and rumors that frequently smeared the Ye family and the demonized people gradually decreased.

Occasionally, positive news emerges that clarify the truth about mutants with demonic genes, telling the public that they aren't actually that dangerous...

Many nobles in the empire were unaware of what had happened to cause the royal family's attitude towards the Ye family to make a complete 180-degree turn.

However, these seasoned nobles certainly wouldn't pry into the details.

Soon after, the various noble families who had never associated with the Ye family before began to take the initiative to reach out to the Ye family and send envoys to establish relations with them.

This is the nature of living beings. When you are isolated by most people, no one will want to approach you, for fear of being implicated by you. When you are doing well, people will naturally be willing to take the initiative to talk to you, be your friend, and hope to share in your success. Of course, this is actually a cliché, and more often than not, people who use this phrase to mock human nature are doing the same thing themselves.

It seems that the royal family and the Ye family have truly reconciled overnight, returning to the way they were a thousand years ago.

At least that's how it appears on the surface.

Do you think the Ye family doesn't know what the Empire is thinking? Of course not; do you think the Empire doesn't know what the Ye family is thinking? Of course not.

Both the royal family and the Ye family knew that a broken mirror could not be mended. Once broken, it was broken. Even if it were glued back together, there would still be cracks. The dissatisfaction accumulated over hundreds of years meant that the two families could never be as close as before, unless the late emperor's ancestor crawled out of his grave (don't get the wrong idea, of course he couldn't crawl out).

The royal family doesn't expect the Ye family to return to the loyalty they had a thousand years ago, and the Ye family doesn't expect the royal family to truly trust them. But even with cracks, at least the mirror is pieced together for now, maintaining a delicate balance.