After settling Lily down, I turned to go to the adjacent room.
Calculating the time, that elf girl should indeed be awake by now.
Pushing open the door, I saw the elf girl had fallen from the bed and was lying awkwardly on the floor—no wonder there had been such a loud noise earlier.
The elf girl was on her back with her round bottom raised high, her long, slender beautiful legs pressed against her bare shoulders, forming an extremely bizarre triangle. While I had restrained her, I certainly hadn't arranged her in such a strange position. She probably ended up like this after falling from the bed. She seemed powerless to escape this predicament, and seeing me enter, she could only whimper continuously.
"You should have just waited quietly for me to come..."
[Area Soundproofing].
I used a branch skill that fused stealth techniques with spatial magic to create a small soundproof area. However, it would collapse directly under strong impacts, so it was generally only useful for hiding conversations and couldn't be utilized in battle.
I sighed and reached behind the elf girl's head, undoing the black leather around her head. At the center of the strap was a red plastic ball with many small holes that had been placed in her mouth to prevent her from shouting when she woke up.
After removing the leather, the elf girl immediately gasped for air. Her cherry-small mouth had been forcibly stretched open by the obviously oversized plastic ball, which became torturous for her jaw over time.
The elf girl's eyes were filled with tears as she glared at me through gritted teeth.
"Ugh... to suffer such humiliation... kill me...!"
She spoke like a knight princess who had fallen into enemy hands, unable to live or die.
"If I wanted to kill you, you wouldn't have the chance to talk with me now."
"Using that thing to humiliate me... you might as well give me a quick death..."
"That thing?"
I looked at the device in my hand—the red plastic ball still glistened with the elf girl's saliva.
"I thought it was suitable so I used it conveniently, but actually the item description says it was meant for my master to use on me... well, that's not important now. You're my prisoner, so you better recognize your situation."
The elf girl responded with eyes full of resentment. I didn't pay much attention—she couldn't exactly jump up and bite me.
"You're from the moon elf clan, right? The elven race that becomes one with the night. Let me be clear: you can't use any of the [Stealth]-related magic you're so proud of, and no one will come to save you even if you scream your throat raw. Give up."
I extended my index finger and pushed a stone on the elf girl's chest back between her well-shaped peaks. She was actually quite well-developed.
The elf girl's expression stiffened. Her fall from the bed wasn't an attempt to break free from the ropes, but to shake off this stone. It was one of the gifts the adventurers had given me long ago—an unidentified substance called Jiabantaiyin, commonly known among players as a "magic-sealing stone," a rare material that could reduce magical effects. (TN: It’s a direct translation. 加姆 (Jiāmǔ): Enhance; 班泰因 (Bān tài yīn) – Resembles "seal" phonetically.)
Jiabantaiyin was a seabed product from Atlantis that looked like stone, but its true nature remained a mystery. Its effect was to weaken magic according to its purity—10% purity Jiabantaiyin could reduce magical effects by 10%, and so on. Jiabantaiyin collected from nature was always 100% pure, while non-100% purity Jiabantaiyin was generally processed through the stonemason function of the [Carving] skill branch.
When 100% pure Jiabantaiyin was in direct contact with skin, the person would be completely unable to use magic, equivalent to self-sealing. Therefore, churches and nations typically used shackles made from Jiabantaiyin to restrain serious criminals who could use magic.
Incidentally, Jiabantaiyin was quite awkward to use. While it could weaken magic, the problem was that this effect ignored friend or foe. In other words, enemy fireballs would be ineffective, but allied buffs or healing would also be ineffective—it was essentially a double-edged sword. Despite this, some knights with superior swordsmanship chose to embed Jiabantaiyin at their sword tips for combat.
In any case, I had stuffed the 100% pure Jiabantaiyin I got from adventurers into the elf girl's chest, making her no different from an ordinary girl.
"What exactly do you want to do?"
"I hope you can answer my questions honestly. Actually, that's your only choice."
"Hmph... as if. It's definitely your master who wants to do some perverted things...!"
The elf girl said resentfully. Being in only undergarments in front of a stranger made her both ashamed and angry.
"I only removed your clothes to confirm you weren't carrying other weapons. By the way, I didn't expect you to be wearing lace underwear."
"Mind your own business!"
The elf girl's face turned red as if blood might drip from it. When I undressed her yesterday, I was already surprised. On the surface, she wore very tightly wrapped explorer's attire, but peeling it away revealed lace-style underwear that could rival decisive battle lingerie.
However, she seemed to have some misunderstanding about me. I had no master, and furthermore, I didn't possess the tools to commit perverted acts myself.
But I still had means of threatening her.
"It seems you don't plan to cooperate obediently. If you continue being stubborn, I..."
"What can you do to me?"
"I'll hand you over to Anna's Supp–"
"—I'm sorry, I was wrong, please forgive my rudeness."