Xue Dili's question mark wasn't about himself, but rather he felt this Half-Elf had issues.
"Girl, you're overthinking this. What do you mean I did something to you? Or do you suspect I drugged you?"
"With that dirty hood, and that undernourished body, or are you the same height as Fafnir?"
"You seem to have a strong hostility towards me for no reason, but your favorability is rising rapidly..."
"Wait... the rising favorability..."
Xue Dili seemed to realize something.
I have two debuffs on me. One is "Human Protection," so all humans have a starting favorability of at least 60 points towards me.
The other is "Elf's Love," where fairies have a greatly increased favorability towards me.
He absolutely despised these two debuffs. They caused trouble without him doing anything. He'd rather have a taunt aura or a group intelligence-lowering aura instead.
But actually, these two debuffs rarely affect one entity fully. Pure human beings probably only react to the favorability from Human Protection.
Pure Elves or Fairies might react to Elf's Love, and a lesser part of Human Protection debuff.
As for other bizarre humanoid or sub-human races, they might be affected by both debuffs, but not much, typically maintaining an initial favorability of around 50.
But Half-Elves are different. They're both humans and fairies, so they take the full brunt of both debuffs, and might even get extra favorability bonuses...
So as long as Xue Dili stood there, the favorability level would keep rising.
Why didn't he notice this problem before?
Because the only living Half-Elf he encountered before was Fafnir, whose favorability level was always 89. Her external behavior was no different from before, so Xue Dili didn't notice anything unusual, except that Fafnir seemed to be clinging to him more recently.
But now, this Half-Elf's behavior could lead to quite the amusing situation.
At the same time, the Half-Elf misunderstood instantly. Upon first seeing Xue Dili, her favorability level soared to 80, and she felt her heart racing inexplicably, accompanied by tremors and a sudden inexplicable heat enveloping her whole body.
The overwhelming, indescribable flutter made her think, not of love, but that she had been drugged!
So she remained extremely vigilant, trying hard to suppress the feeling as if she were entering a mating season. Her little brain worked furiously to find an explanation, noticing that the noble lady who joined with her had no issues, it was just her at fault.
Upon seeing Xue Dili, the feeling intensified, and she believed the priest in front of her must have drugged her or done something.
She wasn't some love-struck fool, and even though her body instinctively produced feelings of reproduction, she forced them down and thought hard on how to solve this.
She didn't dislike the priest, whether it was a bodily reflex or a product of her rational thoughts.
In fact, the light emanating from him was warm, something she'd never felt while living like a rat in the shadows.
But, she wouldn't fall for a stranger without reason, no matter who they were. This conflict between reason and emotion felt like a battle between her brain's hemispheres, so externally she ended up hissing like a little cat.
Xue Dili: "..."
"You see? This debuff is causing trouble, isn't it?"
"Lao Zun, do you have any potion to reset points? Can I wash away these dirty-like Protections?" Xue Dili complained to the Mimic Venerable King.
"Are you talking to me? What do you mean by Lao Zun?" The Mimic Venerable King retorted, but continued, "Typically, Protection is a pure blessing and has mostly positive effects. Maybe it's just too strong for you. I can indeed remove these two Protections, but it would cause irreparable harm to the blessers. Are you sure you want to erase these Protections?"
"Then forget it... Is there any other better way?" Xue Dili asked.
"Yes, you can directly find the source of the Protections and have them deactivate it." The Mimic Venerable King offered a second option.
Xue Dili: "..."
He felt that if he found the source of these Protections, it wouldn't be about him making them stop, they might even evolve, and he might end up beaten to the ground and dragged into a secret room...
"Then there's a third way: wear Hassan's mask. This mask will completely transform you into another state, covering up all your original aura as if you've become a whole new entity. It's like putting on a skin suit in every sense."
"Got it, skin suit, right?" Xue Dili immediately put on Hassan's mask.
At the Masked Ball, everyone wore masks, except Xue Dili and Hassan.
Xue Dili didn't have a mask because he was new, while Hassan's Void Power was already uncontrollably leaking out. Perhaps he didn't want his mask to be tainted by the Void's power.
Moreover, for Senior Hassan, wearing a mask was irrelevant since the Void's power had completely covered his body, turning him into a humanoid Void creature.
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