If Catherine hadn't encountered Elashia earlier, she would definitely have tried to secretly infiltrate the Elasia Empire's armory to steal a magic crossbow.
As for who was guarding the Elasia armory?
What punishment would she face if discovered?
What did that have to do with Catherine?
But now, let alone accepting Elashia's gift, she couldn't even bring herself to steal one later.
Facing the ring Elashia held out before her, Catherine refused to accept it no matter what.
Looking at this assassin who refused to accept the gift, Elashia couldn't help but smile.
Catherine was also quite an interesting character in the game.
As an assassin who should be emotionless, she was surprisingly principled about certain things.
Fortunately, Elashia had already anticipated this possibility.
Sighing deeply at Catherine, Elashia said:
"If you really don't want to accept it, then forget it."
Catherine nodded solemnly.
In front of Catherine, Elashia took the ten magic crossbows back out of the Jencas Ring, then added:
"But, I have a very important piece of clothing here that I want to give to Ileina. Could you help me bring it to her?"
"Clothing?"
For a warrior who had long moved through battlefields, what use would even the most beautiful clothing be?
"That's right, it's clothing very suitable for her to wear."
Speaking, Elashia took [Seraph] out from the system space.
The moment she saw this clothing, Catherine couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
[Seraph] emitted quite bright golden light in the dim armory. The intense radiance was as dazzling as the blazing sun of midsummer, and the brilliant style and classical beauty achieved perfect fusion in this garment.
Even assassin Catherine, who was completely unmoved by beautiful clothing, was almost stirred by this garment to her feminine instincts.
But for someone like Her Highness the Holy Princess, a warrior who spent at least half of each day in combat, what use could this be?
"With all due respect, Miss Elashia, this is indeed the most magnificent clothing I have ever seen, but—I think you must know about the Holy Kingdom and Her Majesty Ileina's situation. She probably wouldn't have any opportunity to wear such clothing."
Elashia, seeing that [Seraph] had successfully diverted Catherine's attention, couldn't help but secretly show a triumphant smile.
"Come, try stabbing me with your dagger after I put it on."
Elashia put [Seraph] on herself.
"Ah?"
Catherine seemed somewhat hesitant after hearing this.
Seeing Catherine's hesitation, Elashia smiled gently.
"It's alright. Since I dare to let you try, I know you definitely won't hurt me."
Catherine thought about it. The "Elashia" in Her Highness Ileina's description was quite a rational person, and indeed unlikely to put herself at risk.
"Alright, then excuse me."
Slowly raising the dagger in her hand, Catherine gently stabbed at Elashia wearing [Seraph].
It couldn't pierce through.
Elashia smiled and said:
"It's fine, I'm not made of glass. You can use more force."
As armor capable of defending against most attacks below level twenty, [Seraph] was more than adequate against Catherine's dagger, who was exactly level twenty.
After trying and finding she really couldn't pierce through, Catherine used slightly more force, but still couldn't pierce through.
"You can use even more force..."
"No need, I understand what you mean."
So this clothing wasn't just beautiful to look at—as armor it was equally impressive.
You must know that even the Blood Cult Leader wearing the Holy Kingdom's finest armor couldn't withstand Catherine's dagger assassination.
Yet this garment before her didn't even lose a single thread after receiving Catherine's stabbing attack.