novelraw Chapter 152
Chapter 152
Chapter 152: You Know a Lot, Lucia
Xia Li shook the bell near his ear.
“Hmm, no sound.”
“It only makes a sound when it’s activated.”
“Alright, you can go now.”
Pushing open the door leading to the balcony, Xia Li made a shooing gesture at Wuqi.
No one could guarantee that the cat would keep his promise. After all, it was a cat, playful and easily lost if let out.
Confiscating his superpower now would teach him a lesson.
That’s what Xia Li thought.
But Wuqi didn’t think so. Xia Li confiscating his artifact was worse than confiscating his balls.
Wuqi stood by the window, reluctant to leave.
He looked down at the situation below.
The height of the third floor was nothing to a cat with human intelligence.
『Stupid humans, they took the bell on my back, and now they want to take the bell on my front…』
『Too much, too much!』
“Xia Li, Wuqi is crying so sadly.”
Lucia came over with a box of biscuits.
She ate biscuits while watching the drama unfold on the balcony.
When she saw the cow cat tearfully denouncing Xia Li’s actions, Lucia nodded in agreement.
That’s right, although she didn’t know what happened, her Brave Hero was always this mean.
The Brave Hero even dared to bully dragons, so bullying a cat was normal.
Xia Li ignored Wuqi’s protests.
He held up the bell and looked at it.
It was already evening outside, and the rainy night was gloomy and humid.
In this unlit outdoor environment, the coin-sized bell emitted a warm golden light from Xia Li’s fingertips, like a small glowing toy.
Wuqi glared at him fiercely. Seeing that Xia Li could actually use his artifact, his eyes welled up with tears.
There was nothing left to say.
Let it be, let it all be destroyed.
『I’ll be back!』
『Goodbye!』
His gaze turned to the street outside the apartment complex where pedestrians hurried along. The breath of freedom washed over him.
This was the modern world he had left for a whole twenty years…
The excitement of seeing familiar sights quickly overshadowed his brief annoyance.
Wuqi jumped down from the balcony, his black figure disappearing into the night.
“Don’t imitate him, a dragon would definitely get hurt if it fell.”
Xia Li was afraid that Lucia would imitate Wuqi, so he warned her.
Lucia snorted lightly, “…I’m not that stupid!”
“Here, try this and see if there’s any magic power inside.”
Xia Li placed the golden bell in Lucia’s hand.
The light quickly extinguished, and the golden bell, which had a divine luster, returned to its ordinary state. Lucia didn’t feel anything.
“It goes out when it leaves my hand.”
Xia Li thought about it and realized that he might have really been recognized as the owner of this superpower bell.
No one said that an artifact could only recognize one owner, right?
Perhaps, as Wuqi said, Xia Li was actually a sacred body naturally attuned to artifacts?
It was a pity that artifacts were so rare. Back in Azure Continent, the only artifact Xia Li had encountered was the Demon Repelling Sword.
So this conjecture couldn’t be confirmed.
“Come here, come here, try again.”
Xia Li grabbed Lucia’s small hand and pulled her closer, one hand resting on the evil dragon’s slender waist.
He could smell a faint fragrance on the evil dragon, a very light scent that must have lingered from when Zhou Anqi took her shopping and trying perfumes during the day.
Xia Li usually wasn’t fond of perfume scents, but when such a scent appeared on Lucia, it was unexpectedly pleasant.
It gave him the urge to bury his face in her chest and take a deep breath.
“…”
Suddenly being tricked by the Brave Hero into a hug, Lucia didn’t react for a while. Her soft waist wriggled uncomfortably in Xia Li’s palm.
Her gaze returned to the task at hand, and their palms each held half of the bell.
The bell flickered on and off.
When Xia Li touched a larger area of it, it would light up slightly. Once it rolled into Lucia’s small hand, it would extinguish again.
It was in a state of half-lit, half-unlit, a Schrödinger’s activation state.
“Still no feeling…”
Lucia shook her head, her soft hair brushing against Xia Li’s chest.
Xia Li swallowed, feeling his attention waning.
Who had the mind to do experiments at a time like this?
Shouldn’t he be throwing the evil dragon onto the bed and doing this and that?
I mean, sleeping, and then welcoming a new day.
“I think it must be the wrong posture.”
Lucia thought seriously with a small face.
“What posture?”
Xia Li came back to his senses.
“Think about it, Wuqi used to wear it around his neck, so he could activate the bell’s power… Do you want to try it too?”
Lucia raised her head, her pure and clear eyes looking at Xia Li quietly.
Xia Li thought about it and felt that it made sense.
“Then I’ll try.”
Finding a thread in the drawer and threading it through the hole in the center of the bell, Xia Li tied the thread around his neck.
Lucia walked over with a smile and flicked the bell on Xia Li’s chest.
The bell swayed from side to side on Xia Li’s body, emitting a faint golden halo.
It was fun.
And there was also a strange, sexy feeling.
She suddenly understood what Zhou Anqi meant by ‘occasional spice in life.’
Hee hee hee…
“Is there any sound?”
Lucia leaned forward and asked.
“No…”
Xia Li didn’t hear anything.
He felt that something was strange…
Something wasn’t right.
Wearing a bell around his neck.
Besides pets, only couples would wear it during those intimate moments, right?
And, wasn’t it usually worn on the girlfriend?!
Why was it on him?
“Hee hee…”
Xia Li’s reaction was a bit slow at this moment.
When he was hugging Lucia and doing the experiment earlier, his mind was filled with thoughts of this stinky dragon.
All that was left was instinctive impulse, and he no longer had the ability to think actively.
So, when the evil dragon asked the question, Xia Li subconsciously acted without suspecting her intentions.
Now, when Xia Li looked down and saw the sly smile on the evil dragon’s face and her playing with the bell on his chest…
Xia Li suddenly felt like he had been tricked.
It was always humans tricking dragons in their family.
Now dragons could trick humans?
“You know a lot, Lucia.”
Xia Li’s lips twitched.
He didn’t know who this evil dragon learned this from.
The evil dragon shook her head and said, “I don’t know much, not as much as Xia Li.”
Even though she was praised by the Brave Hero, Lucia didn’t rush to accept his compliment.
Appropriate humility was necessary.
Besides, if she nodded and admitted it now, wouldn’t it be obvious that she had said it on purpose earlier?
“…I just wanted to see if I could activate that, you know, superpower.”
The evil dragon explained, “After all, it’s predicting the future, three seconds can prevent a lot of things!”
“I’ll let you off the hook this time.”
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Xia Li took off the bell, no longer letting the evil dragon play with it.
It seemed that even though he had been recognized by the golden bell, he couldn’t use it normally.
He wondered if it was because of the difference in species. Xia Li was a human, not a cat, so he couldn’t activate it.
Or was it because Xia Li had never learned how to control superpowers, so he couldn’t use it?
In short, the power of prophecy still had to be exerted through Wuqi.
“Mianhua, come here.”
Thinking of this, Xia Li squatted down and called Mianhua.
Mianhua, whose name was called, walked over lazily. Seeing that she was walking slowly, Lucia ran over, picked Mianhua up, and ran back to Xia Li, handing Mianhua to him.
Xia Li tried putting the bell on Mianhua’s neck.
However, not only did the bell lose all its light after leaving Xia Li, but it also fell off when hung on Mianhua’s neck.
Xia Li picked it up and played with it for a while, discovering a crack in the bell’s hanging ring. When it was on Mianhua, the crack was large, but when it was on Xia Li, it would perfectly close.
“…As expected of an artifact.”
Xia Li sighed with emotion.
It was as divine as his Demon Repelling Sword.
“Xia Li, this awesome artifact isn’t working.”
Lucia squatted beside Xia Li, stroking Mianhua’s head as she spoke.
Xia Li came back to his senses and said with a chuckle, “Who taught you that word?!”
“…The people on Bilibili, they all like to use this word.” Lucia blinked.
“Don’t learn this kind of thing from netizens!”
Xia Li knew that enthusiastic netizens would corrupt his little dragon.
Waving his hand, Xia Li still hadn’t given up on the bell.
He decided to try again.
“One last try, if it doesn’t work, it’ll really be kept at home as collateral.”
Xia Li thought of the Demon Repelling Sword that was thrown into the box on the balcony.
Although he couldn’t directly make the golden bell work in his hand…
What about indirectly?
This golden bell, undoubtedly, possessed supernatural abilities that didn’t belong to Earth.
This was the same situation as the Demon Repelling Sword, which activated sealing magic.
Now, Xia Li planned to extract this ability like extracting magic power…
To convert its superpower into magic power that Xia Li could use.
It was worth a try.
Xia Li went to the balcony to rummage around and finally took out the Demon Repelling Sword from the bottom of the box.
Holding the sword in one hand, he returned to the living room. The evil dragon in the living room was already hiding behind the sofa with Mianhua.
“Why are you running so far away?” Xia Li laughed.
“…Mianhua, Daddy is going to kill you!”
“Bah, don’t corrupt the kitten!”
Xia Li held the sword in his right hand and the bell in his left.
The golden light on the left and the faint blue light on the right formed a stark contrast.
Xia Li used a red string to thread the bell and then hung it on the hilt of the sword.
This time, the bell didn’t fall off.
And it remained in a state of emitting golden light.
“There’s hope,”
Xia Li’s eyes lit up, and he quickly waved to Lucia.
“Come here, come here.”
Lucia also sensed something and shuffled over step by step, holding Mianhua.
The incandescent light in the living room flickered at this moment.
The flow of magic power that even Xia Li couldn’t feel before was now flowing through his hand at a slow pace.
“That kind of superpower we couldn’t capture is being converted into the magic power of Azure Continent through the Demon Repelling Sword!”
Xia Li grabbed Lucia’s small hand with some excitement.
He placed the dragon claw on the back of his hand, and they both held the same sword with both hands, raising it high.
“Do you feel it?” he asked the evil dragon beside him, looking down.
Lucia nodded.
Her eyes reflected the golden and blue light. These lights, when they fell into her eyes, were as clear as colored glaze.
Xia Li suddenly had the urge to swing the sword.
With the blessing of magic power, the power of this Demon Repelling Sword would be much stronger.
It had been more than a month, right?…
That wonderful feeling of magic power flowing through his body was back.
“Do you think, first-order magic, can be… activated?”
Xia Li looked at the short dragon in his arms.
At that moment, he even wondered if he was seeing things.
Silver-white long hair, crimson eyes…
Xia Li seemed to see the Silver Dragon Queen who had transformed into a human form, overlooking the tiny humans with her absolutely arrogant and tall posture.
In the blink of an eye, Lucia’s bloodthirsty eyes returned to their harmless brown color.
She raised her head in front of Xia Li’s chest, her face soft and cuddly.
Her two soft lips parted slightly, and Lucia said innocently,
“…It’s gone.”
“I didn’t do it!”
Xia Li turned his head and found that both the bell and the Demon Repelling Sword in his hand had gone out.
The light that had emanated from them had dimmed considerably.
They felt drained, as if their power had been absorbed by a powerful creature.
“…”
Xia Li was stunned.
“You you…”
“It’s not my fault!”
Lucia looked extremely innocent.
She didn’t know what had happened either.
She had felt the magic power generated between the two artifacts just now. With that kind of power, activating first-order magic was no problem at all.
As long as Lucia wanted to, the wind magic that they had failed to activate last time would definitely work this time.
But… just as Lucia had this thought, the magic power disappeared.
It was instantly absorbed by her body!
Lucia’s dragon body was currently in an environment without magic power for a long time.
Although she didn’t feel any discomfort, her body’s craving for magic power was constant.
As long as she encountered even a tiny bit of absorbable magic power, she would directly absorb it into her body.
It was like pouring water on a dried sponge.
You couldn’t tell the sponge not to absorb water and expect it to obey.
This was completely beyond Lucia’s control.
“Xia Li, it’s not my fault!!”
It’s not the dragon’s fault!
Of course, Lucia knew that this bit of magic power was hard-won.
But she really couldn’t be blamed for this.
Just as Lucia tugged at Xia Li’s clothes, preparing to explain herself,
Xia Li’s focus was no longer on this matter.
“Wait…”
Xia Li suddenly bent down, their faces approaching each other at a rapid speed.
Seeing that their noses were about to touch, Lucia subconsciously closed her eyes.
Could it be, he was going to use a kiss to ‘settle the debt’?
Fine, fine!
Lucia thought Xia Li was going to kiss her, and she was ready to accept the punishment with a resigned look.
However, Xia Li didn’t kiss her.
Instead, he stopped very close to her cheek.
Lucia opened her watery light brown eyes and looked at Xia Li nervously.
Xia Li reached out and touched her soft cheek.
“On your face…”
“There are dragon scales.”