novelraw Chapter 153
Chapter 153
Chapter 153: Dragon Scales
A scale, the size of a fingernail, was faintly emerging on Lucia’s face.
The scale was a flawless silver, but under the light, it shimmered with a multicolored luster.
Like stained glass in a church, the color of the scale was light, yet it overflowed with radiance.
Xia Li was certain that this was a silver dragon’s scale.
Aside from the size of the scale, its color and outline were exactly the same as the dragon scales Xia Li had seen in Azure Continent.
“Don’t move, let me see.”
Xia Li gently touched it with his hand.
This was the first time he had touched Lucia’s scales in this way.
In his countless previous encounters with Lucia, none had been without violence and tearing. Only this time, his movements were exceptionally careful.
As if caring for a delicate flower petal, afraid of damaging it.
“…Hmm? Hmm?”
Lucia didn’t even know she had grown dragon scales.
But when Xia Li touched the spot on her face that was different from her normal skin, Lucia’s eyes lit up.
“I have scales!”
She also reached out and touched her face.
The dragon scale wasn’t as hard as she imagined.
In her memory, Lucia had never touched such soft scales; they were softer than those of a newborn dragon.
“So soft!”
Lucia gently flicked it with her fingertip; the tactile experience was somewhat similar to peeling fish scales.
“Don’t play with it.”
Xia Li grabbed Lucia’s mischievous dragon claw.
“It’s a pity to damage such a hard-earned dragon scale.”
He brought his eyes closer, staring at the soft dragon scale, a strange feeling welling up in his heart.
Although those palm-sized, armor-thick dragon scales looked majestic and had high alchemical value…
This tiny, cicada-wing-thin dragon scale was also beautiful.
Small and cute.
Xia Li reached out and flicked it too; Lucia felt a tingling sensation, and her cheeks flushed red.
But when she saw that Xia Li seemed very interested in her dragon scale, she still took the initiative to gather the long hair hanging by her ear, allowing Xia Li to see it more clearly.
At this moment, Xia Li suddenly lowered his head and quickly swept across Lucia’s small, soft dragon scale.
The Brave Hero stole a kiss from the Evil Dragon.
To be precise, he licked it!
The smooth little snake curled up, lifting the scale, then burrowed into the gap with a slurp.
Lucia covered the dragon scale on her left cheek and stared blankly at Xia Li.
The dragon scale became wet, covered with Xia Li’s scent.
“Why doesn’t the dragon scale have a taste?”
Xia Li smacked his lips, savoring the aftertaste.
Lucia blushed.
As a dragon, she had only recently learned what the emotion of ‘shyness’ was.
Most girls, when shy, have only two reactions.
One is to bury their head in the sand like an ostrich.
The other is to turn shyness into arrogance, directly counterattacking with extreme aggression.
But Lucia seemed different.
She puffed out her cheeks, covered the side of her face that Xia Li had licked, silently sat back on the sofa, hugged the oversized sheep plush, and started changing channels on the TV with the remote.
The TV screen flickered wildly as the Evil Dragon changed channels, three times a second.
The fluorescent light from the screen flickered constantly, illuminating the Evil Dragon’s clean but flushed face.
Was she… angry?
Xia Li thought for a moment, suppressing the smile on his lips, and walked over with a serious expression.
“I lived in Azure Continent for three years, and this is the first time I’ve tasted a dragon scale, a living dragon scale at that.”
“Click! Click! Click!”
He leaned closer; Lucia ignored him, only pressing the remote control frequently, seemingly venting her shame and anger on the poor remote control buttons.
Xia Li looked at her with a half-smile.
The existence of the dragon scale wasn’t conspicuous; even if Lucia went out with this face, it would at most be considered as having those sparkly sequins girls like, no one would guess anything about a silver dragon.
Now that there was a dragon scale…
If he could find a way to get some magic power, could her dragon horns also return to normal?
Dragon horns, dragon tail… Dragon Maid!
Xia Li’s thoughts completely went off in a different direction.
After all, he was a man in love; it was impossible to say he had no fantasies about his girlfriend.
Xia Li pulled himself back to reality and asked Lucia again.
“Can you control its appearance and disappearance?”
Lucia was still annoyed by the Brave Hero’s sneak attack.
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He just licked her out of the blue, and it was her first dragon scale!
The scale was so soft, so small, yet the Brave Hero didn’t let it go!
The more Lucia thought about it, the more embarrassed she felt. She lifted the sheep plush in her arms, completely covering her face.
After struggling internally, she felt it wasn’t good to not answer the Brave Hero’s question and leave him hanging.
So Lucia answered Xia Li in what she considered the coldest tone.
“Not enough magic power, can’t.”
“So that means, if there’s more magic power, it’ll work?” Xia Li pressed on.
“Hard to say.” Lucia muttered.
Xia Li fell into thought again.
He picked up the Demon Repelling Sword and looked at it from side to side.
The sealing magic on the Demon Repelling Sword was still there; even if Lucia absorbed all its magic power, the seal on it wouldn’t disappear. This was a characteristic of the Demon Repelling Sword, a rule.
Since the sealing magic still existed…
Did it mean that these artifacts had their own way of slowly recovering magic power on Earth?
Thinking this, Xia Li drew the Demon Repelling Sword.
The blue light on the blade had dimmed considerably, but if you observed it in the dark, it was not hard to see that it was still emitting light.
“Maybe after a while, they’ll recover.” Xia Li concluded.
Lucia’s gaze peeked out from between the sheep plush, looking warily at the dragon-slaying sword in Xia Li’s hand.
“Then let it touch you again, that way you’ll have a second dragon scale, a third dragon scale… maybe even dragon horns will appear!”
Xia Li’s eyes gleamed; he was particularly interested in this matter.
Lucia knew that the Brave Hero had this kind of fetish.
When Lucia sent him a message today asking ‘Do you like cats or foxes’, and he replied ‘I only like dragons’, Lucia knew the Brave Hero’s fetish was quite unique.
“Shouldn’t we use this magic power to cast spells…”
Lucia asked softly.
She didn’t understand why Xia Li was so keen on restoring her physical features.
She felt that they should use this power for other things.
Like transferring gold, remotely taking out snacks from the convenience store, or like in the movies, becoming a ruthless killer…
Suddenly realizing that the thoughts popping up in her mind were all bad things, Lucia shook her head.
Evil Dragon behavior, no, no.
She was a Little Chef now, no longer an Evil Dragon!
“The magic cast with this little magic power is too weak, not strong enough.”
However, Xia Li, unexpectedly, didn’t correct Lucia’s thoughts but explained instead.
“First-order magic can’t do anything; society has already developed to a sufficiently advanced stage, anything we do with magic will definitely be discovered very quickly.
In the face of the Great Equalizer, we don’t even have room to fight back, so forget it.”
“What’s the Great Equalizer?” Lucia learned another new term.
Xia Li smiled, made a pistol shape with his hand, pointed it at the ceiling, made two ‘pew pew’ sounds, and then blew on the barrel coolly.
“Whoa… Magic can’t beat the power of technology!”
Lucia had watched a lot of TV dramas, so she was familiar with this gesture.
“High-level magic can completely crush technology, but low-level magic, forget it, it’s just asking for trouble.”
Xia Li ruffled the Evil Dragon’s hair and added.
“The Demon Repelling Sword and the Golden Bell can’t store magic power, but your body can store a lot of it.
If we let these two artifacts continuously accumulate and absorb magic power into your body for storage, maybe one day, you’ll have enough magic power to cast high-level magic. At that time, we’ll make plans.”
“Make plans at that time…”
Lucia repeated Xia Li’s words, following his train of thought.
‘That time’ was who knows when.
But she wasn’t in a hurry.
She was already very content with having Xia Li now.
If it were her when she first came to Earth, she would have been particularly concerned about magic power; even if she had a little bit of power, she would have wanted to make waves in this human world.
But now, these things seemed unimportant.
Secretly liking the Brave Hero in front of her and quietly enjoying her current life were the top priorities in her dragon life.
“Don’t think too much, wash up and go to sleep.”
Xia Li confiscated the oversized sheep plush from Lucia’s arms and led the contemplative Evil Dragon by the hand.
The Evil Dragon was thus taken to the bathroom by Xia Li.
“Take a shower first… It’s getting colder today, do you want to wash your hair?”
“No.” Lucia shook her head.
“You’re going on a date with me tomorrow, shouldn’t you wash up and smell nice?”
Hearing the word ‘date’, the Evil Dragon’s contemplative face suddenly lifted, and she said with a blushing face.
“…Fine, I’ll wash it!”