novelraw Chapter 210
Chapter 210
Chapter 210: Silver Dragon
Honestly, when he stepped into the black fog, Xia Li wasn’t entirely confident.
He wasn’t sure if the Demon Repelling Sword’s abilities would be effective here.
After all, the Transmigrator before him was from a different world, even the nature and types of magic were vastly different. In this situation, using the Demon Repelling Sword to negate the other party’s magic had an element of gamble to it.
Xia Li was prepared to engage in combat relying solely on his swordsmanship.
But unexpectedly, the Demon Repelling Sword’s power actually worked.
Good luck.
When a mage’s magic is as fragile as paper and lacks any offensive power…
Then, in front of a swordsman, he’s like a duck on a chopping board, ready to be slaughtered.
Xia Li gripped the sword hilt in his hand and strode forward. The Demon Repelling Sword was still in its fourth unsealed state, the faint blue light replaced by a dazzling white light. Looking closely, at the center of the light, a sacred golden luster was hidden.
That was the power after full release, symbolizing the highest level of magic in Azure Continent –
It was just a pity that it seemed like it wouldn’t be needed today.
The enemy before him had lost the will to fight.
The other party wasn’t stupid, after discovering that Xia Li possessed the ability to nullify magic, he knew his fate.
He had no weapons, the only thing besides the clothes on his body was the hard, brick-like mobile phone in his hand.
These things, scattered and combined, were all his ‘assets’ on Earth.
Looking up at Xia Li approaching him step by step, Qin Chuan simply sat down on the spot.
“You are the true Brave Hero.”
He said with an impassive face.
Even though he lost this battle, his heart didn’t waver.
The second half of this sentence was: And I have become the villain that I hate myself.
Qin Chuan didn’t say it completely.
“I’ve found that those of us who are chosen to be Brave Heroes are all quite stubborn to some extent.”
Xia Li stopped, the Demon Repelling Sword in his hand illuminating the surroundings.
The man sitting on the ground in front of him had an indescribable air of dejection. He wasn’t injured, yet he looked like he was dying.
“On this land, neither you nor I are Brave Heroes, we are just ordinary people.” Xia Li said.
“Ordinary people…”
Qin Chuan murmured, a self-deprecating smile spreading across his lips.
How he wished he was an ‘ordinary person’.
That way, he wouldn’t have transmigrated for no reason, wouldn’t have accidentally killed his parents…
He would have a happy family, get married and have children in the future, and then, like countless others in this society, grow old and enjoy his later years.
But unfortunately, he wasn’t an ‘ordinary person’.
He still couldn’t empathize with this fortunate ‘Author’.
Their experiences were too different.
Looking at the glowing sword, Qin Chuan could more or less guess that the other party’s abilities probably came from this sword.
The sword didn’t look sharp enough, but it should be enough to chop off a head.
“Should I say something like ‘Go… kill me’ at this point?” Qin Chuan chuckled self-deprecatingly.
Xia Li was a little surprised that he could still joke with himself in this situation?
It seemed he was originally a very optimistic person.
It was the experiences after coming back that had crushed him like this.
“What good would it do me to kill you, besides going to jail?” Xia Li retorted.
“That’s true.” Qin Chuan nodded.
Unlike him, who had already broken the order, the other party still had to continue living in this society and naturally had to strictly abide by the rules of society.
Therefore, his purpose in coming here was indeed not to kill him.
Qin Chuan didn’t think he had any connection with this Author, and the other party had even less reason to save him…
The only possibility he could think of was that his own urge to destroy the world had affected the other party’s interests. For his family and friends, for the order of society, he chose to stand up, that’s all.
“You’ve stopped me now, you can go back.”
Qin Chuan was a little tired and lay down straight.
If it were in the previous world, he would use his ability to go back in time and then exhaust all means to find another way to defeat the enemy.
But now, his abilities were limited, he couldn’t go back to the past.
Fate was no longer in his control.
Since returning to Earth, this was the first time Qin Chuan had felt this sense of resignation.
He didn’t want to resist at all.
Or rather, he didn’t have the ability to resist at all.
His heart had calmed down.
Now he even felt a sense of post-release, entering a sage mode.
The Heart of Stone could generate magic power through emotions, and emotional fluctuations could directly affect the intensity of magic power.
Conversely, it was the same.
When the magic power was exhausted, the emotions were also drained.
Except for the stinging pain when he recalled his parents…
Other things seemed unimportant.
The trolls online, the customers who made things difficult for him, his uncle who liked to hit him with beer bottles… these people actually didn’t evoke strong emotions in him.
For someone who had transmigrated to another world for over twenty years and died tens of thousands of times, those messy things couldn’t shake Qin Chuan’s heart at all.
The reason for the crack in Qin Chuan’s strong heart, in the final analysis, was his parents.
Perhaps this crack would never heal in his lifetime.
“For the first time in so many years, I’ve handed my fate over to someone else.”
Qin Chuan lay on the waterlogged ground, his thin clothes quickly soaked by the water.
Feeling his body temperature gradually fading, Qin Chuan closed his eyes, as if his life was slowly disappearing at this moment.
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Next, the defeat CG should be triggered.
Whether the ‘Author’ took him to the police station or pushed him into the river to drown, Qin Chuan accepted his fate.
Villains never had a good ending in stories.
“Do you have a place to go?”
The young man’s voice broke the silence. Qin Chuan opened his eyes and stared blankly at the person in front of him.
Xia Li had sheathed his sword and extended his right hand, the one that held the sword.
After all, the other party looked like he was ‘ready to sleep to death on the street’, coupled with his unkempt hair and tattered clothes, it was easy for Xia Li to guess that he was probably homeless.
“…”
Qin Chuan moved his lips but didn’t make a sound.
He felt his lips were dry, he realized he hadn’t had water for a long time, even his throat was parched.
“You’ve been saying online that fate has abandoned you, but now think about it from another perspective, fate has brought me here.”
Xia Li didn’t know what to say at this point.
Smooth talking was never his forte. When he fought in Azure Continent, he would draw his sword as soon as he saw the enemy, leaving no room for negotiation.
However, looking at the man in front of him, who was about the same age as himself, Xia Li felt he should say something.
This was what the other party needed most right now.
Scratching his wet hair, Xia Li spoke with some embarrassment.
“I have Brave Heroes like you here, dragons, cats with superpowers, maybe you could come to my place?”
If it was Lucia, Xia Li could say some sweet and cheesy things.
But the other party was a man…
Xia Li felt he couldn’t even soften his voice.
“Meow!!”
Suddenly, an urgent meow came from behind.
Xia Li suddenly realized that the black fog that had enveloped them had dissipated at some point. The heavy rain was whipped by the fierce wind, like countless invisible daggers falling from the sky.
Wuqi stood not far away, his voice reaching directly into Xia Li’s mind.
『The bridge is about to collapse!』
『Three seconds!』
There was no time to react, three seconds was not even enough for an ordinary person to take two steps.
Xia Li grabbed Qin Chuan’s arm, his first reaction was to throw the already weakened Qin Chuan towards Wuqi.
However, without the support of magic, no matter how strong Xia Li’s physique was, it was impossible for him to throw a grown man ten meters away.
Too late.
The road beneath his feet cracked, and the bridge collapsed with a roar.
This low bridge was already on the verge of collapse under the erosion of the flood. It had been maintained by Qin Chuan’s magic, and when his magic disappeared, it instantly disintegrated.
Xia Li felt his body sinking, the muddy water instantly engulfing his legs.
He gripped the limp Qin Chuan in his hand, ready to draw his sword.
Suddenly, his body felt light.
A majestic silver figure appeared in the sky.
Qin Chuan’s eyes widened.
The beautiful silver dragon was like a bright moon approaching the earth, the silver light emanating from her scales even more dazzling than the Milky Way in the sky.
She spread her wings that blotted out the sky, her golden eyes had a vertical red pupil in the center.
Her dragon eyes moved down, although no emotion could be seen in her gaze, it inexplicably gave people a suffocating sense of oppression.
“…”
Xia Li was grabbed by the dragon claw and thrown onto the soft grass.
He rolled twice before stabilizing himself, Qin Chuan, who had been clutching his arm, also rolled along.
When Qin Chuan opened his eyes again, the silver dragon had disappeared.
In her place was a black-haired little girl squatting in front of Xia Li, her cold little hands mercilessly reaching into Xia Li’s chest to cop a feel.
“What are you doing…”
Xia Li lay on the ground, gasping for breath.
Although he hadn’t expended much physical strength, the urgency he felt when trying to escape earlier had still made his heart race.
If Lucia had been any slower, he would have been swept away by the water.
It had been a long time since Xia Li had experienced this feeling of surviving a disaster.
“What are you looking for?”
The young girl in front of him didn’t stop for a moment, a fierce expression on her face. Her smooth little hands, as cold as popsicles, were rummaging through Xia Li’s clothes.
As if feeling that touching wasn’t enough, she simply grabbed Xia Li’s clothes and pulled them off.
It was still spring, if he was stripped naked, he would either get a fever or catch a cold!
“…Leave me one!”
Xia Li held onto his pants, as if stubbornly holding onto his last shred of dignity.
“Didn’t we agree that I would do it?”
The young girl yelled, her expression anxious.
She was filled with regret.
She had fallen asleep halfway there, and if it wasn’t for a sudden nightmare that woke her up, she wouldn’t have woken up even now.
What made her even angrier was that Xia Li had actually locked the car door!
It took her a while to open the door, if she had been even a step later, Xia Li would have been swept away by the flood!