novelraw Chapter 230
Chapter 230
Chapter 230: Magic Power MAX
The exam was over, Xia Li submitted his answer sheet and hurried home.
When he got home, it was exactly 6:30, and Lucia surprisingly hadn’t come home yet.
Xia Li sent her a message, waited for a while, and got no reply, so he sent the message to Wuqi.
Wuqi replied after a few minutes.
He said that the pet hospital was having a quarterly summary meeting today, and Lucia would be back later.
Xia Li thought for a while, and between going to pick up Lucia and making dinner, he chose the latter.
The exam was over, and Xia Li had also achieved his recent goal. As compensation for his recent focus on studying and neglecting Lucia’s feelings, Xia Li decided to spend more time with the dragon from now on.
It’s good to cook occasionally.
Otherwise, his stomach would really become the shape of Lucia. “Bang, bang.”
While squatting on the ground peeling potatoes, Xia Li heard a knock on the door.
He immediately took the half-peeled potato and went to the living room to open the door.
“Coming, who’s little…”
Xia Li was smiling as he spoke, but when he opened the door and saw a figure in a black hoodie, he was stunned.
“Little cutie or little darling?” Qin Chuan asked curiously.
“…”
The smile on Xia Li’s face froze.
“You came just in time,” he stuffed a pair of shoe covers into Qin Chuan’s hands.
“I just need someone to do chores, help me peel the potatoes, I’m going to stir-fry some meat sauce.”
Qin Chuan didn’t refuse and took the potato into the house with Xia Li.
The first time he came, he was still a little restrained, but now that he had been here several times, he didn’t even need Xia Li to greet him. He skillfully dragged over the trash can and carefully peeled the potatoes with a peeler.
After peeling, he looked back at Xia Li, who was flipping food in the pan with a spatula.
“Is there anything else to do?”
“Cut the green peppers into shreds for me, and beat the eggs and steam them.” Xia Li said unceremoniously.
Anyway, Qin Chuan was an old cook, having him help would make things twice as efficient.
“Stay for dinner.” He finally said.
Qin Chuan nodded happily in agreement.
When he was almost done with his work, Xia Li asked him to sit casually in the living room.
Qin Chuan was a little restless, and when he saw the indigo long sword casually placed by Xia Li on the balcony, he felt an itch.
He was ‘beaten up’ by this sword before.
According to Xia Li, the ability of this sword was demon repelling, it could reflect all magic back.
It was indeed powerful.
But in Qin Chuan’s view, its self-protection ability was a little lacking.
If it was placed in their world where demons and beasts were everywhere, just demon repelling alone wouldn’t be enough to survive.
“Let me study your sword.” He said to Xia Li in the living room.
Xia Li replied generously: “Study it as you like.”
Qin Chuan tried to lift the sword and draw it.
He was first shocked by the unexpectedly heavy feel of the sword, then Qin Chuan found that he couldn’t draw the sword with his own strength.
He quickly thought that this kind of artifact also had the ability to recognize its owner.
“Actually, I’ve always been curious…”
Coming to the kitchen door, Qin Chuan held the sword with one hand, the more than twenty pounds of weight made the muscles in his arm bulge.
“How many seals does your sword have?”
“…”
Xia Li put the stir-fried green pepper and potato shreds into a plate and lowered the power of the range hood by two levels.
“Are you still hung up on this?”
“Yes.”
Qin Chuan sighed helplessly.
He had thought about it when he was beaten up by this sword, if Xia Li had reached the limit of his own power… then if he had persisted for a while longer, would he have been able to withstand it?
This feeling of unwillingness was like playing a gacha game.
He always felt that the next pull would be a lucky one, and he would get a gold.
“I can’t tell you that.” Xia Li said, keeping it a secret.
Then, considering making Qin Chuan more convinced, he added.
“But, it’s still far away.”
“Okay…” Qin Chuan had to nod.
He didn’t want to change the outcome of that battle.
If it had changed, his life now would definitely be worse.
It was just that he had a competitive spirit as a brave hero.
He had the ability to infinitely restart in his original world, which was actually a kind of pseudo-invincibility. Now a brave hero who could suppress him suddenly appeared, so he was very conflicted.
“Bang, bang~”
While they were chatting, the door rang again. Xia Li put down the plate and turned to open the door without a word.
“Coming, coming, who’s little…”
“Meow?”
『It was another little kitty. 』
Damn it, twice in a row?
Wuqi squatted at the door, and as soon as Xia Li opened the door, he walked in.
He hadn’t walked through the front door for a long time, he usually went through the balcony.
Walking in with his tail held high, Wuqi went to chase and play with Mianhua.
Xia Li glanced at the two cats frolicking and thought something was wrong.
How could Wuqi knock on the door with his cat paws?
“Hee hee~”
While he was wondering, the petite figure hiding behind the door suddenly popped out.
Lucia playfully poked out her small head, her hands behind her back. When Xia Li walked past to pull her, she dodged sideways.
“Guess what I bought?”
The evil dragon’s beautiful almond eyes curved, and a sweet smile bloomed on her face.
Xia Li didn’t spoil the fun by immediately asking ‘what is it’, but really started guessing.
“…Could it be!”
“Could it be?”
“Could it be!!”
“Is it…?”
During the back and forth, Xia Li took two deep breaths.
He couldn’t smell anything, so he couldn’t even cheat.
“I can’t guess.” He said frankly.
“Ta-da~”
Lucia held an eight-inch cake, lifting it up in front of Xia Li with both hands.
It wasn’t the kind of small cake bought on a whim this time.
Today’s cake was ordered by Lucia early in the morning when she went to work.
She carefully selected the cake base, the filling fruit, and the decorations on top.
Lucia’s monthly salary was all in her WeChat, and she had a small treasury of more than three thousand yuan in her WeChat wallet, so buying a cake for more than two hundred yuan was no problem.
“Wow, no wonder you came home so late, it wasn’t a meeting… You actually conspired with Wuqi to deceive me.”
Xia Li complained, but he was already smiling as he led the evil dragon home by the hand.
“This is to celebrate you finishing your exams! The cake shop owner said that even if it’s not a birthday, you can still light candles!”
Lucia quickly went to the refrigerator and took out some bottles and jars, then stuffed the cake inside.
It was hot these days, and if it wasn’t put in the refrigerator, it would definitely melt in a while.
“I’ve already received two birthday cakes from you.”
Xia Li went to the kitchen to bring out the dishes, and Lucia cooperated tacitly with him, filling bowls with rice.
Wuqi was also eating at home today, so she also took a cat bowl and filled it with a lump of rice for Wuqi.
Wuqi raised his head and meowed, as if to say thank you.
“When will you have a birthday?”
Before picking up his chopsticks, Xia Li continued to ask.
Lucia paused, she had never thought about the idea of herself having a birthday.
“I don’t know when my birthday is… And, dragons are different from humans, they don’t need to celebrate birthdays.”
“That’s different, you are a member of this society now, and birthdays, as a crucial social point in human relationships, still need to be specially remembered…
Think about it, when you celebrate your birthday, you invite a few friends to have fun for a whole day, doesn’t it make you feel like every year of your life is something to look forward to?”
As Xia Li spoke, he took out his phone and opened his records.
“Wait a minute.”
He opened his phone’s payment history and started scrolling down quickly.
He remembered that Lucia came to Earth at the end of September last year.
He didn’t go to the convenience store much during that time, and there were only a few records that matched the name of the payment merchant.
Soon, he locked onto a string of numbers.
Forty-eight yuan and fifty cents.
That day, he used forty-eight yuan and fifty cents to lure the evil dragon back.
Then he clicked on the detailed interface to see the date…
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“September 23rd last year, it was the Autumn Equinox, that was the day you came to Earth, and the day of your ‘rebirth’… It’s okay to consider it your birthday, right?”
Lucia heard this, a chopstick in her mouth, chewing.
Just… that simple?
She, a dragon, also had a birthday?
Lucia, who never remembered the calendar, firmly remembered this day.
“What can I get for my birthday?”
Her interest came quickly, and she even started looking forward to it.
“It must be a big gift.” Xia Li smiled mysteriously.
When it was his birthday, the cream was all smeared on him.
Now he could reasonably let Lucia taste the feeling of being smeared with cream too.
“Alright, alright, let’s eat.”
Xia Li went to the kitchen and brought out the simmered meat patties. The three people and one cat all started eating.
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This meal was simple, just a slightly more sumptuous ordinary dinner.
After eating and cleaning up the table, Xia Li rested for a while and then took out the cake, saying they should just cut it.
Because it wasn’t really a birthday, they could skip the step of lighting candles.
But Lucia was unwilling, the candles were still the small firework style that she had specially chosen, it would be a waste if Xia Li didn’t light them.
And… she also wanted to try using fire magic.
Xia Li nodded in agreement, and she stretched out three fingers and snapped them.
Sparks burst from her fingertips, quickly lighting the candles.
Golden and brilliant flames erupted from the long tubes of the candles, like a sky full of stars in the darkened living room.
“Make a wish.”
“I make a wish?”
Xia Li voluntarily gave up his center position and put the paper hat on Lucia’s head.
Lucia grabbed the paper hat and looked up at Xia Li, then down at the smoking candles.
If she didn’t make a wish soon, it would be too late!
“My wish is… for Xia Li to pass the exam successfully!”
“Don’t say it out loud, it won’t come true if you say it out loud.”
“Oh, oh…”
Lucia closed her eyes.
This time she made a wish seriously.
However, when the wish came from the bottom of her heart, it changed.
My wish is…
To be with Xia Li forever!
“Phew~”
Although this firework-style candle didn’t have a blowing out part, Lucia still went through the motions and blew a breath.
Xia Li went to turn on the lights, and she started cutting the cake with a plastic knife.
After being a little chef for so long, her knife skills had really improved.
However, when she cut the cake for Qin Chuan and Wuqi, she only cut small pieces, but when she cut it for Xia Li, she almost wanted to scoop out all the rest and give it to him.
As a result, Xia Li was stuffed with cake.
“Meow, meow, meow…”
After eating until they were full, they rested on the sofa for a while, and Wuqi began to tell Xia Li about what happened to Lucia today.
She sat by the floor-to-ceiling window, occasionally standing up and walking around, occasionally looking into the distance… her actions were really like a husband waiting outside the delivery room.
Xia Li felt that something was wrong with Wuqi’s analogy.
This cat was terrible at metaphors.
She was clearly like a little girlfriend waiting for her boyfriend outside the college entrance exam, right??
“What is he talking about?”
Lucia felt that someone was talking bad about her, but she couldn’t understand Wuqi’s language.
Xia Li smiled gently: “He said that you were very worried about me today, and you were so anxious that you kept pacing in circles.”
“…”
Lucia lowered her head shyly after hearing this.
Where was that?
She was just a little worried.
She was busy with other things to divert her attention later.
Lucia had great confidence in Xia Li, so she wasn’t worried about this kind of thing.
“How long will it take for you to get your license?” Qin Chuan, who was on the side, interjected.
“More than a month, it depends on the notification.”
Xia Li changed to a more comfortable position and answered in a relaxed tone.
Before the exam started, he felt uncomfortable everywhere, his neck hurt, his eyes were sore, and he felt dizzy and lightheaded.
As soon as the exam was over, all his ailments were gone.
The pressure on his shoulders quietly eased, as if he had been reborn.
“More than a month, that’s still some time away…”
“Yeah, I plan to rest for a while.”
“…No more updates?”
Qin Chuan beat around the bush, looking at Xia Li with some puzzlement.
Xia Li sat up straight, smiling but not really smiling:
“No way, are you really urging me to update offline?”
“Haha, just kidding.” Qin Chuan waved his hand with a smile.
He was quite busy with work every day and didn’t have much time to go online. His biggest pleasure at the moment was being an avid fan, spamming posts in Xia Li’s comment section and acting as an active reader.
So if Xia Li updated more, he would have more time for entertainment every day.
“I’m going back, I’ll give you the magic power.”
It was getting late, and Qin Chuan was ready to leave.
Before leaving, he had to complete today’s task.
Xia Li skillfully placed his hand on the Heart of Stone, then drew the magic power inside and used the Demon Repelling Sword to convert it.
Lucia felt her strength returning.
A silver dragon tail, even thicker and chubbier than before, emerged and wagged.
Hmm, she had become stronger!
“Could you have transformed your dragon horns long ago?”
Xia Li rubbed Lucia’s small hands.
The dragon claws were very warm.
With the magic power, Lucia’s spirit was obviously more active than before.
But there was one thing that Xia Li had always been puzzled about.
Clearly, when she used Wuqi’s tiny bit of magic power before, she could grow a little taller.
Why was it that now that her magic power had recovered so much, her height hadn’t changed at all?
She didn’t seem to be developing any further.
Xia Li wasn’t sure if Lucia could only be like this, or if she was deliberately suppressing her size.
Now it seemed that she had recovered so much magic power but hadn’t revealed her horns, it was very likely the latter.
“I could… but there’s no need.” Lucia didn’t hide it from Xia Li.
“Why is there no need?” Xia Li asked back.
Lucia was silent for a moment and said: “Then, choose between a dragon tail and dragon horns.”
“What a cruel choice…”
Xia Li hesitated.
This kind of question was comparable to the kind of “who would you save if your mother and I fell into the water” question that girls loved to ask.
But Lucia wouldn’t ask such a stupid question, she would just make Xia Li choose between dragon horns and a dragon tail.
“I’m an adult, of course I want both!” Xia Li said matter-of-factly.
“Humph, humph~ There’s no such option.”
Lucia ignored his protest, picked up the remote control and changed channels, her dragon tail swiping Xia Li’s thigh from time to time.
“I’m going back.”
Qin Chuan got up, no longer wanting to eat dog food.
Seeing this, Wuqi also stopped playing with Mianhua and left with Qin Chuan very perceptively.
Xia Li got up to see him off.
When Qin Chuan reached the door, he still glanced at the kitchen with some concern.
There, was the Demon Repelling Sword that he had brought from the balcony.
After studying it with Xia Li, the sword was casually leaning against the refrigerator.
At this time, the Demon Repelling Sword had long since faded from the white light Qin Chuan had seen when he first saw it, and was emitting a faint blue light like the sword body.
“I just discovered a problem.” Qin Chuan said.
“What problem?”
“Your sword…”
He organized his language and said.
“There’s magic in it.”
“Sealing magic, there’s always been.”
Xia Li didn’t think there was anything strange about it and took the initiative to open the door for him.
Qin Chuan stood at the door and said thoughtfully:
“I think, it’s a kind of spatial magic.”