novelraw Chapter 243
Chapter 243
Chapter 243: The Brave Hero’s Infidelity
It is said that the softer the dragon scales, the less experienced the dragon.
‘Lucia’ is now a young dragon whose scales have not yet hardened.
Those dragon scales that have not yet been fully hardened by the wind are soft and shallow, like cicada wings, and a slight rub will cause a few small pieces to fall off.
If you look at them in the sunlight, you can even see the clear lines and veins on these delicate dragon scales.
If they are picked up by passing humans, they will only be treated as insect shells, and few discerning humans can recognize that these are the scales of a pure-blooded giant dragon.
Only after long periods of wind and sun will these scales become hard and dry over time.
Finally growing into a natural barrier that is invulnerable to swords and spears.
Before completing this step of transformation, young dragons not only have low physical defense, but their ignorant minds are also the biggest obstacle in their growth.
Being too clever by half. This is what happens to young dragons at this stage.
While being curious about everything around them, they do not have enough wisdom to support them in making corresponding countermeasures in danger.
Young dragons at this stage are the easiest to deceive.
Therefore, many bounty hunters are willing to target underage young dragons.
Especially if the young dragon is a pure-blooded giant dragon.
That is even more of a rare treasure.
“Grrr…”
An immature voice was difficult to achieve the earth-shattering roar of an adult.
The silver young dragon raised its head and let out a childish roar towards the sky.
‘Lucia’ was attracted here by a flying sheep.
The sheep blended in with the cotton in the sky, floating in the air, and then slowly landed.
Not only the flying big sheep.
There are also water buffaloes with fish wings!
And, deep-sea jellyfish floating in the sky!
Lucia felt that she must have discovered a new world!
She had to record this major discovery in her mind and pass it down as the memory inheritance of the Silver Dragon!
However…
There was no trace of this creature in her memory, a species that even her ancestors had never seen, so why was she, a fifty-year-old little dragon, able to see it?
Apart from luck, the only possibility that Lucia could think of was that she was poisoned.
After all, before stepping into this forest, she had ‘accidentally’ tasted some beautiful mushrooms by the roadside.
But, how could the great pure-blooded giant dragon be poisoned!
Even the strongest toxins were vulnerable under her body’s metabolism!
Lucia would rather believe that she had discovered a new continent than believe that she had been poisoned by mushrooms.
Silver Dragons are very proud.
“Grrr!”
Her vision and hearing became somewhat blurred, and the white mist pervading the forest obscured most of her vision.
The Silver Dragon ‘Lucia’ shook her head, prostrated herself on the ground, and continued forward.
The young dragon’s thin scales gathered together, all close to her skin.
The giant dragon horns on her head, a symbol of power, were still somewhat immature, like the newly emerging horns of a goat, curving back behind her head, bending into a rounded and tender arc.
At this time, Lucia was in a state of sensory closure.
Both her vision and hearing had weakened considerably, and she could only distinguish directions by smell.
The most urgent thing to do now…
Was to eat some more poison!
If her body could not completely decompose the toxins from the poisonous mushrooms, then she would swallow another highly poisonous thing.
The two toxins would interact in her body, restricting and canceling each other out, and then her body’s immune mechanism would metabolize the remaining toxins.
This was one of the methods in the memory inheritance!
The older generation of Silver Dragons all survived by this method!
Of course, it might be better to use purification magic to purify herself from head to toe.
But…
Lucia was a little dizzy now, and it was difficult for her to use magic.
“Hmm?”
After crawling forward about two hundred meters with her nose pressed against the damp and soft ground.
Lucia suddenly smelled a strange fragrance.
She straightened her head, her long neck wrapped in fine soft scales turning.
Lucia turned her dragon head, her beautiful golden-red eyes narrowed slightly, and she looked towards the right not far away.
There, Lucia saw billowing white smoke and wooden sticks stuck in the white smoke.
There were about ten wooden sticks, with chunks of meat as big as her claws skewered on them, and the chunks of meat were sizzling with hot oil, roasting by the bonfire, emitting an aroma that was hard for a dragon to resist.
It was roasted lamb!
There’s a trap!
When Lucia saw the human sitting cross-legged by the bonfire, her clever dragon head immediately thought of the possibility of a trap.
An evil dragon wouldn’t fall for it so easily!
This human must have come prepared, and cunning dragon slayers were best at mastering firsthand information about their dragon race.
Not only did they know the movements of their dragon race, they even knew the different food preferences of each color of dragon.
This human in the black shawl in front of her must have investigated her before coming here to wait for her.
Perhaps, the sweet smell floating in the mist just now was his doing.
Fortunately.
She was now keeping herself twelve points sober and wouldn’t fall for it easily!
“Gulp—”
Looking at the fragrant skewers of lamb, Lucia swallowed her saliva shamelessly.
She had a bad diarrhea just now, so it was normal to be greedy for her favorite food now, right?
“Little girl over there…”
Just as Lucia was peeking from behind a tree, the human roasting meat by the bonfire suddenly spoke.
Judging by the voice, it should be a man.
“I’m lost, where is this?”
The man pulled his hood.
As he spoke, he didn’t look up at the little dragon in the corner, but buried his head, staring at the blazing fire in front of him.
‘Little girl’?
Lucia was slightly taken aback and looked around.
She made sure that there were only her and the man in black here, no third person, and no third dragon.
Little girl? Was he talking about her?
But no matter how she looked at it, she didn’t look like a little girl, right?
Lucia hid in the dark and flapped her silvery-white dragon wings.
Looking down at her young dragon body again, Lucia could be sure that her appearance was definitely not that of a little girl.
Could it be that this human was also poisoned?
Lucia tried to move her hind legs and took a step out of the bushes.
The legs of a young dragon were not as strong and powerful as those of an adult dragon, but relatively thin and short.
The difference in physique between the various growth stages of dragons was huge. If adult dragons were more majestic than mountains… then young dragons were at most as tall as trees.
An adult giant dragon could crush a human building with one slap.
While a young dragon, with one slap, could only crush the wooden boards in a building.
It couldn’t be said to be ‘weak’.
In Azure Continent, the powerful bodies of dragons were definitely the top existence in the world.
It was just that compared to adults, the strength of young dragons was a little inadequate.
So, she had to be more careful.
Lucia quietly poked half her head out from behind the tree trunk, and when the man in the hood looked over, she subconsciously shrank back.
However, the man’s gaze only swept lightly over her head.
His gaze didn’t focus on Lucia, but glanced distractedly and then moved back.
“Excuse me, little girl, are you in that direction?”
“I seem to have been hit by some kind of illusion magic, and I can’t see clearly.”
The man’s tone was flat, and if you listened carefully, you could hear the sincerity and apology in his voice.
No danger…
This was Lucia’s first feeling.
A dragon’s sixth sense was often very accurate.
Although the timing of this man’s appearance and his motives were strange, Lucia could be sure that he had no hostility towards her.
Lucia prostrated herself on the ground again and tentatively moved forward, close to the ground.
‘Crawling in the dark’, this phrase was just right for her current state.
The man who was turning over the roasted lamb skewers curled his lips, and then suppressed this subtle expression.
After crawling forward two steps, the young dragon stopped and looked up at him again.
After sniffing the man’s scent and confirming that he had no hostility towards her, she let down all her guard and walked over.
Then she sat down on the damp ground covered with fallen leaves.
“Why, why are you here…”
“As you can see, I’m lost.” The man replied.
“Lost… Then where do you want to go?”
“The Royal Capital.”
“Oh, that’s quite far!”
Lucia thought for a moment with her limited intelligence.
The distance from here to the Royal Capital of the human empire… wasn’t far for a dragon, but it should be quite far for this blind man.
“What are you going to do in the Royal Capital?”
Lucia made small talk, staring at the lamb skewers by the bonfire and swallowing her saliva secretly.
She couldn’t resist.
She couldn’t resist at all.
If it were her in good condition, she would have swallowed these things in one bite.
But, when facing this man in front of her, for some reason, she felt a strong sense of contrast.
She, who usually did all kinds of evil, actually wanted to maintain her dragon’s code of conduct in front of this man.
She didn’t want to attack him.
Perhaps, bullying a blind man was not a fulfilling thing for a dragon.
“I have some business to do in the Royal Capital.” The man replied.
“What business?”
Lucia took advantage of the blind man’s inability to see and stole a skewer of meat from by the bonfire, stuffing it into her mouth and eating it quietly.
“I’m going to find an item and then go home and marry my beautiful wife.”
When the man said this, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, revealing a look of happiness.
Lucia reduced the sound of her eating and swallowed the minced meat secretly before slowly speaking.
“Then… congratulations.”
It wasn’t that she couldn’t beat this human.
If they really fought over resources, she would definitely have the upper hand.
It was mainly because she didn’t want to fight.
For the sake of his excellent barbecue skills, she would spare his life.
Lucia was making excuses for her actions while stealing meat like crazy.
The blind man sighed and raised his head, his gaze passing through Lucia and looking towards the higher sky.
“You should be beautiful too.” He suddenly guessed.
“Me? Average.”
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As a Silver Dragon, Lucia’s arrogance was engraved in her bones.
She replied to the man coldly, and secretly reached out her sinful claws to steal more meat.
Her answer just now must have been super cold.
This pretentious tone was undoubtedly a show of force to the other party.
Speaking of which, could it be that he was trying to flirt with her with his words just now?
He was going back to the Royal Capital to be with his wife, yet he would casually compliment a little girl on her beauty when he met her in this remote wilderness.
Humans really were…
To put it nicely, they were sweet talkers, and to put it bluntly, they were fickle.
They typically fell in love with every new person they met.
Thinking of this, Lucia’s immature dragon tail behind her slapped the ground.
The small tail wrapped in delicate dragon scales stirred up a breeze.
The man in front of the bonfire raised his eyes and looked ahead blankly.
“What was that sound?”
“Nothing.”
Lucia replied in a cold voice, quickly retracting her outstretched tail and curling it around her feet.
“Maybe it was a small animal passing by.” She said nervously.
“Oh…”
The man responded and then turned all the lamb skewers in front of him over.
Seemingly feeling that the weight of the skewers had decreased considerably, the man frowned, finding it strange.
“I can’t finish all this meat even if I overcook it… I’ll share it all with you.” The man suddenly said in a gentle tone.
Lucia, who was stealing meat, was slightly stunned.
That’s not right!
She had already finished it!
A complex emotion flashed through her heart.
Lucia suppressed the emotions in her heart, nodded her little head, and responded very coldly.
“Hmm.”
Now, her persona as a cold and noble young lady must have been established in front of this man, right?
I’m so cool!
“Ah…”
“Ahhh…”
Beside Xia Li.
Lucia, in her human form, held her head in her hands, her expression somewhat desperate.
She didn’t expect herself to be so stupid when she was a child!
A suspicious human wearing a black shawl appeared in the heart of the Osiris Forest, and she didn’t even doubt it a bit!?
He was blind, how could he possibly hunt black sheep, let alone process the meat and roast it on a fire!
To begin with, it was suspicious enough for a human to come here alone.
Yet not only did she not doubt his identity, she even shamelessly stole food in front of him.
Forget about stealing food, what was with that cold tone!?
So pretentious!
Xia Li must be laughing his head off right now, right?
Now he could really make fun of her.
Dark history, it was definitely dark history!
The girl-like Lucia was having a bit of a breakdown.
She stretched out her slender arms from under the shawl and covered Xia Li’s eyes.
“You can’t look!!”
“Haha…”
Xia Li really couldn’t hold back his laughter, his shoulders shaking with amusement.
“Hurry up and drive me away, I’m currently poisoned and have no fighting power at all. You just need to draw your sword, and I’ll activate the automatic cruise return function!” Lucia shook Xia Li’s shoulders, her voice excited.
“What the hell?”
Xia Li was dizzy from her panic.
“It means you’ll scare me away… Of course, it’s not that I can’t beat you, but under normal circumstances, I’m not ready for a decisive battle!”
Lucia hugged Xia Li’s arm and shook it vigorously.
Her face flushed red, as if trying to save her little remaining dignity in this way.
“Draw your sword!”
“…”
From the perspective of the young dragon Lucia, she couldn’t see ‘herself’ and couldn’t hear ‘herself’s’ voice.
She could only see the man in black in front of her swaying from side to side, muttering something.
This human was seriously poisoned…
And he didn’t seem to be very bright.
Could it be that he had some mental illness?
No wonder he appeared here.
“Sob…”
Behind Xia Li.
The girl squatted down, feeling a bit withdrawn.
There was nothing more despairing than making a fool of yourself in front of the person you liked.
Lucia knew that Xia Li would tease her here for a long time.
She didn’t expect that the mysterious person she had met before… the human who was willing to accompany her and make food for her when she was poisoned…
Was actually Xia Li.
They seemed to be caught in a time loop.
This time, returning to Azure Continent was like drawing a perfect end to this time loop.
Lucia couldn’t tell if her meeting with Xia Li was fate or some kind of ‘destiny’.
But she could be sure.
If it wasn’t for Xia Li coming here to protect her and drive away those humans…
She would have been captured by humans long ago and suffered a tragic fate.
Xia Li saved her life.
It was no big deal!
Silver Dragons were not like those inferior mixed-scale dragons, she was a good dragon who knew how to repay kindness.
At worst…
In the future, she would use the methods commonly used by humans, stay by Xia Li’s side, and promise herself to him （ to cheat food and drink ）!
“It’s not fair.” Lucia took a breath and said softly.
‘Her past self’ awakened her very early memories.
The blurry face of the mysterious person became concrete in Lucia’s mind.
Lucia had a sense of epiphany, ‘So I’ve seen this face before when I was a child’.
Xia Li had been protecting her since a long time ago…
“What’s not fair?”
Xia Li tilted his head and flipped the roasted meat in his hand.
The young dragon Lucia was gnawing on a bone in front of him.
After Xia Li said that all the food was for her, she didn’t hold back at all and started to devour it.
Humans were so nice.
Although he didn’t seem very smart, liked to talk to himself, and might even have some mental illness.
At least, she acknowledged his skills.
If there was a chance in the future, she could also try cooking for this human to taste.
Of course, the proud Silver Dragon wouldn’t repay humans in this way, there was no word ‘repay’ in her dictionary.
But it wasn’t impossible for food to suddenly fall from the sky…
What if she flew at low altitude with food in her mouth, and the food just happened to fall in front of this young man?
Thinking of this, Lucia narrowed her eyes.
Her vision was a little blurry, and she couldn’t see the man’s face clearly.
But she could be sure that he should be quite handsome, at least by dragon standards.
—Lucia didn’t know where this thought came from, she just thought so.
The sense of affinity he exuded was magical to her.
It was so magical that it was as if they had some kind of intimate relationship, as if they were meant to sit down in the forest after the rain, enjoying the misty scenery and chatting about everyday life.
“You’ve seen what I looked like when I was a child, but I haven’t seen what you looked like.”
The girl Lucia puffed out her cheeks.
She really couldn’t stand the sight of herself when she was a child.
So she nestled into Xia Li’s arms and covered his eyes with her hands, preventing him from looking.
How could there be such a thing as having your cake and eating it too!
She was clearly here right now, yet Xia Li still wanted to glance at that young Silver Dragon!
This was a blatant act of infidelity!
Condemnation!
Strong condemnation!
“Haven’t you seen my photos? That counts.”
Xia Li removed the small hands from his face, grabbed a skewer of meat and blew on it in front of his mouth. Feeling that the temperature was about right, he fed it to the female dragon in his arms.
“Hmph.”
The female dragon snorted softly and turned her head away.
“How can someone be jealous of themselves…”
Since the female dragon wouldn’t eat, Xia Li handed the skewer to the little dragon.
The little dragon raised her head and looked over, hesitantly extending her front claws.
“You seem to be seriously poisoned.”
The young dragon rarely said a word of concern.
Afraid that Xia Li would change his mind, she lowered her head and took a bite of the skewer.
“It’s okay, it doesn’t affect me…”
The man waved his hand and said again.
“Besides, I was fine when I was lost in the forest alone, and now I have you. I’ll share my food with you, and you can protect me.”
“Oh, that’s true.”
The young dragon Lucia nodded, agreeing with Xia Li’s words.
“But I can only protect you a little, not too much.”
After all, dragons also had their pride.
“That’s enough…”
Xia Li was about to say something, but halfway through his words, his lips were suddenly blocked by a forceful force.
It seemed that the female dragon beside him had finally reached her limit.
Xia Li had always known about her jealousy and possessiveness.
Lucia was the kind of person who could even get jealous of a passing female cat.
It was normal for her to be jealous of another dragon now.
…But Xia Li didn’t expect.
That she would actually be jealous of herself!
What came towards him was a forceful kiss with a sweet fragrance.
Xia Li wrapped his arms around the female dragon’s soft waist and simply closed his eyes to enjoy it.
In front of them.
The young dragon who was gnawing on meat stopped her actions.
From her perspective, the man in black in front of her suddenly stopped moving, and a strange expression appeared on his face.
Wagging her immature silver dragon tail, the young dragon licked her lips, and suddenly felt a touch of emotion in her heart.