novelraw Chapter 254
Chapter 254
Chapter 254: Evil Dragon Roar
At the junction of heaven and earth, the dark ground still retained a touch of the setting sun. The warm orange glow of the sunset towerlessly shed the afterglow, dyeing this scorched earth into mottled orange-red and gray-black.
In the field of vision, the light falling from the thick gray fog seemed especially precious at this moment, as if each beam of light was silently telling the tragedy and solemnity of this place.
Xia Li stood on the ground after the magic bombardment, a particularly unreal feeling welling up in his heart.
When he first returned to Azure Continent, he didn’t have this sense of separation of ‘jumping from Earth to a magical continent’.
The beautiful scenery and the unchanging girl by his side had deceived him into a gentle paradise.
But the cruel ruins in front of him made Xia Li truly feel the difference between ‘reality’ and ‘fantasy’.
At this moment, not only did it bring a strong visual conflict, but his heart was also greatly shocked.
“I summon myself?”
Xia Li seriously pondered Lucia’s words. What the evil dragon said was not unreasonable.
With the current level of magic in this world, even if it developed for another fifty years, it couldn’t guarantee that Xia Li would be summoned to this world.
However, in order to ensure that he met Lucia at this moment, Xia Li had to let ‘his past self’ come to ‘the future world’.
He pinched his chin, thinking for a long time.
If the former Xia Li had to make this choice, before coming to Azure Continent and before developing feelings for Lucia, he would definitely not choose to summon himself and put himself in danger.
But now, he could make the choice without hesitation.
Only by completing this step that belonged to their destiny could this wrong time travel end correctly.
“What should I do?”
Xia Li asked resolutely.
“That’s why I brought you here!”
Having received the correct answer, the girl’s eyes narrowed with a smile.
Lucia stood up from the ground, pulling out her small hands that were stuck in the black mud playing with it.
——If she could, she would also like to transform into a big dragon and roll around in this mud.
But this land was eroded by magic, and there might be some residual curses. Doing so would be bad for her scales, so she gave up.
Patting her dirty little hands, Lucia wiped her fingers with her robe while saying casually.
“Didn’t I say I came here to find something…”
“Yes, you haven’t told me yet what you are looking for.” Xia Li nodded.
“Of course it is—”
Lucia raised her voice, the girl’s crisp and sweet voice echoing over the dark wilderness.
She paused, afraid that someone would hear her next sentence, so she stopped talking, stealthily walked to Xia Li’s side, stood on tiptoe, and whispered in his ear.
“To find a divine artifact.”
“Ah? Divine artifact??”
Xia Li was stunned.
Looking for a divine artifact?
In such a place?
How could such a precious divine artifact appear on the battlefield??
Xia Li had been in Azure Continent for three years and had never seen a divine artifact other than the Demon Repelling Sword.
He had heard from his mentors and teammates that several divine artifacts had appeared in various corners of the world. But basically no one had seen these things, so the existence of divine artifacts was more like a folk legend passed down by word of mouth.
It was said that divine artifacts could not be created by humans, and they could not be defined by any category of things.
They possessed magical powers that transcended normal power and were magical items born with the ‘laws’ when this world was born.
Not only did they possess great power, but they also possessed special abilities that hovered on the edge of breaking the ‘laws’.
As far as Xia Li was concerned, he had heard of several special abilities: sealing, deterioration, healing, magic breaking, demon repelling…
He hadn’t come into contact with other abilities, so it was hard to say whether they really existed.
However, the ability of ‘demon repelling’ was quite useful in his hands.
“Yes! This is what Old Black… Village Chief Neer Hulk told me!”
Lucia put her hands on her hips and said with bright eyes.
Now Xia Li was also aroused by curiosity.
When boys played RPG games, they were basically strength players. Naturally, they would be moved when they saw new weapons.
“What kind of divine artifact is it?” he asked.
“Summoning!”
“So it’s a divine artifact with the ability to ‘summon’.” Xia Li suddenly realized.
That being said, he now needed to obtain this divine artifact, and then do something like appearing in front of everyone and leaving a prophecy for the humans of this world.
Just like in many otherworldly adventure stories, he would tell the humans here that they would encounter a catastrophe in the future, and only by summoning a hero could they help them overcome this catastrophe.
Then he would use the summoning artifact to cast a time-delay magic, which would summon ‘himself’ fifty years later.
After doing all this, they would use the power of the artifact to teleport back to Earth.
Hmm…
It completely matched.
It was exactly the same as the reason why he came here as a ‘hero’ in his memory.
So it was me who tricked myself!
However, it was worth it to think that he could bring a wife home by doing this.
“Let’s get started without delay.”
Xia Li rolled up his sleeves, imitating Lucia’s gesture of squatting on the ground and playing with black mud, and stuck his hands into the soil to stir it up.
“Is this how we find it?”
“Not like this…”
Seeing Xia Li’s silly look, Lucia couldn’t help but smile.
“That’s how you were looking for it just now.”
Xia Li reached out and pulled out a piece of burnt leather armor from the ground, then threw it away in disgust.
“I was just playing with mud!” Lucia said confidently.
Xia Li: “…”
“Hehe… Why are you so silly?”
Lucia squatted down, took Xia Li’s hands out of the mud, shook off the dust, and wiped them with her clean white cloak.
Then, she lowered her head and exhaled.
Xia Li thought the dragon was going to spit dragon saliva to wash his hands.
He didn’t dislike it and was ready to catch this dragon saliva.
But Lucia didn’t spit into his palm, but blew out a breath of cold air.
Tiny silver ice crystals instantly filled the air, mixed with the biting cold air, and the wind from the evil dragon’s breath blew on Xia Li’s hands.
Xia Li felt his hands cool down, and then his hands were clean.
Purification magic ━ Silver Dragon version.
This brought a lot of shock to the rookie Xia Li, who could hardly use any magic.
He made a strange ‘eh’ sound and repeatedly checked his hands.
“Hee hee~”
His actions reminded Lucia of when she first came to Earth and was also full of curiosity about the things around her.
However, Xia Li was different from her.
He wouldn’t point at the rice cooker and say what a great invention it was. Nor would he knock on the TV to see if there were chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep hidden inside.
“How could a divine artifact be buried in the ground casually… The divine artifact we are looking for is a bit special.” The evil dragon deliberately kept him in suspense.
“All divine artifacts are quite special.” Xia Li replied.
“Yes, that’s right… But the divine artifact we are looking for has an owner.”
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“Huh??” Xia Li was surprised. “We can’t use a divine artifact that has already recognized its owner…”
‘Borrowing it’ didn’t seem realistic in this world.
“You can just kill its owner and take it, right?” Lucia’s tone was matter-of-fact.
Xia Li: “…”
There were too many things he wanted to complain about, and he didn’t know where to start for a while.
“This is the situation.”
Lucia held Xia Li’s hand and relayed what Old Black Dragon had told her today.
Of course, these words were a censored version.
In the northwest direction of the Lyon Empire, there were blooming flowers all over the mountains and fields, and countless treasure mines were buried underground.
Because the flowers here could be used for alchemy and the ores were imbued with magic power, it became a battleground between the empire and the kingdom.
But the appearance of such a fertile land out of thin air was not a coincidence, but because a divine artifact was sleeping deep underground.
Years of war had ravaged this land, and the pollution and curse brought by magic had not only eroded the land but also the divine artifact sleeping beneath it…
In an accidental contact, the general who should have died in battle, at the moment of his death, his anger and anxiety awakened the divine artifact that should have been sleeping.
Therefore, the divine artifact got its owner, and the dying general got extraordinary power.
“Tell me, what should the ‘summoning’ ability of the divine artifact that awakened in this cursed land after the war be used to summon?”
After telling the story, Lucia asked Xia Li a question.
Xia Li’s answer was without hesitation.
As a modern person who had tasted countless stand-alone games and movie stories, it was too easy to guess this point.
“Undead.”
“Yes!”
Lucia had to be surprised by Xia Li’s logical ability.
Xia Li was so smart, worthy of being the person she chose!
Secretly praising Xia Li in her heart, Lucia added.
“The dead souls are forcibly summoned, but even if they can successfully return to their bodies, ‘death’ itself is irreversible… Even in Azure Continent, there is no ability to truly resurrect people.”
“They are a group of walking corpses, summoned from the ground by the divine artifact, gathering in dark places, brewing a new war.”
Lucia’s eyes dimmed as she said this.
Undead…
That’s what Old Black Dragon said, they were bodies that were forcibly kept ‘alive’.
Old Black Dragon also said that there had been a human-dragon love like hers before, and that dragon had also tried to forcibly keep his lover by his side.
But, as Lucia had just said, there was no resurrection magic in this world, and there was no ability to break the upper limit of human life.
The person that dragon kept by his side was just a soulless, incorruptible body.
The final outcome of that human-dragon love was predictable.
The dragon finally abandoned his beloved partner and threw himself into endless loneliness.
Thinking of this, Lucia secretly took a breath.
She didn’t want to be like this.
So, she had to do something.
“If the undead legion is fully deployed, it will undoubtedly bring a huge disaster to this world…”
“Xia Li, you have more or less come into contact with the history of this world, right? Yes, there is no record of the undead legion in the history of this world…”
“That is to say, you must succeed.”
“…”
After listening to these words, Xia Li fell into a moment of thought.
Fighting?
In this world, he wasn’t good at other things, but he had never lost a fight.
“Actually, thinking about it the other way around… it also means that you will definitely succeed.”
Lucia knew that Xia Li would not back down because of the strength of the enemy. Lucia had personally witnessed the hero’s fearless style of doing things and the justice he held in his heart.
But Lucia was still willing to say a few words to encourage Xia Li.
Lucia patted Xia Li’s shoulder and comforted him.
“After all, the future is already doomed, and what you are facing is a battle with a 100% win rate… So, go for it boldly!”
Actually, if she hadn’t already ‘spoiled’ the history in her mind, Lucia wouldn’t have been relieved to let Xia Li fight with some undead legion.
But, after knowing the answer clearly, she was willing to let Xia Li give it a shot.
“Divine artifact against divine artifact…”
Xia Li estimated in his heart for a while.
He had even fought against a hero with the Heart of Stone, who was equal to him…
Fighting a half-dead general and the undead behind him.
Wouldn’t it be a piece of cake?
Thinking of this, Xia Li drew out the Demon Repelling Sword again. The blue-blue blade reflected the last rays of the setting sun, and he looked at his reflection in the mirror-like sharp blade.
Short, neat black hair, a somewhat heavy expression.
And those slightly narrowed, sharp eyes.
“For this world, and for us.” Xia Li’s lips moved slightly, muttering to himself.
“Yes.”
Lucia smiled softly, stretched out her arms, and hugged Xia Li.
Xia Li was much taller than her, and she needed to stand on tiptoe to wrap her arms around his neck.
Perhaps she could use magic to strengthen her body and change her figure to be taller at will.
But, Lucia was used to this.
Her small self, nestled on the hero’s broad shoulders.
This was more comfortable and relaxed.
“Let’s go~”
After saying these words, the big stone in Lucia’s heart also landed steadily.
Xia Li accepted her proposal, which meant that she had succeeded.
Hugging Xia Li, Lucia raised her head, stood on tiptoe, and gently pecked Xia Li’s chin.
Leaving a moist, slightly warm kiss.
Then, in the blink of an eye, her petite body transformed into the figure of a giant dragon.
The silver behemoth stood on this barren land, its slender neck raised high, its beautiful dragon scales glowing with a soft but sharp radiance in the sunset.
Instead of going to find the undead themselves, it was better to actively ‘lure’ them out.
“Roar——!!!”
The giant dragon spread its wings that covered the sky and the sun, raised its huge dragon head, and let out an earth-shattering roar of anger towards the sky.
Xia Li was stunned by this sudden roar, and he was about to cover his ears with his hands.
A touch of warm magic poured down from the top of his head, gently wrapping him in it, isolating this deafening roar.
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