novelraw Chapter 262
Chapter 262
Chapter 262: Do you want to go home with me?
Using the new artifact’s power was easier than Xia Li had imagined.
With just a thought, he could generate summoning magic.
This magic could not only be activated with a delay, but it could also be attached to any medium according to Xia Li’s will.
Just like when he casually transferred the medium of the artifact to Lucia’s scale when he took the artifact from the Undead General, the summoning magic generated by the artifact could also be manipulated by Xia Li.
“It’s a good thing you chose a stone to summon yourself…”
Lucia, holding Xia Li’s hand, walked down the desolate human street, her small mouth unable to resist complaining:
“Otherwise, I can’t imagine how the little City Lord would have preserved it if it were a flower, and how he would have explained it to the people around him.”
“Haha, stones are easy to store.” Xia Li laughed.
It was a good thing he didn’t get carried away and create some super invincible cool hero summoner. Otherwise, it might not only be the little City Lord who would be embarrassed.
There would also be his future self.
“I’m actually curious, you said before that summoning and contracts coexist, and when summoning a certain life, the summoner needs to pay a corresponding price…”
“So, what’s the price of me summoning myself?” Xia Li asked with some concern.
The man and the dragon walked down the streets of Lachlan City.
The cold streets were almost deserted, and the appearance of the two foreigners attracted the attention of many residents.
Some residents even closed their doors and windows, showing an attitude of avoiding outsiders.
The evil dragon was not surprised by the humans’ unwelcoming behavior.
As a dragon, she was used to being looked at by humans in this way. Instead, she was holding Xia Li back, causing him to be discriminated against by humans as well.
Snorting, Lucia grabbed Xia Li’s hand.
Although the gazes of the people around them were mostly fearful, it did not prevent Lucia’s curious almond-shaped eyes from looking around.
Last time, there were restrictions on foreign races in the Royal Capital, which prevented Lucia from entering the city smoothly.
Since she had come here today, she naturally wanted to take a good look around.
It was a pity that there were not many shops here, and the only two taverns didn’t look very distinctive.
Lucia pouted and lost interest in her surroundings before she slowly answered the stupid hero’s question.
“You said it yourself, you’re summoning yourself, so what price do you need to pay?!”
Lucia snorted.
“It’s like, you order yourself to go and move a cart of mud bricks now, you just need to take action, you don’t need to pay any price.”
“You have a point…”
Xia Li stroked his chin.
He had actually considered this point as well.
But after all, it was summoning magic that spanned two planes, which sounded very mysterious.
In addition, Xia Li had spent three years searching for it in Azure Continent and had been tormented for more than half a year after returning to Earth. This magic had left a mysterious and high-end impression in his mind.
As a result, he didn’t expect it to be solved so easily.
It was like running with your head down in an open world, running the entire map before realizing that there was actually a teleportation circle…
“It’s too simple, it doesn’t feel real.” Xia Li concluded.
“I understand that!”
Lucia skipped ahead, her radiant face much more relaxed than Xia Li’s.
She raised a finger and said, “People always feel this way after they gain abilities beyond their comprehension… It’s like a student who never thought he would win the five million dollar lottery, after suddenly winning the lottery, the first feeling is confusion, but this confusion will disappear after he enjoys happiness with money, and then it will feel real.”
“You’re just not used to it now, you’ll get used to it after you use plane teleportation magic a few more times!”
Lucia finished her opinion with reason and evidence.
There really were no shops worth exploring in Lachlan City. Lucia looked around and finally took a small piece of dried meat out of her pocket and stuffed it into her mouth to eat lonely.
The dried meat didn’t taste good.
Lucia missed the fried crispy meat made by the hero’s mother.
“That’s true.”
Xia Li thought it made sense and nodded in relief.
As the big clock in Lachlan City struck again, time had turned from noon to evening.
Xia Li had completed two more summoning magic arrangements within today.
In order to ensure that their time travel would be smoothly connected in the future.
Xia Li not only had to give the summoning magic to the Old King, he also needed to leave two magic spells in the Demon Repelling Sword.
These two magic spells were different from the previous one.
The summoning target had changed from ‘Xia Li’ to ‘Xia Li and Lucia’.
The first time was when the Demon Repelling Sword and Lucia Sivana confronted each other head-on.
When both sides drew their weapons with the determination to ‘kill each other’, the moment they collided, the summoning magic would be triggered by the intense collision of magic power.
After activation, the summoning magic would initiate plane teleportation, sending both Xia Li and Lucia back to Earth.
The second time was on Earth.
There was no magic power on Earth, so in order to successfully activate plane teleportation magic, there had to be a certain ‘opportunity’.
And this opportunity was Qin Chuan.
Qin Chuan had the ability to change fate. He could transform emotions through the Heart of Stone into the original power of his world.
Xia Li could transform this power into the magic power of Azure Continent through the characteristics of the Demon Repelling Sword.
Since Xia Li at that time did not have the power of summoning, he would not be aware of the magic hidden deep within the Demon Repelling Sword.
Only after Qin Chuan came into contact with the Demon Repelling Sword would his ability to change fate allow him to discover the existence of the summoning magic.
Finally, Xia Li, knowing the appearance of the magic, would inject all the collected magic power into the magic circle, successfully activating the summoning magic.
The summoning magic would be activated, teleporting Xia Li and Lucia back to Azure Continent.
However, because the source of the magic power came from another world and was influenced by Qin Chuan’s ability, the two of them traveled through time incorrectly.
This was how the story came full circle.
Everything was destined.
Originally, this teleportation was limited to Xia Li, and the journey through time should have been completed by Xia Li alone.
But Lucia had already become one with Xia Li in the future.
She was willing to sacrifice half of her power in countless choices, and her body and soul had long been fused with Xia Li’s, so when the summoning magic was generated at this moment, the law made the following judgment:
‘Lucia belongs to Xia Li, Xia Li does not need to pay any price to summon Lucia’, ‘Xia Li belongs to Xia Li himself, Xia Li does not need to pay any price to summon himself’…
Therefore, the magic circle, which could only be passed through by one person, successfully encountered a bug under strange additional conditions.
“Done.”
After finishing all this, Xia Li clapped his hands.
From day to night, time always passed quickly when one was fully focused.
It took a lot of time for the artifacts in Xia Li’s hands to go from rejecting each other to accepting each other’s powers.
“It’s useless for you to fight over him!”
The evil dragon Lucia squatted beside them.
One hand supporting her head, the other hand grabbing dried meat to chew on, she looked like she was watching a show.
The girl shook her silver dragon tail and said to the two artifacts on the ground with a smile.
“He’s mine, you can’t take him away from me!”
“…”
Although the Demon Repelling Sword and the Silver Scale had divinity, they had not reached the level of being able to communicate with humans.
Lucia’s words naturally did not receive any response.
Only Xia Li walked over, put away the Demon Repelling Sword, and put the Silver Scale back on Lucia’s neck.
“Have I completed my mission?” Xia Li asked.
The mission Lucia had given him before they came here.
Summoning himself, and by the way, summoning Lucia as well.
“Yes!”
Lucia nodded contentedly.
This way, everything that Old Black Dragon Neer Hulk had said would come true.
To be on the safe side, Lucia went through the whole story in her mind.
Yes, there were no omissions, it could be straightened out.
“Woohoo~ My mission is also completed.”
The evil dragon stood up and stretched her arms, stretching her flexible waist.
Xia Li stared at the girl’s slender waist, his eyes gleaming.
“Your mission was completed when you tricked me into going to the battlefield to kill the Undead General.”
Xia Li finally couldn’t resist and wrapped his arms around the evil dragon’s soft waist.
Lucia originally didn’t have any ticklish spots, but after getting used to being human, the parts of human girls that were ticklish also became sensitive.
She was tickled by Xia Li’s touch and wriggled like a loach in his arms.
“This can’t be called ‘tricking’, this is called a dragon’s romance!” Lucia retorted loudly.
“Romance? It’s romance if you put it nicely, but it’s a scare if you put it bluntly!”
Xia Li recalled the time when Lucia said she wanted to ‘sacrifice’ herself.
He felt cold sweat break out all over his body, his heart almost jumped out of his chest.
Xia Li didn’t feel any romance, he only knew that at that time he felt despair for the first time.
If something had happened to Lucia right in front of him…
Xia Li felt that he would lose his mind and take the Demon Repelling Sword to Dragon’s Homeland to settle accounts with the village chief.
“From now on, you have to discuss everything with me before you do anything, do you hear me!”
He squeezed the evil dragon’s waist hard and said.
“Ouch~”
Lucia cried out in pain, her soft body arched twice against Xia Li’s chest, then hummed twice coquettishly.
“Discuss everything with you… Does that mean I have to discuss with you even if I want to drink a cup of yogurt or go to the bathroom? Then I want to pee now, please be kind, hero, and take me to pee!”
This dragon was still so mischievous, always contradicting Xia Li.
Xia Li was helpless against this.
But fortunately.
Although the dragon’s mouth was hard, it was also soft when kissed. （Except for the dragon’s mouth in silver dragon form）
“No, I don’t agree.”
Xia Li refused the evil dragon’s request with a straight face.
The evil dragon smiled, her tone mischievous as she said again.
“Oh~ What kind of strange play is this?”
“The hero is so bad, I’m not that bad as a dragon.”
Xia Li: “…”
For some reason, even though it was his hand that was touching the stinky evil dragon’s waist, he always felt like he was the one being teased.
If verbal obscenity was also considered obscenity, then Xia Li was now completely defenseless.
After a pause, Xia Li, who had always chosen to be tolerant under the evil dragon’s bullying, did not back down this time.
He responded provocatively.
“You’re numb!”
“I don’t understand, I don’t understand.” The evil dragon shook her head.
Seeing that the dragon was scared, Xia Li sneered.
“I hope you won’t chicken out when I really want to play.”
After saying that, the two looked at each other.
What followed was a long and awkward silence.
Xia Li was a little nervous.
He felt his palms sweating.
Before, he could be brazenly driving in front of Lucia because he relied on the fact that Lucia didn’t understand anything.
After Xia Li finished his dirty jokes, he could still justify himself and fool the evil dragon, and then watch her dumbfounded and sluggish look, feeling a great sense of accomplishment in his heart.
But now…
Lucia had learned everything, she understood everything.
Every time Xia Li opened his mouth, he had to weigh whether his words would cause the evil dragon to misunderstand.
It made the free and unrestrained Xia Li become restrained.
Therefore, one side retreated, and in exchange, the other side approached.
Even the relationship between offense and defense had changed invisibly.
This time, when Xia Li tried to regain his position, he admitted that he was a little nervous.
Xia Li hadn’t even thought about what to say to smooth things over if Lucia nodded or shook her head in refusal.
However, after a long stare.
Lucia looked away first.
She did not choose to answer Xia Li’s question directly, but turned her flushed face away and muttered.
“…I, I only know how to breathe fire.”
Xia Li understood after a few seconds.
The implication of this sentence…
Then he felt his body heating up as well.
He didn’t know if it was because of the heat or because he was infected by Lucia’s embarrassment.
Damn it.
Why was he being so innocent?!
Xia Li’s mentor had painstakingly taught him many times…
When confronting a dragon, you must look them in the eye, neither fear nor show any nervousness.
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Once there was any hint of ‘weakness’ from him, the giant dragon would attack him without hesitation.
Xia Li firmly believed that this also applied to the evil dragon Lucia.
Five thousand years…
Xia Li still had almost five thousand years to slowly understand Lucia.
There was still a long way to go.
Immortality for one person is a lonely curse, but immortality for two people is a romantic encounter.
As Lucia said, this is a romance unique to the dragon race.
“Let’s go. ”
Xia Li still decided that he wanted to be the ‘attacker’ in the ‘attack and defense’.
He couldn’t show weakness.
Otherwise, this evil dragon would become even more lawless.
He took Lucia’s soft little hand again and carried all the luggage on the ground with his other hand.
“Where are we going…”
Lucia said shyly.
She drank too much water a few days ago and hasn’t peed yet.
She wanted to turn into a big dragon to pee.
“Home!” Xia Li said.
“Oh…”
Lucia compared in her mind and found that it was also good to go home and pee in the toilet.
Xia Li glanced at her.
He changed his tone and asked solemnly again.
“Miss Lucia Sivana. ”
“Hmm?”
Lucia was stunned for a moment when her name was suddenly called.
Her mind returned from the topic of peeing, she put her legs together and looked up at Xia Li.
“Would you like to go home with me?”
“I…”
Lucia subconsciously wanted to nod and answer.
But on second thought, she couldn’t agree so easily.
Lucia was no longer the silly and naive Lucia she used to be, she wanted to be a scheming dragon.
Love is war, and you have to use your greatest advantage to gain more benefits!
However, just in the few seconds she hesitated.
Lucia saw the subtle changes in Xia Li’s expression.
His eyes were first confident and expectant, but the moment Lucia hesitated, his gentle eyes instantly dimmed, and then filled with disbelief.
As if he had been dealt a fatal blow and was dying.
Xia Li looked like he was about to die.
Lucia instantly compromised.
What love war, what benefit game…
It was not something her dragon could grasp at all.
As everyone knows, dragons are good at physical contests, and mental contests are simply asking for trouble.
“Okay, okay, I’ll go back with you!”
Lucia pulled Xia Li’s arm and coaxed him softly.
“I’m most willing to go back with you!”
“That’s more like it. ”
The password was correct, and Xia Li came back to life.
The two reconciled.
Xia Li and Lucia were originally rivals, and the personalities of the human and dragon were prone to clash.
But there would always be one party who chose to compromise at a critical moment.
That was enough.
Xia Li simply picked up the dragon, carrying the evil dragon on one shoulder and the large and small bags of luggage on the other, and walked towards the outskirts of Lachlan City.
“Let’s go, pack up a dragon wife and go home. ”
Xia Li chuckled.
Lucia hammered him with her small fist: “Are you Zhu Bajie?!”
“Oink, oink~”
Xia Li cooperated very well and made two pig calls.
Lucia corrected him.
“No, pigs call like this ‘Honk, honk~'”
“You imitate it so well!” Xia Li couldn’t help but praise, “Are you the legendary Dragon Pig?”
“What Dragon Pig, I am a pure-blooded giant dragon, without pig blood!”
As the evil dragon spoke, her tail wrapped around Xia Li’s thigh like a small snake.
She was refuting with her mouth, but her small face was already smiling as brightly as a sunflower.
It didn’t matter what the topic was, the dragon liked the flirting atmosphere.
“Heehee~”
“Dragon Pig, cook noodles for me when you get home, I’m hungry. ”
Xia Li carried the dragon out of the city gate and stopped at an open space.
Lucia’s eyes rolled, she was also hungry.
“Okay!”
“After we go back, there will be salt, sugar, natural gas, a big refrigerator… and of course, the greatest invention of mankind ━ the rice cooker!”
As soon as she said this, the evil dragon’s little chef talent was instantly activated.
Rubbing her hands, she couldn’t wait to conquer the brave hero’s stomach on Earth!
Watch her… cook noodles for the brave hero, and make him so full that he faints.
The two stood facing each other.
Activating summoning magic required a lot of magic power, and Lucia needed to guide this magic power.
Xia Li grabbed the translucent silver scale, and Lucia’s small hand covered his big hand.
After looking at each other, Lucia let go of her hand first.
“There’s one more thing to do. ” she said.
As she spoke, Lucia’s gaze looked behind Xia Li.
Xia Li knew what she was talking about.
Lucia’s gaze rested on the Demon Repelling Sword behind Xia Li.
They could take most of their things back.
Except for this sword.
If the Demon Repelling Sword didn’t stay in Azure Continent, Xia Li fifty years later wouldn’t be able to obtain the artifact.
Without the blessing of the artifact, the brave hero couldn’t become a brave hero, nor could he compete with the giant dragon.
More importantly.
Without the Demon Repelling Sword, Xia Li couldn’t trigger the magic to return to Earth with Lucia.
It could be said that if the Demon Repelling Sword didn’t stay in Azure Continent, there would be no story afterwards.
It had to stay.
“…”
Xia Li’s face showed helplessness, but more of it was reluctance.
When he told the young city lord the prophecy of the Sword in the Stone, he actually thought of this.
It was just that he had never faced it.
Now, he was leaving, and it was time to make a decision.
“… It’s like my old friend. ”
Xia Li drew out the Demon Repelling Sword and gently stroked his fingers along the blade.
If nothing unexpected happened, this might be the last time he drew his sword.
Say goodbye to the identity of the brave hero?
No…
The identity of the brave hero was never defined by a sword, or by anything else.
Xia Li would always be Lucia’s brave hero.
“Clang——”
He slowly sheathed the sword.
The azure long sword lay quietly in Xia Li’s palm, as if it had fallen into a deep sleep after Xia Li stopped calling it.
“I’ll leave the me fifty years later to you… My swordsmanship may not be good at first, but I’ve always been working hard to make myself stronger.
And archery, it’s really hard for a swordsman to learn archery. But I’m used to it. ”
Xia Li seemed to be saying goodbye to a comrade who had been with him for several years, and said reluctantly.
“And, please tell the me fifty years later to be gentler to his wife, and not to attack her as soon as they meet…”
Xia Li was reminiscing with some sadness.
Lucia was not idle either.
She thought of the first time she saw Xia Li.
Clasping her hands together silently, Lucia secretly turned around and prayed in her heart.
‘My younger self, when you see this brave hero with a blue sword, run, don’t look back!’
‘Of course, it’s not that you can’t beat him, but that you’re not in good shape… You know, you’re always out of shape. ‘
‘I’ve found a way to conquer the brave hero, you don’t have to worry, just leave this matter to your adult self!’
‘Amen! Amitabha! Inshallah!’
Lucia finished her prayer and looked up at Xia Li again.
Xia Li was ready, he walked quickly to a large stone by the road.
“Crack!”
Then, without hesitation, he inserted the Demon Repelling Sword into the stone.
The Sword in the Stone.
No one but Xia Li himself could pull it out.
As if understanding Xia Li’s intentions, a faint blue light flashed from the Demon Repelling Sword, like a farewell.
The Demon Repelling Sword fell into a deep sleep.
“Let’s go. ”
Xia Li didn’t look back.
He picked up the luggage on the ground and carried it on his back again.
It was heavy, full of supplies.
These supplies were the original purpose of Xia Li and Lucia’s return to Azure Continent.
A large bag of pure crystals that stored magic power, and two two-way teleportation scrolls.
Enough for Lucia to use for a long time.
It was also enough for her to solve her long-standing identity problem.
“Woohoo~ We can finally go back. ”
Lucia took the initiative to hold Xia Li’s big hand.
As she felt the scorching energy emanating from the silver scale on her chest, her thoughts wandered.
“Xia Li, do you want meat sauce in your noodles?”
“Of course, I’m very hungry now, hungry enough to eat a dragon. ”
“Okay, ”
Lucia automatically ignored Xia Li’s claim that he wanted to eat a dragon, and instead analyzed rationally.
“But our refrigerator is empty, we have nothing to eat at home…”
“Why don’t we go to the supermarket first and do a big shopping!”
“Okay, what do you want to buy?”
“Yogurt, potato chips, jelly, milk tea, ice cream… rice, Chinese cabbage, pork ribs, and oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar. ”
Lucia counted on her fingers, chanting like a magic spell.
A warm light bloomed from her chest.
The light became more and more intense, and soon enveloped the figures of the human and dragon.
The dazzling white light brought a momentary suffocation.
The feeling of dizziness disappeared, followed by a familiar smell.
“Ah…”
Lucia suddenly thought of something and let out a dragon’s scream.
“I forgot to buy local specialties!!”