novelraw Chapter 274
Chapter 274
Chapter 274: The Brave Hero Is Burned Out
Experiments have proven that:
Healing magic is not as practical as imagined.
Strictly speaking, this type of magic overdraws the vitality of the body’s own cells to achieve the effect of stimulating physical limits and healing wounds.
Therefore, most healing is still on a physical level and has no real effect on mental fatigue and disease infection.
In Azure Continent, alchemical potions are used to treat internal diseases. Their principles are similar to traditional Chinese medicine on Earth, both of which are made from animal shells, plant roots, stems, and fruits. However, due to the addition of magic power, the medicinal effects are more significant.
In short, with sufficient magic power, the physical limit of a human Brave Hero is three times.
Early the next morning.
Xia Li woke up and saw an evil dragon staring at him by the bed.
The girl rested her chin on her hands, her moisturized skin was white with a hint of pink, and the smile on her face was as radiant as a blooming sunflower. Hehe~
OwO
“Do you want to eat oysters?”
She asked, blinking her eyes.
Lucia’s eyes changed, becoming more straightforward.
Lucia used to have reservations about Xia Li.
Because of the insurmountable gap in lifespan between humans and dragons, Lucia was very afraid when facing Xia Li.
Later, after the lifespan issue was resolved, this fear gradually disappeared, and she no longer flinched because of it.
Therefore, after truly feeling Xia Li’s love for her yesterday, she unhesitatingly gave herself to him.
Now, facing Xia Li again.
Lucia no longer felt any distance, only overflowing love and sweet affection.
Even if the world were to end, her eyes could only hold Xia Li.
“Huh? What did you say about eating?”
Xia Li was puzzled for a moment and sat up from the bed.
The two looked at each other with love in their eyes, which was the result of their three heart-to-heart exchanges last night.
His gaze swept over Lucia’s snow-white dress.
Xia Li thought, what does she mean by eating oysters?
Even if we were to eat something this morning, it should be fresh and delicate abalone.
“It’s for nourishment, oysters,” Lucia explained.
“Oysters by the sea are cheap and good for men’s health!”
After she said this, Xia Li realized he had been thinking the wrong way.
Looking into those still pure and clear eyes, Xia Li reflected on himself for half a second, then shook his head.
“What am I eating that for… Am I that weak? Who was it that cried and begged for mercy last night, saying they couldn’t go on?”
“…”
Lucia was silent for a moment, her face suddenly flushing red.
“Forget it if you don’t want to eat, really…”
The evil dragon went to the bathroom to change clothes with a guilty conscience.
Yesterday’s underwear was already messy. Lucia took off the white lace and changed into a set of slightly see-through black gauze underwear.
Let’s see if she doesn’t make Xia Li faint.
However, when she walked out of the bathroom, Lucia honestly put on her clothes properly.
It wasn’t that she was afraid of the Brave Hero’s holy sword’s punishment.
It was mainly because her legs were a little sore and she wasn’t in good shape.
“Let’s go out… Don’t lie down anymore.”
In the bedroom, Xia Li was still lying in bed like a master.
He rested his head on his arm, one foot dangling off the bed and touching the floor. He looked up at the ceiling, with a posture of enjoying the world’s beauty and savoring the aftertaste.
Lucia walked over, pulled his arm, and acted coquettishly.
Xia Li finally came back to his senses.
“What do you want to eat?”
In the end, his drive to act took over. He quickly got out of bed, changed his clothes, and tidied himself up.
This bed…
He’ll probably have to pay the landlord a cleaning fee.
Fortunately, it didn’t collapse, otherwise it would be another huge sum of money.
Today was the day to go to the immigration office to get the results.
One person and one dragon went out to eat oysters at noon.
Grilled oysters, steamed oysters, baked oysters, oyster fried rice…
Xia Li felt like he was full of oil, and the dragon kept feeding him.
It seemed like she was feeding Xia Li, but in reality, the one who was full in the end was Lucia herself.
This deal was a bargain.
Xia Li was almost stuffed to death before Lucia finally let him go.
Arriving at the government center hall.
The two came to the familiar immigration window.
As Xia Li estimated, the result they received was ‘approved’.
“Welcome to join us…”
The staff member in charge of handling the relevant procedures warmly sent blessings to Lucia.
Lucia didn’t understand much of their local language, but after learning about the local religious beliefs, she used a versatile phrase she learned online.
“God Bless You!”
Coming out with the receipt certificate.
Lucia held up this thick A4 paper and looked at it in the sunlight.
Looking at the neat English instructions and her own unique number on it, Lucia felt an indescribable joy in her heart.
“Finally!”
“I’m an Earthling!”
“Yay!!”
The evil dragon jumped up and down on the spot, while Xia Li directly picked her up and spun her around.
“Congratulations, Miss Lucia.”
“Congratulations to you too, Mr. Xia Li!”
Xia Li smiled and couldn’t help but press her down and kiss her twice.
The girl’s cherry lips were sweet and refreshing, as if he was eating some kind of sticky and refreshing fruit.
A hundred kisses were not enough, the more he kissed, the more addictive it became.
Especially when that little face was kissed red by Xia Li, shyly wanting to escape, it was even more alluring, making Xia Li unable to stop.
“Congratulations to me, I can get a dragon wife when I go back.”
“…We can’t get the certificate yet,” Lucia said shyly, blushing, “It will take some time before I can be your wife.”
There was still a long way to go for an international marriage.
Lucia had to obtain a formal resident ID card before applying for a passport from this country. Then, whether it was for tourism or applying for a work permit, she had to enter China with these reasons, and then apply for an international marriage at the local consulate.
Only then would the marriage certificate be legally and formally issued.
But these things were not a problem for Xia Li.
As long as Lucia’s ID card was in hand, getting the marriage certificate was only a matter of time.
He still had more than five thousand years to live, so he could definitely wait for this short half year.
“It’s just a matter of time,” Xia Li said.
Lucia’s cheeks flushed slightly, she lowered her head and pulled Xia Li along, neither nodding nor shaking her head.
No denial, so he took it as her tacit agreement.
“Wife, I’ve changed the flight ticket. We’ll fly back tonight and arrive early the day after tomorrow.”
“Mmm…”
“Wife, what do you want to eat? I’ll take you to eat.”
“I, I just ate, I’m not hungry yet…”
“Wife, is there anything you want to buy? Let’s go to the store one last time.”
“No… I’ve bought everything I want.”
Xia Li felt that the title ‘wife’ was very satisfying to say.
It never failed.
Since it wasn’t completely legal and compliant yet, every time he called her that, it was a bonus.
If he could get a response, that would be even better.
Bending down, Xia Li looked at Lucia’s slightly flushed face and asked persistently.
“I call you ‘wife’, what should you call me?”
“I don’t know…”
Lucia turned her head away.
“If, I mean if. At this time, if a beautiful little dragon girl calls me ‘husband’, I will definitely feel very happy and blessed.” Xia Li said with full of expectation.
“…”
Lucia looked at the cars coming and going on the road, muttering softly to herself.
“Huh? What did you say?”
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“I said you wish!”
“I wish I could,” Xia Li said with a smile, “Last night I even dreamed of a little dragon girl lying on the bed with her tail curled up, whimpering.”
“…”
Lucia frowned.
This was typical Xia Li.
He just talked too much nonsense.
He used to know how to restrain himself, but now he wished he could step on the gas pedal and drive the car to the sky.
What little dragon girl with a curled tail, she didn’t understand.
“So embarrassing… On the street.”
Lucia’s face flushed red from Xia Li’s words, and she hurriedly pulled him away from the bustling area.
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Back at the hotel apartment, the two began to pack their things.
Xia Li brought very few things this time, but Lucia had a lot of things with her.
Girls are always more delicate, from towels to change of clothes to sheep plushies, after packing, they could fill a burlap sack.
There were also a lot of local specialties she bought, and those fragile seashells needed enough foam to be packed.
When everything was packed, Xia Li had two burlap sacks and a backpack in his hands.
Because Xia Li came here on a tourist visa, he had to return through proper channels before the visa expired, otherwise it would be considered illegal stay and he would bear criminal responsibility.
And Lucia didn’t have a passport yet, so she couldn’t board the plane back home and had to stay here for two more days.
Xia Li decided to go to the next floor to talk to the landlord.
The travel agency originally booked him a room for ten days, but Xia Li had only stayed for four days so far, and he wanted to give the remaining two days to Lucia to stay alone.
After all the calculations, there were four days left that he hadn’t stayed in the room normally.
After communicating with the translator for a while, the straightforward landlord decided to refund them two days’ room rate.
The remaining room rate was used to offset the bed sheet cleaning fee.
When they left, the landlady gave Xia Li and Lucia a meaningful smile.
It wasn’t like she hadn’t encountered this kind of playful young couple before.
“Niubility.”
The landlady gave Xia Li a thumbs up, full of admiration.
“What did she say…”
Lucia couldn’t understand, so she asked Xia Li in a small voice when they returned to the room.
“She said I’m very capable.” Xia Li replied.
Lucia didn’t realize what the fat landlord was praising Xia Li for until Xia Li turned to her and said, ‘You are also very capable’. Only then did Lucia belatedly understand the meaning of Xia Li’s words.
She reached out and pinched Xia Li hard on the waist.
Xia Li gasped.
“Hiss, that’s refreshing!”
To ensure the hungry dragon’s food supply for these two days.
Xia Li bought enough dry food and water and left it in the room.
Lucia was a socially anxious dragon. She usually didn’t go out, and without Xia Li, she wouldn’t go out in this foreign country.
“There’s a seafood fried rice restaurant downstairs. If you get tired of dry food, go down and eat fried rice.”
“It’s okay, I’ll definitely have enough to eat!”
“Don’t run around.”
“Mmm, I’ll wait for you here.”
“Also, don’t go swimming in the sea. Although there are fewer surveillance cameras here, there are many people wandering around. You are a citizen now, so you need to be more restrained.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll be restrained!”
Lucia patted her bulging chest and assured him.
If Xia Li continued to nag, Lucia would call him Mother Xia.
After the instructions were finished, Xia Li put on his backpack.
The remaining two burlap sacks were too heavy. Carrying them on his body would probably exceed the weight limit, and checking them in would be very troublesome.
So Xia Li simply asked Lucia to take them and teleport them over together when the teleportation circle opened.
“We only have one pair of two-way teleportation scrolls left. We’ll need to get some more before we come back to get your ID card.”
It was getting late. Xia Li came out of the hotel apartment and waited for a car by the roadside.
The travel agency provided pick-up and drop-off service, and the driver who was supposed to pick him up would arrive in a while.
Lucia also accompanied Xia Li downstairs to wait for the car.
The sea breeze at night was a bit chilly. Lucia had learned her lesson from catching a cold last time, so she deliberately wore a long-sleeved jacket tonight.
Otherwise, it wouldn’t be good for the little dragon to catch a cold.
Although she didn’t have one yet, Lucia was very much looking forward to this kind of thing.
Taking out the small hand that was tucked into her pocket, Lucia rubbed her hands, then took off the necklace from her neck.
This fingernail-sized translucent dragon scale was the artifact they brought back.
Because its control effect was too powerful, Xia Li gave it to Lucia for safekeeping.
“We can go back to Azure Continent to get more magic scrolls later. We’ll go back when we need them… Here’s this for you.”
Lucia handed over the silver scale.
Xia Li looked at her suspiciously.
Was the evil dragon already starting to play tricks?
Giving the ‘controller’ to him…
His body couldn’t help but react.
Now, as long as Xia Li saw Lucia, his mind was filled with nothing but dirty thoughts.
“You can use it to summon me directly next time, but you can’t carry luggage with this kind of summoning, so let’s go back with the scroll this time.” Lucia said.
Lucia had thought about whether to use her ancestral magic to open a teleportation circle to Qingcheng City on the spot.
But this kind of magic was cumbersome and complicated. Even dragons with a high affinity for magic needed to chant for a long time, and the consumption was too high. The light effect it brought was even more astonishing, easily seen by others, so Lucia also rejected this idea.
“Okay…”
Xia Li hung the dragon scale around his neck, and only one question came to his mind.
“Can I summon you when I take a shower in the future?”
“What are you thinking about!”
Lucia tapped Xia Li.
Her little face, which had finally cooled down, flushed red again.
Why was Xia Li’s mind full of lewd thoughts?
He was even more of a lewd dragon than she, a silver dragon, was.
“…If you need it,”
After tapping Xia Li, Lucia held her small fists and said shyly.
“If you need it, I’m always at your service.”
“Beep beep~”
As soon as she finished speaking, two crisp car horns came from the street corner not far away.
Honking was forbidden on this street. The driver honked twice and then stuck his head out to ask Xia Li, who was dressed as a tourist, if he wanted to take a car.
Xia Li responded and quickly put on his backpack.
“I’m leaving now. I’ll contact you as soon as I land.”
“Mmm, okay.”
Lucia stood there obediently, nodding, her eyes full of reluctance.
When Xia Li’s upper body was already in the car, Lucia pinched the corner of her clothes and still wanted to remind him.
“Be careful on the road.”
“Mmm!”
“Wear more clothes, it’s cooler in China than here.”
“Okay!”
“You can’t secretly do crafts…”
“Huh?”
The car started.
Xia Li heard Lucia’s last sentence faintly drifting over.
What crafts could he do on the plane!
He stuck his head out, but the car had already driven away.
This dragon, did she have to watch her boyfriend so closely?
He hadn’t even fed his own hungry dragon, how could he have the energy to do other things?