novelraw Chapter 94
Chapter 94
Chapter 94: The Dragon Doesn’t Want to Fall in Love? She Must!
Xia Li’s serialized “Record of Experiences from Azure Continent” received a considerable amount of traffic from the platform after it exceeded 50,000 words.
Now the number of readers has exceeded 10,000, with nearly 1,000 likes, and the comment section is even more diverse.
While most of the comments are still positive, there are bound to be one or two stubborn critics.
Some netizens with peculiar perspectives just like to pick fights or make awkward remarks.
Xia Li had said that he wanted to create a story that was both real and complete.
It was inevitable that he would receive both praise and criticism. After all, everyone has their own preferences. Having both good and bad reviews is what makes it truly authentic.
Xia Li chose to ignore them. He wouldn’t read those negative comments to Lucia.
The dragon’s skin was thinner than that of ordinary people, and Xia Li didn’t want her to see those negative messages.
“Lucia is so cute~” “Hahaha, little dragon, my little dragon.”
“By the way, will the little dragon in this world fall in love? I want to raise a daughter, I don’t want to see Lu Bao fall in love, Wuuwuu.”
Xia Li selected a few comments that sounded pleasant and read them to Lucia word for word.
When he read the ‘Wuuwuu’ at the end, he looked down to see Lucia’s expression.
Lucia’s face was beaming with joy, her pursed lips secretly curving into a smile.
“Hehe…”
“See? Humans really like you, right?”
“Yes!”
Lucia was sitting on Xia Li’s lap, her short legs dangling in the air.
“Xia Li, say ‘Wuuwuu’ again,” she said, somewhat unsatisfied.
“Wuuwuu.”
“Hehe…”
Silly dragon.
Xia Li also felt a secret sense of satisfaction.
He shifted Lucia closer in his arms and casually asked,
“How should I reply to the last comment?”
“The last one?”
Lucia leaned over to take a look.
After studying Chinese characters for a while, Lucia could recognize them as long as they weren’t too complex.
Xia Li was referring to the comment, “By the way, will the little dragon in this world fall in love? I want to raise a daughter, I don’t want to see Lu Bao fall in love.”
So it was about love.
Lucia thought carefully for a moment.
“Dragon courtship is different from what you humans understand… It’s just a way for us to be with the opposite sex after we grow up and mature, for the purpose of reproduction.”
“You mean…”
Xia Li had been waiting for this question. Lucia’s words made him blurt out,
“Your love is for the purpose of reproduction.”
“Yes.”
“That’s the same for humans!”
“Huh??”
Xia Li felt the need to speak up for human love.
“All of our love is also for the purpose of reproduction, except for platonic love.”
“Platonic?”
“Ahem… Platonic means love only in spirit, not physically.”
“Is Xia Li like that?”
“Of course not,” Xia Li said with a serious expression.
Lucia didn’t understand what platonic love was, and the topic returned to the previous question.
“You can reply to that person and say that I won’t fall in love,” Lucia said seriously.
This time, it was Xia Li’s turn to be unhappy.
“Why not?”
“Because as I just said, love is something that dragons only pursue after they become adults and have the desire to reproduce… I’ve just developed into an adult dragon, but the story you’re writing is about my childhood, so there’s no such thing as love.”
“So that’s what it means.” Xia Li breathed a sigh of relief.
Of course, the Lucia in the book couldn’t fall in love.
Unless he, the brave hero, appeared…
Only then could Xia Li possibly add a bit of his own personal touch.
Pulling Lucia’s slender waist closer, Xia Li placed his hands on the keyboard and started typing.
The first volume of “Record of Experiences from Azure Continent,” the young dragon’s adventure story, had ended.
The second volume’s Lucia was no longer a child, but rather… in adolescence? Between a young dragon and an adult dragon?
Adolescent dragons, like human teenagers, had unstable personalities and were the most restless age.
Their age was roughly between 30 and 100 years old.
Dragons in this stage were also the most feared age on Azure Continent.
Lucia earned the title of “Silver Dragon Queen” during that time.
His fingers tapped rapidly on the keyboard. The small room, already filled with furniture, felt even smaller with both of them squeezed inside.
Xia Li was nestled close to Lucia, feeling warm and comfortable in this late autumn day.
The adolescent Lucia, like most dragons, loved to soar in the sky and often went on adventurous journeys.
During this time, dragons developed rapidly and had inexhaustible energy.
Seizing human territory and burning down human villages were basically things that dragons of this age group would do.
Young Lucia, the Silver Dragon, crossed mountains and seas, and found a hill near the border of the plains and mountains to build a new lair.
Xia Li asked her why she chose this place.
Lucia’s answer was, “Because the soil is fertile.”
Fertile soil meant that grass would grow quickly, and with more grass, there would be more herbivores.
Fertile land raised fat sheep. This was knowledge passed down through the dragon race.
That was Lucia’s most prosperous time. Occasionally, she would go out for a stroll, roll around in the forest, and roar from the top of the mountain. There was endless food and water, and all sorts of small animals to keep her entertained.
Of course, dragons weren’t the only race that had their eyes on fertile soil.
Savage and tall beasts, evil demons corrupted by magic… These races came from all directions. Lucia was never afraid, eliminating as many as came her way.
Anything that stepped into the Silver Dragon’s territory, besides food, was an enemy.
Her impenetrable scales and perfect dragon body helped Lucia withstand most damage. Even those demons who controlled treacherous magic could only flee in disgrace under Lucia’s powerful attacks.
Until the humans appeared.
Turmoil erupted in the human world once again.
Dragons never cared about which empire had annexed which kingdom, or which country had risen from the ashes.
Dragons only knew that humans with enchanted weapons were their greatest threat.
Migrating human groups settled in Lucia’s territory.
She thought they would only stay for a while and then leave, but they leveled the land and built houses on the spot.
Once the houses were built, the land beneath their feet would become their “home.”
Lucia was unwilling to accept this.
The Lucia at this time was not the Lucia of the past.
No longer a bullied young dragon, Lucia spread her vast dragon wings and burned down the foundations that humans had built.
The unfinished houses were razed to the ground by her tail, but those humans were like mushrooms in the forest. As soon as one side was extinguished, another popped up.
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Later, humans discovered that the dragon they were fighting against was not an ordinary dragon.
It was a pureblood giant dragon without a single mixed scale.
The existence of the pureblood Silver Dragon was reported upward, village by village.
From the village to the town, then to the city-state, and finally to the king’s ears.
Dragons were not uncommon on Azure Continent, but purebloods were indeed rare.
Not to mention, pureblood Silver Dragons were a relatively docile species among dragons.
Their medicinal value, their dragon blood, scales, claws, and dragon horns, which were comparable to top-tier magic materials…
This was no longer a dragon that plagued human villages, but a walking treasure!
Under the king’s orders, human expedition teams came one after another.
Warriors marching at night with torches, magicians using fire magic to burn down trees and grasslands…
The existence of the Silver Dragon was even more precious to humans than the land itself.
Flocks of sheep were engulfed in flames, insects huddled in tree trunks were reduced to ashes along with their habitat, adult birds took flight amidst the human assault, while their chicks could never escape the forest.
Lucia, the Silver Dragon, stood atop the mountain, overlooking this scene.
The dragon was enraged.
“And then I just, *bam,* slapped them,”
Lucia stood in front of the computer desk, clenching her small fists and waving them twice.
Xia Li automatically pictured the dragon landing with a thud, sweeping her tail, using her massive forelimbs to overturn humans, breathing white smoke, and spewing flames.
The silvery-white dragon scales reflected the divine brilliance of fire in the night, those countless silver scales like countless sharp blades in the darkness, both captivating and dangerous.
It must have been very cool.
“That fire burned for many days,” Lucia said. “I ate so much the next day that I was stuffed.”
“Huh…??”
Xia Li was writing the story based on Lucia’s experiences, but her words made him stop writing.
“What do you mean ‘stuffed’? You don’t eat people, do you?”
“I ate sheep!”
Lucia put her hands on her hips and said huffily, “The whole flock was burned to death, I ate more than ten in one go.”
Xia Li: “…”
She ate two big bowls of sheep with tears in her eyes?
“And then?”
Xia Li tapped the backspace key twice, his hands hovering over the keyboard, waiting for Lucia to continue.
“Did you win?” Xia Li asked again.
“I won,” Lucia paused. “But not completely.”
As she spoke, she grabbed Xia Li’s water glass and took a gulp, clearing her throat before continuing.
“The human expedition teams were more numerous than ants on the ground. I realized that even if I defeated them, they would immediately send new teams… This couldn’t go on forever, I would eventually be worn down.”
Recalling the past, Lucia’s face became more serious.
“And then, I fled.”
“No matter how strong I was, as long as humans kept hunting me, I couldn’t settle down… Moving wasn’t a solution. They had already set their sights on me, they would follow my trail and come to my new territory.”
“And my new territory… would be destroyed in their attacks.”
“The animals, the plants, even the demons there… Greedy humans were like locusts, leaving nothing behind wherever they went.”
Xia Li stopped typing and turned his chair to look at Lucia quietly.
In Lucia’s calm amber eyes, Xia Li seemed to see her past anger.
Her soft lips parted slightly, as if she was smiling, but this smile showed Xia Li another side of the dragon race — aloofness.
Her sharp little canine teeth were exposed as Lucia sneered and said,
“After realizing this, I directly attacked the human kingdom…”
That day, the blazing sun in the sky was obscured.
No one expected that the huge shadow circling in the air would actually descend upon the royal city.
Walls, arrows, magic cannons… These things were like toys, bouncing harmlessly off the Silver Dragon’s body. The Silver Dragon roared as she landed, took off, and landed again.
And these descents every ten minutes were the human kingdom’s true nightmare…
The dragon grabbed magical beasts from the depths of the forest and dropped them from the sky as if they were dumplings.
The beasts, thrown into the human city, were dazed from the fall. The first thing they did upon waking was to wreak havoc on everything around them.
Thus, the news spread that a pureblood Silver Dragon, leading hundreds of beasts, had successfully destroyed the human royal city.
And Lucia earned the title of “Silver Dragon Queen.”
“That kingdom was newly established and had a weak foundation. With that little fighting power… They still wanted to subjugate me? Without the protection of the Adventurer’s Guild, they were nothing.”
Lucia held the water glass in her small hands and gulped down the water like a water buffalo.
Xia Li’s glass had been used by her again and again, leaving a ring of lip prints and water stains.
“And they didn’t even know that the royal city they built was actually very close to the beast’s lair… It only took me ten minutes to fly back and forth.
Even if I hadn’t intervened that time, when the next beast tide came, unless there was a Brave Hero present, they would still be wiped out.”
Silently, he took the kettle and refilled Lucia’s glass with hot water.
Xia Li was calculating in his mind, ten minutes of flight for a Silver Dragon… That wasn’t actually a short distance.
The main reason for the human kingdom’s defeat was Lucia’s surprise attack.
A kingdom with only a couple of hundred years of history had a weak foundation. With limited time, it was difficult to assemble a force to resist the Silver Dragon and the horde of beasts.
“You… You’re quite smart,” Xia Li said with admiration.
Listening to the Silver Dragon’s story from a human perspective, Xia Li had mixed feelings.
However, that was the reality of Azure Continent.
With limited resources, there would be competition and struggle between races. Endless wars had left the land riddled with scars.
There was no such conflict on Earth because humans were the dominant species here.
Otherwise, if we traced the ecological environment back to the dinosaur era, humans and dinosaurs might have fought even more fiercely.
“That kingdom was a bit poor, but there were a lot of gold coins in the treasury. Lying on them, the *clinking* sound was very pleasant.”
Lucia rolled around on Xia Li’s large bed, her hands raised, her feet kicking.
Rolling from the head of the bed to the foot, her sweater shifted, revealing a patch of her white belly.
Dragon belly…
He wanted to touch it.
Dragon bellies didn’t have scales, only a soft shell covering them.
Although it was also impenetrable, it was definitely the softest part of a dragon’s body.
“Xia Li, hehehe… Xia Li, sneak attack, sneak attack!!!”
Xia Li walked over and pulled her sweater down, covering her belly.
“Where did I sneak attack you?” Xia Li said innocently.
He refrained from reaching out to touch her belly, afraid of scaring the dragon.
He should have touched it.
What a loss.
Lucia’s small feet in white socks clamped onto Xia Li’s arm like scissors. She lay on the bed staring at the ceiling for a while, then rolled over halfway and lied beside Xia Li, looking at him with her bright eyes.
“Tell me your story too.”
“I want to hear the Brave Hero’s story.”