Chapter 44: was like a dream

Emily just sat there, sometimes looking outside, sometimes at Shu Yue lying on the ground.

She looked at Shu Yue more often than she looked outside—her attention was entirely on Shu Yue.

Shu Yue didn’t mind being stared at.

Although she didn’t particularly like it, she didn’t ask Emily to stop.

She wasn’t actually asleep; she had her eyes closed, continuing to repair the spiritual damage.

Spirituality takes time to recover, which was why she was staying here.

For the first half of the night, they said nothing.

It grew colder after midnight, but it was still a summer night.

In the cave, they weren’t exposed to the wind, and their physiques far exceeded ordinary people’s.

Shu Yue sat up from the ground, then turned to look at Emily.

Emily was also looking at her.

Their eyes met, and for a moment, neither said anything.

Finally, Shu Yue silently walked over to Emily and spoke to her.

“You rest.”

“I…”

Emily stood up, pursed her thin lips, hesitated for a moment, then mustered her courage and said,

“Um, can I hug you?”

“…”

Shu Yue didn’t want to get too close to Emily.

She also noticed that Emily’s gaze was a bit strange, but she didn’t know the specifics.

After all, she was just a half-baked girl; it was normal not to understand the subtleties of a pure girl’s heart.

After thinking for a while, she agreed.

A hug wasn’t a big deal.

If Emily dared to say she wanted to sleep while holding her, Shu Yue would knock her out so she’d sleep until dawn.

When Emily saw Shu Yue nod, she was overjoyed.

Her face lit up with a radiant smile.

She opened her arms and hugged Shu Yue, who appeared rather petite in front of her—the Silver Dragon Princess.

Shu Yue’s height only reached Emily’s shoulder.

Despite being fifteen, Emily was quite tall for a girl her age.

Shu Yue’s side was pressed directly against Emily’s chest, and her soft body was tightly wrapped in Emily’s arms.

Emily even rubbed her face against Shu Yue’s hair, but the dragon horns got in the way, so it wasn’t very comfortable.

Still, she got to enjoy the scent of Shu Yue’s hair to her heart’s content, even getting a little dizzy from it.

She had thought Shu Yue would refuse!

Shu Yue silently counted to ten. Emily still hadn’t let go.

Shu Yue exhaled lightly and said,

“Let go.”

“Mm…”

Emily reluctantly let go.

After escaping the embrace, Shu Yue walked near the cave entrance, found a spot, and sat down.

She turned her head and saw Emily still standing in place.

Shu Yue raised an eyebrow slightly.

“Is there something else?”

“Um…”

Emily scratched her head, her expression gradually turning serious.

“Sister Hecate, you know Healing Spell, right? If possible, don’t let anyone know you can use it—especially not the Holy Light Church.”

“…”

“This is very important. The Holy Light Church values Healing Spell highly. Sister Hecate, you are a heteromorph to humans. The Church will never allow a heteromorph to use Healing Spell.”

“I understand.”

Shu Yue understood what Emily meant.

Holy Light could be considered the magic system practiced by the Goddess Church, but the method of cultivation was different from ordinary spell arts.

Spell arts were a complete set of magic systems with built-in methods for circulating, storing, and invoking magic power, whereas Holy Light was determined by divine grace.

Divine blessing—you only possess it if the god grants it to you.

Comparing the two, spell arts were like a client-side self-running system—everything depended on one’s own skill.

Holy Light was like server-allocated computing power; to get more, you had to rely on the server owner’s mood.

She only knew one Healing Spell.

It was the most basic spell in Holy Light, but also the most commonly used.

Almost every ordinary person knew of its existence.

The Holy Light Church, also known as the Goddess Church, had a monopoly on Healing Spell.

Other magic systems had similar abilities, but none were as simple, effective, and low-threshold as Holy Light’s Healing Spell.

In short, Healing Spell was unique to them.

Of course, there were limitations—the number of uses per day; it couldn’t be used infinitely.

Shu Yue’s Healing Spell was innate.

From the moment she had crossed over, it was etched into her soul.

At first, she had treated it as a golden finger.

She studied it for a long time, prayed to the goddess for half a day, but it was all in vain.

Over time, she discovered it was just a Healing Spell.

Fortunately, this Healing Spell had helped her a great deal.

Without it, she might have died at the hands of Scabby-headed Master long ago.

Seeing that Shu Yue had taken her words to heart, Emily didn’t say anything more.

She thought there must be some reason Shu Yue knew Healing Spell.

It was strange enough for a dragon to appear in human territory.

Oh well, it wasn’t something she should be thinking about.

The Knight Princess lay down on the spot where Shu Yue had been lying.

Shu Yue hadn’t put away the cloth blanket spread on the ground.

The girl lay on it, but with Shu Yue watching, she didn’t dare do anything strange.

Shu Yue gave Emily a brief glance, then stopped paying attention to her.

Sensing the magic circuits inside her body, the total magic power circulating continuously was only at the mid-Tier 1 level.

There were still three small stages—late, peak, and completion—before reaching Tier 2.

The path of cultivation was long and arduous, not something to be achieved overnight.

“Sigh, if only I could add points.”

She was just daydreaming.

Her mind wandered with random thoughts, but her body sat upright with quite elegant posture, not losing out to Emily, a noble lady.

It seemed to be an instinct engraved in the Dragon Maiden’s body.

Shu Yue glanced at Emily, who was sneaking a peek at her, and said coldly,

“Rest well.”

“Oh.”

Emily turned around, her back to Shu Yue.

Her mind was active.

She wasn’t a complete fool who knew nothing; she understood what was about to happen, but she chose to accept it.

Shu Yue extinguished the Illumination Spell, and the entire cave became pitch black.

Emily turned her head toward the cave entrance.

She could still see the moon-silver hair glowing with magic power, and the golden eyes were especially conspicuous.

Seeing that Shu Yue hadn’t disappeared with the darkness, she breathed a sigh of relief.

She didn’t want to sleep—not at all.

She knew that once she fell asleep, she would never see Shu Yue again.

The next day, at noon, Emily woke up groggily and found that the back of her neck was a bit sore.

The girl rubbed her eyes and looked at the empty cave entrance.

Her heart felt empty too.

She hadn’t managed to stay awake; she lost due to lack of experience with staying up all night.

Emily’s expression went through several stages.

At first glance, there was confusion.

Then a feeling of emptiness in her heart.

Then, as she came back to her senses, a sense of disappointment and helplessness.

After a soft sigh, her expression settled into resigned acceptance of fate.

“It’s like I had a dream…”

She gave a bitter smile.

In a daze, something occurred to her.

Emily’s eyes quickly scanned the surroundings, finally locking onto a nearly transparent membrane lying on the ground, refracting daylight to emit a dreamlike rainbow of colors.

The girl’s eyes widened.

Her throat moved slightly as she swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

After hesitating for a while, she looked around to confirm that Shu Yue had indeed left, then slowly moved closer and carefully picked it up.

Her movements were very gentle, afraid of accidentally tearing it.

She found the membrane to be very tough; even with a bit of force, it wouldn’t tear.

That made her sigh in relief.

Looking at the object in her hand, Emily thought of yesterday.

Involuntarily, she lowered her head and brought her nose close to sniff it.

Then her face showed disappointment.

No smell…

Her pretty face flushed crimson within seconds.

She quickly turned her head away, hurriedly put it away, her ears completely red.

After doing all this, her hands were still trembling.

“W-what am I even doing?”

She even thought she might be a pervert for doing something like that, but she didn’t want to throw it away.

She wanted to take it back as a memento, to tell her future self that it wasn’t a dream.

…

Shu Yue wore a grayish-brown robe that covered her entire body, and she also wore a hood to try to conceal her figure.

She didn’t take the main road to the nearest Pioneer Camp; instead, she took a mountain path.

There were definitely people looking for Emily on the main road.

She hadn’t canceled the Bloodline Manifestation state; she kept her Dragon Maiden Transformation.

Not only because her physique was stronger and more suitable for travel in this form, but also because she wasn’t afraid of being discovered.

“A bit further ahead is the Pioneer Camp.”

Shu Yue stood on a tree and took a look.

She could already see some traces of human habitation.

After climbing down from the tree, she canceled the Bloodline Manifestation and returned to her human form.

As soon as she changed back, she noticed something was off.

She felt that her human form had somehow shrunk.

Her already long hair now covered her eyes.

It was almost shoulder-length!

After checking her physical condition and confirming nothing was wrong, Shu Yue felt reassured.

She probably knew the reason.

“It seems that the enhancement of the Silver Dragon bloodline inevitably affects the main body.”

In Scabby-headed Master’s research notes, there were records about bloodlines.

Shu Yue still remembered some content.

As a bloodline wielder develops their bloodline, the bloodline reversely affects them.

For example, a person with a fire-type bloodline might have a much higher body temperature than normal.

Shu Yue’s current situation was due to this.

She had absorbed the power of dragon blood, and the dragon blood had reversely affected her.

Even her personality changes had this factor—this was the price to pay.

“At this rate, the main body will turn into a black-haired beauty with long straight hair…”

She quipped.

After changing her dress into pants, Shu Yue set off and entered the Pioneer Camp.

As agreed with Anna, she came to a tavern and found an inconspicuous man in the shop.

“Where are Anna and the others?”

“…”

The man looked Shu Yue over and asked in surprise, “Are you a man or a woman?”

“That’s none of your business.”

Shu Yue frowned.

She didn’t see Anna here.

At first, she thought they might have found a place to rest, so she approached this man to see if there were any messages left.

The man looked more carefully and finally recognized Shu Yue.

“You wouldn’t be little brother Carl, would you?”

“Stop wasting words. Did Anna leave any message with you?”