Chapter 57

Chapter 57: I Want To Show It To Iris

[Host, if you repair the Holy Spear in front of Iris, I will really get angry.]

The System said this to Naya.

This morning, after receiving the dragon scales from Iris, she mentioned wanting to see how the Holy Spear is repaired.

Naya was so moved that she agreed immediately.

Then the System went crazy trying to dissuade her in her mind.

[What’s the big deal with showing her how the Holy Spear is repaired? Let her see, what clues could she possibly gather? I won’t tell her about your existence.]

But, Naya was particularly stubborn and insisted on showing Iris.

So, Naya and the System had been at odds ever since.

She sat alone in her room, holding the bag of dragon scales, listening to the System mock her for being love-struck and selfish, feeling aggrieved and unhappy.

[Host, could you please consider my feelings a little? If you confront Iris, how am I supposed to do my job? If the Lord God determines I can no longer guide you to complete tasks, He’ll fire me.]

[Really?]

[More real than you can imagine! Do you want me to disappear?]

[A little. It’s annoying how you’re always chirping in my head, urging me to kill Iris.]

[Host, think about it, have I ever succeeded? Haven’t you managed to resolve every situation successfully? If you just let me disappear, as a dragon, you’ll have to start from bronze rank and train slowly, waiting decades or even hundreds of years just to catch up to Iris’s shadow. But if I’m still by your side, you can exploit bugs to harness the Lord God’s energy, right?]

Naya focused ahead, her earlier sense of disappointment fading away.

[That makes sense.]

Phew…

This guy finally seemed a bit willing to listen to the System, it was driving me crazy.

If I really got fired by the Lord God, how would I ever get to sugar-coat things up close again… No! After all, when else would I have such a good opportunity to find someone so close to Iris?

Even if Naya couldn’t successfully kill Iris, she could still accumulate some experience in preparation for her next attempt.

[But, what does that have to do with me confronting her? I’m just showing Iris how the Holy Spear is repaired.】

[It has a huge connection! The energy from repairing the Holy Spear will be released in high concentration, allowing Iris to capture and analyze its components.]

[Uh… when the previous System saved me, the energy waves released seemed even stronger. If she could really capture and analyze, wouldn’t she have already done so?]

[……]

[……]

[That does make sense.]

Finally, I’ve successfully persuaded the System once.

[So, I still want to show Iris. I can’t betray her trust in me, and I can’t let down this bag of dragon scales.]

Naya lowered her head to look at the red dragon scales in her arms, picked up one piece, and gently smelled it.

“It’s Iris’s scent…”

Lick…

Ah!!! What am I doing!

As soon as her tongue touched the dragon scale, Naya’s face flushed red.

She put the dragon scale aside and rolled on the bed, holding the one she had kissed.

It was clearly embarrassing, yet she felt so happy.

Every day, she missed Iris like this.

Lying on the bed, Naya raised the dragon scale high, admiring it obsessively for a while before putting it down to cook.

After using the cookbook reward given by the System, the knowledge was directly transmitted to her consciousness.

It wasn’t the same as acquiring knowledge.

In simple terms, that book was indeed a book, just a virtual one, with hundreds of thousands of pages in the directory. If she wanted to flip through it, her hands would get sore, but with her consciousness, the book would open to whichever page she wanted.

Of course, this book also had a certain search function.

By entering keywords in her consciousness, it would push similar recipes, just like Baidu.

It was simply amazing!

With this book, Naya’s knife skills and control over ingredients improved significantly.

So the food she prepared tasted better.

Not because the book had any special seasonings, but simply because her cooking skills had improved.

The most important feature of the recipes was that the food she prepared had certain supportive abilities.

For the dragons, food was the source of their magical power.

Magic power is a form of energy.

Dragons eat more and pull less, most of the food is converted into magical power in their bodies and stored.

However, it’s not just about having more magical power, talent matters too. Just like a Mazda versus a Rolls-Royce, if the talent isn’t good, having more fuel won’t help.

Naya’s food had a higher efficiency in magical power conversion. After eating it, Iris and Illya could digest it and convert it into even more magical power.

Other supportive effects were temporary, like increasing attack or defense power—those descriptions were too abstract.

It should be described as enhanced strength or enhanced physical abilities.

After all, this isn’t a game, the enemies don’t have health bars displayed, making it hard to grasp the extent of power enhancement.

After making dinner, Naya found Illya already sitting in the dining room.

“Mama!”

The little girl jumped off her chair and ran excitedly to Naya, hugging her.

Today, Illya had spent the whole day playing outside with her friends, accompanied by Flanna, and she hadn’t even dirtied her clothes. It seemed that Naya’s teachings to Illya had paid off.

Naya gently stroked Illya’s head, smiling tenderly.

“Did you have fun?”

“Yeah! But next time, can we not bring Flanna along?”

“Why?”

Illya rubbed against Naya’s belly, a bit sullen as she spoke.

“None of my friends have a maid with them, and I do. Everyone thinks I’m weak and need a maid to protect me. I don’t want to be looked down upon.”

“But, Illya is very weak, you’ve never been in a battle. If anything unexpected happens, who will protect you?”

“I’m a Dragon King, really strong!”

“You’re not a Dragon King yet, you’re a princess.”

Illya released Naya, recalling her playful training sessions with Flanna. She mimicked punching her fists in the air.

“Flanna has taught me combat before, I can do it! I will roar like a hungry dragon, and any evil will be brought to justice! Awooo!”

Naya couldn’t help but chuckle.

“Alright, then next time, I won’t let Flanna accompany you.”

“Really? Yay!”

“Let Bella go with you.”

“Eh?”

The excited smile instantly vanished.

Actually, all three maids had similar combat abilities, it was just that Bella wasn’t as interesting as Flanna.

That’s why Naya had Flanna accompany Illya to play.

Naya squatted down in front of Illya, gently stroking her chubby little face.

“Uh… okay.”

Illya threw herself into Naya’s embrace.

Though a bit unwilling, she had to admit that she had never encountered real danger and couldn’t compare herself to Parnis and the others.

When Illya thought that she was the future Dragon King, but could not compare to others in anything, she still felt a little unwilling.