Volume 6 Chapter 15

Volume 6 + Chapter 15: The Easy-To-Read Xia Yi

“Daughter, are you planning to challenge me?” Xia Lulu inquired.

She was already long past being surprised. In a certain sense, this was just part of daily life in the Dragon Palace.

“Correct, Xia Lulu. This will be my last challenge to you!” Xia Yi replied with certainty.

“Last?”

Xia Lulu was slightly puzzled by Xia Yi’s declaration.

“What do you mean by ‘last’? Does that mean you intend to give up challenging me from now on?”

“No, quite the opposite, Xia Lulu. It means I won’t need to challenge you anymore after this.”

Xia Yi proclaimed.

“Because this time, I will completely surpass you, defeat you, and seize victory!”

“You’re that confident?”

“Of course!” Xia Yi answered firmly. “I have already calculated how this battle will turn out. My chance of victory is… one thousand percent!”

“Can a win rate even reach one thousand percent?” Xia Lulu was amused by her daughter.

“It means I have ten times the confidence to beat you, Xia Lulu,” Xia Yi declared outright. “There’s no way I can lose.”

“I very much appreciate this confidence. If you gave up on challenging me just because of past defeats, I would find that terribly dull.”

Xia Lulu put down her pen and stood up.

“Very well, my daughter. I accept your challenge. I’ve just about finished my work anyway, so consider this a bit of entertainment. Let’s go fight now.”

“Wait!” Xia Yi called out to Xia Lulu.

“What is it, daughter?”

“Xia Lulu, this is no ordinary challenge. This is a world-shaking battle of extraordinary significance. Today’s victory or defeat will surely be recorded in the annals of the continent. A duel this momentous demands a result of equally substantial weight.”

“So, what kind of result do you think would be fitting for such a world-shaking battle?” Xia Lulu played along with her daughter’s lead.

“The loser must accept an extremely terrifying punishment! Xia Lulu, if you lose, then you have to…”

As she said this, Xia Yi secretly glanced at the calendar on the wall.

On it, a certain day was drawing closer and closer.

She hoped that on that day, Xia Lulu would…

But she was too embarrassed to spell it out.

“Anyway, it’s a truly horrifying punishment. Prepare yourself, Xia Lulu!!”

“Oh, I wonder what it could be? How exciting.”

Xia Lulu smiled faintly. Seeing Xia Yi sneak a look at the calendar, she already understood.

Her daughter was just so easy to read.

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…

As always, mother and daughter made their way to an uninhabited suburb in the northern capital.

Fighting here would not draw anyone’s attention.

If there were spectators around, they would have to worry about magic accidentally harming the crowd, which would be quite troublesome and would prevent them from using large-scale attack spells.

Xia Lulu was not a warrior but a mage. She barely warmed up, simply standing opposite Xia Yi.

Unlike before, Xia Yi was doing stretching exercises. This time, she meant business.

“I must defeat Xia Lulu. Then I can make her, on that day…”

“Xia Yi.”

“Huh?” Xia Yi glanced at the heart demon Xia Yi, who was watching from the sidelines.

“Are you challenging Xia Lulu to prove your Sword Saint soul?” the heart demon asked.

“…Of course I am.”

“Not for some other reason?”

“How could it possibly be for some other reason? Ahaha, Heart Demon, don’t overthink it. That thing, there’s absolutely nothing like that!” Xia Yi laughed stiffly.

Her evasive tone and guilty expression made the heart demon Xia Yi increasingly suspicious that Xia Yi had an ulterior motive.

“Xia Yi, what punishment are you trying to make Xia Lulu accept…”

“Aah!! Here we go. Heart Demon, stop talking. If you disturb my battle focus and make me lose because I got distracted, the blame is entirely yours!”

Xia Yi quickly found an excuse and effectively shut the heart demon’s mouth.

The heart demon Xia Yi had no choice but to stand by and watch.

“Daughter, are you ready? Standing here like this for so long, I’m starting to get confused,” Xia Lulu asked.

“All right, don’t rush. I’ll let you taste the flavor of defeat right now!”

Xia Yi summoned her Rose Staff, gripped it in her hand, and stepped forward.

Since it was already the beginning of winter, snowflakes were falling from the sky, blanketing the ground.

“Such beautiful bold words before battle,” Xia Lulu spread her arms. “All right, Xia Yi. As the challenger, you make the first move.”

“Fireball!”

Xia Yi raised her Rose Staff and aimed it at the Silver Dragon Queen.

When in doubt, start with a fireball.

She chanted in Dragon-tongue, pouring magical power into the Rose Staff. The roses on the staff bloomed, and a fire element gathered at its tip, forming a blazing fireball.

This time, she did not shorten her incantation. The incantation’s power had reached a level not to be underestimated.

The intense heat of the flames even melted the snow beneath her, leaving her standing in a veil of mist.

After completing the Dragon-tongue incantation, she launched the enormous fireball. It struck Xia Lulu at tremendous speed, erupting into towering flames on the ground.

Of course, Xia Lulu could not be defeated so easily. At the moment the fireball exploded, she used an Ice Magic Shield to defend herself.

“Hmm?”

Xia Lulu noticed something wrong.

Although the Ice Magic Shield blocked the Fireball, the magical attack had caused cracks to appear in the shield. It was already on the verge of breaking.

“The power of this spell… seems off, “

“Realizing it now is too late!”

Using the fiery wind kicked up by the fireball’s explosion as cover, Xia Yi had already charged in front of Xia Lulu. She raised her Rose Staff high, ready to launch her follow-up attack.

Sleep Magic!

She poured her draconic power into the staff and swung it toward the Ice Magic Shield.

As a Sword Saint, Xia Yi could treat anything she considered a sword as a sword.

Sword energy burst from the Rose Staff and drove into the cracks in the Ice Magic Shield, shattering it and forcing Xia Lulu back several steps.

If Xia Lulu were not a Dragon King-level existence with astonishing health and defensive power, she might have been cut down on the spot.

Whether it was because Xia Lulu had underestimated her opponent or because Xia Yi had prepared thoroughly… The result was that in this exchange, Xia Yi had gained the upper hand.

This had never happened before.

“…” Xia Lulu blinked, looking somewhat surprised.

“Hmph, Xia Lulu. I told you, this will be the final battle between us. It’s time to put an end to our conflict!”

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