The bard fantasized again.

Chapter 193 Arcane Power Plate Armor (3k1w)

Tang Qi felt a distortion before his eyes.

Everything seemed to be sucked into a vortex, twisted into a point of light, and then covered his pupils.

When the light spot disappeared from his eyes, the convulsions in his stomach made him want to vomit up the acid.

The damp, cold white mist entered his nostrils, and the cool air rushed to his brain in an instant, waking him from his drowsiness as if he had smelled mint.

Suddenly, darkness fell before my eyes, and the towering fir trees, the deep purple ferns, and the morning gloom flowers shimmering beneath the scattered tree roots looked strangely familiar...

"We were teleported to the Dawn Forest?"

Tang Qi quickly looked around and breathed a sigh of relief when he realized that Stella was still by his side.

"Fortunately, they teleported us to a relatively familiar place."

"We can only teleport here."

Stella pointed to the teleportation array beneath Tang Qi's feet, where a faint halo of light was visible.
"This is a permanent teleportation array. It requires five ring spell slots to be inscribed once a day for a year to complete."

"It was you—it was you who brought us here!"

Shyvana seemed to have been provoked and suddenly roared.

Her body was burned to a charred brown, but the orc's naturally strong physique allowed her to immediately raise her giant axe and try to place it on Stella's head.

Houk's double axes were still in Tang Qi's hands, but that didn't stop him from charging forward like a mindless bull.

"【Sleep Technique】."

Stella conjured a magic wand out of thin air and plucked a petal from the sky.

As it drifted, the petals shattered into dust, scattering over the heads of the two orcs, forcing their eyes to roll back and them to fall asleep uncontrollably.

Very peaceful.

She turned to look at Tang Qi:
"I'm very tired. Is there anything else you want to ask? Please ask now."

Tang Qi could only seize the limited time to say:

"So I've now left Dragongold City with Iu—your princess. What else do you want me to do next?"

“Until she wakes up, all I need to do is ensure her safety. Now that you're out of Leon's sight, I have no reason for you to continue doing anything.”

"Before waking up?"

Tang Qi tugged at his hood, letting Iu climb wearily onto his shoulder. With its bright yet bewildered amber eyes, Iu looked more like an animal than anything else.

When will she wake up?

"Memory recovery takes time and requires the brain to be able to hold past knowledge—at least until adulthood."

"But she's a dragon now. It will take her at least a hundred years to reach adulthood..."

"That's why she needs to grow up as quickly as possible."

"You mean swallowing a magical item?"

"To be precise, it's all substances that contain magic, and that will accelerate her development."

"Is this a characteristic of dragons?"

No. She is special.

Stella spoke, then, as if remembering something, handed a small bag to Tang Qi.

"This is a small dimensional bag filled with many crystal coins. These crystals have far more energy than ordinary substances and are very filling, so they can be used as her daily food. Enough to feed her until she reaches adulthood."

If you have any unused magical items, you can feed them to her as snacks; they can act as a catalyst.

"So, all I need to do is keep feeding her?"

"With you, she can grow up in a relatively safe environment, and you can also gain a significant boost. Isn't that a win-win situation?"

Since swallowing most of the spoils from the dragon's treasury last time, Iu has indeed completely mastered the ability to breathe fire.

Although it would be exhausted after only three uses in its fledgling form, its power was foreseeable.

Not to mention what happens after it grows up.

"And what should I do after her memories return?" Tang Qi asked.

"Isn't that a matter between you two? If you had the power, you could have let her follow you until she dies—although I don't think anyone could do that."

Stella showed little interest in this.

Her goal seems to be simply to ensure Xiaolong's safety.

"Then I'd like to know more about the Golden Kingdom. For example, its past glory, why it fell from the sky, and what exactly happened in between..."

And your princess, does she hope to establish a new country in Dragongold City, or does she have some other purpose? What is her reason for researching that snail-shell ship...?

Tang Qi couldn't imagine what kind of reward he would receive if he were to actually weave the whole truth into reality.

Stella quickly interrupted his reverie:
"I cannot answer questions that I myself do not have answers to."

"Can't you see the past through your dreams?"

"But in reality, I've only lived for thirty years. I'm not the original Stella, but just a dreamer who's tracing back to past memories."

Stella shook her head, then cast Sleep spell on the two newly awakened orcs again.
"You can ask her yourself after she wakes up."

Thirty years is much younger than I imagined.

Tang Qi glanced at the other woman's voluptuous and shapely figure, then scratched his nose:

"Okay, then I need some sponsorship—consider it payment for all the effort I put into bringing Xiaolong out here."

"You said."

"Ten magical items, one hundred bottles of restoration glue, and it would be best if you could also reimburse me for the gold coins I spent escaping DragonGold City..." Seeing that Stella remained silent, Tang Qi subconsciously looked up and met her gaze.

He had never seen this emotion in Stella's eyes before—

His tired eyelids narrowed into slits, and his silence was tinged with a hint of disbelief.

It's as if they're saying, "How dare this guy make these demands?"

Is that too much?

Tang Qi doesn't think so.

He pointed to Chenxi lying on the other side of the carriage, his newly acquired plate armor split in two, the cut surface smooth and covered with scorch marks.

"I lost a large sum of royalties and a key asset. Do you know how much security her presence brought to our team?"

I'm not doing this for my own benefit. Think about it carefully: if we can't guarantee the integrity of Dawn, how can we guarantee the princess's safety?

He then took out the hilt of the 'Snake Kiss' sword—a perfectly good curved blade, which looked almost identical to the broken sword of dawn:
"And this knife of mine, do you know that this knife is Black Serpent's relic? Do you know how heartbroken I was when Leon shattered it with a single blow? Do you know how much it means to me, to Catherine, and to Shattered Stone?"

"Don't fucking drag me into this..." the gravel lying on the ground gasped for breath.

Stella sighed.

She really rarely shows her emotions in front of outsiders:

"So what do you mean?"

"You have to pay more."

Tang Qi's gaze was firm.

“You’re asking for too much; I can’t give you everything. But you’re right about one thing: she is indeed your greatest guarantee.”

Stella walked towards the dawn and removed the armor that had been split in two from her body.
"You go and repair her body, I'll repair this armor."

"I don't have much restoration glue on hand."

Tang Qi took out the restoration glue he had borrowed from Merard and applied it to the cut, which was still warm from the morning light, piecing her back together, but still trying to bargain.

“I have two more bottles.” Stella tossed the healing gel over.

"Two bottles are enough for whoever needs them?"

You may not need to use it in the future.

"What do you mean?"

Once Chenxi was able to move freely, Tang Qi turned to look at the [Flame Resistance Plate Armor] that Stella had pieced together—not only were the cracks gone, but even the dust that had accumulated along the way had been swept away completely.

Stella raised her plate armor and placed the helmet at the neck joint. Tang Qi clearly saw a conspicuous light flashing inexplicably on the helmet.

It sounded like a "ding-a-ling" in my ear.

"I infused this plate armor with the magic of [Arcane Power], so it should be very difficult to damage in the future."

Stella explained,

"Even if it gets damaged due to an accident, I'll be aware that you're in danger. If I'm not asleep, I should be able to come and rescue you as soon as possible."

Tang Qi then remembered that the other party seemed to also be a [Magician], capable of imbuing an item with magic within a limited quota, turning it into a magical item.

"But this promise doesn't sound very reliable."

"So be it."

Ignoring Tang Qi, she seemed to be truly falling asleep, disappearing from the spot before her eyelids completely closed—

It's hard to say whether it was an invisibility spell or some kind of teleportation spell.

But the other party was clearly unwilling to continue entangled with Tang Qi.

He had no choice but to take out the logbook from his dimensional bag and check the changes to the plate armor—

【Aoyuan Power Plate Armor (Extremely Rare):】
The armor is enhanced with the 'Stella Starlight' infusion technique, increasing its hardness.

Wearing this plate armor grants you fire resistance and increases your walking speed.

You can detach both gauntlets and send them flying toward the target, then immediately return them to your body and reconnect them. The maximum range is 30 meters.

This armor cannot be removed unless you choose to remove it.

If you have missing limbs, the armor can replace all your missing limbs—hands, arms, feet, legs, or similar components—allowing you to use them as flexibly as your own body.

In Tang Qi's view, most of the abilities granted by this plate armor were merely supplementary.

the most important is:

"It seems that Chenxi's biggest problem has been solved?"

At least the plate armor's defensive capabilities are reliable.

Unless you encounter an opponent of Leon's caliber, who can split the entire plate armor in two.

Otherwise, in most cases, she would not have to worry about the inconvenience caused by losing her hand or foot.

"But this doesn't seem to change the fact that she's an undead being. That is to say, when unleashing 'Supreme Slash,' her physical body is still at risk of damage. It just won't affect her combat ability anymore..."

Can I wait until her body is completely unable to hold on and is about to turn into pieces before using the healing glue I have to repair her?

This has already reduced a lot of unnecessary consumption.

"The remaining three bottles of restorative glue should last a long time."

Thinking this, Tang Qi turned to look at the two orcs who had woken up from their drowsiness.

(End of this chapter)