A man among dragons, building a mysterious ancient church.

Chapter 256 No loopholes in the rules? I'll twist them for you to exploit.
With everyone carrying their own thoughts and speculations, the gathering came to an end.

After the meeting, Xu Lie approached Xia Mi, preparing to travel to Nibelungen to bring Fenrir out.

On the way to the subway station, the traffic was heavy. As the holiday came to an end, people who had returned home gradually came back, and the capital city became lively again.

Pedestrians streamed by, and Xia Mi walked among them, occasionally rubbing her ring with her fingertips, smiling happily.

Xu Lie thought that Fenrir was about to be free, which made Xia Mi happy and she smiled broadly.

Seeing that she was in a good mood, Xu Lie felt he could take the opportunity to discuss faking the story about her father's incubator: "Xia Mi, can you help me out?"

"Okay, don't worry about anything, just leave it to me." Xia Mi seemed very confident. She was Jormungandr, the Dragon King, and there was nothing that could stump her, except for mathematics.

"Then tell me, how do you fake your father Nidhogg's hatchery?"

"My dad? The Black King's hatchery? Easy! I know the Dragon King's cocooning and resurrection technique better than anyone. Let me tell you, the Dragon King's eggs want to hatch... What did you say?!"

On the main road, Xia Mi suddenly screamed, attracting the attention of all the passersby around her. People buying groceries, shopping, waiting for someone, everyone turned to look in her direction.

The intense onlookers made Xia Mi blush deeply.

"Pfft!" Xu Lie's shoulder twitched. He now understood why Xia Mi had been able to maintain her humanity so well.

Every now and then, society collapses like this, making it impossible for humanity not to be full of energy.

After awkwardly giving a sheepish laugh to those around her, Xia Mi hurriedly moved closer to Xu Lie, almost touching him.

Their faces were close together, and Xu Lie could even feel the warmth of her breath and the refreshing scent of citrus wafted over him. Then, Xia Mi gently stretched out two fingers and pinched Xu Lie's arm.

This time, she didn't forget to lower her voice: "It's all your fault, you made me look so foolish!"

Seeing the handsome young man and beautiful young woman playfully cuddling together, the passersby who had originally wanted to watch the couple argue turned away in disgust, muttering under their breath about how unlucky it was, and left without watching any longer.

Xu Lie finally experienced the Dragon King's arrogance: "It's because you shouted too loudly, what does it have to do with me?"

As for the arm that was hit by the two-finger punch? Xia Mi must have deliberately held back, as she could barely feel any pain.

Xia Mi knew she was in the wrong, but she just wouldn't admit it. She pinched her for a while and said, "Anyway, it's all your fault. If you hadn't said anything, if you hadn't said such a strange thing, why would I have called out?"

"So, why did you—" The words were on the tip of her tongue when Xia Mi finally snapped out of it and lowered her voice to the lowest possible level: "Why did you forge the Black King's incubator?"

"Be serious, I'm not joking with you!" Seeing that Xu Lie was still laughing, Xia Mi really wanted to raise her hand and pinch Xu Lie's mouth with two fingers.

Xu Lie couldn't be serious at all, so he could only pretend to be serious and say that the Old Church did this in order to create fluctuations in the River of Destiny in order to find the real Black King's Hatchery.

Xia Mi completely fooled her. She didn't understand, but she believed it immediately: "You guys are that amazing?"

"Oh, the old days, I'm getting more and more curious about this power. When will I get the potion recipe you promised me?"

The mention of extraordinary abilities made Xia Mi's heart itch. In the power system of the dragon race, among the first eight monarchs, she was neither a dragon body, nor a speech spirit, nor alchemy.

Xia Mi was pitifully ranked at the bottom among her brothers and sisters, but she thought that if she could master the extraordinary power left over from the past, she might be able to overtake them and completely surpass them.

So she looked at Xu Lie with great anticipation, and even threw him a flirtatious wink in a very affected manner.

Xu Lie was getting goosebumps. The quirky Xia Mi was acting all lewd, without even feeling embarrassed: "What do you think of the Death God path that's more suitable for you?"

"If you add Fenrir, it becomes the complete Hela, the Goddess of Death, which is a better fit."

"Death God!" Xia Mi grinned, revealing her fangs. The name itself sounded incredibly powerful. "What kind of extraordinary ability does it possess?"

Xu Lie thought for a moment: "In the low-sequence stage, they will possess some corpse traits, such as aversion to sunlight, but in the high-sequence stage..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" Xia Mi didn't even wait to hear the intensity of the high sequence before grabbing Xu Lie's poor arm and pinching it again: "A cute and beautiful girl like me won't accept this kind of potion."

To strongly express her resistance, Xia Mi withdrew her hand and crossed it in front of the airport, making an 'X' shape.

Having some characteristics of a corpse, how ugly would that be in Xu Lie's eyes? Xia Mi shook her head in resistance at the thought, refusing to accept it no matter what.

"Let me finish," Xu Lie told Xia Mi, adding that these issues could be resolved once they reached a higher level. But Xia Mi was still very reluctant, shaking her head frantically in refusal. What was the point of turning back later? She wanted to be forever eighteen, forever young and beautiful; she didn't want to temporarily become a corpse.

Xu Lie carefully examined Xia Mi's otherworldly beauty, which resembled that of a fairy: "According to your requirements, there is indeed a way to increase your charm."

"However, for subsequent promotions, you'll be required to spread plague, disaster, and despair. Are you interested?"

"..." Xia Mi opened her mouth, originally wanting to say that it didn't matter, that ordinary people were no different from ants to her.

Who would care if ants spread plagues or disasters?
However, Xia Mi was not stupid. She was very 'smart' and quickly recalled the doctrines of the old church. Apart from the core of following the old days, it was to deal with the dragon crisis and prevent human society from being destroyed.

The rest of the doctrines are all about guiding people to do good. Judging from these doctrines, the old church should at least be an order-oriented faction, right?

If that's the case, would the old church tolerate someone who spreads disease and disaster at will?
Moreover, Xia Mi blinked and looked at Xu Lie. She always felt that if she chose this path and spread the plague in the future, killing tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, it would seriously affect Xu Lie's perception of her.

Xia Mi didn't want that: "Anything else? Give me more information~ For example, how did you get it?"

"So picky," Xu Lie thought to himself, ignoring Xia Mi's attempts to be cute. He then led Xia Mi around a corner as they approached the subway station. "I am a thief's route."

"His basic ability is to exploit bugs and steal all sorts of things."

"Oh~ then can I also become a thief?" Xia Mi was no longer concerned about her pretty girl image at this moment, and even thought about a male and female thief duo! Wandering the world!
Besides, her original plan was to advance to the main campus of Kassel through the preparatory class, and then, with the help of Kassel, find her other brothers and sisters, see if Kassel could deal with the other dragon kings, and take the opportunity to steal the Dragon Bone Cross.

He felt no guilt whatsoever about stealing.

"It's possible, but I don't really recommend it." Xu Lie's eyes suddenly turned strange. Xia Mi wanted to leave as a thief?
You also want to be recommended to the King of Angels?
Xu Lie ultimately shook his head in denial, as he did not want people to know that thieves also possessed the ability to defraud and conceal their activities.

Miss Xia Mi didn't have many options: "Let's not talk about thieves. Are you interested in farming or biology?"

“You happen to be the king of the earth and the mountains, and our church has a motherly path that involves the fields of harvest and biological hybridization.”

"Uh (⊙﹏⊙)" Xia Mi pursed her lips awkwardly. Asking this lazy, good-for-nothing dragon king to farm? Or do research?

Please, spare her.

This time, Xia Mi didn't pinch him. Instead, she gently placed her small hand on Xu Lie's arm and shook it: "Is there more? Is there more? I really won't be picky this time."

"..." He's really hard to please. Xu Lie simply blurted out the remaining choices all at once: "In that case, are you interested in the sun, storms, darkness, order, or distorted order?"

"The sun is about faith and purification; the storm needs no explanation, you can understand it, it matches the Word of Power you use to hide your identity, the Eye of the Wind King; the darkness is about secrets, misfortune, and dreams."

"There are two opposing paths: one is to be good at making rules and using the order you set to restrict and attack your enemies; the other is to use loopholes in the rules or distort the order to attack your opponents."

Xia Mi also understood the principle of "third time's the charm," and this was already the fourth time. If she continued to be picky, the promised magic potion might just fly away.

But this was a crucial matter, and she had to ask beforehand: "Among these potions, are there any that would affect one's appearance?"

"No." Xu Lie hadn't noticed before that Xia Mi cared so much about her face.

Hehe, Xia Mi started thinking with peace of mind, the first three things were basically not within her consideration.

Xia Mi stole a glance at Xu Lie. Xu Lie had just said that he was a thief who exploited bugs and loopholes, so Xia Mi really wanted to choose order or distort the order.

Whether it's creating a flawed order for Xu Liezan, or twisting flawless rules to create flaws for Xu Liezan, it all sounds like a perfect match!
But who should we choose?
Xia Mi had a vague feeling that she was inclined to distort the order; she was not a person who liked to follow rules!
Besides, Xia Mi glanced at Xu Lie; thieves do bad things, so naturally she should follow them.

"Xu Lie, Xu Lie~" Xia Mi's voice became even sweeter, almost cloying: "I choose the last one, Distorted Order."

Xu Lie turned his head in surprise, looking at Xia Mi with her eyes sparkling. He was quite surprised. As expected of the daughter of Nidhogg, the Black King, she actually chose the path of the Black Emperor.

You also want to be the Black Emperor?

"I'll concoct a potion for you once Fenrir's matter is settled."

"Yay!" Xia Mi skipped and hopped down the stairs to the subway station, happily jumping all the way to the bottom. She turned around and gave Xu Lie a bright smile, as radiant as a summer flower: "We made a promise!"

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