Chapter 25: Chapter 18 Magic Crystal Candy Beans
Listening to Ig’s words, Verafia’s eyes suddenly lit up, as if remembering something, and she quickly nodded her clean little face.
“That’s right! Ig, I forgot all about it until you mentioned it!”
Then, under the slightly exasperated gaze of the young man, Verafia took out the mithril box, which was carved with upper-level demon-sealing inscriptions using magic silver script to prevent energy leakage.
Upon opening it, a finger-sized magic crystal appeared in Ig’s eyes: it was as crystal-clear as glass, with a slender, blood-gold pattern engraved within, resembling a blazing illusory flame; the powerful aura that flowed from within its blood made one involuntarily pay homage.
However, in the girl’s fair fingers, it was merely like a small flame being played with by her.
Even so, the faint aura subtly emanating from the magic crystal made Ig involuntarily step back.
The young man felt no shame about this, after all, this was the crystal of a Starlight Rank Demonic Beast, whose rank was incomprehensibly far higher than his own bronze-grade uselessness. If Verafia weren’t here, even a wisp of the heat emanating from it would have likely burned him to death.
He was not like the girl before him, who was the Blazing Flame Phoenix, a descendant of the legendary “Phoenix,” the Sun God Bird born from fire, the immortal bird.
However, Ig was still a little curious about how Verafia would handle this magic crystal.
Even compared to the Dragon Clan, few people had ever seen this legendary little phoenix before him. Who knew what their customs and cultivation methods were like?
If he could create a book similar to “The Life Record of the Legendary Immortal Phoenix, the Blazing Flame Phoenix” based on this Young Lady, perhaps he wouldn’t have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of his life!
Thinking of this, Ig’s eyes gleamed with light.
“Young Lady, what are you planning to do with it…”
Ig’s voice froze in mid-air, and he suddenly widened his eyes, his expression blank.
The exquisitely cute Verafia, like a doll, casually bit down on this top-tier magic crystal, which contained an immeasurable amount of terrifying flame power.
“Crack.”
The magic crystal shell, far sturdier than the finest mithril steel, seemed like ordinary candy under the girl’s pearly teeth. In just a few bites, she swallowed it.
The destructive power within the magic crystal, which only needed the simplest activation to blow up an entire street, didn’t even have time to be released, only causing the girl’s porcelain-white snowy cheeks to blush slightly.
Ig stared at Verafia blankly.
Once upon a time, he had imagined all sorts of ways the girl might refine it, even considering methods like melting and devouring it with “phoenix heavenly fire” that only appeared in legends…
But he had never expected Verafia to simply and directly crush it with her teeth and swallow it!
Young Lady, this was the origin life crystal of a Starlight Rank Demonic Beast, not some candy! Not to mention humans, even God-level dragons, who were naturally powerful in physique and possessed inherent authority, had never heard of such a simple and crude method!
Seeing the girl’s delicately sweet face reveal a hint of satisfaction, Ig instinctively asked, “Young Lady, was the magic crystal tasty?”
“Eh, you’re asking that… it tasted pretty good!”
Verafia nodded her head, and her little face suddenly creased slightly. However, the girl’s delicate face still smiled at the young man who had spent so much.
“Although there are still a bit too many impurities, it’s to be expected since it’s a magic beast’s crystal core! If there were a hundred more, this young lady should be able to recover some strength!”
Ig was utterly speechless, and then a sense of fear arose in his heart.
He could tell that the girl before him was not lying; her aura had barely changed at all.
Gods above… is this the legendary phoenix?
“Young Lady, what you ate was a magic crystal worth a thousand fortunes, not candy, and it didn’t even make a sound. And you need a hundred more… even the Royal family’s treasury wouldn’t be enough to eat like this!”
For a moment, Ig felt immense dread about his promise to the girl to collect enough treasures for Verafia to help her recover her strength.
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The sound of water seemingly passed through the girl’s delicate and soft skin, falling onto the floor.
Ig sat alone by the windowsill. The stars in the deep black sky were all hidden by the moonlight.
Earlier, Verafia, who had been looking around curiously, seemed to be getting a bit sleepy. So, she insisted on taking a good bath, making the young man run to the boss at the counter again to beg for several large buckets of hot water—and incidentally spent the few copper coins he had left.
Well, after all, for this cheapest lodging, having a bed was good enough. As for bathing facilities powered by magic crystals, they were naturally out of the question.
However, regarding Miss Verafia, the “Blazing Flame Phoenix,” actually liking to bathe with water elemental energy, which was the opposite of her attribute, just like human girls, if it were usual times, Ig would definitely be very interested and record it in his “Phoenix Observation Diary.” But now, his eyes were vacant, and the blankness in his gaze had not yet faded.
Compared to eating a Starlight Rank magic crystal in one bite and showing no change, bathing with water was completely weak!
Gods, the Holy Lord of Dawn… is this the power of a phoenix?
Obviously, the young man was still deeply shocked by what he had just witnessed and found it hard to let go.
Just then, the tightly closed wooden door of the bathroom suddenly opened a crack, and a misty vapor overflowed.
A slender, fair, jade-like arm, adorned with dew, waved, and Verafia poked out her wet little head and called out.
“Ig! Quickly help me get the towel!”
Ig thought, ‘This Young Lady really has a big heart. Are we already that familiar with each other?’
Of course, Ig would only think such thoughts in his heart and would definitely not dare to show them in front of this Young Lady.
Although this little phoenix was a bit naive and ignorant, what if she realized something was wrong after listening to him, became embarrassed, and stretched out her little hand to pinch him to death?
While complaining in his mind, Ig handed the towel to the girl from the side. Not long after, with a rustling sound, it fell onto the floor.
The wooden door of the bathroom slammed open, and in the swirling mist, the delicate girl, wrapped in a loose bathrobe, darted out, shaking her soft golden hair, which was not yet completely dry from the water droplets.
“Finally done! But it seems to be very late… Ig, it’s time for bed!”
Verafia tilted her little face again, revealing the beautiful colors in her eyes, and couldn’t forget to add.
“Of course, I’ll be sleeping in the bed!”
The young man shook his head and smiled. He thought to himself, ‘Where would I dare to compete with you! Even if you offered it, I wouldn’t dare.’
Verafia smiled at him, and without waiting for Ig to reply, she threw her delicate body into the covers, covered her little head, leaving only a section of her delicate, jade-like, fair little legs dangling outside.
After a while, the girl suddenly poked her alert little face out of the covers again.
“Right, when I sleep tonight, you’re not allowed to come near me! Otherwise…”
Verafia showed a super fierce expression.
“Young Lady, don’t worry!”
Ig nodded his head quickly in agreement. However, in his heart, he dismissed the girl’s words.
‘Although this Young Lady is incredibly beautiful, among all the people I’ve met, only Shiel… well, Shiel can’t even compare to you. But do I look like some perverted loli-bird-lover!?’
‘Moreover, as a direct descendant of the Landislofen family, I, Ig, would rather freeze to death and die outside, and never be liked by any girl in my life, than get close to you… Well, mainly I’m afraid this little phoenix will burn me to ashes with a single flame.’
