Nivalis grabbed Lidian’s dragon horn tightly: "No, I’m not leaving!!!"
Rita flew over and placed the gift she brought for Lidian next to her dragon claws: "Just kidding, Lidian-senpai. Bringing back this dragon blood didn’t take much effort at all, please accept it, no need for any skills in return."
Lidian made no move, but the dragon blood immediately entered the red gemstone in her forehead. She spoke: "I don’t want to owe you any favors. Tell me, what skills do you want?"
Rita knew these dragons didn’t like formalities, so she replied directly: "I really don’t need any skills, but I would like to know some information about the World Battlefield. You can answer what you’re comfortable with, and stay silent on what you don’t want to share. Once we’re done with the questions, we’ll consider the dragon blood matter settled. How does that sound?"
Lidian, already fond of Rita after her generosity with the Golden Tree Withered Leaf to Nivalis, grew even more favorable after this straightforward approach. She vaguely understood why Snow Pile had given Rita the Sleeping Dragon Eggshel.
Lidian nodded: "Ask away."
Rita asked: "Do you know the mechanical race?"
Lidian: "Yes, most Divine Games feature them in some form."
Rita stared at Lidian and asked directly: "Has anyone ever brought them out of the Divine Game?"
Lidian, who had been lying down, suddenly lifted her head and turned toward Rita: "Did you bring them out?"
Rita’s suspicion grew clearer and stronger: "Did Pine Bloom bring them out too?"
Lidian knew that Nivalis and Rita’s contract was solid because she could sense the dragon blessing on Rita. Perhaps spending so much time with Nivalis had allowed Rita to easily read Lidian’s emotions just by looking at her dragon face.
Lidian looked sad.
Lidian sighed softly: "Ah, so you didn’t have to give up your original pet, huh?"
Nivalis screamed: "What?! So Pine Bloom dumped you?! Didn’t you tell Holy Cup that you dumped Pine Bloom?!!"
Lidian: "..."
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Rita, her high EQ advice blocked in her throat: "..."
Nivalis had already taken off, flying toward the dragon nest while shouting: "Holy Cup! Holy Cup! Oh my god, you won’t believe what I just heard!" Stay updated through Freewebnovel
Lidian politely asked Rita: "You wouldn’t mind if I killed her, would you?"
Rita dryly suggested: "...She’s still just a kid."
Rita never thought she would say those words in her life.
But soon, Nivalis flew back in a curved arc, coming back to where they were.
Rita sighed, a bit exasperated: "Why are you back?"
Nivalis sat obediently next to Rita: "Oh, I just want to hear the rest before I go. You guys keep talking like I’m not here."
Lidian: "..."
Rita quickly moved a few steps away and said to Lidian: "I don’t mind at all, really! No worries!"
Lidian decided to ignore Nivalis and turned to Rita: "The mechanical race you brought out, do they also require a contract with you to help you?"
Rita replied: "Yes, but I didn’t agree. Later, they fused my two accessory slots into a new pet space."
Lidian’s tense expression relaxed slightly, and she seemed to understand: "No wonder... So that’s what happened... The mechanical race just couldn’t do it, Pine Bloom couldn’t help it either."
Rita: "..."
Nivalis: "..."
Both Rita and Nivalis’ faces twisted at the same time.
Lidian’s expression froze, then she cleared her throat and added: "I meant to say... she had her reasons."
Rita had once seen Pine Bloom from afar in High Tower, and she was truly beautiful—perhaps the most beautiful woman Rita had ever seen.
Her beauty was striking, pure, almost otherworldly.
Mistblade’s aura and strength made any comments about her beauty feel disrespectful.
But Pine Bloom’s beauty could make one forget everything: forget the dangers, forget the need for humility when facing someone powerful.
When people first saw Pine Bloom, they just wanted to stare and take in her beauty for a few more seconds.
But really… this much beauty?!!!
Rita and Nivalis’ faces made Lidian feel embarrassed.
Lidian muttered: "Please don’t tell Holy Cup. Just tell me what you want to know. Anything I know, I’ll share with you."
Then Lidian seemed to realize that this was part of the deal for the dragon blood, so she added: "Besides that, I’ll give you some information about the mechanical race."
Rita’s interest was piqued: "What information?"
Lidian answered: "Don’t offend the Y-series mechanical race. Pine Bloom accidentally injured one called Y128 once, and it hunted her down for years. She was killed three times before it calmed down."
Rita: "...Y128?"
"Yes." Lidian still seemed resentful when talking about Y128. "To be fair, it wasn’t Pine Bloom’s fault. Y128 was just unlucky. The game was a skiing game, and we were in a rush to earn points. It just appeared out of nowhere!"
"Pine Bloom’s snowboard barely scratched its antenna, just a tiny mark. Yet it chased us for seven years. It was insane!"
"Hey? Why are you two so quiet?"
Nivalis was trying to recall: "That… I think… if I remember correctly… right?"
Rita: "Yeah... you’re right..."
Lidian: ?
Nivalis asked weakly: "When I was sorting through the treasure mine, I saw something that looked like an antenna... That wouldn’t have been..."
Rita: "Yep... it was..."
Lidian, not stupid, quickly pieced together the truth from their desperate expressions and cryptic conversations.
She gasped: "You didn’t actually rip off Y128’s antenna, did you?"
Rita didn’t want to speak anymore.
Lidian muttered, agreeing with one thing: "Y128 was really unlucky."
Rita didn’t want to dwell on this painful topic, so she asked: "Are there any things I need to watch out for when contracting with a mechanical race?"
Lidian answered seriously: "You need to be careful not to hurt your previous pet."
Rita: "..." Please stop!
She quietly asked Nivalis in her mind: "She didn’t act like this in front of Holy Cup, right?"
Nivalis: "No, she was actually harsher about Pine Bloom in front of Holy Cup, North Year, Snow Pile, Wind Shear, and Emperor Umbrella."
Rita was fed up. Didn’t she say she would fix Lidian’s attitude? Why was it still like this?
She took a deep breath and smiled, continuing: "Anything else?"
Lidian: "Anything else? I’m not sure. I left the day after she contracted that mechanical race."
"But... there is one thing you should pay attention to."
"It’s a place that values fun and fairness."
"So... after contracting with a mechanical race, your game difficulty will increase."
"You’ll often run into bad luck, and fortune will no longer favor you."