Free Web NovelIt wasn’t that she had slept for three days and three nights without waking.
In fact, Vieya woke up after just one night. The remaining time was spent communicating with the wife-egg—questioning why it could sometimes speak and sometimes not, asking what exactly the imprint on her body was, asking whether the ten seconds of invincibility would happen again next time...
In short, there were many, many things and questions.
Over those days and nights, she asked Flaviel about everything. Although each reply took Flaviel a full twelve hours to squeeze out, it wasn’t completely without gain.
Aside from that, the slime also noticed an abnormality in herself—her maximum magic capacity had inexplicably been reduced by half.
No need to think about it. This was definitely the dog Demon King’s doing.
‘Damn evil dragon. Reviving and you still have to take half my magic.’
‘But come to think of it, Flaviel is starting over from zero now. When she finally comes out, will she end up even smaller than Jasmine—a little larva? How annoying. If she’s too small, I can’t even make a move... sigh.’
‘Don’t tell me I have to raise my wife all over again? If my daughter sees me hugging and kissing a loli who’s even smaller than her, will she think I’m some perverted lolicon? What about the dignified image I’ve maintained all these years—am I just throwing it away...? Sigh, well, what’s done is done. I’ll just take it one step at a time.’
With that thought, Vieya immediately waved for the maid to come help her move around. After lying in bed for three days, even a soft slime couldn’t help but stiffen up.
Half an hour later.
With her vitality restored, the slime girl no longer needed the maid’s support and could move freely. She even did a set of morning exercises.
“By the way, Jasmine—why couldn’t I find you that day when I went looking? Where did you run off to?”
“I’m sorry for making you worry, Mom!” Jasmine said nervously. “Fish-sis took me to hide in the basement.”
“I see. Then it’s fine.”
Vieya rubbed her daughter’s head. After straightening her clothes, she followed Isabelle’s guidance to Dorothy’s sickroom.
Along the way, she saw devastated land everywhere. Even though the elves were a special race skilled at restoring nature, land that had been swept once by raging flames wasn’t something that could be repaired overnight.
Those invaders were truly despicable.
Vieya fell silent inwardly and knocked on the door to Dorothy’s room.
Knock knock knock!
“Who is it?”
“It’s me.”
“Uh... please come in. The door isn’t locked.”
Vieya pushed the door open. The once lively, energetic Phoenix now looked listless, like a soaked chicken.
Her gaze paused for a moment before shifting to the Elven Queen lying on the bed.
‘As expected, she collapsed... I sensed the lingering issues on her the first time we met. She’d been forcing herself all this time, and now everything finally broke down. I don’t even know whether my dog-horse Authority can have any healing effect on her.’
Vieya wasn’t very confident.
She had tried using her own Authority before to help regulate her daughter’s condition, but the result had °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° been nothing—no effect, no clues.
“Oh, you’re awake.” Phoenix scratched his messy hair awkwardly. “Sorry, I didn’t even bring you any fruit. Do you want some water? I’ll pour you some.”
“Mm, thanks. Can I take a look at her condition?” Vieya asked.
“...Sure.” Phoenix lowered his voice. “There are a lot of injured elves lately, and we don’t have enough healer elves. Besides, A-Le’s problems are all old ones.”
“Mm.”
Vieya nodded, sat by the bedside, and took Dorothy’s pale wrist that lay outside the blanket, beginning her examination.
Nearby, Jasmine and Phoenix both looked curious and couldn’t help exchanging glances, their looks clearly asking one another— frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
‘Your mom knows medicine too?’
‘You actually dare let your mom, a veterinarian, treat an elf?’
“Mm. Her old injuries and some hidden ailments aren’t actually the main problem, are they?” Vieya turned her head to Phoenix, paused, then continued. “The key issue is that she’s been cursed.”
“Mm.”
Phoenix nodded, handing the cup of water to the slime girl as he slowly explained,
“That curse was left back when we fought those two black dragons years ago. The elves have always been helpless against it. I’ve looked everywhere, but never found a way to resolve or dispel it.”
“This is something called the 【Dragonblood Curse】.”
Vieya withdrew her hand, tucking Dorothy’s wrist back under the covers, then looked at everyone.
“Ever since pure-blood dragons fell into the Abyss, their bloodlines naturally carry curses from the Abyss. Strictly speaking, this isn’t truly a curse, but a kind of mutated enhancement. That’s why it can’t be removed or purified.”
“A mutated enhancement?”
At that moment, Aislin’s voice came from the doorway. She first stared blankly at Vieya, then brought the conversation back on track. freewebnøvel.coɱ
“I was about to visit you next door, but the physician said you were already lively enough to be discharged. So I came here instead. Um... could you explain the 【Dragonblood Curse】 in more detail? I want to—at least—try to grasp a bit of hope.”
Vieya nodded. “The 【Dragonblood Curse】 was originally a blessing spell, similar to vampirism, that could grant dragon bloodlines to other beings. But after being tainted by the Abyss, that blessing spell turned into a curse. The principle is this: if monsters receive it, it remains a supreme blessing—but for any being outside the monster category, receiving it becomes an irreversible curse.”
“Then... what should I do?” Phoenix asked blankly.
“There is a way to save her.” Vieya put her hands on her hips proudly. “You just need to find a Demon King to bestow a blessing. The Demon King’s power will then cover the 【Dragonblood Curse】, and Dorothy will immediately regain her vitality.”
“Will that work?” Phoenix was both excited and uneasy.
Aislin didn’t hold much hope. “Where would we even find a Demon King willing to cooperate? Unless...”
As she thought, she turned her gaze toward the maid standing to the side, her tone shifting slightly. “There is a Demon King right here! I almost forgot...”
“It’s her, it’s her, that’s the one!”
“Sorry.”
Under everyone’s gaze, Isabelle lowered her head shyly. “Blessings like that are too difficult for me. How about I just cut off a bit of my tail meat and feed it to her?”
As she spoke, she looked carefully at Vieya. “Master?”
“Let’s try it—wait, no!” Vieya suddenly became alert and turned to Jasmine. “What soup did I drink when I woke up earlier?”
“Fish soup,” Jasmine answered immediately. “It was tasty.”
“Where did the fish meat come from?” Vieya asked.
“Fish-sis... uh.” Jasmine’s face changed as if she’d realized something. She suddenly dropped to the ground and retched violently.
“Eh—eh—eh?”
Isabelle panicked, trying to help Jasmine up while also wanting to explain to her master, her expression flustered.
“That meat was very clean... it’s good for the body... no side effects at all... did I do something wrong, Master?”
The maid replied timidly, her azure eyes filling with panic. She didn’t understand why her master disliked it—after all, the meat from her tail was something monsters, humans, and other races all coveted immensely.
“Don’t do that again next time.”
Vieya rubbed her forehead and sighed, lifting her tearful, retching daughter into her arms and comforting her. “Just think of it as eating a bit of Tang Monk meat. It’s fine.”
“Ugh, ugh...” Jasmine was still retching. It was also at this moment that she developed a terrifying psychological shadow toward the maid worth two hundred million gold coins—bringing back memories of the dark times of her early childhood in the Demon King Castle.
“Mom, I’ll never eat fish again!”
“Alright.”
Vieya held her daughter helplessly, then looked again at the oddly staring Aislin and explained,
“You know, I have other maids at home. I’ll have them come over later. Of course, if you want to try mermaid meat, I don’t mind either.”
“Mermaid meat?” Aislin waved her hands repeatedly. “No, no. I’m an elf—I don’t usually eat much meat. Um, and I really, really thank you!”
“It’s nothing.” Vieya squinted her big eyes into a smile. “We’re good friends.”
