Lucian sat on the bed, smiling at Wade who was turning around. He seemed not to notice the other's increasingly ugly expression, and deliberately continued: "Remember, the roots of the red heart grass should be bought fresh from the ground, so the effect will be better... Eh? How did you break the door handle? This will cost you money."
Wade looked gloomily at the side of the bed. There sat the gray-haired Lucian. His hair was waist-length, his head tilted slightly, and his white fingers were moist and pink. At this moment, he was staring at him, with a smile of success on his raised lips, which he himself might not have realized.
Somehow, Vader found that smile annoying.
He wanted to see him unable to laugh, or even cry.
Just like the look he showed when he grabbed Lucian's neck while he was growing his tail in the abandoned church and brought him back, the escaped Lucian whose soul had returned but he pretended to be ignorant and toyed with him for a month.
Her cheeks were flushed, her eyes were filled with uncontrollable tears, she was in a rare disadvantage, and she was trembling and wanted to escape but couldn't.
Also, when it was fused with the remaining small part of the Fallen Angel's heart, he glimpsed some unclear fragments of memory that were clearly obtained from Lucian by the Fallen Angel when he tried to pollute Lucian, but they were filled with unspeakable weirdness.
He looked at the beautiful woman with a charming smile and suddenly wanted to tear her apart.
Wade didn't do that after all.
"Stay in your room and wait for me to come back. After all, you probably don't want to see yourself become someone else's 80,000 gold coins." Wade said.
"Then this door handle..."
Lucian will never learn to quit while he is ahead.
"I will remember to compensate the boss for it."
"Oh, are you sure you can go out like this?" Lucian asked again, "You don't look like a demon now - of course, maybe your wanted value is much higher than mine. I heard that there was such a thing between you and the Lord of Jealousy..."
Vader reached out his hand and touched his forehead. When he took his hand away, the face of Vader, who belonged to the human race, had changed. His scarlet eyes were disguised as purple, and his facial features became deeper and tougher than before, making him look more like a demon. What surprised Lucian was that he actually had demon horns growing on his head.
“Is this some kind of spell that changes one’s appearance?” Lucian exclaimed, “It’s so fast.”
"When you take back the blood of God that was stolen by a certain race, you also gain all the power of that race. For example, you use their abilities and become their race. Of course, you will also have their weaknesses. Just like when I was burned by the Holy Light Stone in the confessional."
"Oh... then what is the weakness of the demons?" Lucian asked.
Wade sneered, and it was obvious that he knew Lucian's intention. Lucian immediately said, "This time I am wrongly accused..."
"Stay home and don't run around." After saying this, Wade took the remaining handle and left the room.
"Don't forget to bring back the herbs!"
Wade's expression suddenly became extremely gloomy, and finally he gave Lucian a fake smile and closed the door.
Now that Vader has woken up, Lucian has lost his will to fight. Anyway, in the original novel, no matter where Vader was persecuted and exiled, he had the extraordinary luck of being the male protagonist. Anyway, he saved him, so now he is enjoying his free time in bed peacefully.
At dinner time, he even went to the bar on the first floor to order a drink. Thinking of Wade's ugly face when he left the room, Lucian's kindness lasted until the evening.
Until Vader comes back.
When Wade came back, he had a token on him. Lucian saw that it was the mark of a registered hunter of the Demon Mercenary Association. God knows how Wade got this thing so quickly. The male protagonist always has his own way.
However, what made Lucian's brows jump was that in addition to the token, Wade also brought back a package.
"What's this?" He came closer to take a look. "Money?"
Vidra opened the package and said leisurely:
"All the herbs you need."
Lucian: …
This is not right. Wade actually brought him the materials to make the aphrodisiac potion.
According to his expectations, Wade should sneer and say it's boring, and then completely forget about it.
And the materials involved were not easy to find, but Wade was able to gather them all in one afternoon.
Lucian: ... As expected of the hero, he is so efficient even in finding the raw materials for the potency potion.
Vader kept staring at his expression, trying to find the embarrassment of jumping into the pit he dug for himself from that always smiling face. As expected, he saw Lucian's silence and continued to observe the gray-haired succubus's expression with interest.
Until he heard Lucian's voice.
“You actually found them all in one day…” Lucian’s voice was a little dry, which made him very happy, “So… fast?”
"This is real." Wade emphasized the word "real" with a sense of evil humor.
Lucian: "It takes a lot of effort just to identify this kind of medicine. Do you usually pay attention to this kind of magic potion and its ingredients for some reason?"
Vader: …
Even a fool could understand what Lucian was hinting at.
Wade's face darkened again. Lucian covered his mouth and blinked, pretending to be sorry for mentioning your hidden disease. What was even more infuriating was that he added: "I didn't mean that, don't get me wrong..."
The word "ah" was choked in his throat, and Wade grabbed his tail, which was slapping happily on the bed.
And pinched the peach heart at the end with his fingernails.
… It was not until ten minutes later that Lucian had the wit to curse Wade viciously in his mind.
"Cook them well." Wade said coldly, "I will supervise you to finish cooking them."
Lucian: … … …
…
As a result, Wade really watched him go through the entire process. While Lucian was boiling the medicine, he was mentally complaining about Wade's childishness.
The good male protagonist does not destroy the world, but instead watches his enemy, the prisoner, boil a whole pot of aphrodisiac potion. He is in a really good mood.
Lucian had already finished refining a bottle of medicine, and this was the fourth bottle. Vader was indeed bored to the point of watching him refine medicine until the early morning. The finished bottle of medicine showed a beautiful blue color, and there seemed to be many small whirlpools on the surface. No one would have thought that such a beautiful potion could be used in such a subtle way.
The first step in the potion is to add the paste made from the leaves of the moonflower. This plant combines both yin and yang, and is an extremely important step in the potion making process. When it is added to the potion, it will only show yang characteristics when it is brewed in the dark. Once it is exposed to light at the end, it will turn into yin characteristics.
Lucian added the paste to the final potion and quickly covered the cauldron with a large piece of cattail leaf to block out the light. After finishing all this, he turned back to complain to Wade: "Are you satisfied now? Eh...?"
Behind him, Wade was lying on the bed in pain. The veins on the back of his pale hand were bulging, and his long fingers were grabbing his cheek. Above it, there were magic patterns spreading like cracks in magma.
Lucian was stunned. He walked towards Wade and touched his body with his hand.
He didn't even have time to ask "what's wrong" before he was pushed down on the bed.
At this moment, Wade was like a real devil. His eyes had lost their purple disguise and were now bright red. Those eyes were cold, condescending, and yet they carried a strong sense of aggression and control. At that moment, Lucian actually gave up struggling. He was surrounded by Wade's strong evil spirit and stared at by those eyes, and his waist began to weaken.
The peach heart at the tip of the tail also began to heat up.
Soon, however, Wade grabbed his forehead and rolled to the other side in pain. He curled up and clenched his teeth as if he was shivering. It took him a while until he finally sat up on the bed with his bruised hands.
Lucian was still lying on the ground where he was pinned down, trembling slightly. He saw Wade coming over again, and he struggled and quickly crawled to the head of the bed. He tucked his tail under his body and looked at Wade vigilantly.
"It's a sequela of fusing the blood of the fallen god," Vader explained hoarsely, "Also, you fused the blood drops stolen by the demons and the undead, but you didn't fuse the corresponding blood drops of the elves and humans. They gathered in your body, like a murderous aura... Did you lose control just now?"
He seemed to have no memory of what he had just done.
Lucian nodded. He stared at Wade, his eyes still alert like a small animal, his long silver-gray hair draped messily over his face. Wade wanted to reach out and lift the strand of hair for him, but in the end he couldn't reach out his hand.
Lucian asked, "So... is it usually like this?"
Wade was stunned for a moment. Finally, he said hoarsely, "... Occasionally."
He thought Lucian was afraid of him.
Then he heard Lucian's worried voice: "If that's the case, can you still go out to work?"
Vader: …
Lucian: "Is it true that you can't make money? You have to make money by making medicine in the past?"
The crucible not far away was gurgling, and Lucian remembered that he was still refining the potion before the accident. He hurried back to the crucible, but what he saw was a cattail leaf that had fallen to the side - during the brewing process, the cattail leaf that was used to block the light had fallen to the ground when no one was watching.
The potion in the pot was not the beautiful sea blue color of the successful potion just now, but a light purple color - like the color of some irises. The moon grass juice was transformed into a potion when exposed to light, and the potion obtained now was a strange product whose effect Lucian didn't know. But it looked really beautiful, as if there were many tiny petals floating in it.
Lucian squatted and looked at the pot of new potion. Wade walked over to him and looked at him. Lucian said, "Master Wade, a quarter of the raw materials you bought were wasted."
"Whatever," Vader said.
Lucian continued, "In order to avoid wasting this pot of potion...why don't you try it to see its effect?"
Vader: …
Lucian: "Just give it a try. You won't die anyway... Hmm."
Wade grabbed his neck gently, and Lucian closed his mouth unhappily.
In the end, Lucian put the failed purple potion into the potion bottle. After he put the bottle away, Wade grabbed his hair from behind and said in a hoarse voice: "It turned gray."
"Isn't it because..."
"Come up." Wade said hoarsely, "Give me."