Chapter 153 'Draconian'



"Are you doing a face exercise? Your face keeps changing every second."

Hearing Alex's voice, Paula opened her eyes and looked at Alex.

"Did you just say something?"

Since she was deep in her own thoughts, she didn't really hear what he said.

With a smile on his face, Alex repeated, "I was asking if you are doing some sort of face exercise."

"Face exercise?" Paula said, feeling confused at Alex's words.

Seeing that, Alex chuckled and said, "You were thinking too deeply earlier and your face keeps on changing every second. That's why I asked if you're doing a face exercise."

Immediately, Paula came to a realization and her face suddenly reddened a bit.

Paula felt embarrassed for some reason.

From the way Alex is reacting, Paula can guess that she probably looked funny earlier when she was thinking.

'Arrgggg! What was I thinking! I'm too embarrassed now!' She thought.

It took a few seconds before Paula recovered.

When she raised her hand back up, she acted like nothing happened and said, "Let's go back to our talk."

Saying that, Paula suddenly grabbed one of Alex's hands and handed him the golden cup.

Alex accepted the cup without saying anything and looked at Paula with questioning eyes.

In response, Paula looked directly in his eyes and said, "You wanted to drink it, right? Then I'll give it to you."

Alex raised an eyebrow and said, "Really? Then is it alright if I take it now?"

"Wait, listen to me first."

Seeing Alex's impatient attitude, Paula let out an exhausted sigh.

She doesn't know why, but Paula already feels tired even though it's only been a few minutes since she started talking with Alex.

Shaking his head, Paula said, "Anyway, I just want to talk about your reward if you ever succeed and live after taking the blood essence."

Hearing that, Alex started paying attention to Paula.

Seeing that she finally got his attention, Paula started talking,

"After some deliberation, I decided to give this to you as a reward for this difficult... suicidal request of mine."

Paula raised her hand just right in front of Alex and showed him a rectangular card.

Alex looked at it curiously and waited for Paula to explain.

Without making Alex wait, Paula said, "This card is a very precious item called [Upgrade Card]."

"From its name, you can probably guess already what it does, right?"

Alex nodded.

Then he asked, "Does it have any restrictions or limits?"

Paula shook her head, "There's no such thing."

"However, since it's a consumable, you can only use it once and after that, it will disappear."

Hearing that, Alex nodded in understanding.

"Yeah, that makes sense. If it's an item that can be used multiple times, then that will be too fraudulent."

Feeling all the changes occuring in his body at the same time, a smile can't help but crept up Alex's face as he said,

"This feels great! I can feel that my strength is increasing as time goes by."

"Plus, I'm actually being strengthened at a very fast speed!"

Alex can feel it.

Thanks to the power contained in the essence blood, his power is also rising rapidly.

By now, it has already more than doubled of what it was before he drank the blood.

Savoring this feeling, Alex closed his eyes.

...

Meanwhile, as Alex is taking in all the changes happening to him with ecstasy, Paula is looking at him worriedly while sitting on a chair opposite him.

"Please, please, survive or I will feel the guilt of 'killing' someone innocent if you die!" She whispered quietly to herself.

Earlier, when Alex first went silent after he drank the [Pureblood Dragon's Essence Blood, Paula already know that's things are happening in his body.

At that time, Paula felt her heart suddenly skip a beat.

Gradually, Alex started showing signs of being in pain such as bloodshot eyes and reddening skin.

Seeing all that, Paula can't help but start getting more worried.

Paula grew anxious but can do nothing but watch while watching Alex.

In the end, Paula held her hands together and started saying, "Please don't die, please don't die, I can't have you die now."

"Father's situation has been worsening in this past few days. He really needs to be cured as soon as possible. So, please, succeed!"

As if to answer her prayers, Alex condition somehow magically started to improve!

When she saw that, Paula was ecstatic.

So, she started to 'pray' more in hopes that Alex will survive.

...

After an unknown amount of time, Alex opened his eyes and a majestic golden light flashed through his pupils!

The whole room was momentarily covered in this golden light, bathing everyone inside in it.

Feeling the light on her skin, Angelica looked surprised, "It feels so... warm."

Paula heard her and also felt the sameness warmth that she's experiencing.

"Indeed, it feels so warm but at the same time, full of majesty..."

The golden light didn't last long and soon disappeared.

At this time, Alex gradually recovered his consciousness that has drifted off during the process of absorbing the [Pureblood Dragon's Essence Blood].

The first that Alex saw after opening his eyes was a notification from the system.

[Ding!]

[You consumed the 'Pureblood Dragon's Essence Blood' and successfully obtained the 'Draconian' Bloodline!]

[Congratulations, you acquired a bloodline!]

...

Seeing the message from the system, Alex was ecstatic.

"Haha, my [Fortune] really never lets me down!" He said.

Then he immediately remembered that [Fortune] is still active so he hurriedly turned it off.

Just as he finished doing that, Angelica and Paula recovered from their daze after experiencing the warmth of the golden light from Alex.