Chapter 1514: Walking Ring, Niya's Abnormality

For this reason, Xia Duo had to design a 【Walking Ring】 for himself, used to restrict the functioning of 【Cloud-Stepping】.

Of course, this was only a stopgap measure; more practical would be to deeply master his bloodline abilities, gaining the power to deactivate this ability at a lower cost.

Or perhaps, to get used to being a flying creature and bid farewell to the ground from now on.

But because 【Cloud-Stepping】 is a magic effect, rather than him having grown wings, Xia Duo still preferred to deeply master his bloodline to reduce the consumption when deactivating 【Cloud-Stepping】.

On the other hand, although he wouldn't necessarily bid farewell to the ground forever, he still had to get used to flying and not develop a psychological aversion to it.

……

Xia Duo spent two days busy at the Arcane Union before he barely adapted to and mastered the changes after this bloodline awakening.

Especially 【Dragon's Majesty】, which changed his image the most, as well as the glow naturally emitted by his body.

Of course, things like 【Cloud-Stepping】 did not require much adaptation; Xia Duo was no stranger to flying, he just wasn't used to flying constantly and being unable to land.

With the 【Walking Ring】 assisting, this ability required almost no extra time to master.

Other abilities were actually much the same; after all, they stemmed from bloodline instinct, and as long as he wanted to familiarize himself with them, he always could. Besides adapting to and mastering the changes after awakening, Xia Duo had an additional gain in these two days.

That was that he had roughly figured out the limiting conditions for 【Soul Transition】.

It was indeed related to the mysterious glow excited around his soul, and even the glow visible to the naked eye on his skin surface had a certain connection to it.

As long as there was enough glow, manifested as the scene of the Outer Planes reflected within the space being sufficiently real and clear, he could travel back and forth at will.

And as long as the glow diminished, he would need to wait for it to recover.

Judging solely from the glow changes over these two days, the recovery speed did not increase linearly, but was related to the stock of the glow itself; the more stock, the faster the recovery.

As long as the recovery time was planned well, basically, traveling back and forth twice within a day should be no problem.

Xia Duo guessed that there might be a certain threshold; once the glow decreased to a certain level, the recovery speed might become extremely slow.

Of course, the consumption at that time would also become extremely low, and perhaps it would turn into the first tier of 【Soul Transition】, where one could only go, but not return.

From this, one might also infer that the conditions required to return from the Outer Planes were more stringent than those for going.

Or to look at it from another angle, the difficulty of descending from the Outer Planes to the Material Plane was far greater than going from the Material Plane to the Outer Planes.

Perhaps this could also explain why the gods did not frequently interfere in the Mortal Plane; it was not that they could not, but that they were unwilling. As long as they were willing to pay the price, playing at divine descent every day might not be a problem.

It was just that Xia Duo had not yet felt the attraction of the Outer Planes to him, or the repulsion of the Main Plane toward him, so the theory that the gods were forced to go to the Outer Planes might not be correct.

Of course, it was also possible that he had not yet reached that level and could not understand the deeper reasons.

But for now, the Main Plane was still his home field, or to broaden it, all Material Planes were his future home field.

……

Tower of Time, entrance to the Teleportation Room.

Niya threw herself into Xia Duo's arms, hugging her husband, whom she hadn't seen for many days, tightly, unwilling to let go for a long time. It was not until Saville, who had accompanied her, coughed violently several times that she blushed and released Xia Duo's body, though she still held tightly onto one of Xia Duo's arms.

If it were before, if Saville were not present, she might have done this, but if Saville or anyone else were present, she would 100% not have done so.

Niya herself was also very strange; why was she so bold today, actually throwing herself into Xia Duo's arms in front of her great-grandfather, and unwilling to let go even when reminded?

But at this moment, she truly enjoyed this feeling, and even though she was being looked at with strange eyes by her great-grandfather, she still persisted with a blushing face.

It was Xia Duo who finally couldn't take it anymore and said to Saville: "The matter of the Elf can be big or small, but it is not urgent at the moment. I will talk to Niya alone for a while first, and we can chat later."

"Very well."

Saville nodded, but muttered a sentence as he left, "I really don't understand what you young people are thinking!"

Upon hearing this, Xia Duo couldn't help but smile bitterly and looked down at Niya, but at this moment Niya did not dare to meet his eyes, only holding his arm even tighter.

Consequently, Xia Duo logically brought Niya back to the bedroom. Once they were truly back in the bedroom, Niya became reserved instead; although she was still holding Xia Duo, she was unwilling to make any further moves.

Xia Duo was curious, pulled Niya into his arms, shook her gently, and asked: "What is wrong with you today? You were so bold in front of Saville; this is not like you at all!"

"I—I don't know either, there was just an impulse in my heart that made me hold onto you and not let go," Niya explained in a low voice, but she couldn't explain the reason why.

"Then why did you want to refuse me just now?"

"It's just nice to hold you like this!"

Niya squinted her eyes, her expression dazed, as if she had fallen into an unconscious illusion, and even stretched her neck to sniff around on Xia Duo.

This made Xia Duo even more uncomfortable, but he also roughly guessed the reason.

Recalling the attitude of those people he met on the way to the Teleportation Room when he returned from the Arcane Union, if he hadn't guessed wrong, it was likely the residual influence of 【Dragon's Majesty】.

Xia Duo had already tried his best to master this ability, but in just two short days, he was afraid he couldn't master it completely, so some residue was perfectly normal.

It was just that this ability seemed to have vastly different effects on different people.

On those people at the Arcane Union, it intensified their awe, yearning, and even worship toward him.

But on Niya, it manifested as stirring up love and lust—of course, looking at it now, it leaned more toward the love aspect—making an Arcanist who was originally very normal act as if she had lost her mind.

"Can this ability also be used as an aphrodisiac?"

Xia Duo shook his head repeatedly in his heart; he was a bit worried now, not knowing whether this effect was aimed only at Niya or if it was like this for all women.

Or even more terrifying—it worked on both men and women!

At the thought that he might encounter an attack from a gay man, Xia Duo shivered suddenly. Now that he thought about it, he should have stayed in Seventon for a few more days.

It wouldn't have been too late to come back after he could fully control 【Dragon's Majesty】!

But even if time could turn back, he was afraid he would still make the same choice. Complaining was meaningless; what he should be concerned about now was how to deal with Niya's situation.

Xia Duo did not want the two of them to become like this every time they met in the future.

Besides him continuing to master his new abilities, Niya also needed some targeted protection. Xia Duo noticed that the mental Amulet on Niya was not exerting its proper effect.

Either his ability had already transcended the scope of mental spells, or Niya was intentionally restricting the Amulet from taking effect.