Chapter: The Blood Queen Aphra
The holy light was dazzling.
Cheng Yu was radiant—like a god descending to earth.
Feeling imminent death, the Black Claw Red Dragon was terrified and frantically flapped its wings to escape.
"Big red lizard, don't try to escape!"
The power of light gathered at Cheng Yu's fingertips.
A terrifying white energy beam shot from his fingertips, shot into the ass of the fleeing Black Claw Red Dragon, and pierced through its body.
Blood stained the blue sky. The huge dragon body over fifty meters long fell to the ground from mid-air.
"It's awesome, but it's too shameful."
After getting rid of the Black Claw Red Dragon, Cheng Yu quickly pulled off the Underwear of the Goddess of Light from behind him and put it into the system warehouse.
The power of light covering the surface of Cheng Yu's body also disappeared.
He ran to the body of the Black Claw Red Dragon. The blood hole on its body was still bleeding.
Cheng Yu put the body of the Black Claw Red Dragon into the system warehouse.
In this way, the most important ingredients for making Wood Root Braised Pork have been found.
Next, there are two more magic materials missing: Wood Dragon Root and Heavenly Vanilla.
This place wasn't far from Black Stone City. He could go to the magic material shop in Black Stone City later to see if he could buy them.
Cheng Yu headed toward Black Stone City to purchase magic materials.
The dragon blood on the ground didn't flow down the mountain but was pulled by some mysterious force—flowed diagonally upward.
Cheng Yu stopped and observed the strange phenomenon on the ground.
This blood isn't affected by gravity?
Is Newton's coffin going to be unable to cover it?
Cheng Yu looked in the direction of the dragon blood flow and saw a tall, beautiful woman in a red dress walking toward him with lazy steps.
The blood scattered when the Black Claw Red Dragon was killed just now all gathered around the woman in the red dress—like a wide blood-colored ribbon.
When Cheng Yu saw the woman in the red dress and the dragon blood surrounding her body, he immediately had an ominous premonition. "Who are you?"
"My name is Aphra. I got lost in the mountains," the woman in the red dress said lightly.
Damn it! I won the jackpot!
Cheng Yu exclaimed internally.
The Blood Queen Aphra, who the Northern Fortress had been looking for so long, was actually in the mountains outside Black Stone City.
The great demons under the Demon King were even stronger than fifth-tier great mages.
"Are you from the Church of Light?"
Aphra had seen Cheng Yu using the power of light just now—just like the Goddess of Light descending to the world, very powerful. She didn't dare attack Cheng Yu easily.
"I'm just a chef, not from the Church of Light."
Though Cheng Yu was surprised, he wasn't afraid of Aphra.
He was a man with a "divine artifact." If Aphra dared make a move, he'd hit her hard.
With a calm face, Aphra gathered the scattered dragon blood into a huge blood ball, dipped a little dragon blood with her finger, licked it with her bright red tongue, and said intoxicatedly, "The blood of the fourth-tier Black Claw Red Dragon tastes really good."
Cheng Yu suddenly realized a problem. This mountain wasn't far from Black Stone City. Why did Aphra get lost?
"Miss Aphra, are you really lost?"
"Yes, I was lost. I couldn't find the direction at all. I kept wandering in the mountain."
Aphra narrowed her eyes and looked intoxicated.
"Are you kidding me? Black Stone City is so close. If you go to the city and ask someone for directions, won't you be able to find the direction?"
"No, I'm just lost," Aphra insisted.
"..."
From Aphra's tone, it seemed she wasn't really lost but deliberately lost.
"You're not lost!" Cheng Yu said.
"No, I'm really lost," Aphra said.
(￣□￣!)
Cheng Yu was speechless.
"Your maid converted some humans into vampires to find you."
"What? My maid is looking for me?"
Aphra's calm expression finally showed a trace of panic.
"If someone is looking for me, please keep it a secret and don't tell them where I am."
"Huh? Why?"
Cheng Yu was a bit confused by Aphra's actions.
"Because I'm lost," Aphra said.
"ヽ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉ"
Cheng Yu was a bit crazy. What else can you say besides saying you're lost?
The main reason Aphra could talk to Cheng Yu so calmly was she was afraid of Cheng Yu's strength.
If it were an ordinary person, to not expose her whereabouts, she would've killed the other party long ago.
Aphra was like a deflated ball, holding her forehead in distress. "Ah~ When I think about returning to the Demon Realm and being ordered by the Demon King again, I get a headache~"
"I won't kill humans at will. I just want to stay in human territory and not expose my whereabouts."
Cheng Yu remembered Herman had said before there were many factions within the demon clan.
Some of the great demons belonged to the pro-war faction—followed the Demon King wholeheartedly to pursue their careers.
Another part of the great demons didn't like war—only nominally obeyed the Demon King's orders.
Aphra obviously belonged to the faction that didn't like war.
Low EQ: I don't want to work for the Demon King.
High EQ: Oops! I got lost in the forest and can't get out.
"Hey~ So you're also a slacker."
Cheng Yu had thought he'd have a fight with Aphra when he met her, but he hadn't expected Aphra to be a fellow traveler.
When he was at work, Cheng Yu's favorite place was the toilet.
Every day when he arrived at the company, he had to go to the toilet—took half an hour. A little bit added up. In a month, it was over ten hours—equivalent to an extra day off.
"What slacker?" Aphra didn't quite understand what Cheng Yu meant.
"Nothing."
Maybe because they were both slackers, Cheng Yu had a good impression of Aphra.
"I think the blood you drink like this doesn't taste good. Do you want me to process it for you?"
"I'm an evil vampire. Won't you destroy me?"
Aphra had just seen Cheng Yu's strength. If they fought, she might not be able to beat him.
"Don't vampires just like to suck blood? I like to eat blood too."
People on the Celsis Continent didn't eat animal organs and blood. Vampires survived by sucking blood, so they thought vampires were an evil race.
But Cheng Yu was a native Chinese. What haven't I seen? Blood curd, pig intestines, pig brains, balut eggs, fried cow eyeballs, preserved eggs...
"You're human and have sacred magic of light. Do you like to suck blood?"
Aphra had lived for hundreds of years, but this was the first time she'd seen a human sucking blood. Really rare.
Cheng Yu took out an iron basin from the system warehouse. "Put some of that dragon blood in the basin. I'll teach you how to eat blood."
Aphra followed Cheng Yu's instructions and put a small ball of dragon blood into the basin, waiting for the blood to coagulate naturally.
"Do you know where there's a water source?"
"Come with me."
Aphra had wandered around here for a long time and knew where there was a water source. She took Cheng Yu to find it.
The two came to a stream.
Cheng Yu took out an iron pot from the system warehouse, set it up with a bracket, and lit a fire under the pot.
He took out a chopping board and kitchen knife, cut the coagulated blood into small pieces, and added various seasonings to stir-fry in the pot.
Aphra watched Cheng Yu stir-fry blood curiously. There's actually such a way to eat blood.