Succubus Aura

"What exactly are you trying to do?" Realizing the whale meant her no harm and was even letting her bind it with shadow tentacles,

Lin Yue's anger quickly ebbed.

Once she had calmed down, she immediately looked around, only to find that everyone was acting as if nothing was happening.

It was the Lost Whale's domain ability.

"Wuwu."

With its mouth bound shut, the whale gazed at her with sapphire-like eyes, pleading for mercy.

"She looks kind of pitiful. Let her go," Chen Xi said, deliberately egging her on.

Lin Yue had already been about to release the whale, but when she heard that, she secretly strengthened her Shadow Magic and retorted, "She's not pitiful at all!"

She turned back to the whale in the water and shaped her shadows into a dagger, pointing it at her. "Tell me, what exactly are you trying to do?"

Lin Yue secretly loosened the shadows around its mouth, allowing the little whale to catch its breath.

"It's all because of you!" It planted its fins on its hips in a humanlike gesture, standing upright in the water.

"Don't you know what Legend you've harnessed?"

"I suddenly sensed the Butcher and the Shadow Dweller again, so I assumed you were one of those lunatics."

It could identify the type of Legend its target had harnessed thanks to its special ability.

The little whale looked at her smugly. "You should be grateful I didn't attack you outright."

"I should be grateful for what?"

Lin Yue shot back, but didn't continue attacking.

Both of them had keenly caught the word the whale had used.

"Again?" Lin Yue felt awkward asking, so Chen Xi did it for her.

"Did you sense a presence like the Butcher's near the Silent Sea?"

"Yeah!"

The whale rubbed its belly, still shaken.

"If I hadn't gotten away fast, I'd have been turned into grilled shark fin."

"How many were there?" Chen Xi asked gravely.

The Lost Whale thought for a moment. "Hmm, I ran too fast to pay much attention, but there were at least a dozen."

A dozen members of Evil Flower?

Even if they were just ordinary members, they'd be more than enough to cause trouble in a small place like Tianhai City.

And since they'd come prepared, it wasn't impossible that they'd sent Third Rank Transcendents.

Chen Xi hurriedly typed out a message and sent it to Qiu Ye.

"A dozen?!" Lin Yue cried. "You stinking whale, are you sure you counted right?"

That number was ridiculous.

"Anyway, that's what happened. Good luck to you both. I'm off."

After the Lost Whale finished speaking, its body gradually turned transparent, then dissolved into the water.

They didn't try to stop it. While replying to messages, Chen Xi told Lin Yue how things were going. "Qiu Ye says they got the message. They've already asked the Countermeasure Bureaus in other cities for backup."

Lin Yue looked at her worriedly. "What should we do?"

They still hadn't dealt with Wu Xin, so the two of them were stuck in Tianhai City like earthbound spirits.

Chen Xi reassured her. "Don't worry. The typhoon will arrive tomorrow night."

"Once we deal with Wu Xin, we'll take things one step at a time."

At that, the worry vanished from Lin Yue's face in an instant. "So, are we still going to see a movie?"

The blonde girl gazed at her expectantly.

So that was what she'd been waiting for.

Chen Xi replied helplessly, "Fine, fine. We'll go."

Lin Yue eagerly nudged her. "Then let's go back to your place first."

"Why?" The girl looked puzzled.

"Secret." Lin Yue raised a finger to her lips in a mysterious shushing gesture.

Chen Xi's home.

The black-haired girl lay on the bed, her right hand hanging limply over her forehead. Beside her, Lin Yue excitedly picked through something.

"So this is your secret? You want me to wear a skirt?"

"Yeah. Is that a problem?" Lin Yue leaned over and held up the long skirt against Chen Xi.

"I don't like wearing skirts." Chen Xi didn't even look at her. She turned over and pretended to play on her phone.

When Lin Yue saw her trying to escape, she moved to the other side of the bed and kept comparing skirts.

"Liar. If you really didn't like skirts, why would you have bought so many different styles?" she said with certainty.

"Someone else bought them."

Chen Xi's words instantly set Lin Yue's thoughts alight.

"Someone else?" she murmured, rolling the word around in her mind.

"Who? An old friend of yours?"

Lin Yue didn't know why she was reacting this way.

Even if she counted all the times they'd looped, she and Chen Xi had only known each other for a few days.

Even considering that they'd been through life and death together, she shouldn't have developed such a passionate, almost overflowing affection for Chen Xi.

Like an intelligent being whose neural interface had been severed, Lin Yue finally began to notice the truth from an outside perspective.

The blonde girl leaned so far over the bed that she was nearly folded in half. She lowered her head and met Chen Xi's gaze.

"Could you... have bewitched me?"

Chen Xi didn't look away. She answered quietly, "Yes."

Another day of being betrayed by Panel Info. She sighed inwardly.

Just like the Rain Lord's Aquatic Affinity, the abilities of the Flawless Succubus hadn't appeared on the panel because she hadn't awakened yet.

The Succubus Aura was the culprit behind all of this.

She'd only realized something was wrong when Qiu Ye stared at her at the hotpot restaurant that day.

Chen Xi's aura was different from that of an ordinary Succubus. It greatly intensified its targets' feelings for her.

The conditions for this ability to take effect were extremely strict: Chen Xi had to like the target, and the target had to like her in return.

Because of those limitations, its enhancement was far more powerful than an ordinary Succubus's.

On top of that, this damn aura was a blessing-type ability. It nagged at her to find her true love like parents pressuring their child to get married.

Even though Chen Xi's talent hadn't fully awakened, she couldn't completely keep the ability under control. A little of it would inevitably leak out.

And that was why...

"So Xiao Xi likes me? Why else would she bewitch me?" Lin Yue's eyes grew hazy.

After all that back-and-forth, the big golden retriever was completely lovestruck.