Morning Rising

Chapter 76 Morning Rising

The next morning, Tarlin was also gently woken up by Nidalee.

After getting dressed, Tarlin glanced at the time, then walked to the bedside, patted Farin's plump breasts, and said, "Get up."

"Sleep a little longer—" Farin wailed, "If you really can't, go and bother Nidalee for a while—I'm not a shapeshifter, I don't have your animalistic stamina to get up whenever you want—"

Although it was a two-on-one fight, without the dragon vein enhancement, Farin's physical abilities remained the classic glass cannon of Western fantasy. Her magical output was very strong, but as for her physical endurance—without timely treatment, an ordinary person could be instantly killed if they got close.

In contrast, Tallinn prefers to forgo ranged attacks in order to ensure her physical resilience.

At other times it's fine, because with Farin's abilities, it's simply a pipe dream for ordinary people to get close to her.

In particular, the spell bonus of the Axiom of Life greatly enhances Farin's various physiological abilities and detoxification abilities in emergency situations.

Unfortunately, in the fierce battles in Tarlin, even with Nidalee absorbing the frontal fire, Farin often just went, "I went in, I attacked, I fell, I can't go on anymore—Nidale, save me!"

Upon hearing Farin's words, Nidalee covered her lips, swallowed the porridge, scraped the remaining porridge from her lips, and then calmly said, "I'm done."

"Get up." Tallinn patted again, creating a ripple effect.

Farin reluctantly got out of bed and then activated the Life Axiom Seal on her lower abdomen. Accompanied by a slight halo of light and warmth, a warm current of life energy flowed into all parts of Farin's body, allowing her tired body to recover quickly.

Generally speaking, through the secretion of internal hormones, Farin can restore her physical condition by utilizing life energy, just like consuming a large amount of caffeine.

However, Farin has not yet truly understood the operating logic of the truth of life. Therefore, although she can transform the life energy stored in her abdomen, she cannot subtly activate the secretion of excitatory neurotransmitters.

Fortunately, it's just that I'm still a bit mentally exhausted.

She reached out, and the ring on her ring finger lit up with a spell pattern. As a refreshing breeze blew across her face from her palm, Farin quickly regained consciousness.

Stretching her shapely waist, Farin then added, "It's so annoying—I never had to get up early when I was in Ixtal."

"That's because Ixtal doesn't have that many things to do," Tarin said calmly.

In other royal families, the royal family may need to set a good example for their subjects, but for Ixtal, this was entirely unnecessary.

In particular, Farin's personality is different from Qiyana's. She is not as competitive and is also exceptionally talented. She doesn't need to consider diplomatic or political matters, so she naturally sleeps until she wakes up naturally every day.

"But that won't work now," Tarin said leisurely. "If Ixtal were to open its borders, then with King Yuen unable to travel easily, diplomatic matters would fall on the shoulders of you, his relatives. Hmm, get familiar with things now; this might be the norm for you in the future."

Upon hearing this, Farin gasped at the thought of having to get up early every day, and then couldn't help but say, "Does it really have to be like this? It's outrageous! And what about you? Shouldn't you shoulder the responsibility of founding the nation?"

"I might be in Shurima by then," Tarin shrugged. "But I'll come back to see you guys often."

"Who needs you to come back and see me?" Farin wailed. "What I need is for you to do the work for me."

"I can't do anything." Tallinn shrugged, unfazed by the pressure.

Although she complained, Farin didn't really care too much, since she had already made the necessary preparations when she came to Piltover with Tarlin.

However, while Farin was fixing her makeup, she couldn't help but glance at Nidalee a few more times and said, "Compared to this—it seems like Nidalee's stamina and recovery ability have improved a lot recently."

As she said this, Farin rolled her eyes at Tarin.

"The same to you."

Tallinn nodded in agreement, glanced at his palm, and said, "I haven't wasted this time."

Although it may seem like I'm busy with trivial matters every day, such as studying various primordial axioms, their basic concepts, and operating principles, that's not actually the case.

Even during the research process, Tallinn prefers to conduct practical exercises. However, the intensity is controlled, and it's not always a life-or-death struggle.

With ample combat experience and sufficient nutrition, Tarin's current dragon form has reached thirteen meters—entering adulthood in the ecological setting of the Odogaron.

Continuing upwards, you'll find the largest individual, measuring seventeen meters in length, also known as "Big Gold".

In the Monster Hunter game's results screen, the icons for the largest and smallest hunted monsters are both crowns, hence the nicknames "Big Gold" and "Small Gold." Collecting Big Gold and Small Gold monsters from different monsters is part of the game's fun and a rewarding aspect.

The growth of the dragon form also affects Tarlin's various stats in human form, with the most significant increases in endurance and toughness.

Nidalee, having fully absorbed the essence of the superior dragon vein, had her various physiological abilities fully restored.

The growth of.

Although her human form isn't as pronounced yet, in her beast form, Nidalee has already gained many special abilities due to her Odogaron bloodline, such as powerful toxin immunity, more claws, and hormone activation during combat.

Thinking this, Tarin said, "This has something to do with dragon transformation, but it's a bit complicated to explain. We can talk about it another time."

As he said this, Tarin thought for a moment, then took out a bead from his pocket and handed it to Farin, saying, "Here, this is for you."

"Um?"

"Early-Recovery Bead," Tarin said. "One bead can increase stamina recovery speed by one-tenth."

The Early Breath Orb was obtained from Vi's battle results. Perhaps because Vi's strength was just average? So I only got one Early Breath Orb and one Stamina Orb, and no other stats dropped.

Although useful, the five sets of beads in Tarlin have already been allocated: Physical Attack Beads, Quick Recovery Beads, High Spirits Beads, Attack Beads, and Quick Consumption Beads.

Each one individually is more useful than the early-release energy bead that speeds up stamina recovery.

If you really need to restore your stamina, you can directly activate your life energy or quickly eat a bead to instantly restore your stamina with a stamina potion. You don't need to use the natural recovery acceleration.

Similar to Zelda or Red Desert, my health bar length is equal to the amount of food in my inventory.

Upon hearing Tarin's words and gazing at the emerald green bead, a look of surprise flashed in Farin's eyes. She then held it in her hand to feel it, and after a moment, another look of surprise flashed in her eyes.

"It's not just about stamina—it also speeds up my mana regeneration. You said one pill increases it by a tenth? What about several? Can they stack?"

Seeing Farin's surprised expression, Tarin nodded thoughtfully.

Although we knew that the Vitality Jewel could restore stamina, it now seems that Nidalee's Vitality Jewel directly increases the maximum amount of health and stamina.

And the Early Energy Bead, specifically designed to restore stamina, begins to restore magic power? In other words, in the Dragon Vein Alchemy system, magic power is a type of stamina?

Thinking this, Tarlin explained, "Two will increase by two-tenths, three will increase by four-tenths, but any more than that—it won't work."

"Hmm?" Upon hearing this, Farin blinked in surprise, then said with some astonishment, "It sounds like—a qualitative change resulting from quantitative change? That's really peculiar. I like it very much. Thank you."

As she said this, Farin stuffed the beads into her pouch, pondering what kind of jewelry she should set them in for easy carrying.

However, Farin then turned her gaze to Nidalee beside her and said, "Uh—am I the only one? Where's Nidalee?"

"I already have it." Nidalee shook her head, wanting to take it out and show it, but then seemed to remember something and looked at Tarin with disdain.

Tarin, unfazed by the situation, casually approached Nidalee and, with a slight effort, extracted her three stamina orbs.

Farin stared wide-eyed at the string of beads.

"Stamina beads directly increase the maximum health; three beads also increase the maximum."

Farin stared in disbelief at the string of beads in Tarin's hand, still covered in some transparent slime.

Talin, however, said nonchalantly, "I only have one Qi Bead right now, but I'll collect a string of them for you later."

Farin: "————There's no need to string them together."

Farin felt speechless, but didn't take it too seriously.

Perhaps it was because she had lived in the closed environment of Ixtal for too long? At least when she was with Tarlin in private, Farin was still quite open and fun.

After a moment's pause, Farin stared at Nidalee for a while, noticing the blush on her cheeks. She then swallowed hard before turning to Tarin and saying, "Of course, if you insist, it's not impossible—but you can't tell anyone else."

Tallinn patted his chest and assured him, "Absolutely."

Hearing this, Farin licked her lips in satisfaction, then pecked Tallinn before changing her clothes and saying, "Alright, let's get ready to go—these Piltover ladies must be eager to show us their—quite interesting techniques!"

Tarlin wasn't too surprised by Farin's assessment.

To be fair, Mrs. Piltover's equipment is by no means bad, and her Hextech Crystal technology has great potential.

However, at its current level—compared to the Ixtals' development of the primordial axioms—it can only be considered to be in its infancy.

After all, even if the Ishtars were working in isolation, it was still a nation working in isolation, with countless scholars within the country discussing, competing, and progressing together.

This kind of closed-door approach, which has been going on for thousands of years, naturally yields many remarkable results.

In contrast, Piltover, despite being known as the city of progress, has only been around for seven or eight years since Jayce developed the new Hextech Crystal application technology.

Even though we are in the midst of a technological explosion, it hasn't exploded to the point where we can directly catch up with Ixtal's level of more than 6,000 years.

After all, Hextech technology is essentially a way of using magic, rather than a difference between coal and nuclear energy—the difference isn't that significant.

After getting ready, everyone went out together and saw Qiyana walking from one side of the corridor.

Looking at Tarin and his aunt Farin chatting and laughing, and Nidalee following closely behind Tarin with a calm expression but still a slight blush on her cheeks, Qiyana also cleared her throat.

"Qiana? What are you doing here?"

Tallinn was somewhat surprised.

Qiyana's lips twitched slightly at this, then she sighed, pressed her temples, and said, "Nidalee—I know. But, Aunt Farin? What's going on with you—"

"Cough cough."

Upon hearing this, Farin coughed lightly and looked at Qiyana gently, saying, "You've got it wrong, Qiyana. Tarin and I were just discussing the axioms of life—"

"You seem to be treating me like a three-year-old," Qiyana said unhappily.

This left Farin feeling particularly helpless, and after thinking for a moment, she said, "Since Qiyana cares so much—"

Why don't you give it a try?

"Who cares?!"

Qiyana glared fiercely at Farin, but feeling Farin's gaze, she sighed and waved her hand, saying, "Never mind, let's get back to business."

As she said this, a hint of helplessness appeared in Qiyana's eyes.

Not to mention Tarin, having lived with him for so long, Qiyana had seen Tarin and Nidalee resting in the same house more than once back in the village.

Qiyana didn't pay much attention to this, because at that time, Qiyana saw Tarin as just an interesting person with much to learn from and who could help her.

I thought I was used to it all, but now I see my aunt has gotten involved with Tarlin too —

Qiyana also felt a strange sense of unease churning within her.

But Farin is, after all, Qiyana's aunt, and one of the few people Qiyana acknowledges in the family, and even feels some gratitude towards.

As for Farin's personality, Qiyana knew it quite well—just like herself, she was an outcast in Ixtal.

Given this, it's not surprising that Qiyana's aunt is close to Tarin, but now, Qiyana feels a strange sense of unease.

However, Qiyana didn't dwell on it, only saying with some annoyance, "Anyway, let's deal with things in Piltover first—humph, these country bumpkins actually dare to show off their magical abilities in front of the Ixtals, they really don't know their place!"

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