Shut up, I don't want to have children with you anymore.

Noah also knew what Leon was like on weekdays, but when she saw him acting a little abnormal at this moment, she was not surprised.

She snorted softly, then lowered her head and said seriously, "I just feel...scared."

Hearing this, Leon was slightly stunned.

It was an unexpected answer.

"Scared of...what?"

"We had a happy family, didn't we?"

Noa whispered, "I have responded to your love for me passionately. You know, I have always been proud to be your daughter, Leon Cosmode."

"I know my father is very powerful, the most powerful one in the world."

"I'm proud to have you as my father."

"The same goes for mom. Being your daughter is the luckiest thing that can happen to me."

"But...all of that was undone with that disaster."

"What I cared about, what I cherished, what nurtured me, what loved me deeply... along with my passionate love, was buried twenty years ago."

"I thought that as long as you came back, all the troubles would be solved."

Noa buried her mouth and nose in her arms, her fingers tightly grasping her arms.

"But that's not the case."

"I am more afraid of the day when all this will come to an end."

"What if we fail and you leave me, Mu En and Xiao Guang again? What should we do? What should mom do?"

"I do love you, I love you deeply, but I don't dare to love you recklessly like I did when we were little."

She slowly raised her little head from her arms and looked at her father with tears in her eyes.

At that moment, Noah's face with slight scars seemed to overlap with her childhood in Leon's eyes.

Her voice was choked with sobs, but every word was clear.

"Because I was afraid of losing you—twice."

The strongest girl has the most fragile heart.

Noa always thinks more deeply than Leon.

Looking back at his daughter, Leon slowly reached out his hand and gently placed it on Noah's shoulder.

After making sure that she had no intention of getting rid of him, Leon slowly hugged her and let her lean on his shoulder.

"I'm sorry, Noah. It's my leaving that caused all this and made you and mom suffer so much."

"I don't want to make any promises in front of you, because no one can predict how this will end."

"But, Noah, please believe me. For you sisters and mom... I can do anything."

Noa leaned on her father's shoulder, wiped her tears, and whispered, "People who brag...will end up with bad luck."

Leon blinked and glanced at the empty back, "This is a bit difficult for Dad. Even if I want to have a rotten tail, I don't have that thing..."

Noah burst into laughter, sat up, sniffed twice, then clenched her fist and held it in front of Leon.

"Well, that's it."

Looking at Noah's slightly clenched fist, Leon immediately understood.

When she was little, Leon used this gesture to guarantee her.

"it is good."

Leon nodded and held out his hand.

The father and daughter's fists touched lightly together, just like they did back then.

"But I still won't call you dad until you save the world."

Noah became stubborn, which was very similar to her stubborn parents.

"Ah... why?"

"Why? This is the Melkvi family's ancestral tradition of being stubborn. Are you dissatisfied?"

Leon snorted and laughed, "Of course I am convinced."

Apart from being tough-talking, the female dragons of the Melkwe family, from the old to the young, are also very good at controlling General Lai.

Chapter 268: 76 Heart-Protecting Dragon Scales

After having a heart-to-heart talk with Noah, Leon felt relieved.

In the following days, Leon concentrated on storing magic power and practicing the Nine Hells Gate.

With Orrola's guidance, Leon practiced the Nine Hells Gate much faster.

However, the storage of this magic power remained the same as before. The dragon pattern and some unknown "thing" in his body were forced to share the power 20% and 80%, and the storage speed was very slow.

To this day, Leon still doesn't understand what's wrong with his body.

He asked Orrola if she had any idea about it.

The youngest daughter expressed regret that her research direction and focus were mainly on magic arrays, and she was not very good at things like human body structure.

There was no other way. Leon could only follow the old method and accumulate magic power in the dragon pattern bit by bit.

The four of them, father and daughter, were in this secret underground space, guarding Rossweisse, practicing, and waiting for Orrola's research to be completed.

Three months later.

Orrola decided to conduct the first test of the reversal array.

Everyone came to Rossweisse's crystal room, and Orrola opened a magic circle on the ground.

In the magic circle, all kinds of intricate and confusing spell patterns were present, and even professors and scholars specializing in magic circles had to exclaim that it was a huge undertaking.

After all, this was the result of Orrola's ten years of research, and what she wanted to reverse was not just ordinary magic.

It is the key that can change everything.

Orrola walked to the front of the magic circle and waved her hand to activate it.

The light suddenly lit up and the magic circle slowly responded.

The three people nearby also became nervous.

Whether Orrola succeeds or not will determine the future of their family.

The light emitted by the magic circle became increasingly dazzling, and the entire secret room began to vibrate.

Leon subconsciously raised his arms and blocked Noah and Mu En behind him, “Xiao Guang, are you okay?”

Orrola turned her back to them and waved her hand, "No problem."

Hearing this, Leon frowned slightly.

There was something wrong with her tone.

It's not like the excitement of success, but rather...

The next second, the light of the magic circle dissipated like a broken string, leaving no trace.

Peace returned to the secret room.

The magic circle pattern on the ground looked like it had been burned, leaving charred marks.

Orrola slowly put down her hand and was silent for a while. She whispered,

"Failed."

It was a very brief summary, but the frustration in the tone was hard to conceal.

After ten years of dedicated research, I still failed.

This was undoubtedly a blow to her as she had aspired to be a scholar since childhood.

Most importantly, there were less than three months left until the day my mother fell into a coma.

If the reversal magic cannot be completed before then and Leon can't go back to the past, then Mom's final outcome will still be the same as it is now.

No one is willing to accept such an outcome.

But the cold failure was like a knife, stabbing deeply into Orrola's heart.

"Xiao Guang..." Mu En opened his mouth, wanting to comfort his sister, "It's okay, it's just a test."

However, Orrola did not respond.

Her shoulders sank little by little, and the invisible burden seemed to be crushing her.

After a moment of silence, Leon stepped forward and stood beside Orrola. Together with her, they looked down at the traces of the magic circle on the ground.

"What caused the failure?"

Her pink pupils trembled, and her voice trembled, "I, I don't know."

Leon looked at his little daughter, her face was full of fear.

At that moment, Leon understood that what she feared most was not failure, but inability to save this family.

"Xiao Guang, have you ever heard a saying?"

Wuyiqibaba phosphorus flag slipped away in silence.

"With great power comes great responsibility."

Leon said, "My master taught me this sentence for a long time, and later I found that it actually makes sense to say it the other way around."

Orrola blinked, slowly raised her frustrated little head, and looked at her father.

"The greater the responsibility you have, the greater your ability."

"Everyone believes you can do it, so they give this task to you."

"But you should not regard responsibility as a shackle that binds you. Remember what Noah once told her mother, accept yourself?"

“It’s important to accept yourself, and it’s also important to accept failure.”

“If a person can’t handle failure, then she doesn’t deserve success.”

Leon reached out his hand and gently placed it on his daughter's shoulder.

Her shoulders had just been crushed by the invisible discouragement and frustration, but now, when her father's warm big hand rested on them, she felt a sense of security.

"Try to get those thoughts about the consequences of failure out of your little head, Xiaoguang. You've been studying this reversal magic for ten years. Believe in yourself. You can do it."

My mother once said that what fascinated her most about my father was that he always gave her the most down-to-earth feeling.

It seemed that as long as he was around, she had endless courage.

Orrola didn't understand what kind of power it was at that time.

But at this moment, she seemed to understand the feeling her mother was talking about.

The pink pupils under the glasses became calm and sharp again.

She frowned, turned her head, and looked at the extinguished magic circle on the ground again.

After observing for a long time, Orrola said slowly,

"The magic circle just flashed, which means it can be activated. At least there is no problem with the first stage."

“The problem can only come in the subsequent stages.”

"To complete a magic circle, there are four stages:"

"Start, run, maintain, and end."

"We just stopped at the operation stage. In most magic arrays, sufficient power is required to ensure that they can operate normally."

"I knew this, so I prepared enough energy storage crystals in advance, but it seems to have no effect."

As she spoke, Orrola walked over to the energy storage crystals, picked up a few of them and examined them carefully.

"The energy inside has not decreased, which means these crystals did not participate in the operation of the magic circle just now."

"But why is this... I have done many tests on this crystal. It works fine in any kind of reversal magic, except for the space magic that reverses Ravi."

"If the magic circle does not have enough energy during the operation phase, then we will also fail in the subsequent maintenance phase."