The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 856 - 0853: What’s mine is mine (First Update)

Chapter 856: Chapter 0853: What’s mine is mine (First Update)

Hidden natural nodes were difficult to discern, but even under the formidable searching capabilities of spiral positioning, they still had nowhere to hide. The Formless Dragon swiftly approached the natural node and then began to rely on its innate abilities to break through the node’s “thin” material boundary.

At the moment the boundary ripped apart, Liszt caught sight of the scenery outside.

It was a secluded environment, brimming with lush trees. Only when he and the Formless Dragon completely flew out of the natural node did he have a clear view—it was the interior of a dormant volcano crater. Once they soared out of the volcano, their vision commanded a top-down perspective, with Phoenix Perch Parasol’s volcano not far to the left.

The Endless Volcano Cluster had nine active volcanoes and many dormant ones, most of them unnamed.

This particular dormant volcano was also unnamed.

“Having a natural node inside the volcano crater feels somewhat inconvenient for transportation, unless… we break through the volcanic tunnels. Hmm, if Ach picks this as one of the Magic Gates, we’ll mobilize a group of Ancient Mages to bombard and blast, striving to open the volcanic tunnels sooner rather than later.”

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With Thorn Ironwood, rubber water, and the impending development of cement, we already possessed the capability to construct tunnels.

Although this world lacked large tunnel boring machines, it had magic. While Magicians’ combat spells might not be impressive, their effects were clear when applied to civil uses. Even if the Ancient Mages couldn’t penetrate the rock layers inside the mountain, there was still Ach, the Archmage. With Super Magic – Spiral Ultra-High Pressure Water Drill, capable of crushing metal, let alone the mere mountain.

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Thus,

Upon finding the first natural node, Liszt’s heart surged with excitement, and together with Formless Dragon Bard, he redoubled his efforts, continuing to delve outside the material world, in search of new natural nodes.

At this time, the powerful search ability of spiral positioning could be fully demonstrated.

Before long, he discovered a second natural node. On penetrating the node, the other side revealed surging seawater, crashing against the material boundary, but unable to breach into the outside world.

“Regrettably, the node is in the sea, seemingly in a deep-sea location; this node probably can’t be developed,” he thought, not even daring to venture out.

Bard couldn’t swim; if he drowned in the sea, it would be no laughing matter.

Hence, they left the natural node and continued to fly in the world outside material reality, searching for natural nodes. The material world was vast, but the concept of ‘large’ did not exist in the world beyond it, as if everything was squeezed together. To use a vivid analogy, the material world was like a vast sheet of white paper.

Each point on this white paper could only move across its surface.

But in the world outside materiality, it was like the white paper crumpled into a ball. Continuing to walk on the surface of the paper would not change the distance, yet moving outside the paper could easily connect two points that were originally out of reach. Natural nodes were like finding such points where one could move outside the paper.

There were no boundaries or distances, and even the concept of time was hazy and unclear; for normal creatures, the world outside materiality was an inconceivable place.

Only the Formless Dragon could navigate here with ease.

“Another natural node discovered, let’s go!” Liszt urged, and the pair flew towards the third natural node. Moments later, they opened the natural node.

On the other side was a forest.

As Liszt flew out of the natural node, he immediately noticed an interesting problem—he had arrived near Flame Mountain, in one of the subsidiary mountain ranges of Flame Mountain. And Light Green Gem Dragon Ethan, whom he had settled within Flame Mountain, seemed to have sensed something. Ethan flapped his wide wings and flew from the valley of Flame Mountain in the distance.

“Roar!”

The dragon’s roar was a greeting to Liszt.

“Ethan, the environment around Flame Mountain isn’t bad, right?” Liszt appeared in form and looked at the Light Green Gemstone Dragon flying closer, communicating via Dragon Heart Electrical Signal.

“Roar!”

When Ethan flew to the mid-level of the adjacent slope, he didn’t approach any closer. He didn’t like the Formless Dragon, so naturally, he stopped there. However, the spot of the mountain he chose wasn’t good; the rock on the slope couldn’t bear his weight of over a hundred tons and was directly crushed, causing a landslide.

Fortunately, Ethan reacted quickly and took flight again.

However, Liszt noticed the slope crushed by Ethan, revealing a patch of milky-white mountain. At that moment, he and Bard were still using their Crystal White View. In the Crystal White View, the milky-white mountain flickered with a pale, chaotic light, the luminescence of magic power feedback.

With a thought, the man and dragon had already flown there.

Liszt jumped down directly from the dragon’s back, climbed to the location of the landslide, and upon looking with the naked eye, his eyebrows raised: “Jade!”

In an instant, he understood – this must be the Jade Vein that was the reward from the previous Smoke Mission.

He took out a Bone Hammer, tapping and cracking the surrounding rock. After the rock shattered, a series of milky-white Jade Veins were indeed exposed.

Bard showed no interest in the Jade Vein, dozing off to the side.

But Ethan rushed over excitedly: “Roar!” Upon seeing the trace of Jade exposed on the mountain, the whole dragon became exhilarated–feeling a delightful transformation from a chicken nest to a Phoenix Perch Parasol.

He originally thought that Liszt had randomly placed him in desolate ridges, but unexpectedly, there was a Jade Mine buried here.

“Roar!”

He extended his forelimbs and claws, gently sliding beside the Jade Vein next to Liszt. Instantly, he sliced through a vein, with half-rock, half-jade raw stones rolling everywhere and revealing an even richer Jade Vein deep within the mountain—what was seen before was just the outer layer of the vein.

“Alright, Ethan, don’t waste it; I’ll send people over to extract the Jade Mine. When the time comes, you’ll get your share. Eat as much as you want!”

“Roar!”

“I have a task for you: go scratch around a few other mountains and see how extensive this Jade Mine is.”

With Jade as motivation, Ethan was easy to talk to, immediately taking to the air. Flying to the mid-slope of a neighboring mountain, his claws casually scraped out new milky-white Jade Veins. He scratched ten peaks in succession, all harboring Jade Mines, with an entire subsidiary mountain range beneath them veined with Jade.

The reserves were conservatively estimated to exceed a hundred thousand tons.

On the market, Jade is sold by weight. Suddenly having a Jade Mine of a hundred thousand tons undoubtedly made Liszt feel like he was smacked by a bathtub full of large gold ingots.

“If this entire Jade Vein is excavated, it should be enough for my use for a hundred years!”

“Roar!”

Ethan roared to express his thoughts. He wanted Liszt to help him establish a Dragon Nest here immediately, and from now on he would settle in this “Jade Mountain.” As an adult dragon, he also smartly expressed that as long as the Jade supply was plentiful, producing Light Green Gemstone Mines wouldn’t be an issue.

“Good, your Dragon Nest will be built here. I will immediately send people… However, it’ll have to wait until after the New Year since the routes to Whirlpool Mountain and Flame Mountain haven’t been opened yet.”

Ethan nodded to show he understood.

Then he simply lay on the exposed Jade Vein, comfortably basking in the sun, with the thought in his mind—mine, mine, all mine!