The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

This chapter is a bonus update from "Radish Geng 01".

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"The reward for mining the Light Green Gemstone Mine is a shattered jade?"

In this world, there is jade, a type of gemstone, colored emerald green, which many Elves like to consume as jade powder. However, a piece of shattered jade clearly isn't sufficient as a reward for the Smoke Mission—even if sometimes the Smoke Mission uses readily available resources as rewards, they have never been this cheap.

"So the shattered jade isn't just any jade, it's very likely…"

Liszt's heart suddenly raced uncontrollably, trying to suppress but unable to restrain the wild thoughts in his mind, "It's very likely related to clues about the Jade Dragon!"

The Jade Dragon, one of the five Sacred Dragons, represents the power of dreams, and it's said to be able to enter the dreams of any creature.

All the Sacred Dragons truly exist, Liszt firmly believed in this, so the Jade Dragon must also truly exist. He had fantasized more than once about the different abilities of the Sacred Dragons—the Formless Dragon, resembling a special Gemstone Dragon, can produce Space Gems; the Smoke Dragon holds the power of fate, changing destiny at will.

The Immortal Dragon probably possesses eternal life, whereas the Twilight Dragon has the ability to alter time. As for the powers of the Jade Dragon, Liszt had also thought a lot about it.

There are generally two directions to speculate.

One is the dream world, linking the dreams of all creatures, similar to the Emerald Dream protected by the Green Dragons in "World of Warcraft", which is a reflection of the real world.

Another is mental power, manipulating creatures' thoughts through entering dreams, just like the legendary nightmares that trap people in endless torment.

"Shattered jade, Mind Island, Mind Fruit Tree, Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit!" Liszt, riding the Landwalker Bird Loki, calculated like a fortune teller, "I should've realized, the Mind Fruit Tree, such an incredible plant, even Space Gems can't stop it, it's definitely extraordinary!"

Dragon magic has an extreme nature, belonging to a unique class of Superior Magic, Super-energy Magic Power.

Thus, ordinary items definitely can't break the dominance of Superior Magic; only magic of the same level can counteract each other. The Mind Fruit Tree is clearly a product of Superior Magic, just like Space Gems.

"Could the shattered jade refer to the remains of the Jade Dragon? Upon its remains grows the Mind Fruit Tree, and the Mind Fruit Tree has produced Bewildering Dragon Mind Fruit because it possesses the powerful mental powers of the Jade Dragon, thus the Mind Fruit can bind the minds of dragons!"

From the current clues, this is the most reasonable speculation.

Having thought everything through, Liszt had already returned to Thorn Castle and found Ach, who was drawing nautical charts, "Ach, pause your work, come with me to Mind Island."

"Brother, are you in a hurry to mine the gem mines on Mind Island?" Ach was a bit reluctant to leave; she was now captivated by the Magic Teleportation Array.
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"Very much so because there might be clues about another dragon hidden on Mind Island!"

Ach also likes dragons, and upon hearing the clues about a dragon, she immediately put down her work, "Another new dragon? That's great, brother can ride a new dragon."

Magicians cannot ride dragons, yet the love for dragons is in everyone's heart.

Moreover, for Ach, dragons are excellent research material. Initially, the nearly dead Light Green Gemstone Dragon Ethan had provided her with a wealth of information to explore the mysteries of magic. To this day, she would from time to time ask Liszt to let her study Leo.

And so, they set off, and on the way, Ach asked, "Brother, what kind of dragon's clues did you find?"

"It's a Jade Dragon."

"Sapphire Duke, you mentioned the Jade Dragon representing dreams?" Ach wasn't overly surprised, as she already knew about the Formless Dragon and was prepared for the Sacred Dragons.

"It might just be the remains of a Jade Dragon."

"Remains?"

"Yes, even dragons die, but it's unclear why they didn't die in the legendary Valley of Dragons, but here, in the Sea of Azure Waves." Liszt was really curious about what had happened to these powerful dragons, starting with the Smoke Dragon, which seemed to be dead, its power inhabiting his body.

Then he encountered a dragon that seemed to be in its youth, the Formless Dragon, not knowing whether it had been resurrected after death; followed by finding the remains of a Fire Dragon, from which Little Fire Dragon Leo was born.

Now, there appeared to be remains of a Jade Dragon.

Counting it up, there were exactly four dragons intersecting in the Sea of Azure Waves, among them three Sacred Dragons, one Elemental Dragon. There were too many unknown secrets that baffled him, so much so that Liszt even wondered whether the Sea of Azure Waves was the legendary Valley of Dragons, but he felt it couldn't be possible.

However, the Fire Dragon had died thousands of years ago, even the dragon bones, which almost never decay, had degraded to ordinary bones.

In a trance.

Mind Island had arrived; from afar, Liszt understood what "the anomaly of Mind Island" meant—the island was enveloped in a layer of light green mist emitting light, clearly the power of the Light Green Gemstone Mine, mingling with the free magic power in the air to form a misty aura.

Sapphire Duke had told Liszt that the gemstone mine sometimes formed a gemstone mist under special weather conditions.

"We must mine it as soon as possible to prevent Mind Island from being discovered by others!" Such an anomaly could be seen from a great distance, making it extremely exposed.

Moments later, they landed on Mind Island.

Liszt immediately took out a Bone Spade and began to dig where the Mind Fruit Tree had previously grown. After digging through a meter of soil, they gradually reached the rock layer. He forcefully chiseled the rock and discovered that inside the rock were visible Light Green Crystal raw stones, clusters of light green glimmers twinkling.

Upon close inspection, one could even see Light Green Gems, as large as a fist, inside some of the crystals.

These raw stones had to be handed over to the Crystal Craftsman to be carefully cut open, so that the gemstones growing inside could be extracted without damaging the overall structure of the crystals.

Liszt simply stored the raw stones in his Space Ring and continued digging.

After chiseling through a three-meter-thick layer of rock, he excavated dozens of Light Green Crystal raw stones, yet hadn't reached the shattered jade he had hypothesized about.

However, he wasn't in a hurry. Although Mind Island was a small island, it had an elevation of at least several tens of meters. The broken jade might just be hidden within those thick layers of rock... From digging during the day to nightfall, taking a brief sleep, then continuing to dig, from three meters deep to ten meters.

Even for a Dragon Knight with a formidable physique, it was exhausting. The Bone Spades and Bone Chisels made from Fire Dragon Bones broke more than a dozen times.

Finally, on the afternoon of the third day, they had dug through the distribution layer of the Light Green Gemstone Mine.

Next, they pried open layer upon layer of a type of jade-like green shale, brushing off the rock powder, and finally exposed a vibrant and beautiful vivid green.

Despite both being green, the green of the shale above was only jade-grade, yet this touch of green was indescribably verdant.

"It's like the tender sprouts of a freshly sprouted tree, vibrant life coursing through it! Ach, come see, I've found the remains of the Jade Dragon!" Liszt gripping the Bone Spade, his fatigue swept away, "Beneath Mind Island indeed lies the corpse of the Jade Dragon!"