Chapter 196: The Dragon’s Treasure

After knocking Draven out, who was going crazy wanting to return to research the ingredients of the potion, Kaelen massaged his glabella, saying to Sane:

"It seems I must supervise him making potions tomorrow. Fortunately it was poured onto the tree, forcefully stuffing it into someone’s mouth would be strange if they did not explode to death!"

Sane looked at the towering tree, highly agreeing with Kaelen’s viewpoint. It was just that looking at this tree, he temporarily did not know how to explain to Chief Leon. Should he say the Warrior could not control the Beast Energy so accidentally over-ripened it?

What to do if they demanded a live demonstration on the spot?

If they told the truth that Draven poured potion on it, people would probably tie them up to force them to spit out the recipe!

"Chief Lord, do not worry, just leave it to me!"

Chloe saw Sane being worried and anxious, jumping out to volunteer herself. Chloe’s pinky-sized body was seen instantly inflating, becoming as tall as an adult. The little girl stretched her two tentacles to touch the tree trunk, her whole body emitting a red light.

Chloe shouted loudly: "Withered Wood!"

The tree immediately seemed to have its life drained, the leaves along with the green fruits from high above becoming withered, falling down scattered. Waiting for the tree to completely wither, Chloe said again: "Deconstruct!"

The tree was immediately divided into multiple parts, beginning to disintegrate from the top down. Before touching the ground, it had already turned into a layer of wood dust. A small portion of wood dust flew with the wind to rush into everyone’s noses, momentarily causing coughing sounds to resound all around.

Outside the guest area, a beastman raised his head to see the giant ancient tree right in the middle of the tribe, unbelievably raising his hand to rub his eyes once.

He immediately saw the ancient tree that just had lush branches and leaves now only left with a bare tree trunk. Not believing in ghosts, he continued to rub his eyes once more. After rubbing his eyes, he tilted his head to look again, only seeing a starry sky, how could there be any tree there anymore.

The beastman was dumbfounded, muttering: "I must be severely sleep-deprived so I hallucinated, I should go back to sleep."

In the courtyard, Kaelen looked at the pile of wood dust as fine as being ground three times through a grinder, his two eyes lighting up: "We have materials to make paper! Chloe, your post-mutation skill is truly top-notch!"

Chloe could not answer. The life energy in that overly nourished tree was extremely high, the little girl only just entering Evolution two, fundamentally unable to absorb so much at once. After using the Deconstruct skill, a small amount of energy had been withdrawn, but the little girl’s body still could not bear it.

Chloe immediately jumped onto Finnick’s head, placing her two tentacles on the middle of the boy’s forehead, transmitting some energy in.

Finnick only felt his body slightly inflating like a leather ball, hurriedly shouting: "I am about to explode! Do not transmit energy in anymore!"

Chloe was anxious to death, shifting her target to Ryder who had fallen into a deep sleep in Sane’s arms. The little girl wrapped around the little mouse, transmitting the boiling energy source in her body in.

It must be said that Chloe hit blindly yet hit the mark. Ryder’s space was currently severely lacking spiritual power, fundamentally being a bottomless spiritual power-sucking hole. Whatever amount of energy Chloe transmitted in, it sucked all of it.

Nova was sitting leaning next to Ryder’s spiritual entity, seeing a massive amount of life spiritual power overflowing in, her two eyes shining brightly. She hurriedly opened the protective barrier around the transparent crystal, letting Ryder’s spiritual entity suck all this abundant spiritual power source. Ryder’s spiritual entity brightened a little bit more.

Edward was wandering at the edge of the fog inside the space, trying to find a way to connect with his own space. The fog suddenly vibrated once, beginning to drift away as if blown by the wind, revealing a spacious land area. If the initial space only had trees and a spiritual spring, now it had an additional overlapping mountain range.

Edward was slightly stunned, braving himself to walk close to the cliff to examine. The closer he got, the clearer the shape of the mountain became, Edward horrifiedly discovering this was no mountain at all.

This place was a pile of miscellaneous items piled up to form a mountain. Besides the things he had seen such as weapons and potion making tools, Edward also saw a lot of fabrics, this fabric being much lighter and softer compared to fabric woven from grass fibers. In addition, there was also a pile of glowing plants, along with flat round yellow pieces.

The thing attracting Edward was the magic stones, a mountain of magic stones of all colors mixed together, even having magic stones as tall as an adult. Edward’s eyes surged with endless joy. Was everyone not worrying where to go exchange for pure magic stones the size of a one-year-old beast cub?!

There is a whole pile right here!!!

The fog only blew to one-third of the mountain range before stopping. Edward knew there might still be many other strange treasures inside, but he could not walk into the fog, having to sluggishly use his tail to wrap a giant magic core to bring back.

Arriving back, he saw Nova was angry to the point of punching her chest and stomping her feet: "Why is it gone?! Only transmitted a tiny bit, hurry up to continue transmitting?!"

Edward firmly believed that the fog transformation incident just now was related to the things Nova said. He swung his tail to throw the stone to fall with a thud a short distance away from Nova, causing the little girl to startle and scream loudly. The culprit acted nonchalantly as if nothing happened, quickly slithering over, speaking happily:

"Nova, quickly look. The fog dissipated a segment just now, revealing a lot of things. There is a mountain of magic stones there, every single one is huge like this!"

Nova was slightly stunned. As far as she knew, the size of this space had reached its maximum limit, unable to increase anymore. Unless, the fog barrier opened, connecting to another spatial dimension.

The little girl stared intently at Edward, saying: "Master Edward, your space and Master Ryder’s space can resonate with each other, right?"

Edward nodded: "I thought you were supposed to know this?"

Nova took a deep breath. She indeed knew, but was one subject dead without a corpse while the other subject was in a coma, how did they resonate their spaces?!

"Quickly lead me to see that area!"

Edward immediately led Nova to the place he discovered. Nova surprisingly flew around the pile of jewels and magic stones, there was also a pile of magical artifacts without any spiritual energy left, her heart becoming increasingly terrified. The little girl swooped down, landing on Edward’s head to press him: "Did your space have these things before?"

Edward was blank: "Of course not. The space containing me was only as big as a bedroom, bare with entirely dry cracked earth. Apart from being able to freely enter and exit alongside storing my spiritual power, it had no fucking use at all!"

Nova felt her whole body disintegrating. The little girl lay flat on Edward’s snake head, her hand grabbing his young horn, howling:

"What do you mean by no use?!!! This is the Dragon’s treasure space!!! It is a Dragon!!! That is the strongest ferocious beast of the ancient times, possessing absolutely peerless strength. The hobby of Dragons is collecting all kinds of treasures and jewels in the world, bringing them back to line their nests to lie on.

The Dragon’s treasure is something that even the Gods must drool over, who would have thought that after going missing it would choose a Soaring Snake clan cub like you as its master! I see Chloe was not wrong, your family truly possesses all the luck in the world!"

Edward was stunned, unbelievably asking Nova back: "You say this is my space? Impossible, why would my space turn into this?"

Nova sighed: "It can no longer be called your space now, it must be the space of you and Master Ryder. The two spaces no longer resonate but have completely merged with each other. Master Edward, you are also my master now without even needing to sign a contract."

Edward’s snake body stiffened, his jaw dropping to the ground, unbelievably staring intently at the things before his eyes. A moment later he also regained his senses, happily wagging his tail to slither to the treasure pile, hugging a giant magic stone. The boy’s two eyes narrowed happily: "I definitely must bring this pile out for my fathers tomorrow!"

Nova poured a bucket of cold water on him: "You dream beautifully. You can still bring that pile of things without spiritual energy out, but do not even think about magic stones and magical potions. Taking them out will instantly collapse the space!"

Edward was blank: "Why?"

"Because it needs too much spiritual energy of course. Wanting to take this level-five magical potion plant out would consume half of the space’s spiritual energy, let alone high-level magical potions and magic stones. Dragons never pick up worthless things, so I guess the lowest-level magic core here must also reach level four.

You taking one out would make the space lose half of its spiritual energy, at that time not only I will weaken but even you and Master Ryder will also weaken along. That is a losing business!"

That was the reason why every time Nova only let Edward go outside for two hours, and every time taking fruits and spiritual spring water also had limited quantities.

Because the consumed spiritual energy amount was more than the replenished spiritual energy amount, if they made the spiritual energy inside the space deplete, the three of them could just wait to rot together inside this space until finding a new master!

Edward dejectedly dropped his head down, the whole snake looking gloomy. Nova could not bear to strike the boy, hurriedly saying:

"However, this pile of things without spiritual energy can be brought out as much as you like. Look at this sword, although having no spiritual energy anymore, it was forged from extremely rare spiritual iron. Look at the patterns on this sword blade, this is the characteristic symbol of the Dwarf clan, they are exactly the darlings of the God of Forging. All kinds of magical artifacts across the Great World in the Ancient times originated from their hands.

It is just a pity that after the Great World was divided, no one knows the entrance to the Dwarf clan’s Ruins anymore, the mining and forging methods also being lost from then on. Except for the Elf clan and the Human clan who could still figure out a portion themselves, the other clans all returned to the Stone Age..."

Edward blinked his eyes: "Chloe has never mentioned those things, does that mean you are older than Chloe?"

Nova puffed out her chest: "Of course! When I swept across the Great World with my former master, her mother tree might not have even been born yet, let alone herself!"

Yet that damn Wood Spirit took advantage of the time when she was still weak to beat her like beating a child!

Nova clenched her fists, silently swearing to definitely uproot Chloe completely when she became stronger later!!!