Chapter 581
Chapter 581 Wind Dragon’s Treasure
The conversation with Oliven was pleasant and relaxed.
Both parties had no conflict of interest. They had both come to Lance in hopes of gaining something out of it. They were all looking to obtain as much as they could from the dragons.
The planar wars in the past were all-in situations. The conflicts revolved around the ruling position of the plane and the winner would take all. However, Lance was different. If all the dragon lords came together, they would have enough power to crush Greem’s tiny faction a hundred times over.
Force wasn’t a solution. A softer, more peaceful plan had to be put into action.
A firmly established base for logistics would first be constructed with the Stonetalon Mountains as the center of it all. They would then slowly project their power outward. First, they would deal with the Second Grade dragons. One by one, they would take care of these ‘shut-in’ dragons that kept to themselves.
However, the strength of the dragons wasn’t uniform. It was still difficult to assure the capture of all the dragons, even if Greem’s faction had three Second Grades. That was why it was good to have Oliven join them. She was the bane of the dragons and could achieve a tremendous effect at crucial moments.
However, she was a far too conspicuous dragon-slaying blade. If news of her got out to the dragons, Greem would be implicated. Thus, how to best use Oliven became the greatest test of Greem’s combat intelligence.
Take Second Grade Wind Dragon Cherkes for example. If he were brought back to the World of Adepts, he could sell for eight hundred thousand magical crystals at the very least. The price could even go much, much higher. However, if Cherkes were dead, he would probably only fetch about three hundred thousand crystals.
Apart from the scrolls, there were also plenty of magical beast crystal cores in the wind dragon’s treasure. There were as many as five Second Grade crystal cores. Regrettably, there were no dragon crystals mixed within.
It was actually a reasonably normal observation. No dragon would collect the remains of their own species unless they were some perverted and twisted dragon. In fact, the dragons would actively attack those other species that owned weapons or equipment created from dragon materials.
If one were to include the crystal cores that Greem had been collecting over the past few decades, the number of Second Grade crystal cores that Greem possessed now numbered in the double digits. There were a total of twenty-one cores now.
The past him might have been unable to suppress the desire to turn all these crystal cores into suitable elementium golems. However, he had continuously been busy ever since he had advanced to Second Grade. He had almost no time to research and improve upon his elementium golem creation technique.
The First Grade elementium golems of the past were of little help to him now.
Much like the battle against the wind dragon earlier, Greem hadn’t summoned any of his elementium golems. Even if he had placed them on the battlefield, they wouldn’t have been of much obvious use in a battle against Second Grade creatures. Unless he could simultaneously put out double digits worth of First Grade elite golems, he was better off using his time to chant a Second Grade spell.
The correct way of doing things at this juncture was to custom-make some suitable Second Grade golems for himself. That was a project that would consume a lot of his time and energy.
The magical tomes they found in the wind dragon’s treasure were mostly magical notes and observations of otherworldly spellcasters. Though it wasn’t possible to thoroughly understand their magic systems through those notes, they still provided Greem with plenty of knowledge and experience.
In particular, a certain Gulliver’s Travels described several strange worlds that Greem had never even heard of. The details between the lines made Greem confident that the author had been a powerful spellcaster at or above Fourth Grade. That was because details about travels in the space beyond the realms had been recorded at the end of all the other stories.
In the World of Adepts, only the Great Adepts were capable of venturing out into space alone. Fourth Grade adepts could barely achieve this as well, but they were very prone to death if they ran into star beasts or starbound species. The chances of their demise were over 70% when that happened.
Greem unexpectedly discovered a mysterious alchemy spell within the knowledge crystal after looking through all the treasure.