Chapter 132 - Dragon's Eye
The rumbling explosion echoed in the cave, and the stone walls around seemed to tremble. Small pebbles spattered, and hit their bodies, bringing them great pain. Dirt and gravel mingled in the air, covering their faces in dust. Lin Li rolled up his sleeves and wiped his face, and the thick dust shook off like flour.
This was a typical blast mining method known to Lin Li, but it was the crudest and the most dangerous one. Not to mention it was easy to hurt someone, it was likely to injure the accompanying gemstones as well. Lin Li would not have done so if it hadn’t been for the limited conditions.
The most precious part of the Eternal Adamantine vein was its accompanying gemstones, such as the Infused Crystal, which was something that couldn’t be sought, but only found by chance. If one of them was damaged in the explosion, it’d be too late for Lin Li to cry over it.
However, there was no other way. The conditions here were too primitive—there was no chance for them to mine the more difficult ones.
“So many minerals, how are you going to ship them out…” Andoine looked doubtful. The Eternal Adamantine was terribly heavy. The largest piece probably weighed 100 or 200 kilograms. It would take a day or two to move them all out even for someone with a freaky physical like Sean.
“Too simple.” Lin Li grinned mysteriously as he quietly opened the Ring of Endless Storm.
His right hand, which wore the Ring of Endless Storm, seemed to possess a mysterious power. Where his hand reached, the minerals were swept away in an instant. Half of the mineral piles were swept away by him in just a moment’s time.
Lin Li felt a gush of warmth to his heart, but merely smiled. “Did you forget how I practiced elemental sequencing?”
“Oh, true…” Andoine chortled at the mention of this. It was then that he remembered the kind of monster standing before him—it was someone who had practiced elemental sequencing all day long. Although he was still a Magic Shooter, his mental strength was far beyond this category.
“Ready.” Lin Li tightened his grip on the Winter Staff; his voice was slightly hoarse.
“One!”
“Two!”
“Three!”
“Boom!”
The three of them only felt the ground tremble in the earth-shaking explosion. The power of five Air Bomb scrolls unleashed at the same time was equivalent to the magic spells of an Archmage. At that moment, Lin Li even felt that the whole cave had collapsed; large tracts of rubble spattered, and there was a sharp whistling sound in the air. Clouds of dust filled the air—the whole area was as dark as if a sandstorm was brewing.
With the previous lesson, the three men crouched down almost at the same time with their hands held over their heads as the rubble smashed down on their backs—the burning pain was as if they had been whipped.
It was unknown how long had passed before the cave gradually quieted down.
Lin Li stood up with some apprehension.
Then, he saw that there seemed to be a few glimmers of light among the minerals that were all over the ground…
“Indeed…”
Lin Li suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, and slowly walked to the spot of light.
It was a Dragon’s Eye about the size of a fist. This was a really good thing. It was said that after the death of the ancient dragon, the pair of eyes would turn into a gemstone with the passage of time.
Granted—legends were just legends, and it was difficult to verify the authenticity of it.
But one thing was for sure.
Legendary dragons were all natural spellcasters. Even newly born dragons could use their dragon roars to unleash a magic spell strong enough to destroy the world. In that distant yet barbaric era, the violent magical elements in the war between the dragons and the titans had torn the whole world apart.
And the Dragon’s Eye had a similar power as well.
A Dragon’s Eye naturally contained a spell, but no one knew what kind of spell it was and how it came into being. Even Lin Li—a man so erudite he was unlike a human being—had not been able to fully understand its mystery.
He only knew that the bigger the Dragon’s Eye was, the higher the level of spell it contained.
Lin Li had seen numerous Dragon’s Eyes back in the Endless World.
However, most of the Dragon’s Eyes were only the size of the thumb, and the spells contained in them were the likes of the wind blade and icicle. Usually, they were inlaid on rings, and used as underhand tricks.
Lin Li felt that the gemstone before them was too much—it was the size of a fist, and probably contained a spell of at least the Magic Shooter level.
This was no joke…
The spell contained in Dragon’s Eye was not like the low-level stuff from the magic scrolls. It was completely instantaneous, and did not require the control of mental strength. There was no need for elemental sequencing, and there was not even a level restriction for it. Only a trace of mana input was needed to directly activate the spell contained in the Dragon’s Eye.
Think about it. A spell of the Magic Shooter level could be released anytime and anywhere—and it was even in an instantaneous outburst. If it was unleashed out of the blue, it could probably even take down an Archmage by surprise.
If there were any shortcomings, it would be the mana.
Dragon’s Eyes were naturally endowed with a magic spell, but they had no source of mana. After this spell was used once, it had to be supplemented, be it from a magical crystal or a mage. In short, it was necessary to input enough mana into it to restore the Dragon’s Eye’s terrifying magic ability.
But when a monster like Lin Li came by it, even its only shortcoming seemed insignificant. How would he worry about the problem of insufficient mana with his almost-infinite mana?
Compared to this, it was the size of the Dragon’s Eye that had him troubled—it was simply too big…
Lin Li had never seen such a large Dragon’s Eye. It was certainly impossible to set it on a ring. Even with such a big ring, Lin Li did not have fingers that were thick enough to wear it…
In addition to this Dragon’s Eye, there were several accompanying gemstones scattered around it.
Lin Li glanced at the heap of minerals, and spotted a Heart of Gaia.
The Heart of Gaia was not small, either—it was the size of an egg.
The Heart of Gaia was a good item. The earth element contained in it was surprisingly massive. If they were embedded on any equipment, even if it was just an ordinary blouse, it could become invulnerable in an instant.
Lin Li was about to bend down to pick up the Heart of Gaia when he discovered something else.
Among the fine pieces of and Eternal Adamantine, a crystal of astonishing size was emitting a faint magical aura…
Lin Li’s eyes almost fell out as he looked at the crystal.
It was not only Lin Li’s eyes that almost fell out, but also Andoine who had just hurried forward.
“Oh my God…” Andoine’s voice sounded like a somniloquy; he was really suspecting that he was dreaming. This Crystal of Eternity was just too big. It was lying quietly among the pile of minerals, reflecting a brilliant halo under the Illuminating Spell.
Andoine estimated the volume of the Crystal of Eternity—it was probably larger than his head!
If this were to be carved into potion bottles, then at least ten of it could be carved out.
At the thought of the ten potion bottles carved from the Crystal of Eternity being arranged in the potion lab, Andoine’s aged face was beaming like a flower in full bloom.
The old man had even thought out a scene in his mind—when the ten bottles were carved, he would show them off in the Pharmacists Guild. He wondered what would the expression on Burnside’s face be like when he saw the bottles.
The old man’s satisfaction grew as he stared at the Crystal of Eternity.
By this time, Lin Li had filtered all the gemstones.
The harvest for this trip was far beyond his expectations. In addition to the Eternal Adamantine, there was a fist-sized Dragon’s Eye, an egg-sized Heart of Gaia, and a terrifying Crystal of Eternity.
It was a pity to him that there was no Infused Crystal—the one he wanted most—in the pile of minerals.
However, he soon cast it aside after thinking it through. The Infused Crystal was something that could be met, but not sought. In a thousand Eternal Adamantine veins, it was not necessarily possible to dig a piece of it out.
After blasting the veins, they’d naturally divide the loots.
First on the list was the huge Crystal of Eternity. Andoine stood up and called dibs on the crystal in exchange for all his wealth. Lin Li pouted, and thought to himself, I know very well about how little your assets are. You’re trying to exchange such a huge crystal with what little you have? It’ll be good enough for you to exchange them for an amethyst potion bottle.