The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Chapter 732: Chapter 0729: Crystal Firmiana (Second Update)
 

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What is the meaning of studying the stars and astronomy after all?

He knew that time, direction, and the calendar relied on astronomical studies, meaning that astronomy facilitated historical records, and summarizing the solar terms through the calendar was beneficial to agricultural labor.

But what else did it mean?

Liszt stroked his chin, squinted his eyes, and thought rapidly, “Do I have to transplant the whole zodiac system here, relying on the constellations to study personality, fortune, love matches?” Such “knowledge” seemed rather pointless, except maybe for flirtation with young girls.

However, he soon thought of a significant use.

He spoke seriously to Ach, “Don’t think that there’s no use in studying astronomy. In fact, astronomy could have a huge use. Do you remember the legend about the Moon Empire, the one that says there’s a teleportation array to the moon? Do you think we could build such a teleportation array without studying astronomy?”

“Ah?”

Ach was indeed shocked, “Brother makes a good point. Without astronomical guidance, humans couldn’t possibly set foot on the moon. Although I don’t know whether the teleportation array of the Moon Empire is real or not, if we live on a planet and the moon is also a planet, perhaps it harbors life as well.”

“Exactly.” Liszt nodded lightly, even he started to believe his own rhetoric.

Many legends had been proven to be true, so the teleportation array of the Moon Empire might not be a fabrication. If there really was a teleportation array to the moon, he would definitely step through it one day in the future, to take a tour of the moon and see what the landscape was like there.

In reality, the Mage Tower in his territory, under Chris’ supervision, had always been researching the Message Transmission Magic Circle, using the Magic Web as a base for exchanging information.

If the Message Transmission Magic Circle were successfully researched, it might be possible to further investigate a Teleportation Array that could transport objects.

Of course, the best approach would be to uncover some relics and directly obtain the Moon Empire’s teleportation array technology; by that time, distance might no longer be a limitation.

Regardless, the instruction for observing the stars officially began.

Pulling out the telescope, Liszt demonstrated to Ach how to observe celestial bodies—he had used the telescope to watch the sky frequently since he invented it, so he had the experience. However, due to the precision limitations of the telescope itself, astronomical observation was difficult, not to mention that calculating celestial trajectories involved complex computations.

This area was completely foreign to him.

After all, his math was terrible; he was okay with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, but that was it.

“Brother, since the telescope uses the principle of concave and convex lenses, could Ach directly manipulate water to make a telescope?”

“Well, it’s not impossible, but just stacking lenses isn’t enough. You also need a tube to protect the light source.”

“What about this?” With a wave of her hand, Ach caused countless streams of water to converge in front of her. The water quickly formed a cylindrical shape and through a special arrangement turned into an opaque dark frosted surface, with another two streams shaped as concave and convex lenses set within the tube.

Thus, a telescope was made on the spot.

“Brother, with Ach’s crafted telescope you can see the stars in the sky!”

“Hmm.” Liszt was a bit envious of Ach’s ability. Her control over water was indeed powerful, “Nice, nice, you’ve already mastered the basic principle. Now, keep trying to adjust the thickness of the lenses and the combination of positions between the tube and the objective lens to find the most suitable magnification for observation.”

He quickly lost interest in instructing Ach how to watch the stars, allowing her to earnestly adjust her water-made telescope.

He himself lay on the back of the Light Green Gemstone Dragon, lost in thought.

The Dragon Dou Qi Manual, Light Green Gemstone Mine, Mutated Firmiana Tree, surnames and Kingdom names, material assistance, title changes, the response of the Eagle Kingdom, and countless other thoughts flickered in his mind.

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The night deepened, and before I knew it, I had fallen asleep.

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By the next day before dawn broke, Liszt had already woken up.

He discovered that, at some point, Ach had crawled into his arms, sleeping against him intimately, her small body slightly cool. The early winter frost had gathered on both their armor and Ach’s magic cloak—they had forgotten to set up the tent last night and had not taken out the Temperature Calming Pearl.

Fortunately, both he and Ach had far superior constitutions than ordinary people, so this bit of cold was nothing to them.

Ach was a light sleeper, and the minute movements from Liszt as he awoke had already startled her. She stretched and hopped off Liszt’s body, greeting him before going off to fetch her toiletries to clean up. Liszt also rolled off the Light Green Gemstone Dragon.

Wash his face, brush his teeth, a simple clean-up.

Then, he used the Eye of Magic to observe the Alsophila spinulosa forest. Right away, he noticed something abnormal. The entire forest exuded a light green radiance resembling that of the Light Green Gemstone Dragon. However, upon closer inspection, slight differences could be discerned.

The Magic Radiance of the Light Green Gemstone Dragon was more solid in color, while that of the Alsophila spinulosa forest was more faint.

He broke off a leaf and sensed it, instantly realizing that the Magic Radiance of the Alsophila spinulosa was just Low Magic, which differed in nature from the High Magic emanating from the Light Green Gemstone Dragon.

“So these Alsophila spinulosa have become magic potions?”

If that was the case, it could be considered a bountiful harvest—Dragon magic could indeed infect magic potions. Yet, his gaze landed on several Alsophila spinulosa that had an even richer glow, all of which were close to the body of the Light Green Gemstone Dragon. The trunks, branches, and leaves of these trees seemed to be turning transparent.

He plucked off a piece of bark and examined it, quickly noticing the changes: “This seems like the Alsophila spinulosa trees are not gradually turning into magic potions, but into stone… or rather, into crystal?” Especially one of the Alsophila spinulosa, whose many leaves had completely crystallized.

Through the detection by the Eye of Magic, half of the leaves had turned into real crystal, while the remaining leaves were only partially crystallized, still gathering magic slowly.

“Ach, come take a look.”

“I’m coming.”

After Ach took a look, she was equally surprised, “Brother, these Alsophila spinulosa trees have actually grown into real crystals, look at this leaf, there’s no difference from crystal.”

Liszt said directly, “You compare the crystal and the leaves carefully, see what the differences are.”

“Alright.”

While he instructed Ach to make comparisons, Liszt continued to observe the entire Alsophila spinulosa forest, gradually noticing a pattern—the closer to the Light Green Gemstone Dragon the Alsophila spinulosa were, the higher their degree of crystallization, and the mature, thicker trees also showed a greater degree of crystallization, with the mature parts of leaves crystallizing first.

“It’s like they start to crystallize after maturation, while the immature parts continue to grow…” He concluded within an hour that this patch of Alsophila spinulosa had mutated into “Crystal Alsophila spinulosa”—trees that could grow into crystal and would directly crystallize upon maturation.

On the back of the crystallized leaves were rings of red bands, resembling the “seeds” of the Alsophila spinulosa. These seeds had not crystallized.

On the contrary, with a swipe of his hand, he could see many tiny seeds scattering into the air.

Each tiny seed carried a faint, almost invisible Magic Radiance, spreading everywhere.

He couldn’t help but summon the Smoke Mission.

“Mission completed, reward: a large patch of Crystal Alsophila spinulosa.”