The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 339 Silver Star Sea
After finishing concocting the blinding potion, Moran used a silencing spell to envelop herself and walked forward.

This time, no gray-eyed piranhas were attracted.

She safely reached the bottom of the cave where the half-exposed silver-gray gem was located.

As they got closer, Moran could clearly see the spatial magic energy on it.

It's a space magic gem, but only a basic one.

Something is better than nothing. With her spatial manipulation skills, given enough time and enough attempts, upgrading it to a high level should be no problem.

Moreover, the exposed portion of this spatial magic gem is already half the size of a fist, and the entire thing will only get bigger.

It contains a lot of spatial energy, and the space that can be used to create spatial magic items will be larger.

It's a treasure from every perspective.

Moran wasn't in a hurry to mine the ore. Instead, he used a gold-detecting technique to probe the surrounding rock layers, hoping to find other mineral deposits nearby.

She was astonished when she explored; the gold-detecting technique revealed a silvery sea of ​​stars.

What does this mean? It means that this area is teeming with spatial magic gems.

Moran's breathing became rapid.

Are the underground mineral deposits in the outer area really that rich? This is a space magic gem that's rare even on the entire continent of Valen!
After the initial surprise, Moran immediately climbed into the cave and began digging with his mining skills.

One fist-sized space magic gem after another fell into her hand.

Basic Space Gem, Intermediate Space Gem, Basic Space Gem...

The jewels piled up like a small mountain at her feet.

As Moran was digging, he suddenly looked down at the small mountain of gems at his feet and wondered why they all seemed to be about the same size.
The thought struck her, and her heart skipped a beat: "No way!"

Moran used his gold-detecting technique again to examine the area containing the Space Stone even more carefully.

The rock between the magic gems seemed to be slightly porous.

Each of the space magic gems was about the size of her fist, only their shapes and angles were different.

The quality of the gems varied, with some being low-grade magic gems and others being mid-grade magic gems.

The more I look at it, the more it resembles a mineral vein that has been eaten by mineral monsters.

Like a bucket of cold water being poured over him, the excitement and exhilaration of discovering a large number of spatial magic gems vanished instantly, and he calmed down immediately.

The Mineral Bug is a very rare type of magical insect that feeds on minerals.

Ordinary ores are just snacks for them; magical ores are their favorite.

After consuming magical ores, they will simulate the magical energy of the consuming ores and disguise themselves as the corresponding magical ores.

It is invisible to the naked eye and cannot be detected by gold-detecting techniques, making it convincingly fake.

There was an incident in the human kingdoms where a nobleman collected a magical ore disguised as a mineral worm, and then all the magical ore in the entire treasure vault was eaten up.

These monstrous insects are only good at camouflage; they don't have much offensive power and aren't particularly dangerous.

Even before digesting all the ore inside its body, it will remain in disguise, making it impossible to detect anything. However... the camouflage of the mineral demon worm doesn't come from nowhere.

Such a large swarm of mineral demon insects, all disguised as low- to mid-grade space magic gems, how good must the space magic gems they've devoured be!
Moran was heartbroken; she had just discovered the treasure trove, only to have it snatched away by someone else.

No! Even though they are mineral demon worms, they are still disguised as space magic gems, which means that the space gems inside their bodies have not been fully digested yet, and there is still room for them to be saved!

She remembered that the book "The Witch's Ore Purification Technique" mentioned that advanced purification techniques could extract the magical ore fragments from the stomach of the ore demon worm.

With the help of top-tier metalworking techniques that can completely mold magical ores of the same origin together, it might be possible to re-synthesize one or two space magic gems.

Moran's purification technique is already advanced, but his metalworking technique is still some distance from the peak level, though not too far off.

It's better to give it a try than to end up with nothing.

Moran rallied and continued using his mining skills to dig out all the spatial magic gems he found and piled them up.

Then, using the drowning spell, he trapped all the spatial magic gems, which appeared to be disguised as mineral demon insects, inside.

As the silvery-gray ore turned into fist-sized, brownish-black worms, Moran's last hope was shattered.

I wasn't mistaken, it was indeed the Mining Demon Worm.

Mineral worms are afraid of water. When they come into contact with ordinary water, they will revert to their original form. Water magic is also extremely poisonous to them.

In no time, they all turned into dead demon insects.

Moran used advanced purification techniques to extract the residual space magic gem energy from each of them, turning it into tiny fragments of space magic gems.

From such a large pile of mineral demon insects, only a small handful of space magic gem fragments were extracted.

It all fit in a small cloth bag.

She carefully used her metal-detecting technique to examine the texture and energy of these spatial magic gem fragments: "They all come from the same spatial magic gem? Judging from the concentration of spatial energy, it must be at least a high-level one!"

Moran felt both heartbroken and relieved.

I regret not discovering it sooner. Maybe I could have gotten a huge, high-level space magic gem, which I could have used as a card-making material for the Book of Cards. Maybe I could have even made a Space Villa card in the future!
If the quality could be even higher, reaching the level of the best, once her alchemical magic level improves, she could even build a greenhouse like the one in the academy's herb garden!
I'm also glad I didn't give up. Now there's no hope for large, high-grade space magic gems or top-grade space gems, but there's still a good chance for small, high-grade space magic gems.

If she uses spatial magic to further enhance it, the chances of it becoming a top-grade space gem are still very high.

The Book of Cards has a very flexible creative ability. By analyzing a small high-level space magic gem material, as long as there is enough card-making energy, it can create high-level space magic gems of various sizes. It just cannot create top-grade space magic gems that are of higher rank.

With that in mind, Moran carefully stored the bag of space magic gem fragments into his spatial ring.

Once she searches for more minerals underground and practices her metalworking skills, she can try to reassemble these fragments into a complete spatial magic gem.

She continued deeper into the cave, using her gold-detecting technique to probe for mineral traces in the rocks as she went.

They found the area to be spotless; they walked to the end of the cave and couldn't find a single ordinary ore, let alone any magic ore.

After returning to the underground riverbed, they continued their search, but still found nothing.

It's been so many years since the little witch has visited the hidden route of the underground river, let alone the banks of the underground river in the outer area.

Without the little witch, wouldn't all the various ores around here be ruined by the mineral worms?

(End of this chapter)