The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 585 The True Hometown

“If you’re willing to lend me your Star Essence, I can give you a large contribution point card. With this card, you can directly upgrade to a Navigator Mentor and unlock all resource cards,” Moran said.

Although it was the first time she had heard of Star Essence, a magical material, it didn't stop her from knowing how precious it was based on the descriptions of the Little Morning Star Dwarf and the magical fluctuations of Star Essence.

She had never heard of Star Essence, but she had heard of Holy Silver!
This special magical metal, when added in just a tiny amount, can greatly increase the user's control over the power of the light element and the effectiveness of light-based magic.

The angel's weapons and equipment were all infused with holy silver.

In addition, angelic light magic is a special kind of holy light magic, which is more powerful than ordinary light magic in terms of healing, purification, and destructive power.

As a result, angels have an overwhelming advantage when facing light spellcasters of the same or even higher rank.

Sometimes, it can even steal the opponent's light elemental power and control over magic.

Spellcasters like witches who convert magical power into light elemental power are somewhat better off, but mages who use the light elemental power of the environment to cast spells are directly suppressed by angels and can't even release a small ball of light.

This demonstrates the power of this holy silver.

Unfortunately, Holy Silver has always been in the hands of angels. Valen has never had any other race find a Holy Silver mine. It turns out that Holy Silver is not a natural mineral at all, but a special magical metal forged by the Morning Star dwarves using star marrow. No wonder no one has been able to find it!
Even the Morning Star Dwarves were a race created by the heavens using star marrow.

Neither Star Essence nor Holy Silver is in the Book of Cards, so Moran naturally couldn't let it go.

However, the value of Star Essence is too high, far exceeding the current market price of Dawn Academy's large contribution points cards.

The Little Morning Star Dwarf wants to live, and he doesn't know how many light magic material resource cards he'll need to buy in the future. Moran doesn't want to take advantage of him.

Moran only intended to borrow Star Essence as material for the Book of Cards, and then materialize a {Material Card - Star Essence} to return it to him.

With the light elemental power within this star marrow, he wasn't actually about to embrace death as he claimed.

The little morning star dwarf didn't notice that she said "borrow," and didn't even understand what the guiding mentor and unlocking resource card meant. He only heard that she wanted star marrow, so he stuffed the star marrow into her hands.

Following the beginner's guide from the Dawn Academy, I figured out the various functions of the Dawn Academy's magic. In the level 3 resource cards, I saw {Food Card - Dark Rock Beer}, in the level 5 resource cards, I saw {Material Card - Superior Light Element Gem}, and in the special resource cards, I saw {Material Card - Light Element Essence}.

These treasures that the Morning Star Dwarves depend on for survival can be purchased with gem coins earned from one-time magical energy restored by sunbathing!
If he had known about this earlier, would his people not have turned into crystal sand due to a lack of light elemental power and dark rock beer?
From birth, Duanxing's star marrow began to wither. He grew up amidst the despair of his race's future and never imagined that they, with their obvious racial defects, could live a long and independent life free from the control of others.

At this point, he also understood the role of contribution points; because his identity level was not high enough, he could not purchase higher-level resource cards.

Contribution points can now only be obtained through one method: permanent magic energy.

He said it was an absolute steal. He had just casually spent the equivalent of 6 Mana of permanent light elemental power to sign a contract and join the guild, and he wouldn't be stingy with that permanent light elemental power now.

Although he is still a minor, his mastery of permanent light elemental power has already reached the intermediate level.

He simply didn't have enough energy to upgrade himself to a guiding mentor in one step.

The witch's generous contribution points card came just in time to solve his immediate problem.

"Thank you! If you need, I can forge this drop of star marrow into holy silver and then give it to you." Forging Star was still not used to accepting gifts from others.

"Really?" Moran was overjoyed; she didn't have any Saint Silver either!
In a flash, a large amount of one-time magic power was used to create a {Material Card - Star Essence}, which was quietly materialized and was twice the size of the drop of Star Essence that Forging Star had just given her:
“I also have Star Essence. Here, take this Star Essence and help me forge some Holy Silver. The rest of the Star Essence can be used as forging fees.”

Moran also noticed that Duanxing wasn't used to accepting other people's kindness, so she left him the Star Essence in a different way:
"Don't rush to refuse. With it, you'll have enough light element reserves to leave this mountain and find other suitable places to live. There should be quite a few suitable places for you to live in the Sacred Mountains."

"Get out of this mountain?" Upon hearing this, Duanxing's eyes suddenly blazed with intense hope: "Yes! I can get out of this mountain! I'm going to Mount Dulin to fulfill the last wish of my people and tell everyone that our Liejin Clan has never betrayed the God of Forging!"

Moran suddenly remembered that he seemed to have seen something in a witch's travelogue from the Age of Gods, about a dwarf tribe that betrayed the god of forging and turned to the angels: "Do you know Comet Tail, Gold Rending?"

Comet Tail Split Gold was the name of the dwarf tribe chief.

It is said that even now, in the Dwarf Kingdom, there is still a monument to the traitors of the Riftgold Clan!

“I know! He was our first patriarch.” Duanxing squatted down and picked up a light element crystal with a relatively rich amount of light elemental power: “This is the crystal sand left behind by the old patriarch Comet Tail after his death.”

Moran then noticed that there were even names engraved on the crystal sand.

It is written in dwarven script as "Comet Tail, Split Gold".

The crystal sand beneath her feet also had names, which made her suddenly feel a burning sensation under her feet.

"This small patch of crystal sand is actually our tombstone. Whenever a member of our clan dies, everyone will pick up a grain of crystal sand from his bones, carve his name on it, and throw it into the center of the Lake of Radiance. The light elemental power of the remaining crystal sand will be left on the shore of the lake for the use of the surviving members of our clan."

I was even thinking of asking you to carve my name for me! Now, I can take all the crystal sand tombstones of my people back to our homeland, a place we've always longed to return to but could never reach! Mount Dulin is the true homeland of the dwarves.

Using the light elemental power remaining in the small puddle of the Lake of Radiance, Duanxing continuously restored his magical energy, exchanged it for many gem coins, purchased a small space card, and collected the crystal sand of his clansmen one by one into the space card.

After collecting the crystal sand, Duan Xing patted the {space card} and said happily:
"After I finish forging the holy silver for the witch, I'll take you home!"