I'm a mage, what's wrong with loving farming?

Chapter 248: The Dying Dragon Egg, the Ancient Dragon's Gaze
Croix's movements were so fast.

After dealing with the armies of the two dukes, they joined forces and followed the Lord of Yanshan who had arrived to the secret realm deep in the southern border.

The couple has made up their mind. Now that things have come to this, they have to pay the price. Otherwise, who knows if Cloa will take action against them?

It is worth mentioning here that Cloya specially gave Sean a team to rescue his relatives and friends in his hometown, and prepared a long-distance teleportation magic circle to the North.

With his flamboyant behavior, he certainly wasn't afraid of the two dukes coming to cause trouble, or rather... he even hoped that they would come to the North to compete with him.

When it comes to his territory, how he handles it is a matter of his personal preference.

What he cares about now is that secret place.

Through quick interrogation of the captives and the information provided by the Lord of Flame Mountain, the apprentices marched quickly and arrived at their destination quickly.

In the crater of an ordinary-looking extinct volcano deep in the South Territory, Nora has transformed back into her dragon form.

Her scales are the kind of crystal clear and moist red jade, giving people a gentle feeling, without any of the ferociousness of a dragon - before the Ruby Dragon can master the transformation, its dragon form is an ordinary red dragon, but after mastering it, it can transform into a true Ruby form.

The giant red jade dragon opened its mouth, but the voice that came out was the gentle voice of a young woman: "I will keep the secret realm open for ten hours. After you go in, try to take away everything you can."

After she finished speaking, she immediately exhaled a mouthful of red dragon breath.

The dragon's breath went straight into the depths of the completely silent volcano, and then the originally gray and black volcanic magma instantly faded from black to become red and shiny.

It just doesn’t look like magma.

Instead it's like...

"Strawberry jam?"

Lina couldn't help but blurt out, and then she really smelled a sweet aroma that was unique to jam. The smell was so strong that it made her stomach start to growl.

"These are dragonberry pulp." Nora didn't know how she could speak while opening her mouth wide to hold the dragon's breath.

As she spit, the red and slightly trembling jelly-like fruit pulp began to flow in all directions, soon flooding the surrounding stone walls. Only the stone they were standing on was left standing in the red ocean of fruit pulp.

"Eat as much as you can."

"Dragon berries are a special magical plant that only grows on Dragon Island. It's good for humans to eat more of them."

Nora reminded again.

Now, the apprentices, who had already been attracted by the sweet and fragrant fruit juice, no longer held back and took out various spoons to eat it on the spot.

Even the magical beasts and plants devoured the fruit pulp in their own way.

Until the pulp boils.

A massive portal carved entirely of red jade rose from the pulp.

There are countless magical characters unique to the dragon clan carved on both sides of the portal. These magical characters are filled with special magic power, and the characters themselves are the embodiment of magic.

Without saying a word, Lina immediately took out a magic device that could record images and recorded all the text on the portal in its entirety.

Dragon language magic is a very magical type of magic.

Even Kloya was unable to obtain knowledge of dragon language magic - the virtual moon fish dragon in his Moon Sea was more of a natural magic, and did not have a very special and systematic inheritance of dragon language magic.

Although I don't know what these dragon languages ​​mean, I can record them and bring them back. If they can be of some help to Kloya, then it will be a great reward.

After taking pictures of these things, Lina put away the magic device with satisfaction and waved her hand: "Team Nut!"

Following her order, huge nuts, about four or five meters high and like tower shields, slowly moved forward, with crystal-like patterns flashing on their surfaces.

It is extremely hard to begin with, and with the addition of the astral crystal enchantment, it is one of the best meat shields around, perfect for times like this when exploring unknown environments.

The Nut Team protected everyone in the middle, and then everyone moved slowly and cautiously into the portal.

After a brief dizziness.

They came to another world.

Completely different from the wild dragon world they had imagined, the world that appeared before their eyes was unusually...regular.

The first thing that comes into view is a flat land.

The rock structure on the ground is a translucent gemstone color, like a solidified sea, bottomless. Every three meters there stands a prismatic blue crystal column about three meters high.

The world is a forest formed by crystal pillars.

The surface of the crystal pillar was engraved with magical patterns of unknown effect, which emitted circles of ripples between the flickering light and dark, resonating and vibrating between the crystal pillars, producing clear and pleasant sounds.

"Ding Ding Ding ~"

It is a melody that makes people feel happy and excited just by listening to it, and they can't help but hum along.

And in the sky hangs a huge gem that looks like a red dragon eye, emitting light and heat in place of the sun.

It also plunged the entire world into a vibrant red glow, making people feel the temperature of the light and their blood boiling.

The apprentices saw many strange sights. Although this place was quite special, they only came to their senses in a flash and looked around with caution.

Lord Yanshan knew the most about this place. He was holding a staff in his hand and said seriously, "Everyone, there are some dragon goblins here. They are in charge of the dragon eggs sleeping in the crystal tower forest. We must find them."

"Nora said there won't be much danger here, but you still have to be careful."

After saying that, he glanced at Lina, nodded, and then performed the flying spell and flew in a certain direction.

Lina knew that he must be going to look for the Ruby Dragon's eggs, but she didn't care because she knew very well that her lord would definitely have a share of them.

So, she just waved her hand and told her apprentices to take the magic plants and magic beasts to search and explore separately, collecting everything they could.

At first glance, this land looks bare, and all that can be seen are those standing crystal pillars, but in fact, underneath the crystal pillars, there are some crystal orchids growing that are as crystal as blood marrow.

They are tenaciously rooted in the almost crack-free rock ground, growing on the magic power emanating from the crystal pillars, but they are not elemental magic plants.

In addition, there are some crystal magic plants born from magic power, some ruby-like lizards and elves floating in the crystal column forest.

Although they didn't know what it was, they all adhered to the principle of digging three feet into the ground and took away everything they could.

……

Half an hour later.

Lina and her men finally found the dragon goblin's hut.

It was a small house built with red crystals and looked like a mound of earth. After pushing open the door and walking in, you could see that it was filled with all kinds of bottles and jars.

A humanoid creature half a person's height, with dragon horns on its head and a hunched back that looks timid, is holding a bottle and mixing and tossing the liquid inside. The scene looks like some evil experiment.

The sudden intrusion of the apprentices had apparently awakened it.

Lina did not launch an attack directly. Instead, she waved her hand and asked the apprentices to surround the dragon goblin in the small house and watch it quietly.

The goblin did not panic at the sudden intrusion of humans. His hands remained steady, and a deep and magnetic middle-aged male voice came out of his throat.

"Human, please wait a moment!"

After it finished speaking, it continued to shake the rough beaker in its hand, watching the red liquids that looked completely the same blend together, and then poured them onto the ground.

"Zizzizizi!"

Red smoke suddenly rose up, and the dragon goblin's body was gradually deformed and distorted in the red smoke.

In the end... he turned into a handsome middle-aged man.

The ends of his hair have turned a little gray, and his face has some wrinkles and crow's feet, but the vicissitudes of life have not destroyed his handsomeness, but have made it more mellow.

Even his naked body looks like that of a young man, with a broad chest, well-proportioned abdominal muscles, and powerful arms and shoulders. He is full of masculine charm.

To put it simply, it's like an older gigolo who tells some elaborate adventure stories in a tavern to deceive the ladies and girls into admiring him, crying and giving him gold coins.

"Please put on some clothes."

Lina didn't know whether what was in front of her was the result of a transformation or something else, but she immediately threw out a large robe.

The middle-aged man took it and put it on politely.

Then, he took the initiative to talk about his own story: “My companions and I were once dragon people on Dragon Island, but we were cursed by Lord Asatsil and brought here to become dragon goblins.

Our mission is to wait until someone can take away the five red jade dragon eggs and twelve ordinary red dragon eggs in the secret realm, and provide them with guidance in dragon magic and alchemy."

He seemed particularly polite, speaking the common language of the continent, but with an indescribable aristocratic temperament. It was a true aristocratic temperament that was influenced by knowledge, far from those ordinary aristocrats who wore luxurious clothes but acted like beasts.

How should I put it? There's just a strong sense of disharmony.

So much so that even Lina didn't know what to say, and in the end she could only ask: "Aren't you worried that we are bad people?"

The man laughed.

"You are so funny."

He turned around and started to pack up the bottles and jars, saying as he did so: "The music of Hongyu will kill the evil creatures. When you come in and don't die, you have satisfied our master's request."

"The music of Ruby?" Lina was curious.

"Yes, it was set up by a bard from the astral world. I will help you take it down."

The man quickly packed all the bottles and jars in a bag and carried it on his back.

"Okay, let's go!"

He was like a child who had been staying at home for millions of years and was finally able to go out, with excitement shining in his eyes.

Lina was silent for a moment, but decided to trust him, so she followed him to find the other dragon goblins.

All the dragon goblins turned into handsome middle-aged men, each one was different. It was like a queen selecting a concubine.

The apprentices looked at each other in confusion, totally unable to understand why they had become like this, and did not dare to ask.

The men were very excited. They gathered together and took out small metal hammers to knock on the bottom of the crystal column.

It seems like they are dismantling something.

After a while, the crystal column gradually shrank as it was hit, and finally became a crystal product the size of a palm.

They worked non-stop, like industrious ants dismantling a crystal column, and the apprentices followed behind them, collecting magical plants and magical beasts they could see along the way.

If you look down from the air, it looks like ants moving house, with no grass growing at all.

After some effort, they finally found the dragon egg when the portal to the secret realm was about to close, and successfully left the secret realm with several large carts of harvest.

A round of bargaining ensued.

Nora handed two ruby ​​dragon eggs and five red dragon eggs to Lina, and then quickly left with the remaining dragon eggs.

As for those dragons, goblins, crystal pillars, magical plants and monsters, she didn't want any of them. The only things left in her mind were the three ruby ​​dragon eggs.

Although Yanshan wanted to fight for something, looking at his wife's excited look, he finally sighed helplessly.

"I'll talk to Cloya again later."

After saying this, he left with Nora.

Lina did not delay and immediately returned to Hanjiao Island with a lot of harvest to ask for a meeting with Cloya.

After listening to Lina's summary of the matter, Kloya, who had been waiting for the apprentices to bring back something, nodded:

"You've worked hard this time. Now that we've reached the southern border, we can leave a few people here to open a store and expand our reach over there."

After a pause, he continued, “Tell Mifeiyin to pay attention to the movements of the dukes. I have slapped them in the face like this, and they probably won’t let it go.

If they want to fight...it's up to you to organize the response."

After casually handing over the power to Lina, Croix waved his hand to signal her that she could leave.

"I understand!"

"Then I'll take my leave first."

Lina, her face flushed with excitement, slowly left the Mage Tower. She couldn't understand why she had obtained such a huge power inexplicably.

She was even looking forward to the two dukes coming to attack the North.

……

After seeing Lina off, Kloya turned his gaze towards the group of thirty handsome middle-aged men.

Ok……

The visual effects are really explosive.

He felt his eyes were going to get dizzy just by looking at it a few more times - what on earth was going on? Did the dragon not only like treasures, but also handsome guys?
Otherwise how do you explain why there are so many handsome guys and not a single ugly one?

Chloë didn't understand, and couldn't understand.

He could only put the matter aside for the time being and asked directly: "Do you have anything to tell me?"

There are so many strange things about this matter that even he has no clue for the moment. The owner of the red jade cave seems to be looking forward to finding an owner for his offspring?
The dragon goblins looked at each other, and finally one of them took a step forward and said respectfully, “Sir, we will tell you everything, including our knowledge.

But now please take a look at the master's eggs, they are dying!"

"?"

"The dragon egg will die?"

Croa frowned at this, glanced at the dragon egg beside him, and activated the Astral Body Imprinting Technique.

Through this spell, one can easily see the little red dragon curled up in the dragon egg. It has taken shape, with a small tail wrapped around its body, but its breath of life is extremely weak.

This is a very abnormal situation.

Although he had never raised a dragon, he still understood some of the dragons. Dragon eggs could be said to be one of the most tenacious and durable things.

Even if it is buried deep underground for hundreds of years, as long as there is a magical environment with sufficient hatching power, little dragons can still hatch from it.

Not to mention that this is a red jade dragon.

The dragon of life that can call back the dead has no vitality?
Confused, he observed the strange dragon eggs again and found that they were all in the same situation, as if their vitality had been sucked away by something.

He immediately became interested and began to carefully study the structure of the dragon egg - with the help of the Astral Body Imprinting Technique, he could easily analyze the structure of the dragon egg and the little dragon inside.

The more he looked, the more surprised he became.

The structure of this dragon egg... is quite sophisticated.

Like a sophisticated magic device in the shape of an egg, the eggshell can spontaneously absorb the surrounding magic power and then convert it into the nutrient liquid needed for the development of the little dragon inside.

You know, a dragon is actually a magical beast with a huge appetite.

After hatching, the dragon needs to absorb food rich in magic to ensure its own physical development. If it can eat some rare minerals, it can also strengthen itself.

A newborn dragon can eat food that is several times larger than its own body.

So, where do the dragon get the nutrients it needs when it is inside the eggshell?

Just relying on the liquid inside the egg?
Obviously not.

In the information given by Orpheus Oak, Cloya read the experimental notes of a former wizard.

The powerful wizard used some magic to remove the dragon embryo from the egg while keeping it alive, and placed it in a culture tank for cultivation.

After a period of research, he found that the magic power and nutrition required to cultivate a dragon from an embryo to the stage where it could hatch were beyond even his means.

In the end, I had to give up.

Although his experiment failed, his notes recorded some ambiguous guesses: he suspected that the nutrients in dragon eggs came from the eggshell, but he could not study the eggshell, so he could only record this information and wait for future generations to discover it.

Just imagine, a cost that even a level 10 wizard cannot afford can be achieved through the transformation of an eggshell...

If he could research this magic pattern and put it on the fruits of some plants, would he be able to create some... juice to feed the dragon?
The wizard's curiosity and desire to research surged up, and he immediately began to observe and study the magic patterns on the dragon egg.

As a result, something he didn't expect happened -

In his field of vision, the patterns inside the dragon egg seemed to come alive, and he could see a giant red dragon with wings so big that it blocked out the sky and the sun, opening its mouth wide towards him.

The terrifying crimson breath instantly pushed out his mental power, and at the same time, the Astral Body Imprinting Technique gave an explanation:

[You have triggered the ancestral defense mechanism of the red dragon species "Red Jade Dragon Egg". The ancient dragon will perform the Myriad Worlds Search Spell on your location. ]

Croa: “!!!”

What? The ancestor of this dragon egg could actually detect that I was using magic to spy on the dragon egg? Or was it an ancient dragon?
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