Volume Dragon: Start by obtaining the Infinity Gems

Chapter 154 Magic Gem Mine and Forging Super Magic Wand

After Quart left, Nemesis explored the interior of the pyramid again.

This 200-meter-high building is made entirely of gold. A golden bed lies quietly in the center, which is obviously the place where Ipana III once slept.

In addition, around the bed, there were densely packed mountains of gold utensils and magic gems. As the king of the ancient empire, Ipana III's burial objects were so rich that they were shocking.

But if that were all, Nemesis would obviously not be satisfied.

What really surprised him was the scene he saw when he looked down around the pyramid before leaving.

The entire pyramid is located on an independent stone platform in the center of this underground cave.

Apart from the stairs leading to the golden gate, there were only bottomless cliffs around the stone platform.

But when Nemesis cast an illumination spell downwards, he saw the secret hidden under the "abyss".

At the bottom, at least a thousand meters deep, there is a dense glow of light, red, blue, black, green, etc., colorful colors emitting a faint glow at the bottom.

That's a magical gem vein!
The entire stone platform is built on a magical gem mine!

Over the past tens of thousands of years, the pyramid has continuously extracted power from Ipana III and the divinity, and continuously transmitted it downward through the stone platform. Slowly, a magical gem mine was born here!
If Nemesis had not discovered that the four walls below the stone platform were all engraved with patterns that transmitted magic power, he would not have discovered this hidden secret.

Compared with the burial objects in the pyramid, this is obviously the real treasure!

Nemesis, who originally planned to take the "Gem of All Things" and bury it here, changed his mind. He wanted to develop this place. These magic gems would be the first wealth he would gain from this continent!
[Fossils turn into mud][Mud turns into stone]!
With a casual move of his finger, Nemesis carved out a staircase a thousand meters deep. The power of magic spiritually transformed the wall into a wide and complete staircase.

As for the selection of people to dig and send gems?
The thousands of voodoo zombies guarding the entrance to the valley are now useful.

With this thought in mind, Nemesis immediately walked out of the cave and summoned the zombies in. The passing zombies scared the people of Niksaran living in the valley, who thought that the dragon wanted them to live with the zombies.

"Master? What are you doing?" Seeing Nemesis coming out, Varosan, who had been guarding the entrance of the cave, immediately stepped forward.

The dragon smiled and said, "A vein of magical gemstones has been discovered underground. Perhaps you should speed up your course study. The raw materials are ready, and you can start working at any time."

Varosan quickly agreed and left, leaving Nemesis alone rubbing his hands, looking forward to the day when the huge wizard tower would be completed.
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Two months later, in the Niksalan Valley.

At this time, Nemesis was scratching his head in a somewhat simple house.

After Varosan completed the refugees' learning progress on their own in advance, he has been in charge of the other party. In the past two months, Nemesis has been hiding in his makeshift laboratory, studying the "Gem of All Things" and the divinity contained in it.

The divinity was extremely active. At first, Nemesis was not aware of this and took out a little of it. As a result, the divinity immediately slipped out of his hand and attached itself to an apple.

Nemesis took the apple and ate it, and was surprised to find that all of his three-dimensional attributes had improved a little.

From then on, Nemesis had a deep understanding of the preciousness of divinity.

However, in his opinion, he was not very lacking in attributes at the moment, and directly devouring divinity would undoubtedly be a very wasteful behavior.

As for leveling up, Nemesis didn't think it was a very cost-effective thing. After all, as a dragon, he only needed to sleep to automatically level up.

If one day he becomes an Ancient Scroll Dragon and his strength cannot be improved, maybe swallowing divinity would be a good thing, but not now. Nemesis gently touched a magic item in the shape of a scepter in front of him and sighed.

His original idea was to create a powerful magic wand.

However, the Scroll Dragon, who had never made magic items before, had never imagined that carving magic runes would be such a troublesome and delicate task.

During these two months, he had scrapped three scepters that were almost finished carving, but they all failed at the last moment. The reason was that he was not sensitive to the direction of the flow of magic power while maintaining his human form.

However, it would be somewhat difficult for the dragon to transform Nemesis back into its original sculpture.

With a huge volume of more than 80 meters, it is extremely difficult to carve a scepter that is as thick as an arm and two meters high.

"Damn it!! Why did I fail again!!"

Nemesis threw the scepter to the ground and stomped on it hard.

He carved four powerful magic runes on the scepter: [Spell Power], [Spell Extreme], [Spell Expansion], and [Spell Delay].

Since Nemesis's hands were not very thin, the workload of interweaving four runes on a two-meter-long stick was simply beyond his ability.

However, these four types of super magic are all considered necessary by Nemesis.

Not to mention [Spell Power] and [Spell Maximization], they simply and crudely enhance the power of spells in all aspects.

[Spell Expansion] and [Spell Delay] are also features that Nemesis covets. The former can double the range of spell influence, while the latter can extend the duration of the spell by one level.

Although Nemesis himself can also unleash these super-magic skills, there is a price to pay for upgrading his level.

[Instant Spell] takes up four spell rings. If you stack it with [Powerful Spell], you will need to add two more spell rings, which adds up to six spell rings!
If one wants to instantly cast a strengthened first-level spell, one needs at least a seventh-level spell slot. Even if Nemesis possesses a powerful talent like [Instantaneous Super Magic], with the strength of an adult dragon, he can only reduce three spell slots. In other words, a fourth-level spell slot is needed to instantly cast a strengthened first-level spell.

But it’s different with the super magic scepter.

The Super Magic Scepter can cast super magic spells at no cost. If Nemesis completes the construction of the scepter, he can even use the enhanced, extreme, extended, and delayed effects together without having to upgrade even a single ring!
An all-around strengthening spell.

For example, if Nemesis casts a fourth-ring spell instantly and uses the Super Magic Staff to trigger four types of super magic: enhanced, extreme, extended, and delayed, then in the end this fourth-ring spell only requires a fifth-ring spell slot.

Because except for the instant super magic, the cost is paid by the super magic staff.

"No! I have to finish it!"

Nemesis' eyes were red as he took out another thousand-year-old poplar wood. This was the stock he had bought in Faerun before, which he kept for making the scepter with the King's Tear gem.

But he had already carved four of the five stocks he brought with him, and this was the last one.

"If you don't succeed, you will die!"

Nemesis encouraged himself, took a deep breath, and continued carving.

(End of this chapter)