Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 1168 - 527: Mirage Dragon and Mirage Scenery, The Secret Method of Constructing the Dragon Watching Platform
[The White Elephant Demon retracted the Iron Hammer and let out a long roar, before revealing its massive Original Form Magic Body!]
[The burly man with a potbelly morphed as his body swiftly expanded, transforming into a gigantic white elephant as immense as a Mountain!]
[This white elephant had a total of six uneven and sharply pointed tusks on either side of its mouth, roaring ferociously with a menacing grimace.]
[As the Dharma Body of the Six-Toothed White Elephant Demon was revealed, the heavens and earth also began to exhibit marvels...]
[In an instant, the sky changed colors, from the clear blue and the high-hanging sun to a darkened gloom with fierce winds suddenly whipping up.]
[The Six-Toothed White Elephant Demon raised its head and let out a lengthy shriek; its huge trunk stirred like a dragon, thrusting upward as a mighty stream of water vapor gushed forth.]
[The water vapor turned into roiling black clouds, accompanied by thunder and lightning, and in a short while, a torrential downpour had begun to pour down!]
[With the White Elephant Demon’s magical power, coupled with its ability to summon wind and rain, it could easily trigger a change in the weather within a hundred miles.]
[The White Elephant Demon reverted to its human form as it stood in the heavy rain, slightly smugly telling you, "Little junior brother, how about that? This... this torrential downpour, torrential... uh, big torrential... uh... what a heavy rain!"]
[After a while, the heavy rain stopped abruptly, the clouds dispersed to reveal the sun, and you and the White Elephant Demon waited a long time, yet no mirage resembling ’Mirage City’ appeared.]
[The White Elephant Demon, feeling somewhat embarrassed, continued to tell you, "Little junior brother, perhaps the rain just now wasn’t heavy enough. Big senior brother will now perform an even heavier rain."]
[You stopped the White Elephant Demon and shook your head...]
Lin Xun narrowed his eyes, flashes of innumerable dense characters passing through them.
According to the information revealed by the Guerrilla General, the mirages appeared more frequently at first and lasted longer, probably because the Mirage Dragon still retained some of its power here, which it used to create the illusions.
As time passed, the mirages became increasingly unstable, appearing only once a year or every other year, until seven years ago when they required a very rare torrential downpour to become visible.
From this, it seemed that the residual power of the Mirage Dragon was nearly exhausted, unable to manifest without the help of sudden weather changes.
Now that the White Elephant Demon had summoned wind and rain but no illusions had appeared, it meant either the Mirage Dragon’s residual power had completely dissipated or it was too weak that mere torrential rain was insufficient to drive the mirage.
Lin Xun pondered for a moment and then attached himself to the Little Dragon’s Shell.
[You attach yourself to the Shell of the ’Primitive Ancient Dragon seeking knowledge’!]
[After waiting a moment without seeing any abnormalities, you trigger the transformation of the ’Oath of the Ancient Dragon’!]
[In a flash, you change from a Half-Dragon Man into a colossal crimson Ancient Dragon!]
[With a howl, you flapped your wings and soared into the sky, your body engulfed in blazing crimson flames.]
[Once the White Elephant Demon had sent the Guerrilla General away from the valley, you opened your draconic jaw and spat out scorching Dragon Breath onto the ground below!]
[The extremely hot Dragon Breath scorched the land, which had just been deluged with rain, causing water vapor to rise, the earth and sand to become burning hot, and soon the gravel and scorched soil to melt into a thick, sticky, molten state...]
[Once the scorching Dragon Breath dissipated, the valley below had turned into a Magma Purgatory!]
[Upon your command, the White Elephant Demon once again exerted its full strength in wielding the art of summoning wind and rain.]
[Rolling black clouds obscured the sun, and amidst the howling wind, another torrential downpour arrived...]
[You summoned the Shikigami ’Origin-Tracing Mountain’s Snow Woman’, letting it ride on your dragon back, as you invoked ’Extreme Cold Polar Region’!]
[The imminent downpour was instantly transformed into ice crystals and hailstones that swept across the land.]
[Due to the Snow Woman’s weak powers, the "Extreme Cold Polar Region" could only cover a small part of the valley, forcing you to carry the Snow Woman aloft, circling the valley...]
[Bone-chilling wind, fierce snowstorms, the hailstones that hadn’t yet hit the ground were roasted by the hot magma rains, then evaporated back into water vapor, rising up...]
[This cycle repeated, and soon the temperature near the ground’s surface was scorching hot while the upper air was extremely cold, creating a very rare and abnormal weather phenomenon...]
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[When everything subsided and the sun reappeared, illuminating the earth, the valley still had misty water vapor, ethereal as if in a dream.]
[Suddenly, under the sunshine, a beautiful rainbow emerged, and through the haze, more phantom mists began to rise from the ground below...]
[One after another, the mirage vapors surged, forming a series of bizarre and fascinating scenes; the valley gradually changed imperceptibly, quietly blending into the mirage...]
[When you came to your senses, you found yourselves in the depths of the ocean, surrounded by endless waters.]
[This was not the dark and murky seabed where you couldn’t even see your hand in front of your face, but a bright and beautiful underwater world, vivid and clear.]
[Colorful corals and shells were everywhere, and brightly colored fish swam hither and thither, with a Coral and Pearl-built Undersea Dragon Palace not far in front of you!]
[The White Elephant Demon, looking astonished, reached out to grab a fish swimming by, but his hand passed through the fish as if touching a shadow, catching nothing.]
[It bubbled up to you and gave you a thumbs up, "Little junior brother, how did you know this would call forth the mirage?"]
Lin Xun gave a slight smile.
The Mirage Dragon’s remaining power was practically nothing, and it must rely on the phenomenon of ’Mirage City’ to be displayed.
Although the valley here still belonged to the Gobi Desert region, it was not easy to witness a mirage like an oasis in the desert; it required a very extreme weather event to happen.
In essence, ’Mirage City’ is an optical illusion that occurs when sunlight strikes the ground, causing a significant difference in light refraction due to the temperature contrast between the upper and lower layers of air and their resulting difference in density.
