The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 807 - 804: Crossing the Great Whirlpool (4th update, 10,000 coins reward celebration 3/4)
Chapter 807: Chapter 804: Crossing the Great Whirlpool (4th update, 10,000 coins reward celebration 3/4)
This chapter is a “Special Hundred Thousand Years of Salted Fish” addition.
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Dig, dig, dig; randomly strike with a chisel.
Wanting to excavate the shattered jade from a rock layer several meters below was not just ordinarily difficult. It kept requiring the prying open of the upper layer of rock; with each dig, a large piece was extracted. If Liszt hadn’t been a Dragon Knight and hadn’t consistently practiced Dragon Dou Qi, making his physique incredibly strong, this task could not have been achieved without a couple of months of work.
Dragon Breath Tempering constantly tempered his body, giving him enough strength to kill a Magical Beast with a single punch.
Of course, the reason he could excavate so violently was that he discovered that the “shattered jade” had a hardiness that was downright terrifying—striking it with the bone chisel left not even a slight mark. Therefore, he continuously chiseled apart layers of layered green shale jade, exposing more and more jade.
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After continuous work for one day.
He finally excavated all the shattered jade, and when the jade revealed itself in full, Liszt and Ach suddenly realized this was actually a lifelike thigh—a dragon’s hind leg, exquisitely and magnificently carved out of emerald jade, including the dragon claws and dragon scales in meticulous detail.
At the base of the dragon’s hind leg, there was also a large piece of dragon meat attached, with a smooth cut at one end of the meat.
It looked as if severed directly by some sharp weapon; this must be the Jade Dragon’s hind leg. From the cut, you could see a mix of deep and light green traces, likely representing tissues such as dragon bone, dragon meat, dragon vessels, and dragon skin.
Liszt and Ach exchanged glances, “So, could the cutting marks on this Jade Dragon’s hind leg imply it met an unnatural death?”
Ach was quite puzzled, “But what kind of weapon could cut through the body of a Sacred Dragon? Brother once tested the hardness of Jade Dragon remains; it’s extremely difficult to cause damage. It should have been even stronger and virtually impossible to sustain such severe injuries when it was alive… It’s really strange.”
Not just strange, but also horrifying.
A Sacred Dragon, the legend itself, one of its limbs buried here, still lifelike after who knows how many years.
That clear cut loudly declares how sharp the weapon that severed its limb was, and how powerful the wielder of that weapon must have been.
Eye of Magic was deployed.
Liszt shifted his perspective to observe this approximately eighteen-meter-long Jade Dragon’s hind leg—based on the size of the hind leg, it could be deduced that the Jade Dragon’s size while alive was about forty-five meters in length, with a wingspan of about forty-five meters as well. Basically, that was the size of a Light Green Gemstone Dragon.
The magical hues of the hind leg were not multi-colored; instead, they were chaotic. However, he could feel its energy level, which definitely belonged to Superior Magic.
Contained within every inch of the leg tissue, with no signs of dissipating to the outside.
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“The magical power hasn’t dissipated at all; it’s hard to say when exactly it was beheaded in the Sea of Azure Waves… It most likely died from decapitation, as the whole hind leg was chopped off, it definitely couldn’t have survived… So where did the rest of its body fall, could it be right here in the Sea of Azure Waves?”
Countless thoughts swirled in Liszt’s mind.
Among them, the biggest one—that made him feel horrified—was who exactly had killed the Jade Dragon!
Even, the remains of the Fire Dragon on Black Horse Island could possibly be from the same battle—the adult Fire Dragon also killed by the person who killed the Jade Dragon.
Of course, it wasn’t necessarily done by humans.
But whoever crafted that weapon must certainly be a higher intelligent being.
“Not quite, Ach, look at this cut, it’s indeed smooth and even, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be caused by a weapon. If it’s the sharp claws of some creature, it could also make such a cut… But to so smoothly sever such a thick hind leg, the creature’s claws must be at least twenty meters long, and how large would its body have to be?”
Adult Fire Dragons can be up to a hundred meters in body length and wingspan, but their claws are at most three to four meters long. With claws twenty meters long, the creature itself would have to be six to seven hundred meters in length.
“Brother, maybe that kind of creature has particularly long claws,” Ach suggested.
“It’s possible… Never mind, it’s useless to think too much about it now. Let’s first transport this Jade Dragon’s hind leg away, and we can study it slowly later! Then I’ll prepare to organize a group of loyal knights to come mine and at the same time thoroughly search Mind Island to see if there are any other remains of the Jade Dragon.”
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That very night, Ach and Liszt transported away the Jade Dragon’s hind leg.
They stored it in the cargo hold of the new ship, Flame Number Two, used for nautical voyages, and then docked Flame Number Two at the end of the Tonghai Canal below Thorn Castle, where it was tightly guarded.
Then Liszt quickly organized a group of Earth Knights, ready to head to Mind Island to excavate the Light Green Gemstone Mine—these knights had already signed an agreement to bring their families to settle on a new island after the mining, serving as the first batch of reinforcement to develop the Flame Islands.
Which was also the newly discovered Founding Archipelago.
After they finished mining, they would not return to Black Horse Island.
However, these knights could be promoted from commoners to Honored Knights, and upon setting foot on the Flame Islands and constructing the first city, they could further be promoted to Barons.
Busy deciding on the knights,
Liszt finally found time to look at the Smoke Mission: “Complete the mission, reward: Remains of the Jade Dragon’s hind leg.”
The Light Green Gemstone Mine was only just started, but the task was already completed, it seems there wasn’t a strict requirement to completely excavate the gemstone.
“Mission: The Great Whirlpool has been verified as a Magic Teleportation Array, whether it is a natural wonder or the masterpiece of an Ancient Mage is unknown, but the urgent matter is to study and utilize it—please successfully traverse the Great Whirlpool once. Reward: Deep understanding of the Magic Teleportation Array.”
“I was originally planning to wait, but now it seems the danger of the Great Whirlpool might not be too high, and I can traverse it directly… With my Dragon Knight strength, crossing the Great Whirlpool should be quite easy… Of course, it’s best to first send a Sky Knight in a large ship to try to traverse it once.”
So, he quickly summoned several Sky Knights and disclosed the plan of traversing the Great Whirlpool to them.
He selectively told them part of the information—the Great Whirlpool was dangerous, but many Earth Knights, magicians, and even several Apprentice Knight sailors, had survived traversing it.
The survival pressure for Sky Knights was not significant.
“The choice is yours, as of now, except for Durt who is an Earl, the rest of you are Viscounts. I am not stingy with rewards, the battle honors for crossing the Great Whirlpool will be established according to the standards from Viscount to Earl,” Liszt casually offered an Earlship.
After all, the Flame Islands were vast in area, and he didn’t mind allocating a bit of land—it was actually more concerning for him that there were no nobles to develop the barren land on his behalf.
Thus, he eagerly promoted the knights’ titles to motivate his followers.
The bait was thrown, it was a chance for promotion, and the danger was not considered very high; the Sky Knights had quite a struggle, but eventually, Cross·Thorn seized the opportunity.
He was one of the nine Sky Knights who had surrendered during the Battle of the Sea, and as an ordinary level Sky Knight, his strength had faintly begun to step into the Sword Saint Level, just lacking a significant achievement and a title to reach it.
For the sake of the Earlship, he was willing to take a gamble.
