The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Chapter 761: Chapter 0758: Burning Bird Eggs (Fourth Update, Alliance Hierarch Extra 4/56)
 

On Dodo Island.

The Light Green Gemstone Dragon was still in a deep slumber.

Leo plunged into the magma of the volcano crater, where the accumulation of Volcanic Super Magic from the past several days was enough for it to thoroughly enjoy a supreme magic feast.

Liszt asked the Phoenix Perch Parasol Tree Greater Elf Annie sitting on his shoulder, “What do you think of the environment here, should we plant the cordyceps here?”

Annie sniffed with her delicate nose and shook her head, “Ah?”

She meant that she really liked the Fire Attribute Mana around the volcano crater, and Leo was cultivating there as well, but there was no water in the soil near the volcano crater.

“Then where do you think is suitable on Dodo Island?”

After being choosy, Annie finally selected a spot halfway up the mountain to plant her Cordyceps Tree. In a blink, a thirty-meter-high tree vigorously spread out, standing out among a cluster of Human Skull Trees. Liszt also took out the bird’s nest and placed it back on the original branches.

And he took out a Flame Dragon Bird Egg and put it inside.

“Ach, let’s make several trips back and forth to Dodo Island in the next few days, striving to figure out whether natural or artificial hatching is more suitable for the Flame Dragon Bird Egg.”

Ach nodded.

At that moment, Annie suddenly cried out, “Ash… Ani… Ah!”

“Hmm?” Liszt picked up on the emotional waves coming from Annie; she was trying to communicate something to him, “Are you saying you’ve seen a Flame Dragon Bird hatching eggs by spitting fire and roasting them?”

“Ah!”

Annie flapped her wings and circled around the nest, indicating to Liszt that she was now the Flame Dragon Bird. She gently landed on the tree trunk next to the nest, faced the nest, puffed up her cheeks and exhaled, imitating a Flame Dragon Bird spewing fire to incubate its eggs. She even switched positions to demonstrate that two Flame Dragon Birds would take turns spewing fire.

Witnessing Annie’s vivid description of a Flame Dragon Bird hatching scene, Liszt couldn’t help but find it amusing, “So, Flame Dragon Birds actually use flames to hatch their eggs… Ach, should we give it a try?”

Ach pointed at the nest and said, “Brother, look, the branches of the nest seem somewhat similar to those of the Phoenix Perch Parasol Tree. Maybe we can first verify if spitting fire will burn the nest. If it doesn’t, it is very likely that the situation described by Annie is the process of the eggs hatching.”

“That makes sense!”

Liszt immediately began to experiment; he couldn’t spit fire, but his Fire Attribute Dragon Dou Qi could create flames. He targeted the nest and scorched it, and indeed, just as speculated, the branches in the nest did not burn—or to be precise, the Phoenix Perch Parasol Tree was not afraid of fire.@@novelbin@@

The rest of the process was simple; Liszt put the egg back and started scorching it directly.

He also used the Eye of Magic to carefully observe the process of burning. He found that during the scorching by the flames, the egg absorbed Fire Attribute Mana, and the mana inside the egg slowly circulated, as if life was growing. After half an hour of continuous scorching, the egg ceased to absorb mana.

Liszt was about to continue scorching when Annie flew over, shaking her head and calling out to him, “Ah!” This was to tell Liszt that was enough roasting for now.

“So you mean, scorch for about half an hour each day should be enough?”

Annie couldn’t answer; she had stopped Liszt from continuing to scorch based on instinct alone and didn’t know why.

Even so, she had already provided much help in the hatching of the Flame Dragon Bird egg. Liszt took out a piece of jade to reward her, and Annie immediately cuddled up to the jade, nibbling happily on it.

“Now that we’ve found a method to hatch the Flame Dragon Bird egg, there’s no need to hatch it in the nest; I can hold it and scorch it anytime,” he said, getting ready to take the egg out.

However, Annie cried out again, “Ah!”

“It shouldn’t be taken out?”

“Ah…” Annie gestured wildly, vaguely indicating that there was some relationship between the Phoenix Perch Parasol Tree and the egg, implying that the egg was best left in the nest.

It seemed the egg was also beneficial to it.

Unfortunately, Ani’s logic in expressing itself was a bit chaotic, and Liszt couldn’t quite understand. After asking several times, Ani became so anxious, spinning in circles, not knowing how to explain.

Suddenly, Ach spoke up, “Brother, Ach feels there is a complementary connection between Ani’s cordyceps and the flame dragon bird eggs. The link between their auras can form a vague, small-scale magic web, creating a stable, active field that promotes their mutual growth.”

“Is that so?” Liszt was surprised. An elf could actually establish a connection with a super dragon beast.

Since Ach had already sensed it, and Ani was eager for the eggs, he was reassured and put all three eggs into the nest, instructing Ani, “Then the flame dragon bird eggs are entrusted to your care. You must look after them well; I’ll come to roast them every day.”

“Ah!”

“Ach, you stay here as well.”

“Ah!”

Ani readily agreed, feeling life was full of happiness. With delicious jade powder to eat, eggs to aid growth, and a fire dragon to touch often, life was wonderful indeed.

Its emotions undoubtedly affected Liszt.

Thinking of something, he took Ani straight to the light green gemstone dragon’s sleeping spot, pointing to the dragon and said, “If you like touching dragons, there’s another one here.”

Ani looked at the light green gemstone dragon curiously and carefully touched its scales but quickly returned, “Ani… likes… Leo…” The meaning of this sentence was that it didn’t like the light green gemstone dragon.

“If you don’t like it, then never mind.” Liszt nodded, understanding that elves and dragons also had compatibility issues, with different elves favoring different dragons.

No wonder Ash, Jela, and other elves who had seen Leo did not show any closeness towards him.

They were not compatible.

…

Once Leo emerged from the volcano crater, Liszt left Dodo Island but did not take Ani with him—elves could not stay too far from their cordyceps for an extended period. Dodo Island was more than eight hundred kilometers from Black Horse Island, a distance already beyond an elf’s limit. Being separated for a long time would cause the cordyceps to gradually wither.

So he let Ani stay on Dodo Island to take care of the three flame dragon bird eggs.

There were no large animals here, so Ani’s safety was guaranteed. Moreover, there was a dragon in slumber, constantly emitting dragon might—the island’s smaller animals had probably all been wiped out by the dragon might.

He returned to Black Horse Island.

Chris Truth immediately came to Thorn Castle and presented Liszt with the newly improved binary magic platform core machine. The new core machine no longer used a dialing mechanism but a triggering system instead.

There were now two straight handles outside the box.

The operation required the collaboration of three magicians: one to read the binary codes, another to channel fire attribute magic, and another to channel water attribute magic. Then, following the sequence of the codes, they would operate the handles, initiating the internal compass runes via the linkage mechanism, thus activating the magic platform to transmit information.

These three magicians were telegraphers.

The one reading the codes also had to double as a switchboard operator, receiving messages from another magic platform, recording down the magic reactions on the compass, and translating them into text.

With practice, in fact, this entire operation could be performed by a single magician, with continuous input of codes using the left hand for the water system and the right hand for the fire system. Of course, no matter how skilled, due to the simplicity of the magic platform itself, it was still hard to achieve rapid information transfer, making it inefficient.

The hope was for continuous improvement in the future, to reach the effect of Earth’s radio stations; then in later research, to invent something like videophones, transmitting images and sounds simultaneously.

And even further, to break through the limits of matter and achieve the effect of teleportation arrays.

Looking at the new generation core machine, Liszt immediately said, “Now that the core machine has been improved and can accurately transmit information, select trustworthy magicians from the Magic Guild to follow the adventure fleet out to sea, and explore new islands!”