The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

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This was a box of seeds shaped like fava beans, but they were certainly not fava beans, for their colors were dazzling: black, white, red, yellow, purple, green, blue, gray... all in single colors, yet each differed from the others, and there were far more colors than those of a rainbow.

Some seeds could be seen with a faint magic power through the Eye of Magic, a chaotic magic without any color attribute.

But most of the seeds did not shine with magic radiance.

"These should be seeds of the same plant species, with those possessing magic power being Magic Medicine Seeds and those without being ordinary seeds?" Liszt swallowed, but soon denied his own guess, "That's not right either; even among the fava beans of the same green color, some have magic power while others don't. The same is true for other colors."

The fava beans of the same color, presumably of the same species, exhibited forms both with and without magic power.

Moreover, not all magic beans with magic power showed the same intensity. Liszt even found that a few beans had nearly imperceptible magic power.

"These… Could it be that the magic power has leaked due to being stored for too long, resulting in their current state? Does this mean that these beans were once Magic Medicine Seeds?" With this thought, his excitement surged, the prospect of so many varieties of Magic Medicine was like striking it rich.

But his enthusiasm quickly diminished, and his brows furrowed.

"Having Magic Medicine Seeds is all well and good, but without the corresponding Elf Bug, how am I to cultivate them?"

The growth of Magic Potion plants relies on the influence of Cordyceps, and once separated from the Cordyceps, the Magic Potion would soon lose its magic power and revert to ordinary plants. This box of Magic Medicine Seeds was clearly not any plant species Liszt already knew, and naturally, there were no corresponding Elf Bugs.

Thus, the idea of planting Magic Potions was nothing but a pipe dream.

It felt like a bucket of cold water had been poured over him from head to toe.

Chilling to the core.

"Was this all just a fleeting joy?" He paused for a moment, then quickly regained his composure, as there were still twelve other boxes to check slowly.

Maybe there would be Elf Bugs in the others... which didn't seem likely, as Elf Bugs didn't have such long lifespans.

He opened the second box in the same manner, immediately storing it in the Gemstone Space and proceeding to inspect it—this box, too, was full of seeds, but they were flat and round. Golden in color, and about the size of a little fingernail, they were also Magic Medicine Seeds.

Some had magic power, some did not.

The third box contained seeds; the fourth box, seeds... until the tenth box, all were Magic Medicine Seeds. Each of these ten boxes contained different seeds, all of which were species Liszt had never seen before. Some resembled beans, others grains; some were as large as fists, while others as tiny as sesame seeds.

The sheer number and variety of Magic Medicine Seeds should have been a cause for ecstatic joy.

But the more Liszt looked, the more stifled he felt—given seeds without Elf Bugs, it was like seeing a feast he couldn't eat, utterly frustrating!

Only three boxes remained.

With a resigned heart, he opened the first, and this time, the box did not contain Magic Medicine Seeds, but books. Book after book were neatly stacked, piled up vertically, and on the spine were complex characters—he recognized at a glance that this was Sun Script.

And he could even make out quite a few of the characters.

After all, reading Philip, Descendant of the Sun's Diary hadn't been for naught.

"XXX Sun Tower XX construction XX?" Liszt read the title of one of the books. While he didn't understand all of the Sun Script, he could guess the general idea; it seemed to be a book on how to construct the Sun Tower. Then he looked at the next book, "XXX transformation XX bear X..."

The following several books had a similar template:"XXX transformation XX eagle X", "XXX transformation XX leopard X", "XXX transformation XXXX"and so on.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

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Many Sun Scripts, Li Si Te couldn't recognize, so he could only guess, "These first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth books, seem to be about shape-shifting. Could it be that the Child of the Sun can transform into bears, eagles, leopards, and the like?"

He pulled out one of the books titled "XXX Shapeshift XX Bear X". The book was well-preserved and showed no signs of decay.

The cover was very soft and delicate, feeling like some sort of tree leaf, and the pages within were also very thin, much like the strip of paper he had found in the Messaging Drift Bottle. On the first page, there was a beautifully colored painting; if it weren't for the traces of drawn lines, Li Si Te would have almost thought it was a photograph.

In the painting was a huge bear with brown fur and large fangs.

As he continued to flip through the pages, the following sections were filled with dense Sun Script texts which Li Si Te found he couldn't read, despite learning some Sun Script from "Philip, Descendant of the Sun's Diary". Indeed, he recognized a few Sun Scripts, but he did not understand them when they were connected.

"Dizzy, let's switch to the next one."

The next book's first colored painting depicted a dolphin, so its title should probably be "XXX Shapeshift XX Dolphin X". The one after that depicted a walking tree, so it was named "XXX Shapeshift XX Tree X".

Another book followed, featuring a painting of a fat bird that seemed incapable of flight, walking instead. Li Si Te had never seen it before and could not determine what it actually was. He couldn't even find a comparable species; it had a posture like a penguin but looked like an overly obese owl.

"Just call it Owl Beast then, it's all translated names anyway, doesn't matter if they are accurate or not."

Thus, this book was named "XXX Shapeshift XX Owl Beast X", from which it could be known that the Child of the Sun's shape-shifting magic included transformations into bears, leopards, eagles, dolphins, trees, and Owl Beasts.

"Shape-shifting magic, this reminds me of the 'Druid' profession. It seems that Curtis Truth mentioned Druids in his leftover notes, ranking them alongside magicians, liches, alchemists, and so forth. Perhaps the three Sun Scripts at the front of the book title are the words 'Druid'."

""Druid Shapeshift XX Bear X"?"

He could no longer guess the remaining Sun Scripts in the book title, so he put down the book rather quickly and continued browsing. However, for many of the following books, he couldn't recognize a single Sun Script, let alone guess their meaning.

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The penultimate chest contained more books.

This made Li Si Te somewhat conflicted. He enjoyed reading, but Sun Script was a foreign literature to him, and with his limited vocabulary, he couldn't understand it.

He was not an archaeologist who could spend a considerable amount of time studying these books to collate and summarize, to determine the meaning of every Sun Script.

Therefore.

These books were just like those Magic Medicine Seeds to him, seemingly very precious but actually utterly useless.

"There's only one last chest left, don't tell me this one also contains Magic Medicine Seeds or books," Li Si Te said nervously as he opened the final chest.

Instantly.

The contents of the chest came into view.

They were neither Magic Medicine Seeds nor Sun Script books.

Instead, it was a broken scepter in two pieces, a golden scepter, with one piece being a metal rod intricately carved with dense patterns, and the other piece an adornment resembling the Sun bursting with light. Right in the center of the radiant Sun was a shattered, large golden gemstone.

Even within Gemstone Space, where it was impossible to see directly with the naked eye, it still gave him the illusion of being "blinded by the light".

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