Chapter 230 - New Legend (2/2)

The archmages picked up these seven Dragon Balls, placed them on unknown magical instruments one after another, and carried out various tests. Whenever there was a certain result, these archmages would seriously lower their heads and record it. “The texture is very uniform. The weight of each bead is fixed to thirteen tinkles (Ashan measurement unit, about 66.6 grams)!”

“I can’t analyze what material it is. I have never seen this material before. It doesn’t seem to be material from this world…”

“All the beads have a fixed vibration frequency. When two are close to each other, this vibration frequency increases!” “This vibration frequency is a little… a little familiar…”

“But there are no magic power fluctuations. How strange…” As the results of the analyses came out one by one, the archmages present gradually became confused.

“That’s impossible, right? If these things are really a treasure related to the era of the Seventh Dragon, how could they not have any magic power characteristics?!” an archmage asked loudly. “Any magic creation is bound to leave behind magic power fluctuations unless they’re fake!”

“But this is the truth!” Another archmage spread his hands. “Whether it’s evil or holy, there are no characteristics of Chaos and Order. These beads don’t have any magic power at all, but it seems unlikely that they’re fake because we’ve never seen the material used to make these beads before. What kind of fakes could be made so exquisite?”

“Perhaps these beads are like this under normal circumstances?” Another archmage stroked his long beard and said thoughtfully, “Do you still remember that in the legends about these seven Dragon Balls, they have an incantation? Perhaps we can try to chant the incantation. At that time, these beads may change.”

“But that’s only a rumor. I’ve read most of the information about the history of this world, but I’ve never seen anything mentioning seven Dragon Balls!” said an archmage wearing a monocle. “I think we should start with that strange vibration!”

These mages were arguing incessantly. They had been studying these beads for a few days, and they had formed their own understanding of the beads. They all felt that they were right and wanted to persuade the others to study them according to their own method…

It had to be said that the legend that Roy spread through the Sylanna’s Ancient was quite attractive.

In the world of Ashan, legends about the era of the Seventh Dragon had always been circulating. The myth of the creation of this world was about the two twin dragons: the Dragon of Order, Asha, and the Dragon of Chaos, Urgash. It could be said that in the world of Ashan, dragons were the gods of this world, and the religions of the various races often believed in these dragon gods.

And the Dragon Balls that Roy had left behind were no more and no less, exactly seven of them. This secretly corresponded to the legends of this world. When Roy chatted with the Sylanna’s Ancient about these seven Dragon Balls, he did not elaborate too much. However, rumors were like this. The more rumors spread, the more ridiculous they became. During the years since he left, the legends about the seven Dragon Balls had gradually changed.

The current version of the legend was this: When the war between the Primordial Dragons Aasha and Urgash broke out, and they heavily injured each other and had to recuperate, the power they left in the universe turned into a huge Dragon Ball. This Dragon Ball finally gave birth to the Six Elemental Dragons, namely the Dragon of Darkness, Malassa; the Dragon of Light, Elrath; the Dragon of the Earth, Sylanna; the Dragon of Fire, Arkath; the Dragon of Water, Shalassa; and the Dragon of Air, Ylath. These Six Elemental Dragons corresponded to the first to the sixth Dragon Ball, and when the wizard Sar-Elam came into contact with the heart of the sleeping Dragon of Order in the void and obtained the inheritance to become the Seventh Dragon, the seventh Dragon Ball was born.

Now, these seven Dragon Balls were scattered in all corners of Ashan. If someone could gather these seven Dragon Balls, they might be able to summon the Dragon of Order or the Dragon of Chaos to bring back the myths!

The version of this legend had changed a lot from the story Roy had made up to the Sylanna’s Ancient. The rumors in this version might contain some people’s anticipation for the Dragon Balls, so in the years since he left, not only were humans and elves searching for these Dragon Balls, but even demons, dark elves, and undead were searching for them.

Needless to say, the Order races hoped to use the Dragon Balls to summon Asha, but the demons and undead wanted to use the Dragon Balls to summon Urgash…

But when Roy spread the seven Dragon Balls out, he had not spread them out too far. As a result, the first people to gather the Dragon Balls were actually the Academy mages of Ulambus. Out of curiosity and for the exploration of knowledge, they were the first to become interested in the Dragon Ball legends, so they moved faster than other races.

However, although the mages were the first to gather all the Dragon Balls, their philosophy was, ‘No Gods, no Masters. Knowledge is Power, and Power is Freedom’. The mages did not regard dragons as gods, and they thought that they were just more powerful beings. They believed that after enough learning and experimenting, they could reach the power of dragons, so they did not actually believe the legends of Dragon Balls. So after obtaining the Dragon Balls, they did not immediately chant the incantation in the legends, but first brought them to the Academy city to research and analyze.

However, after testing with all kinds of instruments, they did not find anything special about the Dragon Balls. After the fruitless research, the mages finally decided to give it a try and see if the rumored incantation was really effective…