272 Electric Stone Part 1 (2/2)

”Tourmaline?” Saleen echoed the gemstone's name in his head.

Tourmaline was a special stone, many mages used it to create equipment that could bring a dying man back to life. Even if the victim's heart had stopped beating, tourmaline could revive them. Within the lightning dragon's nest he had not realized that these gemstones were hiding inside the stones. He had overlooked a fundamental problem.

Magic beasts' eggs already had life to them and if they had life, they must have other natural properties.

Tourmaline was inside the black stones and there had to be dozens of tons of them there. If Saleen wanted to take all of them away, he would need to spend a long time cutting them up.

No wonder the lightning dragon chose this place as its nest. There was a giant pile of natural electric stones here.

”Electric stones… could they hold the power of electricity within them?” Saleen thought to himself. If that was the case and he created the special magic equipment in the future, he would need to inlay such gemstones.

Saleen tapped the calabash by his waist and a six-meter-long current rushed out. With it under Saleen's control he started cutting up the black stones. Knowing that there was tourmaline within, he was much more careful and tried his best to cut the stone from the outside.

The patch of black stones formed a circle on the ground, but he found they were all joined underground. Saleen dug deeper, all the way until six meters deep before the black stones could be cut.

Saleen could not keep such a large stone even if he wanted to. He could only split it into four parts each over a meter long. He placed the piece that had the lightning dragon's eggs on it into the Ring of Gifts and the remaining three pieces into the Demon's Ring.

Saleen was a grade-4 mage and did not have the ability to open normal spatial equipment. These two rings did not have any grade restrictions on the mage, but the space was relatively smaller.

Just like Lex's God's Ring it could store practically a countless amount of items. Saleen had not seen Lex troubled due to a lack of space. On the other hand, he frequently met with such problems. If Nailisi was not with him his two rings would not be enough.

Nailisi waited impatiently on the Pan's Turtle alchemical boat. Saleen had been gone for too long. He was just taking the magic beasts' eggs, could he be in danger? She had no feeling of Saleen getting hurt from deep within her soul and Saleen had let her man the teleportation array, so she did not dare leave it.

In actuality, she was even more anxious than Saleen. These mages had looked at the alchemical boat just like how she looked at the magic beasts' eggs. Nailisi was thinking from a demon's perspective and did not find these mages trustworthy.

Saleen wanted to quickly return to the alchemical boat too. It took time to cut the stones into suitable sizes to be placed within the ring. The use of the spatial equipment was limited. How big an object one could fit within it depended on their abilities.

If not, a normal person would be able to wave a mountain away just by wearing the God's Ring. This was something from folklore. Real spatial equipment would need to use up focus, similar to releasing a scroll.

If one forcefully took something too big it would cause the user's focus to deplete and turn them into an idiot. No mage would do something so stupid.

Getting the tourmaline satisfied Saleen. He had heard that in other dimensions this was known as an electric stone. He thought about it and decided that if they were useful to his training he could buy them when they were cheap on the market. As for the one that he had cut off, he could use it as part of the materials in building the magic towers.

In the future, his magic towers would need large number of tourmaline gems. As long as this thing could hold electric power, Saleen had decided to spend a fortune on it. He felt he would become a grade-6 mage soon. If he bought them, it would be later. Buying such a large number of the same material would cause its prices to skyrocket.

The price of tourmaline was moderate now because there were other gemstones that could replace it. Once a sole property could only be found in a specific gemstone, even if the gemstone was everywhere, its prices would be pushed to insane heights.

”Soldier, why did you suddenly talk to me?” Saleen asked the winged skeleton as he processed the tourmaline.

”I would need to speak sooner or later.” The winged skeleton's voice was incredibly cold and bitter. Saleen wanted to soothe it but he could not do so since the winged skeleton had been traded over from Daniel. Without his contract, Daniel could not give up the winged skeleton.

Saleen sighed internally before he spoke to the winged skeleton, ”Do what pleases you, I won't interfere.”

”You are my master, I will listen to you from now on.” The winged skeleton was not touched by Saleen's words. He was obviously still hung up on Daniel leaving him behind.