163 Crystal Origin (1/2)
Recruiting foreign Awakeners was a soft approach, but Leon did not make the suggestion because he was afraid of erupting into direct confrontation with these foreign Awakeners that would inevitably come to their Capital. The suggestion was made in consideration of humanity's dwindling population.
If they could benefit from reducing the killing of their own kind to a bare minimum, it would be for the best. But if the foreign Awakeners don't know what's good for them, Leon did not mind washing the Capital in the blood of his enemies alongside his mother. The Crawford royal families weren't pushovers.
”Speaking of the crystals, I wonder if you have any idea about the its origins or how it came into being, mother?” Leon suddenly asked.
Leon thought his mother might have a clue since the royal family record and hold many secrets since the founding of the kingdom. However, even if Elizabeth learnt all the Crawford royal family's secrets, it would only concern the 500-year history of their kingdom. The crystals were buried not far from the ancient ruins beneath their palace, thus it mostly like belonged to the ancient civilization that existed for a longer time and ended god knew how long ago.
Elizabeth shook her head at Leon's question. She fished out a diamond-shaped grey crystal and glanced at it thoughtfully. ”These crystals are too unfathomable. Mother can't guess its origins. It's mostly likely another product of the ancient civilization, but that's not important. What's important is that it can be use by us and benefit our cultivation greatly.”
His mother's answer caused Leon to smile wryly. If they could learn its origins, they might be able to find some clues in its manufacturing process. But that was under the assumption that the crystals were man-made and not naturally formed by the heaven and earth.
It was foolish to believe that such heavenly resources were inexhaustible if his mother's guess was true. There must be a fixed amount to be found in the underground world and once it is exhausted, there would be no more, not unless they found the manufacturing method of the crystals.
Leon wasn't shortsighted and began looking from a long-term perspective immediately. However, that was under the assumption that the crystals were artificial made according to his mother's guess. His own speculation regarding the crystal's origins was quite different.
”Don't you think the crystals share some resemblance to an Awakener's elemental seed, mother?”
”Hmm?” Leon's question piqued her interest. ”Yes, mother thought about this before, but it was just a passing thought. My son, you don't think these crystals are the elemental seed of an Awakener, right? After all, once an Awakener dies or the elemental seed's connection is severed, it will dissipate and return to the heaven and earth.”
However, he was unable to stop the dissipation process once the extraction of the elemental seed commenced. He was only able to reduce the loss to a bare minimum by becoming adept in absorbing the elemental seed.
The action of reaping the cultivation of others was considered evil, but he had never devoured the cultivation of an innocent person. All those he did, deserved death. He was neither good nor evil. A good person wouldn't be able to live long, but neither would an evil person have a good ending. His sense of justice was to return kindness with kindness and fight evil with evil.
”Yes, that is certainly the case for the elemental seed of a cultivator in the elementary Awakener Realm, but what about the Transcendent Realm, or realms beyond that?”
Elizabeth was startled once these words were spoken. Although she had not kept an exact count, the amount of crystals that entered the safety of the Treasury should have already exceeded a hundred, and this was just a week's worth of mining. There should be still be thousands of crystals to be excravated form the mines or maybe even tens of thousands. In any case, the number was not small.