Chapter 1717 - Scales And Bones (Part 1) (1/2)
”There, there. One day you'll have the Eyes. There's no need to cry.” Friya caressed Faluel's head, not knowing what else to say.
After a while, the effects of the greed and the booze faded, and the Hydra went back to her old self.
”I guess you want to know how to refine the corpse of a powerful Divine Beast, correct?” She said, pretending that nothing weird had happened during the last few minutes.
”Correct.” Everyone was eager to put that outburst behind and acted accordingly.
”Well, the first thing that you must know is that the value and use of Dragon scales vary with their quantity. When you have just a few, like those I gave you for your Scalewalker armor, then you can only employ them in your crafts as ingredients.
”When you have a decent amount, instead, you can use them as a working material in place of rare magical metals.
”By mixing the remains of a powerful Awakened with Adamant, or any other enchanted metal for that matter, you can make yourself a Dragonwalker armor or whatever you're going to call it.” Faluel said.
”What? How?” Lith asked.
”Having your own personal metal mine, you should have a grasp of how magical metals form, correct?” Faluel asked and the others nodded in response.
”A metal is just earth that has been purified from its weakest components that also becomes magical after being subjected to a powerful flow of world energy for a long time.
”The same can be said about the bodies of Awakened, be them humans, Emperor Beasts, or Divine Beasts. Until the blue core, their bodies still have impurities that limit their strength and mana flow.
”Past that point, energy and matter mix, transforming every part of us into a powerful magic conductor. The problem is that, unlike an enchanted metal, our body starts much weaker and it takes a long time for the mana flow to temper our flesh.
”I have a bright violet core, but after only 300 years my scales are not that powerful, yet. Let me see this Black Dragon and give me back the Eyes, please.” Faluel said while reverting into a Hydra.
Lith gave her a Monocle, keeping the other for himself. Solus gasped in amazement at his idea, abandoning her human form to be capable of looking through Lith's eyes and experiencing first-hand the full power of Menadion's relic.
”You can do that too? I-” Envy twisted the seven serpentine heads as they put the Monocle on. ”Never mind. Let's take a look at this guy.”
A snap of Lith's fingers made Syrook's gigantic carcass appear in the empty area in the middle of the lair, leaving barely enough space for the group.
”The subject is a violet-cored Black Dragon, about 500 years old. The bad news is that he had only recently achieved the violet. I guess no longer than a couple of decades ago, considering that he was a self-Awakened and had to develop his breathing technique with no help.
”The good news is that he spent most of that time as a pseudo violet core, which means that his body has been long since devoid of impurities and it experienced a powerful mana flow for over 400 years. It's an excellent material.” Faluel said.
Lith was trying to exploit her heads to take a look around the lair, but unluckily, to combine the effects of the Eyes their wearers had to look at the same thing. Lith could understand everything about Syrook's physiology but he got a splitting headache the moment he looked away.
”My eyes are down here, jerk.” Faluel said after noticing that Lith was trying to study a bastard sword hung high on the ceiling.
”I'm sorry, sweetheart. You can't blame a man for trying.” He gently caressed her scaly leg in a parody of her earlier behavior.
”My inner Dragon got the better of me when you dangled a lifelong dream in front of my eyes, what's your excuse?” Suddenly all seven of Faluel's heads had fire affinity.