Chapter 406: Fire Dragon Bones Cannot Be Hit

The Burial Ground, in the afternoon.

Liszt walked among the five massive Fire Dragon bones, continuously casting Magic Eye to observe the magic power feedback from these bones.

There were no signs of magic power.

The so-called dragon bone revival mentioned in the smoke mission showed no manifestation; these five decayed Fire Dragon bones remained unchanged.

He deactivated the Magic Eye and observed the bones with his naked eye. From the geography of Black Horse Island, the Burial Ground is located between Ice Grass Hill and Needle Grass Hill, roughly in the eastern part of the island.

"If we consider this first Fire Dragon bone beside me as the origin of the coordinate system, extending east as the x-axis and north as the y-axis, with twenty meters as a unit. Then, the second bone is located at; the third at, the fourth at, the fifth at, with the first and second bones being the closest, reaching seventy-two meters apart."

While investigating, Liszt sketched the coordinate system on thick paper.

The five Fire Dragon bones on the coordinate system roughly form a blade-shaped pentagon: "Is there a special reason for this shape, or this distribution of bones? Or is it just because the volcano randomly spewed them to these five points?"

It seems they were just randomly scattered, with no special reason.

He stashed the thick paper and climbed to the top of the first Fire Dragon bone, where the break had been weathered into a flat surface. Originally, there was soil and weeds growing on it, but now the weeds had been cleared, revealing the fine texture of the bone itself. Generally, bones are hollow, but the Fire Dragon bones are not.

"Or perhaps, the marrow inside the bone has been replaced by some substance." Liszt squatted on the broken surface, carefully observing, and could see a dividing line between the bone and the marrow.

Like the rings of a tree.

"The Fire Dragon bones have not turned into fossils; they are still bone material, including the large amount of bone fragments previously transported to Flower Town, which are real bones. Those bone fragments do not have substances evolved from marrow... What exactly has the marrow of these five Fire Dragon bones turned into?"

He wanted to chip off a piece for research.

But the Fire Dragon bones were too tough, and he couldn't make a crack. Moreover, the echo seemed unusually loud. He stopped, and the echo instantly disappeared. He hammered the bone, and the echo reverberated once more.

"Something's wrong!"

He immediately cast Magic Eye, scanning the surroundings, but found no signs of magic power.

He then struck the bone again, and this time, along with the surging echo, the Fire Dragon bone beneath his feet displayed magic patterns like lightning—fiery red magic power, densely distributed inside the bone, flashing by.

"There's something!"

He struck again, seeing more clearly the fiery red magic power inside the bone flash, thick and thin, intertwined. Turning his head, he looked at the second Fire Dragon bone not far away, and when he struck again, the second bone also had a large number of fiery red threads densely flashing on the bone.

Looking further at the distant third, fourth, and fifth Fire Dragon bones, each time he struck the first bone, they also flashed with red magic threads.

The echo also expanded accordingly.

And as Liszt continued to strike, these fiery red threads became brighter and brighter, as if they were about to ignite completely.

He inexplicably thought of the feeling of cranking a tractor handle in his childhood.

As the handle turned faster, the degree of igniting the cylinder increased, and eventually, with a series of thuds and black smoke, the tractor would start.

Thus, the chisel in his hand kept striking the Fire Dragon bone like a sewing machine needle.

In the vision of Magic Eye, the fiery red magic threads became brighter each time, and by the end, they were almost about to burst into flames.

The temperature in the surrounding air also rose higher and higher.

"Just a bit more effort, and these five Fire Dragon bones will ignite!" His heart raced with excitement, and his hands worked faster. However, just as the flames were about to ignite, the steel chisel snapped with a crack.

The fiery red threads on the Fire Dragon bones also instantly extinguished.

All efforts were in vain.

Suppressing his frustration, Liszt directly took out a bone hammer crafted from Fire Dragon bones from his gem space and continued to hammer the bones.

However, even after he broke the bone hammer, the Fire Dragon bones still failed to ignite.

"Something must be missing. Is it the lack of Fire Dragon magic power?" He stopped hammering and sat on the Fire Dragon bones to think, his wrist sore and numb from the effort, needing a break.

After resting, he took out the stored jars of Fire Dragon magic power, which, apart from supplying the Fire Dragon brick factory, still had a lot of Fire Dragon magic power unused.

He released a small amount of Fire Dragon magic power onto the Fire Dragon bones.

Soon, he noticed.

When the Fire Dragon magic power touched the Fire Dragon bones, it instantly turned into countless fiery red magic threads, being devoured by the Fire Dragon bones. After the fiery red threads disappeared, no magical Fire Dragon flew out.

After a long stare, Liszt was certain of one thing: "My precious Fire Dragon magic power, just like that, gone?"

Unwilling to give up, he took out a bone knife and continued to strike the Fire Dragon bones.

But the outcome was the same as before. The fiery red threads grew brighter and brighter until the bone knife broke, still without igniting the Fire Dragon magic power. "Could it be that I need to continue infusing it with Fire Dragon magic power?" Clearly, the Fire Dragon bones were missing a kind of "fuel," much like a tractor without oil.

No matter how much effort you put into cranking a tractor without oil, it's impossible to start it.

But Liszt was reluctant to use Fire Dragon magic power as fuel for these five Fire Dragon bones of unknown use. After all, the applications of Fire Dragon magic power were too vast; currently, the Fire Dragon brick factory relied entirely on Fire Dragon magic power to operate, and the raw material ratios for stone slabs, culverts, and pottery had already been figured out.

Finished products could be fired.

The culverts and stone slabs from the Fire Dragon brick factory directly boosted the construction progress of Black Horse Island by a large margin. The streets of the current port town were already paved with stone slabs, and the sewers were also buried with culverts, clean and unobstructed. There were no signs of the backwardness and primitiveness typical of ordinary small towns.

Once away from the Fire Dragon brick factory, the aura of backwardness would hit you in the face.

"The Fire Dragon brick factory is one of the few industrial lights on my territory. No matter what, I must ensure its good operation. The current stock of Fire Dragon magic power can barely be used as 'fuel.' Additionally, we can continue to mine the volcanic glass underground to extract new Fire Dragon magic power."

At this moment, he made a decision. While Black Horse Island was not yet open, he would first clear the land and mine all the volcanic glass and Fire Dragon magic power.

The entire island's underground was composed of basalt pillars, with cracks filled with a large amount of volcanic glass, from which a lot of Fire Dragon magic power could still be mined.

"To ignite the five Dragon bones, is it almost enough?" He looked at the Dragon bones in front of him and directly released all the remaining Fire Dragon magic power.

As this magic power was quickly absorbed by the Fire Dragon bones, he made one last strike.

Unfortunately, the result was still just short of success, unable to ignite the magic.

"Regardless, the five Fire Dragon bones have clearly revived. The next step is to continuously mine Fire Dragon magic power to add fuel to them! When they are truly ignited, what will they give birth to... Could it really be a Fire Dragon hatchling?" Liszt swallowed, feeling his heartbeat quicken.

He quickly brushed aside this far-fetched fantasy.