Chapter 200: Flying Dragons, Sub-dragons, and Dragon Beasts

This chapter is an additional update sponsored by the patron "BigEarsBringWind."

Currently, there are twenty additional updates owed to patrons, including others, all noted in Lao Bai's mind and will be gradually fulfilled!

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Five enormous bones left behind by an unknown creature must have some extraordinary use, which Liszt hasn't discovered yet. He wanted to collect the bones and store them in his spatial gem, but they were too large to fit. Besides, they were embedded in the rocks and couldn't be pulled out.

"Teacher Marcus, please arrange for people to dig them out if possible; if not, ensure they are protected on-site."

"Understood."

"Additionally, send people to collect all the bone fragments here and transport them back to Flower Town with the Flower... I plan to open a bone workshop in Flower Town."

Marcus nodded in agreement: "These bone fragments are indeed suitable for crafting fine bone tools. With the quantity of fragments here, the Flower Town serfs won't lack farming tools anymore, and the patrol team and pest control team can also get a few more bone weapons."

Speaking of bone tools,

Liszt suddenly remembered that he had a Dragon Binding Bone in his gem space. According to Kosto, the Dragon Binding Bone should be made from the bones of a high-level dragon-type magical beast.

"Teacher Marcus, do you remember the Dragon Binding Bone?" He patted the massive bone and said, "The Dragon Binding Bone is rumored to be made from the bones of a high-level dragon-type magical beast, but compared to these bones, the difference is like heaven and earth. I don't think the gap between super dragons and high-level dragon-type magical beasts would be so vast."

This negated the previous speculation.

Marcus obviously recalled it as well, frowning: "If dragons are ruled out, and super dragons are also ruled out, then what creature did these five bones come from?"

For now, this question remained unanswered.

As the sun was about to set, the group had to leave the valley and return to their temporary base. Tonight, they didn't need to sleep on the boat; Hiddleston was dragged far away by Liszt, so without his snoring, everyone could rest peacefully.

However, lying on the hard wooden bed,

Liszt didn't fall asleep immediately. He continued to ponder about the bones.

"Five decayed bones indicate great age and suggest a super-strong creature. Apart from dragons, the only other possibility is the legendary super dragon-type magical beast. According to enthusiasts who classify magical creatures, super dragon-type magical beasts rank just below dragons."

In many knight novels, super dragon-type magical beasts often appear.

However, they have another name—sub-dragons.

Other high, medium, and low-level dragon-type magical beasts are collectively called dragon beasts.

Some knight novels even consider dragons as a type of magical beast, categorizing them as flying dragons, lumping flying dragons, sub-dragons, and dragon beasts together as one species.

This undoubtedly diminishes the noble lineage of dragons, which is why such knight novels are unpopular and belong to a niche category. Liszt doesn't agree either; he dreams of riding a dragon, and telling him that dragons are merely magical beasts would tarnish his lofty life goals.

Such knight novels should be banned!

"So, if it's not a dragon or a sub-dragon, what are these five bones?" Various thoughts swirled in his mind, each idea emerging and then being analyzed for its correctness.

"Sub-dragons are magical beasts, and their existence is questionable, so we should rule them out first... Among dragons, I've ruled out gem dragons, metal dragons, and elemental dragons, but there's still the holy dragon... Could it be a smoke dragon?" He immediately thought of his golden finger, the smoke quest tied to his fate.

He always believed that the smoke quest was a product of the smoke dragon.

But he leaned towards having encountered a smoke dragon when he was young, being infected by it. However, a new idea arose: "What if the smoke dragon died, and its magic infected me, forming the smoke quest? And it died here on Black Horse Island, infecting a group of black-blooded horses?"

This idea wasn't illogical or unreasonable.

But upon closer inspection, it seemed somewhat implausible. After all, the bones were already decayed, possibly thousands or tens of thousands of years old. It wouldn't make sense for them to suddenly infect a child on the nearby Coral Island. In his predecessor's memories, apart from Red Crab Island and Beer Island, he hadn't been to any other islands.

Let alone the newly discovered Black Horse Island.

Moreover, descriptions of smoke dragons generally depict them as a cloud of smoke, without mentioning bones or flesh. Upon death, they would likely dissipate entirely.

There's no reason for them to leave behind such skeletal remains.

"It's probably not a smoke dragon, nor an invisible dragon, which is small... Fairy dragon? Unlikely, fairy dragons live forever and don't die... Dusk dragon? Jade dragon?"

Still, he couldn't figure it out.

The next morning,

Just as the sun rose, he rode Lightning to the valley to observe the bones.

The serfs who had settled on Black Horse Island quickly formed teams and arrived to collect every piece of bone fragment, packing them up and transporting them to the temporary base. Marcus led another team to dig out the other four bones, hoping to uncover their full extent.

Although these bones hadn't fossilized, they had lost some of their bone-like properties.

Hiddleston, who loved bones, showed no interest in the fragments on the ground. He followed Liszt, eyeing The Horse King Lightning hungrily, drooling onto the ground.

The Horse King Lightning ignored Hiddleston and leisurely grazed on the grass roots.

Not far away, the black-blooded horses grazed on the hillside, occasionally lifting their heads to look at Lightning, still regarding him as their leader.

"My lord, we've dug halfway into the second bone and encountered a rock layer, preventing further excavation," Marcus reported.

"It seems the soil beneath Black Horse Island is mostly rock." Liszt walked over to the new pit, jumped down to the bottom, and stood on the solid rock.

Squatting down, he brushed away the dirt on the rock, trying to examine it closely.

However, his knowledge of rocks was limited. He only felt that this stone was quite hard, with tiny pores like bubbles.

"Bubbles?" Suddenly, he felt he remembered something but couldn't grasp the inspiration.

So he instructed the serfs preparing to excavate the third bone: "Expand this pit; I want to see more of the rock." He didn't believe the rock layer was a single piece; there must be breaks where pieces could be pried open for closer study.

Sure enough.

As the serfs expanded the bare rock at the bottom of the pit, Liszt noticed the gaps between the rocks.

With the bottom of the pit continuously being widened and the soil being removed, more and more rock surfaces were exposed. He suddenly realized that these rocks were surprisingly orderly, resembling hexagons about the size of basins. Moreover, there was a height distribution among the rocks, as if they were arranged like steps.

"This..." Liszt finally grasped the inspiration that had just occurred to him, "it's basalt columns!"