The Cornflower Witch Chapter 252

Inside the cave, the two walked one after another.

Lucas walked in front, Sylphidya behind, but before and after them were several bone-spliced undead creatures, guarding and protecting them.

The miners had already fled, and now it was especially quiet here, with only the footsteps of the two and the bone creatures. Occasionally, Sylphidya would hear a faint dripping sound from somewhere, which might be water seeping into the cave from within the mountain.

“Sylphidya, did you advance through the ‘Courtyard’ secret art of a gardener?” the senior asked while walking.

“Yes.” Concealing it now would be pointless.

“What about you, senior?” Sylphidya asked curiously in return.

“The class I chose for advancement is the ‘Bone Splicer’ of the Path of Dead Embers. The advancement secret method has some similarities with yours. It’s also about creating an environment that can nurture undead creatures, named ‘Graveyard’.”

“‘Graveyard’ can house the undead creatures I create, and it can also gradually repair and strengthen them. In addition, it can also convert some corpses and make better use of them,” he explained as he walked.

These things weren’t exactly secrets, it’s just that ordinary Transcendent rarely paid attention to the ‘Bone Splicer’ class. If Sylphidya wanted to know more, many libraries in the Forest Land had general introductions.

“Do you know what’s the most crucial thing to advance from Tier 3 to Tier 4?” Lucas, rarely encountering a peer outside the Forest Land that he could converse with, spoke more than usual.

“I don’t know yet, I just advanced recently.”

“You, indeed.” Lucas once again marveled at the girl’s rapid advancement.

“Advancing from Tier 3 to Tier 4 requires continuously refining the various abilities one has mastered, achieving complete mastery and surpassing the ordinary level.”

“Generally speaking, at Tier 3, being able to raise a certain ability to the sixth stage is considered excellent, but if you want to advance further, you must further enhance it, or even find other ways to sublimate the ability.”

“For example, the [Bone Splicing] that I mastered at Tier 2 was already enhanced to Lv.6 when I reached Tier 3. At this point, it’s exceptionally difficult to improve further.”

“Either I constantly practice and study, spending nearly ten years delving into understanding it little by little, breaking through it, and raising it to Lv.7.”

“Or, I try to follow the advice within the school organization, find rare dragon bones, and transform this ability into [Dragon Bone Splicing], using the powerful enhancement of the ‘Dragon Eye’ Aspect to sublimate the ability.”

“I see.” Compared to the long process of ten years, other methods were clearly faster.

“Since you are a gardener, the most crucial ability, ‘Dew Prayer Method’, after reaching Tier 3, you should also gradually realize that while this ability still has an effect on Tier 1 and Tier 2 plants, it’s basically useless for Tier 3 plants,” Lucas reminded.

“It seems to be true.” Sylphidya nodded.

Hearing the affirmative answer from the girl behind him, Lucas snorted with a slightly smug expression. Even though she advanced quickly, this junior was still too naive, lacking knowledge and experience.

“I know a way to sublimate ‘Dew Prayer Method’. It also uses the enhancement of the ‘Dragon Eye’ Aspect to transform and sublimate ‘Dew Prayer Method’ into ‘Dragon Blood Irrigation’.”

“This ability is extremely powerful even at Tier 5 or Tier 6.”

“Oh, there’s such a method?” Sylphidya blinked, slightly curious.

“Of course, dragons are too powerful. Many things on them are treasures.”

Hearing this, Sylphidya remembered the famous ‘Dragon Hunt Wars’, a major event that happened in the Eighth Epoch. At that time, the ‘Silvermoon Dragon’ died, and all six Law Dragons perished. It was also the dragons’ weakest moment, and many organizations and forces launched a hunt for the giant dragons.

Lucas used his words to stir up the girl’s yearning and desire for dragon corpses, so that when facing the Anti people’s siege later, Sylphidya wouldn’t easily avoid and flee, and he could more calmly obtain what he wanted. The pie he painted for the girl was indeed true, and ‘Dragon Blood Irrigation’ was also a very powerful ability. But unfortunately, the giant dragon in this cave had been dead for who knows how long, and had even been hunted and killed a second time. It was already good enough if some bones remained; where would there be rare dragon blood to convert and sublimate abilities?

However, the true situation would probably only be clear to the girl herself later.

The two followed the tunnels in the mine, gradually descending. The air here became murky, and the environment slowly changed.

The walls, previously filled with dirt and rocks, now had some strange black stones, and a faint scorched ‘sensation’ could be subtly smelled in the air.

This was not a smell, but more like a strange feeling combining multiple senses, similar to the traces left on the retina by strong light. Even after the strong light dissipated, there was still some visual afterimage.

“We should be slowly approaching the corpse of that giant dragon,” Lucas said, then his footsteps slowed, and he began to observe the surrounding tunnels from time to time.

After walking another few tens of meters, he stopped, took out a pale skull hidden in his cuff, and then activated his ability.

Under Sylphidya’s gaze, a pale mist drifted out of the skull. Then, like Play-Doh, the mist was manipulated by Lucas into blurry humanoid figures.

Soon, these ‘humanoid figures’ spread out and flew in all directions along the tunnels, scouting the environment.

“Do you feel uncomfortable?” Lucas asked after finishing this, turning to her.

“A little, it seems.” The feeling was very faint. Sylphidya closed her eyes to feel it.

“This is erosion remaining from a high-tier Aspect. Just as the ‘Twisted’ Aspect can pollute other creatures, other Aspects, upon reaching high tiers, will also cause erosion and transformation to their surroundings.”

“For example, places where dragons reside, constantly subjected to the erosion of the ‘Dragon Eye’ Aspect, will become imbued with their ‘aura’, and special ‘Dragon Breath Grass’ will grow there. These are plants with a faint ‘Dragon Eye’ Aspect, often used by alchemists as a lower-grade substitute for dragon materials.”

“I’ve heard of it, but my teacher at the time said that the strength of erosion varies between different ‘Aspects’.”

“Yes, it’s generally recognized that ‘Dragon Eye’, ‘Nightmare’, and ‘Dead Embers’ are strongly corrosive Aspects, second only to ‘Twisted’. And the weakest in terms of erosion is probably ‘Glorious Moon’.”

The two exchanged knowledge they had learned. Shortly after, the ‘humanoid’ specters sent out returned, informing Lucas about the conditions of the various tunnel branches.

“Follow me this way.” He seemed to have discovered something, his expression becoming excited.

The two then continued forward. Sylphidya followed him, winding through the complex underground tunnels for nearly half an hour, finally arriving at a larger cave.

The inner walls of this place were studded with several strange, yellowish bones, and around them were some dried up corpses. It looked like they had been left within the past year, and some were still putrefying, not having completely turned to bone.

Sylphidya covered her mouth and nose with her sleeve, her gaze sweeping over the surroundings.

The yellow bones embedded in the mud and crushed stones possessed a faint but extremely violent Aspect power.

That’s right, this was ‘Dragon Eye’. Sylphidya suddenly understood, and even recalled a distant memory.

It was still when she was a child, a girl she used to fight with when playing. She had golden hair, and occasionally her eyes would emit this strange and intense oppressive power.

Alicia, the girl silently recited the name, remembering her childhood playmate, the princess of the Sun Dynasty.