Chapter 214: Chapter 0214: The Insanely Cool and Awesome Little Fire Dragon (Second Update)
The next morning dawned.

Having completed the Dou Qi cultivation class, Liszt continued his research into volcanic glass.

He first took a piece of volcanic glass to the wasteland near the castle and smashed it. As the glass shattered along with the bubbles, the Eye of Magic observed the Fire Dragon Magic Power directly escaping.

The very next moment, Liszt was greatly startled.

The escaping Fire Dragon Magic Power coiled together and right before his eyes, it condensed into the form of a tiny dragon! Its wings spread and flapped up and down, its figure ethereal as if it could be dispersed by the wind at any moment, zigzagging back and forth in the air, truly resembling a small red dragon in flight.

“This…”

Liszt had never imagined that the magic power of a dragon could undergo such a mysterious transformation.

He quickly remembered what Granney Truth had explained about the triangular theory, saying that he believed dragons and elves originated from the combination of magic power and matter.

Now that he thought about it, there really seemed to be such a possibility, or even more likely, that dragons purely originated from magic power—the essence of the Fire Attribute magic power gave birth to essence, and the essence then condensed into a Fire Dragon—otherwise, it was impossible to explain why, after so many years of evolution, the Fire Dragon’s magic power could still form a small Magic Little Fire Dragon.

After some thought.

While the Magic Little Fire Dragon was still drifting in the air, untouched by the snowflakes that were unable to extinguish its light, Liszt directly reached out with his hand, covered in Magical Beast hide, toward the Magic Little Fire Dragon.

As soon as he touched it.

Boom!

With an explosive sound, the Little Fire Dragon burst on the spot, turning into a ball of flame that instantly blew his glove to shreds. A sharp pain in his palm, his skin singed by the splashing flames, almost charred the outer layer. Even though it didn’t char, it still left two painful blisters in his palm, burning intensely.

“Hiss, quite powerful,” Liszt used his hand to burst the blisters, gritting his teeth, and circulated his Dou Qi to soothe the pain from the injury—Knight’s Dou Qi has the effect of warming the body and healing wounds.

The Eye of Magic hadn’t been dismissed.

He was still observing.

The exploded Fire Dragon Magic Power quickly condensed again, forming a new Magic Little Fire Dragon. Judging by its size, it had hardly changed from the previous one.

This unscientific situation caught Liszt off guard.

He felt that this Magic Little Fire Dragon was like the persistent winds of Windhowl Valley and would remain lingering indefinitely in the wasteland near the castle.

If a Serf were to accidentally touch the Little Fire Dragon while passing by, there might instantly be an explosion. While not excessively dangerous, it could still char the skin or cause a body full of blisters.

“Wait until I find something to absorb the Fire Dragon Magic Power.” He glanced at the shattered volcanic glass on the ground; it seemed that during the volcanic eruption, the high temperature had burned the dragon’s magic power encapsulated in liquid magma. Now that it had cooled and solidified into glass, it was unable to encase anything.

Suddenly.

He thought of something, “Why don’t I have a Crystal Craftsman carve the volcanic glass into a bottle or a jar? Then use it to capture Fire Dragon Magic Power and store it? This volcanic glass obviously has an effect in blocking Fire Dragon Magic Power; it’s a natural storage container.”

With this thought, his worries dissipated.

He resumed his study of the flying Magic Little Fire Dragon.

The flight trajectory of the Little Fire Dragon was not fixed, but it seemed bound by some invisible limits, keeping it within a certain range. That range seemed to be where the first Little Fire Dragon had been crushed by Liszt, the area where the Fire Dragon Magic Power burst and spread.

Dismissing the Eye of Magic.

The Little Fire Dragon immediately disappeared from view.

Upon invoking the Eye of Magic, the Little Fire Dragon naturally appeared, slowly flapping its wings to fly. It made turns and flew back and forth within a fixed range, its demeanor utterly carefree.

Liszt used the Fine Steel Longsword he carried to touch it, and the sword passed directly through the Little Fire Dragon—or rather, the Little Fire Dragon passed directly through the sword. There was no collision or reaction between them.

“Why is there no reaction?”

After a moment of thought, he considered a possibility and immediately began to circulate his Dou Qi, imbuing the Fine Steel Longsword with it, and touched the Little Fire Dragon once again.

Boom!

A sudden explosion.

Sparks flew in all directions, visible without the need for the Eye of Magic.

Moments later, everything calmed down. In the view provided by the Eye of Magic, another Little Fire Dragon appeared. This time, its range of movement was limited to the scope of the new explosion—a circle with a radius of fifty centimeters. Its size and the total amount of its magic power remained unchanged.

There was no visible loss.

“It really defies science. Why is there no decrease in energy after exerting effort, and the magic power is still so plentiful? This shares a curious similarity with the properties of the Dragon Gems.” Gems produced by dragons also possessed seemingly infinite magic power, but even infinity would eventually run out one day.

This Little Fire Dragon might explode thousands or hundreds of times before being completely extinguished.

“Right, can it fly underground?” As soon as he thought of it, Liszt waited for the Little Fire Dragon to fly as close to the ground as possible before he reached out with the Fine Steel Longsword to touch it.

Boom!

It exploded again.

This time, the center of the explosion was only ten centimeters from the ground. When the new Little Fire Dragon formed, it indeed flew toward the ground. The moment it touched the earth, the remaining snow on the surface melted instantly, and the damp ground dried up at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Soon, the Little Fire Dragon flew out from the ground again, flew for a short while, and then dove into the earth once more.

As it was only the size of a palm, each time it could only dry a small spot, but after several times, the dried area underwent further changes.

The parched soil gradually turned black and appeared scorched.

He lured the Little Fire Dragon away with an explosion, dug up the scorched earth, and tapped on it, finding it as hard as a brick.

“A brick?” In an instant, a stroke of inspiration struck from above, entering his mind, “The Magic Little Fire Dragon is essentially firing bricks; I could completely use it to bake bricks, pottery, and porcelain. Once I have plenty of Fire Dragon Magic Power, this will be countless times more powerful than a high-temperature furnace!”

And it caused no smoke pollution, nor did it require physical fuel.

An idea that came in a flash made him ecstatic. Black Horse Island must have a fair amount of Volcanic Glass scattered about. If he could concentrate the Fire Dragon Magic Power together and build a kiln with Volcanic Glass, he could continuously produce bricks. The same could be done for pottery and porcelain.

“They say that baking bricks and ceramics requires different temperatures, which I can completely control by separating the Fire Dragon Magic Power,” he mused.

“The magic power of an entire Fire Dragon can ignite a whole volcano, and a portion of the Fire Dragon Magic Power can be used to bake bricks!”

His thoughts diverged, and more ideas emerged, “It’s not only for baking bricks, I could completely use the Little Fire Dragon to build a furnace for boiling steam and then invent a steam engine… It seems a bit difficult to make a steam engine, but wouldn’t it be easy to boil water or heat a kang with it in minutes?”

“This is not like being rewarded with a mine, it’s like being given a pile of energy!”

Considering the nearly forty Smoke Missions he had seen so far, the value of Volcanic Glass was second only to that of the Space Gems. If utilized and developed properly, it could even surpass Space Gems.

He forcibly suppressed his excitement and watched the flying Little Fire Dragon intently, clenching his fists tightly.

Then another possibility occurred to him, “Maybe the magic power of the Fire Dragon could… infect creatures, spawning new Dragon Breed Beasts?”