However, Lin Li stopped after taking a few steps forward, and turned around to look at the baby Elemental Wyrm strangely. This little fella was the one who called him in, so why did it stop there!? Could it be that it was afraid of what was inside? However, its pitiful expression did not seem to be due to fear.
"Let's go, little fella. Didn't you want to bring me to find something?" Lin Li said as he waved at the baby Elemental Wyrm, and then pointed to the depths of the crack.
Lin Li's gestures should have been easy to understand. With the baby Elemental Wyrm's intelligence, it wouldn't be able to understand. However, at this moment, the little guy chirped twice and turned around in the air while holding its stomach with its front paws, looking at Lin Li eagerly.
Damn it, does this fella want to drink milk? Where am I going to find a female Wyrm for it? Lin Li turned around and looked at the baby Elemental Wyrm, which was swaying in the air as if it was going to faint from hunger. However, he had to understand since it had just been born. Lin Li took out some food from his ring, such as barbecued meat and desserts.
Seeing that Lin Li was taking out food, the baby Elemental Wyrm cheered and flew towards Lin Li. However, when it saw the food that Lin Li had taken out, it stopped abruptly, and fell to the ground with a thud. It then held its stomach and rolled around in front of Lin Li.
"Hey, are you hungry or not? This is made by the most famous chef in the Breezy Plains. Even I can't say anything when I'm so picky. Why are you being so picky?" Lin Li waved the food in his hand, trying to tempt the little fella with the aroma of the food.
However, the baby Elemental Wyrm ignored the food in Lin Li's hand. It rolled on the ground and let out a miserable cry as if it had been tortured. It rolled to Lin Li's feet and grabbed onto Lin Li's trousers with its claws, looking up at Lin Li with aggrieved eyes.
"What do you want to eat? You have to tell me so that I can find it for you," Lin Li said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. He put the food that the baby Elemental Wyrm didn't even bother to look at it before putting it back into the ring.
The baby Elemental Wyrm's eyes lit up, and it shook off the dust on its body before spreading its wings and flying towards Lin Li's hand. It hugged Lin Li's hand in its arms, and opened its mouth to bite Lin Li's finger.
"F * ck, you want to f * cking kill me?!" Lin Li turned pale with fright, and finally managed to get it off his hand before the baby Elemental Wyrm could bite it.
Lin Li couldn't be bothered to care about the little guy rolling on the ground again. He raised his hand and looked at it carefully. Of course, the baby Elemental Wyrm didn't want to eat his flesh. Lin Li could clearly see that it was aiming for the Evil Eye Tyrant Ring on his hand.
"Hey, that's an Elemental Wyrm. Do you think it's an ordinary magical beast?" Connoris' voice sounded in Lin Li's mind again.
"If you knew, why didn't you say so earlier? Luckily, I was fast enough. Otherwise, if this thing was destroyed, where would I find another one?" Of course, Lin Li was displeased. Even without Connoris telling him, he knew that the little guy wanted to eat the magical crystal. However, the problem was that although the magical crystal of the Evil Eye Tyrant was not of a high level, it had an irreplaceable function. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth Geresco keeping it with a treasure like the Book of Eternity.
Ever since Lin Li made the magical crystal of the Evil Eye Tyrant into a ring and wore it with him, he had gained a lot from it. His mental strength was growing with every passing moment. For a mage, this was akin to constantly improving his potential and aptitude. Potential and aptitude were fixed at birth, and directly determined a mage's achievements in magic in the future.
If not for the increase in mental strength from the magical crystal of the Evil Eye Tyrant, Lin Li wouldn't have been able to fight with the elven Legendary-mage. If the Lord of Nightmares had not been released, he would have been the first to suffer. He even dared to fight with the projected image of the Elemental Wyrm, and even dared to consume the Heart-piercing Potion. If not for his strong mental strength, he wouldn't have stood a chance.
"The Elemental Wyrm is like the embodiment of the Four Elemental Rules. Although it can use the Four Elemental Elements at will, and doesn't have to worry about mana exhaustion, it still has to completely absorb and transform the mana needed for its body to grow. Like other ancient wyrms, the growth process of the Elemental Wyrm is very long. Of course, this is for the short and pitiful lifespan of you humans. " Connoris expressed his jealousy towards Lin Li's luck again. When he recalled his own unfortunate situation, his tone was somewhat sour.
After hearing Connoris' explanation, Lin Li was deep in thought. No wonder Xiao Hua tried so hard to absorb my mana when it was born. So it was because my mana was more delicious than magical elements …
Of course, the baby Elemental Wyrm couldn't hear the conversation between Lin Li and Connoris. It climbed up from the ground shakily, and its eyes were filled with tears. It raised its head to look at Lin Li, and whimpered.
"You don't have to be reluctant. It's not like you're giving it magical crystals for nothing. A baby Elemental Wyrm needs at least 1,000 years to grow to maturity. However, with enough magical crystals, it's not impossible to shorten this growth period to a few hundred years. If you're willing to give it Legendary-level magical crystals, it might even reach maturity in 100 to 200 years, "Connoris continued. It was jealous, but the stronger Lin Li was, the better it would be for it. At least it would be able to escape from this lousy hammer earlier.
"Oh? There's such a good thing! " Lin Li perked up. He knew how powerful an Elemental Wyrm was just by looking at the Elemental Wyrm's projected avatar. Although Lin Li didn't intend to let Xiao Hua be his fighter for the time being, the problem was that he wouldn't reject a powerful helper.
However, it was obvious that feeding it one or two magical crystals was not enough for the baby Elemental Wyrm to reach maturity. Even if it was a Legendary magical crystal, it would still require a large amount of it. The only advantage was that according to Connoris, the Elemental Wyrm could devour magical crystals without wasting them at all. Regardless of the level of the magical crystal, it would be able to devour the same amount of mana.
Although this advantage sounded simple, no one but the Elemental Wyrm would be able to do it without wasting any mana at all.
Since the prehistoric times, Elemental Wyrms were not the only ones who relied on devouring magical crystals to increase their strength. Many powerful magical beasts would first devour the magical crystal in the prey's body after catching it, and then slowly absorb the power in the magical crystal. Although the absorption process was very slow, it was a rather efficient way to increase their strength compared to converting magical elements into mana.
However, this method was a great waste of magical crystals in the eyes of humans. Ordinary magical beasts might not even be able to absorb 10% of the power in the magical crystal if they used this method, and the rest of the power would be wasted. However, there was no other way. After all, not all magical beasts had that ability. Those that could use the magical crystals that others had painstakingly condensed to increase their own strength were already rather powerful magical beasts.
Compared to magical beasts that had no other choice, humans and other intelligent races had more ways to make full use of magical crystals, such as mageweaths, Alchemy Arrays, and the embedding of magical equipment. However, embedding was a different story. Every time it was used, the output of mana would be doubled. A level-one spell might require the mana of a level-two spell.
Although mageweaths and Alchemy Arrays were created to make use of magical crystals as the energy core, they had always been pursuing the maximum use of the mana of the magical crystals. However, even the most advanced mageweaths and Alchemy Arrays could not avoid the loss of mana during the process of operation.
On the contrary, the more advanced the mageweath and Alchemy Array was, the longer the route that the mana would flow through due to the complexity of the magic circuit. After the mana was extracted from the magical crystal, the longer it would take before it was finally used, and the more mana would be wasted. Although the masters of past generations had painstakingly studied this additional loss, the effect was not obvious.
In addition to the loss of mana flow, mageweaths and Alchemy Arrays were still inanimate objects, after all. They might be able to replace mages in casting spells and release pre-set magic effects, but they would not be able to control mana as meticulously as real mages. To achieve the same effect, using mageweaths or Alchemy Arrays was likely to require more than twice the mana of a mage.
Lin Li placed a Legendary magical crystal in the Tower of Dusk, and used it as the energy core of the various mageweaths and mageweath arrays of the All-Kill Array. However, even a Legendary magical crystal could not support the use of the All-Kill Array too many times. After the number of uses reached a limit, the rare Legendary magical crystal would likely be completely destroyed. It was not that the Legendary magical crystal could not be used, but rather, it was unavoidable during the process of using it. Even though Lin Li was a Guru of Inscription, he could not really change that fact.
However, the Elemental Wyrm was different. It was born with the four elemental Laws of earth, fire, water, and wind. It could be said that the four major magical elements of Anril were at its disposal. Back then, the Dragon of Dream had the four major magical elements of Anril. Even if it missed out during the absorption process, it would still belong to it. Any magical crystal condensed by the four major magical elements was just a change of form to it, just like changing water to ice.
Although the tender Elemental Wyrm Xiao Hua was no longer the Dragon of Dream that was born in Chaos, and did not have the ability to monopolize the four major elements, it definitely had the ability to not let go of any trace of mana in the magical crystal with its mastery of the four major elements.
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