The giant clam's shell was very difficult to pry open. Without tools, the fishermen were helpless.
Liszt didn't force it. In any case, it was fine as long as the black pearl couldn't run away. After the large cuttlefish was dismembered and the rotten corpse was thrown into the sea, Liszt ordered people to carry the giant clam back to the castle and slowly study it.
The giant clam had a strange shape.
Along the way, it attracted the attention of many townspeople. When they arrived at the castle, all the servants also ran out to watch. No one had ever seen such a strange thing.
"Teacher Markus, how do you think we should open it?"
Markus pondered for a moment and said: "It is very strong. The two pieces of shell are firmly fixed, but its shell is irregular. There are many gaps, and we can use a stick to pry it open. Ordinary wooden sticks won't do. It would be best to use a thick iron stick. However, there shouldn't be such an iron stick. "
Iron tools were very precious. No one would use iron ore to forge a thick iron stick specially used to pry open the giant clam's shell.
"Perhaps we can use fire." Carter suggested.
"The shell is too thick. It would be difficult for fire to harm it." Liszt rejected it. There were still black pearls inside. If it were to be cooked...
"Use hooks. Two hooks each hook a piece of shell. Then use the horses to pull the shell open." Markus finally thought of a stupid method.
However, the result was good.
When the two horses each pulled a rope and almost broke the rope, the giant clam's shell was finally pulled open. The giant clam was like a blooming flower. It didn't open too much, but the "bands" supporting the shell could already be found, which were the adductor muscles.
Markus clenched his two-handed sword. His qi gushed out and directly cut off one of the bands.
Clatter!
The horse that pulled the giant clam shell with all its might directly split it into two halves, and it could no longer be closed. Liszt's gaze was already fixed on the group of protrusions on the giant clam's inner wall. The protrusions were round and hidden inside were the pearls.
"Cut it open carefully. There are pearls inside. Don't scratch the pearls."
"Yes, sir!"
Markus used the knife personally and carefully cut open the protruding membrane. When the largest protruding membrane was cut open, a shiny black pearl was revealed. It was the size of a washbasin.
"There are more on the side. Cut them all open and take them out." Liszt was very excited.
He hadn't figured out what these black pearls could do, but it was still incredible to find such a large black pearl. If this was placed in his hometown, it would definitely fetch a sky-high price.
When Markus finished cutting, he took out a total of 16 black pearls of different sizes.
The biggest one was the size of a washbasin.
Next were two basketball-sized pearls, followed by three bowl-sized pearls, followed by a large pile of apples, oranges, and ping-pong balls.
After cleaning it, Liszt held the largest black pearl in his hands and suddenly felt that there seemed to be traces of magic power flowing on the pearl. He quickly cast Magic Eyes, and then saw a whirlpool-like deep magic power inside the black pearl. The color was light blue, which was the color of water magic.
"It actually has magic power?"
He had previously used Magic Eyes to observe the giant clam and didn't find the slightest trace of magic power. Who would have thought that the black pearls actually had magic power.
"Sir, these black pearls seem to have magic power?" Markus also found the abnormality, but he didn't have Magic Eyes and didn't dare to make a judgment.
"It does indeed have magic power."
Liszt swayed the black pearls, thinking of the Knight novels he had read. One of the Knight novels seemed to have recorded that the song of the Siren could calm the storm of the sea. There was a great Knight who captured the Siren and made it into a piece of magic equipment.
This piece of equipment could allow the ship to sail steadily even in the midst of a storm.
No one knew what the Siren was. Some people swore that they had heard the song of the Siren – Kosto had just said that he had heard the song of the Siren – but there was no record of what the Siren was. Most people thought that the Siren was just a story made up by sailors.
This story had nothing to do with the black pearls.
What made Liszt think of it was the equipment made by the Siren to protect the ship against the storm.
"Can these black pearls also be made into magic equipment to resist the storm? After all, it is a magic item with the water attribute, and the magic power is also very rich, almost comparable to the gems produced by dragons. I don't know if it would work to suppress the storm at sea, but it should be possible to make magic equipment. "
Without a mage, it was impossible to study the black pearls.
Liszt felt that they could also be used for other purposes – for example, as an air conditioner.
"Teacher Markus, Mr. Carter, everyone, do you feel that the air is much cooler?"
Markus carefully felt it: "I don't feel cool, but the moisture in the air seems to have increased. It should be that the black pearls condensed the surrounding water vapor."
"In any case, they are good things. If you want to sell them, how many gold coins do you think they can be sold for?"
"I have seen fist-sized white pearls. I heard from others that they are worth at least five gold coins. I guess that black pearls of the same size should be sold for ten gold coins? As for the largest black pearl, Sir, I can't estimate its value, it is a brand new pearl. "
"It has a very rich magic power, definitely more valuable than white pearls, but the castle is not short of money for the time being, its price should be considered again." Liszt was not very satisfied with Markus' valuation.
He felt that even if the black pearl was twice the price of white pearls, it was still underestimated. Its value was probably far greater than imagined.
So he said to Carter: "Mr. Carter, move them to my study." He kept a ping-pong ball sized black pearl in his hand, carefully playing with it.
"Yes, Master."
After a moment, Carter came back and asked: "Master, what about the giant clam, can its meat be eaten?"
"I think it can … Well, let Dosen have a taste first, in case it is poisonous, just throw it away."
"What about the two shells?"
"Clean the inside of the shell, I want to see if it has turned into jade."
Jade giant clams, in Liszt's hometown, were precious jewels, one of the seven treasures of Buddhism. In the West, giant clams, pearls, corals, and amber stood side by side, known as the four great organic jewels. Jade giant clams were the whitest substance in the world, it was formed by the inside of the giant clam that had turned into jade.
"Such a big giant clam, there should be a part of it that has turned into jade."
However, Liszt soon realized that he was wrong. Although the giant clam was huge, there was no sign of the inside of it turning into jade. At this time, he remembered that it was impossible for a living giant clam to turn into jade. It took time for it to turn into jade, just like the gestation of jade, it needed thousands of years of precipitation and carving before it could be produced.
Jade giant clams were dead giant clams buried in the sand, and after thousands of years, they gradually turned into jade.
Without jade, it could not be made into jewels. Liszt had a wild idea: "Mr. Carter, what do you think would happen if it was made into a bed?"
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