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'Sylvanus'...
Veronica and Rebecca stood side by side in the center, staring gravely at the greatsword hanging on the wall before them.
The entire sword was pitch-black. Both its enormous blade and hilt were covered in horrifying red veins that gave off a blood-like gleam, as though they were alive. Within those veins, faint blood-like lights flowed like running water...
This greatsword was precisely the Magiteknics product Wu Yan had seized from Mikaus—the weapon capable of reviving dead dragons, creating Corpse Ash Dragons, and controlling them!
"Is this the greatsword that can command Corpse Ash Dragons?..."
Even Veronica, who feared neither heaven nor earth, examined the greatsword before her with extreme wariness.
"The sword itself seems to be made from precious metal ores, but those red veins..."
"Yes..." Rebecca nodded solemnly.
"They are all made from 'Dragonite Crystal'!"
"As expected..." Veronica's expression darkened.
'Dragonite Crystal'!
It was a special type of crystal that only dragons could produce.
Nearly every dragon periodically secreted crystalline substances containing magical power. Those crystals were Dragonite Crystals!
Since Dragonite Crystals contained some of the excess magical power within dragons, people had begun making use of them.
Those who possessed Dragonite Crystals could draw upon the magic contained within them to cast dragon-medium magic that only dragons could perform. They could also accomplish things that ordinarily only magic could achieve.
For example, the source of power for Veronica's personal airborne battleship was a special type of Dragonite Crystal.
That was why Dragonite Crystals might be nothing more than a regularly secreted biological substance to dragons. Like human metabolism, dragons might not even spare them a glance. But to humans, Dragonite Crystals were extremely precious magical artifacts.
Much of the Roreyamon Knight Kingdom's productivity depended