Treasure

"You said that Green Elf seemed to be searching for something?" Lynn frowned at the Female Warrior beside Mans. "The reason he kept hunting you down was because he didn't want the news to leak, so he chose to silence you?"

"Yes, Senior Lynn!" The Female Warrior looked at Lynn with eyes full of admiration. As if to prove the reliability of her guess, she continued, "I studied the language of the elves. While that Green Elf was hunting us down, I heard him mutter to himself in Elvish, 'What an annoying bunch. I have to kill them all, lest anyone find out I'm here!'"

Hearing the Female Warrior's words, Lynn's heart stirred. He immediately began searching through the belongings left behind by the dead Green Elf expert.

This Green Elf expert did not have a Spatial Ring. After searching for a while, Lynn quickly finished taking stock of the items he had left behind.

More than ten seventh- and eighth-level Magic Crystal Cores, several unregistered Magic Crystal Cards issued by the Elf Holy Temple of the Western Continent, a Rapier, a Longbow, and a map drawn on some unknown type of beast hide.

"This map seems somewhat like the terrain of the Dark Mountain Range!" Lynn silently studied the map, believing the Female Warrior's words a little more.

This Green Elf expert really had crossed the Dark Mountain Range from afar to come to the Eastern Continent in search of something.

"Something that a Ninth-level Warrior who comprehended Heaven and Earth Momentum would risk his life to find..." Lynn's curiosity was piqued as well.

"This young lady, you..." After pondering for a moment, Lynn looked at the two of them.

The Female Warrior hurriedly answered, "Senior Lynn, my name is Coros!"

Lynn nodded. "Coros, your information has been very useful to me. You and Mans can divide the Magic Crystal Cores on this elf. Consider them my reward to you."

"Thank you, Senior Lynn!" Mans and Coros quickly expressed their thanks.

More than ten seventh- and eighth-level Magic Crystal Cores were worth several million gold coins. To sixth-level warriors like them, that was an astronomical fortune.

After storing the unregistered Magic Crystal Cards, the elf's weapons, and the map in his Spatial Ring, Lynn lit the campfire again.

Early the next morning, Mans and Coros bid Lynn farewell.

They had already spent more than half a year in the Dark Mountain Range for graduation training. Moreover, after encountering that Green Elf, all their teammates aside from the two of them had been killed. They were still shaken and only wanted to leave the Dark Mountain Range and return home as soon as possible.

"Alas, I wonder how much territory the Magat Kingdom has left. I hope they can still find their home when they return." Watching the two depart, Lynn sighed softly.

After extinguishing the campfire, Lynn took out the map left by the Green Elf and headed deeper into the Dark Mountain Range.

He had decided to see what exactly that Green Elf had been looking for.

The area where Lynn had encountered Mans and Coros was in the central region of the Dark Mountain Range, where mid-level magical beasts around the fifth and sixth levels mainly lived.

These magical beasts had very low intelligence. Upon seeing Lynn, they treated him as prey and pounced at him with bared fangs and claws.

"What exactly is Heaven and Earth Momentum?" With a casual swing of his sword, Lynn smashed a charging sixth-level Silver Ring Shadow Snake into a bloody pulp. Yet his steps did not pause in the slightest as he silently contemplated the Green Elf's earlier sword strike.

Although that Green Elf had died at his hands, the other party's realm had been higher than his.

He had only won by relying on the advantage of his God Devouring Rat bloodline.

After pondering for several days, Lynn still had not gained the slightest clue regarding Heaven and Earth Momentum. However, he did find the location marked on the map carried by the Green Elf.

"It should be here!" Lynn looked at the barren stone mountain before him, which was composed entirely of bluestone.

The destination marked on the map was this Bluestone Mountain.

This Bluestone Mountain was not large, standing less than a hundred meters tall, with an irregular oval-shaped base. Lynn spent several minutes giving the entire mountain a cursory inspection, from top to bottom.

The result was that it was simply an ordinary stone mountain, with nothing remarkable about it.

If not for the Green Elf's map, Lynn would likely have chosen to leave. But that Green Elf had carried the map and risked crossing the Dark Mountain Range just to come here.

Even thinking with his feet, Lynn knew this Bluestone Mountain had to be extraordinary.

"I refuse to believe I can't find it!" Lynn muttered. Then he explosively pushed off with both legs, covering dozens of meters in a single step. After kicking off the bluestone several times in succession, he reached the mountaintop.

Then, beginning from the summit, he inspected the mountain inch by inch. From time to time, he even struck the rocks with his greatsword to see whether there were any hollow spaces inside.

But after searching for half the day, he still found nothing.

"Should I just level this mountain?" Standing at the foot of the mountain, hesitation flashed through Lynn's eyes.

With strength comparable to the Saint Domain, demolishing a hundred-meter stone mountain would naturally pose no problem for him.

What made him hesitate was whether leveling the mountain would destroy the thing that Green Elf had been searching for as well. If that happened, everything he had done would be meaningless.

As Lynn pondered, the sky gradually darkened. Pure moonlight filtered through the clouds and spilled down.

The moonlight shone upon Bluestone Mountain and scattered outward, draping the entire area in a hazy azure glow.

Yet Lynn's gaze was involuntarily drawn to the mountaintop—

"What is that?"

At that moment, under the moonlight, an eerie Black Light emerged from the summit of Bluestone Mountain. Even more astonishingly, it was devouring the moonlight like a living creature!

If he had not been in The Dragon World, Lynn would have suspected that this stone mountain had gained sentience and was devouring moonlight in an attempt to take human form.

The Dragon World had non-flesh lifeforms such as Earth Giants and Volcano Giants, but they were living beings capable of moving freely from the moment they were born. They were not volcanoes that had gained sentience.

Feeling the aura emitted by the Black Light, Lynn inexplicably felt a sense of familiarity.

"It's the influence of the God Devouring Rat bloodline!" Lynn immediately sensed the source of that feeling.

"God Devouring Rats are divine beasts of the Dark Element. Could this Black Light be related to the Dark Element Law?" Lynn cautiously approached, but he did not dare get too close. Keeping a suitable distance, he observed the black light continuously devouring the moonlight.

This continued until dawn. When the moon set and the sun rose, everything returned to normal.

Yet when night came, the Black Light naturally appeared again and began devouring the moonlight.

After silently observing it for several nights, Lynn finally confirmed that this Black Light should be a rudimentary application of one of the profound mysteries of the Dark Element Law, Devour, which Beibei had demonstrated in the original work.

The Dark Element Law had six profound mysteries. Four had appeared in the original work: Dark Element, Shadow Clone Technique, Evil, and Devour.

The remaining two were unknown.

By completely comprehending one of them, one could become a god. Comprehending two would allow one to become a Midgod, and comprehending them all would allow one to become a Highgod!

Lynn possessed the God Devouring Rat bloodline. Upon reaching adulthood, he would naturally comprehend the profound mystery of Shadow Clone Technique and become a deity.

In fact, according to the classifications in the original work, Shadow Clone Technique was merely a low-level profound mystery, whereas Devour was a high-level profound mystery!

"What exactly is inside?" Lynn became even more curious.