After the Eternal Frost Star exploded, the Shattered Frost Star began to separate from Dragon Sleep Continent.
But humanity eventually mastered anchoring technology and pulled the Shattered Frost Star back, allowing it to continue merging as one.
The Wyvern Knight Order still patrolled the Shattered Frost Star, constantly searching for surviving trolls to harvest. Every troll was an Ice Soul Bead, a source of power for dragons.
Frost Star Beads, Ice Soul Beads, and large quantities of Hail Beads were all transferred to Dragon Sleep Continent for the dragons to consolidate and refine.
In the end, they would either become nourishment for dragon growth or nourishment for the Amber Dreamscape.
Clang! Clang!
Amid the freezing wind, an expedition team made up of scholars and knights was chiseling through the ice somewhere on Frost Star to study the terrain.
The greatest change brought by Russell's industrialization of Dragon Sleep Continent was the expansion of the scholars' thinking and understanding. The fusion of magic and technology had already set off a Renaissance-like tide across Dragon Sleep Continent.
Large numbers of knights had embarked upon the path of scholarship, beginning to explore and study the nature of this world.
"There's ore, there's ore! We found a mineral deposit!" A scholar shouted beneath the chiseled ice. "These ores contain no magic!"
"Quick, collect samples!"
"It's iron ore! This iron ore doesn't contain the slightest trace of magic!"
After obtaining samples of iron ore without any magical content, the expedition team was ecstatic. A Grand Scholar leading the team immediately announced, "The Origin Erosion Crust Theory is correct. The mineral deposits in Dragon Sleep Continent's crust have been eroded by magic!"
"This result is enough to publish in the journal Magic and Logic as a heavyweight paper!"
"The facts prove that Mother Earth truly has