"Have to say, the organizers of this Void Colosseum have shown great sincerity this time. That's also the main reason the Void Colosseum has remained prosperous to this day.
I announce that the reward for first place in this colosseum tournament is... the essence of the Dragon of Rebirth!"
Hack picked up the essence of the Dragon of Rebirth and raised it toward the audience.
"Roar!"
The audience instantly erupted. If there had been people who didn't recognize this item before, now everyone knew where it came from.
The so-called essence of the Dragon of Rebirth wasn't something like a dragon crystal. Most dragons didn't have dragon crystals in their bodies. Only a tiny number of dragons possessed them.
As for what dragon crystals were, in simple terms, they were energy-storage organs of the dragon race. Most dragons stored energy in their bodies and would never evolve useless dragon crystals.
Dragon crystals were not as miraculous as the legends claimed, either. After a dragon died, the energy in its body would quickly dissipate. The energy in its dragon crystal would do the same, leaving behind nothing but an empty shell. The only ones who loved dragon crystals were mages. They used dragon crystals to store elements for convenient use in battle.
As for a dragon's essence, that was not something it possessed innately. It was artificially created after birth. Shortly after killing a dragon, its energy and soul were extracted, compressed, and stored together. The resulting object was a dragon's essence.
Dragons possessed an extremely vast amount of energy. After forcibly adding a dragon's soul, the essence could be obtained through postnatal catalysis. This thing was precious, but its uses were not particularly broad—at least, that was true in most cases.
The Dragon of Rebirth, however, was different. The energy