The witch said:
"Those are the only properties of the dragon scale, but they are enough for a Sage Level rating."
"Then why did the cultists steal it? To cultivate new half-dragon beast monsters? Shade said they have cultivated quite a lot of monsters."
Dorothy asked in confusion, while Luvia guessed:
"Though that relic's properties are powerful, they should not have been enough to make the Dragon Devouring Order launch such a large-scale operation to seize it. I fear what they want is the 'dragon,' not cultivation but absorption. Isn't the Sacrificial Ground Shade described capable of absorbing a dragon's power?"
"Yes. The exact information indicates that it was an Ancient God's Sacrificial Ground."
Shade said, and that information had come from Luvia herself.
So, while eating breakfast, the witch explained the second stolen relic:
"If that scale were not a one-use item, its rating would be even higher. The second relic is not as impressive—Document Level Relic, Sharpe Farm Incubator."
The other three all looked up at her upon hearing that name:
"That relic is actually in Moon Bay?"
"One look at you, and I know the introductory relic studies textbooks of the Three Great Academies still use this relic as an example. How many years has it been since those textbooks were updated?"
The Document Level Relic Sharpe Farm Incubator dated back to the dark and chaotic era of the Fourth Epoch. The relic looked like a shoebox-sized complex metal machine of unknown design, connected to an iron funnel.
Although it was called an "incubator," its function was to place any living creature into the funnel. The machine beneath would produce an egg the size of a chicken egg. The eggshell's appearance was related to the creature's own traits. After roughly sixty days of continuous incubation, the egg