"Mining the Light Green Gem mine actually rewarded me with shattered emerald?"
There were emeralds in this world, a kind of jade with a vivid green color. Many elves liked eating the powder ground from emerald jade. But a piece of shattered emerald clearly could not serve as the reward for a smoke mission—although smoke missions sometimes used resources that were practically already in hand as rewards, they had never been so cheap.
"So shattered emerald isn't ordinary emerald. It's very likely..."
Liszt's heart suddenly began pounding wildly. He tried to suppress the untamed thought in his mind, but could not. "It's very likely... a clue related to the Emerald Dragon!"
The Emerald Dragon, one of the five Holy Dragons, represented the power of dreams. Legend had it that it could enter the dreams of any living creature.
All Holy Dragons truly existed—Liszt firmly believed that. Therefore, the Emerald Dragon must exist as well. More than once, he had imagined the different abilities of the Holy Dragons—the Invisible Dragon was like a special Gem Dragon, capable of producing Space Gems; the Smoke Dragon wielded the power of fate, able to alter destiny at any time.
The Fairy Dragon was probably immortal, while the Dusk Dragon possessed the ability to change time. As for the Emerald Dragon's abilities, Liszt had considered many possibilities.
There were roughly two directions to speculate from.
One was a dream world, linking together the dreams of all creatures, like the Emerald Dream guarded by the green dragons in World of Warcraft—a reflection of the real world.
The other was the power of the mind, controlling a creature's thoughts through dreams, like the nightmare demons of legend that could trap people in nightmares they could not escape.
"Shattered emerald, Mind Island, Mind Fruit Tree, Dragon-Bewildering Heart Fruit!"