CHAPTER 727: WHEN THE GOLD DRAGON MEETS THE SILVER DRAGON

Gold Dragon Diamond (Garrett strongly suspected this name meant "Diamond") praised Garrett and immediately shifted the topic to questions about volcanoes, the atmosphere, and volcanic ash.

With the teacher beside him, Garrett naturally held nothing back and shared everything he knew. He dispersed the spinal model and conjured up a rotating Earth in his hand, with currents surging and monsoons swirling.

Diamond immediately leaned in, pointing out corrections on the model:

"Your continental model is incorrect. This part should curve outward... more outward... here is a mountain range... here... here... here..."

As Garrett made adjustments, he memorized every detail desperately, wishing he could write it all down on the spot. What was this? This was a satellite map! And the latest version at that!

No matter if the council sent someone to explore, conducted military operations, or even sold this to allies, it would be extremely valuable!

Ah, relying on memory always leaves fear of missing something. If only they weren’t in the living room but on the top floor, with MOSS listening in... Summoning MOSS now would be too impolite...

Garrett quickly glanced at his teacher, seeing him deep in thought, the edge of his monocle flashing with blue light, and felt a slight relief.

Good, good, even if he couldn’t remember it all, his teacher could. This terrain map was a done deal!

Following Diamond’s instructions, he created a volcano at a certain point on the Earth model and stimulated atmospheric circulation. At first, a mushroom cloud appeared:

"Hey, how did you know it would look like this? Yes, this shape is correct! Thin below, spreading out above, like a big mushroom! Bigger, bigger—"

Diamond kept pointing and poking beside him. From a mushroom cloud the size of a coin—equivalent to several hundred kilometers in diameter on the entire Earth—it gradually spread out.

Thinning and broadening, it finally enveloped the entire Northern Hemisphere, blocking vast swathes of sunlight.

"Did you really think of this? Did you feel it?" Diamond asked with great interest. Garrett chuckled:

"The volcanic eruption was something I sensed during my advancement. The volcanic ash blocking the sunlight was calculated based on the predictions of a legendary mage..."

These were all true statements, even under a Detect Lie spell. Talking to this gold dragon, every word had to be careful, being caught in a lie would be very embarrassing...

"Then why did you set the land as a sphere? Why not flat?"

Diamond asked with keen interest, his yellow eyes gleaming with a "tell me honestly, you can’t fool me" seriousness:

Don’t try to deceive me, I’m not that easy to fool, I know everything!

In this world, the vast majority of intelligent beings believed the Earth was flat. Even your teacher, when unfolding a map in the palace, made it flat...

Did your teacher tell you this, or...

Garrett felt a cold sweat on his back. Seeing his teacher not stopping him, he braced himself and answered:

"Of course, it’s spherical! Look, when we observe from the seashore, we first see the mast, then the ship. If the Earth were flat, we would see both at the same time."

Pass the test. Diamond mumbled slightly, then continued to ask:

"How do you know the air flows like this?"

"Because the Earth rotates!" Garrett assumed an "I know this for sure" attitude, adjusting the model and adding color to the atmosphere for observation: ℞𝖆ƝọВĚṥ

"If the Earth is spherical and needs to have day and night, it must rotate. A solid sphere rotates, but gases don’t move as quickly, so wind directions form, right?"

"Hmm..."

The gold dragon pondered, chin in hand. Garrett stood opposite, silently praying:

Please don’t ask why the Earth’s axis is tilted, why it’s not rotating straight, I really can’t explain that...

"Then why won’t the volcano sink? Why will it take until next year to spread here? Why not this winter? Does the volcanic ash’s effect only last a year?"

Diamond smiled, firing off questions rapidly. At this depth, Garrett spread his hands and surrendered:

"This, I deduced based on Lady Endorf’s predictions..."

What a joke! Volcanic ash entering atmospheric circulation, how it moves, spreads, and settles, there’s an entire meteorological model for that!

Crossing disciplines is like crossing mountains. As a medical master’s student, you’re asking me to do what several meteorology PhDs can’t, NEVER!

Fortunately, his teacher saved him just in time. The Lord of Thunder joined in, standing shoulder to shoulder with Diamond, pointing and discussing.

A stream of data, formulas, and spell models flowed continuously from their mouths:

"I think this explosion can send over 10 million tons of volcanic ash into the high atmosphere..."

"No, no, I think that’s too small. Look, after flying to the top, I flew 500 miles flat before exiting the volcanic cloud, at this height..."

"The weight of volcanic ash isn’t calculated like that... I think the Taylor formula isn’t suitable here, the Maclaurin formula should be used..."

Before long, the open space in the living room was filled with floating magical symbols. Rows and columns of gold, silver, and blue characters clashed, casting the living room into a bizarre light.

Garrett was completely baffled within two minutes of listening. Standing solemnly to the side, he modified the Silent Illusion as per his teacher’s or Mr. Diamond’s requests, becoming a mere emotionless 3D projector.

The gold dragon’s intuition and calculation abilities were strong, but it seemed the legendary mage’s computational power was even greater. After a long discussion, Diamond waved his hand, erasing all the light and shadows in the living room:

"Enough, let’s stop discussing this!—Where’s Serilla? Our little moonlight princess? Why isn’t she back yet? Little Garrett, where did you hide her?"

Just now he shook hands with me as an equal, now I’m "Little Garrett"... Garrett silently complained, glanced at the setting sun outside, and pointed towards the mountain top:

"She’s working at the Star Dome. Should be back soon... I think?"

Of course, it’s also possible she won’t return and will stay there. Anyway, the Star Dome has food, beds, room service, and scales to brush. It’s big enough to sleep in her true form, and most importantly, she can sleep on a pile of gold coins!

Although according to Serilla, the current pile of gold coins is still small, only enough to fit one of her forepaws...

"Still working?"

Diamond grumbled softly, a bit displeased. The little princess of the Glimmering Clan, the object of so many young and adult dragons’ attention at gatherings, able to get whatever she wanted with a wave of her claw, why work for humans?

But of course, whatever the little princess did was right, whatever she wanted to do was allowed. He looked out in the direction Garrett pointed:

"On that mountaintop? Can I go take a look?"

"Garrett! I’m back! What’s for dinner today?" A crisp voice called from downstairs. Followed by a rapid series of footsteps, the Silver Dragon Miss poked her head out from the living room door:

"Garrett—ah, Uncle Diamond? When did you arrive?"

She dashed into the room in a few strides, first earnestly greeting the Lord of Thunder. Then she extended her hand, white and clean, directly to the gold dragon with a rightful look:

"Uncle Diamond! Gift!"

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