CHAPTER 387: CHAPTER 242: DRAGON MOTHER

"Tania and I are doing fine, so stop sending Telepathy every other day to check if we’re still ’alive.’ It’d be a real problem if the Blue Dragon found out!"

"Key point—can we disguise the fortress as ancient ruins? Make it look filled with mysterious and perilous mechanisms, but just needs some Mana Energy input to receive some gifts from the ’Magic Spirit’?"

Within a mere six months, the Thunderstrike Crystal deposit in the Montero dunes, under David’s guidance, had attracted an endless stream of ’Crystal Prospectors.’ It grew from nothing into a bustling, desert-style settlement. Meanwhile, hundreds of kilometers away in the depths of the Kutaro Desert, Dragon Dad Attilicia, who was managing the fortress construction site as a ’project manager’ with a stressed expression, also received a Magic Messaging Owl from David. Along with it came a sample of raw Thunderstone ore, sent by a magical creature.

Attilicia, having been David’s father for so many years, grasped David’s train of thought and intentions in an instant. He confidently began to prepare a reply, only to realize there was another page to this Magical Messaging.

With a mental command, he flipped the page. An image appeared: a Silver Dragon, tightly bound on a shield-digging mine cart, a crazed smile plastered on its face. Following this was an inquiry from David: did Dragon Dad recognize this Silver Dragon named Sebriz, and should David find a time to send him back to Dragon Island?

Almost blinded by the sight, Attilicia instantly recognized the fellow as his own distant nephew!

He quickly denied it in his reply:

"I don’t recognize him. He’s probably some nobody pretending to be from the renowned Swietlanden. You deal with him as you wish, but given that he’s also a Silver Dragon, it would be best not to take his life."

Just kidding! His own family has already produced one disgrace to the Silver Dragons! He absolutely cannot let Swietlanden be shamed again; otherwise, who knows how the Silver Dragon King will regard their family in the future. He still harbors the ambition of advancing to Legendary Destiny, returning with his son ’in glory,’ then successfully courting the Silver Dragon King’s daughter to become the Governor of Dragon Island and reach the pinnacle of dragon life! Such disgraceful, unseemly riffraff should be left to their own devices in the Blue Dragon’s Nest! Besides, with his son David having enticed a Blue Dragon to act as a guardian, that fellow’s safety is naturally assured.

With that thought, Dragon Dad returned to the main point:

"Whether the magic crystal sample can be used as the fortress’s Mana Energy core still requires feasibility studies. However, as an Alchemist, I am optimistic. As for your proposed camouflage construction plan, I estimate it will be completed within six years. I wish you all the best with your endeavors, my child."

After sending this Magical Messaging, Attilicia addressed a few issues raised by his apprentices before immersing himself once more in the calculations spread across the papers before him.

His workbench was covered with chaotic turbulence lines and dense computational formulas. Nearby and in the distance, at least a thousand people were also assisting him with the calculations.

This was the work he had been engrossed in for the past half-year:

Simulating the electromagnetic fields after the Tokamak Fortress’s energy convergence.

As his research into this electromagnetic turbulence storm deepened, Attilicia became increasingly absorbed, to the point of abandoning his original plan to achieve Legendary Destiny through Alchemy.

He suddenly realized that, in calculating and researching this electromagnetic turbulence storm, he had embarked on an entirely different path—one with far greater prospects than his previous path of Alchemy.

However, the time required would likely be substantially longer.

So, when Attilicia nervously asked David if he could attempt to advance to Legendary Destiny via this new path, he received David’s almost fanatical encouragement.

Of course! This was electromagnetism, one of the universe’s four fundamental forces! If Dragon Dad Attilicia could indeed ascend to great heights through this, it would be utterly fantastic for David. Just as Pafila had once used fragments of David’s knowledge to understand and analyze the strong interaction, David could benefit from their research and his own Authority. It was a classic case of successors reaping the benefits of predecessors’ efforts—a truly wonderful prospect. Who knew, perhaps in the future, he might even gain a King of Magnetic Storms and a Celestial Master of Twin Blasts as backers.

However, at this moment, Attilicia had no idea what freeloading schemes David—this fellow who harbored ’great hopes for his father’s success’—was concocting. Attilicia merely felt like the luckiest dragon in the world, albeit with an inexplicable sense of guilt.

And under this sense of guilt, Attilicia became even more resolute about an idea he had only whimsically entertained a few days prior:

I must help David win over the Silver Dragon King’s daughter! Yes, when I ascend to Legendary Destiny, it will be time to take David and Tania back to Dragon Island.

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Little did David know that his Dragon Dad was once again fixated on ’matching him with the Silver Dragon King’s daughter.’

As the settlement near the Montero mineral vein began to take shape, with everything progressing systematically according to David’s predictions for the ’Crystal Prospector’ rush, he yawned. He realized that another slumber was approaching.

Unlike his previous slumber in Barto Hell, where he ’worked’ for the Chromatic Dragon Queen Tiamat even in his dreams, this time, he truly needed a good, long sleep.

He immediately wrote a magical letter to his sister Tania. He then summoned Silvia, and Patricio, who looked reluctant to leave after just disembarking the dragon carriage. David conveyed his intention to enter a deep slumber soon and stated his will: