"How much elemental essence has been consumed now?"
"It’s almost three thousand seven hundred units, but it’s still not enough. The stock of elemental essence can’t keep up with Your Majesty’s consumption."
The Dragon Fairy responsible for transporting basic supplies to the royal chambers reported with a grim expression to her stern-looking superior.
Since their Dragon Fairy bloodline sect master, Holy Dragon Noah, fell into sleep, the demand for elements has skyrocketed to an absurd level.
To supply the Holy Dragon’s elemental needs and maintain the elemental balance in the surrounding areas, the fairies have been tirelessly transporting vast amounts of elemental essence day and night.
Although this elemental crystal belongs to a general basic resource, its foundational nature means that the demand is high everywhere, making it difficult to collect in large amounts at once.
"How much stock is left?"
"Only less than two thousand three hundred units. With the current rate of Your Majesty’s consumption, it will only last for twenty days at most."
"Twenty days? So soon? That’s totally insufficient. Your Highness has barely been asleep for one year; there’s no way they will wake up in twenty days. How much stock does Mage City have?"
"What we are transporting now is from Mage City’s storage. Our own stockpile of elemental essence has long been exhausted."
"What about external purchases?"
"The purchasing speed is too slow, and some mage organizations have noticed our demand and are colluding to raise prices. It’s very uneconomical to buy elemental essence now. I suggest looking for substitutes to supply to Your Majesty."
"What do you propose to use as a substitute?"
In the fifteenth month of Noah’s slumber, although the fairies tried various extraordinary resources to meet Noah’s transformation needs with all their might.
But as Noah’s demand began to grow exponentially, the fairies could no longer mask the devouring power emanating from Noah’s dragon body.
Starting from Noah’s royal chambers built at the peak of Elidis Mountain, a flock of elements converged into a vortex. Initially invisible to the naked human eye, it quickly became visible due to the dense accumulation, emitting a brilliant Elemental Light.
An elemental vortex appeared above Elidis Mountain. The moment this extraordinary phenomenon appeared, the elemental balance of the region was disrupted, and the mysterious lock hidden in the sky was also drawn out.
The core of this mysterious lock, which is Elisium Mage City, was simultaneously violently impacted. The elemental vortices swirling among the towers were torn apart one by one, unable to withstand the devouring power from the Golden Dragon’s body, turning into visible elemental streams and merging into the vortex spreading from the depths of Elidis Mountain.
This is extremely illogical; it’s a scene that shatters the worldview of most spellcasters. Its magnitude is above the Mage Tower, a complete mage city architecture cluster, yet it couldn’t compete against a living being in an elemental battle?
If such a thing was told, no one would believe it. Instead, they would be scolded by mentors or similar elders, but any spellcaster who knew the inside story remained silent.
As a Golden Dragon, his very existence breaks the common understanding of the Dragon Species. Whether in form, size, or cognitive conception, he defies logic.
Of course, informed individuals are always in the minority, the ignorant are the vast majority.
In the adventurer’s tavern of Elisium City, concerning the elemental vortex emerging from the depths of Elidis Mountain impacting Mage City, some imaginative individuals speculated it could be an ancient relic appearing in the mountains or the emergence of a divine artifact left by a fallen Divine.
However, more rational adventurers believed it was the Holy Dragon constructing a magical wonder on his territory that is larger and more magnificent than Mage City.
Now that this wonder has been completed, it has consequently shaken Mage City and impacted this Mage Holy Land in the Eastern Continent.
There are also those with wildly imaginative theories, reasoning by time inference, suggesting that Holy Dragon Noah’s slumber, having already expanded to the elemental vortex above his head, might be a phenomenon occurring when Holy Dragon Noah absorbs external elements to replenish his own consumption during transformation.
However, such a theory was quickly drowned out by other more absurd and unbelievable bizarre speculations.
Elisium City and the broader region have been agitated by the appearance of this elemental vortex, though order largely remains stable, as the Holy Dragon’s authority is enough to deter most, except for spellcasters.
For when the elemental vortex expanded to Elisium City, spellcasters in the city realized their region was becoming a magic-deprived land, turning into an elemental wilderness.
Spellcasters below Legend could no longer sense the presence of elements. To complete spells, they must either exhaust the magic power within themselves or rely on casting materials, as they cannot command any elements—even though the elements above are dense enough to be visible to the naked eye, yet they can’t move a bit.
Nearly all spellcasters found such an environment intolerable; it was like throwing a fish into a desert. Though it might flop around a bit with its own strength, once that energy was exhausted, it was no different from a fragile chicken, left at the mercy of others.