334: Chapter 164: Missing You, Feet Man 334: Chapter 164: Missing You, Feet Man “Just asking out of curiosity, when we head to Dragon Throat City or get the chance to visit the Capital, we’ll inquire with the alchemists in other big cities,” Leon said with a wry smile.
Miss Lora’s attitude when she was replicating the Netti Card in the Mage Tower was too casual.
It gave Leon the illusion that such a thing could be easily created.
That’s right, the miracle objects that can almost fully revive the dead, even the three Secondary Netti Cards in the leather pouch at his waist, wouldn’t be an overstatement to call them “Divine Artifacts.”
Based on the scarcity information we’ve gathered…
even if there are magic materials for making Netti Cards available on the market, their prices are likely quite terrifying.
The materials used to make Netti Cards are already in short supply in the Mage Tower’s inventory.
The three cards he held—two Black and one Silver—were inferior replicas cobbled together by Miss Lola from the Tower’s remaining materials, after she deconstructed the originals based on Lady Aphrodite’s manuscripts.
Because the only card Lady Aphrodite ever intended to make was that unique Golden Magic Card for the revival of Miss Lola.
Consequently, the Tower never deliberately stockpiled “low-level materials” that would never see use.
Those previously used must have been leftovers from Lady Aphrodite’s experiments.
This resulted in a shortage of five core materials needed to continue the production of the Black and Silver Netti Cards, aside from the basic materials in inventory and some common ores available on the market.
These materials are Spiritual Vein Ore, Moonfall Silver, Melted Mountain Gold, Erosa Crystal, and Yisuya Soul Stone.
“Spiritual Vein Ore” is the simplest.
Avalon City is built directly above an earth vein, so it should be easy to find the ore by using Earth Vein Spirit Lamps in the nearby areas.
Especially since Nightmare Forest has been enveloped by a spirit-like field for so long; the massive magic power gathered by the special environment has surely created abundant Spiritual Vein Ore deposits around Avalon.
As for “Melted Mountain Gold” and “Moonfall Silver,” after the consumption of three Netti Cards, there’s still a little left in the Mage Tower, but only enough to make another one or two Netti Cards, depending on whether it’s a Silver or Black Card to be made.
Melted Mountain Gold can only be found near large active volcanic craters where elemental activities are extremely intense.
And Moonfall Silver can only be extracted from special meteorites that fall from the moon.
Although the name of both suggests gold and silver, Moonfall Silver is actually much more precious than Melted Mountain Gold.
Because the earth beneath doesn’t produce those special substances from the moon of this world.
Ordinary people have no option but to try their luck in areas like the Starfall Mountain Range in the North of the continent, where historically there has been a high frequency of moon meteor falls.
Of course, when Miss Lola was alive, if she urgently needed Moonfall Silver and had run out, she didn’t have so much trouble…
…She would personally go to the so-called “Moon Land” to excavate it.
Well, having witnessed the miracles created by mages thus far, Leon wasn’t surprised at all by his saintly little teacher’s experience of physically traveling to the moon.
Truly befitting a Pope who could be worshiped as a deity through oral tradition, she easily achieved what most people wouldn’t dare to imagine…
In fact, according to her, in past eras and even longer ago, over ninety percent of the Moonfall Silver circulated among the mages of Lorelette was personally mined from the moon by a few Popes capable of traversing the Star Realm.
Reflecting on it now, Leon felt somewhat abashed.
He remembered the times his finances were tight, and he had toyed with the idea of taking a few gold and silver ingots from the Mage Tower’s warehouse, thinking of discussing with Lola to pinch a bit of her student’s inheritance for an emergency.
Only now did he realize that these weren’t ordinary precious metals used for transactions but rather two extravagantly rare treasures; no wonder they looked much more beautiful than ordinary gold and silver.
Particularly Moonfall Silver—if he were to spend it like common precious metal, it would truly be a waste of heavenly gifts.
Given the current level of civilization in this world, humans might have to wait hundreds or even thousands of years before taking that “one small step” repeatedly taken by the Ancient Popes…
Aside from the three mentioned mineral materials, the main body of the Netti Card needed a special elemental crystal called “Erosa Crystal.”
Just as Azeryan learned from Silver Mountain City, Erosa Crystal is a substance that appears like a block of ice.
But it won’t melt simply due to surrounding temperatures; only by forcibly infusing it with magic power and destroying its internal elemental balance would this Eternal Ice dissolve.
While this substance doesn’t require a trip to the moon to find, it still only occurs in extremely cold natural elemental environments.
Therefore, it’s understandable that now on the continent, there are few who have heard of such a valuable item that is so difficult to collect and has such limited use.
Setting aside the collection difficulty of Erosa Crystal, if we were to find it, then it would be enough to produce the Black Cards.
However, the last material is actually used for the relatively advanced “Silver Card” as an upgraded material.
The so-called “Yisuya Soul Stone,” also known as “Elf Soul.”
The previous four rare materials, at least, were natural substances, but this last one was exceptionally unique—it wasn’t a product of natural conditions.
It’s a kind of crystalline stone, found only growing near the Magic Furnaces powering the levitation Great Magic on the Floating Islands and Big Arks where the ancient “Elves” lived—a crafted…
oh no, elven-crafted crystal.
When Miss Lola described this race even more ancient than Lorelette’s civilization, Leon felt a sudden spark of excitement.