In this huge cave, there was an area of at least fifty to sixty meters in diameter in the middle, which was covered with golden sand and other sparkling things.
There were seven or eight "Eternal Flames" hanging on the ceiling of the cave. These bright magical flames didn't emit heat, but had a strong light. Once activated, they could last for several months.
Under the cold light of the Eternal Flames, the golden sand on the ground was dazzling.
There was a huge pile of golden sand in the middle of the cave, but there was no trace of the Green Dragon.
Qiankun Pagoda told Feng Chou that the Green Dragon was buried under the pile of golden sand. It was an extremely old Green Dragon.
An extremely old Green Dragon had a challenge rating of Level 19, and devils of the same level were no match for it.
But with Feng Chou's current strength, he wasn't afraid of such a Green Dragon.
But with Feng Chou's strength, defeating this Green Dragon wasn't difficult, but killing it was more difficult. But Feng Chou wanted to subdue this Green Dragon, which wasn't easy.
Feng Chou suddenly disappeared from where he was standing, and a white jade pagoda landed where he was originally standing.
The next moment, three golden-red Aureate Steel Golems suddenly fell from the sky and landed around the huge pile of golden sand.
The appearance of the Aureate Steel Golems immediately awakened the Green Dragon. That huge pile of golden sand suddenly exploded, splashing golden sand all over the ground. A Green Dragon stood up majestically.
Unfortunately, its majesty didn't last for more than a few seconds before it was pressed to the ground by the three Legendary Aureate Steel Golems.
In a short three to five seconds, the Green Dragon that was pressed to the ground, even its struggle became weak.
Feng Chou hurriedly had Qiankun Pagoda open a spatial door. He held the Aureate Steel Rifle and fired three shots at the three Aureate Steel Golems to attract their attention.
The Asteel Golems that were hit by the bullets were not damaged at all, but Feng Chou had successfully attracted their attention. When the three Golems saw Feng Chou, it was as if they had seen their enemy. Their eyes were exceptionally red, and they did not hesitate to abandon the Green Dragon and rushed toward Feng Chou.
The three Mysterious Steel Golems, which had been tricked more than once, once again rushed into the spatial gate leading to the Qiankun Pagoda and were suppressed again.
After suppressing the three Mysterious Steel Golems, Feng Chou exited the tower and flew towards the Green Dragon.
There was no need to mention how miserable the green dragon was right now. It looked like a rag doll that had been bitten by a naughty dog for three days. Its entire body was a complete mess.
Feng Chou hurriedly raised his hand and cast one healing spell after another.
With the help of Feng Chou and Qiankun Pagoda, the Green Dragon's external wounds were quickly sealed and the bleeding stopped.
After stabilizing the Green Dragon's injuries, Feng Chou hurriedly used a water spell to collect the Green Dragon's blood that had spilled all over the ground.
This spell called "Liquid Collection" was invented to collect liquids that were difficult to collect.
Soon, Feng Chou collected the Dragon's blood that had seeped into the ground.
At this time, Feng Chou once again focused on the Green Dragon.
Although the Green Dragon didn't look as miserable as before, it was only a superficial wound. Its true injuries hadn't changed at all. Thus, it was still on the verge of death. Its eyes were filled with anger and doubt as it looked at this strange human.
Feng Chou looked at the Green Dragon and thought for a bit before saying, "Esteemed Green Dragon, I'm very sorry for disturbing your rest. I have no choice but to inform you that you are now my captive."
At this point, Feng Chou paused for a moment to give the Green Dragon some time to digest before continuing, "Now, I'll give you two choices. The first choice is that I kill you, occupy your lair, obtain your wealth, disintegrate your body, and imprison your soul."
At this point, he paused again for a moment. He was very satisfied to see the fear and despair in the Green Dragon's eyes.
He continued, "Of course, you also have a second choice. Cooperate with me in the 'enslavement ritual' and become my servant."
Flames of anger appeared in the Green Dragon's eyes once again.
Feng Chou didn't care. He used a spell to move the Green Dragon's twenty-meter-long body to the side, revealing the huge platform under it.
Feng Chou then used a repelling spell to remove all the golden sand on the platform.
After cleaning up the platform, he began to set up a magic array on it.
This magic array, together with the corresponding "enslavement ritual", could completely enslave a powerful creature.
The enslavement ritual would form a permanent magic effect in the creature's body. This magic effect was similar to a permanent hinting spell. It could unknowingly change the enslaved person's thoughts, making them think and act according to the enslaved person's wishes.
This "enslavement ritual" was different from the "enslavement contract" that relied on the devil to perform.
The "enslavement contract" could only be considered a simple ritual, while the "enslavement ritual" was a large-scale high-level magic ritual. Whether it was the effect or the cost, it was much higher than the "enslavement contract". Only when used on powerful creatures like giant dragons would it be worth the price.
After setting up the magic array, Feng Chou used a spell to move the Green Dragon onto the platform.
Before starting the magic ritual, Feng Chou said to the Green Dragon again, "I've only prepared the materials for one ritual. If this ritual fails, I'll assume that you've chosen the first choice. Do you understand?"
With that, Feng Chou began the ritual on his own.
In fact, with the Green Dragon's current state of near death, even without its cooperation, Feng Chou estimated that the success rate of the enslavement ritual was more than 70%.
The reason why Feng Chou said this was to lower the Green Dragon's determination to resist and make the ritual more likely to succeed.
The ritual lasted for half a day and was very successful.
Next, Feng Chou began to truly treat the Green Dragon.
He spent dozens of healing spells to completely heal the Green Dragon. Fortunately, Qiankun Pagoda could use the power of the soul as the price to cast unlimited spells. Otherwise, with just Feng Chou's spell slots, who knew how long it would take to heal this ragged-doll Green Dragon.
The successfully enslaved Green Dragon no longer looked at Feng Chou with hatred and anger in its eyes, only gratitude, docility, and even attachment.
This was the terrifying part of mind magic. It could easily distort a person's mind, making them treat their enemy as their lover, and their lover as their enemy!
It was only then that Feng Chou found out that the Green Dragon was called Elsala, and was a female dragon.
After successfully taming Elsala, Feng Chou took away all of her assets in the name of borrowing money. In order to comfort the Green Dragon, Feng Chou had Qiankun Pagoda make a large pile of beautiful glass balls to cover her cave.
After Qiankun Pagoda made all of the gold sand from Elsala into goblin gold coins, Feng Chou was shocked to find that there were more than 20 million sols, which was more than 300 million crowns!
Could it be that the dragons in this world were so rich?
After asking Elsala, Feng Chou found out that Elsala had discovered a rich gold mine in the shallow sea beside this island when she was young. Thus, she recruited some Green Dragon descendants from the Amazon Rainforest and occupied this remote island, secretly letting the descendants mine for gold.
Probably because this island was too remote, Elsera spent her youth, adulthood, prime and old age here for almost a thousand years. No one came to disturb her, and this was how the gold sand was accumulated.
Speaking of which, this Green Dragon was quite unlucky. It had been hiding at home to save up gold, but it was also taken away by Feng Chou.
Feng Chou had no choice but to secretly decide that when he was done with it, he would set the Green Dragon free.
With Elsala's gold, Feng Chou left Green Dragon Island in satisfaction and teleported to Alvindale City.
The capital of the Alvindale Empire was also called 'Alvindale'. The name 'Alvindale' came from the name of the most powerful floating city in the Arcane Empire. It was the pride of everyone in the Arcane Empire.
Even if a portion of the arcanists parted ways with the Arcane Empire and joined the God of Arcane because of their ideals, they would never forget this pride.
The name 'Alvindale' was the continuation of the arcanists' pride. Even the God of Arcane had to compromise.
Alvindale City was located in the north of the empire, only a thousand kilometers away from the southern edge of the Moradin Mountains.
The Ulm River that originated from the east of the Sutton Empire and the Nuren River that originated from the west of the Radiant Empire intersected here.
The Ulm River and the Nuren River originated from the plains in the west of the Moradin Mountains, while the other originated from the hills in the east of the Moradin Mountains. One flowed southward along the western edge of the Moradin Mountains, while the other flowed southward along the eastern edge of the Moradin Mountains. The two rivers converged with dozens of streams that originated from the Moradin Mountains, the Starry Plains, and the hills in the west of the Radiant Plains. They carried an abundant amount of water and converged into the world's largest river, the Alvindale River, on the great plains south of the Moradin Mountains.
Alvindale City was located at the intersection of the two rivers. This majestic city spanned across three rivers and was itself divided into three parts by the three rivers.
The northern part of the city between the Ulm River and the Nuren River was the noble district. The Alvindale Imperial Palace was located at the delta where the two rivers intersected.
The southwestern part of the city between the Ulm River and the Alvindale River was the church district. The Cathedral of the Arcane Star was located at the delta where the two rivers intersected, facing the Imperial Palace across the river.
The southeastern part of the city between the Nuren River and the Alvindale River was the magic district. It was the holy land in the hearts of all mages. The Alvindale Arcane University was located at the delta where the two rivers intersected, facing the Imperial Palace and the Cathedral of the Arcane Star.
After entering the great plains north of Alvindale, the raging Ulm River and the Nuren River became calm and peaceful. Countless magic-powered ships traversed this wide and gentle body of water. Not only were the rivers between the three districts no longer an obstacle, they even became a channel for communication.
Compared to the bustling and lively Taron City, the atmosphere in Alvindale City was more relaxed and leisurely, with a hint of extravagance.
In the southeastern part of Alvindale City, surrounding the Alvindale Arcane University and the Alvindale Union of Magic, was a bustling arcane district.
Compared to normal goods and low-grade alchemy products that had to rely on shipping, mid-grade and high-grade alchemy products could be traded through spatial items and high-level teleportation spells.
Therefore, no matter how developed the trade in Taron City was, it could not replace the position of the Alvindale Alchemy Trading Center. To the mid-grade and high-grade alchemy industry, technology was everything.
High-grade alchemy materials from all over the world were gathered in Alvindale City, before being distributed to the countless high-grade alchemy laboratories and mage towers in Alvindale City. They were turned into high-grade alchemy products, before flowing back to the Alvindale Alchemy Market.
On the fertile plains thousands of kilometers around Alvindale City, there were hundreds of mage towers erected. These mage towers were terrifying war fortresses, but they were also master-level alchemy laboratories.
Feng Chou sat in the carriage, staring blankly at the densely packed mage towers on the river delta. That was the campus of the Alvindale Arcane University. On the campus, there were dozens of Legendary-level mage towers. Only Legendary-level mages had the right to build their own mage towers in Alvindale City.
Alvindale was a mage's paradise, but that was only limited to mages within the system. For a rogue mage like Feng Chou, this place was not friendly.
The carriage passed through a long street, before stopping at the plaza in front of a majestic building.
Feng Chou tossed a one-crown silver coin to the coachman, jumped off the carriage, and walked through the plaza, towards the magnificent building.
At this moment, Feng Chou was wearing Qiankun Pagoda's improved mask. This mask was specially designed by Qiankun Pagoda to counter detection spells. It did not have any magical powers, and even the True Sight could not see through it.
This mask gave him the gloomy face of a middle-aged man.
He passed through the entrance hall guarded by guards in magic armor and entered the hall of the building. A young clerk came up to him and bowed slightly. He asked, "Sir, what can I do for you?"
Feng Chou glanced at the young clerk. He was wearing a sky-blue silk Frac suit with a beige silk 'kilay' underneath. He also had a white wig on his head. In Alvindale City, gentlemen's suits were not accepted by the upper class. People were still obsessed with luxurious silk noble suits.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. At this moment, Feng Chou was also wearing a black Flake suit, a golden Kirai, black silk Kayurot pants, white silk stockings, and a pair of fashionable pointed shoes made of deerskin.
Feng Chou said to the young clerk. "I want to purchase a Master-level large-scale engineering construct."
Master-level engineering constructs were the five-meter-tall steel constructs used by Feng Chou's company when he was developing New Amborite. Feng Chou also made these constructs to make money some time ago.
However, that was only a high-level construct. Although it was huge, it was actually on the same level as a Black Steel construct. It was stronger than a Black Steel construct used for combat, but it had no magic abilities and was only about as agile as an ordinary person.
These advanced constructs could easily move objects weighing eight to nine tons. They were enough for some ordinary projects. However, Feng Chou planned to develop and remodel the entire island, so he needed even more powerful constructs.
Apart from being slightly larger and having an outer shell made of black steel, a master-grade engineering construct didn't look much different from an advanced construct. However, this type of construct was much stronger and could easily move dozens of tons of heavy objects.
To maintain the enormous strength required to move objects weighing tens of tons, ordinary spell of permanence would not be enough.
Due to the limited size of constructs, they could not increase the effective area and number of magic permanence circuits like ships. Therefore, they could only use the more powerful 'Advanced Spell of Permanence'.
'Advanced Spell of Permanence' was a level-8 spell that could only be mastered by archmages above level-15.
Therefore, Feng Chou did not have the ability to create Master-level constructs yet.
It was said that these large-scale constructs and 'Advanced Spell of Permanence' were created by the arcanists to build the huge floating cities.
Now, these magical constructs had become indispensable tools in large-scale projects.