Red Dragon has magic

Chapter 215 Travel
Leon's trip this time was not simply to help Cecilia awaken her psychic powers, but mainly because he had lived on the volcanic island for so many years and wanted to go out for a walk occasionally. Of course, it was not easy to go back and treat the dark area that others regarded as dangerous as a tourist destination.

"If you want to go back, go back first." Leon didn't like to make things difficult for others.

"Master, don't joke. Master, you kindly accompanied me to the Underdark. How can I abandon you and leave first?" Cecilia said firmly, "I am your maid. Wherever you go, I will go... If I am not here, who will take care of you?"

"Do I still need your care?" Leon smiled and did not comment.

After extorting a sum of money and a large amount of rare metals from the gray dwarf city, Leon quickly took Cecilia away to prevent the gray dwarves from getting stressed. They first went to take a look at the fungus colony deep in the giant mushroom forest.

Those mushroom people are really as friendly as the rumors say, and the way they use telepathic spores to communicate with other races is truly magical.

"The effect of this resonance stone seems to make people despair." Leon, who was eating mushrooms, suddenly remembered that he had not yet carefully checked the harvest from the Mind Flayer Colony. "The effect of this resonance stone seems to make people feel confident and proud."

"This resonance stone can calm people's mood." Cecilia took a resonance stone and looked at it for a long time, reluctant to let it go. "Master, can you give me one?"

“If there is a resonance stone with duplicate effects, I can consider giving you one.” Leon was not that stingy, but he was not that generous either.

"That's a feeling. It can only be understood, not expressed in words." Cecilia said, "Maybe I can awaken my psychic power through these resonance stones."

“Even if that’s the case, I can’t give it to you unless there are duplicates. I can only lend it to you at most.” Leon has his own principles. “If you had gone to the Mind Flayer Colony with me at that time, even if you couldn’t be of any use, I would have given you some things. It’s your fault for not going… No work, no food.”

Cecilia pursed her lips.

After living in the mushroom colony for a day and tasting all kinds of mushrooms, it's almost time to leave.

Crowmen roam the Underdark in flocks, moving back and forth like migratory birds, eating the lichens, fungi, and insects that form their diet before moving on to a new feeding ground.

The dormant pseudo-monster looks like a fish, shuttling through the darkness and shadows of the cave with its outstretched tail and fins, just like a fish swimming in the water close to the seabed... It just looks like a fish, but the taste is very different from fish, more like pork, and the muscle fibers are too tough and not delicious, this is Leon's evaluation.

The burrowing monster is like a giant worm. It likes to hide its soft and elastic body in places where creatures often pass by. It lurks in the rocks out of sight, or in some corner, attacking unsuspecting prey passing by. It tastes like spicy strips.

"You really don't want to taste the corpse of the Mastermind?"

"Master, please forgive me for refusing."

"Until we left, the gray dwarves who ate the corpse of the Elder Brain didn't show any abnormalities."

"I feel like they've gone insane... You let them go, but they actually want to follow us to the surface."

"That's because they know that they have betrayed their city's intelligence to us, and their compatriots can no longer tolerate them, so they have no choice but to leave."

"With the resonance stones and other things you looted from the mind flayer colony, I no longer need them to access psionics."

"It's impossible for us to take them away. But if they really have the ability to cross the Underdark and find Watchport, I don't mind taking them in."

I don't know if it has any use value. Leon originally wanted to take the remaining corpse of the main brain back and give it to Tassela for research, but it started to rot after a few days. Cecilia still didn't want to eat it, so he had to throw it away reluctantly.

"I noticed that there are fewer mind flayer tadpoles."

"They killed each other."

"If we continue to stay in the Underdark, will the mind flayer tadpoles devour each other without food? In the end, only a few will be left? We can stay for another two days and then go back."

If the main brain hadn't rotted, Leon wouldn't have remembered that he had found a brain jar to hold a bunch of mind flayer tadpoles.

"That's the city of the drow."

"Judging from the architectural style, this is a drow city...Should we go take a look?"

“You can go shopping.”

"Grab a handful?"

"Don't be ridiculous." Leon glanced at Tassera. "The drow are much stronger than the gray dwarves. Such a large drow city must have many strong people... I don't want to die yet."

"Is the master actually afraid?"

"The Drow Matron is very powerful, and so are the Drow Inquisitor and Drow Spider Mage..." Leon said, thinking that the drow elves in this world also seemed to believe in the Spider Queen Rose. That god was not easy to mess with, so it was better not to mess with her unless necessary.

There was nothing to see in the drow city, so I spent a day wandering around. The main thing was that I always felt like I was being watched, and the covetous gazes of the female drow made me very uncomfortable, but I couldn't make trouble. After wandering around for another two days, I didn't see a single beholder or purple worm, so Leon felt that he could leave the Underdark and go back.

"Do you remember the way back?"

"I do not remember."

Leon was not a person with poor sense of direction. He had seen people with poor sense of direction who could not find their way in a city where they had lived for several years. However, in the absence of a map, and after walking around for so many days in such a complex environment as the Underdark, it was inevitable that he would get lost.

There is no need to retrace your steps, just return to the surface.

They could just find any intelligent creature to inquire and threaten. Among them, races like the gray dwarves and the drow, which often traded with the surface, generally knew several routes to the surface. Leon and Cecilia easily found a route to the surface.

As long as you return to the surface, you don't have to worry about not being able to go back.

As long as you fly to an altitude of 10,000 meters, you can find the Lost Plateau at a glance, and then finding the Watchtower is extremely easy.

With a few flaps of his wings, Leon returned to the volcanic island in less than an hour. He had given Cecilia a resonance stone and lent her a few more. He was not in a hurry to find Tassera. He had a good meal first and then had a good rest for a day before running to Tassera's Mage Tower.

"What is this?"

"What kind of text is this... Is this the spiritual text?"

As expected, Tassela was very interested in what Leon looted from the Mind Flayer colony.

Those magic props were nothing special. She was interested in the brain jars, resonance stones and the like, especially the spiritual absorption texts that could not be read without proficient knowledge of the language.

Tassela was quite generous and didn't mind opening up her collection of books that she had collected over decades for Leon to read. Naturally, Leon wouldn't be so stingy... It was impossible for him to give them away as a gift. He could only ask Tassela to lend them to her for free if she wanted to study something, with a few small requests attached, which he would raise in the dead of night.

Of course, Leon's visit to Tassela wasn't just to show off.

After looting a lot of things from the Mind Flayer colony, he didn't know which ones were valuable and which ones were not, so he needed advice from Tassela, a wizard who also owned a shop.

"Those mind flayer tadpoles can be packaged and made into specimens. Someone should be interested... You should remember Betty, the female dwarf wizard from Forked Road City. She must be interested in purchasing mind flayer tadpoles for research."

"I think these brain jars are more valuable than those mind flayer tadpoles."

"Resonance stones are very precious. Good ones can be sold for tens of thousands of gold coins, and inferior ones can be sold for hundreds of gold coins. You are so generous to give it to that green dragon... I have one too, and it's even better than the one I gave her? Then there's nothing wrong with it."

According to Tassela's estimate, Leon roughly calculated that the things he looted from the Mind Flayer colony were worth tens of thousands of gold coins, which was indeed a considerable number. Many adult red dragons who lived for a hundred years did not have as much treasure added together.

"You can keep one of the Mind Flayer tadpole specimens."

"It's a pity that the main brain's body is incomplete and has rotted. Otherwise, it could be made into a specimen. I feel... let's forget about that."

"The brain jar is of no use."

"Apart from the mind flayers, no other race would wear moisturizing suits."

"I don't know if the resonance stones of despair can work with my fierce and evil spirits... I'd better keep those resonance stones for now."

Useless things should be sold. Lyon kept some things that might be useful. He was reluctant to sell even a single resonance stone, and sold all the remaining things to the Jin'an Chamber of Commerce.

The cheaper the better. Otherwise it would be too troublesome to look for customers all over the world. Some money should be earned by others.

Lyon was too lazy to find customers by himself, so he didn't bother thinking. If he didn't sell to the Golden Coast Chamber of Commerce, where should he find customers? He was not very familiar with the Empire. The Talia Alliance had two big cities, Lafite and Miren. Finally, Chalu City was definitely a good choice.

All in all, after returning from the Underdark, Leon lived a peaceful life again, eating well, drinking well and sleeping well every day, and his life was particularly comfortable.

Leon didn't know that all the things he looted from the Mind Flayer Colony and sold to the Golden Coast Chamber of Commerce were consumed by the Talia Alliance, and only a small number of strange things made their way to Fork Road City.

Many of those wizards who study evil and strange things have settled in Forked Road. Even in a place like Forked Road, there are not many people who are interested in the things of the mind flayers, but this does not include the Githzerai and the Githyanki.

At this time, a Githyanki was attracted by a magical prop that was obviously made by a mind flayer arcanist and was full of mind flayer style magic.

(End of this chapter)