Chapter 349: Heart of Gray Stone!

Columbus has left!

Carrying the conviction to find the treasure and not let Gervas down.

Sailing the Black Dragon toward the deep sea.

"Let's go! We're going to find the Hell Baron!"

Gervas didn't stay long either; due to the conscription order, he needed to make all preparations before setting out.

This also meant that for the next few days, he would be extremely busy, after all, there were too many things to prepare.

Splash! Splash!

"My lord!"

Time passed; over an hour later.

When Gervas approached a pile of stone at the foot of the mountain, the originally silent stone pile suddenly began to tremble.

Then a large figure slowly rose from the stone pile; it was the Hell Baron.

"Hell Baron, how have things been these past few days? Are you getting used to it?"

"My lord, I am doing very well, and every day I am watered by energy-rich spring water, making me feel like I am growing every day!"

"I'm glad you like it!"

The energy-rich spring water refers to the spiritual spring water of Tianehu.

Stone creatures, such magical beings, are quite special; although they have mouths and noses, they do not grow by eating ordinary meat and plants.

Instead, they grow by absorbing the essence of the sun and moon and other pure energies.

Such as spiritual spring water, such as the earth's vital veins.

Whether swallowed or poured onto the body, it can be absorbed.

So, Gervas instructed Old John to arrange for people to fetch spring water from the spiritual spring source of Tianehu every day and pour it around the Hell Baron.

The Hell Baron didn't even need to appear; servants only needed to splash the spiritual spring water onto the stone pile, and it could absorb it.

Although the energy from this spiritual spring water is not as potent as demon beast meat and demon beast crystals.

It is still several times faster than the Hell Baron growing in the wild relying solely on daily moon essence nourishment.

"My lord, you have come to see me; is there something you wish to command?"

The Hell Baron has a dull personality.

To be precise, the Stone Giant race itself is straightforward, with no roundabout ways.

"That's right, I am preparing to take you to a good place!"

"A good place?" The Hell Baron raised his rock-formed arm and scratched his head in a simple, honest manner, seeming somewhat happy.

"Let's go; you'll know once we arrive!"

Gervas smiled and directly led the Hell Baron toward the southeast coast.

About twenty minutes later, Gervas brought the Hell Baron to a dull, gray rocky area.

This area was easy to find because when Gervas had passed by before, he remembered only this one large-scale gray stone area nearby.

"My lord, what good thing is here?" This question certainly did not come from the Hell Baron, but from Knight Mi Gen.

Knight Mi Gen had been itching to act, knowing his lord was preparing to search for something good.

"It's these stones!"

"Stones? My lord, what good thing can stones have?" Knight Mi Gen, eager to try, was stunned.

"Of course there is; you all try using your perception!"

Upon hearing this, the group of knights all activated their perception.

The next moment, Lei Meng paused, then quickly walked to a stone block, holding it in his hand to sense it carefully.

"My lord, this gray stone actually possesses a magical fluctuation!" After a moment, he was amazed.

"A magical fluctuation? Gray stone? Is that true or false?"

Knight Mi Gen and the others had only become Bronze Knights not long ago; their perception was inferior to Lei Meng's.

They immediately spoke out, half-believing and half-doubting.

They quickly came before Lei Meng, and the next moment, an expression of amazement appeared on their faces as well.

"Huh, there really is a magical fluctuation; even stones can have magic, how can this be so magical?"

"Because something good has been born here, causing the gray stones in this vicinity to contain magic!"

"My lord, I remember now; are you talking about the Heart of Gray Stone?" Knight Lei Meng, after such a reminder, immediately found a thread of memory.

"Knight Lei Meng, I didn't expect you to know even this! That's right, the Heart of Gray Stone has been born here!" Gervas nodded in affirmation.

"Heart of Gray Stone? Knight Lei Meng, what exactly is this? And, is it valuable?" Knight Mi Gen was somewhat confused by the words of Gervas and Lei Meng; he had never even heard of this thing!

"Of course it is valuable, even more valuable than many ordinary magical potion plants!"

"Because after the Heart of Gray Stone is born, it can cause all surrounding gray stones to possess magic!"

"And these magic-possessing gray stones are the favorite building materials for mages and alchemists; one cubic meter of gray stone can be sold for ten silver coins!"

"Ten silver coins per cubic meter?? Isn't that more than a hundred times the price of ordinary gray stone?!"

In this world, the only use for gray stone is building castles, stone houses, and the like.

And its price is actually not high; one cubic meter costs no more than ten copper coins.

The reason why building houses with them is relatively expensive is entirely due to mining and transportation.

Therefore, one cubic meter of unmined gray stone being worth ten silver coins absolutely counts as an astronomical price.

"That's right, but even so, the purchase of magic gray stones still exceeds supply, because the birth of a Heart of Gray Stone is accidental and very rare."

"Of course, once it is born, even if the gray stones in this location are mined out, one only needs to move the Heart of Gray Stone to another gray stone area!"

"Then, after two or three years, a new area of magic gray stones will reappear."

"Is there such a wonderful thing?" Knight Mi Gen's eyes were shining.

This is a wonderful thing, simply an inexhaustible mine!

"My lord, congratulations! The God of Glory has favored you!"

"Indeed, it is the favor of the God of Glory!" Gervas also smiled, picked up a piece of gray rock containing magic, and then handed it to the Hell Baron.

"Hell Baron, come and look at this stone!"

"Yes, my master!"

The Hell Baron was not yet clear on what was happening.

He merely mechanically reached out to catch the stone Gervas handed him.

However, the instant he gripped the stone, those copper-bell-sized eyes widened abruptly, looking at the stone in his hand with disbelief.

"This is... Master! Magic, delicious magic!"

The magic contained in the gray stone was certainly more suited to earth-elemental statue creatures.

Therefore, the Hell Baron instinctively determined upon contact that this was food beneficial to him.

"Then you try eating it!"

"Yes, Master!"

The Hell Baron delayed no longer; under the gaze of Knight Mi Gen and others, he directly put the gray stone into his mouth.

Crunch! Crunch!

Crunchy! Delicious!

The gray stone had no hardness at all in the Hell Baron's mouth.

It was as if it were potato chips, shattering with a single bite.

Watching this, Knight Mi Gen and others kept swallowing their saliva.

"Master, it's delicious!"

"If it's delicious, eat more. Can you distinguish other magic gray stones yourself?"

"Yes, Master!"

The Hell Baron had no perception, nor spiritual power.

Therefore, he could not sense things from a distance.

Right, this is also the reason why the Stone People race possesses one hundred percent magic resistance.

But they can sense magic through touch, just like just now.

So, from now on, Gervas's help was unnecessary; the Hell Baron only needed to walk around Shishan to precisely locate the required magic gray stones.

And during this period, Gervas also located the position of the Gray Stone Heart and made a mark.

And because the Gray Stone Heart was hidden in the center of a stone mountain, there was no fear of others coveting or stealing it.

Half an hour later, the Hell Baron stopped eating.

Because he was full; after all, he had eaten over thirty cubic meters of stone.

Of course, do not think it is too much; this meal, under normal circumstances, is enough for the Hell Baron's consumption for a month.

Just at this moment, a slight humming sound suddenly appeared on the Hell Baron's body.

A small black five-clawed dragon mark appeared on his forehead.

And this was precisely the mark pattern Gervas designed himself.