funbook-pk Chapter 117 Exploiting Freebies
Chapter 117 Exploiting Freebies
Even now, Thor still doesn't know what the creature sealed in the abandoned dungeon looks like, or what it is.
He hadn't figured out how to provoke the other party. Should he bombard the stone tablet? Only a fool would do something like that.
Now that we know that the other party was likely sealed by a powerful being from long ago using the heavy earth elemental power of the Heart of the Mountains, the problem becomes simple: we just need to reinforce the seal a little.
For example, inject a little pure earth element magic into its seal.
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Once the grey dwarves, under the watchful eye of the black-feathered eagle, successfully reached Thor's territory in the middle of the mountains and reunited with his evil creatures, he severed his control over the black-feathered eagle and began searching for new creatures to use for casting spells.
With his flight speed far exceeding that of ordinary creatures, as long as he could control the blazing flames on his body, catching a few birds would be no difficult task for Thor.
He doesn't even need to physically approach these fragile creatures; he can simply get close and cast a spell to control them.
In no time at all, Thor successfully caught a bird with brownish-red feathers that looked like a large dove.
Speaking of which, this guy is one of the main prey of the Black Feather Eagle in the wild. After being controlled, it stared at Thor with its round eyes, looking dumbfounded.
If it had encountered a gold or silver dragon, its silly appearance might have garnered its sympathy, allowing it to escape with its life.
Unfortunately, Thor was a red dragon. He tapped the wheel in his mind, and a piece of yellowish-brown earth crystal appeared out of thin air. He pried off a small piece and stuffed it into the silly goose's paw.
Then the reddish-brown dove took flight, slipped through the narrow crack, and soared above the ruins of the underground city.
It flew all the way to the towering stone monument, loosened its grip, and the shimmering fragment of earth crystal landed on the monument.
The pure earth elemental power, originating from the same source, caused the earth crystals to disappear the moment they came into contact with the stone tablet, just like snow falling on a lake.
Time seemed to stand still at this moment, and the flapping dove turned into an insect frozen in amber.
A massive spiritual force reverberated through the air. Even from a distance of over twenty kilometers, and with the body of a bird acting as an obstruction, Thor could clearly feel the intense anger.
It's been too long! It's been sealed for far too long! So long that time has become unrecognizable, so long that it's forgotten its own name. Now, just when a sliver of possibility for breaking the seal was seen, someone dared to come and reinforce it!
boom!!!
The next instant, the frozen air surged again, and the dove in the air exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
Thor felt as if he had heard a silent roar, and the entire mountain range in front of him seemed to tremble, but when he looked closely, everything returned to normal.
When he focused his attention on the area below, his eyes were immediately drawn to a light blue notification message.
Mental Essence +375, this is an unprecedented new high.
It seems my idea was right. A tiny fragment of earth crystal is just a drop in the ocean compared to the energy contained in the Heart of the Mountains.
However, it is an undeniable fact that it can indeed enhance the power of the Earth Mother Goddess's blood and make the seal more stable.
Faced with the rage of the sealed creature, Thor simply grinned, revealing a merciless sneer.
If a sealed creature could come out, it would have done so long ago. What's the point of making a huge commotion?
He immediately caught another bird, controlled it with magic, and made it grab a small piece of earth crystal and burrow into the narrow crack once more.
However, this time, as soon as Asuka appeared, an invisible mental shock came crashing down on her.
The bird in mid-air suddenly stiffened, and the tiny gem on its claw, which was gleaming faintly, fell straight down and smashed into a pile of minced meat.
Another notification flashed by: Mental Essence +51.
It seems that the sealed creature has not lost its mind. After its rage, it quickly calmed down and did not squander its power.
Although Thor felt a little disappointed about this, having a few dozen points of essence was still much better than before.
Soon, he caught a third bird. This time, he didn't even need the earth crystal fragments. After the bird entered the crack, it went straight for the corpse of the previous bird.
Then, another mental attack came, this time with even less essence, only 38 points.
After three attempts, Thor stopped sending out birds.
There's a right and wrong way to fleece people. If you fleece them too much at once and they become exhausted and lying down, then you'll lose more than you gain.
After all, the greatest motivation for living things to persevere is the sight of hope.
An experiment was once conducted on rats and hope. A group of rats were thrown into a smooth bucket of water. Without any intervention, they would give up struggling in about fifteen minutes and eventually drown.
If you use a different batch of rats, rescue them after they have struggled for fourteen minutes, dry them off, give them food, let them rest, and then put them back into the water. Repeat this process several times.
When they were thrown into the water for the last time and not retrieved, they survived for more than fifty hours.
Therefore, if Thor keeps sending out birds, the sealed creature will, like the first batch of rats, feel unable to intercept them and eventually give up and abandon the struggle.
However, if it is sent out again after a period of time, it may feel that the number of birds that Thor can send out each day is limited, or that it needs time to recover from the mental shock it has received, thus creating a false hope.
This way, it will actively attack every time it sees a bird.
By the time it realizes that all its efforts have been in vain, it may have already been drained dry and completely lost its value.
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In Thor's view, sending three birds into the abandoned dungeon every day to fleece the sealed creature should be a reasonable number of times.
In this way, although the daily harvest of essence is not much, only about a hundred points, the advantage is that it is continuous and can be extracted continuously.
Before leaving, Thor risked returning to the cave leading to the abandoned underground city, moved several boulders around, and blocked the entrance with only a small crack.
In this way, small birds can enter, while keeping out some unsuspecting creatures.
Furthermore, with birds patrolling every day, it would be impossible for the sealed creature to be unsealed by other creatures.
Looking at the mental energy balance in his mind, which had exceeded five hundred, Thor felt that in a few more days, he should be able to draw another intermediate monster template.