A strange world

Chapter 432 Chapter 90. Annan and Ilimayas’ Gift

"Your Highness Ilimoyas, I already own the territory and am asking my men to build a magnificent palace for you." Annan admired Ilimoyasi's elegant and slender dragon body.

The two heads were hiding in the distance, closer than last time, looking here with ignorant and innocent eyes.

"Remember your promise..." Ilimoyasi said.

"I won't forget."

The portal disappeared, and Annan muttered to himself in confusion: "What promise?"

Eli Ruishi, who arrived like a rolling wine barrel, interrupted Annan's hard thinking.

The Gem City plan he drew has reserved the location of the city lord's palace - within a hundred meters in diameter of the arcane energy core. The Blue Dragon's lair is placed on the right side of the City Lord's Mansion. The appearance is the same as the blue dragon's lair in Xingyue Bay, and the size has been expanded to the same size as the city lord's palace, but with so many large earth elements, it can be completed almost a month ago.

But Annan was not satisfied.

Dragon's Lair is mainly "savage". Dragons who are uncivilized and like to live alone usually live in the wilderness and abandoned castles. Only the ambitious red dragon likes to occupy the territory of humans - so in knight novels, the evil dragons who rule the palace and steal the princess are usually red dragons.

Blue dragons possess the rare gregarious characteristic of the dragon clan. They maintain contact with each other through blood as a bond. So Eli Rubble responded to this by expanding the blue dragon's lair to be as big as the city lord's palace - he designed several "guest rooms" to accommodate Elimoas' pro-dragon friends.

The reason for maintaining the appearance of the lair in Xingyue Bay is because blue dragons are cave-dwelling creatures and because they are nostalgic.

Annan thought this was too crude.

Blue dragons like gems, especially sapphires, but they don't have such big gems - even if they did, Annan couldn't afford them.

Glass instead of gemstones?

This thing invented by dwarves and popularized by humans looks similar to gems... but glass is not very strong, and all dragons except the white dragon, including the bone dragon, have the ability to know the value of items, which is known by other dragons, Yili Mayas will not be able to hold her head up in front of family and friends——

"How about crystal?"

Eli Rubble said that it would be much cheaper if alchemists could produce crystals through alchemy...

Praise the Alchemist!

But no matter what it is, the price will increase as the quantity and volume increase... Even such a large piece of brass is worth a lot.

Annan went to Olmedo, and he remembered that she had several alchemists under her command.

"You're actually willing to do it."

Olmedo still doesn't know what Annan is doing in the Tatooine Empire, but she knows that Annan never wastes the money he has.

"Elimayas is my first friend, she helped me a lot..."

Olmedo stared at Annan for a long time and suddenly said: "It is difficult for humans and dragons to give birth to children."

"Wha, what? I don't understand! I have no idea what you are talking about!" Annan explained in a panic, "And crystals are resources. If you need money, you won't lose money if you sell them."

Annan persuaded others in this way, but there was always an emotion called doubt in their eyes.

Annan had no choice but to hide with Yili Ruishi and discuss with him the plan of the Blue Dragon Crystal Lair. For example, such a large crystal lair would cost at least tens of thousands of gold coins, and there would be no need to fake the treasure mountain.

"Ilimayas has many gems." Annan remembered something.

"You want to exchange those gems for crystals?" Yili Ruishi admired Annan's ability. He had never heard of anyone who could take away the treasure from the dragon clan.

“I mean, could you design something that shows gems?”

…

The old land of Elland, the desert area.

It seems that since last year, groups of gnolls and orcs have been running out of the desert, causing trouble in surrounding towns.

The locals later heard that a dragon clan had fallen into the desert area. Professionals from nearby city-states wanted to attack, but after several waves of people set out, no one came back.

A mage who survived the catastrophe escaped and said that there were a group of blue dragons in the desert——

Those professionals who wanted to slay the dragon stopped. As we all know, gregarious blue dragons are more difficult to deal with than gold dragons. The surrounding towns also ignored it, since there were only wild beasts in the barren desert area.

Catacombs.

The blue dragons occupied the resting place of the dead old king, and the only respect they had for this place was that the fluorescent stones inlaid on the walls of the corridor still existed.

On this day, Ilimoyas put away all the gems and crawled through the long passage. As she approached the exit, she was blocked by two mature blue dragons.

"Child, where are you going?" a soft female voice asked.

"A town for men."

"But you took your treasure away..." A deep male voice sounded.

"That human has gained territory again and he needs money."

The stout blue dragon roared angrily: "Elimayas, you betrayed the tradition of the dragon clan!"

Ilimoyas still raised her slender neck: "That human promised to give me 5% interest every month."

When the father and daughter were confronting each other, the soft female voice continued to sound: "Our Elimayas has grown up..."

The slightly slender blue dragon rubbed Ilimoyas's head.

"Child, your father and I collected some gold coins..." It stretched out a dragon claw to cut through the void, and the gold coins poured out of the void like a tide.

"Here are ten thousand gold coins...five hundred gold coins per month...right?"

"But don't be fooled by humans..." the stout blue dragon said, crushing the floor tiles under his claws into powder. "No one can deceive the blue dragon...no one can!"

"I know."

Ilimoyas put away the gold coins, climbed out of the tomb, spread her dragon wings in the sun-drenched desert ruins, and kicked up sand and dust to fly towards the nearest town.

…

The warm winter sun shines on the huge crystal, reflecting a beautiful and dazzling light.

This lair made entirely of crystals is so vast that it resembles an ice cave in the frozen soil. Its foundation was replaced with orichalcum, and even a giant dragon rolling on it could not leave a single scratch.

On the day when the Crystal Lair was built, Annan opened the portal and invited Elimoas, who had become a human, to the Gem City where busy figures were everywhere.

"This is my New Year's gift to you, although it's a little late." Annan led Ilimayas into the crystal clear crystal lair and joked: "I don't even have a copper coin now."

"Where's your money?"

"Replaced with crystal."

Annan pointed around. At this time, Ilimoyas released a pile of gold coins that almost overwhelmed him. A rough count of them was almost 20,000 gold coins.

Annan gratefully accepted the gold coins, and then asked Ilimayas to pay attention to the top of the rock: the sunlight was refracted by the transparent crystal on the top of the rock and fell into the cave.

"You can also put your gems on it."

Annan urged Ilimoyas to give it a try, but she said there were no more gems.

"Where's your gem?"

"In exchange for gold coins."