Lord of Plenty

The volcano in the center of the Misty Island is huge and towering into the clouds.

Even the Storm Falcon, which has a huge wingspan and looks like a small plane and is famous for its flying skills, only hovers on the mountainside.

Xiao Hei is not a cliff goat, and can't climb mountains, let alone fly.

Kun simply took it back to the pet space and flew up directly using the floating spell. Of course, he didn't forget to cast the magic of hiding his body and breath.

The whole volcano is mainly made of obsidian after the magma cools down. It looks gray and lacks vegetation.

Because of its good magic conductivity, obsidian has always been the preferred material for mages to build their own mage towers.

Because of the active volcano, the closer to the sky, the stronger the smell of sulfur.

The settled mist mixed with the black smoke from the flames to form small sulfur pools, which are scattered around the crater.

Next to the sulfur pool is solidified yellow sulfur. Some sulfur pools heated by geothermal heat are still boiling, and acidic mud is splashed everywhere.

Even in such a cruel hellish environment, there are still traces of life.

However, thumb-sized transparent copepods are swimming happily in the boiling sulfur pool.

Strange thorns with dark red bodies and almost no leaves are rooted in the cracks of the volcano.

Several volcanic crystal scorpions with dark blue bodies, as big as calves, and two claws, one large and one small, are fighting for a monster corpse that died in an unknown way, leaving only half of its remains.

Volcanic crystal scorpions are a very rare ancient monster, a precious resource-type monster, and have long disappeared from the continent.

Like the gold-eating earth dragon in Betty's hand, volcanic crystal scorpions are also a rare monster that can continuously produce special resources.

Crystal scorpions do not feed on minerals rich in magic metals like gold-eating earth dragons and then enrich them.

Instead, they are like mirage clams that can produce image-retaining pearls, through breeding, magic crystals slowly grow on the surface of the body.

Depending on the crystal seeds obtained initially, the types of magic crystals that the volcanic crystal scorpion can cultivate are also very different.

Some magic crystals are very common, and you can find a pile of them in any mine on land, and they are not valuable.

But some magic crystals, such as dragon blood crystals that can greatly change the physique of warriors, are said to be soaked in the blood of dragons.

There are energy storage crystals that can serve as the second source of magic power and store a large amount of magic power for mages.

These magic crystals are all extremely rare, and there is no systematic individual vein.

They only appear in large magic metal veins as associated mineral deposits.

If you want to mine them, you can only rely on luck.

Kun, who hid his figure in the air, looked at the volcanic crystal scorpions fighting in a ball below, with a strange look on his face.

"I didn't find any samples of volcanic crystal scorpions in the specimen library of the demigod magician tower, but I met them here.

That guy Dimit, could it be that there are treasures on his island, he himself doesn't know."

What is rich and powerful?

That's it.

You think you are guarding a mountain of gold without knowing it, which is amazingly stupid.

In fact, there are too many treasures, and there is no time to look at them one by one, so there are omissions.

Ah, thinking about it this way, it seems even more infuriating.

Kun, who suddenly had a strong hatred of the rich, was not polite. He knocked out five volcanic crystal scorpions one by one and packed them all away.

As for whether it would destroy the population of volcanic crystal scorpions here?

Just kidding, he is the Master of Abundance.

In the future, volcanic crystal scorpions will definitely not be endangered rare species in his Abundance Territory.

It is estimated that they can't even wear the hat of "vulnerable", and they are definitely rampant species.

In the future, in addition to wool sheep and star quail, the breeding industry in Abundance Territory will add another new project.

Crystal scorpion breeding!

It sounds like a project that can make a lot of money.

→_→

Probably.

"Gugu~"

Without the crystal scorpions fighting for the remains of the monster, several scavenging bird monsters soon fell from the sky, which looked like a combination of vultures and frigate birds.

But it was a strange monster whose name even Kun didn't know.

The creatures and monsters in this world are numerous and vast, like the stars in the sky.

And new species are born every moment, and old species are eliminated by nature.

He is not an omniscient sage, so it is impossible for him to know everything and understand everything.

He picked up a few feathers left by the strange bird as samples of the abundance atlas.

Kun quietly left here and continued to move towards the crater.

Volcanoes of this size are usually inhabited by volcano dragons.

Volcano dragons, like forest dragons, are descendants of giant dragons, or in other words, mixed-blood descendants.

Their status in the dragon clan is equivalent to that of half-elves in the forest of elves.

Dragon species with such strong blood are fine, like those low-level descendants that have been classified as "dragon lizards".

Just like the half-elves on this island who are mixed with goblin blood, they are not recognized.

If they really encounter an orthodox giant dragon, it is estimated that the first unlucky ones will be these guys with poor blood.

However, Kun did not find those volcanic dragons that looked like large bats at the crater, nor did he find any traces of dragon nests.

"Is it because it is too far away from the continent that no volcanic dragons have discovered this place?

Or was it that there were no volcanic dragons when this continental fragment was thrown here?"

Anyway, it is a good thing that those difficult guys were not found.

They are called volcanic dragons not only because these sub-dragons like to build their nests on volcanoes, but also because they can spit out hot breath like magma from their mouths.

Irritable, aggressive, easily exploded, and very strong sense of territory.

Where these guys are, there is no peace.

It can be said that they are descendants who perfectly inherited all the shortcomings of the dragon clan.

Although he has become a brother to the Dragon King Dionysius, he is considered a first-class guest of the dragon clan.

But the King of Hell is easy to deal with, but the little devil is difficult to deal with. Ordinary dragons don't know that he has a close relationship with their own dragon king.

If they meet, they should fight.

The current situation saves a lot of trouble.

"However, there is no volcano dragon.

Then who occupies the ecological niche of the volcano dragon?

Strange, why is there nothing?"

Kun, who did not find the existence of the volcano dragon in the crater, also did not find any traces of other large fire monsters.

In a normal ecosystem, each position is fixed.

Just like grass growing on the ground, there must be herbivorous animals or insects to occupy the upper layer of the food chain.

Then carnivorous animals and bird-eating insects continue to occupy the upper layer, and so on.

Although this misty island is isolated from the outside world, it has a long history. Even if there was no volcano dragon occupying it at the beginning.

After such a long time, there should have been other fire monsters occupying this ecological niche.

But the crater, a good place with rich magic elements, has no traces of any large monsters living there.

"Let's go down and take a look."

Although no magic beasts were found, Kun found many natural holes formed by the cooling of lava near the crater.

It extends in all directions and spreads towards the belly of the volcano.

Going forward along the magma tunnel, some roads are dead ends, and some simply connect directly to the magma lake inside the volcano.

There is also a kind of fire monster covered with scales in the magma lake, which looks like an eel and a dragon. It has no eyes, no nose, and a mouth full of fangs.

Part of its body has already shown elementalization.

I don't know how he was found, and several huge magma balls fell on his head.

Kun was so angry that he froze him directly with an ice magic, and his body turned into a pile of stones like cooled magma.

This situation is a typical characteristic of elemental life.

But these monsters are not like pure elemental life like fire element or water element.

Maybe they are half flesh and blood, half elemental life?

Or are elemental life degenerating into flesh and blood life?

But in the extreme environment of the magma lake, pure flesh and blood life is simply seeking death.

So this evolution, or degeneration, was forcibly interrupted by the environment?

That is why this incongruous state is preserved?

Kun, who came to a strange conclusion, waved his hand and threw the waste stone that the magma monster turned into back into the magma lake.

"What exactly is this place?

These magma monsters are very similar to the fairy bugs I met in the God Blood World."

The terrifying heat wave kept coming, and the golden red magma flowed slowly like blood.

In these magma caves, there are some strange magic plants and mosses, which grow stubbornly here regardless of the hellish scorching environment.

Kun also collected some samples along the way.

For a fertility mage like him, these creatures that grow in extreme environments are the best research materials, and even materials for casting spells.

The simplest way to use them is to use "Seed Restoration" to turn these plants that are not afraid of volcanic high temperatures into seeds and take them away.

If you encounter a fire mage in the future and summon them again, it will definitely give the other party a headache.

And the species that survive in these extreme environments are also of great reference significance to Kun.

There are many kinds of seed worlds behind the Gate of Fertility, such as Blue Star and Yongxu, which are truly rare paradise worlds with pleasant environments.

Most seed worlds are dead, barren, and withered.

There is no vitality at all.

But these seed worlds are not hopeless.

It's just that there is a lack of an opportunity.

Just like some soils are suitable for growing dragon scale potatoes, and some soils are suitable for growing red wheat.

Planting crops on unsuitable soil will result in reduced crop yields at best, and no harvest at worst.

These seed worlds with extreme environments are like a piece of land that is both barren and full of problems.

The power of abundance can make barren land fertile.

The power of abundance can make crops that are not suitable for growing on these lands regenerate and adapt.

The life born in these extreme environments is this opportunity.

In fact, the tenacity of life is far beyond human imagination.

With just a little bit of nutrition and a little bit of water, the seeds of life will revive and sprout.

Kun firmly believes that the only miracle in this vast starry sky is life itself.

Why does the universe exist without the embellishment of life?

Just like the darkness of the universe, it cannot be separated from the contrast of light.

Without light, the existence of darkness is meaningless.

In other words, why should the universe, which should be dark, give birth to light?

Is it a coincidence?

The birth of life is also a coincidence.

The coincidence at this moment, in the more distant future, is it not a kind of inevitability?

The universe born from nothingness, the light born from darkness, the life born from desolation, the civilization born from wisdom...

All accidents are inevitable.