"One silver coin in exchange for a small favor. Will you help or not?"
Hearing Jona Velli's words, Friel felt the silver coin in her claws and nodded her dragon head.
"Lead the way."
"Straightforward. Follow me."
With a flap of her dragon wings, Jona Velli led Friel to the star silver vein.
Friel took in the scene and immediately understood.
"I assume you already know what I want you to do."
Jona Velli arched an eyebrow. Friel didn't say a word, so Jona Velli stepped past her and opened her dragon mouth.
In the next second, a highly-penetrating conical flame breath shot out from her dragon mouth.
The breath, containing terrifying power, struck the deep blue rocks around the star silver ore, causing sparks to fly.
After a few seconds of stalemate...
Crack—
With a crisp sound, a piece of star silver ore broke free from the rock layer and fell to the ground.
Clatter—
Jona Velli's dragon eyes narrowed, and she quickly reached out a claw to pick it up.
Feeling the faint power of the stars and the incredibly rich ice element power within it, Jona Velli couldn't help but tremble with excitement.
One must know that this was a treasure enough to make even an old Silver Dragon salivate! Now that it was lying quietly in Jona Velli's claws, how could she remain calm?
Watching Jona Velli tremble with excitement, Friel stopped her movements, envy and greed flashing through her red dragon eyes.
But she quickly suppressed it by force.
Although she really wanted to collect this star silver ore, even if it was of no damn use to her, as a friend—and especially as a proud Red Dragon—Friel believed she absolutely could not go back on her word. Absolutely!
Jona Velli no longer hesitated. No matter how good a treasure was, it was useless if it couldn't improve one's strength. Thus, Jona Velli threw it into her mouth in one gulp.
She didn't chew because she couldn't bite through it at all; she simply swallowed it directly.
Given the strength and hardness of the star silver stone, Jona Velli knew very well that it would take at least three years to fully digest it on her own.
So... "Weekend!"
Jona Velli cast [Weekend] on her stomach to accelerate her digestion speed.
Soon, a bone-chilling cold sensation spread from her stomach, flowing through Jona Velli's entire body.
This showed the intensity of the star silver ore; even as a White Dragon immune to the ice element, Jona Velli actually felt uncomfortable from the "cold."
But! Precisely because of this, Jona Velli's expression became extremely excited!
"This... this power within my body!!"
Jona Velli began to rapidly increase the output of [Weekend] within her body, and her mana was being consumed at a blistering pace, looking as if it would soon be exhausted.
But none of that mattered!
Jona Velli used a claw to pry off some frost-patterned magic crystal ore from another rock wall and swallowed it in one gulp.
Just like that, a bizarre scene unfolded: Jona Velli clutched her belly tightly with one claw because the pain was so intense, while her other claw continuously fed the nearby frost-patterned magic crystals into her dragon mouth to replenish her mana.
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