21 Chapter 19
The rain was beginning to let up, so Aura opened his eyes and began searching for the rainbow flowers.
And was quickly floored by the obvious lies he had heard in his previous life.
Hundreds of rainbow flowers?
They were either missing a zero or two or had a few screws loose. To count this many flowers as only over one hundred was simply insane.
Aura rapidly began to pick them all, he only had seven minutes and letting even a single one wilt would be a massuve waste of precious resources.
Aura had certainly found something far more valuable than he had expected, by several orders of magnitude.
There was probably enough resouces below him to last a million years of experiments, and given the nature of rainbow crystals, he could probably artificially grow some.
Growing gems in Ascendance was fairly difficult, but so long as you could mimic the conditions of the crystals original growth, you can cast a few spells and get a limitless supply.
The main reasons why noone ever did this were as follows, setting up a chamber that matches the exact conditions for growing a crystal is incredibly difficultand expensive, the spells required to grow the crystals are difficult, and finding an enchanter capable of using them was nigh impossible.
Aura's favorite thing to do was create, whether it be smithing or enchanting, he had studied them religiously.
Enchanting was a subsection of alchemy, being a science focused on the creation of alchemical circles that take in force from the atmosphere and use it to continuously cast spells, or, alternatively, to create an alchemical circle, that, when supplied with force, casts a spell.
Aura, in his previous life, had already reached grandmastery in alchemy, allowing him to create items on the level of the Dawn's Fury.
But in order to create valuable items, materials of equal value must be sacrificed. This is the law of equiva...
This is how crafting works.
A chamber for growing rainbow gems would be ridiculously expensive, due to the rather strict conditions in which they grow.
But since there was no way for Aura to use as many rare ores as he was about to get in any reasonable amount of time, so setting up a few crystal growth chambers would be worthwhile.
The dungeon core would make setting them up even easier.
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The few rainbow flowers Aura had missed had already wilted, and the hole he had dug to unearth the crystal deposit had already broken through into an impressive cavern.
The cavern was lined with rainbow crystals, and in the center, there was a crystalline core shining with the same rainbow light as the rest of the area.
That was a rainbow core, the single rarest gem in the entire first realm, worth enough to purchase half a country.
Unlike the rainbow crystals, a rainbow core actually had a use, allowing its wielder complete control of light within a ten mile radius.
Given that a rainbow core could only be found in rainbow crystal deposits, and only showed up in about one out of every ten thousand deposits, it was well worth its title of rarest gem.
There was also a secondary reason for its rarity, which was its almost legendary brittleness.
The crystal forming the core was paper thin, and shattered so easily it was terrifying.
Fortunately, Aura had a dungeon core, which allowed its owner to reinforce items, so long as these items were below a certain level of sturdiness and remained within range at all times.
The reason for such a function was rather obvious when looking at a dungeon's walls, which needed to be sturdy as all hell so that challengers couldn't just break their way through the dungeon.
Aura pulled out the dungeon core and made the rainbow core sturdier, as well as shrinking it down to a size you could place in a necklace.
He hadn't expected a rainbow core to be here, but since it was, he had had an idea for the most overpowered artifact he had ever imagined.
Both the dungeon core and the rainbow core needed large quantities of force to function, and Aura couldn't supply that constantly, but Aura also had a dragon core, so if he could get some materials that store force, like crystalline orichalcum can store elements, he could make a necklace that could allow its wearer to freely control the light and terrain within a ten mile radius.
Unfortunately, the dragon's force core would be nowhere near strong enough to allow free control to such an extent.
The force supplied by an adult dragon's force core would only be enough to freely control an area of a hundred yards or so.
Still powerful, but not the material's true potential.
But to fully utilize these two cores he would need the force core of a true dragon as well as some divine materials.
