NOVEL NEXT Chapter 420: Chapter 420: The Mage's Mindset
"Is this the Wind King Eagle?" The golden-haired girl was brimming with excitement as she observed the giant creature asleep atop a nest made from crystallized wind elements, a gleam of eagerness in her eyes.
"What are you planning to do?" Muria hastily grabbed her when he saw Gold Dragon Mother's reaction.
Suspended beside the royal city of Skarlett were over a hundred cloud islands, too conspicuous to ignore. Gold Dragon Mother, naturally curious, had insisted on coming after learning that a Wind King Eagle was slumbering above. Knowing his mother was a legendary mage, Muria, of course, could not let her go alone.
Mages, especially those who had ascended to legendary status, were typically fearless, each pondering over ideas that would seem ludicrous to ordinary people.
For example, deicide—this was something most legendary mages contemplated. If they happened to meet an avatar of a divine saint, they would strategize on how to slay a god while ensuring their own survival. Of course, thinking and executing are entirely different matters.
Aside from deicide, these individuals often engaged in acts that their peers found incredible, such as devising plans to romance a goddess and then experience a close encounter of a special kind.
Indeed, there have been legendary mages who successfully wooed goddesses, and not just one. There were also mages bold enough to attempt overpowering demon lords.
There was once a high-level legendary mage who took an interest in the infamous Abyssal Lord, the succubus queen Mekanshut, and wanted to have a profound exchange with her.
After meticulous planning, he successfully approached the renowned demon lord and fulfilled his initial intentions.
Subsequently, he perished—his body and soul now part of Queen Mekanshut's collection.
When Muria read about this scandalous tale in a book chronicling the gossips of legendary figures, he was astounded by the mage's audacious thoughts and courage.
What kind of mindset and bravery allows one to harbor such bizarre ideas?
It was precisely due to the boundless creativity of mages that the world of Erathia now enjoyed such advanced magical technologies, although most people could not benefit from them.
"I've traveled the world and never encountered a world-subduing giant beast. Now that I've finally found one, I must study it thoroughly," Gold Dragon Mother stated matter-of-factly, advancing to touch the sleeping Wind King Eagle.
"Mother, you do realize the consequences of offending the Wind King Eagle, right?" Muria once again blocked Gold Dragon Mother's action.
"I know, just bad luck for a while," Gold Dragon Mother said nonchalantly. "Just a bit of misfortune for some time. With my current strength, I can handle it. Compared to the gains from studying the Wind King Eagle, the cost is totally worth it."
"Are you sure?" Muria remembered the warnings from his Titan peers when he first entered the clan territory about this special being, which even Titans feared due to its ancestors' contributions to the world.
"For a mage, paying a certain price to unravel the unknown is completely normal. You may not have focused solely on studying magic, but you must understand these basic principles of how mages operate."
With that said, Muria found no further reason to prevent Gold Dragon Mother from studying the Wind King Eagle, but he still asked worriedly, "How do you plan to study the Wind King Eagle?"
"If possible, I would of course like to dissect this Wind King Eagle to see inside, but that's obviously not feasible now, so I'll just do some basic research. Collecting some feathers and sampling its emitted energy and aura will do."
Muria's heart raced when he heard Gold Dragon Mother's initial intention, but he sighed in relief at her actual plan.
"Though it would be better if I could collect some blood and bones," Gold Dragon Mother landed beside the Wind King Eagle, carefully collected a few feathers while concealing her aura, and then sighed unsatisfiedly, "With these, I could learn so much more."
"That's not necessary, these feathers should be enough for your research for a long time." Muria grabbed her eager hand. Throughout history, many had met tragic ends by provoking such world-subduing beasts, and he did not want his mother to be one of them.
"If you attempt to draw its blood, it will definitely wake up, and then we'll really have trouble."
"Right, if you really anger this big bird, it's all over for you." Gold Dragon Mother nodded in agreement.
"Why would it be over for me if you're the one provoking it?" Muria looked perplexed and subtly amused.
"Because I can tear through space and escape, while you, at best, can only use the current special conditions in Nokia European Continent to enter the merging abyss, unable to escape the angry Wind King Eagle's pursuit."
"Well, you're going to be
disappointed then, because the scenario you're expecting won't happen," Muria said confidently.
"Are you and this Wind King Eagle close?" Gold Dragon Mother immediately grasped the essential point, indicating a special relationship given the proximity of its nest to Muria.
"We've only just met; we're not that close."
"Then wake it up and ask it to give me a drop—no, fill this space ring with its blood."
"Are you joking? Do you want to drain all the blood from this Wind King Eagle?" Muria reached out with his mental energy to touch the space ring and saw its capacity—it was enough to fit his true form comfortably.
"Compared to the massive body of the Wind King Eagle, what's a little blood?"
"We're not that close, and what would I offer in exchange for its blood?" Muria asked, frowning. Even free blood donations came with some form of compensation, let alone waking it up to request its blood.
"Here, take this!" After thinking for a moment, Gold Dragon Mother took out a legendary wind elemental core and handed it to Muria. "Trade this with it."
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