The stone was carefully focused [like a stone], making sure the dragon wouldn't notice anything strange about it. After all, it's just an ordinary stone. What's so strange about this?
So the dragon didn't notice anything strange and just nodded approvingly, indicating that its new lair would be decorated with gneiss rocks. A suitable display center. So, it started to decorate.
How would a dragon decorate its lair?
Although their intelligence is high, their desires are simple, which is naturally reflected in the changes in their living environment.
First, the giant green-scaled monster reached into its [Astral Pocket] and began to pull out its favorite arcane illumination. Huge shimmering orbs of dazzling colors are scattered around the cave, floating in mid-air like suspended water droplets.
Then, Long looked around the room, took a breath, and then exhaled. fire. A huge cone of dragon fire was shot to all corners of the room, the dragon dragging the flames lazily around in a circle, covering every corner.
The dust is burned away and the eternally burning dragon fire remains in flickering patches, adding a unique background tapestry to the room.
So, with the walls and ceiling taken care of, all that's left is the floor space. Huge red eyes stared at the stone, calculating its optimal position relative to everything else. The dragon reached into its [Astral Pocket] again, this time opening it wide and facing the room.
Gold poured out like an avalanche.
Coins, gold coins of all shapes and sizes, bearing the stamps of a hundred kingdoms, covered the floor. The dragon stretched out its big muscular tail, lifted the stone, and set it on the top of the golden mountain.
Then it looked contentedly at its little kingdom.
Because it's time for dragons' favorite pastime. In a way, it is a relative of stone. Because they all have an eternal patience.
The dragon curled up around the golden mountain and fell asleep.
- - - - - -
The rock looked at its new roommate, sleeping on the new heights of a golden mountain. The rock begins to understand the cycle of the world. Even if it makes its way smoothly down the mountain, it may end up at the top of a brand new mountain. The world is like this. Those who pursue immortality and power will always find a new peak after the previous peak of Mount Tai.
But Stone was not discouraged. What about the peak? As long as it flattens and becomes stronger, the whole world belongs to it. Or quarry. Maybe it prefers something like this. As for its next planned upgrade... the dragonfire at the edges of the room is heating it up. It can be moved around a bit.
It does some calculations in its head. Could it launch itself, aim at the dragon's head, and crush it?
Imagine the experience gained from this…
But a faint sense of crisis held the stone in place. It is learning, and although the dragon appears to be sleeping, it is evident from the swishing of its tail as it sleeps that it is conscious.
Attacking it can be dangerous.
It was so easy for its muscular tail to pick up the stone that it would undoubtedly be crushed in an instant. Or be put into that terrible [astral pocket].
However, the rock also noticed something else. The substance around it - so-called "gold" - it had heard that term before. Where is it? Rock looked at its data sheet.
Gold:0
Ah, that's a stat, isn't it? The other number is stuck at rock bottom, not going up at all, no matter how hard the rock is. Could this be an opportunity?
A cunning plan forms in their minds, and they embark on that most traditional activity in a dragon's lair: stealing.
It carefully converts a hint of heat into movement and aims it all downward.
Energy conversion starts!
Convert [heat energy] into [kinetic energy]!
Δ1K = Δ1 m/s
[Unnamed]'s new speed: 1m/s
Storage temperature: 20k
When the stone was stuffed into the core of the gold coin pile, the entire gold coin pile trembled slightly. Several coins drilled into the stone's surface exactly as planned.
The stone felt for the gold penetrating its exterior, carefully extending its receptacles of new energy, extending tendrils of energy towards them. Its stone flesh moved and separated, and slowly, very, very slowly, the coins began to be absorbed by the rock. till the end……
Gold:1%
The numbers are up!
But wait, that's a little weird. Shitou touched his body and realized that the percentage of gold was wrong. It absorbed three full gold coins, but only a small portion of them actually remained in its body, right in its center. The rest disappeared somewhere.
But where? What happened? The current gold content is less than 1% of the stone’s mass.
Full of curiosity, it focused on its task again, waiting for its body to heat up from the surrounding energy until it could use [Energy Conversion] again, and then it crouched down again, greedily sucking more gold coins.
Slowly, day by day, month by month, year by year, as the dragon slept peacefully, the number rose.
Gold:10%
The first milestone, when the stone is just beginning to dig out its new summit. Once it crosses the decimal barrier, it feels a change in energy as something starts to form in its center. It's getting heavier, albeit without increasing levels.
It continued greedily.
Gold:50%
At the midway point, it feels the energy inside become more concentrated, and heat begins to be generated in its center. It's a weird kind of heat - it can't take advantage of [energy conversion]. But it is incomplete and not ready for use. Something is missing.
The golden mountain was half gone, swallowed up by a greedy stone, but the dragon still didn't notice. Because this change is gradual. slow. In his sleep, he did not notice that the mountain was getting lower every week.
Gold:90%
The mountain of gold was almost gone, and Stone had to start harvesting the gold on the floor of the room. But close. Too close. The energies are almost complete, almost in their final form, but the last extension is missing. The final burst of energy gave Garp enough energy to jump over the waterfall.
The dragon remained asleep, unaware of his betrayal.
Gold:99%
The rock shook, staring at the last pile of gold in the room. There isn't much left, because the more rocks they eat, the greedier they become. The bottom 10% take almost as much as the top 50%. But it was very close, so it focused again on the pile of gold.
Energy conversion starts!
Convert [heat energy] into [kinetic energy]!
Δ2K = Δ2 m/s
[Unnamed]'s new speed: 2 meters/second
Storage temperature: 20k
It is rolled around on the pile of coins, ensuring that the surface the stone hits is properly heated. It optimizes the process. By now, its Qi is an expert at collecting all the gold embedded within, and then harvesting it to the center, to the core of growth.
Just like a hero finally discovers the inn at the foot of the mountain, it runs forward, pursuing that perfection.
Gold:100%
And so it was done. The stone rumbled. What happens now? One hundred percent gold…
(core)
Level!
Bottleneck!
100 / 100 Gold
You have reached the fourth level of cultivation!
You are now in the [Golden Core] realm.
Statistical data!
Energy level (E) = 10000w
New attributes unlocked!
Core Heat: 400k
Proceed to next realm = 0/100
A core of tumbling golden energy formed in the center of the stone, the reward for constant patience, and naturally, patience paid off. Because the stone uses a non-standard technique, one that's quite...demonic.
Get new skills!
stolen cultivation
Grow further by absorbing the energy of magical treasures.
But as the invisible hand descended upon the rock, granting new abilities to completed feats and gained experience, it noticed something. Something... isn't right.
The rock has grown in size. Although this shouldn't be the case. Its essence is tied to , in a formula that cannot be broken. It should depend directly on its level. But it was not razed to the ground.
ERROR_LEVELING_FORMULA_BROKEN
Too much quality
Looking for a solution, please wait...
This invisible hand noticed the mark of many previous patches, all done in desperation to fix an initial mistake that could no longer be corrected. It's too late to convert the value into a value. Processing steps
So it gave up and threw out the fastest solution. Just... push the numbers forward a little and things get better.
Solution found!
Apply the patch…
Solving numbers…
Level!
ADMIN_PASSWORD/500xp
You have reached level 8!
Statistical data!
Mass (m): 1466.7 kg -> 4950.1kg
Diameter (d): 1.03 meters-> 1.54 meters
HP: 21 -> 34
warn!
Obtain failure from absorption.
Please show up.
Rock watched it all calmly, a little disappointed with the last addition. Upgrading could have been much simpler...
But just as it was getting ready to regain its capabilities and test its new "golden core," something else happened. The energy churning through the room was finally noticed. and…
The dragon woke up.
Even it couldn't sleep because the breakthrough in cultivation happened right on its head.
But as it staggered to its feet, it looked around the room and saw an ordinary stone. There is no farming there.
There was no gold in the cave either.
Its nostrils opened, flames spurted out from the nostrils, and the dragon roared wildly at the sky.
"Thief!"
Like a poisonous snake, it stretches out its tail and grabs the stone. Because it needs a weapon, and it's been years since it threw stones at those pesky adventurers who've sneaked into its lair in pursuit of its golden treasure.
The dragon boiled with anger, spread out its huge wings, lumbered out of the cave, climbed up the long pit, and then flew up.
up
As the dragon flew higher and higher in the clouds, the stone tightly grasped by the dragon's tail noticed a very terrifying detail.
Its mission count is rising.
