A white claw patted Gris on the shoulder as Jonavili turned around, suppressing her laughter to begin sorting through the spatial rings.
"Big Sister, since you praised my handsomeness, do you need any help?"
Jonavili waved her claw dismissively.
"Go, go play somewhere else. Just leave this kind of dirty and exhausting work to me."
Hearing Jonavili's words, Gris felt a bit touched.
"Big Sister..."
Jonavili turned her head, wondering what kind of nonsense this idiot was about to pull now.
"What?"
"You're so kind~"
Gris flashed a smile, and with that "eyepatch" outfit, Jonavili felt her spirit take another critical hit.
"Get lost, that's disgusting. Go on, shoo."
A white dragon tail swept across, covering the black dragon head and pushing away Gris's encroaching face.
Gris giggled as he was pushed aside. Looking at this silly dragon, Jonavili momentarily couldn't tell which of them was the white dragon.
"Fine, I'll give you some."
Saying this, Jonavili handed Gris a merchant's spatial item and gave him all the spatial items from the hundred-plus mercenaries and adventurers as well.
Gris extended his perception, and after seeing the silver coins, copper coins, and a small amount of gold coins inside, he jumped three meters into the air.
He immediately pulled Jonavili into a hug.
"Big Sister, you're truly too good to me. From now on, whatever you say goes."
"Get lost, get lost, get lost."
After driving Gris away, Jonavili felt the world finally grow quiet and began to seriously sort through the spatial items.
Time slowly passed until evening, and Jonavili had finished distributing all the spatial items.
She handed the spatial items from the mercenaries and adventurers to Fanni, letting her arrange their uses reasonably.
Afterward, she flew back to the dragon nest carrying the still-unconscious Elias and the remaining six hundred-plus merchant spatial items.
She took ten merchant spatial rings and placed them where Furiel usually slept.
"Is ten too many? It's a double-digit number."
As she spoke, Jonavili took one back.
"Sigh, I took them anyway."
Then she took another one back.
"Too many, too many..."
In the end, only three spatial rings lay quietly in the spot where Furiel slept.
Jonavili looked at those three rings with heartache, instinctively wanting to reach out a dragon claw.
These were gold coins; they were all filled with those shiny little beauties, and she was just giving them to Furiel like that.
But after undergoing one hibernation, Jonavili found that her desire for gold coins was nowhere near as intense as it had been during her wyrmling stage; at least she could restrain herself a little now.
Forcing herself to look away, Jonavili walked over to Elias and extended a dragon finger, piercing it into his arm to force him awake.
"Aaaahhh!!!"
Elias woke up with a start, and Jonavili's dragon lips curled up slightly.
Seeing Jonavili's appearance, Elias showed deep terror.
"Relax a little, don't be so nervous. I don't eat people."
'Oh right, right, you don't eat people, but you kill them.'
Elias's heart leapt into his throat, and deep fear flowed from his eyes.
"You... what exactly do you want?"
"Did you manufacture those alchemy golems?"
Elias keenly sensed a chance for survival. Although he didn't know why this giant dragon would be interested in alchemical creations, still...
"Yes, wh-what about it?"
Jonavili's gaze turned cold. A dragon's intuition was extremely sharp, and she had clearly seen a flash of craftiness in Elias's eyes just now.
Moreover, her intuition told her...
"Liar!"
Jonavili crushed Elias's legs with one palm, the massive force grinding them directly into mincemeat.
"Aaaahhh!!! Ahahaha, aaaahhh!!"
Elias let out a howl of agony.
"I will give you one last chance. If you dare to deceive me, I will kill you."
"Yes..."
Elias gritted his teeth, but deep fear rose in his heart. Enduring the pain, he answered truthfully.
"They were purchased from a friend of my teacher... the legendary alchemist, Lord Reynolds."
Jonavili continued to ask.
"Who is your teacher?"
"Teacher Elman, the legendary astrologer from the Colin Magic Academy of the Ghibli Empire."
"The Ghibli Empire?"
Elias nodded vigorously, cold sweat flying off his face as he did.
"Yes, I am a student of the Colin Magic Academy. If you let me go, I can..."
Before he could finish, a white dragon claw expanded rapidly before Elias's face.
Looking at the guy she had slapped into a pile of meat, Jonavili curled her lip.
"Always yapping about something."
Jonavili took the spatial ring from Elias's hand and probed it with her mental perception, but she was blocked by a magic array.
"Oh?"
Jonavili examined the light blue spatial ring and soon understood what was going on.
"A middle-grade spatial item that automatically identifies the mental power probing it?"
Her dragon lips parted slightly.
"A bit interesting."
Jonavili closed her eyes and sank her consciousness into the draconic inheritance.
A moment later, her crystal-blue dragon eyes slowly opened.
Jonavili probed her mental power into the spatial ring, using the method recorded in her inheritance memory to begin cracking the magic array.
In no time at all, she had breached this simple "firewall."
"Magic books, fire scrolls, water ball scrolls, little beauties, mana cores, mana crystals, a recording stone..."
Looking at the ring with its significantly larger space and the various items inside, Jonavili curiously took out the recording stone.
[Recording stone: Usually crystal-blue, blue-black, white, warm yellow, or purple-red. It can be activated by mana to record current images. Mental power can also be used to control it to delete images, stop recording, or view previous recordings.]
Jonavili examined the blue-black recording stone in front of her, trying to inject mana to activate it and start recording the current scene.
With a thought, she used her mental power to view the previous recordings.
"Ah~ Lord Elias~ more... more... force..."
Snap!
Jonavili's face darkened on the spot. She cut off the mana supply, the image came to an abrupt halt, and the recording stone dimmed.
Jonavili's dragon lips twitched as she looked at the guy she had crushed into a pool of blood, and she stomped on him again as if it wasn't enough to vent her anger.
"Damn it, what a moron. He blinded my dragon eyes. Doesn't he know watching this stuff gives you styes? And he just records it whenever he wants; what if a child saw it?"
"Truly deserves to die."
Jonavili put the recording stone back into the spatial ring with disgust, then took out the mana crystals.
She looked at the crystal ores emitting a faint purple glow.
"Slight mana fluctuations. They have a strange attraction to me."
Following her heart, Jonavili opened her dragon mouth and put them inside.
Crunch, crunch—
"Mmm~ The taste is actually quite good. And I can perceive that my mana capacity has increased by a tiny, tiny bit."
Feeling the benefit to herself, Jonavili took out all the mana crystals and devoured them all.
After she was finished, Jonavili took out a magic book.
"Let's see. This is the first time I've touched a physical book in this other world."
Jonavili transformed into her human form and sat on a rock inside the cave to start flipping through the magic book.
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