In her Dragon Titan form, Muria held a pulsating crimson crystal heart, freshly extracted from this Fire Elemental Lord.
She carefully examined the heart. It wasn't large, fitting perfectly in the palm of her hand. Despite its size, Muria could clearly feel the vast and pure fire elemental energy it contained.
As a treasure supporting the conduit to the fire elemental realm, this elemental heart not only retained its energy over ten thousand years but had also absorbed the surplus elemental energy in the vicinity, becoming even more powerful.
If this elemental heart was taken from a legendary third-tier Elemental Lord, the newly gestated Elemental Lord, centered around this heart, would undoubtedly possess strength surpassing the seventh legendary tier.
Time is the most merciless yet the greatest force. Even an ant, if it lived for ten thousand years, might achieve legendary status or even ascend to divinity.
"Now is not the time to consume it." Muria took a deep breath to calm her emotions as she looked at the mysterious patterns on the heart, "It needs to be properly handled."
Saying this, Muria stored the elemental heart away under the envious gaze of Yndira. She then turned her attention to the Fire Elemental Lord, whose body was gradually disintegrating after having its heart removed.
Below it was a burning lake, filled to the brim with fire elements, the fire elemental pool connecting to the Elemental Plane.
After inspecting the elemental pool, Muria found that the "fishing net" array within it hadn't failed. It was still operational, blocking life forms from the Elemental Plane from entering this demi-plane.
"I thought there was a problem with this array." Discovering the array intact brought a smile to Muria's face, "This makes my job easier."
Just as Muria was about to destroy the array and close the conduit to the Elemental Plane, the lake itself began to ripple. Without the support of the elemental heart, the conduit was collapsing.
Rich fire elements spilled from the elemental pool, forming scorching torrents. Muria, amidst them, felt as if basking in a spring breeze, even opening her mouth to swallow several streams of fire elements.
"Not bad." Muria smacked her lips after ingesting a bellyful of pure fire elements, somewhat speechlessly watching the elemental pool shrink but not collapse.
"It has shrunk to a suitable size." Observing the elemental pool, now only large enough for her to lie down in, Muria looked around. The miniature fire elemental realm formed from the accumulation of surplus elements was collapsing, with flames everywhere gradually diminishing and dissipating.
The ground, formed from fire elemental crystals, was crumbling away, broadening Muria's view and finally allowing her to see the core of this legendary mage tower.
It was a vast space, created by the legendary mage Hainar for placing the elemental pools.
This place was in a state of weightlessness, a void. Only those miniature elemental realms, centered around the elemental pools, floated in this space.
"So many delicacies." Yndira, holding Muria's hand, looked around with shining eyes.
Not far away, a giant water orb floated. In its center, Muria saw a quietly sleeping female giant of water blue color, radiating an aura indicative of an Elemental Lord in the gestation stage.
Around her were many water elemental lives of various sizes, surrounded by six wise water elemental elders.
The guardian forces around this water Elemental Lord in gestation were no less formidable than those around the Fire Elemental Lord.
Opposite this miniature water elemental realm was the earth elemental realm, a small floating land formed from earth elements. At its center lay a rock giant over sixty meters tall, surrounded by regularly distributed dense hills.
The closer the hills were to this Earth Elemental Lord, the larger they were. Clearly, these were elemental lives guarding it, but due to their elemental nature, they were all in a state of slumber.
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"This Mage Hainar really was wealthy." Observing the miniature elemental realms evolved from the elemental pools, Muria sighed slightly, "If he were still alive, I would definitely want to be his friend."
In Muria's sight, she saw six miniature elemental realms, each with an Elemental Lord at its center, either gestating or healing.
Yes, healing. Among these elemental realms, Muria also saw three damaged metal golems, forged with legendary metals, the highest tier golems controlled by the tower spirit, with legendary-level defenses.
"I am truly lucky." Seeing those golems, missing limbs and distorted, Muria's mouth twitched. Clearly, Elemental Lords had already begun to form earlier but were suppressed by the three legendary golems and forced back into slumber.
However, if another Elemental Lord awakens, these three golems might not be able to suppress it any longer, as they were on the verge of breaking down. Muria doubted these golems could still move.
"Yndira, it seems there are more food options than I estimated." Muria's eyes were fixed on the elemental lords in the two miniature elemental realms, or more precisely, their hearts.
"I'll take these two. You can choose any of the rest," Muria said to Yndira, pointing to a super hurricane and a thunderstorm ball dense with lightning.
"I choose this one." Yndira stretched out her slightly chubby hand towards the earth elemental floating land filled with hills.
"Then let's get started." Muria picked up Yndira and threw her towards the miniature elemental realm, "Go eat everything!"
With a "boom," Yndira, launched by Muria like a cannonball, directly smashed into the largest hill, the massive shockwave awakening all the sleeping earth elements...
Watching Yndira clash with the earth elements, Muria donned her Sacred Glorious Royal Abyss armor, wielding the Prison Warden's Halberd, and dashed into the giant hurricane.
Like a hot knife through butter! Wind elements were much more active than earth elements. As soon as Muria entered this miniature wind elemental realm, countless wind elements came to block her.
For these elemental lives, lacking even complete consciousness, Muria breezed through, heading straight for the wind Elemental Lord, unsure if it was in a state of sleep or gestation.
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