Red Stone With Black Veins の小説・ストーリー

Lyra replied with a faint smile, “You can rest assured, Alpha Raven. We witches are the most skilled at matters like this.” Once Raven’s group had left, Lyra returned to her private room. It had been temporarily converted by her people into a makeshift laboratory. On the table were several dark purple-black stones, samples she had collected near the Vinterfall spring. Under the lamplight, their surfaces shimmered with a mysterious violet hue, emanating an ominous aura. Lyra donned gloves and carefully split one of the stones with a hammer. Inside, its core revealed spiral-like veins that seemed to emit a dim, sinister glow.

"Getting in was the hard part. The Falls, the blood seal, the Golem. The Vault assumes that anyone who makes it this far is worthy." I placed my hands on the box. It was warm to the touch. I lifted the lid. Inside, resting on black velvet, was a gemstone the size of a fist. It was ruby red, faceted perfectly. But inside the stone, something seemed to move. A liquid, swirling darkness. It pulsed like a living organ. The Crimson Heart. The legendary amplifier stone capable of enslaving a continent. "We have it," I said, closing the lid and latching it. "Ashren, carry it. Do not touch the stone directly. It feeds on skin contact."

I scan my area the moment my eyes adjust to the light and suddenly realize I'm doomed. There's a black wooden chair sitting in the middle of this somewhat smaller room compared to the others, dried splatters of blood decorate the walls, no form of window or ventilation and there are strange looking stones scattered across the ground. With shaky legs, I bend down and pick one of them, assessing it closely. It's hard and smooth, tiny and somewhat brown. It has a sharp edge, and the bottom is a bit rough, not as smooth as the other part of it. What kind of stone is this and what does it mean?

It is not noticeable from a distance, maybe because of the higher flowers and it is covered from sight because it is too far from where we were standing earlier. I approached the stone hedge and walked toward the middle of it. They are surrounded as if forming a gazebo. The floor was made of an obsidian stone, it was black and shiny but it had many cracks from age. There are still purple flowers there. In the middle, there is what appears to be a shallow basin also made of stone. Its flesh is like rainbow-like mercury. Which reflects whatever hits it but it moves because of the wind.

I’m looking at the microscopic imperfections. Deep within the third emerald the largest, most brilliant stone there isn't a standard inclusion. There is a fracture line that looks completely wrong for an eastern European mine. It has a specific, cloudy iron-silicate signature. I’ve read about this layout in old textbooks. It only comes from one place on earth: a highly contested, illegal deep-crust vein in a region that has been under an international mining embargo for decades. It’s a blood stone. Evander didn't buy a legal legacy collection. He’s laundering illicit conflict gems through my Caged Heart line, using my clean reputation as the perfect camouflage.

Bedros put it down and looked at the boy. "Bring them," "Give each of them a master, for you to use this hard stone" while giving 5 hard stones. The stones had never been seen by Bedros in his wandering life and were not found on the black market. The stones are clear, however, inside there is colored smoke that surrounds and moves as if alive with black, blue, white silver, orange and yellow gold. Bedros still couldn't believe what he had just seen and heard from such a small child.

"I don't want a temporary arrangement." He reached into his other pocket. He pulled out a small box. It wasn't velvet. It was made of polished obsidian. He opened it. Vespera gasped. It wasn't a white diamond. It wasn't the Thorne sapphire. It was a Red Diamond. One of the rarest stones on earth. It glowed with a fierce, internal fire, the color of passion, the color of blood, the color of the dress she had worn to destroy her enemies.

The only thing that gave him peace nowadays is the girl sitting on his bed and wondering why he gave her a pendant as a gift. It's a black opal stone that is found only near the surrounding areas of hellfire. The fire burns the metals constantly and if they escape the fire, the combined metals cool down and become black. When light falls on the stone the essence of the different metals can be seen in the form of different colors, dancing inside the stone The stone is rare, just like the girl wearing it. She made a place for herself in my heart. She is charming without even trying. Her Innocent doe eyes call for me like a siren.

"Good, your scales protected you. These stones are sharp and if they enter your bloodstream, they are potentially lethal. Especially if you are not raised around them. "What am I looking at, exactly," I ask as I try not to focus on the fact that my newest ally also had me jump foot first into a large pit of sharp, dangerous stone. On the ground all around us are small bits of glowing blue rock. "This crystal, Skystone, naturally grows in Elfholm and is usually found underneath great stores of starflower jasmine. You see, the two work together. The blue stone provides almost unlimited power, but a great cost, and the starflower jasmine counters its ill effects."

The air smelled of disinfectant and steel. Panic waited for me the moment I opened my eyes. I tried to move. Pain tore through my arms and chest like electricity. A glowing brown stone, bigger than my fist, sat on a pedestal beside me, humming with power. Benchedstone. The bane of every elemental. It wasn’t just draining me. It was hurting me. My veins felt like they were filled with acid. I grit my teeth and forced my head up. On the other side of the glass wall stood Drazhan.