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At the chat's frantic shouting, everyone's attention snapped back to the Divine Domain: Forbidden Zone feed.
Adrian Vale and Raven Shaw were still heading toward the forest.
But now—
something enormous blocked their path.
A massive chunk of silvery-white metal jutted out of the earth like a broken bone. Only two or three meters of it was visible above the sand, but after what people had already witnessed with metal deposits…
no one believed this was the whole thing.
What they were seeing was just the tip.
The real vein had to run far deeper—quiet, greedy, and vast beneath the ground.
How big was it?
No one could say.
But the internet never lacked monsters in the comment section.
A few sharp-eyed viewers recognized it instantly.
"Are you serious?! They're just walking and they find a resource?!"
"Metal? Yeah… no thanks. Can't eat it."
"Don't underestimate it—do you even know what that metal is?"
"What metal? Looks like iron. I'm a humanities kid, I don't get it…"
"Holy—no way. I'm not seeing things, am I?"
"Stop being mysterious! What is it?!"
"That's Palladium!! Expensive as hell!"
"Never heard of it… is it more expensive than my Audi double-drill beyblade??"
"..."
Exactly how expensive Palladium was could be argued elsewhere.
The point was—this wasn't ordinary scrap.
Yet Adrian Vale and Raven Shaw didn't look particularly excited.
Raven Shaw had seen metals far rarer than this. To her, it barely registered.
And Adrian Vale… if he couldn't eat it, his interest naturally sank a few levels.
His hunger had rules.
Cold, simple rules.
But just because they didn't care didn't mean the rest of the world felt the same.
The moment word spread that Dragon Nation'scompetitors had stumbled onto a rare metal deposit, government offices across the globe lit up.
High-level officials from one country after another poured into Dragon Nation's stream, studying that silvery mass frame by frame—measuring the sheen, the edges, the way the light slid across it.
Before long, expert panels reached the same conclusion:
Not only was this metal extremely valuable—its purity looked frighteningly high.
Even without hands-on testing, seasoned specialists could tell from the surface alone:
This wasn't "a piece of rare metal."
This was a high-grade deposit.
And right then—right on cue—
the Will of Blue Star spoke.
[Congratulations! Dragon Nation'scompetitorsAdrian Vale and Raven Shaw have discovered a D-rank resource!]
"!!!"
"!!!"
The instant that announcement appeared, the foreign audience—already on edge—exploded.
"Oh my God!! Why do Dragon Nation'scompetitors just walk around and resources fall into their laps?!"
"This is unfair!! You already got an E-rank resource—now you're picking up a D-rank too?! Why?!"
"What kind of luck is this?! Has Fortune stopped blessing our Miracle Nation?!"
Strangely, those foreign comments appeared in flawless Dragon Nation script inside Dragon Nation's stream.
It wasn't that everyone suddenly learned a new language—
it was the Will of Blue Star's auto-translation.
In any country's livestream, whatever you typed would be converted into the local language.
Even more unsettling—
if competitors from different nations met inside the Divine Domain: Forbidden Zone, they could understand each other as well.
Another "feature" of the Will of Blue Star.
Back in I Watch the Divine Domain, the studio guests turned—almost in sync—to look at Derek Vaughn.
No one spoke.
They simply waited, like they were bracing for something inevitable.
Derek Vaughn felt the pressure and coughed awkwardly.
Then, as always, he forced confidence back into his face.
"What are you all looking at me for? So what if it's D-rank?"
"First of all, who knows whether this rare metal even matters to Dragon Nation right now?"
"And second—don't forget something crucial."
"They haven't taken the resource yet."
"Every resource is guarded by a matching Divine Domain creature. A D-rank resource?"
He gave a cold laugh.
"They might have the luck to see it… but not the life to claim it."
His tone was unbearable, but the logic wasn't entirely wrong.
A D-rank resource meant a D-rank guardian.
At minimum, it could also mean a swarm of C-rank creatures.
And with what Adrian Vale and Raven Shaw had shown so far…
could they handle that?
No one knew.
The chat—which had been celebrating a second ago—sobbed itself quiet. Warnings flooded in, urgent and panicked, begging them to leave before it was too late.
And then—
as if Derek Vaughn's words had called it into being—
a towering shadow silently surfaced behind Adrian Vale and Raven Shaw.
A huge black silhouette.
Closing in.
No sound.
No warning.
Only presence—heavy enough to make the air feel wrong.
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