Arcane Lord

Under Sha Duo's active guidance and practical information output, Lord Leisen and Stern gradually entered a state of open communication.

It was not until near noon that a waiter came to report the list of meals and drinks for the noon banquet, and the exchange between the three of them came to an end.

"Lord Chateau, let's go have a meal first, and let Stern take you to the mithril mine in the afternoon."

"good."

Shado also took the initiative to mention the mithril mine. The reason was that the Sevington Council had just announced the mithril refining technology, and he was planning to purchase a batch of mithril ore to go back and try to refine it.

In addition, he also said that he wanted to visit the mithril mine, just to try to find the mithril mine on his own after returning to the territory.

Of these two reasons, the former is very reasonable in the eyes of ordinary people, and is also in line with the normal behavior of a Nese lord.

But the latter is a bit ridiculous. How can the prospecting experience of Mithril Mine be learned in just a few visits?

But Xia Duo's real purpose is the latter. He has special skills in prospecting!

Lord Leisen did not refuse Shado to visit the mithril mine in his territory, but only asked Stern to accompany him there to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Sha Duo readily accepted this.

…

After lunch.

Shado, led by Stern, the son of Lord Leisen, and a mine manager named "Pete", passed through the teleportation circle of the mage tower and came to the mithril mine located in the northwest of Leisen Territory.

There are three mage towers in Leisen Territory, one of which is located here.

When Sha Duo walked out of the mine mage tower, he was shocked by the scene in front of him. This was a huge open-pit mine, with a diameter of hundreds of meters based on the circular area currently being mined.

As for depth, the circular mining area goes deeper from the outside to the center, resembling a wide funnel that spirals downward.

At the deepest point, if you throw in the mine mage tower behind Xia Duo, you won't see a single sharp point on the surface!

In this mine, thousands of countless dwarf slaves are working diligently under the supervision of human overseers.

There are those who dig ore bodies, those who sort ore, those who refine and crush them, and those who collect and transport them, to name a few. All processes are carried out in an orderly manner.

Xia Duo had never seen how a real mine operated on Earth, and he didn't even know about an ancient mine that was purely manual. The scene before him really opened his eyes.

Not far from the periphery of the mine, there were more than twenty gray-black smoke pillars that shot straight into the sky. Seeing Xia Duo's eyes turning to that direction, the mine manager Pete introduced him in time:

"Lord Shada, over there is the rough smelting workshop for silver ore and copper ore!"

According to Pete's introduction, this huge open-pit mine, although it is called a mithril mine, does not only produce mithril ore, but even a small number of mithril ores!

Most of them are silver ore and copper ore. Of course, there are also a few rough gemstones produced.

But in the past, mithril ores and rough gemstones would all be packaged and shipped to Askel for distribution by Erlan and Danzo after several rounds of rough selection.

Now, Leisenling has stopped the external sale of mithril ore. As for the future, it will depend on the development of the specific situation.

…

Under the leadership of Peter, Chateau and Stern gradually moved downward along the winding mine tunnels at the edge of the mine.

When we go down to about forty or fifty meters, perhaps because the rich ore is limited, or perhaps because the difficulty of mining has increased, when we get here, all the ores are no longer mined like above.

Instead, a series of real "mine tunnels" appeared. According to the direction of the veins, they penetrated deep into the rock mass, with seven or eight turns, which were very complicated.

Without the leadership of Peter, the "veteran driver" of the mine, even a senior arcanist like Sha Duo would easily get lost in it.

It's just that if the caster gets lost, he can take the initiative to teleport out, instead of passively waiting to die like ordinary people.

"Lord Xia Da, Mine No. 16 currently produces the highest proportion of mithril ore, and the proportion of coarse ore accounts for about 30 to 40% of the total ore."

"so tall?!"

Xia Duolai also did some research before coming. Generally speaking, most mithril mines are symbiotic with silver and copper mines. Pure mithril mines probably only exist in legends.

In the No. 16 mine introduced by Pete, the proportion of coarse mithril ore can reach 30 to 40%, which is undoubtedly a rich mithril mine.

It is not an exaggeration to even say that it is pure mithril ore.

Under normal circumstances, the crude mithril ore can only account for about two thousandths of the total amount, which is two thousandths of the total useful ore after rough selection.

Rather than two thousandths of the total mining project!

If you count the total amount of mining projects, it is even lower!

…

Shado must record the rich mithril mines like Mine No. 16. After greeting Stern, he began to cast spells to detect the characteristics of the veins.

The spell that Sha Duo is currently using is called [Infrasound Detection]. The prototype of this spell is [Leyline Detector] from Drow, and he also learned the official mage version in [Projection Plane·Dark Area].

But Xia Duo had created a similar spell called [Imaging] when he was an apprentice, but he did not use low-frequency infrasound waves, but ordinary sound waves that can be heard by ordinary human ears.

The penetrating power, especially in rock formations, earth and rocks, is far inferior to Zhuoer's [Infrasound Detection], but Xia Duo's [Imaging Technique] is also unique in its processing of echo feedback.

The combination of the two is the improved version of [Infrasound Detection] he is using now.

Soon, Shado received feedback on the spell, but in front of Stern, he did not take out a piece of paper and write it down, but planned to retrace his memory after he returned.

…

Then, Xia Duo conducted infrasound detection from multiple angles based on the direction of the vein, and collected echo feedback. This was considered a relatively complete characteristic data of the vein.

After Mine No. 16, under the leadership of Peter, he went to Mines No. 19, No. 28, No. 4, No. 25 and other mines with a higher proportion of crude mithril ore.

As for the other mines, Xia Duo did not detect them one by one. On the one hand, there were too many mines, and even if you walked for a day, you might not be able to detect them, and you also have to take into account the casting status.

He can't devote all his energy here.

On the other hand, the data he has collected now is almost enough.

Nowadays, the population of Savile Territory and Daxia Territory is limited, and mithril mines below a certain limit are not worth mining at all. Even if the population increases in the future, it is impossible to mine as many mines as there are.

After all, there is no free dwarf labor anymore. Unless more efficient mining equipment appears in the future, and resources are relatively scarce, it will be necessary to continue mining those poor ores.

Now, just mine the rich ore.

He has almost collected the echo feedback data of the mithril rich mines in Leisenling Mine. If he wants more, he can only go to other mines.

As for the poor ore data, it may be useful in establishing a complete mithril vein echo feedback model in the future, but it is not that useful.

After weighing the matter, Xia Duo only collected a few symbolically and then gave up.