Suhlen and Chris left the Northwind Tower and arrived at the underground world through the teleportation portal.
They felt a slight dizziness, and the light dimmed. The two appeared at the teleportation portal in Crete.
After a few months of development, the appearance of Crete had changed greatly. Thousands of kobold slaves, grey dwarves, and taurens were all busy. In order to obtain labor, Crazy had captured all the kobold tribes nearby. Now, the underground world had a huge mining team of twenty to thirty thousand people.
Although the kobolds were not as efficient as the grey dwarves, their numbers could easily make up for it.
"Where is the grey dwarf who found the gold mine?" Suhlen asked as he sat in the hall.
"Please wait a moment, master. I've already sent someone to inform him!" a grey dwarf said respectfully.
Soon, Suhlen saw a muscular grey dwarf about 1.4 meters tall enter the hall. The grey dwarf was wearing old leather armor. His palms were thick with calluses, and he had a thick beard.
"Were you the one who found the gold mine and the fine gold mine?" Suhlen asked directly.
"My lord, I was the one who found the gold mine and the fine gold mine," the grey dwarf said respectfully. At the same time, he took out a piece of ore that reflected a metallic luster from his pouch.
"These are some samples of the ore I found in the vein!"
The grey dwarf held up the ore with both hands. Chris walked over and took it, then handed it to Suhlen. Suhlen weighed it lightly. It was heavy in his hand. There was a golden metal in the rock. It was gold. Beside the gold, there was another piece of metal that shone brighter.
Suhlen snapped his fingers, and a spiritual light rose from his body. It instantly merged with the ore in his hand. After a while, his eyes flashed with joy.
"It really is fine gold!"
"Very good! You will be rewarded handsomely! "
With that, Suhlen snapped his fingers, and with a flash of light, a wine barrel that was 1.2 meters tall appeared on the ground. It was filled with vodka, a specialty of Northern Town City.
"This is only a small part of the reward for you. Next, take us to see the gold mine. If everything is true, the reward will be given immediately," Suhlen said with a smile, "As long as you make a contribution, I will not be stingy with the reward!"
"Thank you, my Lord! Thank you, my Lord!" As soon as the barrel appeared, the grey dwarf's eyes were instantly attracted to it. He sniffed with his red nose, as if he was going to pounce on it in the next second.
"It's yours!" Suhlen snickered and snapped his fingers. With a flash of light, the lid of the wine barrel was opened. The rich aroma of wine spread out and the fragrant wine slowly flowed out. At the same time, a glass cup happened to catch the wine.
Soon, a glass of vodka was filled. Su Lun handed the glass to the gray dwarf who had been scratching his head for a long time. The gray dwarf took the glass and took a big gulp.
"Gulp, gulp, gulp!"
He drank half of the large glass in one go. Suhlen smiled. He did not overly oppress these duergar. Instead, he used good wine and food to entice them, and then supplemented it with force. As for the duergar's upper class, he had Chris directly control them, and they were easily under his control.
After drinking vodka, the duergar's original wine became tasteless. If they wanted to drink vodka, they could only work hard and use their points or money to buy it. This method was much better than the previous oppressive slavery, and the duergar did not betray or riot.
"Burp!" The duergar burped in satisfaction, and his face became flushed. "My Lord, the gold mine is very wide. I can guarantee that there is a gold mine hidden in it!"
The duergar raised his voice and said exaggeratedly, "There is a lot of adamantine in it. Its value is immeasurable!"
Suhlen nodded slightly. He did not completely believe the duergar's words. Duergars, like their cousins on the surface, liked to boast. Speaking of which, it seemed that all the small people in this world had this hobby. Halflings, dwarves, gnomes, these people all had a habit of boasting.
It was better to just take their words at face value. The truth should be at least half of what they said.
"Get ready. We will set off tomorrow for the newly discovered gold mine." Suhlen ordered, "Oh, and don't let him drink too much today. Otherwise, he will be drunk tomorrow."
"Yes, master. I will arrange it right away!" Chris nodded and said.
It was already late, and all kinds of preparations had not been made, so they could only wait until tomorrow to set off. The gold mine would not run away, so there was no need to be too anxious. There were many monsters in the underground world. Suhlen and the others had to bring enough people to deal with them when they set off tomorrow.
The little succubus was very capable. After Suhlen gave the order, she immediately arranged everything properly.
Night fell. Suhlen stood on the balcony of the Northwind Tower and looked down at the city below him. The construction of Northtown was still going on. The people who had migrated from all over the world were working hard with hope for a better life.
The requirements of ordinary people were very simple. They only wanted a stable environment, a warm home, and a relatively wealthy life through their own efforts.
The taverns and night markets in the city were brightly lit. The bustling noises were blown away by the night wind and finally dissipated in the darkness. Although it had only been established for less than three years, the development of Northern Town City was very fast. Now, there was even a night market here. However, the night market wasn't open all night. It would close around 11 pm. However, the appearance of the night market also showed the prosperity of Northtown.
In Suhlen's design, the city below him was actually a part of the floating city. The various wonders in the city would also be covered by the floating city.
There were too many problems to consider in the construction of the floating city. Suhlen wanted to build a floating city that could not only wander in the Prime Material Plane, but also had to build a floating city with the ability to travel in the Astral Plane. Such a floating city could be completely self-sufficient even in the Astral Plane. It could float in the Astral Plane for hundreds or even thousands of years without having to worry about logistics.
The floating city's population was about fifty thousand. At the same time, it also needed to control the population growth. The construction of houses also needed to save as much land as possible. Suhlen planned to build the residential area according to the residential areas in his previous life. It did not need to be too tall. A building with six floors would be enough.
There were also commercial areas, workshops, production areas, hospitals, city halls, plantations, ecological parks, simulation systems, wizard academies, golem workshops, entertainment areas, and so on.
According to the drawings designed by Suhlen, such a floating city could live up to seventy to one hundred thousand people. Fifty thousand people could live there even after reproduction. He did not want to have a population expansion problem in a short period of time.
A floating city of this level was already very large. In the era of the Arcane Empire, the energy core of such a floating city was the Mise energy core. Elemental fission could only support a floating city of ten thousand people. Only elemental fusion and the Mise energy core could support a floating city of one hundred thousand people.
Every time the floating city expanded a little, the energy consumed would increase by a lot. Just like a city of ten thousand people and one hundred thousand people, although the area only increased by a few times, the energy consumed increased by hundreds or thousands of times.
In the Arcane Empire, there were super floating cities that could accommodate more than three hundred thousand people. The energy core in them was more than one Mise energy core. Floating cities of that level were frighteningly powerful.
But these were things for the future. The Tower of the North Wind was not even a floating tower, and it was even further away from a floating city. Now, they could only seize the time to climb the technology tree and cultivate talents. In a floating city, at least a few legendary wizards and high-ranking legendaries were needed.
Suhlen stood quietly on the balcony and watched everything. After a while, he turned around and returned to his room.
Nothing happened that night. Early the next morning, Suhlen got up from the slender arms and legs of Chrissy and his two personal maids. He washed up briefly, woke Chrissy up, and went to the underground world.
When they arrived in Crete again, the exploration team was already ready. In addition to Suhlen and Chrissy, the exploration team also had a team of grey dwarf warriors and a team of drows. There were a total of twenty-four people in the team. When everyone was there, Suhlen asked the miner who found the gold mine to lead the way.
The underground world was rich in minerals. Minerals such as gold and adamantine were basically in the depths of the earth. After all, they were originally heavy, and it was difficult to mine adamantine in the surface world.
After a period of development, the roads around Crete had been repaired. Although they were not as flat and wide as North City, they were not bad. All of them had darkvision and were completely unaffected in such an environment.
The group kept moving along the road. After about an hour, the road began to become rugged, and some underground creatures appeared around them. After discovering the group, they all hid.
There were rugged rocks around the road, and there were many broken stones piled up in many places, which should have been caused by the last earthquake. The roads in the underground world were winding and rugged, and it was easy for people who were not familiar with them to get lost. Fortunately, both the grey dwarf and the drows were very familiar with the underground world.
Suhlen also recorded the route on his strategic map. Under the lead of the grey dwarf, the group soon came near a broken rock wall. There was a three-meter-wide crack in the rock wall. It was dark inside the crack, which looked like a ferocious monster's mouth.
After coming here, the grey dwarf became a little cautious. "Lord, this is the passage. After passing through this passage, you will reach the cave where the gold mine is."
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