This chapter is "Ascending the Azure Court."
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Emily was still cutting down trees. Liszt walked around the pit and didn't find the light of Mana Retroaction. He didn't know how well the man-eating tree dragon spirit could hide.
They had been playing hide-and-seek for more than a month and hadn't shown up once.
While cutting down trees.
He let a group of serfs move to another pit, and then chose the central position to start digging. He felt that these pits were the Dragon Pit Giant Ore rewarded by the smoke mission.
The serfs dug hard, but they only dug two meters deep before they reached the rock layer. The stone was broken and sent to Liszt.
The stone was heavy and dark red in color.
"What kind of stone is this? Do any of you know it?" Liszt shook it and felt that the stone was some kind of ore. Especially with the smoke mission's prompt, he felt that the stone in his hand was more like an ore.
Vernal Ink, who was next to Liszt, replied, "Your Royal Highness, if I'm not mistaken, this is iron ore."
"Iron ore?" Liszt took a closer look. It was a little different from the iron ore he had looted from the Dragon Mountain iron mine. The main difference was the color. "What kind of iron ore is this? Why is it different from the iron ore I have seen? I remember that the iron ore of Dragon Mountain is very black."
"It may be a poor mine. Iron ore with low iron content generally appears in the upper position of the ore bed." Vernal sounded excited. "Your Royal Highness, there may be iron ore under this pit!"
If this was really iron ore.
Then there was no doubt that this was the Dragon Pit Giant Ore, a super huge iron ore mine. Looking at the densely packed pits throughout the valley, Liszt's eyes turned red. "Hurry up and send people to dig every pit. Dig three feet into the ground to find the ore underneath. I want to know how big this iron mine is!"
"Yes, Your Royal Highness!"
Vernal was full of action. Iron ore was too important to the country. The Knight's equipment and daily utensils were inseparable from iron ore.
Not only did the serfs dig hard, but many Knight also dug hard with shovels, hoes, and pickaxes.
There were a few other pits around the one with iron ores. Very quickly, iron ores of different colors and qualities were dug out. There was a large pit that only dug half a meter deep and dug out a pitch-black iron ore. This was a high-quality iron ore with an iron content of 90%. It could be directly cast into utensils with a few strikes.
"It seems to be a really large iron mine. Not bad." Liszt was in a good mood. With such an iron mine and the Gray Iron Dragon, the Fire Kingdom would no longer be short of iron.
However, as the pit was dug further.
Soon, different ores were sent over.
"Your Highness, these ores don't look like iron ore, but more like copper ore." An old knight like him was involved in the daily affairs of the territory all year round. He was involved in ore refining, so he knew many kinds of ores. "It's probably bronze ore. Those iron ores before are probably blackheart iron ores."
He then made a guess, "It's very likely that a long time ago, a black-hearted iron dragon fought with a bronze dragon here, forming this huge mine."
His guess was very logical.
However, soon, a Knight brought a new stone. This was a stone that looked like a combination of many square stones. After seeing the stone, Vernal exclaimed, "This is galena!"
"Galena?"
"The ore produced by the lead dragon. There is a lead dragon in the Eagle Kingdom. I once bought a batch of galena ore to refine lead metal!"
Soon after, a few more pits sent over galena. In other words, in this valley, there were not only black iron ores, bronze ores, but also galena ores. According to Vernal's logic, the ancient times might have been a triangular battle between the bronze dragons, the black-hearted iron dragons, and the lead dragons.
However, the excited Liszt and the others still underestimated the richness of the Dragon Pit.
When night fell, another Knight delivered a new ore. It was a scarlet red ore that was easily crushed into a sand-like shape. Vernal did not recognize it, nor did Liszt, but it was certain that it should be a new kind of metal ore. The Guild of Magic had been informed to send mages who had studied metal ores, so they would know what kind of metal ore it was.
"Your Highness, it's incredible. There are actually four kinds of metal ores buried in this valley!" Vernal could not suppress his excitement.
Under the light of the bonfire, his face was red as if he had been hit in the head by a gold ingot.
Liszt, on the other hand, was much calmer. He had long known of the existence of the Dragon Pit, but the number of types was a little unexpected. "Don't be impatient, Vernal. We have already explored the distribution of the large pits in the valley, and there is a large pit on the periphery of the valley that has not yet been excavated. There may be new ores there."
"There are new ores? Doesn't that mean there are five kinds of ores?" Vernal was even more excited.
It was different from Vernal's excitement for the ores themselves.
Liszt, on the other hand, was thinking about another question. "Assuming that the five dragons fought here, could some of them have died here and then been buried deep underground? The reward of the new smoke mission is the Menace of the Dragon in the Skeleton. Does this mean that there is a dragon underground waiting to be reborn?
Just like Leo, a dragon would give birth to a fire seed after its death, waiting for the opportunity to be reborn again.
It was unlikely for the metal dragons and gem dragons. They did not have the possibility of elementalization, and the dragon's supreme magic could not exist for a long time. Only the elemental dragon's supreme magic could exist forever.
He did not mention it to Vernal.
He was just guessing, "Perhaps, there are more than four or five metal dragons fighting here. There are also elemental dragons involved … I just don't know if there are gem dragons involved."
The Dragon Pit Mine would be developed sooner or later, and he would soon know whether there were elemental dragons sleeping here.
And tonight, he still had work to do.
As the serfs continued to cut down trees, all the trees in the big pit above the Blackheart Iron Mine were cut down within a day and night, leaving only a few hundred cannibal trees scattered in the northwest corner of the big pit.
"Your Highness, can we start digging now?" Emily asked.
"Then let's start."
The serfs who had changed shifts and rested began to dig along the open space between the cannibal trees. According to the distribution of the Blackheart Iron Mine, the soil layer was less than two meters deep. As long as the soil here was turned over and the cannibal trees were transplanted to other places one by one, he did not believe that he could not find the cannibal tree dragon elves.
Soon.
The moon set and the sun rose.
The darkness before dawn was pierced by the sun, and the cannibal trees were dug away one by one. When the last few dozen trees were about to be finished, the cannibal trees suddenly began to tremble. Then, the branches became soft, and the whole tree bent to the ground, ready to escape.
Emily, who had not slept all night, saw this and shouted to the Knight behind her, "Wake up His Highness!" She then rushed to the last few dozen cannibal trees.
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