Hearing Tiger say so seriously, Levi also sighed in his heart, and said in his heart that it was because he ate too much after falling asleep this time, which caused the mineral output to not keep up?

It turned out that Levi still overestimated his appetite.

As he grew older, his appetite did increase day by day, but with the rapid increase in the number of migrant workers in Zeelandia over the years, and the continuous improvement of steam mine mules by Iggy and others, the mineral production increased more than eightfold.

It's more than enough to raise him with a starving ghost.

The next moment, the old dwarf gave an answer that he had not expected and that made sense.

"It was the city-state of Mirabha who made a move. ”

"Miraba?Ore Council?" Levi was slightly stunned, in his opinion, even if there were surface forces intervening, it should be the Silver Moon Federation, which had a feud with Drow.

After all, it is impossible to hide the news of Sija's heavy damage from the Silver Moon Alliance, and while the drow of Gelthorn are leaderless, if the business competitor of the Silver Moon Alliance does not take the opportunity to do something, it will be too much of a corpse.

He remembered the elves and female dwarves he had encountered in the Nether magic ship, presumably the legends of the Silvermoon Alliance.

It's just that the result seems to be a little different from what he imagined.

I heard Tiger explain:

"Yes, before that, the ore market in the Northland had basically been monopolized by Miraba, Luskan and the Silver Moon Alliance.

"And in the Northlands, the major ore-producing city-states are inextricably linked to the Dark Regions.

"Miraba, for example, is actually made up of two cities, the upper city is the living area of humans, a few gnomes and elves, and the lower city deep into the dark region is the city of the dwarves and the mining area.

"But Miraba's estuary from the Miral River to the Sword Bay has always been controlled by the powerful Luskan of the sea, so they have to transport the ore from Mirabah to the city of Shui in the harbor for further processing, and they can only reach it after crossing the Miral River, from the Sentry Cliffs, the Three Pig Lands, and the Golden Fields.

"In addition to Mirabah, another force that cannot be ignored is the Silver Moon Alliance located in the east of the Northlands, or in other words, the Mithril Hall under the Silver Moon Alliance.

"The Mithril Hall got its name from the fact that the Shield Dwarf Gate had unearthed one of the most astonishing Mithril veins in the Northland to date during the continuous downward excavation of the Shield Dwarf Gate in the last few hundred years.

"So strictly speaking, the Silver Moon Alliance doesn't have much of a commercial conflict with the first two.

"Because they sit on the Mithril Mine, they have always taken the high-end route of fine processing, and the equipment of precious metals is forged by the dwarves of the Mithril Hall, and after being enchanted by the elves of Silvermoon City, they have almost monopolized most of the high-end weapons and equipment trade in the entire Northland.

"As for Luskan, they actually started as pirates in the early years, and then the underground Gerthorne reached a strategic cooperative trade relationship with them, which formed the current situation.

"Relying on this port city, Gerthorn can sell all kinds of ores and energy potions underground that cannot be bid, so that the humans on the surface can be transported north from Sword Bay to various coastal port cities.

"But this trade route was interrupted thirteen years ago due to the outbreak of the beast tide underground. Naturally, Luskan relaxed his defense of the entrance to the dark region.

"Just eight years ago, when the three Gerthohn legends were hit hard, the Silver Moon Alliance may have seen an opportunity, but they didn't want to take matters into their own hands, so the elves revealed the news to the city-state of Miraba.

"Naturally, the city-state of Milaba will not let go of this good opportunity to be ashamed, but their methods are some... In particular, they sent an adventurous team with several tons of goblin engineering explosives to blow up the entrance to the surface of the earth in the Sentry Cliff Mountains...

"This has also led to the complete severance of our trade routes with the surface.

"And until you wake up, we don't dare to expose the existence of the North Tunnel. ”

After saying this, Tiger spread his hands, his face full of helplessness.

"Bombed directly? So ruthlessly, aren't they afraid of causing a war?

"No... Luskan may not know that the beast tide underground is over. ”

After hearing this exciting news, Levi couldn't help but scratch the scales on his skull, and suddenly splashed a lot of sparks.

He thought about it, smashed it and smiled: "But it doesn't matter, fortunately, we dug the tunnel early, maybe it's better, then from now on, the tax relationship between us and the Drow will be completely reversed." ”

Everyone in the conference room couldn't help but smile happily.

It is that people do not like to be taxed, especially by potentially hostile forces.

Zeelandia has been collecting taxes from the Drow for more than fifty years, and there is finally a light for a reversal.

At this moment, Levi suddenly remembered a very important question, turned to Tiger and asked, "By the way, how much is the difference between our tunnel exit and the intended location?"

"Here, on the east side of the original Griffon's Nest mountain range, it is less than three miles away from the projection. ”

Tiger directly spread out a map of the surface of the Northland in front of Levi, drawing a red circle on the east side of the Griffon's Nest mountain range.

Levi leaned down, squinting at the map, and nodded approvingly, while admiring their Hogg Mining skills.

You must know that in Corell, because of the suppression of magic and the destruction of the Nether Empire, the level of humanities and natural sciences has stayed at the level of about the Blue Star Western Medieval Renaissance.

In this kind of era, even the map itself may have a big error, and the error of digging such a tunnel as long as fifty or sixty miles is actually less than three miles, which is already very good.

As for why you chose here?

In a way, it's the same as playing a sandbox game to choose where you were born.

And one of the bloody lessons of Levi when he played this kind of urban development strategy game, that is:

A good birthplace is better than countless efforts.

Especially in Hell difficulty, a birthplace that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and has good development potential, is especially important.

Levi's choice was set against the backdrop of the Griffon's Nest Mountains, bordered by the Hidden Forest to the north, and separated from the Eternal Wasteland to the east by the Selburing River.

They can build a surface fortress from the Griffon's Nest Mountains, and then extend their influence to the banks of the Seburing River, where they can build a riverside port city.

Relying on the well-developed water network of the Seburing River, a trade distribution center that connects the dark region and the surface, and even the entire Northland trade route, has been completely established.

This place maintains a certain distance from the surrounding large forces, that is, it is slightly closer to the Silver Moon Alliance.

But as far as he knew, the three most important rulers of the Silvermoon Alliance, the Silvermoon Dragon Mother and her husband Silverwing, including their chosen agent, Erastro, were typical of the orderly, good faction.

This means that as long as he doesn't do anything that hurts the anger of the people and gods, the Silvermoon Alliance should not be too hostile to him and Zelandia on the surface in the future.

And if you can reach a community of interests with them, then the future Zelandia, not to mention walking sideways on the surface, can at least become a hegemon.

Levi said that he was short-sighted, as long as he could successfully blend into the surface, temporarily get rid of the threat and pressure of facing the dark elf gods, and then build a city-state that was more suitable for his heart according to his own will, he would be very satisfied.

It's just that when I think of the thing that lies beneath Zeellandia, and the prophetic dream of Derollo, I feel a little uneasy.

'Even if you hide on the surface, it will still be difficult to escape the shadow of war?'

Levi shook his head, expelled the thoughts of these bad dragons' moods, and got up and said:

"So be it, you guys continue to do the work at hand, and I'm going to set off on a trip to the surface to see if I can find any trace of the Silver Moon Dragon Queen.

"If we can get this ancient golden dragon right, then our plan will be foolproof. ”

When everyone heard the words and was about to end the meeting, Calvin got up and pleaded with a worried face:

"The boss... Yes... Will you take me with you?"

Li Wei couldn't help but suddenly look at the middle-aged mage who was already full of vicissitudes, and nodded with a smile:

He knew that this man who had been away for more than 20 years for his dream of psionic energy...

Homesick...