Chapter 44: The Origin of Mithril

This also caused the outrageously low production of Mithril! Every year, the amount of Mithril that can flow out of the continent of Nolanda is only about ten pounds! And even so, the amount of Mithril produced every year will make countless mages fight for it, and even fight for it!

There are only a few large silver mines on the Noranda continent that have the ability to produce Mithril! These large silver mines are controlled by several powerful countries on the Noranda continent, each of which can be called a national treasure, and at the same time, each of them is heavily entrenched, strictly guarded, and impenetrable, and some are even only allowed to enter but not leave, so that people cannot know the true location of the silver mines!

As far as Lydia knows, the Mage Federation secretly controls a large silver mine capable of producing Mithril, but the Mithril produced every year is very small after meeting the needs of those legendary mages within it, and the amount of Mithril that can be provided to those mages below the legendary level is also pitiful!

No mage can resist Mithril's charm! Yes, no mage can, and Lydia is no exception!

Even as an alchemist, her desire for Mithril is several levels higher than that of ordinary mages, after all, the study of alchemy not only consumes a lot of money, but also requires a lot of extremely rare materials.

And Mithril is one of the most important of these materials that Lydia needs!

The small piece of Mithril that appeared in front of Lydia's eyes was about slightly smaller than a fist, weighing about 0.5 pounds, or almost 225 grams.

This is definitely an astonishing fortune, and it can't even be measured in terms of wealth, because no mage would be willing to take out the Mithril in his hand and sell it. If some mages knew that there was so much Mithril here, they would definitely use all means to get their hands on Mithril by any means!

In Lydia's mind, this small piece of Mithril was definitely more precious than a whole box of gems!

Even now, Lydia's eyes have flashed with a dangerous light, for the sake of Mithril, she is not to say that she is a "noble friend", even if the official mage organization of the Mage Federation comes, she will dare to face it!

That's how attractive Mithril is!

Seeing Lydia's face change and her eyes flickering, Atro knew that he had succeeded in impressing her.

But the person who has the treasure also needs to have the power to match it, and the reason Atro also knows, and the person who has no power gets a heavy treasure, just like a child who takes a shiny gold coin to the street to show off, can only end up being robbed of it.

So he had to distract Lydia from her.

So Atro whispered again, "Lady Lydia, I think you must be curious about the origin of these Mithril. ”

"Hmm, you mean, you can get more Mithril?" Lydia said as her changing face softened as she whispered.

"That's a story from a long time ago. Atro's voice suddenly became full of emotion.

"My ancestor was a warrior who fought bloodily in the battle for the founding of the city of Deira. ”

And when the city of Deira was founded, he was rewarded and canonized accordingly, and had his own surname. Of course, because of his status at that time, the canonization he received was only a small baron, and even the fief was only far away from Deira, basically a remote area on the edge of Deira's jurisdiction. ”

"The fief had only three small villages and a small estate for him to live in. ”

"Of course, we don't know what he thought at the time, but at least he entered the circle of nobility, and then as long as he managed the fief steadily and passed it down for several generations, the Newton family would naturally be established. ”

But as a first-generation family founder, he was certainly a trailblazer. He was not satisfied with the barren status quo of his territory, so he led his team towards the large forest adjacent to his territory. ”

After a hard battle, he succeeded in driving out a group of ogres entrenched in the Great Forest, successfully carved out a lumber yard in the interior of the Great Forest, and even found a small iron mine. ”

Since then, the solid and high-quality timber of the great forest has provided him with a steady stream of income, and the iron ore has produced a small but sufficient amount of steel to arm himself, so that he has a strong enough force. ”

"In the envious eyes of the small nobles who were canonized at the same time, the Newton family developed rapidly, and soon swelled to the point that those little nobles smacked their tongues!"

"But what people don't know is that my ancestors found a silver mine in the same place where the ogres lived!"

"The constant flow of silver from the silver mine is the real driving force behind the rapid development of the Newton family!"

"But soon, a strange monster appeared in this silver mine, which slaughtered all the miners working in the mine, and when my ancestors secretly attacked it, in the center of its corpse, my ancestors found a strange silver ore. ”

Sensing that there was something absolutely unusual about this silver ore, he secretly sealed the entire silver mine and sent it to a mage he had met as an adventurer for identification. ”

Knowing that it was the legendary Mithril, he knew that he must not let any rumors get out, so he claimed to the mage friend that it was the result of his adventure, and gave the Mithril to the mage friend in exchange for some useful spell items. ”

"After that, he ruthlessly disposed of many people who knew about the existence of the silver mine, including some loyal family guards!

"This silver mine has been passed down as the heritage of the Newton family, and only once in the subsequent family crisis, after digging a part of the silver mine, it was reclosed and all the miners who were excavated were re-closed!"

"And the silver obtained at that time successfully allowed the Newton family to survive the family crisis, and the Mithril of this was also left at that time. ”

Bang Bang Bang –

Lydia stretched out her two white hands and clapped softly, "Your ancestors had a wonderful experience. ”

"And you said that the silver mine is still closed, which means that there are still unmined silver ore and mythril in it?"

"Yes, I'm sure!" Atro said with certainty.