"In my opinion, most things in the world can be priced, and those shiny cute gold coins can help us do most of the things we want to do. ”

"Of course, there must be things that can't be solved with gold, but I don't think this request about me is that kind of thing. ”

"After all, I just need the fact that you, Lady Lydia, have taken my son Muse as an apprentice. ”

"As for how much magic knowledge you are willing to impart, Lady Lydia, and how much magic knowledge you can learn from the Muse, it depends on your mood and his understanding, and I will not force ......"

Atro's eyes flashed with aristocratic cunning, and he said slowly.

"And, Lady Lydia, look at this ......"

As he spoke, Atro reached under his desk and gently flicked it a few times, and after the click, he seemed to take out two boxes, one large and one small, from the dark compartment of nowhere, and placed them between him and Lydia.

Lydia watched indifferently as Atro took out another string of delicate little keys, and after examining them, he picked out one of them and slipped it into the keyhole on the larger box, twisting it slightly.

Smack-

The box opened, and a gap appeared between the tightly closed lid and the body.

"Lady Lydia, please look at ......" Atro's expression seemed to be slightly distressed, but he was still determined to fully display the contents of the box in front of Lydia's eyes.

As the lid opened, a whole box of colorful gemstones appeared in front of Atro and Lydia's eyes!

Under the soft glow of the spell lamp, these crystal clear gems shimmered with a little bit of crystal brilliance, and for a moment Atro and Lydia's faces were reflected in a halo of gems.

"Look, Lady Lydia, there are fifty to sixty gems here, all of them of good quality, and if you look at them in a gemological way, I think they are all of the best ......grades," Atro said with a slight distress, and there was an element of smugness, "they are worth at least fifty thousand gold coins." ”

"Please check, besides, this is only part of my payment......"

"Trust me, I'm going to impress you in the end......" Atro said with a bit of mystery.

With that, Atro pushed the open box towards Lydia.

"Oh, interesting......" Lydia seemed to have a little emotion in her words.

She stretched out her hand and slowly stroked over the box that had been pushed in front of her, a faint layer of silver light wafting through her hand visibly.

Then she shook her hand slightly, and with her movements, several gems in the box flew out automatically and fell into her hands!

And the silver brilliance in Lydia's hand quickly soaked into the inside of these gems, and she quickly checked these gems inside and out!

Lydia made a hands-off gesture as the gems flew back into the box.

"Well, there are fifty-eight gems in total, all of them are of high quality, and they are indeed worth a lot of money......

Lydia seemed to speak in a strange tone, and she seemed to be looking at Atro with a smirk.

Met Lydia's gaze, but Atro's face did not change, and he took care of himself to pick another key from the keychain in his hand and opened the smaller box.

Atro also seemed to know that the contents of this box were incredibly precious, so when he pushed the box in front of Lydia, the look of distress on his face was even resolute!

The box was not even fully opened, Atro unlocked the box and pushed it in front of Lydia.

Seeing Atro's posture like this, Lydia couldn't help but secretly guess what was inside this box, knowing that when Atro took out the box of precious gems before, he had never shown such a distressed expression.

With a question, Lydia reached out and pressed the lid of the small box, and the silver light rippled again, seeping into the box.

Then her face changed suddenly, and a complicated expression of surprise, disbelief, ecstasy, and so on alternately appeared on her face!

She eagerly opened the small box, exposing a small piece of silver-gray metal to the soft glow of the spell lamp.

"Sure enough, it's Mithril!" Lydia couldn't help but exclaim the moment she saw this piece of silver-gray metal!

- Mithril

This is an extremely precious and rare mineral!

Among the many rumors about Mithril, the most famous is "Mithril! Everyone in the world will be robbing their heads for it." It is as malleable as bronze and can be polished like glass. Dwarves can craft it into armor that is stronger than steel, but light as a goose's feather. It's as beautiful as silver, but Mithril's luster doesn't fade with time!"

Of course, the reason why a rumor is a rumor is because it is true, and it also contains the water brought by false rumors.

Although Mithril is extremely strong, it still weighs nearly half the weight of steel, and it is simply overkill to cast into armor!

The true value of Mithril lies in its amazing malleability, conductivity and stability, it will never fade after refining, and its material properties are extremely stable! If you use it for rune inscriptions, while maintaining good conductivity, its durability will reach an incredible level, and these runes can run intact for thousands of years without worrying about natural wear and tear!

Because of its properties, Mithril is an indispensable and valuable material for many valuable spell equipment and spell items.

In fact, according to the Arcane Empire's research, Mithril's structure is actually very similar to that of silver, which means that Mithril is actually a special isotope of silver!

Further research has shown that Mithril is formed by the special process of elemental mutation of silver buried in the earth's crust in nature under the scouring of elemental tides.

But why silver buried in the earth's crust and unmined can be transformed into Mithril in the Elemental Tide, while mined silver cannot be transformed into Mithril is still undecided until the destruction of the Arcane Empire.

And because of the special formation mechanism of Mithril, it has an extremely wide distribution, basically every silver mine will contain more or less a little associated Mithril! But it is also extremely rare, and you can't expect those ordinary silver mines to produce even a milligram of Mithril!

After all, it would be a waste of expression to expect that the silver ore with a percentage of Mithril content as low as tens or hundreds of decimal places could be refined from those ordinary silver ores!