"What's your name?" asked Suren as he put down his map.

"My name, my name is Bach Hammer Sylander," the dwarf said quickly.

"Bach, are you sure that the silver ore on this map contains Mithril Associated Ore?" Suren interrupted Bach's self-introduction and asked directly.

"Of course, my lord I used to be a miner in a silver mine, and I once dug up a piece of Mithril in this silver mine, but the miserly King Thorne only gave me a pound of gold as a reward...", Bach chattered, obviously very unhappy with the king.

"Okay, since you're sure there's Mithril Mine in it, then I'll let you form a team of miners, and you will be the captain, and if you can mine Mithril, then I'll give you the position of Lord of Orlando, but if you don't dig up Mithril, then..."

"Your Excellency, don't worry, to make sure you'll dig up Mithril!" Bach assured, patting his chest.

"In that case, then it's decided, I'll give you a reward for digging up Mithril, status, money, or vodka, and now it's up to you to behave. Su Lun said with a smile.

"My lord, I'm going to form a team of miners!" Hearing Suren's promise, Bach couldn't sit still any longer, and hurriedly left the lord's castle to find other gray dwarves to form a team.

Su Lun threw the map aside with some disgust, and found a piece of parchment to copy the map on it, although it was washed, there was still a smell of pickles on the parchment.

The map on the parchment is a bit rudimentary, after all, the mapping of this world has not become a professional discipline like in the previous life, many times, the map they draw can only be understood by themselves, in the eyes of others it is completely an abstract painting, but fortunately this map is not badly drawn, although it is still rudimentary, but the general position is drawn.

Soon, Su Lun copied the parchment completely, and after comparing the two maps again, to make sure that nothing was missing, Su Lun picked up the strange smell of parchment and threw it directly into the brazier, the flames rose, and soon the parchment burned into a ball of ashes, opened the window, and dispersed the smoke.

After Bach formed a team of fifty miners, he excitedly returned to Orlando with the team to mine Yinkang, and the remaining two iron mines and copper mines also needed to be mined, and the remaining more than 100 gray dwarves also formed three miner teams, and then went to Orlando to mine.

After the expansion of the number of people in Zhenbei City, all kinds of tools and iron tools are in short supply, and the army also needs a lot of equipment to change equipment, the original surface iron mine was not large, before Su Lun got it, there were already many tribes mined, and now the output of this mine is very low, close to exhaustion. This is one of the reasons why Suren is in a hurry to take the underworld into his hands.

After several expansions, the number of regular troops in Zhenbei City has grown to 4,000 people, including 300 barbarians, 400 centaurs, 100 drow elves, 300 half-elves, and the rest are all human beings except for the more than 50 war spirits summoned by Suren.

If you count the militia reserves, city guards, and the 500 people stationed in Jinghu City, the number of troops in Zhenbei City has reached an astonishing more than 6,000 people, and all the population of Zhenbei City is added together, plus the newly captured gray dwarves, the population has exceeded 20,000.

One-third of the population is a military man, and such a high proportion can be called a reckless military force no matter how you look at it. If it weren't for the blessing effect of the Harvest Altar and the large number of slaves, Zhenbei City's face would not be able to achieve food self-sufficiency.

Not to mention the money and various materials and equipment required to raise so many soldiers, the small scale of the army in Zhenbei City was not obvious in the past, and the current number of troops is just to maintain the status quo, and it costs tens of thousands of kinnars every month.

Su Lun has always wondered how his predecessors in the past managed to not pay the soldiers, and still be able to make those soldiers honestly obey orders, and go into battle to kill the enemy and be more heroic than the other. Now the army in Zhenbei City, if Su Lun dares not to pay his salary for several months in a row, it will not be long before a large number of deserters will appear, and it is not surprising that there will even be a rebellion.

If it weren't for the large amount of money obtained with the help of the sugar trading town of Beicheng, it would have been impossible to develop to this extent without a few years of hard work.

The army in Zhenbei now needs a lot of equipment, and in addition to the troops, the centaur tribe also needs weapons and equipment to protect their cattle for grazing purposes. Fortunately, this wave of raids on the gray dwarf city made Su Lun make a lot of money, not only all the funds were solved, but even the weapons and equipment could be solved.

With the affairs of Zhenbei City in order, Suren takes the Grey Dwarf miners and the Drow Elves to the Underworld again, where he prepares to restore the former mines of the Grey Dwarves and also sweep away the dangerous areas around the mines.

Back in Orlando, where the army was a hundred barbarian warriors and a hundred centaurs, and the troopyman slaves were in charge of the labor.

These cavemen are small in stature, and because they have lived in the dark for a long time, their eyes have deteriorated, and they rely on infrared sensing to survey their surroundings, so blindness and petrification in state magic are ineffective against them. The vast majority of dungeons will have caveman slaves, who are the best growers in the underworld.

Suren led three teams of gray dwarf miners to various mines, the gray dwarves found a lot of ore veins, but many ore veins are entrenched in a lot of monsters in the underground world, and the few ore veins mined by the gray dwarves need to be cleaned up every once in a while, if it weren't for this, those other ore veins would have been excavated by them a long time ago.

After a day of repairing in Orlando, Suren left the city with a group of drow elves and miner gray dwarves, and made their way through narrow tunnels to the first mine.

The mine was the closest to Orlando, and it produced a good taste of iron ore, a few grades better than the iron ore produced by Suren's surface mine, and the group made their way through the dark tunnels, encountering several dreadclaws along the way.

The Dreadclaw is a common type of monster in the Underworld, with keen hearing, walking on two feet, its head resembling that of a vulture, its eyes small, its sharp beak and a pair of compound eyes, and its body with a hard gray carapace. It looks ugly on the outside.

These guys have poor eyesight, but like bats, they can emit high-frequency sound waves to locate enemies.

Just when Su Lun was marching in the passage with the team, more than a dozen black shadows suddenly jumped down above his head, Su Lun reacted quickly, because the tunnel was narrow, he did not use the purple dragon halberd but replaced it with a long sword made by a dwarf, and the long sword in his hand was subconsciously swung out.

The dreadclaw monster that attacked Su Lun never thought that Su Lun's reaction speed was so fast, and his body didn't have time to react at all, so he was swept by the sword, and the powerful force directly split the hard shell of the dreadclaw monster's body, and the monster, which was about two meters seven tall and weighed nearly two hundred kilograms, was directly cut in two.

The next dozen or so Dreadclaw didn't bother the team, and the Drow elves dodged as soon as the Dreadclaw attacked, and as for the Grey Dwarves, these guys were wearing heavy armor all the time, and it was a waste of effort for the Dreadclaw to attack them.

Soon a dozen dreadclaws were strangled. No one in the group died, except for a few gray dwarves who suffered some minor injuries, and after Suren treated them a bit, the group continued on its way.

Walking out of the dark tunnel, and passing through two desolate underground cavities, Suren and his party finally came to the first mine, which had not been mined for a while, and when Suren came, he found that this mine had been occupied by monsters from the underground world, and a group of vampire bats and underground salamanders used this place as a nest.

In response to this situation, the gray dwarves had already prepared to smoke out these monsters with smoke, and then everyone worked together to kill these monsters. It didn't take long for the mine to be cleared.

Suren's system panel also has information about the mine.

[Iron Ore: Ore quality +5, ore output +8, mine disaster reduction +5, associated ore vein +2, there is a certain chance to produce Dark Iron Ore.] 】

With the work of the Grey Dwarves, the iron mine soon resumed production, and seeing the mine resume production, Suren did not stop and moved on to the next mine with the rest of the team.

The second mine was a gem mine, and when Suren came here, he found that the vein looked gloomy, and there were some shadow-like products outside the vein.

Twisted Shadow, an undead creature that was formed for some reason, resembles a ghost, this thing has a very high immunity to physical damage, and it also appears in groups, which is very unfriendly to those who are purely physical professionals, and also has spell-like abilities.

If Su Lun hadn't come with him today, this team of gray dwarves would have almost been explained here, and the half-energy body could reduce their physical damage by fifty percent, and ordinary weapons would be very troublesome to deal with them even if they were sharp, so they had to use weapons with elemental damage.

What's more troublesome is that this kind of monster belongs to the group.,Their best attack is the touch of death.,You can extract the energy and strength of the enemy.,Once the energy is exhausted.,That will consume the life force.,In the adventurer's manual.,The danger level of these monsters is A-level.,There is no special method of restraint.,It's best not to provoke.。

"Click!"

There was a soft sound, as if I didn't know who had stepped on something, although it was only a very slight sound, but it became very abrupt in this quiet environment, and those distorted shadows wandering aimlessly noticed it instantly.