The plane of the mountain.

It's a monotonous world of rolling and rolling mountains, almost except for mountains.

Here, there are no endless flat grasslands, no lush green forests, and no slowly flowing streams......

The plane of the mountain lives up to its name.

The entire plane is almost entirely a strange world made of dark loose dirt and gray-white solid rock, and even the air is filled with a choking smell of dust!

Without water, without clean air, without plants and animals, it would be impossible to give birth to thousands of dimensional beings.

So, it's a lonely world, and it's a cold world!

At the foot of a huge mountain of broken rock, a small goblin camp is under construction.

Hundreds of goblin machines are spewing heavy water vapor and laboriously clearing and leveling the ground. A dozen goblin engineer-like fellows stood on top of a boulder, pointing around the perimeter, as if discussing the size and distribution of the camp.

Dozens of battle weapons clutched magic ray guns in their hands, patrolling the perimeter of the construction site, always alert to the movements around them.

And in the middle of the camp, a strange magical device is holding up an elemental barrier, repelling the foul air and reinjecting it with a fresh and sweet compressed air.

A corner of the camp, airship area.

A dozen cigar-shaped goblin airships were creaking and turning their propellers, sending a goblin engineer and seven or eight goblin combatants into the sky with difficulty, and then flew along the terrain towards somewhere in the distance.

Unable to adapt to the air for the time being, each goblin wears a breathing mask to prevent inhaling too much air soaked in the rich earth element, turning itself into a stone.

As the goblin airship flew slowly through the sky, Engineer Justin Osik carried a wooden box and placed it on the side of the ship, climbed up with difficulty, and held up his somewhat old X-ray II telescope and kept glancing underneath him.

As a veteran geological prospector, Justin Osik doesn't need to land at all, just by the exposed surface of the rock formations beneath him, he can roughly judge their ore composition and rare ore ratio.

However, in many cases, the surface of the rock formation is obscured by the dust that is ubiquitous here.

At all times, Justin Osik would order the goblin airships to fly low, using the huge wind generated by the propellers to blow away the dust on the rock surface so that he could observe their ore composition.

However, such a move will undoubtedly bring a certain danger to the goblin airship.

As he circled low for the seventh time after flying more than a hundred miles out of the camp, the goblin warrior standing guard at the bow of the ship let out a frightened scream.

"Attack...... Raid...... Get out of the way!"

Under the skilful control of the goblin technician, the goblin airship dodged a huge stone thrown from the ground with a perfect sideways flight. And Justin, who was standing on the wooden box on the side of the ship, clung to the iron chain with both hands, so that he was not thrown off by the rapid maneuver of the airship.

Once the airship had climbed to a safe height, Justin took up his binoculars and made a quick scurry around the ground, finally spotting the hateful enemy.

Next to a thick crack in the ground, a stone elemental with a height of 3 meters crawled out with difficulty, waving its stone arm angrily at them.

It was like blowing a war horn, and in the huge crack that stretched for thousands of meters, more than thirty stone elements with first-order strength climbed out one after another. They roared low as they condensed into a basin-sized stone and threw it wildly into the sky.

Since the goblin airship was already a hundred meters above the ground, these stones simply could not reach such a height. So, he rolled all the way to the halfway point, and then fell weakly.

"These damn stone men......" The leader of the goblin squad in charge of the airship security rushed into a rage, raising the magic ray gun in his hand to give the natives a fierce response. But its actions were stopped by Justin.

"Don't waste your firepower on them!" Justin shouted as he pulled his neck at his fingertips, and the whirring wind was so strong that it could not reach five meters in the air: "Tell the captain to fly west along this canyon in front of you, there may be something good there......"

A moment later, the goblin airship shook, slowly adjusted its direction, and quickly flew away in the direction specified by Justin.

The group of stone elementals below him chased angrily for a distance before returning to the lair in a huff.

After this period of exploration, the goblins also understood that in the endless mountains below them, there was simply a habitat for the earth element and the stone element.

They either hide in the crevices of the ground, or in caves, or simply lie on their stomachs somewhere to bask in the sun...... Because it's full of mud and rocks, it's hard to find them out of the craggy rock piles or crevices.

It's only when something outside invades their 'territory' that these grumpy creatures will lazily emerge from their hiding place and chase you away with a casserole-sized stone fist or a basin-sized stone. And the boulders they throw can be thrown up to 60 meters in the air, and the threat to the goblin airship is still quite large.

However, fortunately, they have a strong sense of territory, and no matter how angry they are, they will not easily set foot in the territory of another stone elemental family.

This gives goblin airships a chance to use their altitude and speed to shake them off!

As a last resort, Justin could only order the goblin airship to maintain an altitude of about 80 meters, and then lie on the side of the ship and slowly observe the trend and changes of the rock formations on the ground. When he came across a place of interest, Justin would order the goblin warriors on the ship to shoot a few shots at the rock formations, and then completely shatter the reflection of the rock to determine the distribution of ore here.

Finally, near a valley 317 miles from the outpost, Justin spotted something peculiar.

The goblin airship circled in the air for three times, scanning the surrounding ground, and found no trace of the earth element or stone element, so it cautiously fell to the ground.

Pulling the metal sling in one hand and holding the magic ray gun in the other, the five members of the seventh goblin team wore magic armor and fell heavily to the ground.

Knock knock knock......

The thick metal mechanical feet stepped on the ground, and two deep footprints were stepped on.

The dust on the ground swayed up, causing the members of the Seventh Goblin Battle Team to cough violently.

"Damn, shit, shit...... The environment here is really harsh!" Captain Taz put on his breathing mask with his backhand, and a dull and distorted voice came from inside: "Hurry up, hurry up...... Hurry up and give me the vantage point here. Beta, you go to the high ground with the magic cannon...... Snowna, set up a point of fire near the airship...... Hansen, you and I protect Lord Justin......"

"Got it, head!"

"Leave it to me......"

"Okay!"

Many of his men agreed one after another, and began to rush to their positions.

Justin, who struggled to climb down the rope down the goblin airship, stood in the shadow of the airship and looked around with a pickaxe in one hand and a magic energy spectrometer issued by the Geological Exploration Headquarters in the other, and finally specified a direction.

"Go over there!"

Immediately, the three-person team set off without hesitation!

The journey was almost scary.

These little goblins were only about half a meter in size, and in front of those stone elements that were three or five meters away, they were a full little bean cube. There is no need to fight, just stepping on the terrifying big foot of the stone elemental, I am afraid that most of the goblins will also die.

Therefore, the two goblins in charge of protecting the geological prospector, one in front and one in the back, wielded a magic weapon armor of less than 2 meters, slowly and with difficulty on the rugged ground.

And Justin, the geological prospector, seemed to quickly forget the danger, and from time to time he would pick up a certain rock and analyze it with a quick scan of the spectrometer. Many times, when it finds something strange, it will pounce on it with joy and cheer, and then knock and knock non-stop, completely forgetting that this is a strange world that is extremely dangerous.

Faced with such a leader who ignored everything after selfless work, the two goblin bodyguards could only follow behind them with all their might, and the magic ray guns in their hands were always pointed at the more dangerous places around.

Finally, as he walked, Justin's cheers grew louder and louder.

The strange whistling sounds emitted by the spectrometer may not be incomprehensible to outsiders, but it can clearly identify the composition of a variety of rare metals. And as they continue to advance, the composition of these rare metals continues to improve.

Justin dared to assert that there must be an extremely valuable vein of rare metals not far ahead!

Finally, in front of a huge and strange rock mountain, Justin stopped, threw himself in front of a huge rock five meters away, and picked up the pickaxe in a burst of banging.

As the rubble on the surface of the boulder peeled off, a fist-sized purple gem was clearly visible in the exposed cross-section. Around the gemstones, there are metal particles that shimmer with silver light.

Purple Agate ...... Star Mine ......

Seeing this scene in front of them, the three goblins couldn't help but feel ecstatic in their hearts, and they almost couldn't help but sing and dance.

But just as they were ecstatic, the stone mountain in front of them suddenly trembled violently and trembled, and the grinding disc-sized broken rock rolled down from the top of the mountain like raindrops, turning a radius of more than ten miles into a dusty garbage dump.

The three goblins didn't care about celebrating, turned around and cried for their father and mother, and fled to the periphery.

When they ran hundreds of meters away, they looked back and were horrified to find that the originally tall and majestic stone mountain had now turned into a stone giant standing up to the sky, slowly and with difficulty in getting up from the dirt pit.

And above its huge body, you can see colorful exotic gems and all kinds of rare and precious metal ores everywhere.

"Damn, shit, shit...... Hurry back to camp!I'm afraid this Golem is at least Rank 3, and our strength is simply not enough to fight against it. Evacuation and withdrawal ......"

After a few moments, all the goblins fled back to the goblin airship, and then struggled to get up, flying towards the road they had come from without looking back. At this time, the stone giant had just stood up, and was looking around for the few abominable little things that disturbed its slumber......