Chapter 152: Mithril Mine (Second Update)
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The purple insects, which weighed twenty tons, were eaten in small parts, while the ferocious rats were already full.
Such a purple worm is probably enough for them to eat for a month.
So they stayed here, and they didn't even go anywhere, apparently treating the purple insect corpse as their own food and protecting it all the time.
Gavin chuckled, then walked over to the purple bug.
He saw the vines of the vampire vine, ordered the ferocious rats to gnaw a hole along the vampire vine, and finally dragged the vampire vine out.
This vampire vine, which had absorbed blood from the purple worm's body for half an hour, had now grown to ten meters long, about the thickness of a child's wrist.
Such a vampire vine, if it is attacked by hiding in the shadows, it will be difficult for professionals below the 4th rank to be spared.
To rip off the Vampire Vine, it requires at least 25 Strength. And if you want to block the attack of the vampire vine, the defensive power cannot be much worse than steel.
This vampire vine is indeed very powerful.
"This purple worm is yours for the time being. It should still have a lot of good stuff in its belly, remember to collect it, and I'll come and get it later. Gavin looked at Squeak and commanded.
The flesh and blood of the purple worm is a great supplement, and after the ferocious rats swallow all of this purple worm, they should be able to advance collectively. Ordinary ferocious rats are level 1 and level 2 creatures, but the flesh and blood of purple insects can make them grow larger, maybe up to the standard of level 3 and level 4 creatures.
Purple insects are full of treasures.
The purple insect skin is no worse than the dragon skin of the bipedal wyvern, and the value of such a skin is difficult to estimate, at least worth four or five bipedal wyvern skins, whether it is used to make leather armor or spell scrolls, it can be.
The scales of the purple insect are not much worse than the dragon scales, this thing can be used to make chain mail or even plate armor, the scales of the head are particularly large, and they can even be used to make shields, which are lighter than steel heavy shields, but the defense is not much worse, and it has a certain spell resistance, and can also be used to resist certain spell attacks, such as fireballs.
So many purple insect scales are also immeasurable wealth!
Also, purple insects live deep underground, and everything is their food, whether it's animals, plants, or minerals.
Dirt, rocks, those special minerals, it will swallow it in the stomach.
Most of the stuff is digested and excreted, but there are some corrosion-resistant gemstones, ores, that are not digested.
These gems and ores are basically extremely valuable.
The part that has been eaten by the ferocious rat includes the stomach of the purple worm.
Gavin ordered the ferocious rat to gnaw away the flesh and entrails from its stomach, revealing a mass of blood-stained mucus.
He used the mage's hand to get these things out one by one, put them aside, and then summoned clear water, cleaned them, and his eyes lit up.
Nothing else, but there were a few things that piqued Gavin's interest.
A few pieces of lapis greenstone, a few pieces of ruby, and a few pieces of ore the size of a fist.
Those ores, in some places, emitted a silvery-white light, and they were not the color of silver, and they looked even more dazzling.
Gavin picked up a piece of ore, took out a dagger, and slashed it at it without a trace.
He weighed it again, and found that the ore was very light, much lighter than iron ore of the same size, and his face showed a look of joy.
"I didn't expect there to be this thing. Was this a bonus? Gavin chuckled.
Aquamarine and ruby, both very good gemstones, each worth at least ten gold coins, and even some of the best quality, an egg-sized piece worth hundreds of gold coins, is one of the favorite materials of mages and alchemists.
Many staves are topped with a piece of lapis or ruby.
The magic ring on Morgana's finger was set with a ruby of the highest quality.
And lapis and ruby, both are associated with a special type of ore, that is, mythril ore.
Those fist-sized ores are Mithril ores.
Mithril is one of the most favorite metals of spellcasters, and the production is very small, only in a very few places, at least within a thousand kilometers of Pegasus City, there is no Mithril mine.
Even in the nearby dark areas, no Mithril mines have been found.
Darkfurnace City is a city of underground dwarves, and there is a great demand for Mithril, and many transcendental-level weapons and armor need to be mixed with a small amount of Mithril, but all the Mithril in Darkfurnace City comes from a Mithril mine thousands of miles away.
It was a small Mithril mine, and the total amount of Mithril in storage was said to be no more than a ton, and it had already been mined!
Could it be that there is a Mithril mine nearby?
Gavin thought for a moment, and with the evil spirit, they went in the direction they came.
Soon, they came to the location where the purple worm appeared.
"Go inside, look for this ore. As soon as you see an ore with a silvery-white sheen, you bring a piece to show me. Gavin said softly.
The purple worm burrowed out of the depths of the earth and drilled out a passage the size of a bucket, leading to the depths of the earth, dark and deep.
The passage went straight down, there weren't many twists and turns, it was almost straight, and Gavin couldn't go down, so let the evil spirits go down to investigate.
He waited for ten minutes, and the evil spirit came up and brought a piece of ore.
The ore that also emits a silvery-white glow is Mithril ore.
"Is there a lot of ore like this?" Gavin hurriedly asked, and then got an affirmative answer from the evil spirit.
It told Gavin that there was a large cavern underneath, presumably a natural cave, where the purple worms had been sleeping.
The walls of the cave are dotted with this silvery-white light everywhere, and there is a lot of ore.
There are also many passages around the cave, which are passages drilled out by purple insects.
It floated in along the passage and found that it was also dotted with ores.
It looked at several channels, all of them.
Gavin opened his mouth and burst out laughing.
He was so happy that he wanted to dance.
Mithril Mine!
And according to the evil spirits, there are still a lot of Mithril reserves, maybe it's a bonanza!
Gavin couldn't wait.
He blessed himself with levitation, the tip of the oak staff was constant with light, and then, led by the evil spirit, went deep into the ground.
It went down for thousands of meters, and after several twists and turns, it passed through more than a dozen underground cracks of different sizes, and finally reached the lower level.
It was a huge cave, ten times larger than a football field, and the surrounding area was empty and dotted.
There were no other creatures here, and the breath of the purple insects frightened them, so they all stayed away.
There was a strong smell in one place, which was where the purple worm slept, and there was a lot of excrement in the same place, but there were still more than a dozen pieces of Mithril ore in the excrement.
There are really Mithril mines everywhere here, it's really a bonanza, and it's abundant!
Gavin, led by the evil spirit, looked around and found that this Mithril mine was very large, definitely not a small mine, but a medium-sized rich mine, and the reserves of Mithril were difficult to determine, but if you think about it, it was at least much more than that small mine a thousand kilometers away!
Gavin couldn't assess how much value this Mithril Mine really was, but there was no doubt that if the news leaked out, whether it was Brimstone City, Dark Furnace City, or even Pegasus City, all the strong, noble, and powerful people would go crazy about it, because if this Mithril Mine was exchanged for gold coins, it could be piled up into a small mountain, and maybe it could buy the entire Pegasus City.
Messages must not be leaked out!
Gavin pondered, then made up his mind.