Finally, the staircase of the Black Pearl landed on the snowy and windy land of Northrend.

"Huhu...... Whew...... Whew......"

It's a completely white world, with no edge in sight. Except for the shore where the battleship docked, where you can see the sea, the rest of the place is completely indistinguishable, it is all white.

There is no sense of life here, except for the constant howling of the cold wind, there is no other sound.

“……”

Dante was the first to walk down the stairs, looking at the dead Northrend continent in front of him, and didn't know what to say for a while.

"Ah...... Ha...... Ha ......"

Ash was the second to come down, wearing a thick warm cotton coat and walking a little bloated.

Ash walked up to Dante, grabbed his hand, put it on his chest, and said with a white breath, "Dante...... It's cold...... Yes...... Alas......"

She was very afraid of the cold, and now even in a very thick cotton coat, she was trembling when she spoke.

"Come on." Dante saw that Ash was freezing to death, so he took her in his arms, hugged her tightly, and whispered, "Is this better?" ”

"Hmm......" Ash nodded, snuggling into Dante's arms.

"Master!" At this time, Captain Jack walked from the deck to the surface and said to Dante, "This is the landing point I have carefully chosen. Look, look over there! ”

As he spoke, Captain Skeleton pointed into the distance, as if pointing to a location or something.

"Huh?"

Dante looked in the direction it was pointing and saw a hill. That hill wasn't really that high. Strictly speaking, it can't be called a "mountain", it should be a relatively large hill.

"Jack. What do you want to say? Dante looked at Jack and asked, a little puzzled, "What's on that little hill?" ”

"Haha." Captain Jack laughed and said, "I've been to that little hill before." There's a stronghold we built before, in a cave under the hill. ”

"What?" Dante and Ash hear Captain Skeleton speak. They were all stunned.

"Hey......" Dante asked Jack with a wry smile, "you said you've been to Northrend before?" I don't know. Why didn't you say it earlier? ”

Captain Jack waved his hand and said, "Master." The Alliance and the Horde had already tried to come to Northrend to establish a colony long before Alsace betrayed. I landed here with my sailors as the navy of the Griffon Kingdom. But the conditions here are so bad that many people simply can't stand it. We can't go any further. It shrank at this landing point alone. ”

Then it said, "Let's move our stuff quickly!" The wind and snow here are too great for any living thing to be exposed to the wind and snow for a long time. My skeleton is frozen now! ”

Jack was right, even though it was wearing armor with the skeleton sailors, the armor was completely frozen together with their skeletal bodies. Before it could speak, it had to break the frost that had formed on its face.

"Poof......" Ash was amused by the embarrassment of Captain Skeleton having to slap his face before he could speak. Laugh out loud.

"Hurry up and move things!" Dante commanded Jack, "Go." Let's go to your stronghold. ”

"Yes, master!"

……

Sure enough, Jack and Dante and his party found the cave under the hill without any problems. Dante was delighted to see the cave's stronghold, built on the back of the cave. The structure and location of this stronghold are very good, and what is rare is that the internal space and area of the stronghold are not bad, and it can directly accommodate about 5,000 people to live in it temporarily.

The first of them to arrive in Northrend was only a thousand people, belonging to the advance team. As long as Dante has a firm foothold, he can cast the Demon King aura and provide protection for the later Demon King Army soldiers.

"Quick, sit down." Captain Jack was very excited to return to the stronghold he had built. It had come to think of itself as its master, and enthusiastically arranged a bench for Dante and Ash to sit down and rest.

"Well, you're really good here." Dante looked around at the stronghold. It's about the size of a large auditorium. Such a large space made him feel a little surprised.

"Jack, how did you find such a big cave in the first place?" Dante looked around and asked Jack, "Here, it's really an eye-opener for me." It's really amazing here! ”

Ash also followed Dante to see the big cave and couldn't help but admire.

"Hey, hey, hey......" Jack instructed the skeleton sailors to carry the ship's supply boxes in, rummaging through a pile of garbage in the corner of the cave, looking for something. Dante looked at it and saw that it was not garbage, but a pile of debris, and for the time being, he could not see what was piled up inside.

"Found it." Jack rummaged through the pile of debris, stood up with an object, walked up to Dante, handed it to him, and said, "Master, this is what I left over from my mission here." ”

"Huh?" Dante saw that Jack was holding a piece of metal in his hand, and at a cursory glance, the piece of metal was black and lacklustre, and it was probably a rough ore mined from the mine, which had not yet been refined.

"What's this?" As soon as Dante received this piece of metal ore in his hand, he immediately felt a strange feeling!

This is......

Magical resonance! That's right, it's the kind of magic resonance you're familiar with!

This metal ore ......

"......" Dante was stunned by the sudden magical resonance, staring at the metal ore and silent.

"Dante? Dante? Seeing Dante silently looking at the metal ore in his hand, Ash gave him a strange push and asked, "What's going on?" Dante, what's wrong with you? ”

"Ah, no, nothing." Dante was asked aloud by Ash, and only then came back to his senses, looked at the ore in his hand, and asked Jack, "What is this ore?" ”

"Hey, hey, master, you should feel it, right?" Jack looked at Dante and said with a smile, "This ore is why we came here in the first place." ”

"There's a lot of magic in this ore." Dante said, "There are two main types of ores that we use now, iron ore and mythril ore. The veins on the side of the Fairy Mountains are mainly these two common minerals. And this ......"

"Master, we came here to find this magic iron ore back then." Seeing that his sailors were carrying boxes of supplies with their hands and feet, and basically did not need its command, Jack sat down on the ground in front of Dante and Ash, pulled out a lighter, and began to light a fire for the charcoal pots on the ground.

It said as it was busy lighting a fire, "Back then, both the Alliance and the Horde got the news of the discovery of demonic iron ore on the Arctic continent. In order to be able to find and control the ore veins before the other side, both sides have invested huge forces in the Arctic continent. ”

"And then?" Dante continued, "Apparently, you've found this demonite ore. ”

"Yes." Jack soon started a fire. They left a lot of useful things in this cave stronghold, such as firewood.

Jack skillfully lit the fire in the charcoal pot, and soon Dante and Ash felt warm.

Although the cave stronghold is large and resembles a large auditorium, there are many small rooms made of wood and steel, and a lot of reinforcement materials are erected on the cave walls. As soon as the skeleton sailors walked in, it was as if they were back in their own homes, and they were all excited, and they ran into the depths of the cave with their hands in search of what they had left behind.

After a while, this originally cold cave immediately became lively.

"Let's make a fire." As he spoke, Jack pushed the charcoal pot in front of Dante and Ash. It picked up a fire-pounding stick and said to Dante as it stirred with the wood in the basin, "Master, this magic iron mine is not something that can be used when you find it. It is highly toxic. ”

"Really?" When Dante heard Jack's words, he looked at the magic iron ore in his hand again, and didn't seem to feel anything unusual, so he asked, "What does this toxicity refer to?" ”

Jack said, "Referring to the Shadows." You should get the idea, right? The Alliance has invested a lot of money and resources in the study of shadow magic. This magic iron ore is an important source of shadow magic energy. ”

"I see." When Dante heard this, he remembered the letter from Fortin.

Thinking of this, Dante said, "This shadow magic material turns out to be this magic iron ore?" I had seen at Fording that their blacksmith had been badly wounded, and his hands had become charred and disgusting. Is it this kind of demonic iron ore? ”

"It should be." Jack said, "This kind of magic iron ore, the crude ore that has just been mined has no harm ability, but once it is processed, the toxicity in it will be emitted, and it will cause great harm to those who come into contact with it." ”

"Dante, don't take it." When Ash heard this, he said to Dante worriedly, "Throw it away." ”

"Okay." Dante hands the Demonite to Jack, who tosses it into the clutter.

"Tell me about your situation." Dante is intrigued by Jack's previous experiences.

"Actually, it's nothing special." Jack thought for a moment and said, "The reason why this hole is so big now is because there is a little bit of the vein of demonite here. When we first came here, we were armed with a dwarven prospecting team. ”

"Dwarves? Prospecting team? Dante remembered the dwarven mineral expert he had saved before, and asked with a smile, "Is there a dwarf named Joseph?" ”

"Huh? That's him. Jack said, "Do you know Joseph?" ”

"I've saved his life before. He was hired by Grandet to find the Fairy Vein. "He's a hard worker." ”

"Hmm." Jack said, "We dug slowly in this cave, and we dug up a few other things besides the magic iron ore. (To be continued......)