Chapter 49: The Iken Mine
Wen Xin marched through the rubble piles that dotted the Iken mines, trying to avoid the patrols of the Datan Warmen.
Once, ownership of this rich mineral deposit belonged to the elves. Later, the elven capital was destroyed by magical energy, and after the old city was moved to the new capital, the elves abandoned it. Eventually, the Datan Warcraft took possession of the place and began to mine it on a large scale.
Since the Datan tribe is not good at mining and forging technology, they rely on strong force to enslave the spirit clan. Spirits are naturally skilled in mining and blacksmithing, and as slaves, they reclaim mines and forge weapons for the Datans.
In the chronicles of the Gods, there were two races in history that had a great talent for forging techniques. One is the Highland Dwarves, and the other is the Spirit Clan. The leaders of the two tribes once proved that the weapons and equipment forged by their tribe were the best, thus starting a major war caused by contradictions between dwarves and spirits, and finally ending in defeat.
After the War of the Gods, the dwarves disappeared from the continent, and the vast group of spirits eventually became fragmented. At the same time, they are enslaved and mutilated by other races, and the number of spirits is drastically decreasing. The spirit tribe enslaved by the Datans is by far the last elven tribe living on this continent.
Wen Xin's purpose in coming to the Icon Mining Area is actually to come for a hidden mission, and after completing this task, he can obtain two godlight-level items. A mine hoe that never wears out and a hammer of forging.
In the previous life, the owner of these two Divine Light level items was a player named Annihilation's Heart. The Heart of Annihilation is a life that challenges the guild, and the professional player is born. After obtaining these two godlight-level items, he became the chief forging master of the challenge guild, and a lot of superb equipment came from him. Later, he was appreciated by Chu Tian, the leader of the Challenge Guild, and soon sat in the position of the vice president of the Challenge Guild.
It would be a big mistake to think that the Heart of Annihilation is just a simple life professional player, in fact, the reason why he can sit on the throne of challenging the guild vice president is only one of the two divine light level items, in fact, he also has a very high level of main professional technology, and he can completely rank among the first-class masters.
But the Heart of Annihilation and Chu Tian are not the same person after all. As the estrangement between the two grows, it inspires internal conflicts within the guild, leading to a split in the guild that challenges the guild. As the saying goes, disagreements do not conspire with each other, and the Heart of Annihilation could not agree with Chu Tian's management methods, and in the end the two chose to part ways, with the Heart of Annihilation taking some of the players of the original challenge guild to establish a free country, while Chu Tian pulled up the remnants of the old department and established a new challenge.
Since most of the equipment in the gods needs to be crafted with corresponding materials according to the recipe, players have a high demand for materials to build equipment, and the equipment materials produced in the Icon mine are enough to meet the needs of some players, so Wen Xin expects that it will not be long before this place will definitely become the target of many big guilds.
Now players who dare to come to the Iken mining area dare not say no, but there are certainly not many. Wen Xin rushed here first in order to get those two divine light-level items, if he delayed for a while, these two items would definitely fall into the hands of the challenge guild again.
Under the leadership of Chu Tian, the challenge guild has always been flamboyant and domineering in the game, so he is unscrupulous in everything. This is exactly following Chu Tian's consistent style of doing things, but the Heart of Annihilation is completely contrary to him, and two people with different ideas still can't get together in the end.
In my previous life, the Challenge Guild had occupied the Iken Mining Area for three months, and all players who intended to enter the Iken Mining Area, whether idle or guilded, would be killed. And they also monopolized the crafting materials market during that time, most of the crafting materials were challenged by the guild's control, and the prices were ridiculously high, and some materials with low production were often auctioned in the auction house, while other materials were sold at a fixed price.
It was a very dark time, and the players were even more complaining and miserable. For the big guilds, the challenge will have a little impact on them, but it won't be much, and they can rely on the guild team to open up new mines, so this will hurt most players in the free camp and some weak guild groups.
But in the face of the powerful challenge guild, these players and small guild groups can only remain silent, and they are all in a state of mute eating yellow lotus and suffering.
Wen Xin climbed to the top of a tall pile of rubble and looked down at the mine. Under the strict inspection of the Datan Warcrafts, the guards can be described as quite strict, and it is completely wishful thinking to enter openly, although Wen Xin has a series of anti-heaven equipment such as soul suits, but it cannot be supported under the siege of these huge number of powerful Warmen.
Therefore, Wen Xin didn't want to attract the attention of these Warcraft people, she just wanted to find the NPC who received the task. Then complete the mission in secret, preferably without triggering the Warcraft alerts.
Wen Xin doesn't have an exact memory of the location of the NPC who received the quest, but the only thing that is certain is that this NPC is a spirit miner, and an ordinary miner with a desire to save the spirit clan from suffering. The location of this NPC seems to be around a mess of rocks, and Wen Xin can only judge from a screenshot of the game posted on the forum at the time.
Therefore, Wen Xin can only look for the traces of this NPC miner in these piles of rubble, but the Icon mining area is full of piles of rubble, and it is not easy to find the exact location. Wen Xin has been fluttering among these rocks for a long time and has not been able to find it, has this task been preempted by others? Just as she was stunned, on top of a towering watchtower not far away, a Warcraft patrol spotted Wen Xin in the pile of rubble.
The watchtower increases vision, and the Beastman patrol sounded the alarm as soon as he spotted the intruder, and at the same time drew his longbow and fired an arrow at Wen Xin.
Wen Xin hurriedly jumped on a piece of gravel next to him, dodging the arrow. At this time, a team of Warcraft patrols that were passing by received an alarm and searched for this place, and the situation could be described as quite urgent.
The Warcraft sentries on the watchtower were condescending, constantly shooting arrows at Wen Xin, Wen Xin was at a disadvantage in vision and attack range, and could not fight back, so he could only try to dodge or find some stones as cover.
At this time, a Warcraft patrol was the first to find Wen Xin, and then roared, picked up the giant axe in his hand and smashed it down, Wen Xin's eyes quickly turned over, and the sharp giant axe passed by, smashing the stone that was used as a cover.
"Poof!"
An arrow with a black bird feather shot quickly and nailed Wen Xin's shoulder, knocking out nearly 100 points of her HP, and the Warcraft Archer attack not only had an armor-piercing effect, but also a bleeding effect, and the damage of -15 floated up one by one.
Even Wen Xin, who had a soul suit, was a little embarrassed at this time, which was indeed something she didn't expect.