Chapter 555: The Opening of Ulduar (10)
At this time, the Great Traveler, the master of exploration, has entered the depths of Ulduar, the Bronze Boots are not here to fight monsters, as the discoverer of Ulduar, he has the blessing of the Titan, he can move freely in Ulduar without being hostile to monsters, he is purely here for sightseeing.
This is undoubtedly a great benefit, although the Bronze Boot does not have the ability to fight, but he can use it to collect countless information about the inside of Ulduar, and now that the new area is open, every second counts, the information he has will definitely make countless guilds crazy.
The Brass Boots, who was enjoying his visit in Ulduar, made his way around the Iron Council and the Hall of the Guardians to the Greenhouse, the Eco Garden, where he walked among the massive insects and plants, throwing out his identification skills.
The Bronze Boots recorded the information they had obtained. At that moment, his magic crystal rang out.
"Are you free now? Can you help me translate these words? Asher said in the magic crystal, and at the same time sent all the contents of the ancient trees he found to the Bronze Boots.
"A million gold coins." Copper Boots slyly opened his mouth to make an offer. "This is my consulting fee, your Tower of Twilight is so rich, I think it should be added to another 500,000."
He's not really a money fan, but Bronze Boots is very fond of relying on his abilities and knowledge to earn what he deserves, just like he is now collecting Ulduar's internal information, which is definitely going to be auctioned.
He deserved it, after all.
"Give you five million gold coins, and help me translate." Ashur said helplessly.
Five million, one million. It's a drop in the bucket for the Tower of Dusk, and Asher desperately needs it.
Copper boots are a word, and he didn't really plan to take Yashu's money, and when he saw the screenshot of the book sent by Yashu, he was also sitting on the ground, and simply translated it in the monster group, which is difficult for Yashu to understand, but for professionals, it's actually the same thing.
Soon. The Bronze Boots used his skills to sort out the entire text and sent it to Asher with great joy, and he himself saw the contents.
"Damn, it's essentia ore. You have a lot of appetite, all the records on it are batches of essentia ore, where the hell have you robbed, there will be such a huge amount of essentia ore. Bronze Boots read what he translated. It was also shocking.
"I haven't skimmed the eight characters yet, thank you anyway." Asher said as he hung up the magic crystal.
Looking at the text from the Brass Boots, Asher read it carefully. He hadn't been mistaken, most of the books were essentia ores, as well as a small number of other precious minerals, including the date of excavation of each batch of stock, and some of which had been marked as being shipped.
Asher finally summed up, there are still the last three batches of essentia ore that have been mined in this pit, each batch is a month's mining volume, converted into the adventurer's calculation method, I am afraid that there will be more than 150,000 groups of essentia ore, neatly stacked in a warehouse in the depths of the pit.
On top of that, there is a section above that describes the location of the warehouse.
"Great." Asher put down the text and couldn't help but laugh. "Finally, it was not in vain, although we took a long detour, but we also got this information, go, I know where to look."
Ashur and his two teammates walked to the end of the corridor, where a suspension bridge was connected, and from the suspension bridge that extended in all directions, Ashur could make his way to the depths of the pit with relative safety.
With the goal, the speed and efficiency of action were suddenly different, and the three of Ashur shuttled back and forth in the pit, and soon came to the extremely deep underground, and Ashur looked at the records in the text all the way.
At the same time, they did not forget that at this time, they were not the only ones in the mine, Artoria walked in the front to open the way, protecting the mage Asher in the middle, and Vivien sneaked behind, paying attention to the movements around them, and in the case of a sneak attack by thieves, they could also take the lead with a backhand.
Moving forward uneventfully, the three of them quickly approached the location on the record, and at this moment, Vivien, who was at the end, suddenly stopped, looked around, and said coldly: "Someone is fighting. ”
Hearing this, Ashur and Artoria immediately stopped, listened carefully, and suddenly a small shouting and chaotic sound entered their ears, Ashur looked down, in this deep pit, the sound spread far away, it is estimated that a large-scale battle broke out far below.
"I don't know who it is, let's speed up and see if we can catch up." Asher made a decision.
Ashur simply blessed himself with invisibility, and let Artoria drink the invisibility potion, and the three epic masters were all invisible, and quickly rushed down, and soon, they came to the place where the previous battle broke out, and the battle was over.
Asher jumped off a chain and landed on a platform to look around, a narrow platform that connected the four walls of the pit, the ground beneath his feet was mottled with blood, and the corpses of a dozen cavemen, not adventurers, lay down.
"It seems to be those adventurers from the Blood Elf Alliance." Asher looked around and said.
"Why are they provoking these cavemen here, they shouldn't be so careless." Vivien also jumped from above and landed firmly on the platform.
"They found something here, wanted to explore, and were forced to confront these cavemen." Asher said as he opened the transcript, which did not contain anything in the area.
The location of the warehouse is very close, but it is not here.
"There's an entrance there." Artoria sat on the massive chain above, pointed to the front of the platform, and said, "You turn on a little bit of light and we'll be able to see clearly." ”
Ashur immediately looked up at the front, his fingertips lightly flashed with the light of the Dancing Light Technique, and sure enough, under the shimmer of light, a pitch-black outline of the hole appeared in front of Ashur.
"Huh?" Ashur looked at the entrance of the cave and was about to go in and explore it, when suddenly his gaze wandered and froze on a stone on the ground, and his brow suddenly furrowed.
Ashur walked over in two steps and picked up the stone from the ground1.
This is a square piece of ore, the whole body exudes a black metallic color, like a polished iron plate, and when Yashu just picked it up, his face instantly sank.
obsidian
"Someone has found the location of the warehouse before us." Asher turned back to Vivien's side and showed him the ore in his hand, "This is the obsidian mine, the same level of associated ore as essentia ore, and the ground over there is all this, someone tried to escape with these ores, but was killed by the monster and exploded these things. ”
"So what now?" Vivien also frowned when she heard this, "They brought the ore into the cave in front, are we going to chase it?" ”
"You and Artoria continue to look for the essentia ore storehouse, and I'll catch up with them and blow the obsidian ore out." Ashur said in a deep voice, "Magic Crystal Contact." ”
After Ashur finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the entrance of the dark cave, and when he approached the entrance of the cave, he waved his hand and sent out an arcane art, and all the obsidian mines on the ground quickly entered Ashur's backpack like a storm and clouds, and he glanced at it roughly, and there were more than forty pieces that burst out alone.
Obsidian ore and essentia ore are equally precious, but it is obvious that in this pit, obsidian ore exists as an associated mineral, and the output is extremely rare, so it is actually rarer than essentia ore, and only the two or three groups picked up by Asher can be sold for millions of sky-high prices outside.
The main thing is that now there is no way to obtain obsidian mines, and Asher does not want such a valuable resource to fall into the hands of others, especially enemies.
Murder and overkill? This kind of thing Ashur had often done before, especially killing people who were hostile to the guild and robbing them of the treasures they had worked so hard to find, and Ashur was even more willing.
He entered the cavern, activated his arcane vision, and made his way quickly along the only route.
After Asher left, Vivien and Artoria followed the instructions and descriptions given to them by Ashur and quickly descended to a platform at the bottom of the pit, a near-cage building suspended in mid-air by four massive chains, and Vivien jumped on it first.
Along the way, they were very vigilant, but they didn't encounter the elegy or the humanoid monster syndicate thief, and after arriving here, Vivien walked around a few times on alert, completely confirming that no one was following or ambushing her.
"It's strange, they should have come down before us, but why didn't they see it when they got here, this platform is also conspicuous, didn't they search it and go down again?" Artoria jumped onto the platform as well, and the heavy armor and tower shield made the platform tremble a few times, and he straightened up and wondered.
"Let's go in and see what's here." Vivien walked around the platform a few times, and had already found the entrance, and he crouched down on the ground to tinker with something, and began to use the thief's lockpicking skills.
Vivian tried several times in a row, but was unsuccessful, simply stood up, stepped on it fiercely, and with a loud bang, the iron door that was stepped on fell directly, and a hole was suddenly exposed, Vivian was also stunned, and then helplessly put away the lockpicking tool, lay on the hole and looked down for a while, and jumped down carefully.
Artoria finally looked around, turned on his perception skills to make sure that no one was following, and walked towards the entrance of the cave, ready to go down with Vivien, at this moment, the platform under his feet suddenly erupted into a violent tremor, and several violent muffled sounds sounded inside, and Artoria was caught off guard and was directly shaken to the ground, sliding down the tilted platform-
"What's going on? Vivien, there's an ambush inside? Artoria grabbed the edge of the platform. Listening carefully to the crashing and muffled sounds coming from inside, he asked hurriedly in the magic crystal.
Vivien, however, did not answer, and the noise inside intensified.
"Boom!"
Just as Artoria was about to climb up, a violent countershock suddenly came from the platform again, and this force was so great that it instantly shook Artoria, who was firmly grasping the edge of the platform, and his palms were numb, and the iron plate under him was visibly twisted to the naked eye, which startled Artoria.
"What is this?" There was a hint of shock in his eyes, he was an epic warrior, and he could feel the immense power that could shock him. That's an exaggeration.
Taking advantage of the fact that he was not directly hit by the shock that erupted again, Artoria hurriedly climbed onto the platform, but before he could stand up, a huge force roared again, as if it was coming at him, and directly blasted Artoria off the platform entirely, his eyes widened suddenly, he didn't grasp anything at all, and fell straight down—
Artoria landed on several chains with a thud. Then he continued to slide, stumbling all the way down, damage numbers floating above his head, and finally he barely turned around. He grabbed the edge chain of a suspension bridge and hung it in the air, avoiding the fate of falling to his death.
"What the hell is it?" The human warrior gasped for breath and looked at the bottomless abyss beneath his feet. Then he looked up at the platform that was already out of reach in the sky.
As for Vivien, she was long gone.
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By this time, Asher had followed the entrance of the cave into a long tunnel. The passage was not complicated, and Asher followed the only route he had, and along the way he found a number of scattered troglodyte corpses, as well as a number of obsidian mines nearby.
These obsidian mines can't be exploded by these cavemen, even if they are elite monsters, they won't drop so many precious ores at one time, they can only be left behind after those adventurers hung up, Yashu didn't see the corpses, this is a neutral territory, and most of those people are resurrected in the wild cemetery.
As he walked, Ashur picked up these obsidian mines, no matter how small the mosquito was, it was meat, and besides, it was not a mosquito, and soon he collected more than ten groups of obsidian mines, which made Asher's heart more and more hot.
Even in the later stages of the previous life, these things are hot high-grade materials, and in the current era, they are almost priceless, completely surpassing all the current mainstream materials, usually they can only occasionally get some leftovers, but there are so many here.
How could Asher have allowed his enemies to take these with him?
Turning a corner again, Ashur habitually looked around with his eyes that maintained arcane vision, which had been unanomalous before, but this time, Ashur's movements stiffened imperceptibly for a moment.
In the next moment, he was back to normal, walking forward as if nothing had happened.
In the afterglow of Ashur's perspective, his retina was covered with a faint blue fluorescence, and a clearly visible transparent figure appeared in sight, he curled up in a dark corner, looking as if he was dealing with a wound, and when he saw Ashur appear, his movements immediately stopped, for fear of being discovered.
Asher also pretended not to notice him and continued to walk forward.
When Asher was far away, shadows rolled in the darkness around the corner, and a pale golden figure emerged from the air, slumped on the ground, and let out a long breath.
This person hiding here is an elegy.
Leaning against the rock wall, bandaging his injured left arm, his expression was calm, he quickly bandaged his wounds, drank another bottle of recovery potion, then stood up and moved his arms, and went into a stealth state to follow Asher in front of him.
Since the discovery of Elegy, Asher has been constantly using the detection of humanoids, because he can't look back, he can only rely on this way to sense him, the thief profession can't feel the fluctuation of spells, he can be assured of detection, until he has gone far away, and the detection of humanoids finally receives a hint that someone is approaching.
"Sure enough, I can't help it." A playful smile tugged at the corner of Ashur's mouth.
Asher pretended that nothing had happened and continued as usual.
After Ashur turned a corner again, he suddenly frowned, he could clearly feel that the temperature around him had quietly risen a lot, and a slightly warm scorching heat came to his face, Ashur continued to walk forward, and the system prompt for the temperature increase also came as expected.
"Are there hidden signs of volcanic activity beneath the Akaclyde Mountains?" Ashur muttered to himself.
There are two types of volcanoes in Kadolin, one is a naturally occurring natural volcano. In accordance with the general principle of geography, such a volcano could not have occurred in a place such as the Akaclyde Mountains, where the crust is not so weak, and it is extremely difficult for magma flows to erupt and form a volcano at such depths, and at such depths, magma is generally difficult to see, and there are no signs of a significant increase in temperature.
There is also a volcano that is gradually born due to the presence of the fire demon, the overlord of the fire elemental creatures, the presence of the fire demon will gradually erode the ground and turn all plates into lava flows, and eventually lead the volcano to erupt on its own, and an active volcano will rise on the flat land or mountain range. Asher had dealt with a fire demon when he was helping Decones on a mission.
Then there is only one explanation...... There's the Fire Demon here!
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Today's fourth watch, there is something to do, I'm sorry, I don't have enough stamina.