Chapter 18: The Night of the Falling Stars
Not all locations in the Carlos Mountains have pyrolite, only the area on the west side of Rock Town is abundant.
The lords of Rock Town only have dominion over Rock Town and the surrounding lands, and the Kalos Mountains are also the territorial boundary between the Kingdom of El Norr and neighboring countries.
Wild areas like the Carlos Mountains are dangerous to be infested with monsters all year round, and it is safe to mine fire crystals. Viscount Karl, the lord of Rock Town, has invested a lot of resources in this regard, opening up a relatively safe passage and a large mine.
If it weren't for the income of other towns and the support of the family, I am afraid it would have failed long ago.
Fortunately, in less than a year after the construction, the income of the fire crystal allowed him to earn back with interest.
The nobles of Black Rock City were extremely eager to get involved, and the good position had long been occupied by Cal, so they could only choose a location with low remaining production to open a mine.
There is a huge demand for fire crystal on the mainland, and although more mines will affect the price, the large number of guards brought by the nobles of Blackstone City also indirectly makes the area around the mining area safer. The Chamber of Commerce in Blackstone City also joined forces with some merchants to open small mines.
For a small businessman like Pike, it is impossible to set up a mine, so he has to do some hard work to buy igneous quartz from a relatively cheap source to earn a little bit of the difference and freight.
Hearing Pike's proposal, Chu Yun was a little moved, and the magic scroll used in Kane's battle before made Chu Yun very excited. His magic model is built with the help of blueprints, and it is easy to cast spells and draw scrolls, as long as you find some evil magicians to brush up on how to make magic scrolls.
Many fire-based magic scrolls require fire crystal powder as the base material for drawing magic patterns, and wands require relatively complete crystals.
Chu Yun was now a rare professional brigade mage, but he only had a rusty short knife on his body, which was really too frustrating.
"Pike, for me to buy a small amount of fire crystal, I don't think it's necessary to go to the mine if I can buy it directly in Rock Town. "Although the mines are cheaper, it is not cost-effective to risk going to the mines when there are few of them.
Hearing Chu Yun's answer, Pike whispered: "In fact, the miners in the mining area are not so honest, a miner I know will secretly bury the igneous crystals that the workers secretly hid every once in a while in the place we agreed. ”
"After I get the goods, I will pay the money directly to his family to complete the transaction, and last time I directly took ten second-order fire crystals and sold them for a lot of money!" Pike said excitedly.
Chu Yun was a little puzzled: "You're not afraid of me telling the truth?"
Pike shook his head: "I have a special contact with him, only I know where the burial site is, and you don't know who he is, and the mine owner has no evidence." ”
"Why are you telling me this? Why don't you just trade with him like you did before?" Chu Yun was still puzzled.
Pike sighed and said, "This time is different, he hid the igneous crystal in the mine before he could bring it out, and the mine was abandoned. ”
"Now that mine is unguarded and occupied by monsters, it's a bit dangerous there, but I don't want Rock Town and people I don't trust to get involved, so I want you to go to the mine to collect the hedron when the time comes. Parker glanced at Hansen not far away and said helplessly.
Most of the townspeople in Rock Town are still simple and very grateful to the lord, and if they knew about their behavior, they might report it.
"So, Pike, what will I gain by helping you?"
Parker was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "The goods this time are eight second-order fire crystals and fifteen first-order fire crystals, if you get them successfully, I will give you three second-order fire crystals at that time." ”
The price of the spars that Pike illegally purchased from the miners was very low, especially this time the other party did not bring the items to the agreed place, so the price was even more pressed by him, even if he gave Chu Yun three, there was still a lot of profit margin.
It may be more troublesome for others to obtain items in the place occupied by monsters, but for Chu Yun, who has the ability to enter the mirror world, it is very simple, and this business can be done!
"Pike, I'm not sure if I can really defeat those monsters, if I fail......" Chu Yun is still a more cautious person.
"Don't worry, it's just a swarm of rock worms, with your strength, it's definitely fine. It doesn't matter if you fail. Pike smiled and toasted.
The two agreed on the departure time for the next day, and Hansen was still escorted on the road, and when they reached the fork, the two acted separately.
After the discussion, the enthusiastic Pike even settled the bill for Chu Yun, and Chu Yun ordered some more food and returned to the hotel.
After arriving at the hotel, Chu Yun knocked on the door.
"Knock knock~"
"Thea, it's me. ”
There were some strange sounds in the room, and the door was opened shortly after.
Xiya's expression seemed to be a little flustered, only wearing pajamas, and the door was ajar, blocking Chu Yun's sight with her body: "Lord Chu Yun, it's so late, what's the matter with you?"
Chu Yun handed her the packed food: "I guess I didn't ask you to come with you when you were resting, and I brought you something to eat." The effect of berries is almost gone. ”
Looking at the sumptuous food handed over by Chu Yun, Xiya was a little stunned.
"This, you brought me back with you?" it was clear that the food was not cold leftovers, but freshly baked food.
"If you don't have anything to do, rest early, I have something important to go out with Pike tomorrow, you can buy what you want to eat with this money, try not to go out to avoid trouble." Chu Yun looked at her strangely pitiful, and stuffed a gold coin into her as pocket money.
After speaking, Chu Yun entered his room without waiting for the other party to come to his senses.
Thea stood stunned, then brought the food into her room and closed the door. The sheets and quilts in the room had been replaced by Thea at some unknown time, and the clothes on the coat in the bathroom were stained with blood.
"He's concerned about me? No, he's going to leave me behind tomorrow like his master. ”
Thea tried to stuff the delicious food into her mouth, but it turned out to be like chewing wax, and for her, only fresh flesh and blood could increase her strength and allow her to enjoy the deliciousness.
This is one of the costs.
Thea didn't know why, but she eventually swallowed it all, leaving no food leftovers, no matter how unpalatable it was.
"I have no way out, I need to improve as soon as possible. Thea came to the window and looked at the deep night sky and muttered to herself.
Soon after, a meteor streaked by, followed by a second and a third......
On this night, countless meteors fell scattered all over the continent, this was by no means an ordinary meteor shower, no one knew what was going on, only some powerful professionals noticed the unusual aura.
Some priests of the gods were horrified to find that their connection with the god lord was becoming weaker and weaker, although the mage's magic net was still there, but it was much less stable and efficient than before, and the strength of these spell mages who relied on the magic net to cast spells had decreased a lot.