If you want to get rich, you have to mine first, I don't know who said that, John's purpose in sending them to this place this time is to get rich.

The main role of ore is to make weapons and armor, and the demand for minerals is the first priority in any country.

John is also short of weapons and armor, and although his goblin troops are very inconspicuous, as long as they put on armor and take a good weapon, they still have combat effectiveness, not real cannon fodder.

It is a very dangerous thing to keep an eye on the mineral areas mined by the state, which are usually heavily guarded, and there is no other way to successfully seize the minerals than to overthrow them.

So a big war is inevitable, and for this reason John is throwing all his current combat power into it, which is a gamble.

However, John is not worried about losing, he is still very confident in the strength of the Black Knights, not to mention the numerical crushing, the winner is already clear.

Whether he will use his last big hole card is still unknown, and if he wasn't busy with work, he would have wanted to participate in this battle.

Hopefully they'll have a little fun, John smiled faintly as he sipped his tea.

"Well, get on with your work."

Put down the teacup and continue to devote yourself to the extraction of ice flowers.

The Holy Empire, Yollel, as the neighbor of the Fival Empire and the headquarters of the Holy See of Light, is a great power with the blessing of light throughout the country, the country and the people live and work in peace and contentment.

This time, the ore mining place that John was targeting was relatively remote from the Holy Empire, and it was also far away from their Misty Lands, and he almost had to circle the Holy Empire before he could come back.

Why did you choose this place?

It's very simple, the fewest troops, the farthest from the headquarters, and the longest time for information circulation, although it is not worthy of the largest mining area of the Holy Empire, but it is enough for them, and they can leave when they have enough, from all aspects, this place is the best choice, for them who are still in the initial stage, there is no reason to refuse.

The strategic map was made by John a long time ago, and so was the spatial teleportation point, John had this idea a long time ago, and he also implemented it, everything is ready only to the east wind, just to wait for this moment to come.

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Holy Empire - a remote mining area of the Eastern Forest.

Located deep in the mountains and forests, far from the city, it was not worth investing a lot of resources in mining from the perspective of mining, and it was only because of the abundance of magical ores that the empire would set up this place as a mining place.

The role of magic ore is mainly used to forge those special equipment with magic power, the value is extraordinary, each piece of equipment made from this can be sold for a price of hundreds of thousands of gold coins, not to mention some equipment mixed with magic ore, the value is almost beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and such equipment is generally only qualified to be worn by imperial soldiers.

After years of mining, the amount of mining in this area is decreasing, and it is estimated that it will be about a decade away.

Therefore, the subsidies issued by the state year after year are gradually getting worse year by year, and many soldiers who come here not only have to resist the severe cold, but also endure the loneliness and shiver of the day after day.

The role of the Imperial soldiers is to escort the minerals, as well as to chase away those bandits who want magic ores, which is nothing more than the image of protection.

In addition to the soldiers, there are also human workers in charge of mining in this place, all of whom are hired by the nearby cities, day after day, year after year, and the workers are also changed, and so are the soldiers.

Because of the title of the country on his head, as long as he is not a fool, no one will come to cause trouble, and the last batch of imperial soldiers also started two years ago, and they have not met a guy who rushed to rob the mine for a long time, and his martial arts and physical fitness are also gambling and drinking day by day, and it is only a matter of time before he becomes an ordinary person.

The small troops patrolling the woods, walking on the line day after day, were trampled out of a road even if it was not a road.

"Whew~, damn it, it's so cold!"

Exhaling white air, the Imperial soldier hugged the thin clothes on his body and said.

There was a light snow in the gloomy sky, and the trees that had been dressed in pale green were stripped of their clothes and stood like dead wood, still covered in snow, and their footprints remained on the snow.

"The weather is really worse day by day, it's really unlucky, why is it our turn on this day?"

"Well, I prefer to patrol the mines rather than outside, and although the dusty air is uncomfortable, it's better than freezing to death outside!"

"This must be the Ice Goddess's punishment for us, those damned heretics!"

Step by step, the soldiers' footprints were imprinted on the white snow, and their whining.

The weather is too cold, since the festival in the Ice Flower City on that day, the temperature has been getting lower and lower day by day, and the snow has grown from nothing, and there is a tendency to get bigger and bigger, and now almost even the warm water can freeze in an instant, and everyone knows that the ice and snow goddess is angry.

Despite their training, the soldiers of the Empire were as weak as ants in the face of the forces of nature.

In order to complete their patrol tasks quickly, the soldiers all invariably sped up their almost frozen feet, trying to complete the prescribed route as soon as possible, return to the warm camp, and drink a glass of hot wine.

In order to resist the cold, people in this area usually drink spirits to warm their bodies, which would not have been allowed in the army, if it weren't for the fact that some unlucky people have been frozen to death by the cold weather outside in the past few days, the people above are also aware of this, weighing the pros and cons, this allows the reserve personnel to buy a large amount of spirits, but this does not think that the soldiers can drink freely, they have set strict rules, and the soldiers on patrol are allowed to drink one or two times the spirits to warm their bodies and minds every time they come back and go out.

Because of such regulations, the probability of soldiers freezing to death has also been greatly reduced, and it is almost impossible to hear who has been frozen to death in the past few days.

"Stop."

The captain of the team raised his hand, and he was the first to stop, looking at the white environment around him.

The soldiers behind looked at him suspiciously.

"What's wrong, Captain? Is it a wolf? ”

Every soldier disagreed, in this area, all kinds of wild beasts are a normal thing, wolves are frequent visitors, they have met many times, if it wasn't for the fact that it was too cold, the hand in the pocket was too lazy to take out, they would have killed the beast in the way, instead of obediently being a grandson to detour.