The kobold leader's pile of treasure resembles a hill, which is obviously an exaggeration, but the pile of treasure in the warehouse is almost 3 meters high, a head taller than Caligula, and everyone standing in front of it must look up. All kinds of strange shapes, colorful metals, gemstones, crystals, scales, amber, zircon, and minerals are piled up in one place, and the dazzling light dazzles people.

Roland cheered and threw himself on the pile of treasures and rolled around. The other three high-ranking female knights did not squander on the pile of treasures as unscrupulously as Her Royal Highness the Princess, but they were all eager to try with envy, and even the eyes of the iceberg beauty Margaret Wellington were full of stars.

Victor found Charlotte hiding behind the crowd with her eyes down, she was afraid that she had walked around the treasure pile dozens of times before, and now she was in a low mood when she saw the treasure change hands.

A woman and a dragon are the same creature, whether she is a knight or not...... Victor was secretly amused when he heard the Battle Priest muttering to himself:

"The tenth of the treasure belongs to the church. ”

Victor suddenly felt a pain in his heart, and the knights on the tip of his ears all turned pale, as long as Roland was not heartless and rolled on the pile of treasure.

She's really just there to roll around and experience the joie de vivre of the legendary dragon.

When Roland felt bored, she slid down from the pile of treasures, walked up to Victor, and asked, "How will this batch of loot be distributed?" You just said that you want to share, everyone heard it, you can't pay the bill." ”

Everyone pricked up their ears, Randall's personal guards eliminated the nearby orcs and found the kobold's treasure, and the Count of Goldeneye obtained the legal ownership of the treasure, because it was during the war, he was obliged to share this batch of loot with his comrades, but how the treasure was distributed was up to His Highness Randall.

Victor smiled slightly and said, "Count the treasures...... In short, we have to pay the church's tithe tax first. ”

"Yes, yes, yes, count first...... I will release the letter crow and inform Patriarch Friedes. The Battle Priest looked radiant and patted his chest and reassured, "Rest assured, my lords, we are responsible for recording the loot and nothing will go wrong. ”

The high-ranking female knights couldn't help but laugh. The church has to take the tithe, and the clergy have never been less than the number of materials, and the lord's subordinates are not necessarily accurate in registering the materials, and they must be only less than more.

Patriarch Friedes learned of the situation in Maverick Village and was quick to respond. He did not come himself, but appointed the archbishop of the royal capital of Sassan to come forward and offer him condolences to the soldiers of the vanguard army of Gambis and the garrison militia of Sassan.

For soldiers, the reward on the battlefield is nothing more than money and wine and meat, but the reward of the church never involves money and goods, and is a merit registration for awarding honorary titles to those who participate in the war.

For example, on August 11, 7579 in the Sarsan Empire, Mobique, a son of the Frederick family, responded to the call of the Red Smoke and Beacon to fight the orc invaders in the village of Maverick in the Eastern Frontier. During the battle, Mobik was brave and tenacious, killing 11 goblins, 4 kobolds, he was a veteran of the orc wars, a valiant defender of the empire, a goblin slayer, a kobold slayer, may the glory of the Most High Lord be with him.

Since then, the militia Mokobi has had an honorific title, and his son can tell others out loud: My father is the defender of the empire, the goblin slayer, the kobold slayer, the veteran Mokobi.

Because of these honorary titles, the territorial officials and priests will give Moko the corresponding respect and preferential treatment.

In fact, the reward of the church was a process of legalization, including the legalization of the spoils of war and the change of land ownership, and it was precisely this that the knightly nobility valued the most.

After a nervous and orderly count by the priest and the knight's attendants, before the sun set, the battle report of the battle of Maverick Village was prepared.

The Gambis Vanguard Army, Frederick's Guards Cavalry, and the Sassanian Garrison Militia annihilated a total of 11 ogres, 4,669 goblins, and 2,384 kobolds, including 266 bear goblins, 11 goblins, and captured 59 dragon-vein kobolds alive, including a dragon-vein kobold lord.

The garrison lost 48 casualties and 405 minor casualties, the Sassanian Guards lost 35 men, and the Cambis vanguard lost 46 cavalrymen, including two of Randall's Swiftbird light cavalry. Most of them were trampled to death by the cavalry behind them because their mounts fell.

The cavalry of the vanguard army is selected from the elite of the major families, but their cavalry experience is still quite different from that of the Sasan Guards.

In terms of loot, in addition to the dead and captured kobolds, there are also treasures collected by the kobold leaders, mainly high-quality zircon. It is an indispensable catalyst for blacksmiths to cast pure gold alloys, and has considerable practical value. Human zircon mainly comes from crystal glaze associated mines, the yield has been low, and the quality is average, like the zircon collected by the kobold from the crevices of the cliff is considered the top in the human realm, and can be used to create more excellent pure gold equipment.

The rest of the treasure also has many precious metals, which the dragon-veined kobolds smelt into strange shapes, but without affecting their value, there are even more than 12 pounds of Mithril and more than 200 pounds of pure gold. The largest amount of golden sands is unattractive compared to these two extraordinary metals.

The high-ranking knights stared at Mithril and Adamantite, and they didn't even bother to glance at the kobolds' collection of various elemental crystals, as well as treasures such as gems and amber, and even less of the jet-black Saron Magic Iron Ore and the Mithril-like Thorsilver Mine.

There are only Saron Magic Iron Ore and Thorsilver Ore, and the kobolds have not been smelted. They are singled out and sorted into inconspicuous corners. Everyone thought that the kobold leader kept these two minerals as gems, but Victor restrained his mind and acted as if nothing happened, calculating a way to swallow the magic iron ore alone without arousing suspicion.

For each booty, the priest receives a tenth each, and the rest belongs to the fighting family. Roland walked over and asked happily, "Tell me quickly, how will these treasures be distributed?"

Seeing Roland's deep green eyes, Victor suddenly became alert in his heart, any plan he had to monopolize the magic iron ore would fall into the eyes of the high-ranking knights, and the secrets of the Saron magic iron ore were more valuable than these ores.

Victor looked around at several beautiful female knights with different styles, and said, "It can be divided into five equal parts, one for each family." This distribution is the least hassle-free, but it may not be fair. There are things that work for me and things that don't work for you, and what is valuable to you is also valuable to me. ”

"Mithril, Adamantite, Zircon, Earth Elemental Crystal, and Water Elemental Crystal are divided equally among the families, and I will take all the Fire Elemental Crystals and half of the Wind Elemental Crystals, and the rest will be mine. "Victor left the choice to the female knights.

Victor's Fire Elemental Crystal was prepared for Sylvia. There are a total of 67 fire elemental crystals of different qualities here, how many can Sylvia use alone? Fire elemental crystals, like other elemental crystals, are mostly used as gem ornaments, and do not have much practical value.

Victor asks everyone to pick the rest of the treasure first, and the high-ranking female knights interpret this as the gentlemanly demeanor of the Golden-Eyed Earl.

Roland also said: "Okay, the wind element crystal is also useful to the August family, I will take the other half of the wind element crystal, and the rest of the treasures, you pick first, and I will choose the rest before Victor." ”

The two highnesses said magnanimously, and of course the three high-ranking female knights would not be polite, and they were like dragons, taking the most beautiful gems and crystals, and then the golden sand, gold ingots, amber, and unnamed scales and animal bones. The Saron Magic Iron Ore sells well, and they each picked two pieces to keep as their collections. In the end, there was only a large pile of demonic iron ore and Thorsilver ore left, and Roland glanced at Victor, unceremoniously asked for all the Thorsilver ore, and also took a few pieces of the most black and shiny magic iron ore.

Sure enough, more than a thousand pounds of demonic iron ore fell into Victor's pocket.

The half-dragons of the swamp dug for more than three years of demonic iron ore underwater, and it was only enough for the alchemy auxiliaries to build 30 tracking demonic iron arrows. And this batch of ore can make at least 200 tracking magic arrows!

Victor was satisfied, but Cardinal Haruzer of the Eastern Diocese of Sassan said almost beside him:

"Hehe, Ugin ore is very rare, and the metal it smelts can absorb and channel the Void element, and ancient wizards used Ugin to make extraordinary weapons. The heirloom sword of the House of Nakhtigar is an extraordinary sword made of Ugin. Nakhtigar stabs the target with the Ugin Sword, causing the Earth Elemental to detonate inside the target and inflict a petrification effect. It is said that Nakhtigar can even turn a Hydra lizard to stone as long as the Ugin Sword continues to damage the target long enough. ”

Victor is well aware of the characteristics of Salon's magic iron, and when his tracking magic arrow hits the target, the magic iron arrow will release the void wind element in the target's body, causing great damage, which is especially effective against monsters with high resistance.

He smiled and said, "It's a pity that the black gold mine can't be smelted now. ”

Archbishop Haruzer muttered, "Maybe there is a way...... The mountain dwarves of the Arret Plateau smelt minerals with earthfire, which is hot enough to perhaps refine Ugin. He paused, then said, "Of course, smelting Ugin with earth fire is only a possibility. The Greyloaf have taken over the mountain dwarven tunnels, and it's not worth the risk for the Ugin Mine. After all, the army is the key to defeating the orcs and expanding our territory. Reducing the casting cost of ordinary weapons and equipment and improving the quality of armaments is obviously more meaningful than building an extraordinary weapon. ”

The archbishop's verbal inducement did not work for the high-ranking female knights, everyone knew the importance of military equipment, but this did not prevent the high-ranking knights from liking Mithril.

Silkly Joshua looked left and right, and smiled with crooked eyebrows: "Oh, why didn't you see His Royal Highness the eldest son of Emperor Frederick." ”

Haruzer smiled and said with a dry smile: "Zige is in charge of the logistics of the Eastern Defense Line, and he is busy. He first returned to the imperial capital, recruited young and strong people, and rebuilt the camp of Xiaoniu Village, but he did not have time to say goodbye to your Excellencies. He asked me to apologize to you. ”

The treasure collected by the kobold lord is nothing compared to the Mithril veins beneath Maverick Village, which is a high-quality Mithril Mine, not a Mythril Mine that is associated with silver. According to the law of lords, the lord of Maverick Village abandons the pioneer territory, and this place becomes a borderless land, and whoever clears the nearby orc forces, this territory belongs to him, including the Mithril vein. The Cambes Vanguard responded to the call to war issued by the Church and belonged to a foreign country, and it was not their turn to declare sovereignty in Maverick Village. Siegfried led his Knights of the Guards in the Battle of Maverick Village and deserved to take legal ownership of the land. Therefore, he was in a hurry to return to the imperial capital and find Patriarch Friedus to change the authority of Maverick Village, so that the Mithril vein would be legally under his name.

Siegfried picked up a big bargain in vain, and should have rewarded the vanguard of Gambis with the promise of a certain amount of Mithril, but he didn't say a word and secretly ran away.

Ziggy's behavior, Victor looked up to him instead. In the face of the interests of the family, the dignity of the eldest son of the emperor should be lost, there is no golden knight by his side, if he uses Mithril to curry favor with Roland, who knows how much Mithril will be promised?

Siegfried was self-aware, knowing that Princess Roland was not something he could pursue now, even if he wanted to give Cambis some Mithril reinforcements, it would be between Frederick and Auguste.

During the war, this Mithril vein in particular should not be a rift between the two sides. Siegfried was in a hurry to return to the imperial capital and consult with Patriarch Friedes about countermeasures.

Victor was not afraid that the Frederick family would not share some Mithril, and he was concerned about another matter.

"Your Excellency, are there any mountains and cliffs nearby?" asked Victor.

Haruzer did not hesitate, and replied with a smile: "To the northeast, 100 kilometers away from Xiaoniu Village, there is a mountain forest that covers an area of about 600 square kilometers from east to west, called Eagle's Nest Mountain. The kobold lord may have moved from Eagle's Nest Mountain to Maverick Village. However, since it has given up the territory of Eagle's Nest Mountain, it means that all the treasures over there have been dug up by it. ”

Dragons are accustomed to nesting their nests on cliff faces that thieves can't visit. More than 10,000 years ago, dragons disappeared from human view and became mythical creatures, but the dragon-veined kobolds remained, and their habits were the same as those of dragons.

The kobold lord has almost no natural predators, and if the dragon weiga breathes, the ogre overseers will also be burned to ashes by it. If it stays in its lair on a cliff, it will be very difficult for Victor to capture it alive, and it is even less likely that Roland will catch it. Unfortunately, its dragon power didn't work against the high-ranking knights, and the Golden Knight had insight into all elemental changes, and before it could open its mouth, Roland knew it was going to spit fireballs there. So, the leader of the dragon-veined kobolds who left the cliff shelter became Roland's trophy, and the treasure he had worked so hard to collect was divided up by the hateful humans, and even the eggs he laid had to be made into life-prolonging potions.

With a lifespan of over 200 years, silver-tier dragon vein kobolds are considered to be immortals among monsters, and they have a strong collector's habit and an innate treasure hunting instinct. When an area of treasure is looted by kobolds, they wander to the next treasure territory with their treasure instincts.

Bishop Haruzer believes that if the kobold lord is from Eagle's Nest Mountain, then there is no valuable wealth around Eagle's Nest Mountain.

Victor agreed with the archbishop, but he had to check it out.

The strange crystal found by Caligula must be related to the Alchemy Empire, and Victor has a similar strange crystal, which he accidentally discovered when he collected the alchemy tower rune crystal in the misty mountains of Naville. So far, he hasn't been able to figure out what the use of that strange crystal is.

However, what if there are relics of the Alchemy Empire in Eagle's Nest Mountain, and what if there is an ownerless alchemy pagoda?

The Alchemy Tower was built at the intersection of the four void elemental balances, and when the elemental balance changed, the rune crystal automatically turned into the form of the core of the earth, buried in the ground, and could be preserved for tens of thousands of years. The core of the earth is the reality embodiment of the void earth element, which continues to consume the power of the rune crystal, and before the rune crystal is completely damaged, no matter how strong the kobold lord is, he will not be able to move the core of the earth. But kobolds can dig out the core of the earth.

The kobold lord digs up the strange crystal, and there may be a core of the earth next to it. As for when and where it dug it, it is not clear.

If the strange crystal was excavated in Eagle's Nest Mountain, the traces of the kobold digging the pit would be easy to find.

Even if there is only a one percent chance, Eagle's Nest Mountain is worth a trip to Victor.

"Nelson, gather the Guards, and we'll go at once. Victor shouted to Nelson, who was watching the kobold lord.

"Yes, my lord!" Nelson replied loudly, not asking why, and turned to gather his men.

Bishop Haruzer looked up at the gloomy sky and asked in surprise, "Your Highness, it's getting dark, are you going there when you set off at this time?"

"It makes no difference to me whether it's night or day. ”

Victor turned his head and said with a graceful smile, "We are going to Duke Baselius's defense zone to hunt the Elder Ursus." Set off tonight and camp for the night near Eagle's Nest Mountain. By the way, I'll survey the terrain of Eagle's Nest Mountain to see if there are any large monster communities over there. ”