The Principality of Zelot's annual enshrinement of rare earth mines is not far from what Locke guessed.

About sixty percent of it will be handed over to the O'Moore Empire, and the remaining forty percent will be used to buy food and develop the country's economy and people's livelihood.

Locke's move of opening his mouth to ask for 30% is equivalent to the fact that the Duchy of Zelot can only get that 10% of the mining cost.

But the fat man still agreed, what he valued was not the residual value of this newly opened rare earth mine, but the confidence that he would complete the established mining tasks before this winter.

The Duchy of Zelot is located in the north of the Omoor Empire, where the temperature is extremely low and the climate is dry, and a considerable number of laborers in the Duchy of Zelot are frozen to death in the pits every year.

Winter is the season of death for the Duchy of Zelot, and during the New Year of other peoples, the civilians of the Duchy of Zelot must carry their hoes to work in the dark and deep pits while they sit around the fire and have a happy family.

This year's situation is even more critical, as the Lallen Forest has been raging for nearly two months, directly causing several high-yield rare earth mines in the Laren Highlands to stop production for two months.

Before tonight's banquet, the fat Grand Duke had even calculated from his staff and ministers the number of laborers who might freeze to death this year.

As mentioned earlier, although Archduke Zelot usually likes wine, this guy can barely be called a diligent ruler.

Ten years ago, the Duchy of Zelot had a population of more than 100,000, and since he came to power, it has grown to a population of nearly 200,000, which can be called a miracle.

If Locke's words are true, it is a rich mine of incredible reserves, and this year the Duchy of Zelot will hopefully complete this year's mining target before winter.

The Grand Duke of Zelot was very concerned about the newly discovered rare earth mine, because in the territory of their Duchy of Zelot, there were not many rich mines that could be useful for first-class knights, and of course, there was also the reason why the rare earth ore was an open-pit mine.

The open-pit mine is good, the mining difficulty is low, the efficiency is high, and the operation is good, even if it only has a profit of 10%, it can also make the treasury of the Duchy of Zelot a little stronger.

"Then I'll leave it to you. Locke patted the fat man on the shoulder as if encouragingly.

He didn't sign any contract, just a thirty percent profit from a rare earth mine, and it was expected that this fat man would not regret it, and the consequences of deceiving a first-class knight were not so easy to bear.

"By the way, if you lack a caravan to trade, I can send one. Locke remembered the Morgan and other families with whom he had recently reached a cooperation.

"Thank you so much Rock Knight!" said Grand Duke Zelot, heartily grateful.

The country is so remote, the mode of production is single, and there are only a few caravans coming and going, if Locke can send a new caravan, it will have a great effect on mobilizing the country's economy.

"Yes. Locke nodded, Bili's family has a very wide network in the Omore Empire, and even the Gobi provinces in the west have business, but the shop is not too big.

Now let them develop in the north, presumably they are also willing.

After a few more words with Archduke Zelot, Locke turned to leave.

When it comes to mining new rare earth ores, Locke is not a good man.

Rare earth has another name - "radiant stone", the radiation intensity of that open-pit rare earth mine, since it can have some effect on first-class knights such as Locke, then how big are the side effects on ordinary humans.

Every year, countless miners freeze to death in the Duchy of Zelot, but there are also many humans who are affected by radiation every year.

Many civilians work until their old age to die, either their bodies fester, or they have mutations, multiple arms, and a few more eyes, which is normal.

The average life expectancy of ordinary humans in the wizarding world is forty years, but the average life expectancy of civilians in the Duchy of Zelot is thirty years......

Locke is not a saint, he can't control much.

Even if it is known that there will be many miners of the Duchy of Zelot, they will die in this open-pit rare earth mine.

They will use their lives to turn them into a fortune and put it in Locke's pocket.

In fact, Locke is saving them again, without this new rare earth mine, this year's construction delay of two months, the number of miners in the Duchy of Zelot freezing to death in winter is definitely far more than the number of people who died due to radiation from the veins.

The Pabili family sent a caravan over, which may be what Locke subconsciously hoped to make up for, and it would be good to improve the status quo of the Duchy of Zelot a little.

Two weeks later, Rock returned to Princeton.

One of the bear's paws of the Stone Haze Storm Bear was handed over to the Knight Hall by him as proof of the mission.

"Well, yes, this is a second-degree mutated stone haze storm bear, right?" The person who received Locke was an old man who couldn't see the depth.

With a gray beard and a tough physique, this old knight can be the old man.

Locke didn't know what the second mutation was, so he could only stand there humbly, without the slightest hint of arrogance.

That Stone Haze Storm Bear is really not something that the average novice knight during the ten-year mission can deal with, and Locke ran into that guy, even if the blind cat ran into a dead mouse, and bumped into it.

Two days and one night of protracted battle, Locke has not experienced such a long battle for a long time.

"The young man did a good job, this is your annual salary this year, you don't need to go to the logistics office, I'll give it to you directly." The old man seemed to be quite big, and after complimenting Locke, he threw him a bag of energy crystals.

The corners of Locke's mouth twitched at the age of thirty-six Chinese New Year's Eve, the title of 'young man', Locke remembered the last time someone called himself that was more than ten years ago during the plane war.

Not dwelling on the old knight for too long, Locke took his money and left respectfully.

Fifty high-grade wind spars, nearly double the number of last year, this is the knight's palace's disguised reward for his completion of the task, and it is also an affirmation of his strength.

After getting a sum of money, Locke wondered whether to go home first to enjoy the gentleness of Lafite and Xia Qian, or to have a drink with Hals and the others.

......

Two years later, in a tropical forest in the eastern part of the O'Moore Empire.

Hals and the others, who had just completed a Warcraft hunting mission, sat around the fire, barbecuing the hind legs of the stone pig while chatting with each other.

"Hey, Locke, I heard you're a half-elf?" said Hals, winking at Locke, who was sitting on a branch.

Locke in the tree rolled his eyes and ignored the idiot.

"If you want to solve your personal problems, go to the Rose Shop in the trading area! I heard from Mo Lidi that there is a new batch of purebred elves there!" Shelley said violently.

Women are sometimes rough and more daring than men.

Rose Square ...... I'll go, Locke has heard these guys mention it many times, but unfortunately he hasn't been there once.

It is said to be the property of a certain third-level heavenly knight who likes women in the knight's hall.

That heavenly knight has great powers, and in his rose workshop, there are sweet singers, desert beauties, and prairie beauties...... It's everything, but the signature is a group of deep-sea mermaids, and the thrill of exotic beauties attracts a group of male knights to empty their pockets.

Sometimes heterotopic females are added to give vent to the Knights' Palace's cattle.

"Purebred elf, if I want that money, I might as well change myself to a set of inner armor. Hals grunted.

With his assets, it would take about three years to redeem a purebred elf from the Rose Workshop, and this beautiful-looking heterogeneous creature was a sought-after item in the Knights' Palace.

Even if they get tired of playing in the future, they will sell it to the Holy Tower, and let those magicians extract a few bottles of elven essence blood, which will be enough for them to return to thirty percent of their capital.

The effect of the elven essence blood is similar to the bottle of elven elven potion that Locke got before, and it can convert human blood into half-elves, but the extraction method is a little bloody, and there are also some sequelae.

"Jean, how much can we make this time?" Joyce turned to the thin man sitting around the campfire.

"The magician said, fifty energy crystals per person. Jean opened his palms and gestured to the numbers.

"Damn, please come out and take a trip to the red cha, it's only fifty energy crystals!" Hals complained again.

The crowd ignored him.

This mission is not difficult, mainly time-consuming and laborious, they need to track down a five-eyed tarantula family in the dense forest, the first-level magician of the Holy Tower, and name twelve tarantula eyeballs to create a certain magical equipment.

"After this mission is completed, will my brother take you to the Kingdom of Franza to have some fun?" Hals, seeing that no one was paying attention to him, jumped up the tree and hooked up with Locke.

The longer he came into contact with Hals, the more Locke felt that this was a joke, with a simple mind and developed limbs, and he was talking about Hals.

"If I can complete this mission before November, I will go with you for half a month. Locke half-squinted, and the old god said.

"Before November, yes!" Hals said with a roll of his eyes and a slap on the face of Locke.

Shelley and the others also looked interested, "Speaking of which, I haven't been back for five years." Shelley said as she pinched her hair.

"I don't know what happened to the group of ice fish I kept in the moat outside the royal city, if there are many of them, I invite you to eat ice fish. Arnold said with a smile.

They are all Franza people, first-class knights who work hard in the Omoor Empire.

In the past, it was once in ten years to return to Franza and change people with those remaining first-class knights.

"We Franza have a lot of good things, Franza's women are also famous for their ice and snow intelligence in the surrounding countries, if you don't dislike it, brother, I can send you a few beauties as maids!" Hals said to Locke with a smile as he looked like a big brother.

"Let's talk about it. Locke shrugged.

He didn't know what França was famous for, but he had heard of Franza famously poor, and it was a land of ice and snow, so who knew which ice sculpture Hals was talking about as 'good thing'?