Chapter 287: Entrustment
"It's all old friends, I'm welcome, you guys come in, it's dangerous outside." The old mayor said.
The procession entered the town, everything was settled, and the caravan entered the town's civic hall, a large wooden house large enough to accommodate hundreds of people.
As everyone entered, the oil lamps in the hall flickered, and the lights near the door were blown out.
Su Ye and several other mages emitted a suspended glow, illuminating the civic hall.
Snoring helplessly sat outside the door.
I really can't get in.
The old mayor has a gray beard and a slightly hunched back, but he is very tall, and on his left chest is a silver-white giant bear with the warrior badge on it.
"It's a silver warrior." Su Ye stared at the badge and thought.
"We're old friends with the Agara Comptoir, and I like Haenas too, even though he always spends time on the girls in our town." The old mayor smiled.
The merchant house and the people of the town followed suit.
Haenas nodded politely and accepted the old mayor's compliment.
"I have selfish intentions and good intentions. My kindness tells me that we should ask you to leave as soon as we complete the transaction. But my selfishness tells me that we in Red Mountain are willing to pay a high amount of ore to ask you to find out what is happening under Red Mountain. If there is real danger, we will either report it to the city-state, or hire someone to solve it, or the whole town will flee. The old mayor reluctantly glanced at everyone present, and finally at Haenas.
Hahnas smacked his lips and said, "Old mayor, if this is the territory of the Agara family, I will definitely send someone directly, but you know my identity now, I don't want the caravan to be in danger." Of course, if most of the people in the caravan agree, I will follow their wishes. ”
The old mayor smiled slightly and said, "If you are willing to participate, everything you get from this process will be yours." As you should know, this Devil's Mountain Range is a treasure trove that has seen many precious things, including a source of magical power. In addition, we are willing to give this mine king as a reward. ”
The old mayor said, lifting the large ore covered by rags, more than half a person high, the main part is a pale red stone, in the pale red stone, faintly visible red gems, the size of a pigeon's egg, there are more than thirty, I don't know how many more in the depths.
Many of the people present looked curious, especially the mages and those who knew the ore.
Su Ye knew this crimson magic gem, called 'Red Flame Stone', which was an essential material for many fire-based magic weapons. For this kind of town or small noble, it is a big treasure, but in the eyes of the mage, it is just a relatively basic magic material.
The reason for the lack of interest is that this kind of red flame stone is too difficult to mine, they are hidden deep in the redstone, they are extremely hard, and even the magic of fossils into mud does not work, and they need to be constantly knocked with another piece of redstone to be mined slowly.
If it is hit with great force, the Red Flame Stone will shatter and its value will be greatly reduced.
If the Red Flame Stone Mine is too barren, the lord will give up mining or sell it cheaply.
"This Red Flame Stone Mine King, someone once offered 10,000 golden eagles, and we didn't agree. Because our estimate is around 20,000 gold eagles. We are now using this Red Flame Stone Mine King as a reward to hire you to find out the problems under the Red Mountain, I don't know if you are willing to accept it? ”
Haenus looked at the rest of the silver and bronze warriors, everyone's eyes brighter than usual.
This caravan ran back and forth between Efes and Milley, and the net income was less than 10,000 Golden Eagles, but this was already a profitable caravan, and the comptoirs accounted for the majority, and there were not many of them in everyone's hands.
If such additional commissions are accepted, according to the custom, the comptoir will only take a nominal commission of 10%.
Su Ye didn't care about the money, but wanted to meet the devil.
Wang Dazhui's master and servant sounded in Su Ye's ears.
"Your Majesty, there is a gem in this ore, which is more precious. You know, in our era, we didn't have a separate name for magic gems, I only know that it was a fire-type magic gem. Wang Sledgehammer said.
Su Ye also used the voice of the master and servant to ask: "You describe that gem, the more detailed the better." ”
"The shape is irregular, if the ordinary red flame stone is like a small flame, the magic gem is like a lake of flames, and it is full of violent aura, as if it has life. Well...... I remembered that this magic gem should be the blood or wreckage of a powerful demonic beast fused with the fire system. ”
Su Ye immediately understood, and secretly said to Wang Dazhui: "It seems that in the future, I will let you learn modern mineral knowledge." This is a very famous 'Fire Dragon Gem', which generally refers to the gem formed by the condensation of the blood or wreckage of all high-level fire-type demonic beasts. How big is this gem? ”
"It's the size of half my thumb." Wang Dazhui said secretly, raising his fist.
Such a large fire dragon gem, even if the quality is ordinary, is around 10,000 Golden Eagles, and if the quality is slightly better, it may exceed 20,000 Golden Eagles, which is enough to become the main material of the Sanctuary Magic Weapon.
"I can take it out secretly." Wang Dazhui said secretly.
Su Ye said indifferently: "There's no need." ”
Wang Dazhui nodded.
Haenus looked at Su Ye.
Su Ye said: "I can go with you, you know, I really want to meet the devil." ”
Haenas looked at the caravan members and said, "I won't force orders to everyone, so everything is according to the rules, and it is up to the people of the silver and bronze ranks to raise their hands. If the majority go, then we will accept the commission. Of course, those who don't want to go can stay here and guard, but they won't get too much benefit. Okay, now for a show of hands. I agree to go. ”
Hahnas raised his right hand.
The Silver and Black Iron Rank people looked at each other, most of them raising their right hands.
"Very good, now the team has decided to go. However, there are still final preparations. Do you have any requests, old mayor? Haenas asked.
"At least the bronze rank, because the two black irons in our town are gone. We were going to go to the city-state to find someone, but we thought you were coming, so we were waiting for you. If you don't agree, we'll go to the city-state for help. ”
"No wonder." Haenas whispered.
The silver and bronze ranks of the caravan began to discuss.
"Suya, are you sure to go?" Haenas asked.
"I'll go." Su Ye Dao.
"You...... Think again. Tybesha frowned slightly.
"Aunt Tabertha, I'm sharpening myself, not to mention that with you, what am I afraid of?" Su Ye said with a smile.
"I don't want you to go, but if you do, I'll protect you." Aunt Tebertha said helplessly.
Everyone discussed for a while, and soon decided that all four silver would be dispatched, and the caravan would send out another bronze magician and four bronze warriors, and Su Ye's people would all follow.
The team quickly got ready, and under the leadership of a Black Iron Townsman, climbed over a hill more than 100 meters high and stood on top of the mountain.
"You see, there it is." The townsfolk pointed to the large black hole under the hillside on the other side.
Su Ye looked over, and his heart beat heavily.
Surrounded by the pale red peaks, an irregular black pit with a diameter of about three or four hundred meters suddenly appeared, like a passage to hell, bottomless, as if hiding a terrifying monster.
A faint smoke wafted over the pit, and the pungent smell of sulfur could be smelled even from a distance.
The silver mage sniffled slightly, his expression solemn, and said, "This is indeed the breath of hell, I have smelled it. ”
Su Ye looked at Wang Da Hammer, Wang Da Hammer shook his head, and then looked at Di Aotian.
Di Aotian nodded nonchalantly.
Finally, Su Ye looked at Akdes.
Akdes nodded.
"Looks like there's a rift in the plane, Akdes, what do you think?" Su Ye asked.
Everyone looked at the strong man whose face was covered with hair and beard.
"The aura of hell is very light, which means that the crack in the plane is not big, and there will be no devils who exceed the golden level."
Everyone breathed a long sigh of relief.
Even without Akdes, with the strength of this team, it is enough to defeat a single gold-rank devil.
Silver Mage Cecil glanced at the snoring and said to Su Ye, "Your giant retinue may not be suitable for this kind of place. ”
"My Bronze-level Shrinkage will make him shrink a bit, your Silver-level Shrinkage will work better, and if the passage has been small, I can make him wait outside." Su Ye Dao.
"It's for the best." Cecil nodded.
The people stood on the hill, and after a brief discussion, they said goodbye to the townspeople who led the way, and walked towards the cave.
When they got closer, the crowd stopped snoring.
The rest slowly came to the edge of the pit and poked their heads in.
The pit wall went straight up and down, and the slope slowed down when it was thirty or forty meters deep. Most of the place below is pitch black, with a dull red sheen in some places, and a deeper hole is faintly visible.
Cecil said, "I will use gliding on you one by one, and you will fall like feathers." But...... There is no way to go down, at least it will take the golden mage's gliding skills to hold it up. If he goes down with my gliding technique, it's no different than jumping straight down. ”
Su Ye nodded and looked at the snorer.
Purring and carrying the totem pole, he was originally far away from the pit and did not dare to go over, for fear of collapse, but now he is even more aggrieved.
"The question is, how do we get up?" Hahnas asks the key question.
Cecil said: "It's easy, when the time comes, I'll use gliding, windwalking, and climbing for everyone, and they can climb up easily." You see the texture of this mountain wall, it's very hard, and there will be no problem. If it's soft, I can make a ladder out of fossils for mud and mud for stone. ”
"That's good, it's just a pity that Gollum, even if he can get down, the climbing technique can't bear his weight."
"I can take him down." Akdes Road.
"Huh?" Everyone looked at Acadus in amazement.
"You don't think about it anymore? The totem pole can be brought over with my Great Space Ring, but his people ......" Su Ye said.
"I'll go down with him first."
In the eyes of everyone, Akdes grabbed the totem pole with his right hand and snoring with his left, and jumped directly into the pitch-black pit, and then the two of them ran down the slope and rushed into the deeper hole.