The Invercargill copper vein is contoured like a not-so-tall mountain beam, stretching for tens of kilometres from southwest to northeast across the Invercargill Forest Belt.

It was not as easy as imagined to find a crack in the ridge dozens of kilometers long, even if he knew that the crack was in the middle of the vein, but Surdak led the cavalry battalion to search for two whole days, but he could not find the crack in the canyon.

In the evening, the afterglow of the setting sun dims the light of the forest.

Unlike the town of Dodan in the middle of the canyon, where it gets dark as early as the sky, the sky is lit up with clouds like red tides, and with the crisp branches and buds of most of the trees in the forest, the scenery of Invercargill Forest becomes very beautiful.

The cavalry battalion was set up at the foot of the hill with only three people, Surdak, Andrew and Gullitham.

Surdak sat on a boulder on a hillside, holding a piece of scone and a bowl of hot soup, and ate his dinner in silence.

It has been two days since I came to the copper mining area, and in the past two days, the veterans of the cavalry battalion have almost stepped on this mountain beam, but unfortunately I have not found Joel. The crevice in the stone described in Sinji's mouth.

Andrew and Ogre Gullitham sat down next to a campfire on a parchment map, carefully examining it.

"Head, it can't be in other mining areas, we've searched all over this mountain beam, but we can't see any rock cracks at all!" Andrew held a bowl of mushroom soup in his hand, took a big bite of the scone in his hand, and then said vaguely.

Surdak said very firmly: "It should not be wrong, he appeared in our mine that night, which means that it is this copper mining area......"

Andrew looked up at the mountain beams full of dead trees in front of him, frowned and muttered:

"So what are we going to do? You don't have to cut down all these trees on the ridges of the mountain in order to find cracks in the rocks......

Surdak shook his head, looked down at his neckline, then hurriedly ate the last bite of the scone, jumped down from the big rock, and said, "No, I'll ask Count Fornak to come and help." ”

With that, he took out the phalanx and put it to his lips and blew a silent whistle.

It didn't take long for countless blood-colored thorns to grow on the large stone where Surdak had been sitting for a long time, and these blood-colored thorns were like countless tentacles of a tree, quickly weaving a blood-colored gate out of thin air.

This time, Count Fornak walked out of the blood-colored thorn gate in military uniform, looking very energetic.

The kind of strong man's coercion on his body made Surdak violently shake his spirit.

But this time Count Fornak came out of the blood-colored gate, and at the first sight of the ogre, he looked at it with some caution.

A second glance at Andrew, and then at the butcher's axe behind him, before his gaze fell on Surdak's.

Surdak looked a little ashamed, but he pushed the cup in front of him to Count Fornack, and said with some embarrassment:

"Sorry to bring you here again so soon, this is Joel. The vein that Singh described, but we've been looking here for more than two days, and I'm worried about looking for it any further, Joel. Singi's body will completely decompose, and there will be no evidence at that time......"

Count Fornak walked up to Surdak, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said, "When you are here, call me out." ”

This time, instead of continuing to draw the psychic circle, he walked directly to the Scarlet Thorn, slammed open the Scarlet Gate, and stretched out a hand to pull a skeleton inside.

The skeleton kept waving its arms and pairs. legs, trying to break free from the hands of Count Fornack.

Count Fornak threw him on the rocky ground, and his body could not even keep his balance, a fart. The stock fell and sat on the rock.

Bai Huahua's pelvis even fell off a broken bone, and the skeleton soldier had a rusty iron knife hanging from his waist, and he staggered to his feet, seeing that it barely had any worn armor all over his body, and it should be the most useless cannon fodder class among the skeleton soldiers.

Although the soul fire seemed a little faint, his expression was full of fear for Count Fornack.

Count Fornak asked him, "Joel. Singh, do you remember here? ”

When the little skeleton heard the name, he was slightly stunned, and then looked at the scenery around him with a shudder.

It's a pity that you can't see much at night at all.

The skeleton's eyes flickered with dark blue soul fire, and he seemed to have an independent consciousness.

She looked at the trees around her, and looked at the stars in the night sky through the gaps in the trees.

Then he knelt on his knees, almost with his face pressed to the ground, and looked at the slab of rock beneath his feet.

It wasn't long before the skeleton stood up and nodded to Fornack, his jaw opening and closing up and down, but not making a single sound

It was only then that Fornak explained to Surdak:

"I just injected his soul into this skeleton, and his body can move freely for the time being, but nothing else can be done, he doesn't need to drink and eat in the undead world, but he needs to absorb the power of the soul to maintain the consumption of his soul fire, although he is still very weak for the time being, but there is a lot of room for development in the future, after all, he was a magician before his death, and he has the basic skills of magic, and he can easily be promoted to a skeleton mage in the future."

Then he commanded the little skeleton, "Joel. Since you remember this place, it's up to you to lead the group to find your remains. ”

The little skeleton nodded repeatedly.

Holding the handle of the iron blade hanging from his waist, he stepped on the uneven rocks of the hillside, and staggered to the front, and walked in the direction away from this mountain beam.

Surdak and Andrew looked at each other, they never expected that this crack in the stone was not on the mountain beam.

When he reached the foot of the mountain, Surdak did not let Andrew bring the cavalry battalion, after all, Count Fornak was still a secret in Surdak, and only the three of them followed the steps of the little skeleton to continue to walk northwest.

After climbing two hills in a row, I found the fissure in a very hidden valley, and although the land here did not look like a copper mine, I looked along the crack into the dark depths.

Andrew hurriedly took out a fire-gathering magic scroll, unfolded it casually, and quickly threw it into the crack in the stone after revealing the firelight.

By the light of the fire on the Gathering Fire scroll, Surdak quickly saw the patina on the crack rock wall, which were two colors that were very different from the moss on the stone wall.

No wonder Surdak didn't find the crack in the rock, it turns out that the copper veins here are not only found in the mountain beam, but also in the two valleys on the left side of the mountain beam, both of which contain copper-bearing ore underground......

In this way, this copper mining area is much larger than Surdak said.

It is likely to be more than five times larger than Surdak's previous estimates......

This time Andrew almost didn't ask Surdak, and when the little skeleton stopped by a gap, Andrew immediately jumped down the stone crack with his bare hands, and with a little fire in the stone crevice, he quickly climbed into the stone crevice.

When Surdak reappeared, there was an extra package full of corpse stench behind him, and he crawled out of the crack in the stone with difficulty, and threw the blanket corpse bag on the ground with a look of disgust.

The little skeleton stood aside, looking at the corpse package a little blankly, as if at this time, it realized something.

It clasped its bare head in both hands, tilted its head, and opened its mouth wide as if it were a silent roar into the night sky.

Andrew also endured the suffocating smell of corpses at this time, and slowly opened the blanket, revealing a corpse with an almost completely decomposed face, so festering that the rotten flesh was almost about to fall off the skeleton.

However, the corpse's magic robe was still clean, except for a hole in its chest, on which a quaint dagger was inserted.