Chapter 596: Windfall
Ryan's idea was not wrong, they just searched around here, and found a row of warehouses built entirely of huge stones not far away, of course, because of Ryan's super forbidden image, these houses have collapsed, but it is precisely because they are piled up with stones, so even if they become ruins, it is easier to clean up, so Ryan casually recited a magic spell, summoned dozens of earth giant elements, and commanded them to clean up the place.
After the stone covering the ruins was removed, the goods stored below were immediately revealed, but it was a large silver-blue metal ingot, this color of metal Ryan had seen for the first time, so he was very curious to step forward, intending to pick up a piece to take a closer look, but the weight of this metal ingot was heavier than Ryan estimated, and he didn't even pick it up.
"Is it so heavy?" Faras couldn't help but ask when she saw Ryan's movements. "Hmm!" Ryan agreed, and he casually blessed himself with a "Bull Power" spell, which was effortless when he bent down to pick it up again. Seeing that Ryan was holding a one-foot-square silver-blue metal ingot, Faras walked over and stood side by side with him, and the two of them looked at it together, while the earth giants stood dumbfounded because they had lost control.
Ryan repeatedly checked the metal ingot in his hand, and after a long time, he said in a hesitant tone: "I think, this should be Star Iron, but I have only seen an extremely rare introduction from the information provided by the underground dwarf Miro, I remember that this kind of golden book does not exist in our Eslar Continent at all, only a small amount of it is produced in the Otherworld, but I didn't expect it to be heavier than I thought, good guy, such a piece is at least more than a hundred kilograms!"
"Hundreds of kilograms?" Faraz was also very surprised when she heard this, she remembered that among the most precious metals in the Eslar Continent, Mithril has extremely good pro-demon properties, which is most suitable for creating magic items, not only strong and sturdy but also very light, but Adamantite is the opposite, it is harder and stronger than Mithril, but the weight is naturally much heavier, such a square volume, if it is steel, it will be a few kilograms, and if it is replaced with Adamantite, it will be more than ten kilograms, but now Ryan actually said that the silver-blue star iron ingot in front of him actually exceeded a hundred kilograms, is it that its hardness is several times that of Adamantite?
Seeing his wife's puzzled expression as she looked at the metal ingot in her hand, Ryan shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm not familiar with it either, just give it a try." With that, Ryan tossed the ingot out of his hand, and as the ingot tumbled in the air, Ryan's fingers erupted in flames, engulfing the entire ingot.
If it is against ordinary steel, with the power of Ryan's fire-based magic, it can turn them into a pool of molten iron in just a few seconds, but the star iron ingot made an arc in the air, not only breaking away from the envelope of the flames, but also making a crisp sound when it fell to the ground next to it, which means that the high flame temperature just now did not have any effect on this star iron ingot at all.
Looking at the star iron ingot lying on the ground, Ryan released more flames to burn it with great interest, but even after burning for several minutes, the surface of the entire silver-blue star iron ingot still did not change much, it only looked a little soft, and it was too early to completely melt it. Seeing this scene, Faras also raised his hand and released a few ice picks, this sharp spell was enough to penetrate the ordinary full-body armor, but when they collided with the star iron ingot, they failed to leave any traces on it, and the hardness of the star iron was evident.
"It's incredible!" Faras couldn't help but speak, "I didn't expect that there is such a hard metal in the Otherworld, if you use it to make armor, I'm afraid that even Mithril and Adamantite weapons will be difficult to break through its protection." ”
"I don't think the production of this thing will be too high, but we've all heard that the dark elves are the best at making mythril weapons and armor, when have you ever heard of any star iron armor and shields? This shows that even within the dark elves, the application range of this metal is not very large, otherwise the name of star iron would have spread a long time ago. Ryan replied with a shake of his head.
"Well, that makes sense, too. Faras nodded in agreement with Ryan's statement, and then shifted her gaze to the cleared ruins, where hundreds of other metal ingots were scattered around the warehouse, which also emitted a silver-blue halo. Faras smiled and said to Ryan, "Anyway, everything that needs to be done is done, and it's not bad, is it?"
"That's right, since you have encountered it, there is naturally no reason to let it go easily. Ryan smiled and pulled out the storage pocket from his arms, then snapped his fingers and began to control the earth giant standing next to him to move the star ingots. It didn't take long for all of these star iron ingots to be moved to the open space outside, and then they were all put into his storage pocket by Ryan, who was blessed with the "power of the bull".
After making sure that there were no more star iron ingots left around, Ryan was satisfied and put away the storage pocket in his hand, more than two hundred star iron ingots weighed tens of thousands of kilograms, if it weren't for the high quality of Ryan's storage pocket, I was afraid that he would not be able to fill these ingots at all. Ryan naturally didn't know, this time he took away almost a year's output from the Star Iron Ore Cave in Proka City, this kind of ore is extremely difficult to smelt, and the ore content is also extremely low, so usually the Martinoy Academy of Magic regularly sends the Grand Magister to take charge of these matters personally, and this academy and even Proka City only appeared because of the discovery of this star iron ore vein here.
As for the other warehouses, Ryan also found the slag left over after smelting, although the content of star iron in them is very, very low, but it is still a very good raw material for making weapons and protective armor, of course, with Ryan's eyesight, they are not enough to take a fancy to this kind of scraps, so they let them lie in place.
Leaving the warehouse, Ryan and Faras planned to continue their search nearby, after all, although they had obtained a windfall, the original purpose was not achieved, but Ryan soon sensed that a large number of warriors in the distance were rapidly approaching his area, so he waved his hand to draw a magic circle in the air in front of him.
When the magic circle was completed, a fairly clear picture appeared in the center of the magic array, about a few kilometers away, a heavily armed dark elf army was rushing towards the direction of the star iron ore cave at full speed, this discovery made Ryan feel refreshed, he simply gave up the idea of continuing to search everywhere here, and instead pulled Faraz to fly towards the group of dark elf troops numbering about five hundred.
Since Star Iron is harder than Adamantite Gold, and its demonic nature is not inferior to Mithril, there must be a large number of Dark Elf armies guarding such an important mine. Due to the collapse of the Star Iron Mine Cave under the ground, Ryan has no way to determine the exact coverage of this mine, but there must be at least a few kilometers of buffer space, in other words, even if there is an army stationed, it must be at least ten kilometers away, otherwise the mine tunnels here will become tunnels for those miners to escape.
It will take some time for the catastrophe that broke out from the center of Proka City to this Star Iron Ore Cave, and under that strong impact, the surrounding dark elf blockade will definitely suffer a certain loss, and chaos is definitely inevitable, but now these guards should have almost restored their original order, so it is reasonable to send people to rush over.
Ryan didn't think that the Dark Elf leader in charge of guarding the place could know too much, but Ryan only needed to know where he was now, and the route from Proca City to the town of Arriki, and the rest of the information could be collected slowly along the way. And this kind of information that is not too accurate, how could a high-ranking general in the army not know it, so Ryan hit the idea on the leader of the dark elves who had not yet met.
One side was a rapid march, the other side simply flew directly from the air, the two sides walked opposite each other, three or five kilometers did not take a few minutes at all, Ryan and Faras soon saw the hundreds of dark elf warriors on the ground, and the captain of the latter also saw the two humans flying straight towards him from the sky, and he did not hesitate to launch the alarm of the enemy attack.
These dark elf warriors are indeed the elite of the elite, after they received the order to attack, they actually took out a crossbow arrow and began to attack Ryan and Faras flying in the sky while running at full speed, five hundred warriors and five hundred crossbows, several consecutive shots immediately formed a rain of arrows, directly sealing the direction where Ryan was and any direction that could escape and dodge.
Naturally, Ryan was not affected by this attack, he waved his sleeve casually, and the air around him immediately burst into flames, and those flying arrows were quickly ignited after touching the flames in the air, and then fell to the ground with a long tail of flames. Each flaming arrow that fell to the ground formed a small flame with it, and by the time the rain of arrows had been bounced back by Ryan's magic, the ground had turned into a sea of fire.
"Leave two alive. Faraz, who was on the side, couldn't help but speak: "It also saves us from slowly going to find their station." ”