Section XXIX: Regression and digression

William smiled bitterly at these guys who were carried away by temptation, and the "coercion and temptation" methods were all seductive, and they were really tempting, even the "loyal and kind" dwarves were difficult to resist, or they had no resistance at all, and the charm of pure gold was so great.

William was noncommittal about Sunderland's compliments, he didn't actually want to give up this piece of pure gold, his own goose feather knife could count on it, not to mention that Phinea's ice giant axe was also damaged by him, and the remaining pure gold after removing the consumption of the casting knife should be enough to make a new battle axe for the female half-giant.

William shouted a few times to stop the four of them from arguing, and he said with a smirk, "Have you forgotten where this piece of pure gold came from?" William stretched out his hand and pointed to the cave, "It shouldn't be possible for the kobold to move in from somewhere else, right?"

The four of them were stunned for a moment, and followed William's fingers to look blankly at the kobold cave. "Oh my God! Eriphon (the elven dexterity and thief god) is on it!Is this a gotible gold mine?!"Oh shit! Those bedbugs who should go to hell! We're probably going to be developed!hahaha!" The four "greedy" guys cheered and ran into the cave and launched an "attack" on the stone walls of the cave. Singhs's pickaxe, Togue's warhammer, Elph's elven rapier (?), and Sunderland, unable to hide her identity as a magician, pulled out a quaint spell book, converted her fifth-level spell slot into "fossil to mud", and fired it at the stone wall. The fifth-level arcane that could have affected two cube areas with a side length of twelve feet was reduced by three-quarters due to the presence of iron ore in the stone wall, and two mixed sand and gravel streams poured down in an instant, and two pits of more than three feet appeared on the stone wall.

Sunderland, who has blessed herself with "The Power of the Bull", "The Grace of the Cat", "The Insight of the Owl" and "Dark Vision", is completely like a scavenger rummaging through plastic bottles in the garbage heap, rummaging through the sand and stones for pure gold, and the dwarven torch not far away interferes with her vision so much that the female consul has to cancel the "Dark Vision" again, and instead releases two "Light Spells" around her as lighting. A violet-blue light flashed through her eyes, and Sunderland peeled off the surrounding ore and sand, revealing an egg-sized piece of adamantite gold, and she laughed loudly holding her "baby", followed by two smaller pieces of adamantite gold found by the Archoness.

Sunderland's harvest completely stimulated the other three diggers, and several people "attacked" the stone wall even more frantically, but unfortunately it backfired, the two dwarves did not find any bit of pure gold until they were exhausted, and Elf was even more "stealing chickens and rice", the slender elven rapier not only had no effect on the stone wall, but was broken into two pieces because of excessive force, and the little guy ran back to William with a sad face, holding his beloved weapon and Phia was sad together, and poor Phia was "sad" against his remnant axe.

Singhs and Torg reluctantly gave up their futile blindness, and Sunderland, who had no "fossils to mud" spell, was content to stop churning the piles of sand and gravel that had been searched several times, and although the harvest was not very much of the adamantite gold (except for William), it was a great joy to be able to prove that it was a vein of pure gold, and the people engaged in a fierce debate about the possession of the vein.

William, an outsider, wisely announced that his family of three would give up the distribution of the veins, he did not want to be tied to the small place of Mirabah, and Elph reluctantly withdrew from the competition. As compensation, the elves received the dwarf's fist-sized piece and Sunderland's egg-sized piece of adamantite as hush money, while Sunderland's remaining two smaller pieces of adamantite went to William, and the work of crafting the adamantite weapon was handled by Singus and Torgue, and the flux was handled by Sunderland.

In principle, Sunderland, Singers and Torg will each have a 30 per cent share of the veins, and the remaining 10 per cent will be paid to the "Shine Stone" Council as a tax, and of course if the Council is not aware of it, the 10 per cent interest will be used as a source of public spending. As for the lord's decree, "if capital has fifty percent profit, it will take risks, if it has one hundred percent profit, it will dare to trample on all the laws of the world, and if there is three hundred percent profit, it will dare to commit any crime, even to the risk of being hanged." This sentence of Ma Dashen is also applicable in the other world, not to mention this kind of almost baseless business.

With the excitement of getting the treasure, the group sealed the entrance to the cave, and then cleaned up the monsters within a radius of several miles near the cave. Before leaving, Sunderland, who had restored his spell slot, cast "Turning Mud into Stone" on the rubble at the entrance, and covered it with a spell.

The originally boring return trip has become brisk because of the unexpected gain, the gloomy and dark underground world makes people's mood full of depression and gloom, when they return to the ground, looking at the vast sky, everyone feels relieved, William feels that the whole person has become cheerful, the little girl is even more excited to shout, and Phinea also slightly alleviates the loss of the broken weapon. This fool has always been obsessed with the scrapping of the Ice Axe, even if William promised to reforge her a new Adamantite Battle Axe, much to the great distress of the man who was the culprit.

With the fine gold of the casting knife, William began to learn the casting technology of the dwarves with the old Singers, in fact, most of the smelting technology of the entire Faeron is in the oldest stage of "block refining", and the dwarves are born with greater strength and are obsessed with forging, almost all of them can unconsciously produce relatively high-quality steel, of course, there are occasionally better masters who have mastered the "frying steel method" or "filling steel method" , but these masters rarely pass on the secret techniques they have developed over hundreds of years to others, including their own relatives and disciples.

This is not the dwarven broom, they hope that these young children can discover these secrets in the rest of their lives, to be able to discover new metal smelting technology is the greatest affirmation and encouragement for a dwarven craftsman, the older generation of dwarves do not want to deprive the young dwarf craftsman of the fun, they will be happy to watch their children shout excitedly for "inventing new smelting methods". Although the dwarves' intentions were good, it did hinder the development of the smelting level of the entire Faeron.

Of course, in some mysterious mage towers, the smelting technology of metals has reached the atomic level, but this does not fundamentally solve the backward status quo of smelting technology in the whole world. Moreover, compared to improving their smelting skills, most blacksmiths are more willing to look for better metal materials, such as Adamantite, Mithril, Cold Star Iron, etc., and only need to spend very little effort to create unimaginable magic weapons, provided that you can fiddle with these special "treasures".

This situation also clearly exists in other fields, taking martial arts as an example, the improvement of martial arts level is mutual. Two people who are hostile to each other, one of them has an advantage because of studying combat skills, and the other will be in a disadvantageous position in battle, and in order to regain the disadvantage, he will work harder to improve his martial arts skills or even surpass his opponent, and the first person will definitely find a way to improve his skills again in order to regain the original advantage, and so on, this is the most direct reason for the improvement of the level of martial arts.

The main enemy of Faeron's warriors is monsters, among the monsters, such as goblins, kobolds, jackals, and other major humanoid monsters that are about the same size or a little smaller than humans, they don't delve into any combat skills, and they can defeat with a little combat experience or even without skills, while like ogres and trolls, which are similar to "one force to ten meetings" The large monsters,It's useless to study no matter how subtle the martial arts are in a short period of time.,On the contrary, there are simpler and more direct magical powers to use.,Whether it's a direct damage attack spell.,Or an auxiliary spell to improve the state.,It's much easier than spending years or even decades to study what martial arts.。

In fact, as long as they are carefully cultivated, basically most of the ordinary people in Faeron have the qualifications and talents to become spellcasters, as long as the person is not too stupid. The magic web treats everyone fairly, except for the obstacles and restrictions deliberately set by the goddess of magic. What really restricts a person from becoming a spellcaster is the problem of resources, and the consumption of resources in the process of each caster's growth is extremely staggering.

To paraphrase the words of the comparative society, "the productive forces determine the relations of production", due to the low level of production of the whole society, the social resources that provide the growth of the caster are limited, so in order to make the best use of these limited resources, elite education is absolutely indispensable, and only those who are very talented or lucky enough are qualified to grow into powerful spellcasters.

Normally, a successful mage spends most of his time in his mage tower or laboratory studying arcane or other principles and knowledge, and occasionally travels to a place or an extraterrestrial plane for some need or interest. However, most spellcasters are in a state of poverty at the beginning of their growth, and even if their family is a wealthy nobleman, it is difficult for them to afford the consumption of the learning period, so young spellcasters have to travel and adventure to obtain the resources they need, and some casters will rely on a large power to gain the support of the other party.

Sunderland is a young mage who is half-attached to the city of Miraba, and she secretly provides some magical services to the Marquis of Larim, such as influencing the decisions of certain councillors through "suggestion", although it is difficult to say whether she used magic to influence the stupid marquis.