Under the active guidance of Xia Duo and the output of dry goods, Lord Rayson and Stern have gradually entered a state of open communication.

It wasn't until near noon that a waiter came to report the list of meals and drinks for the lunch, and the exchange between the three came to an end temporarily.

"Lord Shador, let's go to dinner first, and let Stern take you to the Mithril Mine in the afternoon."

"Okay."

The matter of the Mithril Mine was also mentioned by Xia Duo on his own initiative, because the Council of Severington had just announced the Mithril refining technology, and he was going to purchase a batch of Mithril ore to try to refine it.

In addition, he also said that he wanted to visit the Mithril Mine, so that after returning to the territory, he would try to find the Mithril Mine on his own.

These two reasons, the former are very reasonable in the eyes of ordinary people, and they are also very consistent with the normal behavior of a Color-resistant Lord.

But the latter is a bit ridiculous, how can the prospecting experience of the Mithril Mine be learned after a few visits?

But Xia Duo's real purpose is the latter, and he has special skills for prospecting!

Lord Rayson did not refuse Chardo to visit the Mythril Mine in the realm, but simply asked Stern to accompany him to avoid some unnecessary trouble.

To this, Xia Duo gladly accepted.

……

After lunch.

Led by Stern, the son of Lord Rayson, and a mine steward named "Pete", Shado traveled to the Mithril Mine in the northwest of Rayson's territory through the teleportation circle of the Mage Tower.

Rayson has a total of three mage towers, one of which is located here.

When Xia Duo walked out of the Mine Mage Tower, he was stunned by the scene in front of him, which was a huge open-pit mine, with a diameter of hundreds of meters in the circular area currently being mined.

As for the depth, the circular mining area grows deeper from the outside to the inside, as it moves towards the center, resembling a wide funnel that spirals downward.

In the deepest part, throw this mine mage tower behind Xia Duo into it, and you can't see a single spike on the surface!

In this mine, thousands and countless dwarf slaves are working diligently under the supervision of human overseers.

There are ore body drilling, ore processing and classification, fine crushing, and collection and transportation, and so on, and all processes are carried out in an orderly manner.

Xia Duo has never seen how the real mines work on earth, and as for the handmade ancient mines, he doesn't know, and the scene in front of him is really eye-opening for him.

Not far from the periphery of the mine, there were more than 20 columns of gray and black smoke that reached the sky.

"Lord Xiaduo, over there is a rough refining workshop for silver ore and copper ore!"

According to Pete, this huge open-pit mine, although called the Mithril Mine, does not only produce Mithril ore, but even Mithril ore is only a few!

More is silver ore and copper ore, and of course, a small amount of rough gemstone is produced.

But in the past, Mithril ore and rough gemstones would be packed up and shipped to Askol after a few rounds of rough sorting for distribution by Yerlan and Danzo.

And now, Rayson Collar has stopped selling Mithril ore, and as for the future, it will depend on the specific development of the situation.

……

Led by Pete, Shado and Stern gradually descended along the winding track at the edge of the mine.

When you go down to about forty or fifty meters, perhaps because of the limited amount of bonanza or because of the increased difficulty of mining, when you get here, the ore is no longer mined as above.

Instead, there are "mine roads" in the real sense, which are very complex according to the direction of the ore veins, deep into the rock mass, seven turns, eight turns, and very complicated.

Without the leadership of Pete, the "old driver" of the mines, even a veteran arcanist like Xia Duo would easily get lost inside.

It's just that if the caster gets lost, they can actively teleport out, instead of passively waiting for death like ordinary people.

"Lord Xia Duo, at present, the proportion of Mithril ore produced in Cave 16 is the highest, and the proportion of crude ore can probably account for three or four percent of the total ore."

"So tall?!"

Xia Duo also did some homework before he came, generally speaking, most of the Mithril mines are symbiotic with silver and copper ores, and pure Mithril mines probably only exist in legends.

In the No. 16 mine introduced by Pete, the proportion of Mithril ore coarse ore can reach three or four percent, and there is no doubt that it is already a proper Mithril-rich mine.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is pure Mithril Mine.

Under normal circumstances, the coarse ore of Mithril ore can only account for about 2 thousandths of the total amount, which is 2 thousandths of the total useful ore after rough separation.

And not two thousandths of the total amount of mining work!

If you count the total amount of mining work, it is even lower!

……

A Misteryl-rich mine like Cave 16 was definitely something that Xia Duo wanted to record, and after greeting Stern, he began to cast a spell to detect the characteristics of the veins.

The spell that Xia Duo is currently using is called [Infrasound Detection], and the prototype of this spell is from Drow's [Leyline Detector], and he has also learned the official mage version in [Projection Plane: Dark Region].

However, when Xia Duo was an apprentice, he had created a similar spell called [Imagery], but instead of using low-frequency infrasound waves, he used ordinary sound waves that could be heard by ordinary human ears.

The penetrating power, especially in rock formations, soil and rock, is far less than that of Drow's [Infrasound Detection], but Xia Duo's [Angiography] is also unique in the processing of echo feedback.

The combination of the two is the improved version of [Infrasound Detection] he is using today.

Soon, Xia Duo received feedback on the spell, but in front of Stern, he didn't take out a piece of paper and write it down, but planned to go back to his memories when he returned.

……

Then, according to the trend of the vein, Xia Duo carried out infrasound detection from multiple angles and collected echo feedback, so that it is a relatively complete vein characteristic data.

After Cave 16, he went to Cave 19, Cave 28, Cave 4, Cave 25 with a high proportion of Mythril ore rough ore under the leadership of Pete.

As for the other mines, Xia Duo did not explore them one by one, on the one hand, there are too many mines, even if you walk for a day, you may not be able to measure them, and you have to take into account the spell casting status.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

There's no way he's going to put all his energy here.

On the other hand, the data he has collected now is almost sufficient.

Nowadays, the population of the Savile Territory and the Great Xia Territory is limited, and the Mithril Mine below a certain limit is not worth mining at all, even if the population is large in the future, it is impossible to mine it.

After all, there is no free dwarf labor now, and it is necessary to continue mining those poor mines unless there are more efficient mining equipment in the future, and at the same time, resources are relatively scarce.

Now, just mine the bonanza.

He's almost done collecting the Mithril Bonanza echo feedback data from the Rayson Domain, and if he wants more, he'll have to go to other mines.

As for the lean ore data, it may be useful for the subsequent establishment of a complete Mithril vein echo feedback model, but it is not so useful.

On the trade-off, Xia Duo only symbolically collected a few and gave up.