This battle in the mine finally made Roy understand one thing.

Not all Darkmoon Elves can become assassins......

Only the Darkmoon Elves in the Second Mine are a group of real assassins, and as for the Darkmoon Elves in the First Mine, they are just a group of ordinary elves.

Coming out of the cave where the Darkmoon Elves were hiding, Roy hurried back to the mine, where more than thirty lightly injured gray dwarves were sitting on the ground against the rock wall, and more than twenty seriously injured gray dwarves were lying in the mine, all of them simply bandaged.

Some of the badly injured gray dwarves continued to die one after another due to excessive bleeding.

Watching the bodies of their companions being carried out by the half-blood elves, the wounded gray dwarves looked like ashes.

There were probably just over a hundred and twenty gray dwarves in the first mine, and now more than sixty cold corpses were lying in the shaft's tunnel, waiting to be transported out of the mine in gondolas.

There is no way to dispose of these corpses in the mine, otherwise if they decompose, the entire mine will become foul-smelling.

Therefore, the cleanup of the corpse must be carried out as soon as possible.

Ten Darkmoon Elf warriors still scoured the mines, looking for the gray dwarves who had slipped through the net.

After possessing weapons and armor, the combat power of these Dark Moon Elf warriors has directly increased by a large margin.

Roy didn't expect the Dark Moon Elf warriors to kill the gray dwarves so badly......

He led a group of half-blood elf warriors to fight with the gray dwarves in the mine for a long time, and only seventeen gray dwarves were killed......

The rest of the grey dwarves all died at the hands of ten Darkmoon elf warriors, with an average of four grey dwarves killed by each Darkmoon elf.

Speaking of which, you can't blame these Dark Moon Elf warriors for their ruthlessness, they have been fighting with the gray dwarves in the mines for decades, and they have no mercy in their hearts for a long time.

……

"Boss, please come here."

The Dark Moon Elf named Timothy walked silently up to Roy like a tanuki.

However, whether they are invisible or not, as long as they get close to Roy, their bodies will automatically manifest......

Roy looked at the Dark Moon Elf with a short dagger strapped to his leg, the handle of the dagger was soaked with a layer of blood, the smell of blood on his body was also very heavy, and the tip of the dagger's scabbard was constantly dripping viscous blood.

Presumably to facilitate the battle, the Dark Moon Elves tied their hair up, their pointed ears were exposed, and their skin was a dark cyan color.

When they walk, their voices are very soft, and if you don't pay attention, you can't hear their footsteps.

Roy didn't have a problem with what happened to the Darkmoon Elf, and followed the Darkmoon Elf through a winding mine path to a cave with a stone door, where a lantern hung on the rock wall of the cave, and in the dim light, Roy clearly saw two gray dwarves lying in a pool of blood at the entrance of the cave.

Probably just dead, the blood on the gray dwarf hadn't fully clotted.

Two stone hammers were discarded, one of them shattered and the handle of the wood broken, and it looked like the two gray dwarves had put up a fierce resistance before they died.

Roy doesn't pay attention to the dead gray dwarves, he only cares about those who are alive.

The mines dug by the dwarves are very exquisite, and the entrances are very regular, but the entrance is designed according to the height of the dwarves, and Roy must bow his head if he wants to get in

……

Two Darkmoon Elf warriors stood guard at the entrance of the mine, and when Roy walked in, the Darkmoon Elf lifted the lantern.

Roy released a 'divine glimmer', and when this glimmer slowly floated over the stone chamber, Roy discovered that this stone chamber was actually a long and narrow warehouse, with a row of pickaxes standing next to the stone wall, although these pickaxes were not brand new, but there were more than a hundred of them......

In addition to a neatly arranged array of pickaxes, a narrow stone trough was dug into the cavern containing large quantities of dried mushrooms and moss cakes, and Roy even found some air-dried skinning rats.

I didn't expect the gray dwarves to dig such a large warehouse and store so much food and tools.

The Darkmoon Elf warrior takes Roy to a mine with a culvert that shows obvious signs of manual excavation.

Roy could be sure that this culvert was the hand of the gray dwarf, and after walking a few steps inside, Roy found that the cave wall here was actually a little wet, and after walking a few steps into the mine, he saw that the cave wall was covered with purple moss.

A little further ahead, Roy saw clusters of umbrella-shaped mushrooms growing on the ground, the color of which was brick-red, which could be confirmed to be red mushrooms......

The gray dwarves had managed to grow mushrooms in a mine, and it seemed that the preparations before the implementation of the plan were sufficient.

At the end of the cave was a warehouse, which had not only a heavy stone door, but also a narrow passage that could only be passed through by one person.

Timothy leads the way ahead......

Passing through this passage, Roy's eyes were crystal red.

He saw the piles of high-grade spinels piled up in the warehouse, each with the texture of jelly, and Roy was shocked by the sheer amount of wealth stored here.

Roy took two steps into the mine, stepping on the spinel all over the ground, unable to see how big the mine really was......

However, Roy can be sure that even if the first mine returns to its normal mining rate and continues to mine for two consecutive years, it may not be able to mine as many gems as there are in the warehouse.

A large number of high-grade spinels were piled up in the mines, but some rare magical associated ores were placed on a stone platform, and the number was very small, some of the associated ores were only a few, and some were simply just one.

Roy picked up two spinel ores from the ground...... It can be seen that the quality of these spinels is very high.

……

It is not difficult to understand that these gray dwarves have lived in the mines for decades and have amassed a huge fortune in their hands......

If the only regret is that I have a life to earn, but I don't have a life to spend.

When Roy walked out of this mine, the first thing he thought about was not what to do with these spinels, but the group of gray dwarves in the second mine, could they also hide a treasure trove full of spinels in the mine?

It occurred to Roy that the Grey Dwarves in the Second Mine had exchanged twenty barrels of spinel for a barrel of rum......

The twenty barrels of spinel should be the private collection of the gray dwarves in the second mine.

……

Roy stepped out of the dwarven treasury, the Dark Moon Elf named Timothy was already waiting outside the mine, clutching a tattered piece of parchment.

It is said to be parchment, but it is hard, and it should be a piece of dried fur.

Roy then found some clues in the fur, which had a head at one end and a short tail at the other...... It should be a rat skin.

Timothy handed the fur to Roy in his hand, and said in a low voice:

"Boss, we found this from this guy!"

Roy took the fur in his hand, and instead of paying attention to the fluffy side, he looked at the leather side......

The fur was still hard before it was cooked, and it was stained with dirty grease and blood.

It was on such a dirty piece of fur that Roy discovered that there was a 'painting' drawn with charcoal on it!

It doesn't seem accurate to say that it's a painting, this hard fur should be a drawing.

The lines on this drawing were so simple that Roy could only make out one of the vertical lines representing the shaft, and the other lines didn't look much like the caverns in the mine, and there was a long diagonal line that clearly marked the angle.

"Where did you find this?" Roy asked Timothy curiously.

"......There's a mine over there," Timothy replied, pointing to a mine next to the vault.

Roy walked towards the mine with the blueprints, and a skeletal old dwarf sat at the entrance of the cave, with a heavy iron chain attached to his ankle and a Dark Moon Elf warrior guarding him.

Roy stepped forward and looked at the old dwarf with curiosity.

He looked a little different from the gray dwarves, whose skin was a faint black iron color, but the old dwarf's skin was bronzed, and some features of his face were very different from those of the gray dwarves.

Roy didn't talk to him, just stared at his face without saying a word,

The old dwarf looked scrawny, with large joints, loose skin, and a pair of glasses on his big nose, which had broken lenses......

Roy held up the blueprint in his hand and shook it in front of the old dwarf.

"This drawing is your escape route?" Roy asked directly.

The old dwarf raised his head weakly and said casually:

"That's right, don't be tempted, this picture is what I drew, we plan to dig a hole under the mine to escape, but in the process of drawing, I found a problem, that is, after digging up thirty meters, I will encounter a solid rock layer, I plan to prepare some weak co-solvents, and make part of the excavated rock layer hard and soft, but they want to use brute force to break it."

"But you don't look like a gray dwarf at all." Roy said to the old dwarf.

"Who said I was a gray dwarf?" The old dwarf retorted with some anger, "I am a dwarven craftsman of the Copperbeard Tribe! ”

“……”

Roy didn't expect to meet a dwarven craftsman in the underground of the first mine, he didn't care what tribe this old dwarf was, and the word dwarf craftsman echoed in his mind.

"Watch him well......" Roy commanded the Dark Moon Elves beside him.

Then he walked into the old dwarf's mine, which should have been transformed into the old dwarf's dwelling, and the dwelling was black and hollow, but Roy had a divine glimmer, so the mine immediately lit up.

The mine was filthy and messy, leaving Roy with no place to stay.

Roy endured the mess in the mine, looked around, and sure enough, there were a lot of parts in the mine.

On a stone platform were several unfinished blueprints, as well as a few improvised tools and a modified stone hammer with two hoops around the head of the hammer to prevent it from breaking prematurely in battle.

Roy discovered that the old dwarf was a real talent, as he had seen the design of the mine's support frame in the half-finished drawings......

He quietly took these drawings in his hand, in fact, Roy has been thinking about the matter of the mine support frame recently, and also has the preliminary design of the support frame, but now he saw that the old dwarf is the support frame structure, and immediately had a new idea.

Roy didn't rush to talk to the dwarf about the drawings, he took the half-finished drawings with him, turned around and left the mine.

……

Roy then returned to the surface, where the inner courtyard of the mine was stacked with supplies waiting to be transported down the mine, including food, tents, blankets, linen and clothing.

The corpses of the gray dwarves were transported out of the fort early, and a gentle slope was selected only 500 meters from the mine fortress, which had a thick layer of soil for easy excavation.

The corpses of the gray dwarves were buried in rows on the gentle slope.

Roy has arranged for several half-blood elves in the mine, and he is going to carry out the business strategy of the second mine, preparing to record the names of all the Darkmoon Elves, and then write a letter to Witzel to investigate the sentences of these Darkmoon Elves,

If his sentence expires, Roy really wants to free these Dark Moon Elves......

During this time, Captain Lambert of the First Mine wakes up and expresses his gratitude to Roy through the half-blood elves who are doing things at the bottom of the shaft.

Roy led a group of half-blood elven warriors down the shaft, and the Darkmoon Elf named Lambert was able to walk slowly through the mine on crutches.

Captain Lambert had already learned about Roy's attitude towards the Darkmoon Elves from the Darkmoon Elves in the Second Mine.

During this time, the mine side was constantly sending food, tents, blankets, clothing, etc., to the bottom of the mine, and more than a hundred Darkmoon Elves had set up tents in the mines, and all wore linen clothes that were large enough to cover their bodies.

With an adequate supply of food, these Dark Moon Elves recovered quickly and their physical condition improved significantly.

They also all knew that after this battle, there were less than sixty gray dwarves in the more than 120 gray dwarves in the well, including the seriously injured......

In the future, the Dark Moon Elves will become the overseers in the mine one after another, but the number of gray dwarves who can still work has been sharply reduced to more than twenty, so these Dark Moon Elves also need to work underground.

Roy was once again in the old dwarf's cave, followed by a group of half-blood elven warriors.

The old dwarf was not surprised to see Roy walking in from outside the cave.

He was sitting next to the stone platform, polishing a piece of iron with a small piece of stone, his glasses on his big nose, and his hands trembling slightly.

Roy sat directly in front of the old dwarf and said to him straight to the point:

"As long as you promise to do something for me, I'll take you out of this mine!"

The old dwarf put down the whetstone in his hand, his eyes fell from the glasses to Roy's face, and asked Roy tentatively, "Do I have any other options?" ”

"Not yet!" Roy replied.

"I'm just a dwarven craftsman, skilled in metallurgy and construction machinery, and not an elder who knows everything......" the old dwarf said to Roy.

"I just need a dwarven craftsman like you......"

Roy said to the old dwarf with a smile and held out his right hand to him.

(End of chapter)