Chapter 494: The Value of the Dragon's Lair

Don't think about the dragon hunting ceremony, none of the kobolds in the entire quarry can enter.

Even the Dragon-Seeking Meditation was barely accessible to a third of them, and most of them were relatively close to Goth and the Land of the Death.

The foundation of this group of kobolds is really too poor, and some things that are taken for granted in the dragon oak collar are very difficult here, and dragon seeking meditation is one of them.

Before this, Goss would never believe that there were kobolds who couldn't enter the dragon quest meditation after being guided.

It's no wonder that Gavin directly threw this group of kobolds to him to deal with it and didn't spend much energy on them.

A low starting point also has the advantage of a low starting point, that is, it is easy to satisfy.

Only a third of the kobolds entered the dragon-seeking meditation, and Goss was full of disappointment, but the kobolds in the quarry were elated one by one, especially those kobolds who had finished their short dragon-seeking meditations, waving their arms as thick as toothpicks and declaring that after they felt the dragon's magic and felt that their bodies had become stronger, those kobolds looked at Goss even more differently.

Let his heart, which was originally a little lost, be filled with a sense of accomplishment again.

These kobolds are not so incorrigible, as long as the food and nutrition keep up, recuperate for a few months, and their physical fitness comes up, they should be able to start dragon seeking meditation one after another.

It's nothing more than being like yourself, the overall upper limit is lower, and there are fewer kobolds who can turn on dragon blood and dragonization.

As long as you are willing to work, even if you are an ordinary kobold, you can create value for the territory, just like yourself, after all, such kobolds are the majority.

Just when Goss was finishing up his ordinary kobold inspirational study.

Gavin and the others had reached the sky above the Garden Forest, and they had a clear goal in mind, and they made a straight head.

The kobolds who had previously defected to the Garden Forest were not really defecting, and were part of the trap Gavin had laid for Swift Peng all along.

In the last life, he had already suffered enough to fight monsters in the monster's lair.

It's all carefully laid out by the enemy, and there, the enemy has a home field advantage and is able to exert double or even more combat power.

The existence of Ji Peng, which makes those powerhouses of the Radiant City dare not take the initiative to provoke them, may exert his combat power in the lair as if he was in the Tower of Domination of Misty Noel, and his strength will increase tenfold.

Luring the enemy out of your own carefully arranged battlefield and killing them in one fell swoop is the wisest tactic.

In this matter, Gavin made full use of everyone's preconceived notions.

That is, the kobold will only serve the dragon, and he can have kobold subordinates, purely by means of slavery.

In addition to this, the perception gap between different ethnic groups is also exploited.

Kobolds are a race that takes pride in their labor, especially after Gavin perfected the kobold reward system of the dragon oak collar, those kobolds are more motivated to work, and they don't need to be spurred at all, they are more conscious than the other - they will supervise each other.

But in the eyes of humans, Gavin is squeezing these kobolds to the limit, and defection is a matter of course.

The reason why Gavin made the whole play a whole set was that even those locals in Anfil Village lied to him, because he was afraid that some of these people would have the eyeliner of Ji Peng.

This kind of worry is not superfluous, and it is not unrelated to the mutual verification of the information provided by the human eyeliner.

Don't treat dragons like unintelligent monsters, and don't underestimate human greed.

There are countless things that collude with those intelligent monsters for their own interests, and even some intelligent monsters are survival methods.

The Sambian businessman colluded with the young red dragon to cause such a disaster.

The same is true of the collusion between the Peng and some of the horse farm owners in Anfil Village to harass their competitors.

The kobold warlock named Casal is a special dragonized kobold.

In the process of dragonization, he failed to obtain dragon wings.

This would have been a major flaw, but in this particular undercover espionage mission, it turned into an advantage.

Not too conspicuous, he left a soul mark on the Dragon Oak Mother Tree, which could provide Gavin with positioning coordinates, and he easily found the lair of the Swift Peng.

They had been invited in as special VIPs and prisoners, and the gold coins they had brought with them had been sent to the Dragon's Lair Treasury of the Swift Peng.

Although he doesn't look like a dragon, he is essentially a real dragon, and has the same hobbies as a dragon.

No, to be more precise, in order to prove that he is a dragon, there are some things that Swift Peng does more extremely, including looting wealth and building his own dragon's nest treasure trove, which he is more passionate about.

Being so close to the City of Radiance, knowing that the danger factor was very high, Ji Peng still lingered here, not just greedy for the inexhaustible food on the horse farm outside.

It was just a faΓ§ade, and the real reason was that there was an abandoned dwarven underground castle here, and this castle was built on a silver mine and had not been mined cleanly.

The Dragon's Lair was set up in this abandoned dwarven castle.

As he continued to go deeper, Gavin felt more and more that it was a wise choice for him to lure the Swift Peng out of here and bombard it.

The Wild Magic area is also hierarchical, ranging from light to heavy, small to large.

If the Wild Index is set at 100, the Wild Magic Area that envelops this place will be at least 60% more than 60 percent - 60% of the magic used here will be problematic, and it will be the vicious one.

The closer you get to the Dragon's Lair, the worse this situation becomes.

The effects are mutual, the Wild Magic area will enhance the ability of the Swift Peng's twisted spells, and in turn the Swift will make the situation here more extreme, forming the so-called Nest Attribute and Nest Ability.

Gavin is hard to determine whether the Immortal Vengeance Realm can suppress the distorted spell aura of Ji Peng here, after all, both belong to the power of the law, and the last confrontation is whoever has the highest priority level and whose power is stronger.

It didn't take much effort to control the Dragon's Lair.

Because the monster servants enslaved by Jipeng are mainly kobolds.

There is a swift peng's head in front of the road, a young red dragon pressing the formation in the back, and a kobold spy beating a side drum in the middle.

Even the Phantom of the Swift Peng was not summoned, and those kobolds who originally belonged to the Swift Peng bowed their heads and were taken into the pocket by Gavin in minutes.

This is another trait of kobolds, who are loyal only to living, victorious dragons.

This is related to the fact that dragons often fight with each other for property, with the losing dragon having nothing, and the winning dragon gaining all the property, and the kobold as part of the property.

This feature is both an advantage and a disadvantage.

The advantage is naturally when he is the victor and adopts the other dragon kobolds.

The downside is that this kind of thing can happen to you, especially after losing the battle with those powerful dragons, don't expect these kobolds to fight for themselves.

Gavin has been trying to figure it out, but it doesn't work out very well - because many racial traits are mixed together, and when you deny the disadvantage, you may also deny the positive side, and sometimes the gains outweigh the losses.

It's hard to find the best of both worlds.

Gavin, dressed in battle armor, sat on the dwarven throne that had been abandoned for an unknown amount of time, with the head of the swift peng under one foot, and the young red dragon squatted on his side, staring at the group of kobolds below, with an expression that if anyone disobeyed, he would use him to fight for the tooth.

In fact, he's already done that.

One is a harpy kobold who is too loyal to Swift Peng, and the other is an ordinary kobold who tries to escape.

With the lessons of these two kobolds, the remaining kobolds are one by one with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, as obedient as they want, and as honest as they want.

"Which of you is the head here? Stand up and speak. Gavin swept back and forth over the more distinctive-looking harpy dogheads.

There are two types of kobolds here, one is the ordinary kobold, and the other is this kind of harpy kobold.

Strictly speaking, this kind of eagle body kobold also belongs to the dragon kobold, because their dragon comes from Ji Peng, so whether it is appearance or ability, they will tend to Ji Peng.

For example, they all have higher magic resistance than ordinary kobolds, and spells that target them have a certain chance of being distorted, but the probability is very low.

But with such a group of kobolds around him, the aura of the Swift Peng's twisted spell will definitely be further strengthened.

They must be the cronies of the Swift Peng, and the High Commander can only be among them.

Those eagle kobolds, you push me, I push you, and none of them are willing to come out to claim them for a long time.

But Gavin didn't know anything about this, but looked slightly sideways at the kobold spy on the other side, "Casal. ”

The kobold spy stretched out his hand and pointed, "He, we were brought back by him, and the gold coins we brought were also brought into the dragon's lair by him." ”

Casal wasn't sure if the harpy kobold he was referring to was the most powerful here, but he was able to enter and leave the dragon's lair with deep trust and great autonomy.

When he was directly named, the eagle-bodied kobold had no way to continue to be a shrunken turtle, so he could only take a step forward, bow to Gavin and salute: "Aka has met the lord, because Lord Arada, there has never been a leader among us, so I don't know how to answer the lord's question just now." ”

Gavin didn't care if what the kobold said was true or not, and said directly: "There wasn't before, but now there is, from now on, you are the leader of the kobold here, all the kobolds have to listen to your deployment, if something goes wrong, I will be the first to ask you for the crime and help me introduce the situation here." ”

The face of this eagle-armed kobold showed not excitement, but bitterness, this kind of co-opted leader is not so easy to be, if he is not careful, he will be regarded as the chicken that kills chickens and makes an example of monkeys.

But in this case, he only has the right to accept, and there is no refusal, so he bowed down again and said, "I don't know what the adults want to know?" ”

"Let's start with the origins of this place, and the composition of your personnel, what races are there, and how many people are there?" After all, they weren't self-trained soldiers, and they couldn't be expected to be at a high level, so Gavin could only squeeze toothpaste little by little.

The eagle-bodied kobold named Acre still has an IQ of some time, but he didn't fully understand Gavin's style, and after listening to his first question, he was somewhat directional, and replied respectfully, "This ancient dwarven castle has the same name as this forest, and it is called South Kripput, whether this forest is named after it, or whether it is named after this forest, it is unknown.

Below there is a huge silver mine that has been dug through the Sword Mountains and is able to lead directly to the other side.

So far we have only captured a small part of the south, and the rest of it has been taken over by other monsters, which are said to contain a powerful eye.

Because of the frenzied magical area we were in, it was too restrained by the Eye Demon and its servants, so it never came.

Lord Arada never provoked them.

As for the number of personnel, we have never counted them specifically, so we can only give you a rough estimate. ”

"The estimated data is also true." Gavin just wants to grasp the general situation here, and he will definitely send his own people to settle in in the future to sort out and control it in detail.

"There are three hundred dragon guards like me, more than a thousand kobold silver mine miners, and servants such as goblins and goblins, the number fluctuates greatly, there should be two or three hundred." The harpy kobold replied.

For a dragon of great strength, the scale of the minions he has is relatively large.

Because they are the easiest to provoke those dragon slayers to peep, they have a certain amount of treasure, but their strength has not reached an unrivaled level.

Therefore, they generally do not have a permanent dragon's nest, and gather too many monster minions, and even if they do, most of them are elitist and can move with him at any time.

There are a series of comprehensive factors that have so many kobold minions.

The first is that it is shrouded in wild magical areas, and the second is that they need to dig silver mines for themselves, or rather, these kobolds are the natives of South Kripter, and after he occupied this place, he took these kobolds under his command.

Gavin synthesized the information with his own common sense, and then asked, "How much does the silver mine produce?" How much is Dragon's Nest treasure valued? ”

"The average monthly output of coarse silver bricks is about one ton, and the valuation of the Dragon's Nest treasure is not clear even to Lord Arada, because it is mainly composed of coarse silver bricks, and the number is no less than a hundred tons......"

Gavin sat up straight suddenly, and said with a serious expression, "Are you sure it's a rough silver brick, not a raw silver mine?" Are you proficient in the silver ore purification casting process? ”

Mineral veins of astonishing purity are not absent, but they mostly occur in the earth elemental plane.

In the material plane, most of the veins are a mixture of minerals that need to be purified.

The silver content in the ore can reach more than 10%, which is already a rich mineral.

That's why Gavin didn't show much excitement when he heard about a silver mine here.

He has not mastered the silver ore refining technology, even if it is mined on a large scale, it is just to make a wedding dress for others, and he can only eat a small amount of mining profits, and when the time comes, he will have to divide troops to guard, and in a short time, the value is not great.

But if it becomes a coarse silver brick, the nature is different.

This means that the initial smelting and purification have been completed, and only the final refining and minting of the silver coin is reached, and the silver content of it has reached 60 or 70 percent, and even those impurities, most of which are useful other minerals.

"Yes, it's a thick silver brick." Aka replied, "In this dwarven castle, there is an ancient silver smelting production line itself, which has been restarted by us, but the production speed is very limited, at most about one ton per month. ”

"Let's go, take me to see it." Gavin's interest was completely aroused, he didn't expect that Tu Yi Yi Peng would also receive a huge amount of cash.

One hundred tons of coarse silver bricks, even if calculated according to the lowest purity of sixty percent, is sixty tons of silver, and if purified into silver coins, it is enough to mint two million pure silver coins, worth 200,000 gold coins.

However, silver is not only used as currency, especially in the process of silver purification, many of the impurities produced belong to the precious metals associated with silver, mixed gold and diamonds are not uncommon, and the commercial value may be higher.

To put it simply, if a hundred tons of coarse silver bricks are transported to the Shining City, the market price will be at least 250,000 to 300,000.

"Adults, please come with me." Akabi respectfully led the way.

"With so many of you, how do you usually provide for them?" Gavin asked as he walked.

Trying to get the dragon to buy things with money is basically a dream thing, just listen to the number of thick silver bricks in the dragon's nest, and you know that eighty percent of the thick silver bricks produced by the dragon peng since he occupied the city have been moved into his dragon's nest.

"The dwarves once opened a garden farm here, as if blessed by the gods, and we only cultivated it from it, and a small piece of land came out, and the food grown was enough to sustain our daily needs." Aka replied, "Here it is." ”

As a huge stone door opened, a terrifying wave of heat rushed in front of me, followed by the clanging of forges and the sound of steam, and a group of sturdy kobolds with crimson scales were busy around a massive machine.

A majestic and incredible underground lava silver smelting line appeared in front of Gavin.

Seeing the situation in front of him, Gavin was not surprised, but showed an expression that was indeed the case.

In Ferron, there are not only industrialized factories, but also usually very cutting-edge ones, which are a bit strange from the eyes of the earth.

This kind of industrialization is like magic, and it is very disconnected, because it does not climb up little by little through the overall technology tree, but through the magic industry.

Among them, the human Nethrel Empire is a model, when they cut down the mountains and overturned the floating city that was built in the air, it is still talked about by the intelligent races of the whole continent, and no one can surpass it, even if it is their only remaining orthodox continuation mage kingdom Harua, only the construction method of the floating boat is preserved.

(End of chapter)