Chapter 486 Rare Earth Minerals
The reserves of radiant stone beneath the pit are not in small numbers, and judging from the current scenario alone, a rich open-pit deposit has been formed.
Locke's eyes moved slightly, and he wondered if he should tell the people of the Duchy of Zelot this news.
The value of radiant stone can be large or small, mainly depends on the strength of the radioactivity that radiant stone can produce, some palm-sized radiant stones can even work on first- and second-class creatures, that category, all of them are superb radiant stones.
Regardless of whether there is a top-grade radiant stone in this rare earth mine in front of him, the quantity alone can already make a first-class knight's heart move.
This is a new mine that rivals the largest pits in the Duchy of Zelot, and Locke guesses that the sudden appearance of the Haze Storm Bear is due to the accidental ingestion of the rare earths below, which has produced an evolutionary mutation.
Locke is no stranger to radiant stones, and the sorcerer of Ashar often uses them in the laboratory to complete some of her sorcery experiments.
Promoting the passive evolution of creatures is the most popular use of radiatite, but this kind of evolution is uncontrollable, and knights who also take passive evolution as the mainstream, rarely use this shortcut.
After thinking about it for a moment, Locke decided to tell the Duchy of Zelot about this deposit.
Because he didn't tell him, the Duchy of Zelot would discover this new mine sooner or later, and he alone didn't have the strength to 'eat' this rich mine, mining, transporting, and finding buyers, all of which needed to be faced, were not something that Locke could complete.
It's not okay to eat alone, and Locke doesn't plan to be a good person, he still has to catch what he should fish, he helped the Duchy of Zelot solve the hidden danger of Warcraft, and he also discovered such a rare earth deposit, how can the Duchy of Zelot have to express it.
After breathing cross-legged for a while, and when the fighting spirit had recovered three or four percent, Locke gathered his loot and flew towards the capital of the Duchy of Zelot.
The corpse of that violent bear is a good thing, and the magicians will definitely be interested in this genetically mutated freak, and it can still be sold for a good price if it is obtained from the Holy Tower.
In the end, it's still poor, during the ten-year mission, Locke will not give positive rewards for the tasks he completes every year, and if he wants to continue to improve his strength, just rely on the little money he makes, and dream.
With Locke's current cultivation expenses, just replenishing the total amount of Dou Qi in his body once would drain the energy in nearly twenty high-grade wind spars.
Coupled with the usual consumption of fighting qi circulation, the consumption of combat skills, the consumption of flying and other edges and corners, Locke's average daily use of hedron is five to seven, and this is still the time when he is not fighting.
Of course, Locke can also be maintained by absorbing the free factor in the air, but he is used to running in a car, who will walk, and the speed of the turtle speed, Locke is fed up.
The capital of the Duchy of Zelot is called Shaga, a small city with a population of less than 50,000.
In the royal palace of Shaga, the current Grand Duke of Zelot, warmly welcomes Locke, who has returned from Laren Forest.
Locke's armor had already been replaced with a new set at this time, which made him not so embarrassed, but the bruises on the corners of his mouth and the scars on his arms really made our Grand Duke Zelot take a deep breath.
"Rock Knight, I don't know ...... the Violent Bear," Archduke Zelot asked impatiently.
The stone haze in the Laren Forest is raging, which directly affects the normal operation of several rare earth mines on the Laren Heights, and if he can't complete the amount of rare earth tribute to the O'Moore Empire this year, he will not be so secure as the Grand Duke.
"I've taken out that Storm Bear!" Locke said in a deep voice.
Hearing such good news, Grand Duke Zelot finally breathed a sigh of relief, and a shy smile appeared on his face, like a blooming daisy.
"Hurry up, serve Lord Locke to the apse, I have prepared a sumptuous dinner for you, my lord. Grand Duke Zelot beckoned to several palace ladies around the hall and said.
can solve the big problem of the stone mist storm bear, and the Grand Duke of Zelot can sleep peacefully at night, can he not treat Locke as an ancestor.
Locke did not refuse, and accepted the gracious invitation of the Grand Duke of Zelot.
The longer he was in this class, the more Locke became accustomed to these ways of the aristocracy, and he was now able to accept some of the aristocratic dinner parties that he once resisted.
Of course, the overtures of the princes and nobles of Zelot in the banquet and the secret send-offs of celebrities and ladies, Locke probably didn't pay attention to it, he went to eat, and fought with the stone haze storm bear in the Laren Forest for two days and one night.
During the banquet, Locke was not a blind foodie, and when his belly was filled to six or seven full, Locke smiled and excused himself to talk to Archduke Zelot, leaving nearly forty empty plates behind him.
The palace ladies who served around Locke did not show much surprise, the Warren general in the principality used to be invited to the palace for dinners by the Grand Duke, and the Warren general also had an amazing appetite, they had long been used to it.
I just thought that this was a common trait of powerful knights.
Locke came with a glass of wine, and the Grand Duke of Zelot immediately left one of the nobles with whom he was talking, and walked in three steps and two steps, and greeted him with courtesy.
There were many people here, and it was inconvenient for Locke to talk to Archduke Zelot, and after giving the fat man a look, Archduke Zelot nodded and took Locke to a side hall next to the main hall.
After entering the side hall, Locke squinted his eyes and looked around, and said to the several attendants who followed, "You guys go out first, I have something to talk about with the Grand Duke." ”
Several chamberlains looked at Grand Duke Zelot, and the fat man waved his hand and said, "Get out, go out, with Knight Locke here, will I be in any danger?"
Locke glanced at the fat man appreciatively, this fat man was a character, and he was not worried that Locke would be bad for him.
In fact, Grand Duke Zelot knew very well in his heart that the only official knight in the principality left, and if a first-level powerhouse sincerely wanted to harm him, it would be difficult for him to survive even if he hid in the deepest secret vault of the principality, so it was better to live freely.
It turned out that he was right, even though General Warren had left Zelot for a few years, the surrounding kingdom forces that had friction with the Duchy of Zelot did not really send first-class knights to assassinate him.
There is no point in assassinating a duke of the principality, kill one, and soon a new one will be commissioned.
By whom?By the Omore Empire, by the knights behind the Omore Empire.
In the end, this is a world of strength, the Hall of Knights is the strongest violent machine on the continent of Misia at the moment, and the O'Moore Empire is its biggest spokesperson.
"I wonder what your lord called me?" said Grand Duke Zelot, wiping the sweat from his forehead with a silk towel.
Fat people are prone to sweating, and this Grand Duke Zelot is even more hollowed out by wine, and usually an imperial silk scarf does not leave his hand.
Seeing this, Locke did not rush to talk about the rare earth mine, but put down a brocade box, and a bright red blood essence inside was very eye-catching.
"Thank you, sir. Grand Duke Zelot only glanced at it, and knew that this blood essence was worth a lot, and hurriedly thanked him.
The blood essence is really invincible to send this thing Locke, up to the first-level knights, down to ordinary humans, this kind of blood essence can play a good role in warming the body.
Not to mention anything else, this blood essence can at least help Grand Duke Zelot make up for some of his lost body.
It's a pity that the number of blood essences is not much, and by now, there are only two or three left on Locke's body, and Locke wonders if he can find an opportunity to go to the Saka Grassland to trade some.
In some large tribes, a certain amount of precious materials such as blood essence will be traded every year.
Gossip, Locke and Grand Duke Zelot got down to business.
"Rare Earth Mine?" Grand Duke Zelot's eyes widened, no one knew better than him what a new rare earth mine meant to the principality.
"My lord, can you tell me what the reserves of that mine are?" the fat man asked impatiently, he was more interested in the news from Locke's mouth than the precious abnormal blood essence.
"It's an open-pit mine, just under the deep pit where I fought with the Stone Haze Storm Bear, there should be a lot of reserves, and the radioactivity of the radiant stone can have a certain impact on me. Locke said. "As for how much, you can send a professional to explore. ”
"Okay, okay. Grand Duke Zelot excitedly wiped the sweat stains that appeared on his forehead from time to time.
It can have an effect on the first-level knights, and the reserves of rare earth ores must be amazing without thinking about it, and Grand Duke Zelot still has this common sense.
"That rare earth mine, I want 30% of the income. Locke then said in a tone that was not to be placed.
When Grand Duke Zelot heard this, he didn't refuse at the first time, but thought about it in his heart, after all, this rare earth mine was discovered by this first-level knight, and the strength of the first-level knight was there, he needed to think about it.
Locke didn't have much time left for him to think about it, and when Locke was about to force him to take it a step further, Grand Duke Zelot gritted his teeth and said neatly, "Good!"
According to Locke's estimates, sixty percent of the rare earth income of the Zelot Kingdom will be handed over to the O'Moore Empire and the Knight Palace, and the remaining forty percent will maintain the survival needs of the people in their country.
Yes, in this country with rare earth minerals underground, because of the high surface radiation, few crops can survive, and seventy percent of the survival rations of hundreds of thousands of people in the Principality of Zelot come from the Southern Omoor Empire, and two percent are imported from the surrounding kingdoms, and only one percent is self-sufficient.
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