Chapter 59 Ruby
Moreover, it is completely impossible to be a rich mine without a master at the sacred realm level.
There is not even a powerful man in the holy realm. Without waiting for the monster, the human nobles can steal it for you. There are actually fewer battles between humans, but due to interests, it is still necessary to fight.
Furthermore, for a rich mine, there must be a few magic soldiers. Whether it is to train magic soldiers or hire magic soldiers, it will cost a lot of money.
On the way back, the crowd became much more relaxed. In everyone's opinion, the prospecting mission was completed and there were no other mountains nearby.
The plain prospecting does not exist, and if it is dug, it will be ground or stone. Even if there is a mine, it will be underground hundreds of meters deep. Humans are not crypts, and they can hardly dig the mine so deep, because according to the iron felt master, if the mine reaches a certain depth, disasters such as water seepage or even poisonous gas leakage will occur.
Because the last few wells were also built near Yintong Mountain, it was less than two days away from Baishan, so I was a little leisurely walking along the way. Anyway, I couldn't get there for a day, and I had to walk slowly in two days, so why bother to worry?
So at 4 pm, before the sun set, the group prepared to camp. The camps established here were more than half a day away from Baishan and Yintong Mountain.
Constance called Link to keep watch for her, and Constance took off his clothes and took a shower in the stream.
When Constance came up to take a shower, he had a bright red gem in his hand.
Constance: "Look, what did I find in the river?"
Link used it to identify it: "Ruby?"
Constance: "It should be. I will find the master of iron felt to identify it. He is an expert."
In addition to gems, rubies with high purity are also necessary facilities for magic cannons of the Mage Tower. The design of magic cannons is to convert elemental power into magic light energy, among which rubies are indispensable at the conversion step.
In nature, there are not many rubies, and even fewer ones with high purity. Legendary mages often go to other worlds. An important task is to loot local rubies with high purity to make magic cannons for their mage tower.
The power of the magic cannon depends largely on how big the ruby is as its main component and how purity is.
Link had only seen the ruby that Constance picked up by him in the magic cannon in His Royal Highness Helena's mage tower.
When the Iron Felt Master took the dwarf iron cannon out and shot a yellow sheep and carried it back, Constance immediately showed the ruby he had picked up.
The master of Iron Felt looked at the ruby and immediately threw the yellow sheep, carefully aimed at the sunlight to appreciate the ruby. It has to be said that the lethality of the gem is to kill both men and women, regardless of age or young.
"I haven't seen such a big ruby with such a high purity several times in my life. This ruby is worth at least 100,000 gold coins."
Anything that can be used by a mage will not be too cheap, let alone Ruby, the main component of the magic cannon.
According to Link, such a large ruby, even if the pure precision is not high enough, it can only be used as decorations for the nobles, and it can be sold for thousands of gold coins. Because the high-purity ruby is too expensive for mage supplies, and the prices of ordinary rubies are also rising.
Master Iron Felt: "Where did you get it?"
Constance: "Picked up in the river."
Master Iron Felt: "I have dug two wells nearby, but nothing has been discovered. But that's true. If rubies can be found casually, they will not be so precious."
Finally, Master Iron Felt went to the place where Constance was bathing just now and took a look: "It must have been washed by the river that washed the ruby out of the earth's veins."
Link’s focus is not this: “Can there be ruby mines nearby?”
Master Iron Felt: "I don't know yet. Anyway, our contract has three months left. For the rest of the time, we will dig a well here. If there is a mine, it will definitely be discovered."
Link: "Okay."
Since they had made up their minds, the rest of the things were easy to handle. At night, the knights ate roasted yellow lamb, and after a good night's sleep, they began to dig inclined shafts under the command of the Iron Felt Master. They have been doing similar things for half a year.
A team of ten people, five people went to dig the inclined shaft, and the remaining five people cut down trees and then made wooden beams to support the inclined shaft. The iron felt master carefully checked every piece of earth and stone dug out by these people to check if there was a mine inside.
Constance and Link were much easier. The two of them protected the safety of the entire team. As a Sanctuary-level archer, Constance was also responsible for hunting everyone every day.
In fact, after half a year of outing, everyone has never stopped playing games, but people are always forgetting their roots. When everyone eats for a month, many people say that what they want to eat the most is black bread.
After learning about this, Link, who was very kind, brought a lot of black bread when he returned to the Marquis' mansion, so that the knights could eat black bread every night. It would be good to eat black bread directly without being scattered.
Even the white bread can only be eaten directly when it is just baked and not cold. After it is cold, it will be hard to kill people.
The only soft and sweet Queen’s bread in the bread industry can be eaten when it is cold, but Queen’s bread is made and eaten by bakers based on the number of people eating. There is no possibility of coldness at all.
Depending on the geology, it takes about five to seven days to dig a 20-meter-deep inclined shaft.
This time, the order given by the Master Iron Felt is to try his best to dig. Until the limit is reached, the inclined shafts that are dozens of meters deep can still be controlled and safe.
Perhaps Link was lucky. On the twelfth day, a ruby was dug out again in an inclined well. The ruby that Constance picked up last time was about the same size as a child's fist. This time the ruby was the size of a thumb belly, and it was several circles smaller, but this ruby was also a high-purity ruby.
This second ruby is of great significance. The first ruby appears, which may be accidental, and it is possible that the river water rushed over from a distance.
However, the second piece of high-purity ruby appeared, proving that there are ruby minerals here.
The second ruby was identified by the Iron Felt Master and could be sold for 15,000 gold coins. After all, the larger the ruby, the more valuable it is. If this one is much smaller, the magic cannon cannot be made, so it can barely be made into a magic gun.
Chapter completed!