Age of Adepts Chapter 618: Find veins
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Jia Lan Continent, somewhere on the west coast.
giant airship is slowly flying above the sky clouds at extremely low speeds.
Several Adept members belonging to the Crimson family have been raised on the deck, leaning against the ship's side, and silently looking down at the looming magical continent below.
With their strength, plus the blessing of Hawkeye, they can easily penetrate the thin cloud of gas, and directly see the strange natural landscape of Jia Lan Continent and the wide variety of jungle creature.
It's just a pity that the elves who they are looking for in this industry are not as easy as looking for humans. Humans like to cut down the trees near the settlements to build tall and strong camps and buildings. Therefore, as long as you look up at night, you can naturally find human villages and villages by following the lighting.
But the elven clan is said to be the closest to nature and the forest-loving race. They almost never cut down trees. Instead, they naturally place their villages and towns on those particularly tall and thick old trees.
The tree house is where the elves live.
After the night is low, the elves rarely light an open flame, and they already live in the mountains and dense forests, so it is difficult to find them by candlelight.
And like Grim, they are flying above the high blue sky and looking far away. It is full of lush green and undulating forests and seas. It is difficult to find a trace of noise. In this case, trying to find an elf village by naked eyes is simply a dream.
So, when you get here, if you want to find the elves, you can only drill into the forest honestly, and learn the elves to jump high and low, and find needles in the forest of vast!
"Taymor, may you recognize the terrain here? Before the war with Elven Royal Court, I hope to hide this giant airship first, you recommend a place!" Grim glanced briefly at the green rolling forest , Asked the half-elf guide.
Of course, Grim cannot completely trust this guy who joins halfway. While waiting for his answer, Grim also quietly called out the topographic map of Jia Lan Continent in his mind, and compared it with the long and broken coastline.
It seems that it hasn't been smelling the magic force breath in the magical forest for a long time. The half-elf Taymor presses his excited heart, and lays silently on the shipside of giant airship to examine the forest under him.
"If I remember correctly, here ... this should be the White cliffs southwest of the west coast. The most obvious sign here is the white cliff stone standing tall on the edge of the coast."
Following the pointer of Taymor, Grim saw a touch of white on the edge of the cliff shore in the distance.
"This is the area with the most complicated sea conditions near the West Coast, the most dense reefs, and the most unsuitable area for large-type ships. So in this area, the probability of us encountering the Elven King patrol team will be extremely small." Taymor again pointed his hand A certain direction of Lin Hai: "Go from here to that direction, you can find an elf village in about 7 days. Sorry, I am talking about the time it takes to travel through the forest. As for taking this ... this big piece, maybe It takes half a day to arrive ... "
"The Elven Village ..." Grim groaned and shook his head: "We are not suitable to contact the elves early, but we need to find a suitable landing place first. Taymor, is there any large-type in this west coast area? Metal veins or mines? "
"Metal mine?" Taymor opened his mouth in surprise: "It seems that there are many Central in the magic forest, but it can be on the west coast ..."
Half-elves bowed their heads for a moment, and said with a less certain gesture: "From here to the north, there is a 16-day journey. There seems to be a Ratman mine there. I don't know if there are metal veins in it! "
"Go there first!" Grim issued an order immediately.
After a while, the giant airship re-uplifted, dived into the clouds, and flew along the coastline to the north in the direction indicated by the half-elves.
When the giant giant airship disappears completely, two elves wearing green grass and rattan woven clothing are drilled out of a tall ancient wood lush canopy on the edge of the forest.
Two elves, one man and one woman, stared at the disappearance of the metal Monster, their eyes were still full of horror that was difficult to hide.
"What are those? Is it the horrible monster made by Sorceresses again?" The female elf's voice trembled, apparently not out of the horror just now.
"It doesn't matter what it is, we must pass the news of the metal monster back to the village as soon as possible. Perhaps Grandpa Wenger can tell us the answer ..." The male elf made a decision immediately.
"Well, go ..."
In a blink of an eye, the two elves did not fall into the canopy behind them.
It's also strange, but just a moment's effort, their figure is integrated into this forest, making it difficult to track and trace their tracks.
A day later, news about the appearance of a terrible metal monster spread to every elven village on the west coast.
…………
Ratman mine.
Taymor's 16-day itinerary is on giant airship, but it's just a day and a night.
If it didn't take 4 hours to determine the location of the entrance to the mine, Grim and his party could arrive here faster.
Ratman mine, as its name suggests, is hidden in a dense forest, only a mine with a black hole inclined upwards is exposed, and a large-type Ratman tribe lives in it.
The elves are a group of people who pay great attention to personal appearance and cleanliness. Let them enter the Darkness wet and work in the mines that do not see the sun all year round. It is difficult to kill them. Therefore, the forest elves and the Ratman in the mine have reached an agreement. Ratman relies on submitting a certain amount of ore to the forest elves every year in exchange for the right of abode in this mine.
So in the Ratman mine, there are no half-elves at all. All of them are intelligent Ratmans that can stand upright like humans and use various precision tools.
The thin bodies of these Ratman can't wear heavy stomachs at all. They just buckle a metal cap on their heads, and then light a thick candle on it. With this faint light, it is free to be in Dark and wet mines.
Ratman miners' weapons are basically spades, and some stronger Ratman fighters may also be equipped with ‘powerful’ weapons such as *, iron swords, and spears.
According to the description of Taymor, Grim can be judged. The most powerful Ratman leader in this batch of Ratman is only the strength of First Grade . The rest of the Ratman fighters and miners are not high rank apprentice or Pseudo-Adept, and there is no Elemental Power There are only a few cunning and intriguing garbage.
For such garbage, Grim is disdainful of sending valuable Adept , so only one goblin technician was assigned to bring in five shooter models Magical Machine.
Grim and others found a slightly flat place outside the mine to support the table and chairs. Just after drinking two cups of hot tea, the battle inside the mine was over.
Almost 200Ratman, including Rat King, were completely wiped out and sieved by Magical Machine metal projectiles. As for the metal crossbow fired by Ratman hiding in a dim tunnel, neither the strength nor the attacking power is sufficient for the thick metal body of Magical Machine outside.
So after the power was completely crushed, the shooter Magical Machine slaughtered the entire mouse Human Race group easily.
The goblin technician brought back four or five pieces of ore mined deep in the mine.
Grim picked up a piece of ore by hand, and held it in his hand, and then he looked up and looked carefully.
*Beep*, after testing, the ore is an ordinary ore, which contains 11% of the mineral components, and the rest are wastes of no use value ... After evaluation, the mineral composition of the ore is as follows: "
"Luo iron mine 1.42% ..."
"Peridot 3.27% ..."
"Pyrite 2.86% ..."
"..."
"The proportion of metal components is less than XXX%, and there is no value for smelting ..."
After a long list of ore ingredients, the chip also gives the final evaluation results.
The grade of Ratman mine in front of you is not high, and the low rank magic materials such as topaz, olivine, and agate are among the life partner's most. These things are somewhat valuable to the elven clan, but to the Grim who is eager to take root, it is useless.
Several pieces of ore brought out by the goblin technician were tested again. Grim waved with disappointment. The crew boarded the giant airship again. The bow turned and flew towards another mysterious mine at a high speed.
You are welcome to say that in order to find a suitable metal vein as soon as possible, Grim has been somewhat desperate. Anyway, it also belongs to the marginal area of the magic forest. Elven Kingdom's limited army and strength are not enough to deter their actions.
In five or six days, the coalition of Dark Sorceress and Pale Witch will arrive at Jia Lan Continent by boat. At that time, they will become more eye-catching and easier to capture targets.
Presumably at that time, Elven Kingdom was more willing to send elite troops to surround them, instead of chasing behind a group of elves to eat farts behind giant airship.
To be honest, with strong ships and artillery, Grim has long been disdainful of the armies of the secular world. The only thing that can make him jealous of one or two are those elemental users and the terrible elf powerhouses.
But now Grim leads giant airship to circle around the edge of Jia Lan Continent, and has not made any moves to kill the elves. In addition, they still turn around and fly back to the vast sea. If you replace Grim with the elf Commander at this moment, I am afraid I will not know how to start with this inexplicable metal Monster!