Chapter 864: 852. Copper Mine

Today, the ghost pattern red ant colonies can no longer be seen everywhere in the hilly and mountainous areas.

But occasionally, some red ants will come out of inexplicable places, causing a lot of trouble to people in the hills and mountains.

And these small groups of ghost-striped red ants lurking in the hills and mountains happen to be the hunting targets of many mercenary groups and adventure groups. There are often only a few soldier ants in their teams, and their combat effectiveness is not that strong. It is not difficult to kill these ghost pattern soldier ants.

At least half of the adventure group in Wilkes City are now hunting in the hills and mountains north of the Thorn Mountains.

Suldak led 500 cavalrymen and 18 thunderclaws into the Invercargill Warcraft Forest. Although the forest was full of ghost-striped red ants, they couldn't form an aggressive beast horde.

Perhaps it was because there was no unified command of the ghost pattern ant queen, the ghost pattern red ants in the World of Warcraft Forest were more like a mess of loose sand.

Although there were many ghost-striped red ants in the forest, some desperate ghost-striped red ants often rushed up, either being hacked to death by the cavalry with their swords, or shot to death by the bows on both sides of Thunder Rhino.

On the way the army approached the Demonic Beast Forest, they were cleaning up these scattered ghost-striped red ants.

The speed of travel has become very slow...

This forest has been ransacked by red ants, and almost all the green leaves of the trees have been eaten by red ants.

From a distance, the entire woodland has become bare.

The scenery among the mountains and forests...it seems to have entered a severe winter without snow.

The Bailin plane is like spring all year round. The calendar here is also calculated according to the time of the Grimm Empire on the Roland Continent. It is now June in the Grimm Empire. The withered and yellow trees all over the mountains and plains make people feel that this place is very depressed.

Although many trees have taken out tender green shoots, some dead trees have died completely.

The entire Invercargill Warcraft Forest is waiting for the red ants to recede completely, and then the Warcraft Forest will slowly recover, the vegetation here will grow again, and some fleeing herds will return here.

Invercargill Forest is almost empty and the conditions are very harsh.

Some high-level monsters that survived the beast horde are hiding in hidden corners of the forest. Their ability to survive the impact of the ant colony is enough to show that they have extraordinary power.

These high-level monsters used to be the overlords in this forest, with a strong sense of territory...

They have a strong sense of attack against trespassers, but this time they have to face Suldak's cavalry battalion and archer battalion.

Suldak took the map given to him by Marquis Luther, carefully identified the surrounding reference objects, and chose the direction to go.

The cavalry battalion passed through an empty valley with ease, and then turned over a barren mountain range. On the mountain range, he found a copper ore vein in the distance. The bare mountain range was not covered by vegetation, and he could see the blue marks...

Unexpectedly, it was so easy to find the location of the first mine. Surdak seemed very excited. The wealth buried here will belong to him in the future.

But before that, Suldak needs to open up the mountains here, at least to include them in the land territory of the Bailin Plane.

"That's it..."

Surdak was riding on horseback, holding the rein with one hand, looking at the mountains in the distance.

Andrew narrowed his eyes, followed Suldak's gaze, and asked him:

"Boss, are we now going to completely incorporate this mountain into the territory of the Grimm Empire?"

Suldak nodded and said: "That's it. We must occupy this place. Now the entire Invercargill Warcraft Forest is empty. It is the best time for us to expand our territory. I want the entire ore vein in the forest." ..."

"Let's go, let's see how long this vein is..."

After speaking, Suldak rushed to the foot of the mine vein with his cavalry.

Looking at the past from the mountains, it is not too far away.

But when I actually walked over, I realized that this distance was not ordinary.

It took another half a day to leave, and seeing that the sky had already darkened, the cavalry battalion finally arrived at the southernmost end of the mine vein.

At this time, Andrew was completely dumbfounded. He only looked at the above-ground part of the mine vein, which stretched several kilometers northwest, and then, like a giant beast dormant in the forest, it inserted its head into the forest.

"Boss, are we going to dig up the whole mountain here?" Andrew asked beside Suldak.

He doesn't know much about ore mining.

Suldak shook his head, took out a cloth bag, jumped off his horse, found two random stones on the hillside, and put them in.

"I still need to bring back some ore to refine it to see the quality of the ore in this vein. Many ores with low ore content may not be of much use." Surdak replied.

The cavalry battalion stopped on the open ground at the northern end of the mine lode. Surdak had already seen a lot of verdant gravel along the way. It could be seen that there were indeed a lot of copper-bearing ore here, and there were many exposed just outside the surface.

The cavalry did not sit idle after arriving at their destination. They started logging on the hillside, preparing to build some wooden houses near this mine and set up camp.

Surdak rode a horse around here and found that this is the only place nearby that is suitable for building wooden houses.

The Invercargill Forest of Warcraft has abundant timber resources, and wooden houses are built very quickly...

Samira led Lei Tingxi to move forward. She was in charge of the surrounding security. In order to avoid high-level monsters lurking in the surrounding mountains, she personally took the archer group and checked around the camp to see if there was any situation.

The bed crossbow on Thunder Rhino has a very good suppressing power against the monsters in Invercargill Forest.

Now there are not many monsters in this forest of monsters. Of course, there is no problem if Suldak wants to open up here. It is not troublesome to open up the territory in advance. He is worried about how to maintain the territory after the return of the monsters.

You must know that this is the hinterland of the Warcraft Forest.

A ghost pattern soldier ant suddenly jumped out from the weeds and directly bit the leg of Suldak's war horse.

The soldiers standing on the side reacted quickly, holding the spears in their hands, and blocked the ghost-striped soldier ant. Andrew rushed forward and chopped off the ghost-striped soldier ant's head.

Andrew looked at the mountain at his feet, and asked Suldak, "Boss, if copper mines are really dug out from here in the future, how do we transport these ores out?"

"I will use these thunder rhinos for the time being. There shouldn't be any problem with this kind of big guys transporting ore..." Suldak said to Andrew.

"If possible, maybe we will build an alchemy workshop here in the future. The copper ore dug out here will be directly smelted into copper ingots, and then transported to Dodan Town." Suldak said standing beside Andrew.