Chapter 184 Ancient Tunnel

It didn't even require special attention and tracking. As everyone followed the guidance of the Earth Line Spirit Lamp impartially, everyone noticed that the messy traces of wild goblin activity were heading in the same direction.

And just a few hours later, an exposed rocky land surrounded by woods suddenly appeared in front of Leon and others.

Raising the spiritual lamp in his hand, the emerald green light was dazzling and rich, its brightness reaching its peak, almost as bright as that near the leyline node of the Mage Tower, and it was so eye-catching in a sunny environment.

Either this is another node of the earth's spiritual veins, or there is a large amount of spiritual vein ores here.

For the time being, he was not interested in caring about the whereabouts of the wild goblins. Business was more important. Leon told everyone: "Separately search, the spiritual vein mine may be here."

The veins near Kossos are not deep, and spirit vein mines are usually produced by the magic power that the veins overflow into the surroundings. Coupled with the influence of the spirit-like field environment, even if the veins here do not grow and are exposed to the surface, they must not be deep. Where to go.

If this is where it is, then I'm afraid you can find some bare minerals if you dig casually.

Olivia put down the tool backpack she was carrying. She, Leon and Rohark picked up the steel mining picks, and the other three picked up the prospecting shovels, and searched separately in pairs.

Leon came to a rocky area, swung the fine steel mining pickaxe, and smashed it against the bare rock with full force.

With a crisp sound, the rock shell on the ground fell apart.

Kicking away the broken rock, Leon swung the pickaxe again.

The powerful and sinking knight smashed down with great force, knocking the lower rock fragments into pieces.

After just two chisels, Leon saw that the broken rock formation section was covered with cyan mineral crystals, and he felt happy.

Ha ha! ~Yes!

He picked up a piece and looked at it, looking at the spiritual vein ore body between the layers of bare rock, feeling a little regretful that he was not in the ancient Lorelite era thousands of years ago.

Otherwise, possessing a spiritual vein mineral deposit would be considered a considerable fortune.

Unfortunately, for the current human civilization on the continent, apart from being useful to a small group of spellcasters and alchemists, these spiritual vein ores are just rare mineral crystals with impure appearance.

Today, they have another common name, "greenstone".

Although it basically only exists near the spiritual veins and is rare in quantity, after the spiritual vein mine is excavated, if no special processing is performed, the spiritual quality will gradually disappear over time and become a worthless gray rough stone, which can even be sold as counterfeit. Fake and black-hearted jewelers are too lazy to take a look at this rare mineral that cannot be preserved and has no use.

Weighing the ore in his hand, Leon wondered if it had any higher value besides making Neti cards.

There is a mine that cannot be used up by just myself and Corvis until they die.

How about selling the exit point to the spellcasters of the Northern Warlock Association?

Leon sighed instead.

He had just formed a strong relationship with the Warlock Association because of Met's incident. Now Hilgard is probably still under house arrest in the Trossa Army. It will be very difficult for him to go to the Northern Association to do business with the Warlocks.

Then send someone to the Alchemists Guild in the royal capital to ask? Even if the demand among alchemists is not high, they should be able to sell some money to support their families.

Leon felt that he was like an ancient man who discovered a rare earth mine or natural gas. Although it was a precious resource in an era of advanced technology, in "ancient times" it was of little use to others.

--boom!

With a loud noise, a large rock mass under Olivia's feet was smashed and cracked.

The girl raised her hand to catch the shattered and flying stones. She couldn't help but be delighted when she saw that the features in them were in line with the descriptions in the magic book.

"Leon, look~! Is it this!" Olivia shouted to her lover not far away.

Leon threw down the ore and smiled at her: "Yes, these are the things. Okay, no need to dig anymore, just pick up a few pieces of raw ore and let's go around again."

After saying that, he greeted the two Loharks on the other side.

When they return to Avalon, they will organize some soldiers and workers to carry out later development and long-term excavation.

Olivia nodded, squatted down, picked out the one with the largest and most beautiful mineral crystals in its cross section, and stuffed it into her backpack.

But just as she was about to stand up and leave, she suddenly noticed a slight vibration spreading under her feet.

There was a muffled sound of the rock layer breaking, and the next moment, the cracked and collapsed rock shell instantly fell into the ground with the surprised girl on her face.

"Olivia!!"

Seeing his lover's figure sinking with the ground, Leon was so shocked that he broke into a cold sweat and rushed over.

However, after hearing a soft shout from the girl, Olivia grabbed the rock mass on the edge with one hand and used her strength to throw her body over the entrance of the cave again.

The girl turned over in mid-air and landed firmly on the ground. Then she stood up and backed away with lingering fear, and retreated to the people who were running towards her.

After a false alarm, Leon held her hand and breathed a sigh of relief: "Are you okay?"

"It's okay, I was just shocked. I'm sorry, I hit the rock too hard. I didn't expect that the rock mass was empty." Olivia apologized angrily.

She was especially happy to glance at Treya who was coming next to her. Fortunately, she had just let him avoid the gravel and retreated to the side. She didn't know how deep the pit was. If it was a deep cave, it would be a big trouble.

"Hey, that's weird, Leon! Come and take a look, there seems to be a tunnel down here. What's paved on the ground? Is it something man-made?"

Lion heard his companion's surprised sigh, turned his head and found that Lohak was standing at the edge of the pit and looking down at the cave entrance.

"Why are you still close to it? Come back quickly, be careful of the collapse spreading." Leon frowned.

"It's okay~ It doesn't matter if you fall down. It's not very deep down here. Come and take a look and you will know." Lohak waved to Leon with interest.

Seeing him signal that there was no danger, everyone came to Lohak curiously. Leon also stuck his head out to look, his eyes widened, and was slightly surprised.

The collapsed rock cave was indeed not particularly deep, and there was a tunnel below.

At this height, except for Treya and Lohak's attendants, the few people present might sprain their feet. With the ability of others, they would not be injured even if they jumped directly.

But what really surprised Leon was that with the sunlight from the outside, he could see between the rock blocks that he had just fallen into.

There was actually a rusty, obviously man-made narrow iron track.

Looking at the long rusty rails that were supported by sleepers and stretched to the depths of the tunnel, Leon touched the back of his head. The width should be the rails that carry the mine carts.

Is there a mine below?

But since it is underground in the Nightmare Forest, it must not have been built by people of this era.

"Did you bring the rope? I'll go down and take a look by myself." Leon turned his head and said.

"I'll go too." Olivia said hurriedly.

"No, you're up there, I'll tie the rope around my waist, and you can just lift me up if there's any danger." Leon shook his head.

The girl thought about it and it was right. This would protect the other party better than her going down.

Without wasting time, everyone took the rope and tied it tightly around Leon's waist.

Pulling out the long sword, Leon jumped into the underground tunnel along the cave.

The heavy body wearing plate armor landed with a bang.

At the same time, Corvis's flying sword also lit up and flew to Leon's side, illuminating the environment in the tunnel for him.

Before he could stand up straight with his knees bent due to the fall, Leon used the light of Corvis' flying sword to see the shallow footprints on the ground.

The three-toed paw prints were undoubtedly from the wild goblins.

Judging from the depth and characteristics, they were probably left recently.

Leon stood up, kicked away the broken soil and gravel, and looked at the old rusty rails.

In any case, at least these rails could not be made by the wild goblins, whether considering the time or the intelligence of the little monster.

But those little monsters who are afraid of light may have regarded the underground tunnel as their nest. They like to live in caves and underground.

Leon shouted upwards, asking Corvis at the entrance of the cave to control the flying sword to accompany him, and then continued to walk forward a few steps.

This tunnel is very long.

Even the light of the rune sword cannot reach the end.

Leon did not continue to go deeper rashly. He turned back to the entrance of the cave and asked Olivia to pull him back to the ground.

He was very curious and wanted to find out the truth. After all, this would be his mine in the future, and all hidden dangers must be eliminated.

It was impossible to let his workers work here permanently at the risk of being attacked by wild goblins.

But Leon would not rush to lead everyone deep underground.

He was now the lord who ruled this place, not the miserable adventurer in the story who had to take risks alone.

"There may be wild goblins nesting here, Lohak, go back to Avalon and gather our army to clear it out, and remember to call Knight Larian." Leon ordered.

"Okay, then you should be careful here too." Lohak nodded.

"Oh, by the way, when you go back, go find my 'teacher' and ask her if she knows about the mine here." Leon reminded with a try-it attitude.