Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1192 Visiting the Mine for Infrasound Detection
Under Xia Duo's active guidance and dry goods export, both Lord Leisen and Stern have gradually entered a state of open communication.

It wasn't until near noon that a waiter came to report the list of meals and drinks for the noon banquet, and the communication between the three came to an end.

"Lord Xiaduo, let's go to dinner first, and let Stern take you to the Mithril Mine in the afternoon."

"it is good."

The Mithril mine was also brought up by Xia Duo on his own initiative. The reason was that the Severton Council had just announced the Mithril extraction technology, and he was going to purchase a batch of Mithril ore to go back and try to refine it.

In addition, he also said that he wanted to visit the Mithril Mine, just to try to find the Mithril Mine by himself after returning to the territory.

Of these two reasons, the former is very reasonable in the eyes of ordinary people, and it is also in line with the normal behavior of a Nether lord.

But the latter is a bit ridiculous. How can the prospecting experience of the Mithril Mine be learned after a few visits?
But Xia Duo's real goal is the latter, he has special skills for prospecting!
Lord Leisen did not refuse Xia Duo to visit the mithril mine in his territory, but asked Stern to accompany him to avoid unnecessary troubles.

Xia Duo readily accepted this.

……

After lunch.

Under the leadership of Stern, the son of Lord Leisen, and a mine manager named "Pete", Xia Duo came to the Mithril mine located in the northwest of Leisen Territory through the teleportation circle of the mage tower.

There are a total of three mage towers in Leisenling, one of which is located here.

When Xia Duo came out of the mage tower of the mine, he was shocked by the scene in front of him. This is a huge open-pit mine. Judging from the circular area currently being mined, the diameter is hundreds of meters.

As for the depth, the circular mining area is from the outside to the inside, getting deeper and deeper towards the center, similar to a wide funnel that spirals downward.

In the deepest part, throwing the mine mage tower behind Xia Duo into it, there is not a single point on the surface!

In this mine, thousands and countless dwarf slaves are working diligently under the supervision of human supervisors.

There are ore digging, ore dressing and classification, refinement and crushing, and collection and transportation, all of which are carried out in an orderly manner.

Xia Duo has never seen how a real mine works on Earth, let alone a purely handmade ancient mine. The scene in front of him really opened his eyes.

Not far from the periphery of the mine, there are more than 20 columns of gray and black smoke straight into the sky. Seeing Xia Duo turning his gaze to that side, Pete, the mine manager, introduced in a timely manner:
"Master Xiaduo, over there is a rough refining workshop for silver ore and copper ore!"

According to Pete's introduction, although this huge open-pit mine is called Mithril Mine, it does not only produce Mithril Ore, and even Mithril Ore is only a small amount!
Most of them are silver ore and copper ore. Of course, there are also a few raw gemstones.

But in the past, Mithril ore and rough gemstones would be packaged and shipped to Asker after several rounds of rough selection for distribution by Yeerlan and Danzo.

Now, Leisenling has stopped the sale of Mithril ore. As for the future, it also depends on the specific development of the situation.

……

Under the leadership of Pete, Xiaduo and Stern gradually moved downward along the winding mine road at the edge of the mine.

Going down to about 50 meters, maybe because of the limited rich ore, or because of the increased difficulty of mining, when you get here, the mining of the ore is no longer like the above, and all of it has been mined.

Instead, there appeared a series of "mine roads" in the true sense. According to the direction of the veins, they went deep into the rock mass, with seven turns and eight turns, which was very complicated.

Without the guidance of Pete, the "veteran driver" of the mine, even a senior arcanist like Shaduo would easily get lost in it.

It's just that if the caster gets lost, he can take the initiative to teleport it out instead of passively waiting to die like ordinary people.

"Master Xiaduo, currently the No. 16 mine produces the highest proportion of Mithril ore, and the proportion of coarse ore can account for about [-]% to [-]% of the total ore."

"so tall?!"

Xia Duolai also did some homework before. Generally speaking, most mithril mines coexist with silver and copper mines. Pure mithril mines probably only exist in legends.

In the No. 16 mine introduced by Pete, the proportion of rough mithril ore can reach [-]% to [-]%, which is undoubtedly a proper rich mithril mine.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is pure mithril mine.

Under normal circumstances, the rough ore of mithril ore can only account for about [-]/[-] of the total amount, which is [-]/[-] of the total amount of useful ore after rough selection.

Instead of two thousandths of the total mining project!
If the total amount of mining projects is counted, it will be even lower!

……

Xia Duo absolutely wanted to record rich mithril mines like No. 16 mine. After greeting Stern, he began to cast spells to detect the characteristics of the veins.

The spell Xia Duo is using now is called [Infrasound Detection]. The prototype of this spell is from Drow's [Earth Leys Detector]. He also learned the official mage version in [Projection Plane: Underdark].

But Xia Duo had created a similar spell called [Contrast] when he was an apprentice, but what he used was not low-frequency infrasound waves, but ordinary sound waves audible to ordinary people.

The penetrating power, especially in rock formations and soil rocks, is far inferior to Drow's [Infrasound Detection], but Xia Duo's [Contrast Art] also has unique features in the processing of echo feedback.

The combination of the two is the improved version of [Infrasound Detection] that he uses today.

Soon, Xia Duo received the feedback of the spell, but in front of Stern, he didn't take out a paper to write it down, but was going to look back on his memory after going back.

……

Then, Xia Duo conducted infrasound detection from multiple angles according to the direction of the mineral vein, and collected echo feedback, so that it can be regarded as a relatively complete characteristic data of the mineral vein.

而在16号矿洞之后，他又在皮特的带领下，依次去了19号、28号、4号、25号等秘银矿石粗矿比例较高的矿洞。

As for the other mines, Xia Duo did not detect them one by one. On the one hand, there are too many mines, and it may not be possible to detect them even if they walk for a day, and the casting status must also be considered.

It is impossible for him to give all his energy here.

On the other hand, the data he has now collected is more or less adequate.

Now the population of Savile Territory and Great Xia Territory is limited, and Mithril mines below a certain limit are not worth mining at all. Even if the population increases in the future, it is impossible to mine as soon as there is a mine.

After all, there is no free dwarf labor now, unless there are more efficient mining tools in the future, and at the same time, when resources are relatively scarce, it is necessary to continue mining those poor ore.

Now, just mine the bonanza.

He has collected almost all the echo feedback data of the Mithril bonanza in the Leisen Ling mine, and if he wants more, he can only go to other mines.

As for the lean ore data, it may be useful for the subsequent establishment of a complete Mithril vein echo feedback model, but it is not that useful.

On balance, Xia Duo only collected a few symbolically, and then gave up.

(End of this chapter)