Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1429 Geological Exploration Suspected Mithril Mine

Continuing to the east, there is almost no trace of civilization in the forest, only the most primitive wildness remains.

However, Xia Duo and Niya still did not return, but continued to march eastward. During the period, apart from chatting with each other, Niya also began to help Xia Duo explore the geological conditions in the forest.

"Do you think it's really possible to find mithril mines in the Green Pearl Forest?" Niya asked curiously.

"Who knows! I just have the attitude of trying it out. What I really want to confirm is not the Mithril mine, but the weak points of the earth veins!"

Xia Duo did not hide his true intentions. In fact, this kind of thing needs to be known to Nya. If the drow does not go well in the underground war, it may not be impossible to bloom everywhere and rush out of the surface.

In the area of ​​Great Xia Territory and Savile Territory, not only the apprentices of the Tower of Time have been inspected by the task, Xia Duo himself has also personally explored many times, and found no weak points in the leylines.

But the Great Xia Territory and the Savile Territory only occupy a small part of the vast area of ​​the southern forest. If there is absolutely no weak point in the land, even if he is lying to himself, Xia Duo can't believe it.

However, the exploration of this large area is undoubtedly not an easy task, not because it is difficult, but because the forest is dangerous. Unless it is filled with human life, only those who can really walk freely in the forest can complete it relatively safely. Task.

Such people are basically limited to at least mid-level mages or above, or very experienced adventurers, otherwise ordinary people will enter the forest at will, let alone conduct geological exploration, and it will be considered luck not to be snatched away by wild beasts.

……

Niya couldn't help feeling a little worried when mentioning drow's very likely reality, "If drow really appears in the southern border, can we handle it?"

"It's very difficult. Even with the existence of the Tower of Time, it's very difficult for us alone to block the almost crazy drow."

Regarding the last battle of Drow’s defeat from Comanthor, Xia Duo heard enough details from Iolum. At that time, the God of Revenge of Drow appeared in person. Manso no longer exists.

But even so, the battle between the two sides led to the complete destruction of the underground passage in the Dragon's Back Mountain Range, and Comanthor also killed several high-ranking mages.

In that battle, Comanthor should have tried his best. At least on the surface, under the command of the king, all the upper families would put their own strength into it.

Coupled with the main god of the elves, this is just a miserable victory. In the southern border, it is estimated that it will be difficult to even resist.

But fortunately, even if the underground passage in the Longji Mountains is destroyed, it is still a weak point in the ground veins, and the passage can be reopened.

In this case, perhaps in the eyes of Drow, there will be more attractive than the southern border.

Of course, it is definitely not enough to be so passive or fluke. The real way to completely eliminate hidden dangers is to make yourself stronger as soon as possible.

In the case that it is difficult for individual strength to make a big breakthrough, it can only be found on the Miser energy core.

At the same time, prevention in advance cannot be ignored, like what Xia Duo is doing now, although it may not have much effect on resisting drow, at least it can be done in advance, so that there is time to arrange a strategic retreat here.

"Did you find anything?" Xia Duo asked Niya.

"not yet."

"That's good!"

……

After all, human beings are a group of social creatures. The primeval forest certainly has places worth exploring, but this kind of place without any trace of civilization is ultimately not suitable for long-term human activities.

Even if it was just a short excursion, Xia Duo gradually felt a little tired. Although he could find some novel food on the way, these were not enough to impress him anymore.

Not only him, Niya is also paying more and more attention to geological exploration instead of the forest itself. This may be stimulated by the drow crisis, but it is more because of the attraction of these original forest landscapes to the two not enough.

"Xia Duo, I found something!"

"what?!"

Hearing Niya's exclamation suddenly, Xia Duo's heart suddenly rose. He was afraid that Niya would say that the earth veins were weak, so he asked quickly:
"What did you find? Is it the weak point of the earth vein?"

"It's not that the leylines are weak, I seem to have found a Mithril mine!"

Niya seemed a little unsure about paying attention, but her voice involuntarily raised a little, and she pointed to the southeast direction and said to Xia Duo, "It's right there, about three miles away!"

Hearing the specific location, Xia Duo hurriedly projected the perception field, and used the perception field to cast the [Infrasound Detection] spell targeting the underground of this area.

In an instant, an unusually familiar feeling arises spontaneously!

Xia Duo sorted out the echo feedback data of the Mithril veins in [Projection Plane Remains of the Empire], and even summarized the possible feedback characteristic model of the Mithril veins.

The feedback of this detection, although different from the echo feedback data of the Mithril mine he detected in Leisenling, fell firmly into the feedback characteristic model.

This discovery made Xia Duo happy. Even if the mithril veins could not be found, but the model could be perfected, it could be regarded as a contribution to the next successful discovery!
"Come on, let's go and see!"

As he said that, Xia Duo urged Abel to take off, and Niya also directed Pamela to keep up. The speed of the two flying horses was not enough. Even if they were carrying people, it would only take a few minutes to travel two or three miles.

……

But when he actually arrived at the destination, Xia Duo hesitated when he saw that there were no different trees from the rest of the forest.

It's not that there must be any abnormalities around the Mithril mine, but as a lord who has a huge demand for Mithril, when faced with a suspected Mithril mine, he will always be a little hesitant.

"I'll go down and have a look, and you can help me be vigilant up there."

"it is good."

Hearing Niya's promise, Xia Duo quickly cleared away distracting thoughts, directly used the bloodline ability, turned into gas and floated downward, and quickly merged into it when it touched the ground.

But this is not a bloodline ability, but from Drow's [Stone Walking Technique]. Of course, Xia Duo prefers to call it [Earth Dungeon].

From the surface all the way down, following the previous [Infrasound Detection] instructions, Xia Duo soon came to an area less than ten meters underground.

Going down here, the soil began to gradually turn into rocks, like an immature mountain that didn't grow out of the surface.

[Stone Walking Technique] It doesn't matter if the area you walk through is mud or stone. Xia Duo continued to go down, and it was about two meters before collecting some stone samples with the help of the portable space.

……

Back on the ground, before Xia Duo could speak, Niya offered to propose, "This side has been explored as far as this side, let's go back today!"

Of course Xia Duo knew that Niya had ended the excursion early because of the suspected mithril mine, and he himself was very interested in the result, so he followed Nya's words:
"okay."

(End of this chapter)