Path of light

Chapter 365 366. Fair Deal

Spinel is a common magical gemstone, and elves like to use this magical gemstone to make some exquisite jewelry.

Magicians grind some low-grade spinels into powder. These magic crystal powders can be added to sheepskin magic scrolls, or they can be used to make magic dyes, which can be used when drawing magic runes, which will increase the magic power of the runes.

High-grade spinels are more precious. They are almost always sold by the block in magic shops. Spinels can be inlaid on various magic devices or on the top of staffs. When magicians hold spells, they are more valuable. When the staff casts a spell, it can increase the power of the spell.

Although spinel and spinel ore only have an extra suffix in their names, their prices vary greatly.

No one can guarantee that high-quality spinel can be polished from every spinel mine, not even the most skilled jewelers dare to make promises.

The pockets in front of Roy are all filled with polished spinels, and looking at the color of these spinels, you can tell that they are all top-grade spinels...

Roy glanced at the gray dwarf Dasher. Dasher was followed by two gray dwarves. They looked younger and their beards were not that long. They had mining picks and stone hammers hanging on their waists. They looked quite strong. Like a bull.

They looked behind the Dark Moon Elves, their eyes full of deep fear. It seemed that they must have suffered a lot from the Dark Moon Elves.

Roy pointed to the linen sacks and asked Dasher, "Is that all there is?"

Dasher hammered his chest with his fist a few times, and then said confidently: "If it's not enough... there are still some in the mine tunnel. We don't have barrels in hand, so we can only bring more."

Roy nodded.

At this time, the Dark Moon Elf had unloaded a barrel of rum from the wheelbarrow and placed it in front of the three dwarves.

You can smell the faint aroma of wine without opening the cork.

Roy waved his hand towards the back, and a group of Dark Moon elves brought a large bath barrel and an empty wine barrel from behind.

After the Dark Moon elves leveled the large bathtub, they began to pour buckets of clean water into the bathtub without waiting for Roy's instructions...

The three gray dwarves were suddenly confused. Could it be that everyone had to bathe and change clothes before making a transaction?

When the Dark Moon elves filled the big tub with water, and when the water in the barrel was about to overflow from the edge of the barrel, the Dark Moon elves stopped...

Then the Dark Moon elves scooped the water from the bath bucket into the empty wine barrel next to it until the empty wine barrel was filled with water.

Roy then explained to the three dwarves:

"Now...we just need to put the spinels into the big bathtub until the water in the bathtub will overflow immediately, which means these spinels can just fill a wine barrel."

The three dwarves did not expect to measure the volume of spinel in this way. They wanted to make a few excuses, but for a while they really couldn't find anything wrong with it.

Then they watched the Dark Moon elves pour bag after bag of spinels into the bathtub. When the water in the bathtub was about to overflow, they began to fish out all the spinels in the bathtub. Come.

After struggling twenty times to collect twenty barrels of high-grade spinel, the Dark Moon Elf handed over the barrel of sky-high-priced rum to the three gray dwarves.

During the selection process, since these spinels had been washed once, some spinels with cracks, defects, and opaque color were picked out by the Dark Moon elves.

These spinels can only be classified as low-grade spinels and placed in a large wooden box.

"Would you like to replace these low-grade spinels with ale?" Roy asked the three gray dwarves.

After saying that, he asked the Dark Moon Elf to fill three large glasses of ale and handed them to the three gray dwarves Dasher, Maranduo and Magdy. The three gray dwarves took the ale excitedly and without thinking, directly Dong-dong-dong drank it into his stomach.

After finishing the ale, he shook the wooden wine glass vigorously, and then he laughed with satisfaction.

Dasher rolled his eyes and asked Roy: "Can the low-grade spinels selected in the future...can also be exchanged for ale?"

"Of course, but it's best not to mix these low-grade spinels with the high-grade spinels. It's best to pack them separately." Roy said casually, and then added: "I have given you the entire northern mining area in the mine. Now that we have given it up, feel free to go mine spinel over there.”

After saying that, he asked the Dark Moon Elves to load all the spinels into the wheelbarrow, and then handed a few salted fish and breadfruit to the three gray dwarves, and said:

"I wish our next transactions will be as smooth as this!"

Dasher was overjoyed when he saw that Roy had prepared some extra gifts. He got the salted fish and breadfruit and said quickly:

"I will still be here waiting for you tomorrow..."

Only brothers Marandu and Magdy muttered in disappointment:

“…Too bad there’s no stinky cheese and liver pie.”

Dasher quickly asked the two gray dwarf brothers to lift the wine barrel, and the three dwarves left happily...

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The boom at the edge of the mine kept creaking. Although Roy made some targeted reinforcements, the boom was still not good enough.

Twenty barrels of spinel took two shipments to be transported back to the ground, and the old crane could still strike at any time.

Mu Lin did not follow Roy down to the mine this time. When Roy came out of the mine, she came to the side of the mine. She looked at the spinel in her pocket and asked with some surprise:

"You also asked those gray dwarves to help you polish the gem mines into spinels?"

"I guess these spinels are probably their inventory. They didn't dare to go out to mine the ore overnight last night."

Roy grabbed the edge of the well with both hands, stepped out of the wooden box and said to Mu Lin.

Mu Lin made a tut-tsk sound and said to Roy, "These spinels should be very valuable in the Elf Continent, right?"

"It should be, but I haven't paid attention to the market of magic gems before, so I don't know the specific value." Roy replied.

At this time, Captain Kepler came over from the gate. After hearing what Roy and Mulin said, he took out a spinel the size of a fingernail from his pocket and said to them:

"Just such a big piece is enough to exchange for a barrel of rum!"

Then Captain Kepler said to Roy:

"Tomorrow the logistics team from the valley camp will arrive at our second mine. In addition to rum, ale and wheat flour, the supplies brought this time include the additional iron ingots and wood you applied for, as well as craftsmen. We will also follow the logistics team here."

"That's great. An elf craftsman is here to repair this crane. At least you don't have to worry about riding in the crane anymore..." Roy said.

Roy is preparing to count these spinels and put them into storage. Captain Kepler and Mu Lin are helping.

Fortunately, the logistics team will arrive at the second mine tomorrow. At that time, the logistics team can transport these spinels back to the mine camp.

"Roy, I don't understand. Those gray dwarves have been locked in the mine for so long, don't they have any idea of ​​​​escape?" Mulin whispered to Roy.

Roy thought for a moment and then said: "Maybe he was frightened by the plateau headhunters on the ground."

Captain Kepler next to him shook his head and said:

"Perhaps, we often deal with gray dwarf pirates on the Queen Egwene Islands. They can be said to be the most insidious and cunning pirates. Even if we use the Silver Pegasus Chapter, we still haven't been able to eliminate them all after so many years. Not only Without purging, the number of these gray dwarf pirates is still increasing year by year."

"I think the plateau headhunters on the ground are one of the reasons. In addition, these gray dwarves are also very afraid of the Dark Moon Elves, so they hide deep in the mines and don't dare to come out."

Roy said.