Path of light

Chapter 387 388. Sudarso Mountain

The expansion project of the second mine is proceeding smoothly, with the mountain road, stables, and archery training ground in front of the fortress being gradually completed.

Many mixed-blood elves have begun to take some time off. During this time, they have been thinking about one thing again and again. Should they leave the second mine? After leaving the second mine, where else can I go to make a living? Is life outside really better than life here in the Second Mine?

As Roy announced generous benefits for the mixed-blood elf miners, they will be paid for mining with bonuses, and there will be days off. The food here at the mine is great. They usually eat fruit, but they will provide a sea fish every three days. There is a dormitory for twelve people, and you can leave at any time if you want. After submitting your resignation application, you can leave with the money you earned.

The Dark Moon Elves in the mine were divided into two groups. The sixty most elite people left the mine and formed the Mine Guard Assassin Squad. The remaining Dark Moon Elves were busy working as overseers for the gray dwarves.

In fact, it is not accurate to say that they are overseers. Recently, the mixed-blood elves have discovered that these Dark Moon Elf overseers not only have to take care of the food and daily life of these gray dwarf miners, but also care about their mood and health, for fear that they will accidentally see them. The dwarf ancestors made themselves unemployed...

In recent times, many support frames have been added to the mine, and a large number of basic frames have been added to the shaft passage. All of this is in preparation for the upcoming elevator in the shaft.

After clearing the last obstacle in the mine, Roy conducted more detailed management of the second mine.

Vitas was abandoned by Roy in the third mine, and Kaka temporarily became Roy's assistant.

The old dwarf Putkis finally designed the mine's double-channel elevator. He ran out of the design room happily and blocked Roy in the office with the drawings in hand.

This old dwarf is almost obsessed with engineering machinery. The complex structure and lines of small text annotations on the parchment make it feel like such a drawing can be turned into a book.

Roy felt a little headache looking at the densely packed small characters written on it.

The old dwarf Putkis explained to Roy enthusiastically. Now Roy finally understood what was drawn on this drawing. It turned out to be a three-dimensional drawing.

During the time he lived in the Second Mine, the old dwarf Putkis looked much cleaner, especially his beard, which must have been carefully taken care of. He was wearing a linen shirt and overalls, but his body could not be fast in a short time. It swelled because there was no endless ale and barbecue in the second mine.

His body recovered well and he became very energetic, but his Elvish accent was a bit weird, and it felt like his tongue couldn't bend.

After some explanations from the old dwarf Putkis, Roy finally understood the working principle of his dual-channel automatic elevator...

The principle of the double-channel elevator is very simple: the two elevators always keep one up and one down. The two elevators are connected by a cable and hung on a fixed pulley.

According to the principle of gravity, two elevators will remain stationary if they are of equal weight. If one of the elevators is heavier than the other elevator, then when the elevator descends, it will also lift the other elevator. An elevator pulls to the ground.

Of course, this elevator also has a drawback, that is, more materials must be transported to the mine than to the surface.

The mine has to continuously transport gemstones to the surface, and not so many materials are sent underground every time.

For this reason, the old dwarf Putkis came up with a solution, which is to install a gravity balance water tank on each of the two elevators. When the elevator above the mine cannot pull up the elevator below the mine, You can fill the elevator balance tank above the mine with water.

The process of filling and releasing water allows the elevator to run up and down, instead of requiring external force to push the winch to pull the elevator up from the mine.

The old boom in the second mine is completely a thing of the past. What Roy needs to do now is to let the craftsmen build two elevators according to the drawings, and also find a way to get a strong enough cable. This The depth of the shaft reaches more than 800 meters. At first, the old dwarf Putkis wanted to install four chains for the elevator, but such long chains were too heavy. On the purchase list given to Roy by the old dwarf, this cable was a level 4 Warcraft cable. Web spider's web cable.

It is said that this kind of terrestrial spider likes to live in caves. Only in the western part of the New Siakis Mountains where the dwarf kingdom is located can there be traces of this kind of monster.

This kind of spider silk cable is usually used on the giant magic puppets created by the dwarves. If you are in the dwarf country, the cost of this kind of spider silk is not expensive.

But this is the Elf Continent, and Roy has never heard of this kind of spider silk cable. He can only try to submit a purchase application to the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion to see if there is a solution from the Legion Logistics Department. .

After handing the drawings to Roy, the old dwarf Putkis left with a relaxed expression, apparently planning to go to the restaurant for a drink.

Although the elevator cannot be built yet, at least the second mine can finally operate normally.

Seeing Kaka pushing the door and walking in, Roy put down the drawing in his hand and said to him:

"Kaka, are you interested in joining me to take over the other two mithril mines?"

Hearing what Roy said, Kaka immediately became energetic. He excitedly sat in the chair opposite Roy's desk and said:

"Okay! Where is the mine? Is it far away? Is it possible to encounter a plateau headhunter?"

Roy pointed at the map behind him and said:

"The Sudarso Mountains may be a bit far away, but this hand-drawn map cannot show the true distance."

"I'll go with you!"

Kaka affirmed without hesitation.

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With the arrival of a batch of sophisticated weapons and armor issued by the elven army from the valley camp, Roy's trip to the Mithril Mine was also decided.

On the desk were two vouchers required to take over the mine, which not only had the autograph of Earl Swinburne, but also the eye-catching stamp of the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion.

The weapons and armor were all specially approved by Earl Swinburne. They should be new ones shipped directly from the Elf Continent. There are a thousand sets in total, which means that Roy can organize a thousand-person escort team.

It seems like a lot, but after the actual distribution, it is found that if enough escorts are arranged for each mine, the number of 1,000 people is really not enough.

At present, Roy has deployed 800 mixed-blood elves to garrison the three spinel mines.

In the future, he will soon take over two mithril mines, and they will be located in the Sudarso Mountains in the hinterland of the Pagisto Plateau. Roy feels a little overwhelmed when he thinks about it.

Fortunately, the young mixed-blood elves in the gathering place originally had some weapons and equipment provided by Roy.

Roy remembered clearly that those weapons and armors were bought by him from human merchant ships, and were obtained by Lysander in exchange for a large number of elementary magic herbs.

In addition, the No. 1 Mine Warehouse also stores a batch of high-quality weapons and armor.

Of course, these weapons and armor have also been assigned by Roy.

Now that Roy has better weapons and armor, he plans to distribute these weapons to the elf warriors who are about to leave for the mithril mine in Sudarso Mountain.

It has to be said that the most important feature of the weapons made by the elf craftsmen is their exquisite appearance. They have very strict requirements on the appearance of the weapons.

Of course, the quality of the weapons is also very good. Their rigidity, strength, toughness and sharpness are one level higher than the weapons currently in Roy's hands. They have reached the category of magic weapons. Those armors even have some magic resistance, but they are not magic weapons. Texture structure.

The only drawback is that it is expensive and only for military use.

If it hadn't been for Earl Swinburne's special approval, Roy would never have been able to obtain weapons of this quality.

This time going to the Sudarso Mountains, Roy expanded the Dark Moon Elf assassin team to one hundred Dark Moon Elf warriors. The outstanding Dark Moon Elf from the first and third mines were also selected by Captain Timothy.

In addition, Roy also mobilized 200 mixed-blood elf warriors from three mines, so that a large number of mixed-blood elf warriors that Mu Lin had just trained were mobilized. She also had to select some young mixed-blood elf miners in the gathering place and the mine. Elf.

It took Roy and three hundred elf warriors a full week to reach the mithril mine located at the southern end of the Sudarso Mountains.

There are many valleys in the southern part of the Sudarso Mountains, and the map in Roy's hand was not very accurate about the location of the mine. He was completely blank about this area and only knew the approximate location of the mithril mine.

After arriving in the Sudarso Mountains, Roy began to try his luck in one valley after another. However, the slopes in this area were covered with grass, shrubs and dwarf trees. Only when he got closer could he know whether there were any buildings in those mountain valleys.

If he hadn't met a Silver Pegasus team on the way, and the Silver Pegasus captain pointed out the specific direction to Roy, I'm afraid Roy would have to wander around the southern mountains of Sudarso for at least a few days.

Roy led a group of elven warriors to the entrance of the valley, and immediately saw the square castle at the bottom of the valley. The appearance of this castle did not meet the aesthetics of the elves.

But Roy felt that the style of the castle was relatively normal. The castle was not big, a building made of stones, and there was a chimney with thick smoke in the yard.

There are archery towers with observation towers at the four corners of the castle. Roy looked around and saw that there was an elf standing on the highest point on the archery tower, holding the flagpole with one hand and waving vigorously towards this direction with the other hand...

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Captain Blaise of the Guard Group stood on the top of the watchtower with an excited expression on his face.

He waved vigorously at the elf army at the entrance of the valley, then ran down in one breath and stood outside the gate outside the mine, waiting for the elf army to slowly approach along the mountain road.

All the elf warriors were wearing the standard armor of the 17th Silver Pegasus Legion Infantry Regiment. Captain Blaise knew that the army to replace them had finally arrived.

After waiting for so long, he sometimes even suspected that he might have to stay here for the rest of his life.

Seeing Roy, Captain Blaise's first words were enthusiastic:

"You are finally here. I am Captain Blaise of the Guard Corps..."

"Roy, I was ordered to come and take over this mithril mine."

Roy dismounted, gave a military salute to Captain Blaise, and then took out a receipt for the Mithril Mine and handed it over.