Path of light

Chapter 394 395. Mine owners on the plateau

Harold, the owner of the mine, looked at the half-elf boy opposite him who was not much younger than him. Although Roy looked more like a human, he still had the characteristics of an elf in many places. He might not be able to tell the difference from a distance, but face to face Sitting, Harold's mine owner could still tell.

Although the owner of Harold's mine has become a prisoner now, he still has the aura that a mine owner should have when he sits on the chair.

He kept a very low profile, took the initiative to greet Roy, and said greetings.

Roy didn't say those disappointing words, he just sat down with a calm face and whispered to Harold the mine owner:

"On the Pagisto Plateau, there were mixed-blood elf warriors and dark moon elf warriors who followed me along the way. When I took over these mines, I also wanted to establish a new order in these mines, so Harold Mine Lord, I may not be able to promise you anything.”

When Roy said this, he paused and said:

"Live honestly in the castle and wait for the logistics team to take you away. I promise that no one will disturb you."

Harold, the owner of the mine, did not expect Roy to come straight to the point and tell the bottom line.

"I know that I will definitely be tried in the trial court this time. Whether it was the previous slave trade or the later instructing the mixed elf miners to work in the mines, these were all done by me alone. If the owner of Roy Mine wants When writing a report, I hope you can include this information."

Harold, the owner of the mine, said as he pushed a jewelry box in front of Roy and opened the lid of the box.

Roy took a look at the box. There were also silver metal ingots inside. Unlike mithril, the magic halo emitted from the metal ingots was softer.

Roy knew that it was just a sign of the metal ingot's higher affinity for magic.

‘The magic metal that is better than mithril might be thorium. ’ Roy secretly guessed in his heart, but he did not express his thoughts.

"I received the North Mithril Mine. Regarding the report on the North Mithril Mine, I will only list the materials, number of miners, buildings, etc. I received in the North Mithril Mine. I will not Write about other things.”

Roy didn't want to write something he didn't understand in the report, so he decisively refused.

The owner of Harold's mine did not insist anymore. He took back the metal box and said without changing his face:

"Master Roy, if you encounter any problems when managing the mithril mine, you can come to me. I am extremely familiar with every tunnel in the mine, and I have decades of management experience. Can handle any problem in the mine.”

Roy stared at the owner of the mine, Harold, and wanted to know if the owner of the mine had any intention of showing kindness to him...

There was a faint bitter smile in Harold's mine owner's eyes. He glanced around and said:

"I do this... just so that my family can suffer less."

After saying that, Harold the mine owner frowned and drank all the wine in the glass.

Roy took out a piece of breadfruit from the basket and said casually:

"Because you are involved in the elf slave trade this time, you are destined to be sent to the trial court for trial. No one can change this matter..."

Knowing the consequences he was about to bear, Harold's mine owner's eyes became extremely calm. He smiled self-deprecatingly, poured himself another glass of fruit wine, and drank it all in one gulp.

There is no death penalty in the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom, and the worst situation is to serve a sentence in the most difficult prison...

Although Roy did not agree to any of Harold's mine owner's requests, his actions made Harold's mine owner look at him differently.

Harold stopped talking about these disappointing topics. He said to Roy:

"When I first built this furnace, I invited two inscription masters from Buenos City and spent a lot of magic circles around the furnace. I just wanted the furnace to be built more delicately so that more secrets could be melted out every day. Silver ingot.

Although the structure of the furnace has not changed much, this furnace was originally designed to smelt twenty mithril ingots per day. Currently, the furnace has not reached its peak production capacity..."

"This mithril vein in Sudarso Sam is not bad. Although it is not a rich mithril vein, this vein is located under the rock shell of the Sudarso Mountains. If you dig in from both sides, as long as you are careful, you will definitely not The mine collapsed."

"The reserves of mithril mine are also extremely rich. At the current mining speed, it can be mined for at least several hundred years."

Harold, the owner of the mine, continued.

"The biggest problem you currently have in managing this mine is that you have released the mixed-blood elf miners. The supply of mineral materials in the mine will be insufficient, and then a series of reactions will occur, which will ultimately affect the speed of smelting mithril ingots."

Harold, the owner of the mine, looked at Roy and said gently.

"Then... how can we keep this mine profitable?" Roy suddenly became interested and asked Harold, the owner of the mine.

The elves in the restaurant finished their lunch and left one after another.

Apart from Roy and Harold Mine Owner, there is no one else at the table where Harold Mine Owner is sitting...

Roy looked at Harold the owner of the mine, a little confused.

The owner of Harold's mine showed some pride and said to Roy:

"Expanding production capacity. Of course, the larger the production capacity of this mithril mine, the more profitable it will be. This can also spread other costs and expenses."

After hearing Harold's words from the mine owner, Roy learned a lot.

Then the two of them talked about the private army in the Northern Mithril Mine. Harold, the owner of the mine, felt a little embarrassed and said:

"On the first day that the Silver Pegasus warriors arrived at the Northern Mithril Mine, they announced their official disbandment."

Harold, the mine owner, said a lot that was useful to Roy as well.

"Where did you recruit these private troops? As far as I know, your private troops here are not the mixed-blood elves on the plateau..."

The owner of Harold's mine wiped his face with a handkerchief, and then said: "Almost all of these private soldiers escaped from Padstow City. After Lord Alves was captured, they fled from Padstow City." Toucheng came to the plateau, because it was elves like them who were selling slaves before and often dealt with us. This time they came to join me, so I asked them to join the private army in the mine. Unexpectedly, after they saw the Silver Pegasus warriors, , was actually the first one to slip away..."

It turns out that there are many slave traders in the private armies of these mines...

Roy continued to chat with Harold the mine owner for a while. From the chat, Roy found that he was an elf mine owner with a very business-minded mind and was very familiar with the Northern Mithril Mine.

The furnace efficiency in the North Mithril Mine is significantly better than that in the South Mithril Mine.

In addition to these, mine owner Harold also paid great attention to the mining efficiency of the mixed elf miners. Roy benefited a lot from the exchange.

Probably due to the intention of the owner of Harold Mine, Roy had a deeper understanding of how to manage the mithril mine.

The owner of Harold's mine told Roy that the biggest expenses in his mithril mine were the maintenance of the furnace and the cost of hiring private soldiers. Because he spent money to buy the mixed elves and gray dwarves, the secrets were usually mined. Silver ore and smelting ingots have almost no additional cost.

Therefore, the mithril mines we operate are profitable every day, but the Partington plane has been under lockdown in recent years. The mithril ingots smelted in the mines have accumulated in a backlog, and there has been no chance to sell them.

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When the conversation came to this point, Roy finally understood one thing.

These mine owners on the Pagisto Plateau were originally backed by mountains. They were not just rootless duckweeds floating casually on the Pagisto Plateau.

All this time, Roy didn't know who was secretly supporting this group of mine owners, allowing them to open the mine to the Pagisto Plateau.

Now Roy finally figured out that these mine owners should be from Padstow City.

The construction of these mines should be secretly supported by the nobles in Padstow City.

The backers behind these elven mine owners are actually the elven nobles of Padstow City.

If so, the slave trade in Padstow should be related to this...

Lord Alves took the risk and sold the mixed-blood elf slaves to the Pagisto Plateau because these mine owners were his people.

Thinking of this, Roy finally understood that Lord Alves had accumulated a fortune. In addition to selling elven slaves, the Pagisto Plateau Mine also had a large amount of gray income.

It was the mines on the Padstow Plateau that continuously brought huge wealth to Lord Alves, so much so that the young baron was a little proud in the Partington plane. I bought a large piece of land. The southern end of the land almost reaches the foot of the northern slope of the Barrier Mountains, and the east end is close to the Blackwater Swamp.

Such a large forest land suddenly occupied the living space of all the mixed elves.

A large number of mixed-blood elves were displaced, and many mixed-blood elves did not even know where to escape. Lord Alves also took this opportunity to capture a large number of mixed-blood elves on the Pagisto Plateau and threw them into various mines on the plateau. inside.

It's just that the mine owners on the plateau never expected that a problem would suddenly arise on Lord Alves' side, and all the captains would have to go to the court to attend the trial.

As for most of the properties in the hands of Lord Alves, they were all taken over by Earl Swinburne...

Unexpectedly, the owner of the mine on the Pagisto Plateau also had the shadow of Lord Alves.

When Roy completely figures these things out...

Seeing Roy in a hurry while handling the work in the mine...

There is always a hint of schadenfreude in the smile on Harold's mine owner's face.