Chapter 123 Sun Gold and Mining
Xu Yue held a handful of soil grabbed from the ground, with a look of surprise and excitement. After testing it with detective magic, he could confirm that the fine golden particles in this soil were a magical mineral that was very rare in Tarenmiya - Sun Gold.
Blue Rain Gold is a metal that has an amplification effect on magic. It is generally used in the materials for making advanced magic equipment. In the manufacturing process of any kind of magic equipment, if some sun gold is added to the material, the casting intensity of the magic engraved on the magic equipment can be greatly increased, and it can even reach about 80%. However, the amount of sun gold required is very large.
On the Tarenmiya continent, sun gold usually exists as an accompanying ore for the refined gold veins, and the number is pitiful. Most of the time, from minerals that are enough to extract 100 kilograms of fine gold, only less than half a kilogram of sun gold can be extracted. Fortunately, although the pure gold on the Tarenmiya continent is also a very precious magical mineral, the output is quite large, so although the accompanying sun gold is small, it is not as high as it cannot be seen on the market, it is just that the price is scary.
Xu Yue has seen many records about minerals such as Sun Gold before, and has even been used in a small amount in some magic experiments, but the largest one is only the size of a fingernail, and the price of that Sun Gold reaches an astonishing 130,000 gold coins.
After seeing the tiny golden light spots on the land, Xu Yue had some guesses. The performance of these light spots was too similar to the sun gold he saw at the beginning, but because sun gold is mostly mineral veins accompanied by the pure gold, it is generally impossible to see without refining, so he was a little unsure before. It was not until a simple test was conducted with the third-level magic that specifically detects and distinguishes minerals. He was sure that the light spots in the soil were sun gold.
The purity of the sun gold contained in this land is very high, so you can see the metal light spots directly in the soil. Otherwise, ordinary sun gold veins should be some dark yellow soil. Moreover, the sun gold veins in the Tarenmiya continent are buried deep in deep underground rock formations. Such an almost exposed vein on the ground has never been heard of.
What makes Xu Yue most happy is that these solar gold veins are single and are not accompanied by the pure gold, which saves a lot of effort. Without going through those complicated separation steps, you can get high-purity solar gold by simply refining and purifying.
Throwing the soil in his hand on the ground, he stood up and looked at the coverage of the golden soil. After estimating it a little, he found that as long as the veins exposed on the surface were not the only layer of the surface, the reserves of the veins would definitely not be small.
If it were some powerful Tarenmiya who came to the abyss from the plane passage, even if they really discovered such a rich sun gold vein. The reason is actually very simple. The abyss environment and the numerous demons determine that this place is a very dangerous place for humans. If you want to mine minerals here or collect a large number of magical materials and minerals that require a certain amount of value, it is also a big problem not to mention whether those strong people have the patience, even if they are dealing with and carrying them.
Even a level nine-level strongman is in the abyss and dares not say that he can guarantee that his life will not be in trouble, let alone bringing others here. If a level nine-level strongman discovers this sun gold vein, not to mention anything else, just digging and refining cannot be completed by a person in a short time. If he takes away the original minerals directly, then even a large number of high-end storage rings can be taken away by a large number of high-end storage rings.
So if Tarenmiya's strong men come to the abyss, they will set their targets on top magic materials with small size and high value. Although those materials are of course precious enough, the difficulty of obtaining them is much higher than minerals such as Sun Gold.
Moreover, high-level strong men usually spend a huge price to pass the plane channel, and their time can be stayed in the abyss is limited. Otherwise, even high-level strong men will not be able to bear it under the long-term erosion of the magic energy unique to the abyss.
However, those problems that others cannot avoid are nothing to Xu Yue. With the fixed coordinates of the Piercing Gate, he can travel freely from the two planes of the Abyss and Tarenmiya at any time, without having to spend huge resources to stabilize the plane channels every time like those strong people.
The main profit of Avo's Chamber of Commerce in Tarenmia is the business of pure containers. However, if it is just a commodity, it is always too monotonous. Even Avo also buys and sells other commodities. However, both in terms of volume and profit are too small.
Now that he discovered this richly reserved Sun Gold Mine, Xu Yue planned to use it as Avo's second main product, and he was also very envious of the rich rare magic resources in the abyss. With the convenience of the Piercing World Sect, he could definitely bring a large amount of resources in the abyss to Tarenmiya. For him, like a pure container, it almost does not require much money to consume.
However, it is not easy to mine minerals in the abyss. Not to mention other things, the first thing is the problem of manpower. Whether it is excavation, refining or final mineral purification, it requires a large amount of manpower. He alone can never get much sun gold even if he is a miner here for the rest of his life. Another problem is safety. The abyss is not a safe place. Although he found that the place where the sun gold looks like there are habitats for some low-level monsters, this does not mean that powerful monsters or demons cannot appear here. If an intermediate or advanced demon comes, let alone collecting sun gold, he may not even think about escaping.
Xu Yue had already experimented a long time ago. The Passing World Sect could only allow him to travel with the non-organisms he carried. For living creatures, neither animals nor humans could travel with him, so this could not pass by him in the possibility of him taking people into the abyss.
However, Xu Yue was not very worried about this. He had a complete plan in his mind. Although creatures could not be taken with them, there was no problem with non-organisms like magic puppets. There were four magic puppets in his "Kenneth's Portable Hut". Among them, Alice, the female puppet that was specially used to collect magic materials, was also a magic puppet that specialized in collecting magic minerals. However, Xu Yue did not intend to let the puppet go out to mine.
First of all, just being a puppet basically won’t do much. In addition, if you no longer protect yourself, these magic puppets with little combat power will probably be torn to pieces by the nearby low-level monsters, which will only cause losses to you in vain.
After thinking for a while, Xu Yue directly recalled Alice, the magic puppet who was collecting the flame grass. In just a while, the big basket behind Alice was already filled with half of the flame grass. After asking Alice to deal with these flame grasses specifically, Xu Yue put away the "Kenneth's portable cabin". Even if this magic equipment is put away and turned into the size of an egg, the space inside will not change. Alice can still do her own work inside.
Then he opened the Piercing Gate directly on the spot and returned to the room of the magic airship. Although he had a detailed plan in his mind, he could not implement it immediately at this time. In his plan, he wanted to carry out large-scale mineral mining on the abyss plane. A team of professional mining puppets with a large number is indispensable. Only such magic puppets can be taken by him using Piercing Gate.
In addition to the magic puppets of mining, he also needs to buy a batch of high-level puppets for combat. He cannot always stay in the abyss to protect those puppets. Moreover, equipment for mining and mineral refining also needs to be purchased. You should know that the prices of high-level combat puppets or professional mining and refining equipment are not low, which is also a considerable investment. The money he carries may not be enough.
Whether it is a magic puppet or a mining and refining equipment, the best purchase target is undoubtedly the Magic Guild. However, there is no teleportation magic array on the magic airship that can be purchased remotely, so Xu Yue plans to get off the magic airship and then be busy with this matter. Using the magic array on the magic airship that is specifically used to convey information, Xu Yue sent out his discoveries, ideas and requirements in a password code that only he and Ivo knew. If there is no corresponding comparison object in this password code, no matter how strong the calculation ability is, he will not be able to crack it.
After waiting for an hour, he found out that his gold coin memory card had 30 million more coins through the magic equipment on the airship. Xu Yue knew that this was the largest amount that Ivo could now take without paralyzing the Chamber of Commerce and Walkershire. There was even a large part of it here, which was the prepayment of the pure container by the elves. It can be seen that Avo, who received the news, also decided to fight. After all, the profit of Sun Gold was too great, although the premise was also invested a lot. However, once it was successfully mined, the profits it could bring every year were probably higher than the profits of the pure container.
In the next few days, Xu Yue did not go to the abyss again. After all, there were so many people on the magic airship. Even if he used the magic barrier, he would not be able to ensure safety by 100%. Therefore, he regarded these days as a vacation. He either went to participate in some interesting activities held on the magic airship. He or chatted with the beautiful magician Christina.
It can be seen that Christina still has some good feelings for Xu Yue, but this kind of good feelings has nothing to do with love, it is purely an appreciation of Xu Yue's rich knowledge. However, what she didn't know was that her appreciation caused a lot of pressure to Xu Yue. As a top student in the Magic Academy of Emerald City, Christina's profound magic knowledge involved in the conversation made Xu Yue tired of dealing with it. In order not to make a fool of this second-level beauty magician, Xu Yue always screeched out the magic knowledge she knew to explain the problem, and did not make a fool of herself without using all her skills.
What he didn't think was that even the questions asked by Christina were some of the problems that she had not figured out because of the difficulty, and even many teachers in the academy were stumped. He thought that those questions were very ordinary to magicians like Christina. However, he didn't know that after he answered these questions, Christina admired his knowledge more, but instead took this opportunity to come up with more difficult questions to ask for advice.
Just when Xu Yue felt that she could not hold on, the magic airship finally arrived at the destination of this time, Botia City in Zia Province, the Kingdom of Coles. It is still a distance from Hongye City, the destination of Xu Yue and Christina. Originally, Christina wanted to invite Xu Yue to Hongye City by carriage. However, Xu Yue, who was already afraid of her questions, said that she had some important things to do and could not go with her. In the end, the beautiful magic club could only leave alone with regret. However, when she left, she repeatedly invited Xu Yue to visit her family if she reached Hongye City.
After sending away the beautiful magician who had become one hundred thousand whys in his heart. Xu Yue finally breathed a sigh of relief. In the past few days, he felt that he was tired than in the past two years, and he devoted his energy to thinking about the problems of magic knowledge every day. However, the benefits of this are very obvious. After all, Christina was from a regular magic academy, and the questions she asked were very representative. While answering these questions, Xu Yue also had a new understanding of the omissions and biases of the knowledge she had learned, which made him greatly improve his magic knowledge in just a few days.
After sending Christina away, Xu Yue went straight to the local Magic Guild branch. What he said to Christina before was not completely perfunctory. After all, the sooner the mining of Sun Gold, the better, otherwise it would be a huge loss every night.
After spending an hour in the Magic Guild's branch, Xu Yue left the branch and found a hotel in the city and stayed in. This time, he ordered a large number of magic puppets and mining equipment like the Magic Guild. However, if such a large number of puppets were used to teleport magic arrays, the amount would be too expensive, so he needed to wait in the city for three days. After three days, the things he ordered would be transported from the headquarters of the Magic Guild through the next magic airship.
Three days later, when Xu Yue got all the goods and came to the abyss from the Pioneering Gate, the place that appeared was the den of the demon whom he had occupied before. He carefully checked the magic circle inside the cave and found that everything was running normally, he nodded with satisfaction.
After coming to the place where the sun gold mineral was discovered last time based on memory, Xu Yue took out a box the size of a palm from the storage ring and put it on the ground. After using spells and magic to trigger the magic circle on the box, the box that was only the size of a palm began to stretch quickly to the surroundings, which looked a bit like Xu Yue's "Kenneth's Portable House".
After the box expanded to an area of hundreds of square meters, the outer layer of the box suddenly collapsed instantly, revealing the dense array of magic puppets and equipment arranged inside. This kind of box is a space box developed by the Magic Guild to transport large batches of goods.
This box can fold large quantities of goods in space through space magic, and only needs to occupy a small area. However, the disadvantage is that the space magic array inside can only be used once, and there is a time limit. Whether it is to open the space fold or after the use time, the space box will collapse, so it can only be used to transport goods.
After looking at the hundreds of magic puppets arranged on the ground, Xu Yue nodded. He used his spiritual marks to batches and activates these puppets. Because the puppets used for mining cannot use too high-level ones. So in order to save costs, Xu Yue only ordered a first-level mining puppet.
After being activated, nearly one hundred mining puppets began to act according to Xu Yue's instructions. Although these puppets were relatively rough, they were not vague in terms of professionalism. They picked up the tools and equipment for mining and quickly cleaned up the pile of rocks. With more than one hundred puppets working together, they actually cleaned the ground there in just ten minutes. This efficiency was much faster than that of the professional machinery on Earth.
Xu Yue did not pay more attention to the busy mining puppet. He focused on the remaining twenty or so human-shaped puppets. The puppets in the Tarenmia continent have a characteristic, that is, the more advanced the puppets, the closer they are to the real person. I heard that there are magic puppets up to level nine and even have real flesh and blood, which is not very different from humans.
These twenty high-level puppets were specially purchased by Xu Yue to protect the mining team. The abilities of these puppets are similar to those of Tarenmia's profession, and they are very balanced in each profession. Not only are there warrior-type puppets that tend to be melee, but also archer-type puppets that tend to be long-range, and there are even two very expensive magician-type puppets. These twenty puppets alone cost Xu Yue nearly 20 million gold coins.
However, these gold coins are worth the money. Each of these twenty puppets has a level of up to level 6. Moreover, these puppets have a specific ability when making them, which is to gather together to temporarily increase the strength of one of the puppets. After gathering the energy of all other puppets, the promoted puppet can launch an attack of up to level 7, and even if it faces some level 7 professions, it will not be disadvantaged.
"Chain all nearby areas and clear out those hidden low-level monsters. At the same time, you must be careful. If you encounter a high-wise monster or demon, try to kill the other party while ensuring the safety of the mining team. If you can't beat the other party, then you will give priority to retreating with the main purpose of saving yourself." Xu Yue said to the twenty activated combat magic puppets.
"Yes! Sir! Follow your instructions!" A warrior-type magic puppet standing in front said bowing. This warrior-type puppet is also proficient in combat command and is the leader of these complete sets of magic puppets.
Looking at the combat puppets that began to hunt down those low-level monsters in all directions, Xu Yue nodded with satisfaction. He came directly to the mining puppets, watching the mining puppets manipulating several slender tubes to penetrate the ground under the action of the magic circle, and then raised the tubes and checked the soil in the tubes.
This is the mining puppet relying on equipment to identify the reserves and depth of a sun gold mine. After all, if there is not enough depth, although these on the surface are enough to make a profit, it is not enough if you want to make a big profit.
"Sir! The depth of the sun gold mine here is at least 150 steps. If it is deeper, it cannot be detected because our equipment cannot reach it. However, in terms of the current detection range, the reserves of this sun gold mine are already very large." A human-shaped mining puppet came up to report to Xu Yuehui. It is the only high-level puppet among the mining puppets, and its function is to command the lower-level puppets in general.
After hearing its words, Xu Yue's excitement made his hands tremble slightly. The depth of 150 steps is equivalent to about 130 meters of the earth, which is only detected. This reserve alone is enough to make him and Aiwo make a big fuss.
After hearing the good news, he didn't plan to return to Tarenmiya just like this. He planned to wait for the first refining results of these mining puppets to come out and return to Tarenmiya directly with the refined sun gold. After all, Avo has already taken out all the activity funds. If the funds cannot be returned as soon as possible, the construction of the Chamber of Commerce and Walkershire may be seriously affected.
Xu Yue waited for two days on the abyss. During these two days, the mining puppets were working completely without stopping. A large pit with a diameter of ten meters and a depth of five meters appeared on the ground. The golden soil that could pile into a hill was constantly poured into a special refining array. After a series of complex operations of the mining puppets, they finally turned into metal glowing like the sun, which was the origin of the name of the sun.
When Xu Yue took the ball of sun gold, half the size of an adult fist from the high-level mining puppet, he almost flashed to his arms by the amazing weight. After the sun gold was refined, it was much heavier than the metal of the same volume. It was such a fist-sized metal, and its weight reached about fifty kilograms.
After comparing the volume of this metal and the size of the fingernail he used, Xu Yue calculated in his mind that the price of this sun gold was about 2 million gold coins. It seems to be less than the more than 50 million gold coins invested in the early stage. But you should know that this is just the harvest of the magic puppet digging in two days. If you continue to work for a month, the income will almost reach about 2,000 to 30 million gold coins, and the cost will be recovered in about two months. If the profit of pure containers is not opened to sell at the highest-level pure container, the profit of a year can reach 10 million.
Just as Xu Yue was looking at the sun gold excitedly, a fierce explosion suddenly sounded not far from the mining area. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!