my age of magic

Chapter 319 119. There leads to hell
The goblins living in the caves have had to hide in the dark underground world because of the punishment of gods. It is difficult for them to come to the ground even in their lifetime. The underground world is very scarce in various resources. But the only thing that is not lacking is various minerals.This group of goblins has been living in this floating mountain in the turbulent flow of time and space for hundreds of years. During these long years, the goblins have been digging continuously on the mountain of this floating mountain, and have even taken the entire Digging through the mountains, they not only store a large amount of copper ore, but also harvest a lot of associated resources, such as: magic red copper and malachite and so on.

The curse of the gods carried by the goblins keeps making the goblins forget their inheritance. They first forget how to use magic, then they forget the technology researched by countless ancestors, and finally they even forget the goblin writing. Now they even Unable to preserve the language of their own race.Today's younger generation of goblins have long been unable to distinguish the difference between red copper and copper. For these goblins, these coppers can only be used to make chain mail.

Many goblins are very eager to see the world on the ground, but because of those curses, the skin of the goblins' bodies will spontaneously ignite under direct light until the whole body turns into black charcoal ashes.

The night in Xinliu Valley is very short, and even the bobcats in the dense forest dare to hunt goblins, let alone those saber-toothed tigers.This makes them never dare to drill out of the mine. The food of the goblins is very simple. They usually eat the roots of plants, which is very monotonous. It is generally difficult for them to eat meat. They even dig See some earthworms and insects and fight.

The food brought by our two expeditions is the most irresistible temptation for the goblins.

In the mountain body of this hundred-mile-long floating mountain, there must be a piece of copper mother, which is the original material of copper element, and it can continuously form copper element. This copper vein has an extremely high output. rich.Regarding the explanation of the copper mother, human scholars have different opinions. There are many opinions that explain the existence value of the copper mother, but few people can describe the appearance of the copper mother.

The first argument is that: Some human magic scholars say that copper mother is the original material of copper, and it is because of its existence that the metal element copper exists in the world.They said that the copper mother should be in the very center of the mountain veins, accumulating copper in the mountain rocks day and night, and it should also be a stone that looks like a copper mine.

The second argument was put forward by some inscription masters. They proposed that the copper mother is not a substance, but a naturally formed magic circle. The centers of those veins are all natural magic circles, which are peculiar magic circles. The magic circle created a metal like copper, but this kind of magic circle is very fragile, and it is difficult to repair it once it is damaged.

This point of view is aimed at some magic scholars who destroyed the core of the mine veins in order to find a copper mother that could breed copper. However, after several excavations, not only did not find the legendary copper mother, but the core of the mine veins The copper mines that have been excavated have become some waste mines, and they can no longer grow copper mines.This fact makes it impossible for some scholars to refute the inferences of the inscribers.

In the Grimm Empire, every mineral vein is extremely precious wealth. These mineral veins are usually in the hands of some big nobles. Few nobles are willing to let magic scholars use their own mineral veins for academic research. Once the mineral veins are damaged, then The resulting losses will be difficult to estimate.

After the goblins in the village dug out almost all the red copper they had, they exchanged us for a lot of saber-toothed tiger meat, but as for the rarer malachite, they only kept a piece of it in Rita's hands. No one has ever traded for such a precious gem.For this reason, our two teams stayed in this cave for another half a day.

Looking at the chaotic market in front of the camp, I sat on a big rock and thought wildly. I thought of the bet made by the team leader Mr. Flender this time. As long as we can bring enough resources in Xinliu Valley, then there will be might win the bet.

Now we accidentally met the goblin tribe underground, and inexplicably exchanged a lot of magic metal with them, which gave us a lot of harvest, but this is far from enough for Mr. Flender to gain a decisive advantage. I heard that old goblin Tell me, there are other goblin tribes in other caves of this mountain. If we can collect all the magic metals collected by all the goblin tribes on the mountain and bring them back to Sloit, maybe it will really make Teacher Flender win.

Those teams who are collecting magical herbs in the dense forest outside are not capable of hunting monster materials. In fact, we can return to the ground, buy some game from them, and then bring them into the mine to trade with these goblins. Maybe a trading market can be formed here , but there is no more magic metal in this village, and other goblin tribes must also know the news, the news of exchanging magic ore and magic metal for food.

In this way, maybe collecting magic materials will not be so hard.

I told Hank about this preliminary idea, and he patted his head and kept saying, "Why didn't I think of this, why didn't you say I didn't think of it, Ji Jia, if you want me to say, it's better You magic apprentices have easy-to-use brains, otherwise you would become magic apprentices, right? Haha, this idea is really great, let’s do it according to your method!"

I asked the young goblin to find the old goblin. He is the head of the village. The old goblin had mixed feelings about our invitation. He rushed over from the village tremblingly and saw the goblins waiting in front of the tent with stones on their backs. They shook their heads and sighed again and again.When it saw me, it took a deep look at me, and then said to me: "I know... your... thoughts!"

The old goblin may be the last goblin with rudimentary intelligence in this village. He knows what I want, but he can't refuse.

In the end, it agreed to my request, and it would send some smart goblins to spread the news that red copper can be exchanged for fresh meat and wheat cakes to every corner of the cave, and the price we have to pay is Yes: pay taxes.

For every transaction we make here, we need to pay a little tax to the old goblin's village. As for the so-called tax, it can also be called 'the food of the goblins'.We agreed that in three days, we would return here after exploring the ancient civilization relics and the Devil's Fountain that the goblins said, just in time to trade with the goblins who came from other caves.

Afterwards, we bid farewell to the old goblin and headed deep into the cave.Under the leadership of the young goblin, we left the cave.Holding the slightly fluorescent moonstone, we walked through this cave full of strange landscapes.

...beautiful dividing line...

Walking through the cave is much more difficult than imagined.There are many places where the caves are not ventilated at all, and the air in the caves is dirty. I am even worried that we will die from lack of oxygen after walking halfway. Fortunately, there are only a few sections where the air is not very circulated. Most places are pretty good.

Fortunately, Tereza can already manipulate the rock golem. This big guy has his own simple thoughts. After signing the contract, as long as Tereza figured out how to communicate with it, this big guy is still very reliable. Carry out Trisha's orders.On the way, Cong Yingli and Tereza felt a little tired, and the two of them sat on Yan Gaolun's shoulders, talking and laughing in whispers along the way.No matter who it is, Yingli can always find some topics easily.

After walking for almost a whole day, we saw some goblin villages one after another along the way. Our group did not stop for a while, and rushed to the ancient civilization site in one breath. The result was far beyond our expectations. The ruins of civilization are very different from what we thought. The whole ruins of civilization are not a ruins as I expected, but a dilapidated altar.

This altar of less than [-] square meters is located in the narrow aisle of the cave. The entire altar is made of mica stone bricks, but the weathering is very serious, and the gaps between the stone bricks are covered with blue moss. We walked up the altar along the stone steps and found nothing special.Some magic runes were originally engraved on the altar, but now they have been corroded so that nothing can be seen clearly.

I knelt down and groped for the tiny dents on the slate, but the marks were too shallow. I wanted to rub all the magic runes engraved on the altar. I don't know how long it would take. I looked at this strangely. and asked the young goblin, "That's where the goblin bandits found the Rock Golem?"

The young goblin looked at each of us with serious expressions, and stood timidly in the corner. Hearing my question, he trembled all over.He nodded first, then looked around in a panic, shook his head immediately, and said to me: "It's here, it's here, last time I followed them to here secretly, those goblins are all here." It's gone, I don't know, I don't know what's going on!"

In the golden sea of ​​spirits, a blurry photo floated up from the sea, and I vaguely saw in my mind that the photo was a piece of worn parchment, and the fragments of that memory gradually became clearer in my mind Well, in the atlas of the sheepskin scrolls that the old Kuru gave me, I have seen a simple description of this kind of altar. Orc shamans call this kind of altar: "Transportation circle!"

This is a teleportation circle that can pass through the turbulence of time and space. It seems that the other end of this teleportation circle should be connected to the remains of ancient civilizations.

But I don't have the key to open the magic circle, and I don't know how to open the magic circle. We searched for clues around the magic circle, but found nothing.Among the three magic apprentices, Ying Li, Trisha and I, none of them knew the magic runes of the space system, so they had to give up in the end and chose to leave here.

Along the way, Hanke has been encouraging his team members. The best regulator for them is to look for red copper ore in the mine tunnel, although most of the red copper ore are buried deep in the cave wall. It's not something we college students can find, but occasionally a half piece of red copper ore will be exposed on the surface of the cave wall, and the treasure hunt is on the way, so that the members of Hank's team have no time to complain. After all, our treasure hunting plan for the altar It is a return without success.

On the way back, the young goblin became much more cheerful.

It has an urgent desire to go home, and it is always at the front of the line. For its hard work, I prepared a piece of fresh meat for it. It is not too much, but it is enough for him to eat deliciously. I had eaten, but I didn't expect that it would just put it on my nose and sniff it hard, and then I tore a piece off the only old linen clothes on my body, and squared this small piece of meat. Wrap it carefully and put it in your pocket.

I asked it: "Why don't you eat? Are you not hungry?"

It shook its head at me, and then said sadly: "There are younger brothers in the family. They were too thin. Several younger brothers died of illness because of being too thin. Eating meat can make the body stronger."

Then, the young goblin asked me a little nervously: "Can I take this piece of meat back?"

"It's yours to use as you please," I said to the young goblin.

We just kept chatting on the road, and the young goblin didn't speak Imperial very well.Sometimes, when I was in a hurry, a few words of goblin language would pop out of my mouth. The weird tone was very strange, the speed of speaking was very fast and soft, and the voice was very sharp.When passing through a dark hole, the young goblin glanced inside carefully, and immediately jumped away from the hole as fast as he could.

I asked the reason curiously. At the beginning, it refused to tell me whether it was dead or alive. Later, it was so entangled by me that I had no choice but to tell the truth.

It turned out that the entrance of the cave turned out to be the entrance of some goblins looking for the blood of the devil in pursuit of power.I heard that this cave contains not only the blood of demons, but also creatures from hell. They will crawl out from time to time to hunt some goblins in the cave, but as long as they are full, they will immediately crawl back into the cave.

I asked: "In this way, goblins who go in to find the blood of demons are not afraid of being eaten by those hell creatures?"

The young goblin shook his head and said, "They are also afraid, but they will bring sacrifices with them, otherwise even if they lose their lives, they will not be able to drink the blood of the devil."

"Sacrifice?" I asked, but I didn't understand what it said.

"The sacrifice is us!" the young goblin added. "Strong goblins will catch weaker goblins and bring them back."

I really want to see what's inside that strange hole, my strong curiosity has been at work, let me take a look.But I finally held back, after all, there is a dangerous place with hell creatures.I don't know what the devil blood the goblins are talking about, maybe the library in the academy has the answer.

I didn't look away until I could no longer see the dark hole.

Yingli sat on the rocky highland, his smiling face and overflowing youth made me feel relieved.

I was thinking: Maybe I am not a real adventurer, an explorer with an adventurous spirit, I will definitely go down to find the real answer inside, fearless life and death!

(End of this chapter)