Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair

"Report, opening? What are you talking about?" Ron was confused. He took the report waving in Rurik's hand and scanned it line by line, and then he understood what the dwarf was talking about.

"You sent people to that mine?! There is--"

There were ghouls and leaks of abyss energy there, and Rurik just led a bunch of stupid teenagers in there to explore? !

"Don't worry, aren't we back intact?" Rurik laughed a little guilty, "We didn't go to the most dangerous fifth floor, and we stopped going down after we reached the third floor."

"There, we discovered and further expanded a portion of the mine that was fairly solid, and guess what? We found the mine!"

Rurick said it as if he had said it before: The mines in the Farama Kingdom were not abandoned due to exhaustion of resources. How could there be a mine if there were no mines in it? But then, Rurik mysteriously took out a piece of rough ore from his bag and handed it to Ron.

"My lord, take a closer look, this is no ordinary mineral!"

Ron took out his handkerchief and took the egg-sized piece of coarse ore from Rurick's hand. This mineral should appear to be an oxide. When he summoned the hand of the mage and scratched it carefully, its interior showed a different color from its appearance.

"You don't have to be so careful," Rurick looked anxiously at Ron's actions. "Practical applications are very different from work in the laboratory. It doesn't matter even if you get started directly - its nature determines its effect on the human body. No harm done."

"It looks like silver, but the color is lighter. Is it mithril?" Ron tried hard to recall his little remaining knowledge of inorganic chemistry. Although he had dabbled in this area at the beginning, as he became more professional in academics Now he only has vague impressions of these.

"Although Mithril's name is more famous, I don't want it to be," Rurick chuckled. "This is Abyssal Silver. Although it is very similar to Silver and Mithril, its properties and applications are quite different. ”

"Take its appearance as an example. The first time this thing was used as a raw material for forging was not on the main material plane, but on the battlefields of Purgatory and the Abyss. It was equipped by a demon lord whose name is now unknown. He and his subordinates were given a legion to fight against the devils, hence the name "Yuan Yin".

"But the metallurgists soon discovered that they were wrong, because in fact these minerals did not come from the abyss, but came from the main material plane. They were discovered by the followers of the demon lord after they occupied a quarry. product."

"It has a silver-like luster, but is lighter than silver. It has properties similar to cold iron, but is lighter than cold iron. Weapons doped with this can have the same effect as silver when fighting against enemies that are weak to silver. ”

"And the most important thing is that when Yuan Yin comes into contact with the devil's blood, he will continue to be in a trance - this trait makes the lord invincible in the battle to invade purgatory and win every battle!"

"But now we can't even remember his name," Ron returned the rough Yuan Silver ore to Rurik, "Why is this happening?"

"Well, I don't know about that either," Lurick was asked, and he scratched his big beard, "I checked some information. Now it is generally believed that it is because the Yuan silver mine is too rare, and many people There was even no output at all, which greatly limited the scale of the demon's armed forces. In the end, these few elites were annihilated under the strangulation of Archduke Zariel. Those Abyssal Silver weapons were drained into the magma and destroyed. I was killed and forgotten."

"As for another theory, the demon lord did not die at the hands of the devil, but fell into the infighting of the abyss. The magic equipment made of abyssal silver is good, but it is far worse to fight against the devil. It was so effective that he was eventually killed by other demon lords, and his subordinates were collected or eliminated."

"It all sounds reasonable," Ron shrugged, "So, is there any precedent for producing this kind of ore in our plane?"

"Yes, but not much," Lurik answered honestly. "My teacher once worked for the 'Spearbeard' clan among our dwarves. During that time, they worked in a quartz vein type pyrite mine. A small amount of Abyssal Silver was found at the mining site and was forged and sold to a group of adventurers at a sky-high price."

"But that's all. I really didn't expect that I would find Yuan Yin's mineral deposits here!"

"Could it be that...this mineral usually appears near iron mines?"

"Anyway, it is always a good thing to have new resources," Ron looked at the dwarf who was lost in thought, "But there is a question, can you refine and further process it?"

"You should know better than me. There is a big difference in profit from minerals with different levels of processing."

Lurick nodded: "Of course I know this, so I came back to report this to you - if you approve the resumption of mining in the mine, I will immediately start preparing related attempts."

"This is a rare and precious material. I will never give Yuan Yin to anyone else just after digging it out of the stone!"

"Then do it," Ron nodded. "If you have any needs, you can tell me and I will provide support as much as possible."

Abyssal silver and demons, no wonder the mining industry can support the entire Farama Kingdom. Although there was no demonic sponsor behind Ron to pay for it, it could be considered a windfall and there was no reason to let it go.

"Of course, but you don't need to do anything now!" Rurik patted his chest, "Just wait for my good news!"

"Oh, by the way," Rurik suddenly remembered something before leaving, "When I came back, I heard that Driver and Andre seemed to be arguing. If you have time, you might as well go and have a look."

Ron snorted: "Arguing?"

It's really a big deal that a goblin can "argue" with others.

"Well, it was actually a quarrel," the dwarf blacksmith knew what Ron was humming, and added, "If only I could find out the ins and outs of those swear words, but unfortunately I didn't have any clues after listening for a long time, so I don't know more."

"You'd better go and take a look."

"Could it be that the goblins are causing trouble?" Ron stood up with a headache and patted his forehead, "Which goblin was caught stealing? Or was he drunk and fighting?"

"But Dreverdo is not a person who will favor other goblins... It can't be that he has done something wrong, right?!"