Do you believe me when I say I’m not a dragon?

"Priest...Sir, we have found a place that is suspected to be a mineral vein, and my people are currently digging."

Gulu tidied up his language and said.

After hearing his report, Rachel was silent for a while and then said:

"If it stabilizes, what will be the output this month?"

"This is difficult to calculate, mainly because we are not familiar with this place, and... based on my experience, it is a bit unusual for mineral veins to appear there, or in other words, this area may be somewhat special."

——Listening to Gollum's answer from a distance, Mercer was not surprised. After all, this place was found by Red Phoenix. It has been soaked in magma almost since birth and will stay here to create restorative power. Then this land There must be something extraordinary about it.

After a pause, Rachel didn't hear Mercer's voice, so she understood that this was a signal for her to continue, so she said, "In addition, how much have the various supplies in your village increased or decreased?"

"Currently, the only requirements we have for you are food and wood. The wood mainly includes firewood for burning and wood for repairing houses. The demand for food is not large, and the most consumed part is wood. Currently, some parts of the village have not been repaired. These two We need wood support every month; and what we need most right now is firewood. We will need to consume a lot of firewood before we find the magma flow channel. I hope you can pay attention to it."

"I understand."

Rachel nodded slightly, and in the volcano, Mercer began to think.

There is not much wood in the snowy mountains. If they only provide the orcs and forging people with food and daily life, there is no need to worry about consumables. But they need more than these. They want to use these wood to burn in large quantities as fuel for ironmaking.

In this case, the wood in the snowy mountains will be far from meeting their needs.

Then, we can only collect wood from the forest.

But in this case, the transportation of the wood has become a problem. In addition, it is more dangerous there, and who is willing to cut it has become a problem.

Then, Mercer spoke:

"Lord God tells you that you don't need to be so anxious about forging iron. Prioritize mining the cave and wait until the mine reaches a certain scale before forging a large amount of iron. Before that, you can forge iron on a small scale."

At the side of the volcano, Rachel truthfully told Gollum these things.

"Okay, then I have nothing to report."

"…just a moment longer."

Rachel pondered for a while and said: "Please prepare some paper with you in the future. If you have time, write down the techniques you have mastered, including relevant knowledge."

Hearing these confusing requests, Gulu asked: "Is this a request from the 'gods'?"

"Yes."

"Okay, is there anything else?" Although he didn't understand the intention, Gulu still didn't refuse.

"No more, please do as you please."

Hearing this, Gulu nodded, tied his beard and prepared to leave. But just as he was about to turn around, he suddenly thought of something and turned around and said, "By the way, Lord Priest, I have some personal matters to report."

"......Please say."

"Is your sister's name Shia?"

"...!"

Gulu obviously saw Rachel's face startled for a moment, pursed her lips, and then opened her mouth slightly, her lips trembling a little:

"how is she?"

"Miss Shia is fine, but her wolf... has some minor injuries on its front limbs, but I made a new prosthetic limb for it."

"..."

After hearing this, Rachel was silent for a while, and then nodded:

"I see, thanks."

Then, she added: "However, I am a priest of the gods now, so it is best to just talk about business next time."

"I see."

After glancing at Rachel's trembling hands, Gulu said no more, turned and left.

——And after he left, Rachel clasped her hands together and muttered something.

That was the prayer she heard from her parents when they were still alive. They would say it this way if they did anything disobedient.

Mercer was bored by this, so he just rolled his eyes and cut off Rachel's perception.

However, he narrowed his eyes slightly and thought about what Gulu just said:

"Prosthetic limb"...

Mercer glanced behind him. He unfolded the wings on his back, and what he saw was a pair of broken wing membranes.

An idea gradually appeared in his mind.

......

The next day, several bobcats covered in grass came to the edge of the volcano and opened the door of Rachel's room, riding on the dragon's feed.

"Meow meow meow!"

Hearing the sound, Rachel looked in their direction.

"Have you gained anything?"

Rachel's food and daily life are taken care of by them, so she is no stranger to the language of the bobcats and can communicate with them fluently.

These lynxes were arranged by Mercer. They did not participate in labor, but observed and recorded various creatures in the forest.

This area itself is a huge treasure house. In addition to humans, there are many creatures that can also exert unexpected effects. They are also part of the resources.

However, Mercer can be more meticulous in utilizing them.

Otherwise, it would be a wasteful act to arbitrarily allow unqualified creatures to occupy inappropriate positions.

Therefore, Mercer ordered several lynxes to record biological information in the forest, such as growth cycles, food preferences, reproductive cycles, etc.

The arrival of the Bobcats also means that the arrangements during this period have come to fruition.

The next moment, a voice sounded in Rachel's head:

"Let them come directly to me."

Hearing this, Rachel nodded, and after telling them this, the lynxes took off their camouflaged grass clothes and came to the edge of Mount Bai.

There was a sliding rope, the same work of bobcats as Rachel's cabin.

At the bottom of the volcano, the lynx came to Mercer who was lying on a pile of food and meowed.

"Roar."

—— Let’s get straight to the point.

"Meow!"

The bobcats opened a notebook and meowed in complex tones.

The translation is:

——After three years of investigation, we have achieved something small!These are the creatures we recorded, please take a look, boss!

Mercer was speechless, but the black mist surged around him, flipping through the notes of the lynxes.

"Roar."

——The words are too ugly, let’s just say the conclusion.

"Meow--"

——How rude, meow!Then let’s get straight to the point, meow!

A bobcat straightened its expression, pulled out several abstract paintings of creatures and placed them in front of Mercer.

——To sum up, we think the creatures that are useful for the development of the village are these cats!

Chapter 161: Assistant

Squinting at the creatures on the lynx map, Mercer thought for a while, then grabbed three species from the food in front of him and threw them in front of them.

——These?

"Meow!"

Faced with their affirmative answers, Mercer turned his attention to the creatures he had picked out.

The first one on the left is a bird-like species, its body length is about half the height of a bobcat, its feathers are dark, and its beak is short and pointed.

The lynx on the side began to introduce, and from the tone of its meow, Mercer understood the information about the bird in front of him.

Based on their observations, this bird is a creature at the bottom of the biological chain in the forest. Its main attacks are beak pecking and claw scratching. Other than that, it has no other means of attack at all.

Such weak creatures were destined to be eaten by the creatures in the forest, but due to their extremely strong reproductive ability and the fact that the food they needed did not require much precision, they naturally managed to survive in this forest.

The bobcats do not know the maximum lifespan of this species, but the rest of them know the basics: it only takes half a year for the cubs to reproduce and lay eggs; and their food is bugs in the grass, and drops. Fruits on the ground can be said to be both meat and vegetable.

——Obviously, in the eyes of the lynx, this creature is simply the best candidate for food like the Discocorn.

Hearing this, Mercer nodded and asked the lynx to capture a group of such creatures and hand them over to the orcs for training.

"Meow meow meow!"

Under the voices of the lynxes, Mercer set his sights on another species.

It was a gray-clawed pterosaur. They were only two to five meters in size. They were docile, timid, and had good flying abilities.

When talking about them, the bobcats' eyes sparkle and they look very excited.

According to them, as long as you tame this kind of pterosaur, you can ride it and fly into the sky at will. Whether it is sending messages over long distances or carrying people, there is no problem. The only pity is that they are not strong enough after all. If they want to transport heavy objects It's really a bit forced.

——In order to deal with this situation, the lynxes carefully selected and finally found another creature: the woolly mammoth.

This kind of creature lives on the outskirts of the forest, so it has a strong ability to protect against cold. They feed on trees and do not eat meat.

They have thick fur and do not feel cold even in snowstorms.

Mercer had an impression of them. He remembered that when he first woke up, a group of mammoths were eaten, and then he regained his basic ability to move.

It was just pity for them. It was not enough for them to be eaten by Mercer in the past and present. They also had to work as coolies to carry heavy objects for Mercer. Regarding this, Mercer felt guilty for a moment, and then replied:

——Are you sure you can tame these three at the same time?

If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter. The worst that Mercer can do is give them a look in person and make them obey.

"Meow!"

After receiving the answers from the lynxes, Mercer stopped taking care of them and let them leave.

The bobcats made an "understood" gesture, grabbed the rope and left.

......

——In the second month after this, news came from Gulu: He had confirmed that the veins he had dug before were real.

But that's not all. During the excavation, they also discovered more veins.

"This is beyond my common sense. Logically speaking, it is impossible for ordinary areas to have such dense mineral vein divisions."

At the edge of the volcano, Gollum reports to Rachel.

Rachel was silent for a while and replied: "Apart from this, did you find anything else?"

"Not currently."

"Then you need to instruct some people to regularly check the information inside the volcano. If there are any abnormalities, please notify me immediately." Rachel nodded, and then asked: "So, how much ore is there now?"

"This..." A hint of helplessness appeared on Gulu's face, "The warehouse has been exploded. Of course, one reason is that the warehouse storing the ore is too small. We are currently planning to transport part of the ore to the village for storage."

Gulu never thought that he would accumulate ore until his warehouse exploded in his lifetime.

Hearing the news, a look of surprise flashed across Rachel's face: "Didn't you smelt?"

"Yes, but this is just a drop in the bucket. My suggestion is to either stop the plan to mine the volcano and digest the ore first; or invest more firewood and manpower in my place and continue to mine the veins. At the same time, the existing ores are forged.”

Gulu rationally analyzed the current situation without any selfish motives.

Faced with Gollum's suggestion, Rachel fell into a long silence.

Gulu was also looking at her, but his eyes looked through her body to another existence.

He seemed to have seen it, the black dragon's eyes were lowered, showing a humanized expression of contemplation.

After a while, the black dragon looked at Gulu and opened his mouth: "Gulu, let me ask you a question."

"......Please say."