Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 143 - 142: Are You a Miner as Well? (1 Chapter)
Chapter 143: Chapter 142: Are You a Miner as Well? (1 Chapter)
Now, in the Dancing Nuclear Guild’s stronghold there’s no building… except for that ancient tree.
But Mo Shigui had already started planning the building area, like the region for planting minerals which had been set aside in advance.
“Speaking of which, how does an iron ore seed grow? Does it become a tree like an apple, or does it grow out of the ground like a potato?”
Lazy was half-squatting next to the mineral planting area, where Mo Shigui had buried the Flame Roar Mother Crystal into the ground. Lazy’s other life profession was a planter, but she usually planted herbs; this was her first time planting iron ore.
“We’ve never planted seeds that grow iron ore either, should we water them to see if they’ll grow?” Lazy asked, looking at the unchanged surface of the soil in the guild.
“They have already grown.”
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Mo Shigui stared at the piece of land; as soon as he buried the Flame Roar Mother Crystal, it began to crazily absorb the magic power in the soil and released the minerals stored inside it.
‘Flame Roar Mine
Planting Area·Building
Epic Quality
Mineral Reserve: Iron Ore 3310/50000, Flame Roar Stone 100/2000.
Growth Bonus: The growth rate of fire attribute minerals from lava areas +23%, Flame Roar Mother Crystal improves the growth of all attribute minerals by +30%.’
“So these are growing out in the open, is iron ore like watermelons?”
Lin Xi walked around the mine field, and one after another, iron ores had successfully broken through the soil to welcome spring… cough, Lin Xi couldn’t clearly say if those blue minerals were really iron ores, he wasn’t like the members of the Dancing Nuclear Guild – all of them graduates from great universities, speaking eloquently.
“Whose life profession is a miner?” Mo Shigui asked again in the guild.
The question was met with thirty-seven out of fifty-two players raising their hands in the stronghold, including Jiang Qiao who quietly raised his own.
The two most useful life professions in Holy Spirit were, first, the production-based Pharmacist, and then the collection-based Miner.
Miner is probably a life profession found in every online game, and mining is a life skill necessary in every online game too.
These players naturally knew the principle that farming may be poor but mining could make you rich, so more than half the guild primarily focused on the life profession of mining.
Every time they went to a new instance or new map, if there was nothing else to do, they’d whip out their pickaxes for a go, and if by chance they struck a valuable legendary ore, they’d truly strike it rich.
“Who has the highest level?” Mo Shigui’s life profession was also a miner, as well as a fisherman, but his level in mining was just apprentice.
“I am a master level,” Rain Song said.
“I’m master level too,” Mum Has A Dog Demands Reconsideration added.
“Ah… Are there so many master-level miners in the guild?”
“Damn! No wonder I never dig up anything good in instances, turns out it’s all about competition!”
“Guild Leader! Let me have a go! I’m certified by the Miner’s Guild as a senior brick moving master.”
“What kind of bizarre certification is that?”
“Wahh, Guild Leader, let me try as well, my mining level is really high,” Fuzzy Rabbit said from the side.
“So what are you whining about, Lin Xi? Isn’t embroidery your main life profession?”
“It’s Tailor!”
“…”
Mo Shigui simply pointed his finger at Rain Song in the crowd, who was the second-in-command of the guild and also one of the few reliable veteran members.
Rain Song took out her crystal pickaxe and walked to the front of the mine. When the members of the Dancing Nuclear Guild saw the crystal pickaxe in Rain Song’s hand, they all fell silent.
The level of a life profession could be trained, but not everyone had a good pickaxe. The crystal pickaxe Rain Song held was equivalent to a level 55 epic piece of equipment, a hero among mining picks!
Without saying a word, Rain Song started chipping away at the open-pit iron mine, and by the third strike, she had stopped her actions.
“What did you find?” Lin Xi asked.
“It’s an iron mine, what else could there be but iron?”
Rain Song promptly shared what she had mined with the guild group. There were only two types of minerals she had dug up.
‘Iron Ore x5, Flame Roar Stone x4.’
“Rain Song is so awesome, bringing in loot in just three strikes,” Mama Has a Dog said, unabashedly starting to fawn over her.
“Inefficient,” replied Rain Song after handing over what she had mined to Mo Shigui, giving everyone this answer.
“Normally, it takes us seven or eight strikes to bring in loot. Besides, spending so much time mining iron ore is indeed inefficient, not to mention it still needs smelting…”
Most players in the Dancing Nuclear Guild agreed with Rain Song’s view. It was the quality of Rain Song’s pickaxe that allowed such quick loot; ordinary mining players might need seven or eight strikes even for an open-pit iron mine to find something.
“This… this is considered inefficient?” Lin Xi, standing to the side, didn’t understand what the members of the Dancing Nuclear Guild were thinking, “You can mine five iron ores in less than three seconds, that’s a hundred per minute, right? How is this inefficient?”
“Err, think about it, who would be bored enough to work as a miner?” Mama Has a Dog said.
“Isn’t your life profession mining!”
As a combat member, Lin Xi really didn’t understand what these life profession players were thinking; after all, the elite members of the Dancing Nuclear Guild were also combat players.
“They mean it’s hard labor,” Mo Shigui finally intervened in the conversation. “This minefield only produces Iron Ore and Flame Roar Stones, so there’s basically no fun in mining. Everyone’s here to play games, not to toil away as laborers, unless someone pays me a salary. Otherwise, I wouldn’t work as a miner here either.”
This was the awkward part of being in a players’ guild: even though the Dancing Nuclear Guild had unified management, such management was maintained through goodwill.
Players don’t get paid a salary to play games, and even if there were salaries, it would be for helping with raiding instances daily. Mo Shigui wouldn’t make his elite members spend their days here mining.
Moreover, the fun part of being a miner is that the rewards from a strike are entirely random. While specific maps may yield particular minerals, mining in the guild’s mines… is simply not interesting.
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“But boss, we still need to do the work, right? Otherwise, we won’t have any resources. Iron ore isn’t worth much in the Holy Spirit Main Plane, but if you were to buy it in the Holy Spirit Market now, it’s probably going to be more expensive,” Mama Has a Dog took out her pickaxe, rolled up her sleeves, ready to become a selfless miner.
“Isn’t there any script or NPCs for mining in this game?” Mo Shigui wasn’t keen on wasting time on repetitive labor; his next plan was to clear the monsters surrounding the stronghold.
This would take at least a whole day, and his vacation time was running short. Working at the club was tiring enough; playing a game and becoming a bricklayer? That was just too miserable.
“About that… I actually have a solution,” Jiang Qiao raised his hand and said.
