The Mighty Dragons Are Dead-Chapter 898 - 0895: Battle of the Five Dragons (Third Update, 10,000 Coins Reward to Celebrate 1/3)
Chapter 898 -0895: Battle of the Five Dragons (Third Update, 10,000 Coins Reward to Celebrate 1/3)
This chapter is a special reward update from “Bu Deng Qing Ting.”
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Emily was still busy cutting down trees, while Li Si Te took a walk around the big pit but didn’t spot any glint of magic power feedback; he had no idea just how well that Man-Eating Tree Dragon Sprite could hide.
They had been playing this hide-and-seek for over a month, and it had never shown itself even once.
Taking advantage of a break in the tree cutting,
he had a group of serfs move to another large pit, and then he chose a central location to start digging, feeling that these big pits could be the Dragon Pit Great Mine rewarded by the Smoke Mission.
The serfs exerted themselves digging and had only managed to go two meters deep when they hit a layer of rock, which was brought before Li Si Te after being smashed to pieces.
The stone was very heavy and a dark red in colour.
“What kind of rock is this, does anyone recognize it?” Li Si Te tossed it, feeling that it was some sort of ore—especially with the hint from the Smoke Mission, he even more so believed that the stone in his hand was ore.
Fernal Ink, who was following beside Li Si Te, replied, “Your Highness, if I’m not mistaken, this is iron ore.”
“Iron ore?” Li Si Te looked closely, and compared it with the iron ore he had snatched from the Trapped Dragon Mountain Iron Mine, noticing some differences, especially in color, “What kind of iron ore is this, and why does it look different from the iron ore I’ve seen? I remember that the iron ore from Trapped Dragon Mountain was very black.”
“It might be a poor ore with a low iron content, typically found in the upper layers of a vein,” Fernal Ink said with excitement, “Your Highness, there could be an iron mine under this pit!”
If this truly was iron ore.
Then without a doubt, this was the Dragon Pit Great Mine, a super-sized iron mine. Looking at the valley’s many large pits packed closely together, Li Si Te’s eyes also turned red with excitement, “Send people quickly, dig in every pit, dig three feet into the ground to find the ore below; I want to know how extensive this iron mine is!”
“Yes, Your Highness!”
Fernal Ink was full of drive, understanding too well the importance of an iron mine to the nation; the equipment for knights, the everyday tools, none could be made without iron ore.
Not only did the serfs dig fiercely, but many knights also took up spades, hoes, and pickaxes to energetically dig into the earth.
Several pits around the iron mine were quickly excavated, revealing iron ores of different colors and qualities. In one pit, a mere half meter of digging unearthed pitch-black iron ore, a high-quality deposit likely to contain up to ninety percent iron, which could be directly forged into tools with just a few strikes.
“It seems we truly have struck a gigantic iron mine, excellent.” Li Si Te couldn’t have been more pleased. With such an iron mine, plus the Grey Iron Dragon, the Flame Kingdom would never lack iron again.
However, as the pits were dug farther afield.
Soon, different types of ore were brought over.
“Your Highness, these ores don’t seem like iron ore; they resemble copper ore,” Fernal Ink introduced to Li Si Te; as a seasoned knight who had long been involved in the routine affairs of the territory and had some dealings with ore refining, he recognized many types of ore, “It’s likely Bronze Ore. Those previous iron ores were probably Black Heart Iron Ore.”
He then hypothesized, “Perhaps a very long time ago, there was a battle here between a Black Heart Iron Dragon and a Bronze Dragon, creating this vast mineral-rich mountain.”
The speculation was logical.
Yet soon another knight brought new stones—stones that looked like many cubic stones bonded together. Upon seeing the stone, Fernal Ink couldn’t help exclaiming, “This is galena!”
“Galena?”
“Ores produced by Lead Dragons. The Eagle Kingdom has a Lead Dragon, I have bought a batch of galena before to refine lead metal!”
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Then, more pits sent up galena. That is to say, in this valley, there wasn’t only Black Heart Iron and Bronze ores, but also galena. According to Fernal’s logic, maybe in the ancient times, it might have been a triangular battle between Bronze Dragons, Black Heart Iron Dragons, and Lead Dragons.
However, Liszt and the others were still underestimating the richness of the Dragon Pit Great Mine.
By nightfall, knights brought in a new type of ore, a kind of brittle, red ore that easily crumbled to sand. Fernal didn’t recognize it, nor did Liszt, but they were sure it must be a new type of metal ore. They had already notified the Magic Guild to send a magician who researched metal ores to come, and then they would know what kind of metal ore it was.
“Your Highness, it’s truly unbelievable. This valley actually contains four types of metal ores!” Fernal couldn’t conceal his excitement.
Beneath the light of the campfire, his face was flushed, as if he had been struck in the head by a gold ingot.
Liszt, however, was much calmer. He knew about the existence of the Dragon Pit Great Mine from the beginning—the unexpected part was just how many types there were: “Keep calm, Fernal. We have mapped out the ore distribution in the pits within the valley. There is also a large pit on the outskirts of the valley yet to be excavated, and there may be new ores there.”
“More new ores? That would mean there are five different ores!” Fernal was even more excited.
Liszt’s excitement about the ores was different from Fernal’s.
In his heart, Liszt was pondering another question: “If five dragons battled here, could one have died and been buried deep underground? The new Smoke Mission reward is ‘Dragon’s Might in Skeleton,’ could this mean there is a dragon waiting underground to be reborn?”
Just like Leo, after a dragon dies, it nurtures an ember within its remains, waiting for the right opportunity to be reborn.
A Metal Dragon or Gemstone Dragon was unlikely; they didn’t have the potential for Elementalization, and Dragon’s Super Magic couldn’t exist for long. Only Elemental Dragons’ Superior Magic could endure forever.
He didn’t bring this up to Fernal.
He was just speculating to himself: “Perhaps, it wasn’t just four or five Metal Dragons battling. Elemental Dragons might have been involved as well… It’s just uncertain if any Gemstone Dragons were part of it.”
Whether or not Elemental Dragons lay sleeping in the Dragon Pit Great Mine would soon be revealed as the mine unavoidably had to be developed.
And tonight, he still had work to do.
As the serfs kept felling trees, within a day and a night, all the trees covering the large pit above the Black Heart Iron were chopped down, leaving only a few scattered hundred Man-Eating Trees in the northwest corner of the pit.
“Your Highness, can we start digging now?” Emily inquired.
“Let’s begin.”
The serfs, who had rotated shifts and rested well, began to dig again, following the spaces between the Man-Eating Tree Cluster. According to the distribution of the Black Heart Iron Ore, the soil layer was less than two meters deep. By turning over the soil here, transplanting each Man-Eating Tree to another place, they vowed to find the Man-Eating Tree Dragon Sprite.
Soon after.
The moon set and the sun rose.
The darkness before dawn was pierced by sunlight, and one by one, the Man-Eating Trees were dug up. Just as they were about to finish the last few dozen trees, those trees suddenly started to tremble. Then the branches softened, and the whole tree bent to the ground, preparing to burrow and flee.
Having stayed awake all night, with bloodshot eyes, Emily saw this and shouted to the knights behind her, “Wake up His Highness!” Then she rushed towards the last few dozen Man-Eating Trees.
Searching for the shadow of the dragon sprite that was secretly controlling the Man-Eating Trees from the dark.
