The three Transcendents couldn't figure out how they were going to get out of there. It was going to be four or five days before we got out of the valley, and the tactics of the Tumens had changed from expulsion to encirclement, and it wasn't clear how many of them would make it out alive. Instead of the calm on the big mushroom, the middle of the camp suddenly became noisy, and Shevell had to go down to see what was going on. The other three were left to ponder their next decision, without words, but each could read his resignation in the other's eyes.
"That's it," Gordon decided after a long thought. "We'll get out of here and let Murray know. He should understand that something is going on here, but it's beyond our reach." The family brought Gordon and Shevell on board in large part because of their history with Maury Nurkokin, but even now Gordon feels he has let Murray down a bit.
Abel and Shen both nodded in agreement. As he was about to turn around and tell the crowd the result, he saw a livid Shevell returning with Wood, and suddenly the fungus seemed unsteady, even teetering under the weight of its burden.
Shevell, who had discovered the problem, chose to put down Wood and stand in midair on the wind. He saw Shofar remove a large pale blue crystal directly from the bracelet and place it in the palm of his hand. The standard regular dodecahedron shone even in the tiny light of Abel's fire.
"This is... Crystal jewel diamond? ! Where did it come from? How big!" "Gordon shouted, as Abel and Shen stared and looked discolored.
"The tech guys just dug it up. We may not be able to retreat." "Said Shevell, gritting his teeth.
The crystal gem is the most precious arcane mineral in Insolari. It's rare, even unique, symmetrical structure inside the crystal makes the gem the carrier of almost any arcane type. It is also this characteristic, as long as the gem can be buried in the energy-rich land for decades, the excavated natural gem ore generally contains a huge amount of arcane energy, and as long as a little drainage, can be used by the Arcane master. Even after its energy is depleted, the Arcane is still a very good conductor of Arcane power. You only need to insert so many grains into the corners of the Arcane staff to give the whole staff an Arcane power amplifier effect, which no other Arcane stone can do! As a result, great Arcane masters with a lot of money would find a way to add one or two to their staff, and imperial families would consider using arboreal powder to equip their Owu. Arboreal production was a fraction of that of other minerals, but it was often in short supply. Because most of the diamonds mined were in the hands of major empires, used in large Arcane formations or giant alchemical products, plus the difficulty of mining arcane diamonds is too high, Arcane and Owu people want to, the price of natural rise.
For so many years, precious diamonds have been in the form of crushed ore, whole pieces rarely come to light, and when they do, they are collected by powerful institutions such as the royal family and the government. They usually use a particular weight unit for calculating consumption and price. A lue drill has only such a small crushed ore, which is easily invisible even if it is embedded in the most obvious part of the rod. It may still be visible on the storage ring, but the storage ring is unnecessary. The scepter in the hands of the president of the Arcane City Council is said to be unable to find a large enough gem as the main Arcane stone, so it has to be the next best thing, with a slightly larger crushed ore, pressed around the main Arcane stone, to make a moon and stars look like, but even if it is made with such a small number, this scepter is still recognized as one of the most powerful! So how precious is such a gem?
The Deco family is a big name in Epyi, but there aren't many gems in the collection, and the family can only afford a few gems for the extraordinary, but nothing else is good enough.
The diamond in Shevell's hand is unused, and the power inside is bursting out, and it takes one hand to grasp it! Gordon took a quiet look at the quality and saw why Shevell was saying that.
"How big is your hand?"
"Eight hundred grams, nearly forty lue. More than the largest diamond ever recorded." Wood, being the professional, jumped right in.
Everyone gasped at 800 grams for 40 lue a lue, the largest value was no more than 30 blue, used in the defense of the Arcane polis. In addition, the larger the size of the diamond, the more obvious the bonus function is. Moreover, this lamp is not linear. If the size of the diamond is slightly larger, the price may be doubled.
"And at present, we have dug out a dozen pieces for this lamp, more than half of which weigh more than 30 value." Wood was so silent that Abel and Gordon got to their feet. A dozen diamonds, more than half of them bigger than the biggest record on the market today, what a concept!
"No, the diamond is so difficult to dig. Where do we get the equipment?" Shen soon found a different place, treasure drill is generally deep underground, on very hard rock, and even hidden in the ore, mining needs special equipment, and the family of science and technology personnel has this equipment.
"That's the scariest part," Wood smiled wryly. "We just took the beds and dug them out. Who knows how much more was under the ground."
Shen, aware of the big trouble ahead, jumps off the mushroom tree and goes to the family's construction site. Wood went on to tell how, after leaving Abel's, he went back to sleep for a while, only to be woken up a few minutes later by two other technicians, who were so loud that they woke up a large crowd and were greeted by countless people in an instant. When the two men had been scolded, they could only begin construction in a whisper. Wood listened as the two men said that their instruments had detected very large fluctuations of energy in the ground and that there was probably an undiscovered mine or even a vein beneath them. This did not impress Wood at first; after all, they had come to explore the Levy mines next door, and the discovery of a vein in the forest was not a surprise. The three expertly separated a meter square space with an anticorrosive baffle, finally seeing the long-lost rock layer at the bottom. As the space between the baffles widened, the technicians finally had room to drop the awl, but Wood was stunned.
It's a very large crystal jewel.
A few strokes are one. Fortunately, the soft rock beneath the bed was very shallow, and within a few strikes, it had reached the hard lithosphere where diamonds are normally produced. The family's excavation did not last long, but in such a short time, a dozen diamonds were dug up in such a single spot, the largest one on top of the other, and the only broken ore was chipped by mistake. Wood realized how serious the problem was and took the largest piece of it straight to Shevell, who had just come down, and told him what had happened. But helpless when doing things too big, surrounded by a circle of people, wanting to hide also can not hide.
"How big is the total?" Abel listened and cut straight to the question that most concerned him. Although the diamond is very expensive now, in the level of the empire is not much, the key is the size of the veins under the feet, this is likely to break the current situation of the archipelago. If this is all that this lode has, it's not enough to challenge Sykewebo as the holy city of the Arcane, but if it's just the tip of the iceberg, Silverland could have used these resources to build an Arcane power to rival Sykewebo!
"According to the whole-area knowledge of the point-plane principle..."
"Get to the point!
"Generally speaking, a diamond mine means there are a lot of other mines around, and the total size could be larger than the Wuke vein. This is just the diamond, not counting the other associated mines. And Grenn seems to know how valuable the Crystal Jewels are. By now the whole Sellsword corps should know."
"I ****! Gordon finally broke down the expletive. What's the concept of the UK mine? Hillviland is on the verge of dethroning Secowibo's exclusive status with a single Ulk vein, another one and the Arcane City will be half as cold. If I had known that there was such a big mine, it would have made anyone in power go crazy. Secowebo knew in advance that an army of Arcanists would have to blow it up, desperate to prevent the rise of Silverland from being stopped. And now, somehow, such a hidden lode has been discovered by the Deco family, and they can't handle it!
"What to do? Gordon managed to calm down and hurried the group into the discussion.
"Can't handle it." Shevell was adamant. "The stakes are too high," he said. "The Tumens here have something to do with the lode. Shevell had made it clear that this was not a matter that could be decided by one of their great families, and that Maury Nurkokin might not be enough, but he was the most qualified of them all.
Abel looked down for a few seconds, then took Shen's map. "Two kilometers northeast, the edge of a canyon. We can get in touch with Reverend Nurkokin halfway up the hill, where there should be no Armagedical suppression. When we inform Sekwibo, we will leave. This place is out of our hands."
Gordon and Shevell nodded in agreement with Abel's suggestion. Mr. Shen arrived late, and with bad news.
'Won't go? Not only did the sellsword never want to move forward, but even the Arcane family had the same attitude. Under the pressure of life and death, the psychological defenses of countless people could no longer be supported. The Arcanists asked to go back and never risk their lives again. The mercenary logic is very simple, also an extremely straight line, the road ahead can not go down, and the accident in the discovery of such a huge wealth, the benefit of the walk is not ok?
No. Abel no-nonsense, and directly let the news back Shen told the family, about this kind of event, who don't want to run away. Anyone who withdraws will not return to the family, and not only will the Deco family not tolerate him, but the three otherworldly beings will do what they can on the cheap, and even if they survive, they will face a double fatwa from Secowibo and Apyi, leaving them to think for themselves. As for the mercenary regiment, Abel can not force them, can only let Shen dig out the treasured diamond as employment fee directly sent down, the heart of the first steady, as for this will not cause family dissatisfaction is not this time to consider things, back to the north natural family will naturally give compensation. The key is now the situation, must not fall off the chain, if such a big event does not tell the Sykwibo, made a big disaster by the Arcane city to investigate, then everything is stopped. The next thing Abel told Shen was to bring Colonel Grant over and discuss the pros and cons before the group broke up.
With a combination of blows, weariness had taken hold of Abel. The only hope now was that the two sides would turn against each other. Many of the families still needed the Sellsword to protect them. After weighing the largest crystal diamond in her possession, Abel gave it to Wood with a touch of heart. 'Give it to Alan.'
It was all Abel had left to do.