Jialan Continent, somewhere on the west coast.
The floating giant ship was slowly flying above the clouds in the sky at an extremely low speed.
Several wizards belonging to the Crimson Clan stepped onto the deck, leaning against the ship's side, silently looking down at the looming magical continent below them.
With their strength, coupled with the blessing of Eagle Eye, they can easily penetrate the thin layer of clouds and directly observe the strange natural landscape and various jungle creatures of the Jialan Continent.
It's just a pity that the elves they want to find in this line of work are not as easy as finding humans. Humans like to cut down the trees near the settlements to build tall and strong camps and buildings. So at night, as long as you climb up and look around, you can naturally find human villages and towns by following the lit lights.
But the elves claim to be the closest to nature and the race that loves the forest the most. They almost never cut down trees, but naturally place their villages and towns on those particularly tall and strong old trees.
The tree house is the residence of the elves.
After the night fell, the elves rarely lighted open flames. In addition, they lived in the deep mountains and dense forests, so it was almost impossible to find them by candlelight.
But like Greem and the others, flying high above the blue sky, looking far away, you can see lush green everywhere, and it is difficult to find a trace of variegated colors in the undulating forest sea. Under such circumstances, trying to find an elven village with the naked eye is simply a dream.
So, here, if you want to find the elves, you can only go into the forest honestly, jump up and down like the elves, and find a needle in a haystack in the vast forest!
"Tymo, you may be able to identify the terrain here? Before going to war with the Elven King's Court, I hope to hide this giant floating ship first. Can you recommend a place!" Greem simply glanced at the greenery. Prosperous and stretching forest sea, asked the half-elf guide.
Of course, it was impossible for Greem to fully trust this guy who joined halfway. While waiting for his answer, Greem also silently called up the topographic map of the Jialan Continent in his mind, and compared it with the long and broken coastline in front of him.
It seemed that it had been a long time since he had smelled the magic power in the magical forest. The half-elf Taimo suppressed his excitement, lying on the side of the giant floating ship and silently inspecting the forest below him.
"If I remember correctly, here... this should be the white cliff on the southerly side of the west coast. The most obvious sign here is the white cliff stone standing tall on the edge of the coast."
Following Taymo's pointing finger, Greem really saw a touch of white on the edge of the cliff in the distance.
"This is the area near the west coast where the sea conditions are the most complicated, the reefs are the most dense, and it is also the area that is most unsuitable for large seagoing ships. Therefore, in this area, the probability of us encountering the Elf King's patrol team will become extremely small." Taymo held his hand again. Pointing to a certain direction in the forest: "From here to that direction, you will find an elf village in about 7 days. Sorry, I am talking about the time it takes to travel through the forest. As for taking this... this big guy, it may only It takes half a day to get there…”
"Elf village..." Greem pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "It is not suitable for us to get in touch with elves too early, but we need to find a suitable place to settle down first. Taymor, is there any large metal village in this west coast area?" A mine or a mine or something?"
"Metal mines?" Taymo opened his mouth in surprise, "There seem to be quite a few in the middle of the magical forest, but on the west coast..."
The half-elf lowered his head and thought for a while, then gestured uncertainly: "It takes about 16 days to travel north from here. There seems to be a ratman mine there. I don't know if there are metal veins in it!"
"Then go there first!" Greem immediately gave the order.
After a while, the giant floating ship lifted up again, dived into the clouds, and quickly flew north along the coastline in the direction indicated by the half-elf.
When the behemoth-like floating ship disappeared completely, two elves wearing green grass and rattan woven clothes emerged from the canopy of a tall ancient tree at the edge of the forest.
Two elves, a man and a woman, looked at the place where the metal monster disappeared, and their eyes were full of unconcealable horror.
"What are those? Could it be another terrifying monster created by the witches?" The female elf's voice trembled, apparently still not getting rid of the horror just now.
"It doesn't matter what it is, we must pass the news of the metal monster back to the village as soon as possible. Maybe Grandpa Wenger can tell us the answer..." The male elf made a decisive decision.
"Well, let's go..."
In the blink of an eye, the two elves disappeared into the canopy behind them.
Strange to say, in just a split second, their figures merged with the forest, making it difficult to track down their tracks.
A day later, word of a hideous metallic monster had spread through every elven village on the west coast.
...
Ratman Mine.
The 16-day itinerary that Tai Mo said was placed on the giant floating ship, but it was only a day and a night.
If it didn't take 4 hours to determine the location of the entrance to the mine, Greem and his party could have arrived here even faster.
The Ratman Mine, as the name suggests, is hidden in a dense forest, only revealing a slanted upwards with a dark mouth, in which a large Ratman tribe lives.
The elves are a group of tribes who pay great attention to personal appearance and cleanliness. If they are allowed to work in dark and damp mines where the sun is not seen all year round, even if they are killed, it is difficult to do so. So the forest elves reached an agreement with the ratmen in the mine, and the ratmen relied on handing over a certain amount of ore to the forest elves every year in exchange for the right of residence in the mine.
Therefore, in the Ratman mine, there were no elves to be found at all, and all the people living in it were some intelligent Ratmen who were less than one meter tall, could walk upright like a human, and used various precision tools.
The thin bodies of these ratmen couldn't afford to wear heavy armor stomachs at all, they just put a metal cap on their heads, and then lit a thick candle on it, using this faint light to freely walk in the dark and wet activities in the mine.
Ratman miners' weapons are basically pickaxes, and some stronger ratman warriors may also be equipped with 'powerful' weapons such as hand crossbows, iron swords, and spears.
According to Taymo's description, Greem could tell that the most powerful ratman leader in this batch of ratmen was only at level 1. The rest of the ratmen fighters and miners were either high-level apprentices or quasi-shamans. And it's still the kind of garbage that has no elemental power, only some small cunning and small tricks.
For such rubbish, Greem didn't even bother to send out precious wizards, so he only assigned a goblin technician to bring five archer-type magic equipment and broke in.
Greem and the others found a slightly flat place outside the mine and set up tables and chairs. Just after drinking two cups of hot tea, the battle inside the mine was over.
Nearly 200 Ratmen, including the Rat King, were wiped out in one sweep, and were smashed into a sieve by the metal projectiles of Magic Equipment. As for the metal crossbow arrows fired by the Ratman hiding in the dark tunnel, neither the strength nor the attack power was enough to deal with the thick metal body outside the magic tool.
So after being fully crushed in strength, Archer Magic Equipment easily and comfortably slaughtered the entire ratman group.
And the goblin technician brought back four or five pieces of ore mined from the depths of the mine.
Greem picked up a piece of ore, weighed it in his hand, and then held it up to his eyes to examine it carefully.
"Hey, after testing, the ore is an ordinary ore, which contains 11% mineral components, and the rest are useless waste... It is estimated that the mineral composition of the ore is as follows:"
"Luo Iron Mine 1.42%..."
“Olivine 3.27%… ”
"Pyroxene 2.86%..."
"..."
"The proportion of metal composition is less than XXX%, and there is no mining and smelting value..."
After a long list of ore components, the chip also gave the final evaluation result.
The grade of the Ratman mine in front of me is not high, and the most available to the elves are low-level magic materials such as topaz, peridot, and agate. These things are of some value to the elves, but they are useless to Greem who is eager to lay down a foundation.
After testing several pieces of ore brought out by the goblin technician in a row, Greem waved his hand in disappointment, and all the staff re-boarded the giant floating ship, turned the bow, and flew towards another mysterious mine in the distance at high speed. .
It can be said bluntly that in order to find a suitable metal vein as soon as possible, Greem was already a little desperate. Anyway, this place still belongs to the fringe area of the magical forest, and the army and power that the elf kingdom can project over are limited, which is not enough to deter their actions.
And in another five or six days, the coalition forces of the Dark Witch and the Pale Witch will arrive at the Jialan Continent by boat. At that time, they will become more eye-catching and easier targets.
Presumably at that time, the Elven Kingdom would have preferred to send an elite army to encircle them, rather than lead a group of elves to chase after the giant floating ship to eat farts.
To be honest, with strong ships and giant cannons, Greem has already disdained the army of the secular world. The only ones who can make him scruple are those elemental users and terrifying powerful elves.
But now Greem led the giant floating ship just circled around the edge of the Jialan Continent, and didn't make any move to slaughter the elves. In addition, they turned around and flew back to the vast sea from time to time. If Greem were replaced by the elf commander at the moment, he might not know what to do with this inexplicable metal monster!
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