The sky in the east shows a fish-belly white color, and a ray of twilight shines through, indicating that it is about to dawn.
At the end of the night's conversation, Sherlock stood up, not looking too tired. After finishing the last topic with Richard, he waved goodbye to Richard, picked up the sleeping maid Lucia, and walked towards the motorcade down the mountain.
Not long after, Sherlock led the convoy to set off again, heading into the distance, preparing to go to a special port and take a big ship to the main continent.
Standing on the Rocky Mountains, Richard watched Sherlock's motorcade go away, thinking thoughtfully about the content of the conversation at night.
He must admit that according to what Sherlock said, the main continent is attractive to him and a good place to go, but... he can't go now.
After all, there are very important things to do now, and we must seize the time.
The next moment, Richard turned around and looked at the tent pitched on the mountain.
The numerous soldiers and Teddy's four wizards living in the tent were all exhausted after yesterday's earthmoving work, and were sleeping soundly at this time.
Richard watched and watched, and then he shouted thoughtfully: "Commander Wulong, it's dawn, let's inform everyone to get up and start working."
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Not long after, the Rocky Mountains became busy again, a new day, a new earthmoving operation.
In the end, everyone worked hard for another day and finished digging the planned area in the Rocky Mountains, but no ruins of the small village of Artis were found.
Without hesitation, leaving a small number of troops to maintain control of Auburn City, Richard led the rest of the people to the east and along the planned route. Next, they continued to conquer cities one after another, and continued to carry out excavations again and again, getting closer and closer to Deep Blue Castle.
The rest of the people in other directions were similar. Under the overwhelming advantage of military strength and the number of wizards, the major wizard organizations quickly occupied cities one after another, occupied resource production areas one after another, and surrounded Deep Blue Castle in the form of an encirclement.
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Hawks Kingdom, Greystone City.
After a not fierce battle, Graystone City was captured. After it was captured, only a small number of soldiers who attacked the city were stationed in the city to maintain law and order, while the rest of the soldiers went to a mine outside the city.
In the mine, in the huge warehouse.
A White Mist City wizard was walking, looking at the boxes placed in the warehouse, his lips slightly pursed. The surrendered deputy city lord of Greystone City followed him with a flattering face and kept introducing: "Wizard... Lord Wizard, you see, all the output of the mine is here. Here is the iron ore, and over there is the copper mine. , the one in the corner is silver mine, and of course the most important thing is that the things in this row of boxes are all good gold mines. "
After hearing the words of the deputy city lord of Gray Stone City, the wizard of White Mist City moved his eyebrows, stopped, opened the box containing gold ore, and saw irregular ore with bright golden color inside. I picked up a piece and looked at it. It was very rough because it had not been processed, but even so, the value was still very high.
As long as you occupy this mining area, you can continuously obtain such high-value gold ore.
Although the wizard organization does not value money, but rather the resources related to spells, such as materials used for casting spells and body parts of demonized creatures, this does not mean that money has no meaning to the wizard organization. On the contrary, money is of great significance to a wizarding organization.
You must know that in addition to wizards and wizard apprentices themselves, wizard organizations also have many ordinary members. To ensure the operation of the entire organizational system and make it function efficiently, it is impossible without money.
After all, no matter how powerful the wizard is, he can't use life and death to control everyone's work without any reward at all. Even if it could be done, allowing a groom to work completely without complaint or asking for anything in return, the groom would die of starvation in less than three days.
Therefore, the wizard organization does not value a small amount of wealth, but it still values an entire mine—very much.
"Snapped!"
The wizard from White Mist City threw the ore in his hand back into the box, making a soft sound, and slowly turned around to look behind him.
The deputy city lord of Graystone City nodded and bowed, waiting for instructions.
But the wizard of White Mist City looked past him to a man wearing iron armor further behind, and ordered: "General Orik, send a team of people to deliver the gold ore and silver ore in this warehouse to Mu Go to Huicheng and leave it to General Hawke there. He knows what to do. In addition, arrange your men and guard the entire mine. Don’t let any strangers in. If the other party wants to enter by force, don’t hesitate. Attack. If the other party has extraordinary power, don’t worry, I will ask several wizards in the organization to cooperate with you later."
"Yes." The man in iron armor nodded without a smile and responded seriously.
At this time, the wizard of White Mist City turned his head to look at the surrendered Deputy City Lord of Greystone City and said: "City Lord Mars, there is something you need to do."
"Master Wizard, please tell me." The deputy city lord bent down.
"Then you have to find the escaped miners and restore the production of the mine."
"Yes, Lord Wizard, I will try my best to complete it."
"It's not about trying your best, it's about making sure." The wizard of Baiwu City corrected, "I'll give you three days. If you can't do it, then you will be a miner here."
After speaking, the wizard from White Mist City patted the deputy city lord on the shoulder, turned around and walked out.
The deputy city lord named Mars froze on the spot, his expression uglier than crying: "Three...three days?"
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Dora Kingdom, Carlo City.
Warehouse in the city.
The Rose City wizard, who was wearing a red rose robe, squinted at the large crystals placed in boxes in the warehouse and frowned slightly. After watching for a while, he turned to look at the trembling young man next to him.
The other person looks to be in his twenties, very young and handsome. It is said that he is the prince of the Dora Kingdom and fifth in the line of succession. Therefore, even if the other party does not have much ability, he can still become the city lord at a young age.
The wizard glanced at the other party and asked aloud: "There are a little few crystals in this warehouse, right? Especially the ones with higher quality that can be used for casting spells, there are very few. I remember, the crystal mine in your Carlo City It’s good to be famous, it shouldn’t be this bad.”
"Wizard... Lord Wizard Mingjian, it really shouldn't be so bad." The young prince trembled, "Yes... A few days ago, an order came from the royal capital saying that the battle line was unstable, so all the crystals in the warehouse here were transported to The royal capital has gone. But... But the mineral veins outside the city are still there, and the miners have not dispersed. Production can be resumed quickly, and a new batch of high-quality crystals can be obtained in just three months."
"Three months?" The wizard shook his head, "I can't wait for such a long time. Aren't you a prince? Go write a letter to your king father and tell him to use the crystal to redeem you. Get it from Carlo City Take back as many crystals as you want, otherwise your life will be at risk. Well, give him two days to think about it."
"Two...two days?" The prince swallowed his saliva and looked like he was crying.
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Holy Alliance, Holy Lake City.
At noon, the Death Valley wizard wearing a blue skull robe was walking outside the city, looking at the large, yellow and withered plants with short and thick stems in the fields, his eyes narrowed slightly.
The plant with short and thick stems is a specialty near Holy Lake City. It has many uses in magic. It can be used as a high-quality spell-casting material and as a raw material for mana recovery potions. In comparison, it is not so important as food to satisfy hunger.
A short, fat middle-aged man followed closely behind the Death Valley Wizard. His name was Moko. Before the arrival of the Death Valley Wizard, he was a marginalized figure in the Holy Lake City. He is only responsible for the repair of the city wall and the cultivation of the fields outside the city, but now, he is the nominal highest ruler in the city.
There was no other reason. People with higher status than him were killed by the wizard in front of him. In fact, he should have been killed, but before he died, he shouted, "I'm just building walls and farming, I didn't do anything bad, please spare me." He was actually spared, and then gained the right to rule the entire city. , and accompanied the wizard to the fields outside the city.
How can I say it? I can only say that fate is wonderful enough.
Seeing the Death Valley wizard in front of him constantly looking at the short and thick-stemmed plants in the field, Moko felt that he should have guessed what the other party was thinking, so he approached to please him and said: "Master Wizard, you see, these are only found near Holy Lake City. There are Shirley flowers. Now that the flowers have withered and matured, the wizard has come at the right time. If you need these Shirley flowers, it will only take me and my people a whole day to harvest them all."
"All day?" The wizard of Death Valley glanced at Moko, as if looking at an idiot, and said in a hoarse voice, "Idiot, I have so much time to wait for you! I will leave here tomorrow morning and continue the attack. , so you have to finish it before dark today, and then I can have it transported away, understand! You only have half a day, if you can’t do it well, just finish it yourself, so that I don’t have to do it. "
"Half...half a day?!" Moko swallowed.
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