Chapter 1400: Should We Sell the Secret Realm of Elves to the Holy See?
The Glorious Holy See has a great cause and its jurisdiction is extremely broad. Finding a special kind of ore is neither easy nor difficult——
What's more, the papers previously published by the Parliament and the information disseminated have already vaguely pointed out the characteristics of this ore.
As long as you develop the corresponding magic, follow the pictures and search patiently, you can always find it. That kind of magic, in the final analysis, uses ores as magic materials to try to stimulate special light:
If it can be stimulated, that's what they are looking for. If it can't be stimulated, then forget it. Either there is no special product at all, or the concentration of the special product is not enough, and purification will be extremely laborious, and the gain outweighs the loss...
The Grand Inquisition first searched the general treasury of the Holy City and found only a kind of ore that was yellowish, mottled, inconspicuous, and looked like a clod of soil. There are densely packed small black spots embedded inside, which are slightly shiny.
It's not iron ore, copper ore, tin ore, or any current mineral, and I don't know how it got in. The bishop in charge of this matter asked many craftsmen before asking an old craftsman the reason:
As long as these small black dots are melted and mixed with steel, they can produce very good steel. Forge weapons to be extraordinarily sharp, and forge armor to be extraordinarily hard. And, there is a side benefit:
It can promote users to advance!
Wearing this kind of armor, or holding this kind of weapon in your arms, and praying day and night, you can more easily hear the voice of the Lord of Glory and be infused with the power of the Lord of Glory.
The speed of advancement will be faster than others.
Of course, advancing too quickly will often have some side effects. For example, some less devout Paladins will have their whole bodies burned, with blisters, ulcers, loose gums, and even vomiting blood...
But those are small things! As long as you are pious enough and receive enough grace from the Lord of Glory, you can advance quickly. As long as you advance quickly enough, you can suppress all side effects!
The old craftsman kept talking for a long time, and the bishop who was ordered to inquire had his head as big as a bucket. As for where this ore comes from...
The old craftsman rolled his eyes:
"How do I know this? There is it in the warehouse, so I just use it and make weapons and armor. There is nothing in the warehouse, so I can just take a break——
Do you think it's easy to build something like this? How old do you think I am? "
The bishop really didn't want to talk to him. However, after asking around, it turned out that only this old craftsman had seen this kind of ore, so I had no choice but to talk to him patiently.
At this moment, I took half a step back and looked carefully. I saw that the old craftsman had gray hair, a stooped waist, and was completely dark from his face to his arms. He looked like he was at least fifty or sixty years old. I carefully guessed:
"……forty five?"
"Thirty-five."
The old craftsman sneered:
"Building this kind of thing is too long-lasting... If I didn't have five sons, and all five sons would have families, I should have retired a long time ago..."
The bishop was speechless for a moment. He silently wrote down "This is not a good thing, it can easily shorten your life", quietly quit, and then went to find the warehouse manager.
From the warehouse entry, go to the transportation record, and then from the transportation record to the purchase record. The final answer left everyone speechless:
"This kind of ore comes from the east... the east... a very far away place. It is probably at the junction of the great wilderness occupied by barbarians, the Black Forest, and the orc kingdom. Going further east..."
"How far?"
"Cross the Yinghui Mountains, cross from the north side of Haiji Lake, and then walk more than a thousand miles eastward, we are almost there..."
There was already an aide in charge of paperwork who quickly opened the map. It has taken more than half a year to walk from the edge of the area occupied by the Glorious Holy See to the Yinghui Mountains;
Then climb over the Yinghui Mountains - the name means "even the eagle can't fly over, and turn back here". Travel along the continuous river valleys in the mountains to avoid all kinds of magical beasts, demons and barbarians;
After the narrow escape, we have to walk more than a thousand miles...
Only the most determined and devout ascetics have ever explored such a path. In addition, it is said that some of the heretical lunatics in the Kingdom of Kent also like to run around.
Then there are the caravans. For money, there are always people traveling thousands of miles, one trip after another, to traffic in all kinds of inexplicable goods. In fact, the previous ores were occasionally purchased from caravans.
The Holy City searched the warehouse and couldn't find a few pieces. It is used to make weapons and armor. It is only a little bit a year anyway, whether it is enough or not is all it needs;
It is conceivable that it is not enough to use it for studying divine arts or even as consumables for attacks. The quantity must be doubled several times, ten times, twenty times, thirty or fifty times, hundreds of times would be even better!
The problem is, for these ores to send a team there, through areas that are completely unfriendly or hostile to the Holy See, or through the wilderness, the journey takes more than a year, and the journey back takes more than a year...
Not to mention how many people will die on the way, just say that even in the best case scenario, it will take three years to go back and forth.
The bishop responsible for formulating the plan felt that if he dared to report this idea to the Pope, the Grand Inquisitor, or anyone else, they would be able to kick him out to look for mines...
"First of all, we need to collect this kind of ore on a large scale within the jurisdiction of the Holy See." The bishop calmed down and began to speak. The aide around him quickly recorded:
"Let every district, every church, solicit from the people uncommon and strange stones. Tell them that the time has come to show their piety to the Lord!"
"Just a show of piety?"
"Well... you can tell them that the Holy See is going to build a new cathedral, the highest one and the one closest to the Lord of Glory. The stones dedicated by the people will be built in the church with their pious hearts. The Lord sees it!”
"Yes!" - After all, a bishop is a bishop! With this method, any stones that exist in the area under the jurisdiction of the Holy See will be found!
"Secondly, let each overseas governor-general try to collect all kinds of strange stones. Anyway, they need ballast stones for their return voyage. It is stipulated that the quantity and type of stones carried by each ship must comply with the regulations!"
"Should we let the governor-general conduct their own identification? Or should they all be sent back for identification?"
"Identify it on your own and give them the identification method. At the same time, give them a task to find this kind of ore within half a year, um, a year, within a year!"
What to do if not... The aide murmured, but did not dare to ask further questions. He lowered his head and brushed the records:
"Any more?"
"Third, mobilize our spies in the Kingdom of Kent and work hard to find out where the heretics' ore comes from. There is no reason why they can find it, but we can't!"
"yes!"
The three-pronged approach indeed satisfied the higher-ups of the Holy See, or in other words, they felt that there was a possibility of finding this kind of ore. Moreover, just one month later, similar ore was indeed found in the Kingdom of Brolin:
"The divine magic appraisal has responded!"
"A special light can appear!"
"It is indeed what we are looking for!"
"That's it, that's it, that's it..."
"how?"
"It's the content of this ore, really, really..."
If we say that in the ore stored in the Vatican's treasury, half a pound of tiny black spots can be found in one hundred pounds of raw ore;
Well, for the ore of the Brolin Kingdom, the craftsmen responsible for the ore dressing were so excited that their hammers were filled with sparks, their eyes were bursting with tears, and it was almost impossible to find black spots the size of sesame seeds among the rocks and gravel.
One hundred pounds of raw ore, and the number of small black dots found could not fit into the lid of a tea cup; calculated this way, one thousand pounds of raw ore, could not find even half a pound of small black dots!
And these small black spots must be selected, refined, and turned into final powder before they can be used by spellcasters to test spells. Ten thousand pounds of ore is not enough for them to use once...
"Look again! We must find rich ore! It is too painful to mine in the barren mining area..."
"Keep an eye on those heretics! They must have found a rich mine!"
Study spells!
Make magic tools!
Make explosives that can explode with just one "bomb"!
Also, the pseudo-sun god named Viracocha, "boom" and "boom", each shot was at least equivalent to a legendary full blow, which made it difficult for the legends of the Holy See to hold on——
Without a rich mine to support it, it is absolutely impossible!
While the Glorious Holy See was working hard to oppress the Kingdom of Brolin, forcing the king, nobles, and local churches to recruit a large number of poor people to go into the mountains to mine, it was also working hard to expand the search area and let sea merchants and overseas governors work hard to find it.
Yes, this work cannot be completed overnight, but as long as the efficiency is higher than that of the caravan going to the wilderness, it will be worth it!
If the enemy has it, we must have it too! What we have must be more and better than what the enemy has!
"Especially the Governor-General of Pellu. This kind of magic was spread over a large area. It only appeared after the attack on the False Sun God was launched in the Governor-General of Pellu - there must be rich mines nearby!
Without the rich ore, that pseudo-Sun God would never be able to bomb indiscriminately!
Order Governor Pellew and several governors in the New World to increase my search power! We must find the mine! "
"No..."
The new Governor Pellew was scratching his hair with a frown on his face, almost wanting to pull out all the hairs. As for whether it would be unsightly to become bald after he was cured, he no longer cared about it:
The total population of the Governor's Region is only that small!
The core power that can be used, the force from the old continent, has shrunk so much that it can no longer shrink!
How else could he find this? The vast plateau, the vast mountains, spread all the people's hands?
The plateau mountains contain countless ores, and each mountain is enough for ten thousand people to search for a year! Besides, what if we haven’t searched the mountains yet, so we have to go into the rainforest to search?
The kind of place where there is no return...
"A reward! A reward! A huge reward!" The Governor slapped the table hard:
"Put out ore samples in the Governor's Palace and the Cathedral. If you can find this kind of ore, you will get 10 gold coins for a clue. One pound of ore will cost you 100 gold coins!"
"Um……"
Archmage Heins laughed sinisterly after receiving the news. On the bone robe, 18 ghosts flew out at the same time, flying wildly around him:
"How about selling them the information about the secret realm of elves?"
"Uranium Mines in the Northern Plateau Central of France", from "Foreign Metal Mines" Issue 7, 1990 | S. Walker Wang Shuying British "International Mining" magazine.
It is mentioned that in 1988, in the Belezana mining area, 2.37 million tons of ore rock was mined from the open-pit mining area, including 83,000 tons of ore (grade 2kg/t) and 125,000 tons of low-grade heap leaching ore (grade 0.6kg/t).
I guess it would be great if the Holy See can mine the surrounding mineral rocks.