Chapter 1319 - Exploitation (1/2)

“Sir Merlin, which path should we take now? The left one or the right one? The path ahead of us seems to be slanted upwards. Also, I can feel the flowing wind. It may be leading aboveground.”

Lin Yun didn’t say anything. He simply returned to the intersection of the three paths. An earth law rune appeared in his hand. Immediately, Lin Yun’s hand became the color of soil, as if it were made of mud. He then stuck his hand to the floor. After that, ripples spread out on the floor, and Lin Yun gradually inserted his hand into it.

A few seconds later, Lin Yun plucked his hand from the floor, and walked 10 meters away. He then gently stepped on the floor. Immediately, the earth shivered, and a gigantic hole appeared. Looking down through the hole, there was another underground cavern. Here, the rocks were thinnest. After breaking the rocky wall, the cavern down below was exposed.

“Let’s go. We’ll go from here further downwards.”

Myers looked at Lin Yun in shock and suspicion.

Mafa Merlin seemed to know this place very well. He discovered another enormous underground cavern, and opened a channel towards it. Furthermore, he didn’t destroy the structure of this place at all when he opened the channel. He had definitely studied this place.

However, he didn’t seem to be familiar with this cavern on the way here. His subordinates didn’t seem to have come to this place before, either. Then how did he know?

Had he studied this plane so deeply? What a horrifying man…

Myers was shocked and suspicious, but he didn’t show anything on his face. Lin Yun led his team, and jumped into the hole that was only three meters in diameter. Myers and his people then followed.

Their purpose in exploring this cavern was to explore the ores of this place. No place was more suitable for that purpose than a cavern that led to the underground world.

They moved further down, but didn’t feel suffocated at all. The air that was mixed with mana was still flowing in this place.

Moving more deeply, everybody was shocked to see the crystals that were embedded on the walls. Those crystals were glimmering softly, enshrouded in abundant mana. On the floor and above their heads, many crystals were protruding from the rocks too. The moment they entered this place, they found that the aura of mana was more abundant than before.

Myers was the fastest. As a mage who had absorbed a crystal monster’s bloodline, he was most sensitive to crystals. The moment he landed, he emerged next to a blue crystal that was half exposed on the ground.

“Oh my God. Mana stones! Mana stones whose purity is horrifying! How can there be such pure mana stones? That’s theoretically impossible! How can natural mana stones be so pure? Also, there are so many of them here…”

Myers was losing his cool. This cavern was more than 2,000 meters wide and 300 meters tall. There were a thousand visible mana stones. The smallest of them was the size of a fist, and the biggest was half a meter tall. Also, they were just the parts that were exposed to the air. Their actual sizes were probably twice as big. Furthermore, there might be even more such mana stones inside the walls.

Mana stones had a lot of usages. They could be applied to large alchemy machines, large mana reactors, Mana Crystal Cannons, magic tools that didn’t require mana input, and even staffs.

Also, the purer a mana stone was, the more useful it would be. They were much more precious than the mana crystals in beasts’ bodies. Most mana crystals were focused on one kind of element, and their power wasn’t pure. Only in case of the special beasts whose mana crystals had purely one type of magic power were the mana crystals valuable.

Mana stones, by comparison, mostly contained pure mana, and could be applied to a much wider range than the mana crystals from beasts’ bodies. The pure mana stones could even be directly absorbed by mages to help with mana replenishment and meditation. They were very useful.

The mana stones here were of a horrifyingly high purity. If they were dug out, they would be much more useful than purple gold in Noscent. They could be exchanged for anything that one wanted.

Lin Yun looked at them coldly, and didn’t say anything.

According to history records, the hole he opened wouldn’t be discovered by accident until after the plane was developed for decades. Down from there, the underground cavern would be much more spacious. The channels that looked like a maze almost stretched to every corner of the plane, just like a natural channel.

Also, the items here weren’t mana stones, but high-purity magic crystals like those in the Demiplane. They were basically the same, except that the magic crystals here were of a lower quality.

As for mana stones…

Hehe. They were not remarkable at all. There were only mana stones in Noscent. Very few magic crystals had ever been discovered. Even the largest mother lode of mana stones might not contain many magic crystals, which were always considered high-purity mana stones.

People like Myers certainly couldn’t tell the difference…

The reactors in magic battleships mostly consumed magic crystals as fuel. All the mother lodes in this place could meet the magic battleships’ demand.

Lin Yun had come to this plane partly for the materials here. More importantly, it was because there were barely any other mother lodes in this place. All the underground mother lodes contained magic crystals and similar ores.

Those were all the fuel that the magic battleships required. When the research on magic battleships went deeper, and when a fleet of magic battleships was established, then a lot more magic crystals would be needed. It would be a waste to use the purest magic crystals in his Demiplane as fuel for the magic battleships. Also, there weren’t enough of them.

Lin Yun looked at the magic crystals calmly, partly because he had already been aware of their existence, and partly because the number of the magic crystals here was too low. Even the biggest of them was only half a meter tall. Most were only the size of fists. This small cave of crystals was not worth mentioning at all…

“What a resourceful plane. There are such big high-purity mana stones. Even the smallest of them is the size of a fist. Look at that one. It’s half a meter tall. Oh no, it’s almost one meter…”

Myers personally dug out the magic crystal that was half a meter tall. He looked at the magic crystal, which was emitting blue light, as if it were an ultimate treasure.

He examined it many times, and finally collected this biggest magic crystal with a smile. After he took it away, he finally remembered something, and looked at Lin Yun awkwardly.

“Sir Merlin, well, this mana stone is very important to me. The mana it contains is very pure and suitable for me. I’ll just take it away. Sir Merlin, there are so many more mana stones. Just take whatever you need…”

After picking up the biggest magic crystal, Myers seemed to have become a lot more generous.

Lin Yun remained calm. He didn’t even bother to scold Myers, who was already so excited with a half-meter-tall magic crystal. If the man saw a pure magic crystal that was dozens of meters tall, he probably would explode because of excitement.

“Alright, Sir Myers, just keep it if you like it. The rest of you, feel free to collect the magic crystals here if you like them. Just don’t destroy the structure of the cavern.

“Xiuban, Reina, if you like the stones, you may dig them too.”

Hearing what Lin Yun said, Myers’ subordinates couldn’t hold any longer. Sunny and Sheldon, who had always been angry with Lin Yun’s team, put their grudge aside, and excavated the magic crystals.

Xiuban grinned in disdain.

What a bunch of idiots. Xiuban had seen better things. In Sir Merlin’s Demiplane, even the best magic stones were just dropped in the lake. Nobody ever bothered to take them. Would Xiuban ever pick up such garbage? Look at those bumpkins. Were they mining with magic?