Chapter 126 Unexpected Harvest
Normally, after hunters anesthetize and capture a monster, they need to find a way to transport the monster out of the hunting ground.
This process is undoubtedly very troublesome, which is the main reason why hunting monsters is obviously more profitable, but not many hunters are willing to do so.
but!
This time they had a "backstage". In order to see her lovely ornamental fish as soon as possible, the third princess actually sent a private team to wait near the hunter's camp.
Their only role or responsibility is to safely and quickly deliver the ornamental fish to the fish pond of the third princess after the hunter captures the lava dragon.
Anhil left the scorching cave to send out the signal flare, and the pork chop, who didn't want his meat pad to be cooked, also ran out. Only Gordon, who seemed to have discovered something, walked around the rock wall of the narrow cave.
After sending out the signal flare, Anhil returned to the scorching cave without seeing the Gordons. Seeing the former lying on the rock wall and stroking something, he couldn't help but said: "Why are you still here? Go out, the transport team is coming. It won’t be long before he comes.”
Gordon did not reply to Ancier's words, but said to himself: "Come here and have a look, hey, Ancier, do you think the patterns on the cave wall look like brick cracks?"
"Um?"
Anhil came over, observed the formation carefully, nodded his chin and said: "It's too neat. It really doesn't look like a naturally formed pattern. It should be a relic that is not marked on the map."
“Why don’t we come and dig for a while?” Gordon, who has been a miner for more than two months, excitedly clasped his hands together.
Anhil glanced at him helplessly, "You can dig, you can dig. The question is, do you have a pickaxe?"
"certainly!"
Then, under Ancier's speechless gaze, Gordon took out a portable iron pickaxe from his bag.
Anhil, whose bag was full of ammunition and had no room for a pickaxe, shrugged his shoulders and said, "Don't worry about digging, I'll go outside to help you guard." Then he walked out of the scorching cave.
With only two words left in his mind: "Ruins! Protect the stone!" Gordon rounded his arms and started digging with a pickaxe.
The rock wall in the Searing Cave, or the remnant wall of the ruins, was quite hard. It took Gordon a lot of effort to finally dig out a crack more than one meter long.
Looking inside, it seems that something is buried inside.
Gordon suddenly became more energetic, swinging the pickaxe in his hand faster and faster, and the cracks continued to expand.
More than half an hour later, Gordon struggled to pull out a metal block that was nearly 200 centimeters long and 20 to 30 centimeters wide, and was extremely rusty.
This is the first time that Gordon has dug something like this in a volcano. Although he doesn't know what its use is, he still puts the rust aside and prepares to take it away later.
“Dang! Dang!” Keep digging.
Perhaps because this ruins has not been infected by magma and is not fused with metal minerals like other ruins veins, Gordon did not see any metal ores after digging for a long time.
Apart from the initial large piece of rusty iron, there were only countless stones.
But Gordon has no intention of giving up. Anyway, the transportation team hasn’t arrived yet, so he will continue digging!
Another half an hour has passed.
When Ancil returned to the Searing Cave again and told Gordon that the transport team had arrived and the lava dragon was loaded into the vehicle and was ready to leave, Gordon swung the pickaxe one last time.
"Ding!"
With a crisp sound, a heavily weathered metal block with a shimmering luster fell to the ground.
“Damn it, did you really find a protective stone?!”
The journey of escorting the convoy back to the village was uneventful.
After returning to Naguli Village, Gordon asked Ancil to go to the assembly hall to pay the task and collect the reward. He immediately hugged the large piece of rusty iron and the only rough stone he dug. Run to the workshop to find the village chief.
Well, it actually has nothing to do with intuition. Gordon, who has been digging for more than two months, can already judge the quality of the finished stone from the quality of the original stone.
This rough stone guard stone is obviously of very fine quality.
When Gordon came to the workshop, the Tulong village chief was taking a nap.
After being woken up by the former, the old man muttered and opened his eyes, and then his eyes immediately fell on the large and heavy piece of rust in Gordon's hand.
“Hey, are you lucky for such a big piece of rust, little brother Gordon?”
"Huh?" Gordon didn't expect that the village elder would pay attention to this first. "What's the point of this thing?"
“You must have discovered some ruins, right?” The Tulong village chief shook his crescent-shaped beard and said, “If some people are lucky enough to encounter ruins, they may have the opportunity to dig out this kind of metal rust.
This is a certain alloy left over from ancient civilization. No one knows their original use. It may be some kind of special prop or some kind of weapon. "
“Alloy? Can it be smelted into metal ingots like iron ore?” Gordon asked curiously.
“No, no, no, we don’t have the technology to smelt it, no matter how high the temperature is, the only way to process it is to polish it.” The Tulong village chief took the plate-shaped rust block, patted it, and continued:
“If it’s a large piece of rust, we can make it into a giant hammer; if it’s a rod-shaped piece of rust, we can polish it into a long spear; if it’s a plate-shaped piece of rust, we can polish it into a big sword!
Your piece is surprisingly complete, quite rare. "
Hearing that the thing in front of him could be made into a big sword, Gordon also became excited, "Big sword? What big sword? Is it more powerful? Is it more powerful than my Explosive Knife Kai?!"
The Tulong Village Chief shook his beard and said, "Uh, little brother Gordon, don't be impatient. This plate-shaped rust block is rubbed off the outer layer of rust stains, and then the hilt is attached to it, which is the 'Big Sword of Corruption'. This big sword The sword is not very good, and it is only slightly better than the most basic 'giant sword' derived from the Iron Sword."
ˆ Gordon: "."
"Use a large amount of earth crystals as sharpening stones. After fine polishing, you can upgrade it to a 'Rusty Great Sword'. This great sword is still not very good, and it is not as good as your original explosive knife."
ˆ Gordon: "."
"But!" the Tulong tribe village chief slapped the rust block and said loudly: "After the rusty sword is strengthened again, it will be completely transformed and become a very good sword. Its performance is far superior to the explosive knife you are currently using. Change it!"
“Oh oh oh!” Gordon immediately perked up after hearing this, “What’s the name of that big sword?”
“Ancient Blade!”
“It sounds awesome!”
“Well, in terms of horizontal comparison, the Ancient Blade is a weapon close to the upper level.”
“So, what materials are needed to strengthen the Rusty Greatsword into the Ancient Blade?” Gordon asked excitedly, and he was ready to dive into the hunting ground.
“First there are forty portions of crystallized earth.”
Gordon was shocked by the number "forty copies", but he didn't care much about it. It was just the most basic ore, and he could quickly collect it by staying in the volcano for a few more days.
“Another copy of the ‘blood of the ancient dragon’ will be enough.”
Gordon blinked and turned his ear towards the village elder again, "I think I heard wrong, what's blood?"
“The blood of the ancient dragon.”
The light in Gordon's eyes disappeared, and he repeated the confirmation dryly, "Blood of the ancient dragon? Literally, blood of the ancient dragon?"
“Hmm.” The Tulong village chief gestured, “Just give me a portion as big as the medicine bottle.”
ˆ Gordon: "."
p.s. You still can’t waste a lot of chapters digging for protective stones—the protagonist will always have a halo of luck, right?
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