Chapter 441: The Forsaken Realm of Gods (30) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

"Who are you!" The missing middle-aged miner had a stunned expression and a vigilant tone. He was holding an unfinished green fruit in his hand and a mining manuscript on his right.

There are iron filings on the manuscript.

The cave where he was hiding was very low, probably only wide enough for an adult to walk in it with a bent back. After Bai Jinshu split open the outer stone wall, he could see that the only way out of the cave was through a very narrow passage.

Measuring with the naked eye, it is estimated that the cave is just big enough for the middle-aged miner to pass through. It is not known whether he discovered the cave himself or dug out the path himself.

"We are..." Yun Guang paused, "We were sent by the Perlan Mine to look for you. It has been five or six days since you disappeared in the mine. Do you remember how you got here?"

The expression on the middle-aged miner's face was a mixture of confusion and vigilance.

"The mine sent someone to look for me..." He muttered quietly. His other hand grasped the manuscript on the side, his expression tense. "Proof your identities."

"Identity from the Perlan Mine?" Yun Guang took a step forward with a good temper, and pointed out with his hands that he had no weapons to show goodwill, and then said as gently as possible, "When we arrived at the Perlan Mine, there were no people in the mine. The mine was closed, and all the miners had temporarily returned to their homes. What kind of identity do you want?"

The middle-aged miner obviously hadn't figured out what kind of identification he would give. He stood there for a few seconds, looking a little confused: "What kind of identification can you show me?"

The exploration team members looked at each other.

"Is the Adventurer's Guild emblem okay?" Hector glanced at his teacher and asked in a low voice, "We are all registered adventurers of the Adventurer's Guild."

Middle-aged miner: "Uh... ok."

His eyes looked to the side uncontrollably, and when he met the dark blue flame that didn't look like an eye, he felt like he was electrocuted and left.

He has been trapped here for several days, and of course he can't wait for someone to come and rescue him.

But the person at the head... is he a human? He doesn't look like an ordinary person.

The Perrin Mine is located in a remote area, and there are few adventurers coming and going. Although he has never seen any adventurers, this kind of attire... doesn't look like an adventurer's, right?

Under the gaze of such a pair of eyes, even though Yun Guang explained in a gentle tone that they were there to rescue people and even called out his name, the middle-aged miner did not let down his guard.

"Hector, show him the emblem," Yun Guang nodded and continued to the middle-aged miner, "You have been missing for five or six days. The person in charge of the Perrin Mine found the Adventurer's Guild and issued a commission. We accepted the commission and came to find you."

Of course, this is not the case, but to explain that a freight driver in the Perrin Mine once knew a spellcaster, and they were adventurers who happened to be passing by and came in to help, it is hard to believe that there is no Adventurer's Guild issuing a commission.

Anyway, for such a small matter, I just need to mention it to Enoch's creditors after leaving Alterac. It's good enough that none of the missing miners in the Perrin Mine died. It doesn't really matter who rescued them or whether the person who rescued them came for a commission.

For these natives, adventurers are a popular errand running profession on the continent, and the Adventurer's Guild is a highly credible organization. When mentioning the Adventurer's Guild, the middle-aged miner looked a little relieved.

"This is our guild emblem." Hector flipped through it for a long time and found the emblem of his own adventurer's guild. "Um... do you recognize this?"

The middle-aged miner's co-workers said that he rarely left the town and might not have come into contact with adventurers.

"I know him... I know him," the middle-aged miner looked at the emblem in his hand. He didn't know if he really knew him or not. Anyway, his nervousness faded a lot. "You were sent by the Adventurer's Guild to save me."

"Yes," Yun Guang nodded, "You can leave Alterac now if you follow us, but we want to ask you a few questions before you leave. Do you remember how you entered Alterac?"

"Alterac?" The middle-aged miner looked at him in confusion. "Where is this? I am from Perran..."

"Alterac is where you are now," Zhao Yinglai yawned, "You don't know where you have strayed into, do you? This is the fairy kingdom of Alterac. You fell into this place from a mine. Here, that one."

She pointed at the elemental spirit that was controlled in the air by Bai Jinshu and said, "That's the fairy."

"But that one isn't a fairy..." Zhao Yinglai muttered in a low voice, and corrected, "To be precise, that one is an elemental spirit that looks exactly like a fairy."

"Fairy?!" The middle-aged miner didn't hear what she said next. "This, this is a fairy? Are you going to kill it?"

"I don't think it's necessary to kill him..." Zhao Yinglai scratched his head, "But do you know where this goblin came from?"

How come elemental elves also appeared in the mine of Perrin Mine? It doesn't sound like a surprise.

Middle-aged miner: "No, I don't know..."

"This isn't some bad guy," he looked a little scared, but he added hastily, "If it weren't for this little flying guy... the goblin, I would have starved to death long ago."

"Hmm..." Yun Guang pondered for a moment, "Can we talk while walking? You said you would starve to death without the goblin, it's because this goblin has been providing you with food, right?"

Xu Zichen understood and helped the middle-aged miner up. The miner was a little worried about the "goblin" who was captured by the strangely dressed adventurer, but soon his attention was attracted by Yun Guang's question.

"Dermis," Guan Hongyan called softly, a few steps behind, "Is there something wrong with the elemental spirits in the Perrin Mine?"

In just a few days, we found this thing in two mines. Is there any problem?

"What are you asking about?" Bai Jinshu pinched the elemental spirit in the air and glanced at her with his eyes emitting a faint blue light. "Are you asking about the elemental spirit or the mine?"

The elemental spirit was held in his hand and could not move.

"Ask all?" Guan Hongyan asked softly, "But can elemental spirits speak?"

The one last time seemed to only be able to chirp?

"No," Bai Jinshu answered quickly, "It has never been in contact with humans, so of course it doesn't know how humans talk."

Just like human babies, these creatures made up of elements cannot speak when they are born; they also need to learn.

Unlike the elemental elf in the small mountain village last time, which had lived with humans for at least several months, the one in his hand probably had hardly seen humans and could not understand human language, otherwise it would not have listened to them for so long without any response.

However, looking at its current appearance, Bai Jinshu guessed that if it could understand anything, it could probably understand the fairy language.

"Is there anything wrong with it?" Guan Hongyan asked curiously.

"No," Bai Jinshu looked at the elemental spirit and used more precise words, "It seems that there is none at the moment."

"Elemental elves tend to form in places with abundant magic power," he gestured to Guan Hongyan to look around. "This is the fairy kingdom. It's normal for elemental elves to appear here. The magic power in the fairy realm is abundant."

If there is Alterac under the Perrin Mine, then it is normal for elemental elves to appear in the mine.

"And I roughly know how that miner got in by mistake." Bai Jinshu looked at the elemental elves who didn't know what they were talking about, and then looked at the middle-aged miner in the distance, "Do you remember the large space that was vacated in the mine before?"

"Yeah...I remember." Guan Hongyan nodded.

"This is how elemental elves are formed," Bai Jinshu tapped on the wings of the elemental elf with his fingertips. The next second, the elemental elf, which was a "fairy" just now, suddenly turned into a dark brown metal mass.

Enoch next to him was startled.

Bai Jin said: "This is its original form."

The elemental spirit seemed to be startled by the change in its form. The dark brown metal mass floating in the air began to wriggle up and down, trying to turn back into a fairy, but it was unable to move because it was being suppressed by the necromancer's spell.

"When the people in that mountain village first caught the gold elemental spirit, they opened the basket and found a piece of iron," Hector said, "So the essence of this elemental spirit is the element to which they belong?"

"Yes," Bai Jinshu nodded, "Elemental spirits are the condensation of their elements. The entity condensed into an elemental spirit is often several times the size of the elemental spirit itself. When the gold element becomes a entity, a cavity will be formed in the original mine."

The people in the mountain village first discovered the problem and found a mine in the mine.

"So Alterac and Perrin Mines were connected because the elemental spirits in Perrin Mines suddenly took shape, causing the last section of the distance between the abandoned mine and Alterac to be directly connected," Guan Hongyan thought as she sorted out the information. "Then the miners mistakenly entered this section of the old mine and entered Perrin Mines?"

At the same time, the goblins who discovered this loophole began to play pranks on humans, so they intentionally led the miners who came to look for people to enter here by mistake, and then pretended to be them to leave the mine, causing panic in the Perrin Mine.

Things seem to have been almost restored here.

"But... I still feel something is wrong," Guan Hongyan frowned, "Why did this elemental spirit appear at this time instead of earlier? And why did the first miner who strayed into this place suddenly walk towards an abandoned mine..."

"The one behind, the miner who just disappeared said that he heard a sound deep in the mine on the day he disappeared," Xu Zichen walked over from the front, "He thought someone was still inside and didn't come out, so he planned to go back to look for them, but he didn't expect to run into an elemental spirit and was brought in here."

When the first miner came in, he had not attracted the attention of the goblins. He knew very well that he might have entered some incredible place and could not leave in a short time, so he could only find a place to hide.

What happened next was that the elemental elves lived with the fairies, thinking they were fairies too. Fairies had trading relationships with many mages, and the apprentices who came to get magic materials were rare humans in Alterac. The elemental elves discovered through observation that the people they brought in seemed to be the same species as these humans.

It was probably the fairies who told humans to eat the fruit.

The passage from the Perrin Mines to Alterac is now sealed by goblin spells. Without their lure or someone breaking the spell, the entrance to the passage would be nothing more than a stone wall in the eyes of ordinary people.

Everyone came out of Alterac, and Bai Jinshu reinforced the spell barrier, temporarily turning it into a closed state that neither humans nor fairies could pass through.

"Dermis," Yun Guang left the middle-aged miner with the others and came over to discuss with him in a low voice, "What the miner said was probably true. We took turns asking him about it, and the only thing he was vague about was that he forgot how he got to Alterac from the mine. According to him, when he wanted to find a way back, he didn't know how to get back."

"Are there any traces of magic on him?"

Yun Guang came to rule out whether there were other human factors behind the miners' disappearance.

"It's hard to see clearly," Bai Jinshu squinted his eyes and looked ahead, "These miners have been working in the Perrin Mine for a long time, and their bodies are covered with the magic of the magic sand."

To put it simply, even if a person is a Muggle, if he comes into contact with magical materials for a long time, he will be pickled.

"But if it's magic," he glanced around again, "then it's unclear what he's doing this for."

Is there anything special about this time?

Are there other secrets in the Perrin Mines besides Alterac and the Grand Mage?

More information will be provided later.

Everyone took the mine cart to the outside of the mine again.

Unlike Alterac where it is always daytime, the moon is high in the sky outside. There are still few people in the Perrin Mine late at night, but there are orange and yellow lights flashing in several small houses not far away.

Following their footsteps, several middle-aged men and women who looked like management came out of the small house. The miners who were rescued by everyone were obviously acquainted with them. A little red-haired boy ran out of the house and threw himself into his arms.

"His son," Zhao Yinglai explained briefly, "After we brought the missing miners out, the mine notified his family, and then his son and his brothers and sisters have been waiting here."

With so many employees disappearing one after another, the fact that no one was injured or killed in the end is of course the best outcome.

The management of the Perrin Mine was busy settling the returning miners and the elemental elf that everyone brought out, and they could not take care of the adventurers for a while. In the end, Enoch's creditor got some keys from the old gatekeeper, so that everyone would at least have nowhere to go tonight.

I don't know if it was the arrangement of the Grand Mage or if it was just the way it was here, but the entire Perrin Mine was basically filled with ordinary people who had never learned magic. There were a few adventurers in their early years, but they had no adventuring experience. After handling a few commissions with their friends, they were frightened by the dangerous and chaotic life of adventurers and returned to the town to be miners again.

None of these people really knew what an elemental spirit was, and at first they even planned to lock it up in an iron cage for dogs.

Bai Jinshu couldn't bear to watch this and said speechlessly, "You use a metal cage to imprison the gold elemental spirit that has an absolute affinity for gold?"

"What should we do then?" The guy in charge of looking after this thing had a clear and stupid face.

"The simpler way is to make a fire circle and put it in the middle," Bai Jinshu raised his chin, "but an ordinary fire circle should not be able to trap the Golden Yuan Essence."

Although it remains to be seen whether this little thing can run away.

"I'll do it, I'll do it!" The spell mage actively cast a few spells on the iron cage, "That's it!"

"Boss!" After she finished casting the spell, she quickly turned around and looked at Bai Jinshu. It was obvious that she had come to him specifically to instruct him on how to imprison the Golden Essence. "Did you change Enoch into that state?"

Bai Jinshu:?

"What?" He didn't respond.

"The cat ears!" The spellcaster gestured above his head, "And the cat's tail!"

"Oh," Bai Jinshu remembered that there was such a thing, "What's wrong?"

"Boss, how did you do that?" The spell mage's eyes lit up, "Those cat ears and tail are not alchemical items pinned on the clip!"

It actually grows on the body!

"It's not attached to the body," Bai Jinshu explained, "It can only last for a month."

Enoch himself is human, not a half-blood, this is just a small spell.

"A month is fine! I just thought it was fake so I pulled it, but I didn't expect Enoch to jump up directly," she blinked, "She turned into a cat girl out of thin air, big brother, can you teach me how to do it?"

If she could do this, why would she go to a cat girl cafe?

Bai Jinshu: ...

I sincerely felt sorry for Enoch for a second.

What does it mean to say "I thought it was fake so I pulled it, but I didn't expect Enoch to jump up directly."

Does Enoch owe you money too?

Otherwise, where would such a strong desire for revenge come from?

I couldn't even imagine what kind of harm would happen to the people around this spellcaster after he taught it.

"There's nothing to teach you." Bai Jinshu glanced at her calmly, "Why are you learning this?"

"I'll open a cat girl cafe after I learn it," the spell mage said confidently, "to compete with Cyril's cat girl cafe for business!"

Bai Jinshu:?

"Aren't you a loyal customer of that cat girl cafe?" He looked the spell mage up and down.

"You're a bastard if you don't want to make money!" The spell wizard waved his hand. "Cat girl cafes are obviously a blue ocean market. Now only Cyril has one. When I learn this spell, I will open cat girl cafes all over the continent! Make it a chain store! Let people all over the continent drink coffee served by cat girls in maid costumes!"

"Boss, do you want to invest in our technology?" She said generously, "I'll give you 30% of the shares."

Bai Jin said: “60%.”

"Isn't this too much?" The spell mage said with a pained heart, "When we open a coffee shop, the rent, utilities, and labor costs will be very high. 60% is too much, how about 40%?"

"50%," Bai Jinshu bargained, "Without my spell, you can't even open a store, and you can save on labor costs."

"How to save?" The spell mage was at a loss.

"Cat girl," Bai Jinshu glanced in the direction of Enoch, "We can tie her up on the way."

Spell Mage: "Tie on the road?"

Bai Jinshu: "Don't you have any enemies? Your enemies don't want their acquaintances to know that they have turned into catgirls and are wearing maid outfits, right?"

The expression on the face of the spell mage gradually became thoughtful: "I understand, sir, you are indeed very wise! But 50% is still a little high..."

She rubbed her hands together: "How about 45%?"

"I can give you 40%," Bai Jinshu raised his eyes, "but I have other requirements. The store needs to be decorated according to my requirements."

"What kind of decoration is this?" The spell mage said generously, "Boss, tell me!"

"The commemorative photos of my partner and I," the necromancer in front of her said, "will be spread all over the continent as the cafe expands."

*

When they woke up the next morning, everyone found that Delmis and his partner, who always got up the latest, had already gotten up early and sat in the seats outside, and the spellcaster was sitting next to them.

"Change! Change!" The spell wizard muttered to himself and gestured towards the top of his head.

"No..." She collapsed on the table, "I've been trying for a whole night, and it still doesn't work."

"Forget it, let me tell you about my plan first. My initial plan is to open a store in Cyril City and then compete with them on price." The spell mage lay on the table for a few minutes, then stood up and took out a parchment roll and talked freely. "I'll open it across from their store. There will be a big sale in the first week. Get a membership card and recharge 1,000 plus 500. The membership price is 20% off the original price."

"I'm fine with anything," Dermis said coldly as he sat on the table, "as long as you spread the photos across the continent."

"What photos?" Enoch came closer cautiously, "What are you talking about?"

Isn't this his photo?

"This is a photo of my partner and his golden wedding anniversary partner," the spell mage said solemnly, "Do you have anything else to do in the Perrin Mine? If not, I'm going to Cyril with my partner to investigate the market."

"Who is your partner?" Guan Hongyan looked confused.

"Dermis," the spellcaster pointed across from her, "can't you see? We are discussing cooperation."

Guan Hongyan: ...You can tell that she is just curious about what kind of cooperation they are discussing.

It was changed for me and it was a membership card.

Delmis: "It's 21 days until my partner and I's 523rd wedding anniversary. I taught her a spell and she's responsible for spreading our commemorative photos across the continent."

"Oh...oh, I see." Guan Hongyan twitched her lips. "That's fine. You guys can discuss it."

The consequence of disturbing the love-brain show of affection is that she will become the object of the show of affection, so she chooses to escape quickly.

"Oh, by the way," Guan Hongyan was about to leave when she suddenly remembered something, "Did they tell you what they found out yesterday?"

"What did you find out?" Bai Jinshu turned his head.

Last night he just taught the spell master how to use this spell.

"It's the transportation route of the magic sand," Guan Hongyan came over to look at the spell mage who was still muttering "change for me" and continued in a low voice, "Changfen and the others checked and found that after the Perrin Mine was bought, the transportation route of the magic sand has increased instead of decreased, and the transportation track is almost all over the continent."

"But what's strange is that no one knows what the magic sand is used for."

"Yun Guang wants to check it out," she whispered, "what do you think?"

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Wherever the cat girl cafe goes, there will be a wedding photo of Delmis (x)

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