Chapter 353 Unexpected Gains (Two chapters in one)

Ryan waved at the bear monster priest wearing bright feathers and said, "Your name is..."

"Respected King, my name is Ulusen, and I am responsible for the tribe's sacrificial work." When the bear monster priest saw Ryan calling him, his face lit up, and he quickly stepped forward and bowed deeply.

Ryan looked up and down at the white-haired bear monster, and saw that the other party was about 1.8 meters tall, which was very short compared to the height of other bear monsters of 2.34 meters.

But the many white-haired bear monsters present were vaguely led by it. It turned out to be a priest of the bear monsters, no wonder.

In terms of strength, it is roughly the strength of a second-level liquefied wizard, which is quite strong.

Considering that he will not stay in the ice field for a long time in the future, he still has to rely on Ulusen in front of him to control the white-haired bear monster tribe, so Ryan plans to issue a few orders to see the other party's execution and efficiency.

"Very good, Urusen, you arrange for someone to take the ice bucket and help me collect the blood of Corasius." Ryan issued the first order to the bear monster priest who had just surrendered.

"As you command, my king." Urusen bowed again and withdrew.

Under Urusen's command, these white-haired bear monsters began to take the newly dug ice buckets and place them under the wound of the proto-dragon to collect blood. Some of them shoveled up the blood that had already dripped on the ice surface and collected it.

Seeing this scene, Ryan nodded slightly.

Obviously, the intelligence of ordinary bear monsters is only equivalent to that of a seven or eight-year-old child, but the intelligence of this bear monster priest is far more than that.

This is a good thing, because it means that the other party can understand his more complicated orders.

Seeing that Ryan seemed to be intent on dealing with the body of the Proto-Dragon, the Chimera Knight Luther beside him couldn't help but say with envy:

"Sir Ryan, the Proto-Dragon Corahus is particularly large. You can keep its head well. Perhaps you can put it on the wall of the banquet hall. That will be the best proof of your strength!"

"Good suggestion." Ryan said with a smile.

At this time, the beautiful woman Welty blushed slightly, quickly glanced at Ryan's lower body, and said:

"Sir Ryan, are you going to deal with the body of the Proto-Dragon? The elasticity of dragon skin is very good. Perhaps you can consider making a set of inner armor with dragon skin."

"Good elasticity? Inner armor?"

Ryan naturally noticed the beautiful woman's sneak glance at him just now. After hearing what she said, he immediately understood what Welty meant and nodded.

After all, the shape of pleated shorts is too niche, and leather shorts will be slightly better.

At this time, Anna stepped forward and handed Ryan a new set of white wizard robes, which made Ryan look decent again.

"Sir Ryan, do you have any specific plans for the use of dragon corpses?" Batalov, the dean of Winterhold College, walked up slowly and asked with a smile.

"Well, to be honest, I don't have any plans other than dragon blood. Dean Batalov, do you have any suggestions?" Ryan thought about it and didn't hide anything.

His current combat power, especially after transforming into the form of a dragon general, is comparable to the peak of legend, but when it comes to knowledge, compared with Batalov, a third-level crystal wizard who has lived for more than a hundred years, he is far inferior.

"Although the ancestor dragon is not as good as the real dragon, it is also full of treasures. Dragon skin can also be used to make top-level leather armor, and dragon tendons are the best bowstring materials for bows and arrows." Batalov introduced with a smile.

"In addition, I wonder if Sir Ryan has heard of the Dragon Soul Potion?"

"Dragon Soul Potion? Dean Batalov, are you talking about the ancient potion that can greatly enhance mental power? Isn't it said that the formula has been lost?" Luther suddenly opened his eyes and said in surprise.

"Haha, Lord Luther is indeed well-informed. That's right, it's the Ancient Dragon Soul Mixture. I dare say that this ancient mixture formula is very likely not even in the Royal Pharmacist Association."

"A few years ago, I also happened to find a recipe for the Dragon Soul Mixture during an exploration of the ruins." Batalov stroked his white beard and smiled when he talked about the Dragon Soul Mixture formula.

"It has only one effect, which is to greatly enhance mental power. It has a strong effect on even the third-level crystallized wizards." Batalov began to describe the Ancient Dragon Soul Mixture in detail.

After a brief description, Ryan learned that

this Dragon Soul Mixture does not require a real dragon soul, but a dragon's brain. Perhaps it is more appropriate to call it Dragon Brain Mixture.

Ryan was naturally very interested in the ancient mixture that can greatly enhance mental power.

Especially when he heard that it has a strong effect on the second-level liquefied wizards and even the third-level crystallized wizards, his eyes lit up.

One of the prerequisites for him to change his job to 'Dragon Vein Wizard' is mental strength. He needs to reach the third level of crystallized wizard as soon as possible. If he has this so-called ancient dragon soul potion, the speed of improvement will surely be even faster.

"However, in addition to the most important raw material of dragon brain, other rare raw materials such as purple lotus, nightmare vine, lava heart, etc. are also needed. At present, the Winterhold College is still collecting them." "

So, Mr. Ryan, I have an idea. If you agree, why don't we work together to make the ancient dragon soul potion. According to the brain capacity of the proto-dragon, at least five copies of the ancient dragon soul potion can be made."

Batalov looked at Ryan and expressed his thoughts.

"By the way, the ancient dragon soul potion is only best for the first time a person takes it, and the effect will be greatly reduced afterwards." Batalov seemed to have thought of something and added in time.

Ryan thought for a moment and agreed, nodding his head and saying, "Of course, I'll trouble Dean Batalov to make the Ancient Dragon Soul Potion."

First of all, he didn't have the formula for the Ancient Dragon Soul Potion, so he couldn't make it himself.

Secondly, collecting other raw materials was also a time-consuming and laborious task.

In fact, if he hadn't killed the Proto-Dragon Corasius in time this time, avoiding the huge casualties of Winterhold College, I'm afraid that the Dean of Winterhold College, Batalov, would not have revealed that he had the formula for the Ancient Dragon Soul Potion.

"Don't worry, Lord Ryan, I will personally take charge of this matter. After all, I also need the Ancient Dragon Soul Potion. Let's try to see if I can take another step forward." Batalov said with a smile on his face.

"Dean, you have a chance now," said the beautiful woman Welty beside him, who reacted instantly and said in surprise.

"I have some insights, but it is still difficult to break through." Batalov nodded and smiled.

"Great!" The senior executives of Winterhold College congratulated one after another.

"Congratulations, Dean Batalov!" Ryan also smiled and congratulated.

A third-level crystallized wizard, if he takes another step forward, will be a fourth-level wizard.

That is almost equivalent to the strength of the Imperial Dragon Knight, an epic combat force, but the number is extremely rare.

He had heard Admiral Edward accidentally mention it in advance, and it seemed that more than 70% of the guardians of the entire Dragun Empire were dragon knights, and the others were only fourth-level wizards.

"Lord Ryan, compared with you, it's not worth mentioning." Batalov waved his hand and smiled bitterly.

"I heard from Melita that you are only about 20 years old. You may not know that it took me 159 years to get from being a wizard apprentice to now."

"But even so, in the history of Winterhold College, it is already a very fast promotion speed."

"Dean Batalov, you are too kind." Ryan didn't know what to say for a moment.

Indeed, if compared with him, Batalov's current combat power is a little bit short of the legendary peak, which may cause him some trouble, but he will never be his opponent after he transforms into a dragon general.

In addition, Ryan also roughly knew the difficulty of wizard promotion before, and the later it is, the more difficult it is.

But 159 years is still fast, which is really beyond his expectations.

It can be seen that it is not easy for a wizard to improve all the way to the level where he has the opportunity to impact the fourth-level dawn wizard.

Fortunately, he has a system to support him, which will greatly shorten the promotion time.

At this time, Melita suddenly stepped forward, pointed at the dragon corpse being processed, and said solemnly: "Master Ryan, mentor, I think you two need to come and take a look."

Hmm?

Out of curiosity, Ryan immediately followed Melita with Batalov and others to the belly of the proto-dragon, only to see that the other party's stomach had been cut open, and there were scattered huge undigested bones in the stomach.

"What is this?" Ryan was a little puzzled for a while.

"Master Ryan, after identification by several wizards in our academy, this is the bone of the proto-dragon." Melita said in

a deep voice. "Hmm?" Ryan raised his eyebrows.

He instantly understood what Melita meant.

"You mean, Corahus may have swallowed one of his kind?" Ryan looked at Melita.

"Yes!"

Ryan waved to the bear monster priest who was commanding other white-haired bear monsters not far away, and saw Urusen running over quickly, bowing respectfully and saying: "Great king, please give me your orders."

"Urusen, did you know that Colasius had swallowed the same kind of proto-dragon before?"

"This... It's true. Lord Diam was swallowed by Lord Colasius before." Urusen didn't hesitate and told the whole truth. After all, Colasius is dead now, there is nothing to hide.

Hearing the answer of the bear monster priest Urusen, everyone couldn't help but exclaim.

"What a cruel guy. If other dragons knew about it, Colasius would definitely be hunted down and killed by the dragons." Welty on the side sighed.

"Yes, he is both cruel and cunning. I really don't know how such a cunning guy can appear among the proto-dragons." Batalov couldn't help shaking his head and sighed.

You know, most proto-dragons are tyrannical, but their intelligence is not high.

In this regard, the Proto-Dragon is far inferior to the Five-Colored Dragon of the Empire, and the gap is equivalent to the intelligence gap between an adult and a seven or eight-year-old child.

It seems that because of its weak intelligence, the Proto-Dragon can hardly cast witchcraft and can only fight by physical combat and dragon breath.

This also makes the Five-Colored Dragon look down on the Proto-Dragon, which is not fully evolved, and even once wanted to classify the Proto-Dragon as a dragon beast.

Since it was also the first time for Ryan to enter a dragon's lair, after he handed over the task of handling the corpse, he took Anna, Lagre and others to wander around in the lair.

"Wow, Ryan, look, this large piece should be snow moss, right? This is very rare in the outside world." As a druid, Anna has a natural advantage in identifying herbs. She pointed to a corner of the glacier wall and shouted in surprise.

"Hey, why is it a little different." When Anna walked over quickly and squatted down to pick a plant, she frowned slightly and said.

"Miss Anna, if I'm not mistaken, this shouldn't be ordinary snow moss, but extremely rare and precious ambergris moss." Batalov, the dean of Winterhold College, came over and said with a smile after a careful inspection.

As a master of potions, he was even better at identifying herbs than Anna, a young druid.

"Oh, ambergris moss, it's too precious." Anna looked at the white herb in her hand that looked like an oyster mushroom, and her beautiful eyes were filled with shock.

Soon, everyone discovered that there were several kinds of herbs in the nest that had been mutated by the dragon's breath, all of which were extremely precious.

This made Ryan's smile more obvious.

Now, these things naturally belonged to him.

I don't know if it was because Cora Hughes had just revived, there was no legendary shiny dragon treasure in the nest, only some shiny knight armor, weapons and a few hundred gold coins.

Judging from the old shape of the armor, it seemed to be recent equipment.

Ryan naturally didn't like this thing.

"Huh? Ryan, what is that?" The barbarian girl Lagre pointed to the ground at the deepest part of the nest in front.

Ryan looked in the direction of Lagre, and saw that a piece of ground on the north side of the nest seemed to be shining with a faint golden light.

"This is such a big piece of dog-head gold (note: exposed block of bright gold, shaped like a dog's head)!" Luther seemed to recognize the origin at a glance and couldn't help but be surprised.

But then, he suddenly thought of something and quickly dug up the ground to check.

"Sure enough, there is a rich gold mine here!" Luther said excitedly.

Rich gold mine?

Ryan raised his eyebrows and couldn't help but quickly stepped forward to check.

When they heard that there was a gold mine, including Batalov, Welty, Anna and others gathered around.

"It is indeed a rich gold mine. The gold content of this gold mine exceeds 40%. I see that the gold content is about 60%." Batalov, a third-level crystal wizard, asserted after a careful inspection.

Everyone talked about it, and soon, they analyzed the situation in detail.

The word "rich" in front of the gold mine means that the gold content of this mine is far higher than that of ordinary gold mines.

Moreover, most of the gold veins here are exposed in the shallow surface, which is easy to dig. In addition, rich mines are often accompanied by some rare ores that are more precious than gold.

Hearing that Luther and Batalov were so sure, Ryan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he waved to the bear monster priest Urusen in the distance, saying:

"Urusen, there is a rich gold mine here, did you know about it before?"

"Uh, my king, I really didn't know that. For us, gold mines are not as practical as food." Urusen looked at the freshly unearthed dog-head gold on the ground with a confused look on his face, and said.

"Well, it's okay, you go and do your own thing." Ryan couldn't help but fall into thought.

Whether it is the knight's path or the wizard's path, in the process of improvement, a lot of resources are consumed.

In other words, only with money can you improve your strength with half the effort.

At this time, Luther seemed to have thought of something, shook his head, and sighed:

"Sir Ryan, what a pity! This place is located deep in the ice field. It is unlikely to let miners come here to mine. However, such a large piece of nugget gold can be taken away."

If this rich gold vein was in the Wind Tundra, he would let the family spend a huge amount of money to mine, but the location of this rich gold mine is too remote.

Not to mention the potential dangers on the ice field along the way, it is difficult to transport the miners' daily necessities.

And a nugget gold, even if it is as big as a washbasin, is not of much significance to Luther's level.

"Yes, it's a pity! Sir Ryan, not only mining, but also smelting here is impossible." Barotaf looked around the glacier walls and shook his head.

The temperature inside the glacier nest is extremely low. If you want to set up a furnace directly for smelting, it will be twice as effective and there is a risk of collapse.

It is likely that the gold ore must be dug out and transported outside before it can be smelted.

"If it is the transportation of refined gold ingots, the Icefield Giant Owl of Winterhold College can help a little." Barotarf added.

"No, maybe the bear monsters can." Ryan smiled.

Ryan pointed behind Urusen, and soon, a bear monster guard handed him the rough iron rod in his hand.

After Ryan took it, in the blink of an eye, the iron rod transformed into a miner's hoe.

Moreover, Ryan was very careful and covered the top of the miner's hoe with a small layer of hardened gold to prevent the miner's hoe from wearing out too quickly during the excavation process.

"Urusen, let your people try."

"Yes, my king."

Soon, a strong bear monster went to dig.

In just a few minutes, the bear monster dug a lot of gold ore.

"This" Luther's eyes bulged out.

Can it be done like this?

Let the ferocious white-haired bear monsters go to mine!

Batalov and Welty looked at each other, and saw shock in each other's eyes. They had heard of ice field kobolds mining, but they had never heard of ice field bear monsters mining.

At the same time, several people reacted instantly.

This represents a huge business opportunity that can produce gold continuously.

"Sir Ryan, there is only one problem left to be solved, that is, the problem of smelting." Luther said with a smile.

"Maybe this matter"

Ryan waved his hand and said, "Smelting is not a problem!"

"Lagre, the problem of smelting can be handed over to the Norton tribe, okay? Of course it's not in vain, the Norton tribe will get their own share of the profits." Ryan turned his head and smiled at the barbarian girl Lagre next to him.

"Ah? Of course it's okay!" Lagre was stunned when she heard it, and obviously felt like a pie in the sky hit her.

She didn't expect that Ryan would actually hand over such a good thing involving huge interests to her Norton tribe. She looked at Ryan with more affection.

Whether it was Chimera Knight Luther or the people in Winterhold College, they were all smart people. Seeing Ryan's attitude towards the barbarian girl Lagre, they understood what Ryan meant.

No more words were said immediately.

Melita looked at Ryan, her beautiful eyes almost tearing out.

Oh my god! Lord Ryan is strong, handsome, and can take care of people like this.

It's over! It's over! She felt that she had completely fallen.

"Everyone, it seems that we can have a good discussion about the use of gold mines." Ryan smiled slightly.

"Of course!" Everyone nodded in praise.

With Ryan, the lifesaver, taking the lead, the framework was immediately agreed.

It was preliminarily agreed that several companies would be jointly responsible for the mining, transportation and sales of gold mines.

Generally speaking, the mining will be the responsibility of the white-haired bear monster, Ryan, the Norton barbarian tribe will be responsible for building a blast furnace outside the nest and smelting, the Winter Fort Academy will be responsible for sending people to transport and escort, and the final sales will be handed over to the Snyder family where Luther is.

Duke Snyder is the governor of the Marne Province of the Empire, and Luther is the second son of Duke Snyder.

As for the proportion of profits, Ryan accounts for 40%, and the other three companies each account for 20%.

After the general framework was finalized, as for the remaining details, Ryan had already sent a message to the beautiful woman Jennifer, asking her to send someone to take charge of the specific operations.

After all, his precious energy could not be put on business.

"What! That's great. I didn't expect that Ericson, the high priest of the Black Flame Cult in the Marne Province, had died in your hands. Sir Ryan, thank you so much." Luther couldn't help but say with great joy.

He just learned the news.

You know, Ericson's strength is slightly higher than his. This is why, Marne Province has fallen to three counties, but as a family, the Snyder family still hasn't taken any action.

The main reason is that before the Imperial Guardian came, the Snyder family did not have the ability to solve the Black Flame Cult entrenched in Marne Province alone.

"I will communicate with my father immediately, quickly organize elite troops, and pacify these three counties." Luther looked at Ryan, and couldn't help but feel more grateful.

"Sir Luther, this is what I should do as the Imperial Sword Bearer." Ryan smiled.

"What! Sir Ryan, you are a sword bearer?!" The beautiful woman Welty said with her eyes wide open in surprise.

"Yeah!" Ryan nodded and said.

Others did not ask in detail, but took it for granted that Ryan must be a strong man affiliated with the Sword Bearer Headquarters of the Imperial Capital.

Just kidding, how could a provincial-level Sword Bearer branch have such a powerful person as Sir Ryan!

Hearing Ryan's words, others including Batalov and Luther could not help but look at Ryan in surprise.

If the previous cooperation plan was mainly based on Ryan's personal force, then now, some other things have been added.

Unknowingly, the closeness of the cooperation between the parties has been greatly improved.

"Ryan, this news is very important to the tribe. I want to go back to Jikar Valley first to report this matter to the high priest and the patriarch." Lagre whispered to Ryan in a low voice, unable to hide her excitement.

"Although it doesn't take many people to smelt gold, we still have to arrange in advance. We also have to prepare smelting agents, charcoal, and build furnaces." As if she was afraid that Ryan would disagree, Lagre added hastily.

"Okay, when I come back from Howling Fjord, I'll come to Jikal Valley to find you." Ryan nodded and said.

Thank you Niu'er for the 500 starting coins reward!

(End of this chapter)