The chief sighed and shook his head as he looked at Kaya’s body. But he didn’t mind too much; when he was young, the Baruch Kingdom hadn’t yet been founded. He had killed quite a few people, and he was rather used to it. For the sake of letting one’s self live a good life, far too many people had lost their lives.
The chief immediately covered up the hole with dirt, then turned and left at high speed to the nearby Nifeng City.
The news that the Baruch Kingdom’s small city of Nifeng had discovered a magicite gem mine quickly spread throughout the kingdom. The area around the mine had been immediately sealed off by thousands of soldiers, forbidding anyone from going near it. They quietly awaited orders from the capital.
Mt. Blackraven.
Wharton was running at high speed through the mountain. He passed through the thick woods, then followed the creek to the place where Linley was training.
“Big brother.” Wharton called out from afar.
Linley, who was meditating in the center of the lake, couldn’t help but open his eyes. Seeing Wharton, a hint of a smile appeared on his face. “Wharton, what has you here in such a rush?”
“Big brother, make a trip with me.” Wharton hurriedly said.
“Little Wharton, what’s going on?” Bebe popped out of a nearby wooded area.
Wharton explained, “Big brother, in the eastern borders, our people have discovered a large magicite gemstone mine. Right now, the scope of the deposit is at least a thousand meters wide. And that’s just the surface layer. Exactly how large it is…hard to say. But even if it’s just a thousand meters wide, the value of it is definitely several billion gold coins!”
“Oh?” Linley was shocked. “There’s such a large magicite gem deposit?”
Magicite gemstones weren’t like iron or copper deposits. Magicite gemstones usually formed only after countless years of accumulating elemental energy. They would constantly compress it…and then finally take form. Some magicite gemstone deposits were only a few dozen meters in diameter.
“Let’s go, big brother.” Wharton said repeatedly.
“Alright, let’s go together.” As soon as Linley spoke, Bebe chimed in. “I’m going too.”
Wharton immediately laughed. “Bebe, if you go, I won’t have to Dragonform.” Wharton, being at the ninth rank, still couldn’t fly unless Dragonformed. But Dragonforming would ruin his clothes.
“Fine.” Bebe agreed easily.
Bebe’s body immediately grew larger. Wharton mounted on his back, and then the three of them flew at high speed towards the east. The current flying speed of Linley and Bebe was so great that in the amount of time it took to drink a cup of tea, they traversed the three hundred plus kilometers.
“Below.” Wharton pointed at the large area protected by a heavy guard.
Linley nodded slightly, and the three of them immediately descended. Seeing people fly over, the soldiers didn’t dare to be too rash. Their leader ran over. Sadly, this senior captain had never seen Wharton before.
“Are you…Lord Linley?”
Seeing Bebe shrink then hop onto Linley’s shoulders, many soldiers let out surprised shouts. This black Saint-level mouse had virtually become Linley’s insignia! He was a legendary figure in the Baruch Kingdom, its spiritual support!
Linley’s influence was tremendous.
“Right. I am Linley. This is Wharton, your King.” Linley laughed calmly.
Wharton resignedly stretched out his arms, which immediately became covered with azure scales. This was more convincing than any verbal proof. Dragonblood Warrior transformation…only the descendants of the Baruch clan could do this.
“Your Royal Majesty. Lord Linley.”
Loud voices rang out.
Wharton said calmly, “Enough. Keep guarding. My brother and I are going to scan this area.”
“Yes.” The surrounding soldiers raised their heads and their chests, keeping their backs straight. All of them wanted to make a good impression in front of their King and in front of this legendary Saint, Linley. Linley, meanwhile, had already begun to spiritually scan this area.
The nearby Wharton just looked at Linley.
“How huge.”
Linley was stunned as he delved deep into the ground with his spiritual sense. Spiritual energy could easily pierce through material barriers, but material barriers would still lessen the range of the spiritual energy much more than air did. After all, in the air, spiritual energy could scan at a range of ten kilometers.
But scanning solid, material barriers lowered that range to one kilometer.
“Big brother, what is it?” Wharton said softly.
Linley cracked a smile. “It seems…I need to take this a bit more seriously.”
Wharton was astonished.
He instantly understood Linley’s meaning. This magicite gemstone mine was so vast that Linley’s casual spiritual energy scan wasn’t able to totally investigate the size and scope of this deposit.
“Big brother’s spiritual energy is capable of covering a very wide area, even through the ground. How large is this deposit exactly?” Wharton’s heart began to shake.
Linley was now using his spiritual energy to scan at full strength.
A full strength scan was very taxing on spiritual energy. Thus, unless there was some special reason, experts rarely would use spiritual energy on such a scale.
Finally…
Linley finished the investigation of this terrifying magicite gemstone deposit.
“How frightening. What a terrifyingly large magicite gem deposit.” Linley had clearly discovered…this magicite gem deposit was an oval, round shape. But of course, in the area around the ‘oval’, there were still some scattered, random deposits.
One of the nearby deposits was fairly close to the ground, perhaps just three or four meters away from the ground.
This massive deposit was over twenty kilometers wide!
Even someone who had trained to Linley’s level of understanding couldn’t help but feel his heart rate quicken. Linley secretly let out a breath, then looked at Wharton. Wharton asked softly, “Big brother, how is it?” Linley immediately walked to the side. “Talk about it over here.”
Wharton and Linley came to a quiet, secluded place.
“Big brother, how big is it?” Wharton was somewhat frantic.
Linley said seriously, “Very big…larger than any magicite gem deposit previously discovered in the Yulan continent. At least ten times bigger.”
Wharton was shocked. After all, in the past there had been deposits that were one or two kilometers in size. To be ten times larger than those deposits…”
“This magicite gem deposit is at least twenty kilometers in length. In addition, it’s very deep as well…based on my calculations, this magicite gem deposit should definitely be worth at least several hundred billion gold coins.” Linley felt his heart tremble as he just thought about this number.
Several hundred billion gold coins?
“Good heavens.” Wharton found it hard to breathe as well.