Chapter 137: Devils (2/2)

”Mr. Lix, what do you think we should do now?” Aine asked Tyler without a second thought to their leader who stood next to her in silence.

”It might be best for us to leave this place immediately. Our plan had been made with the idea that this place was only a Grade 3 Gold mine with one monster's nest at most. We were already pushing it coming this far after learning there is more than one monster nest here.”

Hearing Aine's question and Larut's concerns, Tyler couldn't blame them neither could be fault their mindset. If he was in their position, he might've already left the mine a long time ago. Well, if he had been as weak as he once was, he never would've gotten the courage to enter a mine in this world, to begin with.

However, he simply shook his head and pointed at something, drawing the attention of the group to the right end of the expanse.

”It's fine if you want to leave but you should also be aware that you've already found what you're looking for.”

Turning their heads to face the place Tyler was pointing at. The group saw countless gold veins that came out of almost all the tunnel entrances in the expanse gather at the edge of the wall.

”Wow!”

”We did it.”

”We really did it... We found enough gold.”

”Oh my!”

For a moment, the group had completely forgotten about their worries, and only the bliss of achieving the goal they had worked so hard for remained. The girls' eyes watered and even Dohel was speechless, a sight that was even rarer than gold.

After a while of basking in their joy, the reality of their current situation began to sink in again. Their expression becoming heavier as time went on.

”You don't have to worry about those monsters. I can't sense them anywhere near here so I don't think they'll be back and even if they return, I can always use my spell to drive them back.”

”You may be right but what about the green-eyed devil. It would be bad if you get hurt because of us Mr. Lix.”

”There's also no need to worry about that. We've been here for a while now so if it had chased after the girls it would've caught up to them by now so I think it cannot or will not leave the place Kylyra had spoken of.”

”I see, you make a good point Mr. Lix.”

”Indeed, as long as we don't return that way, we should be fine.”

After coming to an agreement, the group decided to mine the gold of the concentrated gold veins before leaving the mine and returning to the city.

They took a break to prepare their mining tools and quickly went to work digging and storing their spoils in the small storage box in their possession. If everything had gone as planned they would've explored this mine thoroughly, searching for other possible rarer metals or hidden treasures but unfortunately, nothing had gone as planned at all.

In its simplest form, Murphy's Law states: If anything can go wrong, it will, and boy, did that happen. Tyler sighed as he walked to one of the tunnel entrances to communicate with Zelda. They were connected telepathically so their communication was not restricted by distance as the communication School he had been using with the red ogre settlement.

He ordered her to mine the Runite from the place she had saved Nadine from the Night terrors although he wasn't sure she would be able to actually mine the rocks properly. He thought it best to let her do it and then come back later to retrieve it before exploring the entirety of this labyrinth before the noble would be informed of this place and claim it for themselves.

Since the nobles were monopolizing the resources from the Darknar region, he would have to teach them a lesson by stripping this place dry. 'Yeah that'll show em. Why do my thoughts suddenly should so childish.'

The group spent several hours mining the gold. There were large chunks of gold so this was similar to hard rock gold mining and not like the fragments they had been finding in loose sediments.

After several hours of hard work with Tyler and Nadine serving as guards even though they just stood by and did nothing, the group was finally done with the extraction of as much gold as they could mine. Even accounting for Tyler's.cut, they had more than enough.

After splitting the soils on the sport and Tyler storing his in his storage ring. The group was finally done with this expedition and be prepared to leave. They promptly equipped their gears and headed back the way they came, through the tunnel they themselves had dug after killing the Ant Giants that originally dug the tunnel.