Chapter 265: Raw ores (2/2)
“Did what right!?” Trunks followed up as he jumped out of the tunnel with a loud laugh.
Gilbert also climbed out with a large hemp sack. Grant and the others followed behind, each also carried a large sack, their faces shining with excitement.
“How were things?” Han Shuo asked with a smile, knowing from their expressions that they must have had some generous gains.
“It was hard to advance inside. There were rocks as sharp as knives. I’m afraid it’d have been simply impossible if it wasn’t for your friend’s help. There were several Rainbow Sickle mercenaries, we casually killed them all and took the raw ores that they harvested. We also mined some more and brought them here.” Trunks seemed especially happy as he narrated with a carefree laugh.
“Looks like the Rainbow Sickle mercenaries used the advantage of geography to gain a head start. Florida had actually dared announce that after killing Laureton, they would give up the mithril mine. How shameless! Oh right, how big was the mine? How much did we harvest?” Han Shuo scorned at Florida’s pledge then continued questioning.
Shaking his head, Trunks said helplessly, “I’m not sure. We only came in contact with a limited area. What we brought back are a few raw ores with small amounts of mithril within. We need someone in the know to confirm what we’ve harvested today.”
If the metal elite zombie was refined, its natural talent could be used to scope out the size of the mine. With his ability to control metal and metal ores, the metal elite zombie could easily gather all of the resources in the entire silver mine within a short amount of time, leaving not even a piece of mithril behind.
Unfortunately, the place of extreme metal was the most difficult to find out of the five extreme areas. He was unable to refine the metal elite zombie before locating it. With the metal elite zombie, Han Shuo simply wouldn’t have to worry about lacking any ores. When the ability of the dwarves and the metal elite zombie’s natural talent to sense metal was combined, a steady supply of weapons would become a simple matter.
Sighing for a bit, Han Shuo suddenly noticed some movement from Janet’s bandit group. He immediately cursed, “Alright, let’s leave first. The valley is engulfed in chaos, so we shouldn’t stay here for the time being.”
“You guys put down the ores, I’ll put them into my space ring.” Han Shuo urged Gilbert and the rest.
Only Trunks wore a space ring amongst this bunch, even Grant and the mercenaries used bags tied around their waists. Space rings were famously expensive. These mercenaries naturally didn’t have enough gold coins to buy one.
However, Grant and the mercenaries didn’t act immediately upon Han Shuo’s instructions. They looked to Trunks, as if waiting for him to express his opinions.
“Listen to him. From now on, his commands are my commands. You guys should remember this well!” Trunks had a strict face as he carefully instructed.
“Understood!” Grant’s folks were relieved of a great burden after putting their sacks down. They hastily took the large sacks off their backs and placed them in front of Han Shuo.
The weight of these large sacks loaded with large and small broken rocks were such that an ordinary person wouldn’t be able to tolerate them. Even for these mercenaries, the way back to the Soul Destroyer mercenary base would be an unlucky, painful errand.
One white light flashed after another. All of the large and small sacks disappeared into Han Shuo’s space ring. After all was done, Han Shuo waved his hand saying, “Follow me, we’ll block Janet’s escape route. This time, we shall be the bandits and capture Janet.”
“Let’s do it like that then. I must get some clear answers!” Trunks immediately remembered Annie’s matter when Han Shuo mentioned Janet. His happy mood turned sorrowful as he shouted with a darkened face.
Two of the three yin demons had returned while the last was closely following Janet’s bandit group, paying close attention to their every move. The Soul Destroyers took a shortcut to block Janet’s way under Han Shuo’s directions, suddenly discovering some suspicious behavior from these people. Unexpectedly, Janet’s gang was laying an ambush where the House of Menlo would pass.
It seemed that Janet intended on taking advantage of the House of Menlo’s heavy losses, and make out like bandits!