Chapter 69
Chapter 69: Obtaining the friendship of the dwarves
When his mental strength was depleted, the replenishment he received from meditating came at a noticeably faster pace compared to his normal training conditions. When Han Shuo returned to the cemetery of death and meditated for a night, his mental strength was once again filled to the brim. Thus, Han Shuo deduced such a conclusion.
However, for necromancers, they would be unable to release any sort of magic if they had no mental strength. This would undoubtedly place them in a very precarious position. Therefore, no mage would expend all of their mental strength in one shot under normal circumstances.
Since the dwarves were willing to share the mining cave, Han Shuo couldn’t help but form other plans. There seemed to be high amounts of metal and copper ore inside the cave. Therefore, it would take quite a while for the dwarves to excavate the entire cave.
For Han Shuo, he could absolutely leverage summoning creatures to increase the speed of mining. If these copper and iron ores were shipped to the Empire, they were sure to fetch rich rewards for Han Shuo, particularly the black iron ore inside. According to Han Shuo’s understanding and the dwarves’ expressions today, Han Shuo understood that these black metal ores were very precious resources, and perhaps could be sold for whopping prices.
There should be quite a few dwarf villages in the Dark Forest, and there weren’t too many dwarves in this group. All of them combined probably didn’t need this much metal and copper ore. Since this was the case, Han Shuo made some other plans in his heart.
After infusing fresh blood and magical yuan into the “Original Demon Cave”, Han Shuo left the cemetery of death early in the morning and rushed in the direction of the mining cave.
Han Shuo had thought that he had arrived early enough, but he discovered that the dwarves had already arrived by the time he arrived at the entrance of the cave. There was double the usual amount of dwarves today, and it seemed like they had been up all night long due to their excitement. Their eyes were all bloodshot, but their spirits were still highly stimulated.
One of them had a grizzled beard and was leaning on a staff, in the middle of solemnly relaying instructions to the other dwarves. All the other dwarves, which included Bennett, all listened respectfully to his admonishments.
Purposefully letting the sound of his steps attract the attention of the dwarves, Bennett immediately raised the iron hammer in his hand and called out when he saw Han Shuo appear, “Hi, dear friend, we’ve waited for you for a long time!”
“Do you have pen and paper?”
“Of course!” Han Shuo took out the pen and paper he had prepared before going to the cemetery of death from his space ring and handed it to Calvin. “Don’t worry about the insufficient materials. I will find a way to gather all the materials together as quickly as possible.”
“Then alright.” Calvin nodded and started noting down a list of materials on the paper. When he finished, he handed it over to Han Shuo, saying, “Han, as long as these materials are gathered, I can assure you that I will forge a weapon with an unparalleled edge for you.”
“When the amount of my black metal is enough to forge this weapon, I will think of a way to collect these materials. I will be here earlier tomorrow to help mine the ore,” Han Shuo said as he left the mines.
Just like this, Han Shuo spent his subsequent ten days with the dwarves, mining the caves.
When Han Shuo had obtained enough black metal and the dwarves had all obtained a rich haul, Calvin proposed temporarily halting their mining operation and said that they should start forging these ores into weapons. They could mine again in the future when they ran out of weapons.
Han Shuo had already obtained the dwarves’ trust during this time and accepted Calvin’s invitation to visit their village and drink heavily in celebration. Thus, he knew the correct way to their dwellings.
After Han Shuo infused fresh blood and magical yuan into the “Original Demon Cave” earlier than usual. He then made direct use of the transportation matrix to leave the cemetery of death.