Chapter 369 - Lava adamantine
“Alright, I’ll be there soon.” Lin Li applied more Recovery Potion on his face before opening the door and heading down with Gavin.
As the pair walked, Gavin gave him a brief update on the Guild of Magic. Seven mages had just joined, but they were mediocre in terms of abilities. Hence, Gavin prepared their level certifications and gave out robes and magic staves to them before he had them train under an Archmage for the past few days.
“Nothing is easy from the start…” Lin Li was frustrated at the current situation too. It had been about 10 days since the inauguration ceremony, but the Tower of Dusk remained empty. Only seven mages who were not even Magic Shooters arrived—this was worlds apart from the Guild of Magic of his dreams…
Of course, Lin Li knew that this was inevitable.
There were quite a few mages in the Breezy Plains, and many of them were powerful Magic Shooters and Archmages. However, most of them have already been bought over by powerful forces, and it would not be easy to have them join the Tower of Dusk.
That aside, Lin Li believed that even the seven new mages with their mediocre abilities would not have joined the Tower of Dusk if they had had another choice.
Well, such was the profession of a mage. Everything they needed—like magical equipment, spells, potions, magical gemstones, and crystals—cost dearly, and without a powerful force supporting them, it would be difficult even for the most talented of them to improve. After all, not every mage could be like Lin Li and turn the cheapest of ingredients into a treasure—there could only be one versatile crafting master, after all…
“What’s the matter?”
“You see, Mage Felic…” Kaman gulped; he looked nervous. “My men have been mining for the past few days, and I’ve been there a few times… Things have been going well, but when I went there earlier, I heard they ran into some problems…”
“What problems?”
“After digging six meters deep, they couldn’t dig any deeper, as though something was in their way. I heard them say it was a mineral vein, but much harder than refined iron. They’ve already gone through a few dozen shovels…”
“Let them rest for a while, then. The refined iron they got is enough to last some time anyway…” Lin Li did not think much of it, as refined iron mineral veins usually came with other mineral veins as well—they were usually magical metals. Truth be told, this was why Lin Li wanted to mine for refined iron as he actually wanted the magical metals that came along with it. Otherwise, it was too little refined iron for him to personally get Kaman to send miners to work on it.
However, he could not let miners mine for magical metal, or it would be disastrous if they damaged it…
“That’s what I thought too…” Kaman nodded his head, but fear was still evident in his eyes. “I heard them say that the mineral vein is strange indeed. It feels like a furnace when they stand on it…”
“Wait…” Lin Li’s expression changed when he heard that. “You’re saying that the temperature is high around the mineral veins?”
“Very high. I haven’t been there personally, but I could feel the heat standing outside the cave. It was as though something there is burning…”
“Let’s go, bring me there!” Lin Li stood up suddenly, pushed open the door, and left the room without waiting for the confused Kaman.
Existing alongside refined iron mineral veins and incredibly hard, also scalding hot at the same time… what else could it be besides Lava adamantine? To think that he would find it in Doland when he could not find it in the Fire Plume Ridge, and at such an obscure place too…