116 – Digging All Day
After moving for about 3 minutes, we arrived at a place that was not much different from the terrain we had walked so far.
A fresh plain with a green sea. The only difference was that the ground was a little lower than the other places.
“Um… Is there really a road to the mine here?”
Nodding-
After nodding at Yeonhee’s question, I took a few more steps and pointed to the ground.
Seeing my gesture, she also nodded her head and chanted her spell, summoning something from her portal.
“King Wang-“
Yeonhee summoned the master of tunnel digging, and soon a dog with a thick flesh appeared.
“Eh? Even a pup?”
“You didn’t just have combat-type summons. It’s amazing…”
“… A chubby and cute puppy… A summoner… A good class…”
Of course, everyone in this room knew why Wang Wangi was brought out.
(Let’s do some work in a while, pig.)
“Kong!!”
When Wang Wangi saw me, he snorted and started digging down where I pointed. Of course, I also tested the performance of [Tunnel Digging], The attribute obtained earlier, while digging through the ground next to Wang Wang.
Papa papak-
‘Oh, it sure feels like the ground has softened a bit.’
“Wow?!”
After seeing me digging with the tunneling feature, Wang Wangi must have felt the energy of the same attribute as himself, but his cute eyes became much rounder.
“King! Wow- King!!”
Then he began to play with his front foot with more strength, but obviously his hand structure was different, so it was different from what I was selling. It seemed that there was a speed difference of almost ten times or more.
‘I need to buy a shovel and a few things.’
If you wrap your shovel with magical energy and dig the ground, it will be much faster than now. Of course, he would have to deal with the enormous consumption of mana.
“Wow! It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a tomboy dig a burrow properly.”
“Me too. But Ilwol is good at digging, right? I heard that it’s not easy to dig the ground inside the dungeon… What is he really about? I’m afraid now?”
“……”
Did they use Jua and Arin’s conversation as fuel to dig for another 10 minutes? Wang Wangi stood up on his hind legs and signaled to Yeonhee.
“Looks like something came out.”
“Hey… Hey, let’s go down first!”
Arin and Jua finally looked at each other in disbelief as if they had really found the mine.
Then, as I groped the excavated ground and lifted the handle with difficulty, the heavy door that had been hidden beneath the ground screamed open.
The entrance was big enough to fit 4-5 refrigerators at once.
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Crackling!
Gulp―
Everyone held their breath and stared at the inside of the open door.
The dust that had accumulated for a long time flew away for a while before it cleared, and as soon as we saw the stairs going down, the faces of the party visibly brightened.
“Gee, the stairs…! Whoaaah!”
“Kyaaa!!”
“…Hee hee… Khee hee…”
As the unique spiral staircase leading to the mine was revealed in front of their eyes, everyone who was holding their breath cheered in unison. Even Ham Eun-yeong, who was quiet, burst into laughter while eating fish.
‘Where should I look around the mine after a long time…’
I was calm because I roughly knew the value of the contents inside.
The party members began to carefully climb down the stairs with extremely flushed faces.
Jeobeok- Jeobeok-
The stairs leading down were not very long. However, the party who arrived on the floor were very embarrassed to see the fork in the road stretching in all directions.
For a moment, everyone’s heads turned to me, but I wanted to see how they would respond, so I pretended to dig into the bag of a kobold who had been summoned.
Without my help, everyone turned their eyes to the left, contemplating as if they were pulling out the fragments of knowledge they had been saving, and among them, Yeon-hee stepped forward first and showed action.
“Umm… That’s why.”
She picked up a stone that had fallen on the floor at one of the crossroads and threw it as hard as she could.
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She listened closely to the place where the stones were thrown, then threw stones at each fork in the road and returned, pointing to the rightmost road.
“Huh, I think this is the longest…”
“That’s right!”
‘Oh…? Answer.’
The rightmost road where the sound of stones tends to gradually diminish over time.
“I’m sure. Usually, the place where you dig the longest has the most magic stones, right?”
“Right. Otherwise, there would be no reason to continue selling that way. Shall we go then?”
Yeon-hee sent Ran and Ttung-i ahead of the chosen road to scout.
After walking along the road for about 15 minutes, Ran and Ttungi, who had been moving a certain distance in front, returned with a positive answer.
(Master. There were a lot of shiny things.)
“Thank you Ran. Guys, I think this path is right.”
“Whoa… Are we really the owners of the mine…?”
“……”
And after a while, we entered an open pupil with dozens of small holes drilled in the wall. The place wasn’t covered with glittering magic stones everywhere, but I could see that there were quite a few high-quality magic stones buried there.
“Kyahahahahaha!! It’s great!!”
“What is this like from the first day of the party with Yeonhee!!”
As I remember, the value of this place is around 15 billion. Of course, that is the profit when simply calculating the amount of magic stones buried, and if the labor costs of the workers who actually mine and move them, equipment, security personnel, etc. Are excluded, the net profit is much lower. This is even a government dungeon. The profit that falls to us will not be as much as we thought.
“How long does it usually take to mine?”
“A place that was much larger than this was only completed after diligently digging for two years. Wouldn’t this be possible within a year?”
“Haa, can’t we just eat all of this?”
“I heard that magic stones are difficult to find outside of authorized sales channels…”
Manastones obtained from monsters are refined enough to be usable in real life, but manastones obtained from nature must be dug up around the place where they are embedded and go through several stages of extraction by hunters with alchemist characteristics before they can be used. Possible.
That’s why we can’t eat it all by ourselves.
“I’ll have to report it first. In the past, I heard that profits come out after a few months, but hmm…”
“That’s right. But after about a month, for a while, I’ll stick to it like a salary!”
“hehehe… Salary…”
“Yeonhee is really black…”
Warak-
Bae Joo-ah and Baek Ah-rin suddenly hugged Yeon-hee and rubbed their faces against her cheeks.
“Eh? Um, over there…”
In a way, it was natural. The mines found in the dungeon are set to be distributed 1/n unconditionally by party members, so those who sit still and hit the jackpot can’t help but feel grateful to Yeon-hee for having me.
‘When I received it before, I think I received about 1,500 per month…’
The amount we receive is slightly more than 10% of the initial reserve. Four people share it, and they receive it by sharing it for several years.
The deadline for payment, which the party knows now, is longer than expected. This is because if the profits are paid in a short period of time, it is set to take at least two years because the management agency’s expenses become jagged.
“Wouldn’t it be possible to receive at least 100 million won a month?”
“Gasp! Awesome!”
“100 Million… hehehehe…”
“Ilwol-ah, shall we move?”
Nod-
Unfortunately, there will be a significant gap with their expectations.
Memories of former co-workers raging over what the state had done to me flashed by for a moment.
Anyway, I moved away from the group who were busy looking around the mine, narrowed the area of my senses, and explored the outskirts of the mine.
‘Where are you, bastard?’
What I was looking for was a rare mineral called ‘cardinite’ to use as a material for a greatsword.
Basically, weapons are made with manastones from monsters you catch and iron ore obtained from dungeons as the main materials. Adding cardinite to them greatly improves strength, durability, and corrosion resistance.
‘Here it is.’
I felt a foreign mineral nestled inside a corner of the wall. The reserve was small enough that I could grab it with my arms wide open.
However, since it was used like an additive, the amount of use was small, so it was rather overpowering to make my weapon.
Papapak-
After strengthening my hands with magic, I started digging through the wall.
“Huh? What else?”
As I suddenly started scratching the wall, other people came up and expressed their curiosity.
‘This is ours.’
I spent quite some time digging into the wall until I reached something that I couldn’t even scratch with my hands.
‘How to do this…’
Part of a chunk of cardinite firmly embedded in the wall emerged, and I thought for a moment about using a bomb to blow it up, then shook my head.
If I did something wrong, it could affect the mine itself, and I was tired in many ways when I heard the sound and the monsters flocked to it, so I carved out the walls little by little with my dagger, as if I were working on the skeleton of a fossil.
It doesn’t go into the inventory yet, but it will be available when more than half of the shapes are revealed.
Square- Square Square-
‘Damn it, half what.’
But soon it was calculated that this would take a year. In the past, I didn’t think it would be this hard because I didn’t dig it myself.
At that time, Fatty, who was looking at me stupidly from behind, patted me on the back.
(Hmm? Why?)
The guy didn’t even answer my words, and started taking something out of the sack he was carrying.
Chilis, chisels, hammers close to hammers, pickaxes, small shovels the size of seedlings, etc. Came out one after another. All of the tools were covered with dirt from their hands, and you could feel the traces of the years.
‘Wait… There wasn’t anything like that when I searched earlier?’
Is it a magic bag? I was dumbfounded and tilted my head, and Fatty threw himself into the small hole in the wall I had dug.
Bang- Bang- Bang- Bang-!
As soon as Ttongi entered the room, a cheerful iron sound began to be heard regularly as if riding a rhythm. The quick gestures of the fat guy, which I have never seen before, were enough to catch my eyes, and the face of the guy at a glance was filled with a feeling of satisfaction that could not be hidden.
Yeah… I guess you liked something too…
However, I couldn’t help but laugh inwardly.
‘You’re so fast, you bastard?’
I was even convinced that my usual acting as an advisor possessed by a slug was real acting. However, since he is helping me with my work now, I decided to leave him alone until he sees himself.
Twenty minutes later.
‘Wow… You cut this in 20 minutes?’
Fungi was lying on the floor of the mine, breathing heavily, as if he had burned everything to white.
Looking inside the hole he had dug, cardinite, obviously tangled here and there with other miscellaneous minerals, was spread beautifully on the floor.
I put large and small stones with a reddish glow in the inventory.