The Ominous Lord of the Skaven

Chapter 114

Through Wilbur's introduction, Ickert knew that the tribe he had just slaughtered was called the Skinning Tribe, and its chieftain was the powerful warrior Stripping.

Skinning tribes are known for their skills in skinning and tanning hides, which tribes often trade with other tribes for necessities such as salt and better quality swords.

This is why Iktor was able to seize a large amount of leather after the war.

Now these leathers that have not been exchanged have become the property of Ickert, and almost every rat man who participated in the operation has been allocated a large piece of leather.

Of course, the reason for distributing them to the mice is just to let them carry them. These leather ikts are still useful.

Other than that, the biggest harvest is the magic crystals saved by the wolf man tribe. These cute little things are already equivalent to carrying guns in Ickert's view.

There are also a total of thirty gemstones used for excitation, but the quality is somewhat uneven.

Yellow, green, blue, purple, mixed with sand, and even embedded in stones.

Ickert was worried that gems would increase the cost of magic guns before, but now it seems that his worries are unnecessary.

Even if it is a human flintlock, its fire rate is not 80.00%, about [-]%, which is the result of using high-quality flint.

High-quality flint is not so easy to obtain.

As for the gemstone trigger gun, even the lowest quality gemstones can guarantee a sufficient trigger rate, not to mention that there is no shortage of gemstones in this world.

Compared with these gains, the seizure of gold and silver was very mediocre.

It's not that the quantity is not enough, but that the casting period is too long.

These should be the coins brought by the jackals from the north. Although the portrait on the gold coins is still the founding emperor Hilton, the overall shape is obviously different from the small gold coins minted in Nansai.

These seized gold and silver coins are all the big gold coins and big silver coins of the empire during the Northern Cyprus period.

At that time, the empire was about to come to an end, so the royal family had extremely high moisture content when minting coins. The gold content of the big gold coin could only be equivalent to the gold content of the two small Nansai gold coins, but the value of the coins was ten times that of the Nansai small gold coins. .

Print, just print.

The same is true for the large silver coins in the late Northern Cypriot period. In short, both of them are parallel imports, and they can't go back and forth in the hands of money changers.

But these gold coins Ikt do not intend to throw away, and these relics of the previous dynasty sometimes have magical uses, such as when paying salaries.
I said I would give you ten gold coins, but what I gave you was a big gold coin. Isn't it printed with ten?

After collecting all the big gold coins and big silver coins, Ickert ordered the mice to harvest the flesh and blood of the wolf man as soon as possible.

The warrior's stripped body was also recovered by Ikert and made into a spell-casting material.

The rest was distributed to the ratmen under him. Targaryen and Rapa once again enjoyed the magical flesh and blood, and their physical fitness was further strengthened.

Targaryen even vaguely felt that he seemed to have reached a certain limit and was about to break through to become a first-order warrior.

In addition to these two rats, some of the ratmen in the partner guards had awakened their magic power, and the number of warrior rats in the territory soared to five!

Coupled with the dark warrior Tolby, the extraordinary combat power of the territory can finally be displayed.

The rewards for plundering are so good that Iktor even wants to raid another tribe in the dark.

It's a pity that he can't do it now, long-distance raids need enough equipment, and besides being able to gather equipment for the scouts, he can't even distribute a water bag.

And Ickert is very clear that the wealth of the skinned tribe has not been fully dug out, but he probably won't be able to take away too much.

He called the surviving blacksmith to him again.

"Come on, tell me where the iron ore of these gnolls come from?"

Good things like ore veins have always been on Ickert's mind. If the Jackals can use blacksmiths to help them forge iron, it must be necessary to mine iron ore.

Sure enough, the surviving blacksmith quickly pointed out the mine veins of the Skinning Tribe for Iktor.

"My lord, there are two sources of iron ore for these gnolls. One is the riverbank in the northeast, where there are a large amount of red and black iron sand. However, that riverbank does not belong exclusively to the skinning tribe, and other tribes in the south will also mine it. where the iron sand,

The second is the skinning tribe's own vein. There is a small pit in the southwest of the tribe, and there are some crimson iron stones in it. "

"Exposed hematite, and piled up deposits!"

After listening to the blacksmith's information, Ickert said excitedly.

Leaving aside the exposed hematite, the accumulated deposits by the river are really good things.

Most of these mineral sands are weathered by surface minerals or eroded by water flow, and are transported by river water and accumulated in river bends with slow water flow.

The meandering Vanvna River will indeed give birth to some such deposits.

The composition of these ores is very complicated, not only iron sand, but also gold sand, tungsten, manganese, and most importantly, magnetite!

Magnets are of great significance to Ickert's mice, and making a compass for bearings could not be easier.

This means that scouting rats who are not familiar with the local terrain can go further into the jungle and find more wolf man tribes.

The emergence of other metals also provided the possibility of smelting alloys in the territory, which may further reduce the weight of heavy-duty guns in the future.

In addition, the mining of fine river sand can also open up the foundry industry in the territory and lay the foundation for cannon making.

"Quick! Take us to the mine of the Skinning Tribe first! Then quickly take us to the river beach mine!"

"Follow your orders, my lord."

Ikert and the Ratmen gathered up the booty and left the burned-out skinned tribe in a hurry, and arrived around the exposed mine deposit in a short while.

The scale of this exposed iron ore is small, and the red iron ore is spread on a small open space, showing blood red under the moonlight.

There are shelters arranged by some skinning tribes around the iron ore, and the iron ore that has only been mined lightly has not even been dug deeply.

"My lord, it's right here! The iron ore mined by those gnolls in recent days is inside!"

The blacksmith took the initiative to uncover several straw huts for Ickert. These are the places where the Skinning clan temporarily stores iron ore.

Ickert didn't have anything to say, so he picked up a few at a time, packed them up and took them away, and cut off the flesh and blood of the wolf man who stayed behind.

The rats were treated as mules again, and they followed Ickert back to the territory with a full load of spoils.

On the way, Ickert stopped by to watch the river beach, but he didn't find any wolf man stationed there.

He bravely dug some iron sand, and within a short while, he fumbled out a few natural magnets.

These natural lodestones are relatively weakly magnetic, but also have a slight attraction to iron sand, and it is not difficult to find them.

As one of the four great inventions, the role of the compass must not be underestimated. Compared with the magic compass used by mages, this is what can truly equip troops on a large scale.

(End of this chapter)