Lord of Rot

Chapter 473 Energy Vein
There will be good news in the new year.

Li Qi hurriedly thanked the Four Gods, and promised that after the church in Iron Stone City was built, he would definitely arrange a group of priests with high salaries and benefits to provide a good employment environment for the most loyal believers of the Four Gods.

Because he got the ore!That was the harvest of the palace-level ghoul Ka Qi leading the underground world team to continue the expansion activities.

Li Qi told him to be careful before, the underground world might be quite dangerous, but when an ore was delivered to Li Qi, Li Qi couldn't help being excited.

This is a strange ore, the light is not dazzling, after polishing the surface with a file, a layer of powder will fall off.

But the whole of the ore is still foggy like frosted glass.

If you stare carefully, you will find that there are roots and veins inside like blood vessels, which are quite sparse.

The crystal light of the ore emanates from these veins.

"This is the ore! You found it!"

Scholar Tonks, who was specially called by Li Qi, looked at the ore and was very excited.

Then she explained how the ore should be used.

"Not directly used?"

"It needs to be refined," she said: "It is a very boring process. First, the impurities on the surface must be removed, and then extraction is used."

"What technique?"

"Scholars who are proficient in alchemy should understand," Scholar Tonks said: "The energy in the ore is extracted, and then put into a glass, and then use this set of steps to purify it, and finally remove the white layer floating on the top." In the end, we can get what we want.”

Li Qi watched Scholar Tonks use magic to shave his tendons first, then use magic to boil away the blood, and skim off the foam floating in the pot.

The steps looked very magical, but Li Qi was a little hungry.

She uses the mage's hand very well. Although she can't be distracted and multi-purpose like Li Qi, she can also be distracted and multi-purpose, as if those "ingredients" have their own ideas.

The whole process is really cumbersome.

When she stopped to wipe off her sweat, most of the day had passed.

"Is this what you need?" Li Qi picked up a small cube of crystal. Compared with the previous large piece of frosted glass ore, this crystal is very beautiful, and the surface is covered with dense veins.

"It can provide a lot of mental strength, but over-reliance on it will make people in a state of confusion all day long."

Scholar Tonks nodded: "If you can sell it to me, I would like to..."

She suddenly stopped awkwardly.

It seems that he just remembered that he has no money, and even has to rely on money from Li Qi to maintain his expenses.

But what can she do, the porcupine collar has too many good things, whether it's eating, drinking, playing, it's not much worse than a big town.

Chatting with scholars such as Thomas, Betty, and Vic has benefited her a lot.

Some small alchemy gadgets made by Scholar Thomas are fun and useful, so you have to buy them if you like them.

Betty recently made an iron rod that sparks when lit. It is said that it is called a fairy rod. It has a strange name, but it looks good when lit up at night, so you have to buy it.

Vic has researched a lot of herbal medicines, which are very effective in curing diseases, so he should also buy them.

With a shopping heart, it is doomed that it is difficult for Tonks scholars to save money.

"Evil porcupine collar, terrible vampire, all the money I earned from selling my strength is gone!"

Li Qi saw the embarrassment of the other party, he would not say that he deliberately ordered someone to go to Tonks scholar's ear to lure her and let her spend it.

He didn't care about the little money, but he was afraid that Scholar Tonks would run away after saving enough money, so he told her to spend the money as soon as possible, and then she would stay obediently.

This is already a tacit understanding between the two parties.

Li Qi is even considering whether to open special discounts for moonlight families like Tonks scholars, making her the first lucky person in this world who can enjoy installment payments.

Moonlight is not its upper limit, because Li Qi does not have a daily salary, otherwise she would be sunshine.

"We agreed before, it belongs to you." Li Qi placed the crystal block in front of Scholar Tonks.

She wanted to take it in surprise, but when she saw Li Qi's fingers were still pressing, she came to her senses and asked, "What do I need to do?"

"I want to open an ore refining class, so that talented spellcaster apprentices can learn to refine this thing."

"But I'm already teaching a subject of magic knowledge, okay?" Scholar Tonks said helplessly, "I need to pay more!"

Li Qi smiled: "Of course! The salary is doubled!"

He never needs to worry about a chopping party having too much money.

"Okay, next time I ask you to help me refine another one."

"You still have?" Scholar Tonks was surprised: "Did you really get a mine vein?"

……

"Is there a mine vein at the other end of the mountain?"

Li Qi's spirit descended on a ghoul, and in front of him was a group of cave gnomes exuding a unique "fragrance" that only ogres could smell.

These dark creatures are treacherous and timid, and they run fast, making them perfect spies.

Those ores are what they found.

"Yes, sir." The crypt gnome who spoke bent down nervously. Dirty hairs grew out of his ears and drooped on his sides.

"What's over there?"

Li Qi didn't get much useful information from Ka Qi. He only knew that the crypt gnome went to explore through the mountains under his orders, and then encountered some small troubles. Ka Qi rushed over and punched a child to solve all the troubles. , and brought back a few ores.

Only these crypt gnomes know the more detailed situation, so he will take the initiative to come here.

According to the test of the cube crystal extracted by the Tonks scholar, Li Qi found that it was a very good energy source, which could be worth 10 mental units, but the load on the brain was a bit high.

"Corpse"

"monster"

"undead"

"Flying Dragon"

Several crypt gnomes were talking in a hurry.

Finally, they unified their voices and said to Li Qi, "It's fear!"

In the entire underground, there is nothing that these dwarfs are not afraid of.

"Be more careful," Li Qi said helplessly, and pointed to one of the crypt gnomes: "You tell me."

The chattering explanation made everyone's brains ache.

"There are a group of undead monsters there. They have everything. They are very scary. Any creature that gets close will be killed."

"Necromancer, or simple undead?"

Li Qi was very interested in this.

The Necromancer is more likely. A simple undead does not have strong thinking ability, and he still looks forward to having a Necromancer. The Necromancer was cut off by the space last time, but he feels very sorry.

"Okay, I see." Li Qi said, "You guys did a good job."

"It is our honor, my lord!" the crypt gnomes bowed.

They are indeed honored to work for Li Qi, which means that they, who have always been regarded as mice, can join a powerful force without worrying about being killed. There are manticores, ogres, and more in this force. A terrifying mysterious strongman.

Without the survival pressure of natural enemies, the number of crypt gnomes is increasing rapidly, and it is expected to double in a few months.

Li Qi immediately gave an order to gather all the forces to snatch the ore lode. If he couldn't snatch it, he would run away. Anyway, the cost he invested in the underground world was very low. As long as there were no problems with the hall-level ghouls, the cost would be zero.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the mountain.

Among a group of swaying undead soldiers, a sharp voice roared: "It's dead, dead? Do you know how much effort they cost me?"

In front of it was a bunch of strange-looking creatures.

Some are human-like, but have more than a dozen arms.

Some are like a lion, but with the head of a sheep and the tail of a snake.

"My lord," an undead knight riding a skeleton horse came and interrupted the sharp voice: "There is an enemy attack!"

(End of this chapter)