My Weakest Little Brother Has Become A Demon King After Being Sealed For 1000 Years

2022-03-09

Chapter 18 Miners

Silver Stream Mine is the largest mine in Thorn City. About 40% of the source silver ore is produced here every year, and because of this, the largest source silver refinery in Thorn City is also built nearby.

As it should be by rights, the mine and refinery are part of a vast estate owned by City Lord Duke Simon.

William checked the Cass Durant bounty issued by Duke Simon, half of the people who died in his hands were miners of Silver Stream Mine, and the rest were more or less related to this mine. Source quality silver industry is related.

According to his experience in the game, when you see a nerubian in a place, it is estimated that the place has been infiltrated into a sieve.

But he didn’t quite understand why it was a mine.

Each Void King corresponds to an idea or phenomenon, such as the Hungry Lady symbolizes the sick Life and Death Reincarnation Cycle, the wrongly distorted food chain and an overall irreversible self-consumption, so Familia of the Hungry Lady are often associated with concepts such as corruption, festering, infection, and undead, and they only like to be present where those elements are present.

The Whispering Queen symbolizes conspiracy, betrayal, trickery and murder. As the family of the Whispering Queen, the favorite place to haunt the soul-eater spider should be the place full of conspiracy and plot against, such as the force tangled and complicated the court or the great aristocracy where the power struggle is fierce.

There should be no contact with the miners anyway.

William felt the need to figure out what they were trying to do with so many miners parasitizing them.

…………

“Brut Cole.”

“In!”

“Sigmund Carter”

“Yes!”

The overseer with an iron whip around his waist took the roster and called the people one by one. A row of miners in sloppy work clothes and dusty faces stood in a neat line on the flat ground in front of the mine, with ropes, pickaxes and miners’ lamps at their feet.

When they were called by the overseer, they did their best to answer loudly, and then stood as straight as possible without making any eye contact with that person.

“Colter Brand.”

“…”

The silent silence made everyone turn to the end of the line . A fifteen- or sixteen-year-old child was wearing work clothes that were too wide for his figure, standing there with sleepy eyes, with his head lowered, looking like he was about to fall asleep standing up.

The overseer slowly walked to the child as if very interested, picked up the iron whip hanging around his waist, and gently lifted the child’s body with the handle of the iron whip. jaw.

The cold touch made the child shivered awake, and he looked blankly towards the smiling overseer in front of him, and then seemed to suddenly realize something.

“Ah, here!”

He immediately straightened his body and answered loudly, not even daring to catch his breath after speaking.

The overseer withdrew the iron whip in his hand and asked softly.

“Don’t be nervous, don’t be nervous, I remember you seem to be the miner who just reported the day before yesterday, right?”

“Yes, my lord! I’m Hilton Boo who’s here to replace my dad. Rand’s place!”

The child replied loudly.

The overseer nodded said with a smile on his face.

“Oh, Hilton… Your dad is an excellent team leader here. Every time the team he leads goes to the mine, the average efficiency is more than 20% higher than other teams. When he is there, I have to save a lot of effort here.”

The child wanted to smile when he heard the overseer’s words, but the latter half of the overseer’s sentence made his smile froze before he could finish it.

“But didn’t your dad ever tell you the punishment for dozing off at the morning meeting?”

The next second, an iron whip was struck on his left side On his thigh, his work uniform was cut open, leaving a two-foot-long, half-finger-deep bloodstain on his leg.

“Three lashes for dozing off at work, and two more lashes if you scream while being whipped.”

The overseer’s genial smile disappeared completely , he said with a cold face at the moment.

The child clenched his teeth and said nothing, his eyes fixed on the overseer.

“Are you feeling very unconvinced?”

“No, my lord!”

He said through gritted teeth.

“If you feel unconvinced, you can go back now and act like a spoiled brat to your lame and blind old man. Then wait until you can’t pay the city maintenance tax, and then wait to be kicked out of Thorn City. Be a serf. If you still want to stay here, turn around immediately and get two whips.”

The boy named Colt turned around silently, this At that moment, a middle-aged man with a bushy beard standing next to him spoke.

“Sir, Colt has only been here for two days, and he’s still a little bit uncomfortable with the working rhythm of the Silver Stream Mine. It’ll be good to get used to it in two days. If I get two whips from you today. , I’m afraid it’s a little difficult to even go down the mine.”

The foreman glanced at him before saying.

“Do you think like this a good person, then how about you take these two whips for him?”

The man hearing this immediately lowered his head and stopped talking.

The overseer sneered and weighed the iron whip in his hand, just about to swing it round and slap it on the opponent’s back, when a tall man standing in the middle of the team spoke up.

“This child can’t stand it twice, I’ll take it for him.”

The overseer stopped.

“Good man Sigmund, what, do you want to stand up for someone again this time?”

“It’s just that he has passed his father’s love, not only me, but everyone here. Had his father’s love. If it wasn’t for his father’s life to hold the bracket, we would all have died in the last time the No. 7 mine collapsed.”

The tall man named Sigmund said in a flat tone.

“Yeah, if it wasn’t for his dad, we’d all be buried in it.”

“His dad’s leg was also broken like that.”

“My lord, let me take this whip for this child.”

And hearing his words, the other miners also began to discuss spiritedly, and even a few daring ones also stood up, Indicates that he will accept punishment for this child.

“Shut up!”

As the voices in the team got louder and louder, the overseer, who seemed to be unable to control the scene, roared loudly, making everyone’s voices quiet. covered.

There was also a faint sound of thunder in his roar, and there were a few tiny electric lights flashing in the air all around.

The miners were silent for a moment.

The overseer is actually a magic caster.

He looked at Sigmund with a livid face, before turning his head to the child for a while.

“Colte, in order not to affect today’s progress, you will go down with the mining team today, but you will continue to be punished when you come back at night. Sigmund, come with you, and this kind of thing will happen in the future. If you provoked the miners to question the authority of the duke, just get out of here.”

After he finished speaking, he hung the iron whip back on his waist, shook the flower roster, and continued to report the remaining names.

“en?”

After the overseer had called all the people on the list, he found that there was one more person at the end of the line.

He walked up to the man.

Although the man was wearing the same overalls as the miners around him, his temperament was different from the difference between Heaven and Earth. Maybe his figure was not so rough, or maybe He doesn’t look covered in dirt.

It’s also possible that his gray hair and silver eyes don’t fit in with the people around him.

“Why aren’t you on the list?”

“I was only transferred yesterday.”

The overseer reminded with a displeased face.

“I was transferred over yesterday, ‘Sir’.”

“You don’t need to call me sire.”

As soon as this statement came out, everyone Hold your breath.

(End of this chapter)