Chapter 167: Discovery of Mithril Ore Veins
The so-called totem is also a kind of god, the most primitive god.
Generally speaking, the initial totem of faith was produced when the plane was in the most obscure stage and intelligent species were just born.
Because at that time, people had no idea what faith was, nor did they understand what a true God was. The powerful beings that were worshipped all accepted the faith in a confused manner, gained divinity, then obtained priesthood, and finally were deified in a confused manner.
The original belief was worship, or ancestor belief, so these totems were either tribal ancestor heroes or powerful monsters that were worshipped. Influenced by the power of faith, the priesthoods they created were mostly guardians of a tribe.
In the Age of Gods, this kind of situation was mostly caused by regional patron gods.
In the ignorant age, it was the earliest and most primitive totem god.
Totem gods are far inferior to real gods. They do not know any magic and have no protection from the kingdom of gods. They can only be confined to the tribal areas where they believe in themselves. The size of their tribe determines the scope of their activities.
If well prepared, a high-level demigod from the human destiny civilization can confront a totem god head-on.
Of course, this is limited to weak totem gods.
There should be no totem gods in this plane . After all, two or three hundred years ago, when Chunyu An descended to the palace, he killed several demigods in this primitive and wild plane.
But it’s hard to say about demigods, after all, hundreds of years have passed.
The dinosaur people in this dimension have evolved intelligence and become a new intelligent species. It is not impossible to enshrine a new demigod in a few hundred years.
It is even possible that new ferocious beast demigods will be born in these few hundred years.
“I’m so envious!”
This primitive and wild plane is really suitable for Li Qing to graze his faith.
It is perfect for space dragonborn and space dragons to live in.
Throw them into this plane and wait for hundreds or thousands of years, and you can harvest thousands of space dragons and millions of space dragon descendants. It would be so cool.
Li Qing sighed with envy again, shook his head, and was filled with regret.
Wait until his men have killed all the dinosaur people in the tribe, including the old and the weak, and finally condense a treasure chest of trophies.
Li Qing pinched his chin and prayed as usual:
"Mysterious being, if possible, I need more hero skill points."
Then he decisively opened the treasure chest, and three cards appeared in front of him.
"It's so condensed..."
Li Qing felt that as time went by, or as he became stronger, his ability to determine the prize seemed to be becoming more and more accurate.
A dinosaur man's civilization luck card. It's hard to say for others, but Li Qing usually will play one when he eliminates alien races.
A source card contains 6 points of source, and it will basically be used to destroy alien tribes.
A hero skill point card pack contains 16 hero skill points, all of which are ordinary hero skill points.
The strength of this dinosaur tribe is definitely stronger than the snake town during training, but the rewards are not as much as expected.
The reason is very simple, because it is no longer a training period for newcomers, and there is no preferential treatment for newcomers. Now it is normal spoils of war, the same as those of veteran war lords.
Li Qing didn't need the hero skill points now, so he gave them all to Xie Heng, who had previously transformed into an upper-level space dragon, and asked him to max out his three talents.
Let him choose a few extra hero skills to increase his strength.
The more of this stuff the better, and there are several men waiting in line behind.
In the future, when you are promoted to a formal war lord and have more heroes, they will need to be transformed into upper-level space dragons, and each of them will require a large number of hero skill points to max out their talents.
After the war, the tribe was cleared out and the only valuable thing was the totem pole of faith.
This thing can be transformed into a statue of faith to collect faith.
He had one before, now he has two.
They returned quickly and opened a space gate to teleport the large army back.
It was not used before, mainly because we wanted the troops to try out primitive jungle warfare.
After resting for two days, on the third day Li Qing asked An Erqiu to dispatch a vanguard to lead the way.
Again, let the heroes try primitive jungle combat.
After all, there are countless planes, and perhaps the next plane you need to conquer may be an original plane. It is better to accumulate experience now so that you will not be confused when you encounter it in the future.
But use it if it is convenient, so when you retreat, you can use the space gate to teleport back home.
By the time An Erqiu sent the message that they had arrived, it was already eight days later. They had artificially dug a road more than 50 meters wide in the primitive jungle, extending all the way to the vicinity of the dinosaur tribe 400 kilometers away.
What happened next was just like a replica of the previous battle. After the dinosaur people discovered them, they immediately gathered and launched a swarm of charges.
This time they were not polite. The Iron Golems and Heavy Infantry joined forces to form a two-kilometer-wide front line. More than four hundred Dragon Vein Snakemen and more than four hundred Space Dragonborn were lined up behind the front line. They cast all kinds of spells and bombarded the front, allowing the dinosaur people who had lived in the wilderness for a long time to experience the ultimate warmth.
Fireballs and rain of fire fell, and soon the jungle began to burn and spread rapidly to the surroundings.
Li Qing was not worried about whether it would cause a fire that would sweep across the entire plane.
Such a vast and wild world is full of weeds and jungles one or two meters high. In the dry summer, the leaves and weeds dry up.
Lightning ignites flames, and fire-breathing monsters can cause big fires. The jungle must have a way to extinguish the flames. Otherwise, given the density of the weeds in the jungle, once a fire breaks out, the entire plane will be burned.
The fact was just as he expected. When the fire spread outward to a certain extent, it did not become more and more intense. Instead, it slowly became smaller, as if there was a corrupt nature in the air.
This dinosaur tribe had nearly ten thousand dinosaurians, but its ending was the same as the previous one, and it was defeated head-on by elite troops.
When the death reached a certain point, the totem hidden in the tribe could not bear it anymore.
A huge shadow flew out from behind the mountain. It was a Quetzalcoatl with a wingspan of over 160 meters. It flapped its huge wings, and sharp wind blades came over like an overwhelming force.
The Wind God Pterosaur opened its mouth and let out a long roar. The air currents on the ground gathered and quickly condensed into four super-large tornado columns with a diameter of more than 20 meters and a height of 100 meters.
As the Wind God Pterosaur roared, tornado columns took shape one after another.
The airflow inside the tornado column was as sharp as a knife blade, and the trees that were swept into it were easily cut into small pieces and thrown out.
A large number of dinosaur people were accidentally caught in it and were quickly turned into pieces of meat and thrown out.
The iron golems quickly stood on the ground, and the dragon-scale heavy infantrymen wearing heavy plate armor grabbed the iron golems beside them, but many of them were swept to and fro and lost control of their bodies, and the wind blades cut and sparks flew everywhere.
Fortunately, the dragon scale armor is hard and heavy enough. The person and the armor weigh more than 300 pounds, so the tornado cannot roll up.
Seeing the tornado column passing the front line of defense and approaching the mage troops in the back, An Erqiu immediately looked at Long Shou and Long Fa and said loudly:
"Go destroy the wind pillar!"
The two immediately flew into the air and quickly transformed in mid-air, turning into two giant dragons with a wingspan of more than 50 meters, and rushed into two tornadoes respectively.
The tornado column itself was only twenty meters in diameter. After the giant dragon rushed in, it was cut in half, immediately lost control, and quickly collapsed.
There were a total of four tornado columns, which were destroyed by the two giant dragons in less than twenty seconds.
At the same time, twenty-four space dragons, led by Xie Zhu, rushed towards the Wind God Pterosaur in the air and entered a siege state.
The Quetzalcoatlus controlled the power of the wind and was very fast and agile.
But the space dragon is also flexible and has space-based spells.
The Wind God Pterosaur immediately opened its mouth and let out a long roar. Invisible wind gathered towards a giant space dragon and bound it, and then an extremely sharp giant half-moon shaped wind blade slashed down.
The space on the dragon's body fluctuated and the flash became ineffective .
The giant wind blade flashed and hit the target. There was a shrill roar of pain and blood spurted out. A super-giant wound appeared on the body of the space dragon, cutting into nearly one-third of its body.
“Damn it!”
"Space confinement!"
Xie Zhu raised his head to the sky and let out a long roar. Many space dragons began to cast space confinement spells.
Twenty-four space dragons were released continuously. Even though the Wind God Pterosaur had a very high resistance, it was still affected by the continuous release.
When it was imprisoned, even though it only lasted for less than a second before it regained its freedom, at this moment the giant dragon in half of the space seized the opportunity and pounced on it, grabbing the wings of the Wind God Pterosaur with its sharp claws and slamming into them.
Then, the Wind God Pterosaur roared towards the sky, green light surged all over his body, and countless sharp wind blades burst out, forming a huge wind blade ball within a few hundred meters with him as the center.
Ten seconds later, the green wind blade ball lost control and fell down. The wind blades slowly dissipated, revealing a group of scarred dragons dismembering a giant wind god pterosaur.
Soon, a group of giant dragons returned carrying a wounded space dragon. Li Qing immediately used his divine power to stabilize his body and stop the bleeding, and then took out a large amount of pure blood and flesh essence crystals to replenish his strength and recover from his injuries.
Fortunately, it didn't cut open, nor did it hit any vital parts like the heart. Thanks to the dragon clan's strong vitality, it was not killed instantly on the spot.
Seeing that his men were fine, Xie Zhu walked up to Li Qing and knelt on one knee:
"Boss, blame me. I was careless."
Li Qing nodded:
"You were careless and thought you would win with more people. This is a lesson I hope you can learn. I don't want to see this happen again."
Xie Zhu lowered his head with a serious look:
"It will never happen again."
"Well, get up."
Li Qing did not punish Xie Zhu because he himself would occasionally make the same mistake.
If you make a mistake for the first time, he will basically give you another chance.
In addition, he was already a superior dragon descendant enlightened by himself, the first generation of superior space dragon. As long as he did not betray himself, there would not be much punishment for such an incident.
Once the totem pterosaur dies, the rest of the battle is basically stable.
The battle was over in less than two hours. When Li Qing was about to leave, he suddenly received a message from An Erqiu's men. He stopped in surprise and came to the dinosaur tribe.
To be precise, it is behind the tribe, at the foot of the mountain where the wind god pterosaur is enshrined.
Li Qing took a piece of stone handed to him by An Erqiu, pressed it hard with his fingers, and the stone shattered, revealing many tiny silver dots inside.
He rubbed his fingers gently and blew on them. Stone powder flew everywhere, revealing a few silver dots. He squeezed them hard, and the silver dots turned into silver cakes.
"This is……"
Li Qing was a little unsure.
He tried to inject mana into it, feeling the smooth magic conduction performance of the silver, and a hint of surprise appeared on his face:
"It's really Mithril!"
"Is there a mithril mine underneath this?"
All the men looked at Li Qing with surprise:
"Boss, we're going to make it big this time."
Li Qing put away the silver in his hand, clapped his hands, looked up at the mountain that was probably seven or eight thousand meters high, and nodded:
“It’s time to send it out.”
"First, clean up this dinosaur tribe, open a door, dismantle the temporary base and move it over."
Now that the mithril mine has been discovered, the main base must naturally be built here.
Mithril is a good thing. It is used in all magical creations and is the most consumed magical material, no doubt about it.
Whether it is building a wizard tower, a floating city, or various advanced golem puppets, mithril is needed.
The reason why Li Qing hasn't started building the wizard tower yet is because he lacks mithril.
The discovery of a mithril mine has really solved his urgent problem.
After determining the main base, Li Qing began to prepare. The first step was to determine the location of the mithril mine. He sent his men to circle the foot of the mountain and dig east and right on the mountainside to see the distribution of the open-air part.
It took only two days to identify two open-air locations, located on the side of the dinosaur tribe and outside the tribe on the right.
The dinosaur people knew that this was a kind of ore, but mithril was not hard and was waste to them if it could not be made into weapons, so they did not dig it specifically.
Li Qing thought for a moment, called the lava crystal dragon over, and began digging the foundation of the city wall around the mountain.
The ground was melted with high temperature, and then the dragon claws dug out a foundation that was fifteen meters wide and five meters deep.
Because after being melted at high temperature, the lava cools down and becomes hard rock. By then, a large area of land around the city wall will harden into hard stone, which can effectively prevent digging.
Then, using the power of the space in his palms, he skillfully rubbed out sections of composite stone walls that were twenty meters wide and high, and two hundred meters long.
There is a 15-meter-wide and 5-meter-deep foundation trench under the lower layer, which is embedded in the foundation. The second section of the city wall, 20 meters wide and high, is built on it, and the concave and convex joints are embedded in it. 20-centimeter-thick steel bars filled with refined gold are nailed into the reserved holes, clamping the upper and lower layers.
In less than a week, a huge city about two kilometers long and wide, surrounding half of the mountain, was built.
Then he sent his dragon subordinates to the other side of the mountain where there was no encirclement, and used their dragon claws to dig away the slope at the edge of the mountain, digging out a cliff hundreds of meters high, so as to prevent the enemy from climbing up the mountain from the other side and attacking the city.
In addition, after the city is built, giant dragons will live on this mountain to drive away other large ferocious beasts.
As soon as the city wall was completed, and before construction began inside the city, Li Qing built two mines at the foot of the mountain and mobilized a large number of laborers to start digging for mithril.
Only then did they slowly plan the city, build stone houses, town halls, etc.
You don't need to go anywhere else from now on. Just stay here and dig the mithril mine. Try to mine it all within two years. If you are lucky, you may be able to collect all the mithril needed to build the floating city.
