Hearing Tiger's serious words, Levi's heart skipped a beat, wondering if it was because he ate too much after falling asleep this time that the mineral output couldn't keep up?

It turns out that Levi still overestimated his food intake.

As he grew older slowly, his appetite did increase day by day, but with the sharp increase in migrant workers in Zeelandia over the years, and the continuous improvement of steam mining mules by Iger and others, the mineral output increased by more than eight times.

It's more than enough to feed him a starving man.

The next moment, the old dwarf gave an answer that was both unexpected and reasonable.

"It was the city-state of Miraba that took action."

"Mirabar? Ore Council?" Levi was slightly stunned. In his opinion, even if there were forces on the surface to intervene, it should be the Silver Moon Federation, which has a feud with the drow.

After all, it was impossible for the Silver Moon Alliance to hide the news of Sineya's heavy losses. While the drow of Gel'thorne were leaderless, it would be too much for the Silver Moon Alliance, a business competitor, to not take the opportunity to do something.

A little more.

He thought of the elves and female dwarves he met on the Nese magic ship. They must be the legends of the Silver Moon Alliance.

It's just that the result seems a little different from what he imagined.

I heard Tiger explain:

"Yes, before this, the ore market in the North was basically monopolized by Miraba, Luskan and the Silver Moon Alliance.

"In the North, the main ore-producing city-states are actually inseparable from the Dark Territory.

"For example, Mirabar is actually composed of two cities. The upper city is the living area of ​​humans, a few dwarves and elves, while the lower city, which is deep in the dark region, is the city and mining area of ​​dwarves.

"But the entrance of Mirabar from the Mirar River to the Sword Coast has always been controlled by Luskan, a powerful sea power. Therefore, if they want to transport the ore from Mirabar to the city of Kaishui in the port for deep processing, they can only cross

It can be reached after the Miral River, through Shaoya Hill, Sanzhu Land and Golden Fields.

"Aside from Miraba, another force that cannot be ignored is the Silver Moon Alliance located in the east of the Northland, or in other words, the Mithril Hall under the Silver Moon Alliance.

"The reason why Mithril Hall got its name is because the shield dwarf gate has been digging downwards for hundreds of years, and they have discovered a mithril vein with the most amazing mineral deposits in the North so far.

"So strictly speaking, the Silver Moon Alliance does not have much commercial conflict with the first two.

"Because they own the Mithril Mine, they have always taken the high-end route of finishing. The precious metal equipment was forged by the dwarves of Mithril Hall and enchanted by the elves of Silver Moon City, and they almost monopolized the entire industry.

Most of the market for high-end weapons and equipment trade in Northland.

"As for Luskan, they actually started out as pirates in their early years. Later, Gelthorne underground reached a strategic cooperative trade relationship with them, which led to the current situation.

"Relying on this port city, Gelthorne's various ores and spiritual potions that cannot be sold underground can be transported northward from the Sword Coast by humans on the surface and distributed to various coastal port cities.

"But this trade route was interrupted thirteen years ago due to the outbreak of the underground beast tide. Luskan naturally relaxed its defense at the entrance to the Underdark.

"Just eight years ago, the three legends of Gelthorne were all severely damaged. The Silver Moon Alliance may have seen an opportunity, but did not want to take action themselves, so the elves revealed the news to the city-state of Mirabar.

"The city-state of Mirabar will naturally not let go of this good opportunity to avenge its shame, but their method is a bit special. They directly dispatched an adventure team with several tons of goblin engineering explosives to lead Gelthorn to

The surface entrance in the Shaoyagang Mountains was destroyed by the explosion.

"This has also resulted in our trade routes with the surface being completely cut off.

"And before you wake up, we don't dare to expose the existence of the Beiyou Tunnel without authorization."

After saying this, Tiger spread his hands with helplessness on his face.

"Blowed up directly? So cruel? Aren't they afraid of causing a war?

"No, Luskan probably still doesn't know that the beast tide underground has ended."

After hearing this explosive news, Li Wei couldn't help but scratch the scales on his head, and a lot of sparks suddenly flew out.

He thought for a while, then smiled and said: "But it doesn't matter. Fortunately, we dug the tunnel early. Maybe it will be better. From now on, our tax relationship with the drow will be thorough."

It’s turned upside down.”

Everyone in the conference room couldn't help but smile happily.

No one likes to be taxed, especially by potentially hostile forces.

Zelandia has been taxed by the drow for more than 50 years, and finally there is hope for a reversal. How can you not be happy?

At this moment, Levi suddenly remembered a very important question and turned to Tiger and asked: "How big is the difference between our tunnel exit and the scheduled location?"

"Here, on the east side of the Griffin's Nest Mountains, the original plan is less than three miles away from what was expected."

Tiger directly spread out a map of the Northland's surface in front of Levi and drew a red circle on the east side of the Griffin's Nest Mountains.

Levi leaned down, stared at the map with squinted eyes, nodded in approval, and at the same time couldn't help but admire their Hoge Mining's ability to dig holes.

You must know that in Corell, due to the suppression of magic and the destruction of the Nether Empire, the level of humanities and natural sciences is only about the level of the Western Medieval Renaissance in Blue Star.

In this era, even the map itself may have a lot of errors. To dig out such a tunnel that is fifty or sixty miles long, the error is less than three miles, which is already impressive.

As for why you chose here?

To a certain extent, this is the same as choosing your birthplace in a sandbox game.

And Levi learned a bloody lesson when playing this urban development strategy game, that is:

A good place of birth is worth countless efforts.

Especially in hell difficulty, a birthplace that is easy to defend but difficult to attack and has good development potential is particularly important.

The location chosen by Levi is backed by the Griffin's Nest Mountains, the Hidden Forest to the north, and separated from the Eternal Wasteland to the east by the Sebring River.

At that time, they can first build a surface fortress from the Griffin Nest Mountains, and then extend their influence to the beach of the Sebring River to build a riverside port city here.

Relying on the developed water network of the Sebring River, a trade distribution center has been completely established to connect the Dark Area with the surface, and even the entire Northland trade route.

This place maintains a certain distance from the surrounding large forces, but is slightly closer to the Silver Moon Alliance.

But based on his understanding, the three most important people in power in the Silver Moon Alliance, the Silver Moon Dragon Mother and her husband Silver Wing, including their chosen agent Alustriel, are all typical lawful good camp.

This means that as long as he does not do anything that would offend the world, humanity, and gods, the Silver Moon Alliance should not be too hostile to him or Zelandia on the surface in the future.

And if we can reach a community of interests with them, then Zeelandia in the future, let alone walking sideways on the surface, can at least become the overlord of one party.

Li Wei said that he has limited ambitions, and as long as he can successfully sneak into the surface, temporarily get rid of the threats and pressures of the dark elves and gods, and then build a city-state that better suits his own will according to his own will, he will be satisfied.

Already.

But whenever I think of the thing under Zeelandia and Droru's prophetic dream, I feel a little uneasy.

'Even if you hide on the surface, will it still be difficult to escape the shadow of war?'

Levi shook his head, driving away these thoughts of bad dragon mood, stood up and said:

"Then that's it, you continue to do the work at hand, I'm going to set off to the surface to see if I can find any trace of the Silver Moon Dragon Queen.

"If we can get rid of this ancient golden dragon, then our plan will be foolproof."

When everyone heard this and prepared to leave the meeting, Calvin stood up with an anxious look on his face and begged:

"Boss, can you take me with you?"

Li Wei couldn't help but suddenly looked at the middle-aged mage whose face was full of vicissitudes of life, and nodded with a smile:

He knew that this man who had been running away for more than 20 years for his dream of psychic power
Chapter completed!