Chapter 487: Gemstones piled up like a mountain [5K]
Almost everything that needs to be done has been arranged.
The next step is to return to the territory to arrange regular rotation of garrison.
Before that, Zong Shen still had to explore the griffin's nest.
After all, this nest occupies the entire top of the cliff, covering an area of hundreds of thousands of square meters.
It is also a special building in the wild, there should be something worth exploring.
Moreover, in the griffin's nest, Zong Shen also saw mountains of gems of various colors.
These gems range from big to small and come in different colors.
Many of them should be magic gems with elemental magic power.
Because he was cruising on Yingjiang's back, and the light inside the nest was dim.
Therefore, he failed to examine them carefully. Compared with these ready-made gems, he was more concerned about the rumors about these gems, that is, griffons like to collect gems and will build their nests near gem mines.
The authenticity of the first piece of information has been proved on the spot. If the second piece of information is also true, then Zong Shenke will be prosperous.
"Are the rumors true?"
"Is there really a gem mine near here?"
(The valley 327 kilometers north of here contains gemstones that have not been mined on a large scale and have medium reserves.
There are some cave races living there that have not yet been discovered by humans.
There is the largest gryphon nest so far in the giant neutral city on the top of the mountain cliff called Hard Cliff Castle.
It is also known as the City of Griffins, and is the most important source of griffons for several major human kingdoms on the continent.
Within a thousand kilometers near Jinyabao, there are a total of twenty-nine small gem mines, thirteen medium-sized gem mines, five large-sized gem mines, and two extra-large gem mines)
“There really is a gem mine!”
Zong Shen was overjoyed and couldn't help shouting in a low voice.
Fortunately, these griffins don't understand complex human vocabulary.
As if sensing Zong Shen's joy, Yingjiang also let out a loud chirp.
Although it was beaten half to death by Zong Shen before it was tamed, and its loyalty after taming was only 60 points, it could still be considered surrendered.
This is a process of qualitative change. Even if it is still a little stubborn in its heart, it will gradually enter the character.
"Yingjiang, take me there!"
Zong Shen pointed at the place where the gems were piled in the griffin's nest.
Yingjiang stretched his neck and led Zong Shen over without hesitation.
Griffins have a hobby of collecting gems, which has no actual use or purpose. It is simply a natural hobby.
These guys don't love money as much as the money-grubbing pretty boys.
Including the gems accumulated in the lair, they were brought back from the gem mine out of boredom.
With their strong beaks, the griffons can easily peck open the rock and take out the gems hidden in the rock wall. It can be seen that there are still many stone skins attached to these gems.
In fact, they store gemstones in their nests, which is also of great benefit to them.
There are two types of gems in this world. The first is ordinary ornamental gems, which do not contain magical elements.
The second type is magic gems, which contain a large amount of elemental magic power.
It is a commonly used magic prop, often used to make magic items, jewelry equipment, and spellcasting items.
This is true for magic wands, magic wands, and spell books.
Even some rare gemstones are valuable and can be ground into gemstone powder.
These powders are even more suitable than mithril for engraving magic patterns.
According to different magic properties, the corresponding magic gems have different colors and appearances.
Basically equal to the colors displayed by those magical attributes.
For example, red often represents flames, khaki represents the earth element, golden yellow represents the gold element, azure blue represents the thunder element, and gray-purple represents arcana. Situations like this can be applied to almost every element.
Yingjiang obediently carried him to the pile of gems.
Zong Shen nimbly jumped up from its back and jumped to the ground.
"Crack..."
As soon as he landed, his feet stepped on a thick pile of bones.
It trampled and broke the bones that were unknown whether they were animals or humans.
Almost all the ground in the griffin's lair is covered with various skeletons.
I don’t know how long these bones have been laid here. Most of them have become loose. When you step on them, bone fragments are scattered everywhere.
This kind of skeletal carpet adds a bit of horror to the griffin's nest.
However, Zong Shen had no intention of paying attention to these. His attention was all on the pile of gems.
When he was walking forward quickly, Yingjiang had already fluttered his wings and arrived at the side of the pile of gems.
Treating this place as a sofa, he rubbed his huge body against the pile of gems, seemingly enjoying himself very much.
When it was leaning on the pile of gems, the light cyan wind magic gems mixed in it began to play a role, and the strong wind magic power surrounded Yingjiang like water mist.
Just now, in order to intimidate those second-brother griffons, Takachan did not hesitate to use the Wave Wind Blade Breath, which consumed a lot of its magic power, and now it can make up for the loss.
As for other types of gems, there is no reaction. After all, griffons are wind type monsters.
Zong Shen observed with great interest as he would not be attracted or associated with other departments.
He discovered that griffins' love of collecting gems seemed to be more than just a hobby.
The wind spirit gems among these gems should help improve the griffon's strength.
This is a long and subtle process, but all of this is just his guess.
Zong Shen came to the pile of gems, stretched out a hand and began to gently brush it.
He is using the lord's ability to store items to quickly explore the status of these gems.
There are a lot of gems in this pile, and the gems in it are of various colors, some big and some small.
It took Zong Shen a full fifteen or six minutes to screen them all.
Through careful statistics, he arrived at the final number.
There are a total of 379,272 gems here.
More than 70% of them are ordinary gemstones.
These gems do not have any magical properties, but they are not completely useless to Zong Shen.
At least among those hypocritical aboriginal nobles, such gems are still very valuable.
Especially those that are large, round in shape, and pure in color are excellent materials for processing into craft jewelry, and can be exchanged for valuable dinars or other equivalent materials in any giant city.
The role of dinar is actually very great. It is called the chosen currency and has unique abilities.
By adding some dinars during the smelting process of some metal materials, additional attribute improvements will be obtained.
But even in this world, where wealth has accumulated to a huge amount, few people will use dinars to forge it at will.
This currency was not issued by a certain force but only appeared after the end of the era.
At that time, overnight, the dinar became the standard currency circulated by all major powers.
To the aboriginal people, it is as it should be.
The only lord system that can achieve this is an omniscient and omnipotent lord system that dominates the entire domain.
These are also some miscellaneous studies that Zong Shen looked up when he had nothing to do.
In short, dinars represent wealth. As long as you have enough dinars, you can buy everything.
Population, supplies, materials, and even various armors and crossbows that are considered contraband by major kingdoms.
Back in the days before the birth of the Knights, if you wanted to build a strong set of full-body armor, you would need to gather the efforts of the entire village.
Things are very different now. As long as you have enough dinars, there will be a lot of black market merchants or goblin merchants who will try their best to get these prohibited items for you.
In this batch of gems, the number of ordinary gems reached 272,075.
The number of magic gems reached 107,197.
Ordinary gemstones are divided into many grades, including irregular and inferior ones full of impurities.
There are also top-grade ones as big as goose eggs, with beautiful color and flawless interior.
These all require further screening.
The same is true for magic gems, and there are even more types.
Arcane system, space system, time system, thunder system, wind system, water system, fire system...
In addition to the series, because of the amount of magic contained inside, the size, and the amount of impurities, it is subdivided into six qualities: primary, intermediate, advanced, special, top, and super.
They roughly correspond to the six levels from ordinary to epic. The higher the quality, the smaller the quantity.
Specific details require further induction and classification.
This is not an easy job, including the fact that Zong Shen's storage compartment cannot collect all the gems now.
If you want to collect so many gems, you can only ask Howie to bring [Hiking Merchant's Badge].
With the storage space provided by the badge, it takes about a dozen trips to get it.
Mainly, these gems have not been precisely processed, and the stone skin on them also takes up a lot of space.
Perhaps because griffins are wind-attributed monsters, there are many wind-spirit gems among the magic gems.
Among the six levels from beginner to super, the total number of wind spirit gems reached 27,291.
This accounts for almost 25% of the total number of magic gems.
This batch of gems is the Griffin's savings for who knows how many years.
It's what I picked up over time.
It was also the first time for Zong Shen to see so many gems. When the number was too large, his nerves became numb.
With the current strength of the lord, it is very difficult to conquer this griffon nest.
Not to mention that like him, he captured the thief first and beat the overlord-level dragon-veined gryphon into a pig's head.
The entire griffon nest was captured without a single blow.
Made a fortune.
In fact, at this stage, not everyone can make such a windfall.
This also indirectly proves that the world is not only vast but also rich.
If they were strong enough to attack the giant city, the treasure troves and private goods of the nobles and wealthy merchants in the giant city must be an extremely huge number.
Thinking of the days when lords were generally tight, Zong Shen couldn't help but sigh.
In a short period of time, the strength of most lords will still maintain a steady progress.
But one day, the lords will be able to compete with the indigenous people.
At that time, all-out war and conflict will break out.
After all, there is no faster way to progress than war.
A battlefield can not only quickly plunder the opponent's population, but also obtain the opponent's accumulated wealth.
But this also requires the balance of strength to reach a certain balance.
The fact that the lords had just landed, the balance of strength was unequal, and the aborigines had the absolute upper hand.
This is because aboriginal forces have a foundation accumulated over thousands or even tens of thousands of years.
However, as time goes by, the weight of the lords in the balance will become larger and larger.
Because every lord has the support of the lord system, they can experience various challenges and gain points.
You can also explore ruins and open treasure chests, and the various recruitment scrolls are a complete variable.
These warriors and heroes who were sealed in it from more than 10,000 years ago to thousands of years ago represent the heritage of another thousands of years.
Therefore, there will definitely be a fight between dragons and tigers in this continent in the future.
Zong Shen understood this a long time ago.
But now he could see it more clearly.
When he got this windfall, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
Because of the limitations of the storage compartment, he could not take away these gems.
But Zong Shen already had a suitable distribution plan in mind.
He wants to take most of the gems here.
However, among the wind spirit gems, he will keep a total of several thousand wind spirit gems of various levels according to the proportion.
The remaining wind spirit gems are all prepared for the griffins in the griffin nest.
The strength of this griffon nest is very good, and Zong Shen does not want the group's strength to deteriorate because he took away the gems.
There are all kinds of monsters in the wild of this world, as well as many ethnic groups and tribes.
These monsters and alien races are not static.
Due to factors such as crossbreeding, food, environmental changes, etc., ethnic groups may also experience degeneration.
Goblins are an obvious example.
Among them, promiscuity among close relatives is a major factor in the degeneration of ethnic groups.
This law covers almost all intelligent creatures, including pure-blood dragons.
Dragon eggs born from sibling mating have a greater chance of producing dragon beasts that cannot use dragon language magic.
In addition, some external factors are also crucial.
The power of the environment cannot be underestimated, Zong Shen understands this very well.
After he counted all the gems, he couldn't help but stand aside and take a few more glances.
Because the light inside the griffon's nest is dim, these gems do not reflect any luster.
But just staying there quietly like this still has a soul-stirring attraction.
After all, gems are wonderful minerals that fit well with human aesthetics.
"By the way, does the Wind Spirit Gem affect the gryphon's strength?"
Zong Shen came to his senses and decided to verify his idea with the strategy module.
Because it was all his guess before, he could feel at ease only when the strategy confirmed it.
(Yes, the wind spirit gem is of great benefit to the reproduction of griffons.
It accelerates the growth cycle of the griffon without shortening its lifespan. This acceleration is limited.
According to the current situation, at least 8,000 wind spirit gems need to be retained in order for the acceleration to reach the upper limit, which can shorten the growth cycle by approximately 20%.
In addition, the wind spirit gem can slowly enhance the strength of the griffin and quickly restore its magic power.
This process is also subtle. Griffins living in a wind spirit gem environment are stronger than griffons living in a gem-free environment, ranging from 15% to 35%)
"Eight thousand?"
Zong Shen subconsciously repeated this sentence. At first glance, he felt a little distressed when he heard this number.
But then he thought about it, and realized that these gems were also collected by the griffins, and he felt relieved when he thought about it.
He got a lot of information from the tips given by the strategy module.
After digesting this information, he came up with his own ideas.
"Since the Wind Spirit Gem can shorten the growth cycle of these griffins and enhance their strength."
"Then can I arrange some wind-type magic circles here, or place some top-notch wind-attribute magical objects and wind runes?"
Zong Shen put forward his own opinions.
(Of course, these griffons also have cultivation value. Some wind spirit props, wind spirit magic arrays, and runes can play the same role as gems.
It depends on how you arrange the griffon nest to get accurate growth data)
Seeing what the strategy guide said, Zong Shen suddenly understood.
This griffin's nest still has great development value.
Investing some capital in the future can greatly shorten the griffon cycle.
Moreover, both the world and the lord system itself have many fancy magical objects and props, and maybe one of them can accelerate the growth cycle of these monsters.
It is not an easy task to cultivate these immortal species.
The life span of human beings is very different from theirs, so the two are not on the same time standard.
Thinking of this, he took out the communication crystal and dialed Howie's crystal number.
As the crystal lit up with lavender light, the communication crystal tower in the territory also began to shine.
Within a radius of one thousand kilometers, magic energy signals can be transmitted freely.
It took about twenty seconds before the communication crystal was connected.
"Sir... big..."
Howie's voice was a little ethereal, with some faint echoes.
"Have you returned from the mine?"
Zong Shen asked straight to the point.
Before he set off, Howie was given a task. He would clean up the pasture and then go to the mine to deliver supplies to Dutra and the others.
Accompanying them was a squad of fourth-level immortal lancers led by Cecilia.
Judging from the time, more than three hours have passed, so we should be done with the work.
"Come back to me, sir, not yet."
"We have sent all the supplies."
"But Dutra and the others have made new discoveries during the past few days of excavation."
"The kobolds dug through a passage that had originally collapsed and closed, and found part of the remains of the allied forces of the elves and humans in it."
Zong Shen raised his eyebrows when he heard Howie's report.
I have to say that this was news that interested him.
Azshara's mine is very large, connecting part of the mountain bunker and Azshara's city sewer. Zong Shen and the others are currently developing only a very small part of the mine.
Most of the mine tunnels have collapsed in varying sizes. In addition, there were frequent challenges and many incidents during this period, so Zong Shen did not pay attention to the remains of the mines for a while.
Unexpectedly, those bastards actually unknowingly opened up part of the passage when they were digging.