Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 266 - 50: The 50,000-Ton Vein

Chapter 266 -50: The 50,000-Ton Vein

The situation had reached an impasse.

Though resource development could bring in a handsome profit daily, developing resources was not as simple as touching one’s upper lip to the lower.

If one wished to develop resources, slave labor was indispensable, yet apart from slave labor, the mining of such mineral resources also required the assistance of alchemy machines.

For these deep-seated mine veins, just the rental cost for the necessary alchemy machinery was a major expenditure.

And the most laughable part was, he might not even be able to rent them.

Such behemoths weren’t something one could simply lease upon request—the Merchant’s Guild needed a sufficient foundation of power to qualify for renting such large alchemy machinery.

And so, things had come full circle.

Richard tentatively asked, “Master, have all the other mine veins already been approved?”

“That’s not the case, their applications are still with me. After all, the teleportation gate hasn’t been opened yet, and I wouldn’t want to disturb my teacher with these matters.”

Gano made a gesture to the bartender behind him, and a marvelous drink with continuously changing colors was promptly delivered to his hand.

Beside him, the familiar Vladimir furrowed his brow. Gano never drank during work hours. Now that he had asked for a drink, it meant that he thought there was no more room for negotiation in this trade.

Although Richard was unaware of Gano’s habits, from the expression Gano gave him, he could see a hint of regret.

Was he regretting missing out on some magic essence?

“Master, I don’t have a large appetite,” Richard said, his eyes flickering, “A small mine vein would be sufficient.”

Gano’s eyebrows rose slightly as he spoke indifferently, “Truth be told, although I could spare a little from the stacked applications of those Guilds, they are friends of mine. And you, Consultant—”

Gano pointed at Richard, “We’ve only just met, and I hadn’t even seen you before this.”

Gano held his glass in front of him, agitating the drink as he watched the colors change.

If Richard’s next words couldn’t change his mind, then there was no point in continuing the discussion.

Unfazed, Richard said, “Since the Master is friends with those wizards, surely they would be happy to see the Master profit as well. Recently, I acquired something from Fire Lizards, but being at leisure, I find some things hard to understand.

Would the Master honor me by taking a look for himself?”

Gano revealed a hint of an amused smile,

“Oh? What might that be?”

Whatever Richard was about to present at this juncture, it definitely wouldn’t be anything ordinary.

Richard rummaged through his pockets, finally extracting a lump of green ice.

And as soon as Gano laid eyes on the ice, his expression instantly changed, with a droplet of the swirling drink spilling out.

“Dead Silence Ice Mountain Sealing Technique, how could you! No, it’s only similar.”

Gano’s expression fluctuated wildly before he finally spoke with a joking tone,

“Consultant, you seem to have considerable research in sealing skills. Your sealing skill and my teacher’s are quite similar. I almost thought my teacher had taken a new disciple outside.”

Richard smiled and said, “I had the good fortune to witness Great Wizard Qing Shuang’s sealing in the Insect Nest World. After observing for several decades, I gained some insights.”

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Richard spoke casually, but as a student of Great Wizard Qing Shuang, Gano felt a tremor within.

The Dead Silence Ice Mountain Sealing Technique was one of his teacher’s proudest creations, and as his student, he was all too aware of its complexity. To reach the effect in front of him solely by observing the results of a sealing technique for decades was something he himself couldn’t achieve.

Gano gave the wizard before him another look; Richard, although dressed in a Cloak of the Hidden, was radiating life energy that suggested he should be a Second Ring Wizard, and quite young at that.

So young, and yet able to design the magic support vehicle, the kind of alchemical weapon that had earned endless praise from the command department.

This wizard before him, his future was boundless.

“Should I invest?” Gano wondered.

Richard unsealed the skill, and a piece of blue flesh was immediately exposed to the air.

In an instant, with a slap, the bartender behind the counter simply went weak in the knees and knelt on the floor. The few White Wizards present paid no mind to the alien slave’s faux pas, their gazes were all focused on the piece of flesh in Richard’s hand.

Gano stared intently at the thumb-sized piece of flesh in Richard’s hand, on which he felt an oppression originating from the hierarchy of life.

He was now a Three Rings Wizard, a third-level creature. For something to oppress him on the hierarchal level of life, could this piece of flesh belong to the World Master?

No, the aura of the World Master’s flesh wouldn’t be so weak.

In a moment, Gano had made a decision.

“There is a Red Sun Gold Pattern Stone mine vein with an estimated yield of fifty thousand tons. The location is rather remote, which makes transportation somewhat inconvenient. I reckon my friends wouldn’t be interested in that vein.

What do you think, Consultant?”

Richard gave a slight smile, the tables had turned.

“If the Consultant’s friends aren’t interested in that mine vein, then there should be no problem.”

Richard took out an enchanted quartz tube, stuffed the piece of flesh into it, and handed it to Gano.

“This object baffles me, take it as a gift to you, Master.”

Gano received the tube, and immediately in his hands appeared a lump of green ice that seemed alive. As the ice touched the tube, it rapidly spread over it.

Before long, the tube had been turned into a block of ice.

That was the genuine Dead Silence Ice Mountain Sealing Technique.

Gano gestured towards the back, and the bartender immediately passed him another glass of the same mysterious drink.

He handed the glass to Richard, “Advisor, this one’s on me,”

Richard took the glass and asked while looking at the constantly changing liquid:

“Why does the color of this drink keep changing? Is there any significance?”

“This drink is called ‘Mood’; each color represents a different flavor. The changing colors are like a person’s mood, unpredictable.”

Gano raised his glass to clink with Richard’s, and Richard lifted his and downed it in one gulp.

“Not bad, it’s quite sweet.”

…

The matter of resource development was settled in a tavern, a place where a logistics wizard whiled away his time.

For a small piece of Mutated Flame Giant Beast flesh, Richard had traded for fifty thousand tons of Red Sun Gold Pattern Stone.

For Richard, the deal was a windfall. And for Gano, the trade was just as profitable.

It was a win-win transaction; the only ones who lost out were a few Wizard Commerce that had already filed applications.

However, they were large corporations with vast interests, and such small losses were negligible to them.

Upon leaving the tavern, Vladimir looked at Richard with some admiration and said:

“You really didn’t come here for nothing this time, snatching up such a great item.”

Richard smiled slightly and replied, “Just good luck. If the Master isn’t busy, care to accompany me to see the vein of Red Sun Gold Pattern Stone?”

“What, you’re afraid Gano will cheat you?”

“Not at all. I just want to get a glimpse of the Magic Essences buried in the ground beforehand.”

“You little rascal!” Vladimir laughed and scolded, “Go show off your wealth to someone else. This old man is off to catch slaves.”

With that, Vladimir pulled out a Magic Carpet from his Magic Pocket, sat on it, and in a flash of light, sped off into the distance.

“Ai, this old man.”

Richard chuckled and shook his head, then pulled out a map and began flying to the marked location.

Half a month later, Richard found the vein in the western part of the Morick Empire. It was a dead volcano at the foot of which, in a rock cave, a wizard exploring for minerals had found the vein and roughly estimated its reserves.

Richard landed on the ground, ready to enter the cave and see for himself what this Red Sun Gold Pattern Stone was all about.

The entrance to the cave was small, barely allowing a person to pass. But looking at the entrance, Richard wasn’t in a hurry to go inside.

He casually summoned a breeze to blow away the volcanic ash on the ground. Beneath the layer of ash that had covered the cracks in the rocks, a metal plate with golden patterns was wedged in place.

“An alarm mechanism. Seems like something’s entered the cave.”

Richard didn’t remove the metal plate, instead took out a piece of metal from his pocket and using Giant Dragon Alchemy, he crafted a similar plate and wedged it above the existing one.

After refining many Fire Lizard Alchemy Masters’ techniques, Richard’s Giant Dragon Alchemy had become the most top-tier in the entire Red Sun World.

The metal plate before him was a mere trick; he could come up with a dozen ways to circumvent it without even thinking.

Taking his Magic Wand out of his pocket, Richard bent over and entered the cave.

The cave was low and covered in volcanic ash. As Richard moved through it, he soon became covered in ash.

However, Richard didn’t mind this at all; he occasionally bent down to disarm the little tricks left by the Fire Lizard that had entered the cave.

The tricks revealed that the Fire Lizard who had entered this cave was highly vigilant and also proficient in Giant Dragon Alchemy. Moreover, underneath the volcanic ash, Richard found a few drops of black blood.

This signified that the Fire Lizard had been in the cave for some time and that there were definitely injured parties.

Injuries indicated that this group of Fire Lizards had clashed with wizards and had hidden here instead of being pursued and killed. This implied that none of the Fire Lizards in this group were particularly powerful; if there had been a third-level Fire Lizard, these people definitely would not have escaped.

With no third-level Fire Lizards, there was no reason for Richard to feel any fear.

Following the cave down, Richard encountered many forks in the path, but he noticed that the Fire Lizard had only set up traps on the routes they took.

This saved Richard a lot of trouble.

Soon, Richard arrived in front of a cave that wasn’t very big.

The cave walls were marked with golden lines and emitted a faint warmth—presumably the so-called Red Sun Gold Pattern Stone. Seated at the center of the cave were two Fire Lizards, one young and another middle-aged with injuries.

The injured Fire Lizard was severely hurt, his body full of black lines from an Undead Magic that constantly consumed Life Energy. The injured Fire Lizard’s body temperature was very low, a near-death sign for a Fire Lizard.

But Richard paid him no mind and kept his gaze locked on the young Fire Lizard after spotting the two.

The young Fire Lizard was manipulating a piece of metal which seemed alive in its hands, fluidly moving and occasionally transforming into various shapes.

Without a doubt, all the little tricks he had encountered along the way were crafted by this young Fire Lizard.

“Such skilled Giant Dragon Alchemy. This one is a talent.”

Richard made no effort to conceal his approach, boldly walking into the cave.

The Fire Lizard lying on the ground saw Richard and immediately tried to get up, but his injuries were too severe and nowhere near enough to sustain further combat.

After a futile attempt, he collapsed on the ground, his mouth opening and closing as if saying something to the young Fire Lizard.

Richard spared him a glance and stepped past him to the young Fire Lizard’s side.

“Fire Lizard, what’s your name?”