Chapter 126 126. Gold-eating Demonic Insect, the Curse of the Goddess
“A gold mine.”
“…Is there a gold mine here?”
He immediately I can't believe it.
Gold actually has many uses in the magical world, especially raw gold stones that have not been processed.
Gold coins are actually an alloy mixed with magic power and some other metals. They are not completely pure gold.
Once unprocessed raw gold is discovered, major forces such as the Church, the Mage Association, or the Royal Court of the Kingdom will rush to mine it at an extremely fast speed and pocket it.
The fundamental reason is that gold is the most perfect mortal gold, whether it is the core of refining a puppet, the core of a magic circle, or other materials required for alchemy.
As for the more advanced fine gold, mithril, orichalcum, star iron...
Those are already considered magic metals, special existences that can only appear in mineral deposits full of magic, and are far from ordinary people. accessible.
If Croya can have enough raw gold stones now, he can smelt them and start making his own golems and puppets.
He also had the bark of the simulated magic tree in his hand, which was the best material for making a puppet shell.
That’s why he lost his temper when he saw Jin Jin.
"How much is this reserve?"
Cloya took a deep breath, put his fingers directly on the ground, first moved all the ants to one side, and then began to shape them through earth and stone. Techniques push away the silt on the seabed.
With the crazy injection of magic power, a hole was soon "dug" in the ground, and a dark, strange long strip of material could be seen inside.
"Huh?" He frowned.
This seems to be magma rock after the cooling of volcanic lava. There are many irregularly arranged pores on its surface, and some fine gold can be vaguely embedded in it.
Seeing this scene, he thought thoughtfully: "Could it be the gold mines brought by the volcanic eruption? There shouldn't be a lot of them."
"Well, there are some in the distance. Is the volcano what was left after the volcano erupted? ”
In order to confirm whether his guess was correct, he continued to dig deeper and instilled all the magic power into the earth.
His cultivation during this period has almost condensed the fourth magic cyclone, so under full exertion, it has already taken an earth-shaking... prototype.
The earth was turned over by an invisible force.
Dig along the black magma rock that is five or six meters wide, five meters, ten meters, twenty meters...
After digging about thirty meters, we finally Finally, we dug to the bottom of the magma rock - it was a whole piece of magma rock with no edges, and it was already considered a rock formation on the seabed.
He tentatively dug around and found that the surrounding underground was all filled with this kind of magma rock.
In other words, perhaps this flat seabed was once covered by magma, but I don’t know how long it took to be covered by washed-in mud and various things, forming what it is today. seabed.
The only problem is that in such a long strip of magma, only fine nuggets of gold can be seen, and no other minerals can be seen.
Although Croya doesn't know much about this, it stands to reason that magma rocks should be very rich in minerals, including olivine, marble, and quartz.
Why are there only gold nuggets?
In this river?
He really couldn't understand this situation, but it didn't affect him in ordering the ants to mine the fine gold nuggets inside, while he himself sat aside and supervised the work.
Soon, the gray demon ants carried tiny pieces of gold in front of him.
At first, he was in a good mood when he saw the gold being transported.
But as these tiny pieces of gold gradually piled up in front of him, his expression became more and more strange.
Finally, he couldn't help but muttered:
"The purity of this gold is a bit exaggerated, isn't it?"
He picked up one and squeezed it gently with his fingers. It can be squeezed until it is deformed. The bright golden light does not contain any impurities, which makes people feel purely strange.
Can the gold in magma rocks reach this level? It stands to reason that raw gold mine stones that have not been smelted should not be so pure.
Is it really naturally formed, or...
"Is there something else inside that made it look like this?"
He stared at the huge magma rock with increasing confusion. He simply told the ants to avoid it, and then stretched out his fingers to press on it. on top of it.
From where his fingertips touched the magma rock, red and orange magic was half on one side.
A strange magic pattern the size of a palm gradually formed.
Like the roots of a plant, more and longer whiskers extend from the palm-sized magic pattern, and finally close up to cover the entire magma rock.
This is one of the derivative magics of the earth and stone shaping technique, the fourth-level magic earth and stone breaking technique. The principle is to infuse magic power into these magic patterns to blast huge stones.
The principle is similar to drilling a hole and then loading it with explosives.
"Let me see what's inside."
After the magic pattern of earth and stone fragmentation was formed, Croya poured magic power into it.
With a loud sound of "Boom!"
The originally huge magma rock had broken into countless irregular small pieces and lay quietly on the ground.
“There really is something.”
He looked closer and saw some plump bugs lying inside the black magma rock.
Each of them is about ten centimeters long and five centimeters wide. They are covered with some white patterns, which are particularly clear on the gray-brown skin. "Gold-eating worms?"
Cloya knew their names through the Celestial Spirit Body Engraving Technique. This time he did not go to the Holy Spring Chamber of Commerce to buy information, because he had seen this kind of Demonic insect.
Still in the book "Wendy's Travels".
A bard named Wendy saw these bugs in a mine. They would eat raw gold mine stones and then transform them into extremely pure gold in their bodies.
It is said that their habit comes from the curse of the goddess of wealth, who once invited all creatures in the world to attend her banquet.
As a result, the ancestors of the gold-eating worms were not interested in the delicacies the goddess invited the god of fire and cooking to prepare. Instead, they began to eat the gold tables and chairs where the goddess entertained guests.
Faced with this situation, the goddess was of course furious, and immediately used her divine power to curse the gold-eating worms:
You will always be running on the road in search of gold, but you will not be able to eat them, your hunger will If you can't be satisfied, people will steal your gold!
As a god with powerful divine power, the goddess of wealth can of course easily influence a race - the protector of insects. Gods with weak divine power dare not say a word at all.
As a result, the descendants of the gold-eating worm are affected by the power of this curse. They will find gold and eat it, but they will eventually spit it out and turn it into gold with higher purity.
Of course I don’t know whether this story is true or not, but due to the characteristics of gold-eating worms, as long as people can find them, they can find gold.
It is said that many people have become rich because of this.
It is one of the miners’ favorite devil insects.
Of course, due to their insatiable hunger, there is almost no way to keep them in captivity unless they are provided with a sufficient amount of gold ore rough.
Otherwise they will make a fuss and kill themselves.
"It's a pity, if I could raise it..."
He looked at the gold-eating worms crawling around trying to burrow into the ground and escape. He habitually used the Celestial Spirit Body Imprinting Technique to observe. As a result, he found...
A strange mark inside the bodies of these simple-structured worms. .
It looked like a standard round gold coin with the head of a goddess on it - the goddess wearing a luxurious golden crown was smiling and seemed to be staring into the distance.
He could see the appearance of the goddess, and he could instinctively find it beautiful, but he could not recall the specific appearance of the goddess at all.
Nose, eyes, eyebrows...
If you think about it for a moment, they are all a pile of paste.
And this head is covered in gray light, like a portrait of a deceased person.
Its outer ring is surrounded by extremely complex magic patterns. Although these magic patterns have been dimmed by nearly nine-tenths, with less than a little remaining, they still shine like the sun on the star spirit of the gold-eating worm. body.
It's like suppressing something.
[The engraving is completed, the curse of the goddess of wealth. 】
[At this moment, the gold-eating worm will not be able to accumulate enough metallic magic power and turn into a butterfly, running forever on the road to find gold. 】
【The goddess of wealth has fallen, and her divine power has gradually dimmed. 】
【Perhaps close but not exactly the same power can cover the goddess's eyes. 】
A familiar reminder came, just like the thick potato blessed by the Mother Earth.
It’s just that the target is changed to the goddess of wealth, and at the end of the prompt, methods that may be able to affect this engraving are specifically pointed out.
I don’t know if Croya felt this way, which led to changes.
The astral body of the gold-eating worm sent consciousness——
“Help me.”
“End my pain.”
“ I am willing...to give you gold!”
The worms all conveyed a unified consciousness, and then squirmed closer to Croya, rubbing their heads on the ground as if they were bowing to him.
Cloya was silent for a while and sighed softly.
"Oh, who told me to be helpful?"
He thought about how to solve this problem - covering the eyes of the goddess, what about illusion? Or spiritual magic?
After thinking for a while, he suddenly clapped his hands.
"By the way! You can use this!"
There is a magic in the fourth-level magic called blindness, which actually makes people blind.
This blindness does not only mean that the eyes cannot see, but also the touch and hearing will be completely blocked. It is the prerequisite magic of the fifth-level magic "Five Senses Deprivation".
Is it possible to use this kind of magic to double engrave the engraving so that the goddess cannot sense it?
Now the power of the goddess's curse has been integrated with the astral body. In a sense... it can also be regarded as part of the astral body.
It can be engraved by a star spirit body!
He also has an idea of the power required to cast this magic.
You can definitely use the power of the Sky Crystal.
(End of this chapter)