From Wild Mage to Wizard King.

Chapter 399 Going out
After it was decided that Hela would go to the buffer zone and be responsible for the mining of the Tears of the Moon vein.

Roland also encrypted and sealed the report provided by the Buffer Zone Construction Corps, extracted the information about the mithril veins, and, imitating the mithril veins discovered in the Dragon Ridge Mountains, sorted out the notes and put them into the central database.

As for the information related to Tears of the Moon Goddess, it is encrypted and obfuscated and stored in the central database, with only the Chairman allowed to access the deepest part.

Afterwards, Roland and Hela also drew up a secret mining plan, confirming the manpower and material resources to be mobilized, as well as the secret rendezvous and transmission locations.

After drawing up the mining plan, Roland did not skip the committee's procedures, but instead encrypted it and sent it to the executive committee. After the executive committee's review and authorization, the mining plan was officially implemented.

The Tears of the Moon mining plan approved by the Executive Committee went through the implementation stage smoothly just like other mines and engineering plans they approved.

The committee, city halls at all levels, and local military departments did not notice anything wrong and began to transfer supplies and personnel to designated locations according to the skinning plan.

After the materials and personnel began to be mobilized, Hela quietly left Apocalypse, put on an official identity for disguise, and rushed to the designated location.

At the same time, the Wind Knight of the border wall also secretly escorted the space anchor to the buffer zone and handed it over to the leader of the Construction Corps, asking him to personally install the space anchor at the location of the Tear of the Moon Mine.

On January 10th, Hela arrived at the destination first.

In accordance with the confidentiality standards for mining extraordinary mineral veins, Roland and Hela isolated the designated location they selected and stationed an elite team of a thousand people there.

Of course, this was only a superficial garrison. In addition to an elite team of a thousand men, according to Roland's direct order, five hundred Death Knight Primarch soldiers and more than a dozen spellcasters were also secretly transferred here.

They will be responsible for security issues in the core areas.

With the help of the spellcaster, when Hela arrived, the extraordinary people who arrived earlier had already dug a mine underground for camouflage, and stored all the necessary materials in the mine, making arrangements in advance.

Led by a third-level spellcaster, Hela passed through layers of strict defenses and entered the camouflaged mine.

Following the mine tunnel, Hela went nearly a hundred meters underground and reached the deepest part of the mine.

At the lowest point of the mine, spellcasters were working with workers to build a refining workshop for the Tears of the Elune.

The Tears of the Moon Goddess cannot be used right after they are mined. They need to be extracted, refined and purified, otherwise they cannot be used because there are too many impurities.

For the sake of confidentiality, the refining of the Tears of the Moon Goddess was planned to be done directly here. When the refining was completed, Hela would directly put it into the space bracelet.

In the open space next to the refining area, a medium-sized space gate has been prepared, waiting for Hela to complete the last step.

Hela glanced at the refining area, removed her disguise, and then walked directly to the location of the space gate.

Standing in front of the space gate, which was only in its infancy, Hela took out the magic book from the space bracelet. Then, the magic book floated in front of Hela, and under the influence of Hela's magic power, the magic book began to flip.

Spell runes and magic lines flew out from the magic book, landed on the metal pillars standing in front of him, and merged into them.

As the spell runes and magic lines connected with each other, a space-based spell model began to be quickly built. The embryonic space gate in front of him also began to absorb the surrounding elements, filling them into the spell model, and gradually perfecting itself.

Under Hela's micro-manipulation, the prototype space gates built by the spellcasters were also undergoing slight adjustments to better fit the spell model.

In less than half an hour, Hela entered all the multiple space models into the space gate in front of her, completing the last step of the space gate.

When the magic book stopped flipping, closed again, and fell into Hela's right hand, the space gate under the ground also flashed a faint light, and all the spell models arranged in it emerged on the surface. Then, in less than a second, they all disappeared into the space gate again.

After completing the entry of the spell model of the space gate, Hela did not activate the space gate immediately. After all, the miners responsible for mining had not all been in place, and the space anchor point on the buffer zone had not yet been in place.

The space gate can only be activated after all preparations are made.

Now, Hela looked around and decided to set up a simple spell formation on the spot.

Although with the defensive force here, there are a thousand-man team of the legion, five hundred primarch soldiers and more than ten spellcasters, it is basically impossible for anyone to break through these layers of defense.

Even if someone could break through these defenses, the committee’s support would have arrived by the time he reached Hela. However, thinking that she might as well do nothing, Hela used local materials and set up a simple spell formation.

It was not the fixed large-scale magic formation that Roland had used before against Kan'ozu. The magic formation that Hela had arranged was a simple formation that was mainly for defense and concealment.

It does not require any resources, only Hela's magic power is needed. Of course, the low construction cost also means that the effect of the spell formation is poor.

After spending more than ten days, Hela had only built a magic position with autonomous defense and warning capabilities. The defense could only resist a mid-level spell at most, and the warning range could only cover a distance of 100 meters around the position.

The main reason why it was only built to this extent is that the leader of the buffer zone construction corps sent a message that the space anchor point has been installed at the target site. At the same time, all the recruited miners have arrived, signed a confidentiality agreement, and left their life marks at the Fountain of Life.

Mining Tears of the Moon in the buffer zone is still somewhat dangerous. In order to avoid the possibility of death, miners who have not left any life marks are not allowed to work in the buffer zone.

Now everything is ready to activate the space gate.

In the open space next to the space gate, the miners were ready with their tools, and the spellcasters who were also heading to the buffer zone were waiting silently.

Standing in front of the space gate, Hela stretched out her right hand and turned on the switch on the space gate that was connected to the magic storage device. Then, her magic power poured in and activated the spell model in the space gate.

A large amount of magic power poured out from the storage device nearby and was continuously injected into the space gate, helping Hela to reduce the magic power consumption of activating the space gate.

As a large amount of magic power poured in and magic arrays were activated one by one, waves of space fluctuations also emerged and spread around the space gate.

In front of Hela's eyes, she could even see a flash of space cracks. However, Hela did not feel any fear and calmly activated the space gate.

In the center of the space gate, thick spatial fluctuations began to slowly form. As a faint blue light visible to the naked eye flashed, a layer of light and shadows like blue waves appeared in the empty space gate. Hela looked at the activated space gate and began to connect to the space anchor point of the buffer zone. After locking it, Hela also directly extracted a large amount of magic power to open the connection. Finally, Hela's magic power gently swept across the space gate, calming the unstable space. The flowing light and shadows gradually stabilized, forming a stable space gate.

Through the stable space gate, Hela saw the Wind Knights in front of the buffer zone space anchor point.

After checking to make sure everything was normal, Hela took the lead and walked into the space gate.

In the buffer zone, the wind knights who followed the leader of the construction corps and escorted the space anchor point all the way to the mine also saluted Hela who crossed the space gate and came to them.

Although Hela resigned from her position after the Green Tide War and was no longer one of the top military officials, she retained her status as a member of the War Council and was still one of its top officials.

Moreover, it has only been a few years since the Green Tide War ended. Not to mention the Primarch soldiers, even ordinary legion soldiers know of Hela's existence.

After all, with the Fountain of Life, no soldiers on the War Council have died in battle so far. Therefore, they basically all know or have seen Hela, who has been commanding the spellcaster legion on the northern wall for a long time.

Hela nodded slightly in return, then she took a few steps forward and made way.

One by one, miners, primarch soldiers and spellcasters walked out of the space gate, and then, according to the plan, they began to work in this somewhat narrow underground space.

They first expanded the underground space, and then transferred the excavated soil to the other side through a space gate.

Hela also found an open space, took out the magic book, and began to summon the undead.

Through the undead summoning spell, Hela summoned nearly a hundred undead from the dark elemental world.

Since these undead were all found and trained in advance by Hela's Gray Crow in the Dark Elemental Realm, they went straight into work after being summoned.

While the miners and the undead were expanding the space, Hela also took the Primarch soldiers and spellcasters and used materials to start setting up semi-permanent spell formations.

Different from the simple formation just now, this spell formation used some extraordinary materials to enhance the isolation and defense capabilities, thereby shielding the influence of the chaotic elements in the buffer zone.

In just two days, the underground space was expanded several times, all the personnel and materials needed for mining were transferred over, and the mining camp was successfully built.

At the same time, the magic formation led by Hela was quickly constructed, isolating the underground from the ground.

After making preparations for mining, Hela also led the extraordinary people to expand the underground passage leading to the Tears of the Moon Goddess and cleared out the impetuous and dangerous magic accumulated deep underground, which was attracted by the Tears of the Moon Goddess.

Hela led the spellcasters to clean up, the miners and undead were responsible for mining and transportation, and the primarch soldiers were responsible for security issues.

When Hela began to mine the Tears of the Moon Goddess, Roland was a little uncomfortable with Hela's absence at first.

After becoming the [Chairman], Roland rarely showed his true self in front of other people, especially after the Four Saints and One Church was officially established and he was promoted to the temple, Roland paid more attention to his image.

In this situation, the only time Roland could relax was when he was alone or with Hela.

Now, with Hela gone, Roland really became a lonely man. He spent almost the entire day in the study and bedroom. He was either squatting in the study silently handling government affairs, or resting in the bedroom.

Even if there was no government affairs to deal with, Roland would hardly go out. He would either read in the study or be in a daze in the bedroom.

When Hela was around, she would take him out for a walk when she had nothing to do. But after Hela left, Roland felt a little bored when going out alone.

Apart from the regular patrol missions that Roland set himself, Roland basically never went out.

In the past, when the two of them went out together, no matter what they did, they would never feel bored, even if they were just strolling around. But when Roland was alone, he felt a little bored.

Occasionally, when he went out to eat desserts alone and watched the couples coming and going in the shop, Roland would feel that the delicious desserts of the past were a little tasteless.

Even for fishing, which he liked recently, Roland was no longer interested. After all, even if he caught a big fish, he could only look at it and eat it by himself. In the past, he could compare it with Hela and show off.

Now he could only compete with other fishermen. Moreover, Roland would be questioned by them about why he came here alone to fish this time and whether he had a conflict with Hela. After being asked several times, Roland decided not to go fishing.

Leaning against the bookshelf in the study, Roland casually flipped through the book in his hand. On the desk next to him, a pen was floating in the air, constantly writing on the white paper.

This was an untranslated book from the dwarven library. Roland flipped through it casually while silently translating and recording.

While translating, Roland's eyes subconsciously swept across the clean desk not far away where several magic books were neatly placed.

The wooden chair was pushed into the desk, and bright sunlight came through the window, sporadically falling on the desk.

At this time in the past, Hela would sit there and study, or translate dwarven books with Roland.

Thinking of this, Roland's thoughts became somewhat scattered, and he subconsciously stopped translating the dwarven book on his hands. After the translation stopped, the pen on the desk that was writing naturally stopped as well.

After the sound of the pen writing stopped, Roland, a high-level spellcaster, immediately came to his senses.

What's wrong with me? Why do I suddenly think of these things? It's so weird. Hela just went out to work, she's not dead, she will be back soon.

Roland shook his head, cleared the random thoughts in his mind, and looked back at the dwarf book in his hand. The pen on the desk beside him also started moving again, making a rustling sound of writing.

　Care for empty-nester Roland, don’t let waiting become a regret.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)