From Wild Mage to Wizard King.

Chapter 453: Ten Thousand Meters Underground
After the Permafrost Border was established and the North was quickly pacified by the Committee, in addition to the troops stationed in the North, the Committee also withdrew its troops from the North back to Donnar.

However, the War Council relaxed, but the Silver Empire became nervous.

The Regency Council never expected that the committee would wipe out the entire North so quickly. In their opinion, the North could at least hold out for a year or two, but they didn't expect that it couldn't even hold out for a year.

Because the Silver Emperor did not cooperate, the degree of chaos within the empire was far more serious than the Regent Council had imagined. Years of inaction led to various problems in the empire. In the absence of cooperation from the various princes, many problems were difficult to deal with.

Amid internal instability, the Regency Council was also somewhat worried about its two neighboring countries.

Although in theory, the Inter Alliance, which has annexed several human kingdoms and is also somewhat turbulent internally, is unlikely to declare war on the Silver Empire; according to intelligence, Donnar's War Committee is now obsessed with pioneering and is unlikely to declare war on the Silver Empire.

But theories are just theories. In this age when there are kings and emperors, there are many wars that suddenly break out because of the ideas of kings and emperors.

What if Roland suddenly decides to declare war on the Silver Empire? The Inter Alliance has also deployed a lot of troops on the border, what if the Inter Alliance really sends out troops?
The Regency Council did not dare to take the risk, so they could only mobilize the imperial army, expand the stationed troops, and increase protection of the border.

As a price, the Silver Empire's recovery speed inevitably slowed down.

Of course, there is no need for the Silver Empire to be on guard. At least, there is no point in being on guard against the War Council. The War Council has no intention or plan to mobilize troops against the Silver Empire.

The reason was simple. The committee had to prepare for the cold disaster and had no extra energy to waste with the Silver Empire. Therefore, at Roland's instruction, the War Committee still maintained its original strength and did not take any countermeasures because of the Silver Empire's actions.

In the Dragon Spine Mountains of the North, with the establishment of the Permafrost Border, the entire North was brought under the jurisdiction of the committee, and a large number of explorers and resources began to be transported from Donnar to the Dragon Spine Mountains.

With the continuous investment of personnel and resources, the excavation of the Far North Gate buried deep in the ice and snow has been continuously accelerated.

The thick ice and snow were cleared away, and a large number of strange devices were moved to the Far North Gate for installation and commissioning. A layer of shield protected the entire Far North Gate, and while providing protection, it also isolated the wind and snow in the north.

Under the protection of the shield, the temperature inside the Far North Gate also slowly rose, providing the explorers with a relatively better working environment. After a busy day, they could also take off their armor and have a good rest in the camp of the Far North Gate.

Under such circumstances, the explorers were more motivated to re-excavate the blocked Dragon's Spine Passage and the progress was much faster. According to Calvin's report, it is expected that the Dragon's Spine Passage blocked by the Frost Dwarves will be reopened within half a month.

At the same time, according to Roland's orders, the military will also form an army of 30,000 people mainly composed of dwarves, goblins and gnomes, and transfer them to the north through space gates and secret transfers.

According to Roland's limited knowledge of the Frost Dwarves, there are a lot of traces of battle left in the ruins of the Frost Dwarves in the Dragon Spine Mountains, so the Dragon Spine Passage is likely not to be so safe now.

Moreover, the Cold Disaster is most likely caused by the Frost Dwarves utilizing the heritage of the Kingdom of Clans. This also means that if you want to understand the situation of the Cold Disaster, you have to get the heritage from the Frost Dwarves.

This is no simple matter.

It’s like someone suddenly runs into your house and tells you that the most precious and valuable thing in your house may bring disaster to the world.

If your attitude is nice, you might think this person is sick, but if your attitude is bad, you might just tell him to get out.

Considering that the time for the cold disaster to break out is getting closer, Roland has made two preparations. If he can have a good talk with the Frost Dwarves and solve the cold disaster problem in a friendly way, it would be best. But if the Frost Dwarves don't understand human language, then he can only use force.

After all, the committee’s army is not kept for show. If persuasion fails, the only option is to use force.

Due to the complex surface conditions of the Dragon Spine Mountains in the north, as well as the logistical problems at the Far North Gate, most of the mobilized troops were stationed in batches at the foot of the Dragon Spine Mountains, with only a small number of elite troops stationed directly at the Far North Gate.

While the explorers at the Far North Gate were digging at several tunnels that they had found that were suspected to be the Dragon Spine Passages, Roland and Hela were also exploring underground at this moment.

However, Roland and Hela were not exploring the Dragon Ridge Mountains in the north, but underground in Donnar.

The Undead Mine established in the Steel Hill area goes deep into the ground and has a complex network of mine tunnels dug underground. The two can go deeper underground quickly along the network of mine tunnels. And since there is also an Undead Mine here, the subsequent mining work can be slightly simpler.

Roland went deep underground to find a new vein of Tears of the Moon.

Roland originally thought that the small piece of Tear of the Moon Goddess ore he had dug in the buffer zone would be useful for a long time, but it turned out that he was overthinking it.

Due to the rapid advancement of magical equipment technology, the demand for energy is getting higher and higher. Even if we are stingy in civilian magical equipment, we can't be stingy in military equipment. Even if we are more frugal, we still have to add a little Tears of the Moon Goddess to the energy system of magical equipment armor.

Although each set of strange armor is used in small quantities, there are more than 700,000 soldiers in the committee. Even if each set of strange armor is mixed with only a little Tears of the Moon Goddess, the total number is not a small number.

Although other military wonders tried not to consume Tears of the Moon Goddess as much as possible, all the saved Tears of the Moon Goddess were spent on the major project of the Sky Fortress. The number of Tears of the Moon Goddess required for the energy systems of the five Sky Fortresses was not a small number.

In addition, many of the committee's various research projects require Tears of the Moon Goddess, and the total cost of these projects is not a small number.

In addition to these, another major consumer of Tears of the Moon Goddess is Hela.

When Hela was promoted to the sixth ring, she consumed a large amount of Tears of the Moon Goddess. During the five-year bottleneck period, in order to try to advance and break through, she also consumed a lot of Tears of the Moon Goddess.

Some time ago, when Roland left the committee and went to the Arctic, Hela began to implement her risky and dangerous promotion plan. Although Hela succeeded, the price was that the committee's last reserve of Tears of the Moon was almost completely consumed.

Moreover, the last bit that was left was transformed into a convenient spellcasting material by Hela, who had been promoted to a higher level. Now that it had been transformed, it couldn’t be recycled.

However, Roland didn't know how much Tears of the Moon Goddess Hela had consumed at first. Therefore, when Roland saw that the reserves of Tears of the Moon Goddess in the committee's treasury were zero, he was stunned.

Of course, they are just some Tears of the Moon Goddess. If you can use these Tears of the Moon Goddess to exchange for a high-level transcendent who has the potential to become a legend, then it will definitely be a profit.

But the Tears of the Moon Goddess have become an important material necessary for the committee. Without the Tears of the Moon Goddess, the development of the committee may slow down.

Considering that in this era, it is almost impossible to obtain the Tears of the Moon Goddess through trade, Roland could only bring Hela with him.

In the history in Roland's memory, the material world was once attacked by a meteor shower composed mainly of the Tears of the Moon Goddess that lasted for dozens or nearly a hundred years in ancient times. Therefore, a huge amount of the Tears of the Moon Goddess was buried under the ground of the material world.

After geological theories were established in later generations, almost all capable major countries were able to go deep underground and find large veins of Tears of the Moon Goddess.

However, Roland really didn't understand that these were useless and only circulated among the theories of life-related players.

However, Roland had also heard some scattered news. For example, if you want to find the mine of Tears of the Moon Goddess, you have to go at least 10,000 meters underground.

Therefore, based on these rumors, coupled with confidence in his own prophetic spells and [spirituality], Roland went deep into the Steel Hill, preparing to go deeper underground to search for the Tears of the Moon Goddess.

After reaching the bottom of the Steel Hill Mine Network, Roland sensed it briefly and found that it was only about 2,000 meters away from the ground. For the remaining nearly 8,000 meters, he would have to find a way to get down by himself.

Just as Roland was about to cast a spell, Hela took the initiative to hold Roland's right hand, interlocking their fingers intimately. The virtual power slowly spread from his left hand to Roland's body.

After being promoted to a high level, even without the Gray Crow, Hela was able to use the Gray Crow's special abilities at will.

Roland glanced at Hela, who blinked, moved closer to Roland and smiled.

Roland didn't say much and silently lifted the spell. After waiting for the emptiness to cover his entire body, he also held Hela's hand tightly and began to sink deeper into the ground.

Roland controlled his sinking speed and silently calculated his sinking depth in his heart.

3,000 meters. 4,000 meters. 6,000 meters. 8,000 meters. 10,000 meters
Roland stopped sinking only when he reached a depth of more than 11,000 meters underground.

Looking at the dark environment around him, Roland locked onto the rocks and matter around him and stuffed them all into his space bracelet. Seeing this, Hela also took the initiative to stuff matter into her own space bracelet.

Although the rocks deep underground were very hard, they were no different from brittle paper under the cutting of space and were easily cut and thrown into the space bracelet.

Soon, the two of them cleared out a small space deep underground.

Afterwards, Roland and Hela released their virtuality and stood in this small space.

After ending the virtualization, the two were directly placed in an extreme environment of scorching heat, high-pressure elements, no oxygen and no light.

This is naturally unacceptable to ordinary life forms, but it does not have much impact on high-level transcendents like Roland and Hela who have already fully shaped the [concept].

As long as their concepts are stable and their self-awareness is clear, no matter how bad the environment is, it will not affect them.

After appearing in the small space, Roland also took out the magic book and called upon [spirituality]. He tried to use prophecy spells to find the location of the Tears of the Moon Goddess mine.

Third-ring divination spell - material location.

Even though Roland used the low-level prophecy spell to its full potential, the hard rock layer underground still affected the effect of the spell. Only the spherical area with a radius of less than 100 meters was included in the perception of the spell.

Not surprisingly, Roland failed to locate the Tears of the Moon Goddess.

After thinking about it, Roland didn't hesitate and directly used high-level spells.

Eighth-ring divination spell—advanced material positioning.

Roland slightly adjusted the spell model, changing the spherical scan into an oblate one, focusing on sweeping the rock layer ten thousand meters underground.

The spell took effect quickly. High-level spells penetrated the thick rock layer. The detection range continued to expand by hundreds of meters, thousands of meters, and ten thousand meters.
Countless pieces of information quickly flooded into Roland's mind.

Silver, copper, gold, mithril.
Roland discovered a large number of mineral veins buried deep underground. However, he did not record them and simply skipped over them.

With the technical capabilities of the committee, these mineral veins hidden deep underground cannot be mined at all. Of course, if they want to mine them, it is not impossible.

But the cost-effectiveness is too low. There are many mines on the surface of the committee. Except for the Tears of the Moon Goddess, the cost-effectiveness of mining other underground veins is really too low, even the Mithril veins are the same.

The mithril veins discovered in the Dragon's Back Mountains can fully meet the needs of the committee. There is no need to go far away to dig for veins deep underground.

As the effect of the spell continued to expand, Roland's [spirituality] moved slightly, and an intuition arose in his heart. Without hesitation, Roland adjusted the range of the spell based on his intuition and ran straight in one direction.

Finally, Roland sensed a strange demon-free area.

found it.

Roland locked onto the location of the magic-free zone, then he opened his eyes.

Meanwhile, Hela had already assembled and adjusted the space anchor point. When Roland opened his eyes, Hela had already inserted the space anchor point into the committee's space anchor point network.

"did you find it?"

"Yes, but it's a bit far, this way."

Roland nodded, and then headed directly towards the locked position. Hela followed Roland, carrying the assembled space anchor point.

Through the space bracelet, they continuously cut the rock layers blocking the way ahead and threw them into the space behind them. The small space where the two were located was constantly moving forward at a high speed towards the magic-free area.

In less than half an hour, after traveling a long distance, the two finally arrived at their destination.

Looking at the strange black crystal in front of her, Hela frowned slightly and asked.

"Doesn't this seem to be the Tears of the Moon Goddess?"

Roland nodded, stretched out his hand, and broke off a piece of the black crystal in front of him through spatial cutting. Sensing the black crystal, Roland spoke.

"This is the companion mineral vein of the Tears of the Moon Goddess, the Black Tears of the Moon Goddess."

(End of this chapter)