Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 78 Reverse Plunder
Harvey stood quietly in the magic network space, watching the magic pattern in front of him, which was originally flashing with black spots of light. Under the impact of the energy beam, it was directly shattered and decomposed, and then annihilated in the magic network space.

"What a great...magic version of tactical missiles...long-range decapitation operation." He laughed at himself, then retracted his mental power and withdrew from the magic network plane.

Reiner picked up a piece of paper from the communication array, glanced at it briefly, and immediately reported to Harvey in surprise: "Sir! Pierce sent a message. The giant corpse puppets surrounding the outpost suddenly lost control and disintegrated, shattering on the spot..."

It worked! Harvey was delighted, and then he remembered many details about dealing with the Necromancer.

"Tell Pierce and the others that the Necromancer's stitched corpse may contain a plague. Make sure the soldiers take anti-epidemic potions and repeatedly burn the fragments of the corpse with flames. Don't take it lightly."

"understand!"

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The soldiers at the outpost in the valley standing on the fortress wall saw this scene and raised their guns and cheered.

"Teacher, the master's plan really succeeded! This is too... too incredible. How did he use that metal ball to kill the evil orc spellcaster from a distance?"

Asdalen looked at the chaotic evil orc camp on the other side, shook his head and sighed, "I don't know either. Your Excellency's research into the magic network space far exceeds that of ordinary spellcasters. Even I cannot understand the mysteries within it."

Pierce didn't dwell on the answer to the question. In his opinion, it was enough that Lord Harvey personally took action and successfully resolved the dilemma of the outpost being besieged.

"We'll observe for another day. If there's no sign of other spellcasters attacking the opponent, we'll have to fight back..."

The teleportation array delivered hundreds of magic bullets and the newly assembled Wolf Spider Beast Type 2. Based on the original Wolf Spider Beast, a magic-powered flamethrower was added, which could effectively cause fire damage to the enemy and assist in burning the enemy's corpses.

The territory sent twenty of them, plus the thirty original models already at the outpost, Pierce now had a combat team of fifty alchemy beasts.

Only by actually fighting with this group of wolf spider beasts can you know how useful these iron guys made entirely of metal are. Although they look as scary and disgusting as giant spiders, their eight pointed legs are agile and can climb and jump regardless of the terrain.

It also has the ability to move around at night, and as a reconnaissance, patrol, and alert force for outposts, it is truly all-round.

Most importantly, they seem to be extremely good at fighting in groups, whether with their own kind or with ordinary soldiers whom they regard as their own kind.

Pierce even happened to see the Wolf Spider Beast actually pick up injured soldiers and try to drag them back to the fortress. There were also many times when the soldiers retreated and the Wolf Spider Beast took the initiative to step forward to lure the enemy to divert their attack.

"Master Harvey has always said that these alchemical beasts are living creatures with life and thoughts. Is this what he meant?"

The same goes for those giant war beasts, but it is said that they were accidentally captured and transformed from a group of mammoths that migrated to the nearby area, and there are only so many of them.

They are living metal beings, just like Reiner and Mentor Astaron.

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In the evening of the next day, the soldiers who had been holding back for three days finally came out of the fortress, stepped on a metal trestle built in the river by the huge war beast, and began to attack the main camp of the evil orcs with the cooperation of the wolf spider beast.

It seemed that because of the accidental death of the spellcaster who was the main fighting force, most of the evil beastmen in the camp evacuated to the direction of the farther valley.

Only less than five hundred evil orcs were left, and they were still trying to carry some heavy supplies they had looted, but they were intercepted by soldiers who crossed the river at night.

Under the attack of the continuous magic guns and the fire-breathing wolf spider beasts, this obviously poorly equipped evil orc baggage train was quickly defeated, leaving behind hundreds of corpses in the camp, and the survivors fled into the dense forest in small numbers.

Pierce wasn't worried about them escaping; his wolf spiders would follow the scent and hunt them down. His current concern was what to do with the huge pile of looted supplies the evil orcs had left behind at the camp.

He didn't recognize many of the things at all, so he could only wave his hand and let the alchemical camel transport them all back to the outpost fortress.

It would be best to send them back to the territory in batches and hand them over to Lord Harvey to identify and deal with them personally.

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"What the hell is this?" Harvey looked at the various messy materials piled up on the teleportation array, which almost occupied one-third of the laboratory area, and covered his forehead with his hands with a wry smile.

Reiner was enthusiastically directing the working Alchemymon to sort and organize the spoils and supplies sent back by Pierce.

"Look, sir! What kind of weapon is this?" He picked up a short axe with a strange shape like a boomerang and handed it to Harvey.

"Hmm... looking at the patterns and shapes carved on the handle, this should be a weapon of the demons, a throwing axe used by ordinary soldiers..." Harvey's knowledge of continental history was pretty good, and he could barely identify the origin of the item.

"Send them all to the iron foundry to be melted down. The metal smelting skills of the demons are quite good. Don't waste these materials."

Reiner rummaged through the pile again and found an exquisite wooden box covered in animal hides. "This box is even inlaid with gemstones! My Lord, take a look..."

Harvey was not interested in these ordinary gems without any magical fluctuations. He was more concerned about the deep red liquid neatly stacked in crystal bottles in the box, and the strong energy fluctuations contained in them.

"This must be an extremely precious spellcasting material. I don't know its purpose yet, so I'll seal it carefully for now."

He would wait until the Magic Network Forum exchange meeting before consulting those high-level spellcasters online.

The rest of the captured materials were mostly metal weapons or decorations that the evil orcs were interested in. Harvey felt that the best destination for them was to send them into a furnace and refine them into metal ingots, and then remake them into weapons.

But in addition to the box of unknown liquid spellcasting materials, there was another thing that Harvey was very satisfied with. He could even think that its value far exceeded other spoils.

There were four boxes filled with hundreds of dark golden metal ingots, which were a unique metal mineral from the demon race - phantom copper.

This ore is only found in the lava mountains of the Demon Territory, and is sparsely distributed and has low yields.

I don't know how this medium-sized evil orc tribe that fled to Jackdaw Ridge got such valuable strategic materials from the demon clan.

Moreover, it is a refined ore ingot that has been smelted and purified, and can be used directly to make weapons.

Phantom Copper is one of the main materials for making elemental magic tools, which can greatly improve the casting stability and magic power amplification effect of the magic tools.

Because the demons strictly controlled the circulation of this rare material, in many wizard kingdoms in the southern continent, Phantom Copper was once priceless and could not be easily purchased with gold pounds alone.

These boxes of phantom copper in front of him probably weigh as much as two or three hundred kilograms. Harvey felt that if the customary price among spellcasters was calculated, it would be worth at least 100,000 gold pounds.

War and plunder are indeed the fastest way to get rich...

(End of this chapter)