Full-Time Magician: Demon Mage

Chapter 253 The Road to Wealth

It's not that he can't gather more resources; if Ai Jiangtu hadn't been so enthusiastic, he wouldn't have even bothered to recruit more. There's probably no one in the team who's richer than him.

He didn't even have the time or the inclination to mine the lightning veins he discovered in Peru, let alone this seemingly unremarkable vein.

Seeing that everyone else had started to take action, he couldn't just stand there and watch.

So he casually grabbed a large pile of soil and placed it in front of Jiang Yu. Since the summoned beasts were doing the work, the summoner only needed to maintain the magic power and didn't need to give too many commands.

"Zhao Manyan is right..." Jiang Yu sighed helplessly at the sight before him, and squatted down to start digging out the magic stone.

"What are you saying... Everyone gets a share of the money. We should earn as much as we can, because these kinds of opportunities don't come around often."

Wang Teng grinned and chuckled. He stretched out his hand and condensed another palm-sized phantom claw, then began to slowly pry open the magic stone. This way, the magic energy consumption could be minimized, even slower than his own recovery.

Ai Jiangtu, who was standing aside maintaining the curse magic, saw Wang Teng waving his hand across the air at the mound of earth, and the speed was much faster than Jiang Yu's.

This precise control was another eye-opener for him. He was able to use the powerful brick-throwing technique and often used it in combat.

However, this refined way of using it is rarely applied.

Jiang Yu squatted on the ground, turned his head and craned his neck to look at Wang Teng, who seemed to have no intention of squatting on the ground with him to dig for magic stones.

This guy used spatial magic to do this?

Can't he bend down?

Compared to this, he always felt that squatting on the ground made him feel so low.

……

Two and a half hours passed in silence. Ai Jiangtu had slightly underestimated the intensity of the gloom at this location, and the magic energy could no longer hold out.

Not only that, Dongfang Lie and Zu Jiming's earth magic energy was almost completely exhausted. Bending over for two and a half hours made them frown.

She instinctively wanted to put her hand on her waist, but quickly realized that there were people watching and this action would affect her personal image.

"Ai Jiangtu, I'll maintain the magic. You guys clean up the magic stones and let the giant rock beasts dig them up. It's still early, let's do it for another two hours."

Seeing Ai Jiangtu's exhausted appearance, Wang Teng figured he was probably nearing his limit.

The number of magic stones collected is quite considerable, enough to fill a truck, but compared to the team from this morning, it's only half of what they collected.

"Hmm~ Next time we can arrange for four more people to come in and sort the magic stones, which will speed things up by about twice as much."

"This arrangement was rather inexperienced."

Upon seeing that Wang Teng had taken over the magical protection, Ai Jiangtu immediately dispelled the magic and joined the money-collecting team. The four of them worked together to clean up the magic stones.

The giant rock beast is responsible for digging with all its might, without having to sort the magic stones one by one from the soil, so overall the speed is about the same.

"Hmm, that's true!"

Wang Teng nodded in strong agreement. There were still people outside eager to make money, so they would definitely work even harder; otherwise, the sorting alone would keep the mining efficiency down.

With everyone working hard, time flew by, and soon it was time to wrap things up.

Ai Jiangtu went out first to call a truck, while Wang Teng was in charge of the final loading. Under his mind control, the loading task was completed quickly.

In the end, one afternoon, two trucks were filled with magic stones, and they were hauled out in two trips.

When they emerged from the Cursed Lands, they arrived at the camp and saw their teammates quickly cleaning the magic stones and packing them up.

By the time they finished their work, it was almost dusk.

As the camp's manager and also the buyer of magic stones, William was counting and checking the number of boxes of magic stones.

"That's amazing! A total of 20 boxes, which is 20 cubes of magic stones."

"The price I'm offering for the rough magic stone is 800 million per cubic meter, for a total value of 1.6 million."

William, tapping on his calculator, approached the queue, exclaimed in amazement, and gave the final price.

"Hmm...we can accept this price."

Ai Jiangtu roughly knew the market price of crude magic stone, which ranged from about 5 million to 500 million per cubic meter, with a large fluctuation range.

The quality of magic stones varies. Good ones are very expensive and can be used directly to power various magical tools or vehicles.

Those of average or poor quality can only be used to power small gadgets, such as lighting, and their price is very limited.

Before mining, there will be an assessment to see the average quality of the magic stone ore and give a rough quote.

They had already noticed this problem during the screening process, discovering that the quality of the magic stone veins was relatively average, and they were prepared for the price.

In addition, the military will definitely take a cut, which is unavoidable, so the price won't be too high.

Even so, everyone was overjoyed to hear the number; they had gained so much in just one afternoon.

This is so much better than any resources or rewards given by a mentor!

"Okay, please give me an account number, and I'll transfer the money to you directly."

William was satisfied with the other party's attitude of not raising the price. In fact, considering the background of the mining team, they were already prepared and could not treat them like random teams.

What would tarnish the Temple of Liberty's reputation would be merely some petty gains, not enough to make them do anything that would damage their reputation.

It would be better to be a little more generous, which would let these elites know the grandeur of the Temple of Liberty and attract geniuses from all over the world to join.

With Ai Jiangtu providing the account, the first transaction between the two parties was completed quickly.

"This is really lucrative! If we could dig for a month or two, wouldn't each person be making hundreds of millions???"

Mo Fan had already grasped the meaning of what Ai Jiangtu had said earlier: what it meant to casually dig up a few scraps that could yield hundreds of millions, even billions...

"It's still daytime, don't get ahead of your dreams. This mine doesn't have that many resources, and our mentor won't let us stay here for long." Zhao Manyan couldn't help but dampen his spirits; he was really dreaming too much.

"Has there been any progress this afternoon?" Dongfang Lie asked Mu Tingying. This kind of money-making speed needs to be accelerated.

"We haven't found any on the market yet, but we've already spread the word. These kinds of monsters are quite rare, and they live underground, so the chances of finding one in a short time are slim." Mu Tingying didn't say much more. How could they possibly find a pangolin on their own?

At this point, it depends on the forces behind it. With this advantage, it's natural to make use of it. As for whether it can be found, that's another matter.

"This money is not needed here for the time being, and there's nowhere to spend it. We'll distribute it all together at the next stop, the Temple of Liberty."

"Today I discovered a shortcoming: when mining in the Cursed Lands, we need four more people to sort the magic stones, which would increase the speed by about 100%."

"Mu Tingying and Zhao Manyan will continue to be in charge of finding pangolins, and will also work with Mu Ningxue and Nan Rongni to handle logistics and camp security."

"As for the pangolin demon, if we really can't find it, so be it. Even at the current pace, we can still reap a rich harvest."

After William left, Ai Jiangtu rearranged the team's workload, doing his best to ensure everyone had something to do.

(End of this chapter)