Lord Highlander

   Chapter 864 852. Copper Mine

  Nowadays, you can no longer see the ghost pattern red ant colonies everywhere in the hills and mountains.

  However, occasionally some red ants will come out of inexplicable places, causing a lot of trouble to people in the hills and mountains.

And these small groups of ghost-striped red ants lurking in the hills and mountains happen to be the hunting targets of many mercenary groups and adventure groups. There are often only a few soldier ants in their teams, and their combat effectiveness is not that strong. It is not difficult to kill these ghost pattern soldier ants.

   At least half of the adventure group in Wilkes City are now hunting in the hills and mountains north of the Thorn Mountains.

  Suldak led 500 cavalrymen and 18 thunderclaws into the Invercargill Warcraft Forest. Although the forest was full of ghost-striped red ants, they couldn't form an aggressive beast horde.

  Perhaps because there is no unified command of the ghost-striped ants, the ghost-striped red ants in the World of Warcraft Forest are more like a mess of sand.

  Although there are many ghost-striped red ants in the forest, there are often some desperate ghost-striped red ants rushing up. They are either hacked to death by the cavalry with their swords, or shot to death by the bows on both sides of Thunder Rhinoceros.

  The army is cleaning up these scattered ghost-striped red ants all the way to the Warcraft Forest.

   travel speed becomes very slow...

  This forest was ravaged by red ants, and almost all the green leaves of the trees were eaten by red ants.

   Looking from a distance, the entire woodland has become bare.

  The scenery among the mountains and forests... It seems to have entered a severe winter without snow.

  The Bailin plane is like spring all the year round, and the calendar here is also calculated according to the time of the Grimm Empire in the Roland Continent. It is now June in the Grimm Empire, and the withered and yellow trees all over the mountains and plains make people feel that this place is very depressed.

  Although many trees sprouted green shoots, some dead trees died completely.

  The entire Invercargill Warcraft Forest is waiting for the red ants to recede completely, and then the Warcraft Forest will slowly recover, the vegetation here will grow again, and some fleeing herds will return here.

  Invercargill Forest is almost empty, and the environment is very harsh.

   Some high-level monsters that survived the beast horde are hiding in hidden corners of the forest. Their ability to survive the impact of the ant colony is enough to show that they have extraordinary power.

  These high-level monsters used to be the overlords in this forest, with a strong sense of territory...

   Have a strong sense of attack against trespassers, but this time they have to face Suldak's cavalry battalion and archer battalion.

  Suldak held the map given to him by Marquis Luther, carefully identified the surrounding reference objects, and chose the direction to go.

The cavalry battalion passed through an empty valley with ease, and then turned over a barren mountain range. On the mountain range, he found a copper ore vein in the distance. The bare mountain range was not covered by vegetation, and he could see the blue marks...

   Unexpectedly, it was so easy to find the location of the first mine. Suldak seemed very excited. The wealth buried here will belong to him in the future.

   But before that, Suldak needs to open up the mountains here, at least to be included in the land territory of the Bailin plane.

   "There it is..."

  Suldak was riding on horseback, holding the rein with one hand, looking at the mountains in the distance.

  Andreu squinted his eyes, followed Suldak's gaze, and asked him:

   "Boss, are we now going to completely incorporate this mountain into the territory of the Green Empire?"

Suldak nodded and said: "That's it. We must occupy this place. Now the entire Invercargill Warcraft Forest is empty. It is the best time for us to expand our territory. I want the entire ore vein in the forest." ..."

   "Let's go, let's see how long this vein is..."

   After speaking, Suldak rushed to the foot of the mine vein with his cavalry.

  Looking at the past from the mountains, it is not too far away.

   But when I actually walked over, I realized that this distance is not ordinary.

   It took another half a day to leave. Seeing that the sky had already darkened, the cavalry battalion finally arrived at the southernmost end of the mine vein.

  At this time, Andrew was completely dumbfounded. He only looked at the above-ground part of the mine vein, which stretched several kilometers northwest. Then, like a giant beast dormant in the forest, it inserted its head into the forest.

   "Head, are we going to dig up the entire mountain here?" Andrew asked beside Suldak.

  He doesn't know much about ore mining.

  Suldak shook his head, took out a cloth bag, then jumped off the horse, found two stones at random on the hillside, and put them in.

   "I still need to bring back some ore to refine it to see the quality of the ore in this vein. Many ores with low ore content may not be of much use." Suldak replied.

  The cavalry battalion stopped on the open ground at the northern end of the mine lode. Suldak had already seen a lot of verdant gravel along the way. It could be seen that there were indeed a lot of copper-bearing ore here, and many of them were just exposed on the surface.

  The cavalry didn't stay idle after they arrived at their destination. They started logging on the hillside, planning to build some wooden houses near this mine and set up camp.

  Suldak rode around here and found that this is the only place nearby that is suitable for building wooden houses.

  Invercargill Warcraft Forest is rich in timber resources, and wooden houses are built very quickly...

  Samila led Lei Tingxi to move forward. She was in charge of the surrounding security. In order to avoid high-level monsters lurking in the surrounding mountains, she personally took the archer group and checked around the camp to see if there was any situation.

  The bed crossbow on Thunder Rhinoceros has a very good suppressing power against the monsters in Invercargill Forest.

  Now there are not many monsters in this forest of monsters. Of course, there is no problem if Suldak wants to open up here. It is not troublesome to open up the territory in advance. He is worried about how to maintain the territory after the return of monsters.

   You must know that this is the hinterland of the Warcraft Forest.

  A ghost pattern soldier ant suddenly jumped out from the weeds, and directly bit the leg of Suldak's war horse.

  The soldiers standing aside reacted quickly, holding the spears in their hands, and blocked the ghost-striped soldier ant. Andrew rushed forward and chopped off the ghost-striped soldier ant's head.

  Andrew looked at the mountain at his feet, and asked Suldak, "Boss, if copper mines are really dug out from here in the future, how do we transport these ores out?"

   "I will use these thunder rhinos for the time being, this kind of big guy should have no problem transporting ore..." Suldak said to Andrew.

   "If possible, maybe we will build an alchemy workshop here in the future. The copper ore dug out here will be directly smelted into copper ingots, and then transported to Dodan Town." Suldak said standing beside Andrew.

  (end of this chapter)