MC's career as foreign lord

"Master, is the Fortune in your hand ready?" As Zhou Ren arrived at the mine, Mosa had already slowly retreated from the tunnel he had been digging.

The tunnel itself was straight. The torches in his hand lit up all the slightly dim places. Zhou Ren was a little curious; he didn't even see any monsters spawning in those dim areas.

Clearly, according to the previous rules, monsters would spawn in slightly dim places, right?

But since there were no monsters, he could relax a little and continue to focus on the diamonds in front of him.

Now was the time for the Fortune iron pickaxe in his hand to show its prowess. The special enchantment of Fortune III was naturally effective on minerals.

Statistically speaking, Fortune III has about a 60% chance of increasing the yield of minerals, with a 20% chance each of increasing it by one, two, or three.

This was already a terrifying number. If there really was a chosen one with heavenly luck, the 8 diamond ore blocks could yield about 32 diamonds, but this possibility was not high.

He calculated a little. According to normal probabilities, the number of diamonds obtained with a critical hit would be between three and five, which meant that generally, 8 diamond ore blocks could yield about 16 diamonds.

"Never mind, let's just mine and see how it goes. If it's really not enough, I'll go catch that bear next time I mine!"

Zhou Ren never had much confidence in his strange luck. He was a casual player and almost never got critical hits, so being able to get the minimum yield when mining ore was already good enough.

Soon, he had turned all 8 diamond ore blocks in front of him into diamonds. He didn't even need to count them; the diamonds stacked up and told him the number.

"It really is 16, just the minimum!" Zhou Ren said silently. After putting the diamonds away, he also mined out all the redstone, lapis lazuli, and mithril in the tunnel.

This could already be considered a good mining experience. At least he had achieved his basic goal, which was to obtain diamonds, so he could go back and make an enchanting table. Anyway, he had already set up the bookshelves, and he only needed to place the enchanting table to start real enchanting.

But now, obtaining experience points was still a major problem. In the future, he would also need to use experience points to make some currency!

Zhou Ren shook his head vigorously. He couldn't think too much about this kind of thing; the more he thought, the more complicated it became. He had to complete everything step by step.

First, make the enchanting table, then make a batch of enchanted tools. As for the currency converted from experience points, the real emergence of this kind of currency transaction would have to wait until the auction he was planning.

This was a very large and time-consuming project, and it might take a long time to truly complete. Maybe by then, his experience point factory or various automated channels would be ready?

Since Zhou Ren had asked the elves for the wasteland, he naturally had some future plans in mind.

In the future, if he really needed to produce gold coins in large quantities and on a large scale, the amount of experience required would be terrifying, and the amount of minerals required would also increase dramatically.

Then he would need a truly large redstone factory to produce various materials and exchange them for metals. Moreover, he also planned to build himself into a supplier of various unique materials and integrate with the races of the continent.

At least the things he had, whether it was Mysterious Stew, various foods, or even tea, could be considered exclusive and valuable trade goods.

He didn't have the idea of going out himself, so he naturally had to find a way to get those guys to come over.

The Northwind Wasteland was the central hub connecting the Silvermoon Elf Empire and the Northern Beastman Empire. This place should have been a battleground for all sides, because no race had ownership of it, which meant that it could belong to any race.

But Zhou Ren had already decided to turn this place into his own, and it would definitely become different in the future.

"Mosa, what do you think, if we take down this whole area, can we build a market for all races to come and trade?"

The two walked in the somewhat dim tunnel, and Jim forgot to light up the tunnel behind him, so they lit all the torches here.

"If you put it that way, of course," Mosa said, "Anything of yours is a treasure that many people would fight for. Even I am afraid I cannot avoid it!"

Although he said that, the expression on his face was still very calm. After all, he himself was the owner of these things, so there would be no envy, jealousy, or hatred.

Zhou Ren nodded. "So our auction still has great potential. It just depends on whether we can use this auction to create a simple connection with our currency. Let's see if there are any results from O'Halyk's negotiations with the Church of the Goddess of Wealth!"

The two walked in the mine, the torches constantly lighting up the surrounding space, and then they heard a somewhat muffled whisper from a skeleton.

"Clatter!" Zhou Ren quickly raised his shield. He was too familiar with this sound. Jim couldn't make this sound. The only monster that could move forward by rubbing its bones together was a Stray.

Sure enough, when they lit up this mine and turned into the first fishbone-shaped passage, they saw a Stray standing in the distance, aimlessly patrolling.

The overall appearance of this little skeleton was actually very similar to Jim, but it didn't have a glowing head or agile eyes. Even the soul fire in its head didn't exist. There was only a blank stare and the collision of bones.

But when it saw the two people walking over, it obviously moved a little and slowly walked towards them, seemingly wanting to get within shooting range to attack.

Zhou Ren wouldn't give it this chance, just like he would never try to see if this world would give him a chance to resurrect. He also wouldn't give the Stray a real chance to attack him.

Although he was covered in iron armor, even if he was hit by many arrows from the Stray, it probably wouldn't be a big deal, but who could say for sure?

After all, the monsters that he had shot to death with arrows in the wasteland also thought so!

This skeleton archer's intelligence was obviously not enough. After Zhou Ren took out his bow and arrow, this characteristic seemed even more obvious.

The arrow with red light directly hit the other party's head, forcing the Stray to draw its bow and arrow to fight back, but in such a mine, it was not easy to hit.

Flames had already ignited on the Stray's body. This kind of flame was difficult to extinguish, and it was devouring the other party's life force every minute and every second.

After Zhou Ren shot the second arrow at the other party, he retreated directly. Mosa held the shield in front, easily blocking an arrow that was shot over.

Their cooperation was seamless. The third arrow flew out, and Little White slowly collapsed into the flames.

They continued forward, picking up the arrows and bones that Little White dropped. The configuration was exactly the same as usual, so it seemed that this monster was also a normal monster, not an enhanced one.

"It really seems that monsters can only spawn in completely dark places. Did the monster spawning rules change again?" Zhou Ren said. After they lit up this area, they didn't see any other monsters, but they caught another zombie in another mine.

Killing zombies was much simpler. Zhou Ren didn't even prepare to attack; Mosa went up alone with the weapon in his hand and, with just a few attacks, beheaded this ordinary zombie.

A piece of rotten flesh fell to the ground and was caught. The zombie didn't have any significant changes, and no monsters from the mod appeared. This was good news for them, who were in the midst of rebuilding.

"Next time, I need to tell Jim to put torches everywhere. Now that monsters are appearing, the deep mines will become unsafe!" Zhou Ren said.

His mindset now was completely different from before. The appearance of monsters meant that everything would be risky, whether mining or farming. In dark places, a terrifying monster might emerge at any time.

This was a huge threat to life and production. Zhou Ren felt that he really needed to make more iron golems. Even if he didn't need protection himself, the area and village still needed some protection.

In MC, you always have to deal with monsters. If he wanted to avoid encountering monsters, he would probably have to find two skeleton lords to create a pseudo-peace.

"Jim!" After encountering two monsters, they successfully found Little Skeleton, who was still diligently digging in the darkness. His speed was indeed very fast, and he had already dug six fishbone tunnels.

They also excavated many strange minerals in the adjacent mines, even finding an emerald, which then became two with the help of the Fortune Pickaxe.

But this time, Little Skeleton didn't have such good luck and didn't find any diamonds. They could only retreat regretfully.

"Notify the mayor! If these monsters aren't reported, and the people run over here in the dark and get attacked, I won't have time to save them!" Zhou Ren said, handing the Elf Handbook directly to Mosa.

Then the three of them returned to the intermediate platform they had left at the mine entrance, where they burned all the items that could be smelted. Copper, silver, gold, and iron could all be smelted.

Mythril, however, required a special furnace to smelt. Like Edelman Alloy, it required a special furnace and extremely hot fuel to smelt.

A very strange thing was that, clearly, in the original mod, mythril was an advanced ore that required a diamond pickaxe to mine.

But it seemed that, affected by the correction of this world, ordinary pickaxes could also mine it, but it would only produce one mythril ore and wouldn't explode into raw silver like silver did.

So, this ore could only be temporarily stored in the box and then watch as the other ores turned into usable metal ingots.

"Master, Mayor Locke's reply has arrived!" Mosa said, handing the Elf Handbook back to Zhou Ren so he could see the words on it.

"Sir, after I finish my work, I will arrange for personnel to clean up!"

"He's really not in a hurry at all!" Zhou Ren shook his head. The town itself had walls to block the monsters, and besides the soldiers, no ordinary people would be in danger, so it wasn't a big deal.

But he turned his gaze towards the wasteland, where there was nothing to block them. Who would deal with the monsters that spawned there?

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"What exactly are these things? Am I the assassin, or are you the assassin?" The Orc Assassin looked at the invisible monster in front of him, feeling very helpless, and slashed it to death with one strike.

Fortunately, this monster was indeed very fragile and had almost no defense. In front of his blade, blessed by the priest, it was almost a one-hit kill.

He wouldn't have thought this, but now that he did, the Orc Assassin couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed. He was originally a fairly sentimental person, and he had agreed with the old priest that he would go to the Orc Wilderness Festival after the war ended.

Now, it was all for naught. The war had just begun when the old priest was shot by that strange human and died directly, without even the qualification to be resurrected. And he was dispatched to scout for information.

Legends were also divided into camps. After their side lost their legend, a large amount of power was stripped away, and they could only do some chores.

He thought a lot before he finally came back to his senses. He was clearly here to investigate the location of this legendary hunter, but where did these invisible monsters come from?

He clearly touched the transparent wall and couldn't break it with his own power, but these monsters could penetrate the wall to sneak attack him. Could it be…

He couldn't help but have a guess, "Are these monsters raised by this human lord? To defend against us?"

Just as he was thinking this, he saw a flash of white light in the distance, and an arrow flew towards him!

He was originally prepared to resist, but suddenly he thought of the priest's tragic state and quickly retreated to a position far behind, avoiding the arrow.

Although this was not the arrow shot by Zhou Ren, the death of the old priest in front of him had too great an impact on him. He even felt that he had a phobia of any arrows.

Moreover, the other party was clearly behind that transparent wall and couldn't be touched at all, so he had no choice but to give up!

"Monsters with red lights in their eyes, undead creatures that shoot arrows, large spiders that launch surprise attacks…" he muttered to himself.

If he didn't know that this was a human territory, he would even think that this was the dojo of some Lolth worshiper!

With so many monsters here, it seems that invading from here is not a good choice!

He recorded this data and then prepared to leave comfortably. Then he saw a green thing walking in front of him.

"What is this flashing thing?" He curiously went up and tapped this creature that looked strange but didn't seem threatening.

"Chirp!" A slight sound flashed, and the green creature finally stopped flashing. It… exploded!

"Hoo ya!" (Orcish: Damn)

PS: Off work, starving…