The Cicalien Mountains was a vast chain of mountains connected to form a mountain range. Towering peaks of different heights spread all over the area, forming 'waves' in the region. Ho to many desolate beasts, the mountain range was a dangerous place even for a high-ranking freelancer. However, despite being dangerous, it was also ho to many mineral deposits and lodes.
A couple decades back, the Baylands city-state governnt had launched an exploration campaign, aid at understanding the Wastelands more in preparation for a future beast wave that could potentially pose a significant threat to the city-state.
This campaign wasn't ant to eliminate the monsters in the outer region, but to understand and record the various species of desolate beasts in the Wastelands as well as to map down the entire region. If there was also any important resource stock in the Wastelands, they would think of a way to retrieve and control it. Although this campaign ended in failure, a lot of progress was made.
At that ti, the city-state governnt had discovered the Astranian Forest and located the Cicalien Mountains deep inside. As the campaign was an exploratory study, they had special equipnt for discovering valuable minerals. Under the investigation of their scientists, the team found out that the Cicalien Mountains had a special ore, Keton, deposit on one of the mountains.
Keton was a tallic material which wasn't expensive and could be said to be common. However, it was very vital to various industries. It was an important component for manufacturing certain hover vehicles and furniture.
Logically, the city-state governnt should have built a mine on the deposit and began operations.
But after considering the expenses for the project: which not only included construction of the mine, but transportation of both construction materials, ores and workers, protection of the cargo and workers, the setting up of a base, as well the paynt of workers which would have to be high as they would be working in a perilous area, which they then compared to the value of the tal ore, the city-state governnt ca to the conclusion that the excavation was not worth it and abandoned the idea.
So powerful industries and companies ca to find out about the mine, but for the sa reason, they also gave up on it.
As for individuals, any one of them who could make it to the Cicalien Mountains was definitely a strong character, and soone like that wouldn't stress themselves with a tiring task such as mining. Also, they would be able to make more off killing desolate beasts than mining for the ore and having to travel into the city to sell it, an endeavour which was clearly ti-consuming and expensive.
This led to the special situation where everyone knew that the Cicalien Mountains had ore deposits, but no one could retrieve it. It was like a pie in the sky.
The tal Lucas was looking for wasn't so cheap tal like Keton or sothing similar. In fact, it wasn't even among the discovered ore deposits. On the contrary, it was a mineral deposit hidden inside the mountain. Unlike the discovered mine, this one was filled to the brim with a valuable tal called Violent Sun ores.
Due to the presence of a special elent around the Violent Sun ore deposit, a natural electromagnetic field was ford, invisible to the eyes. This EM field had jamd the equipnt used by the exploration team and other groups, and this led to the deposit remaining untouched for decades. Luckily for Lucas, this wasn't a problem as he had the system to aid him.
The system had verified its existence, but the task of finding it was left to him.
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Once he was in front of the Cicalien Mountains, Lucas was greeted by the impressive sight of a marvelous mountain range. After admiring it for a bit, Lucas made his way into the Cicalien Mountains, making sure that he proceeded towards the northwest direction.
According to the instructions from the system, there was an average-looking mountain amongst the rest but located deep in. Hidden within this mountain was the target for his mission.
Just five minutes after Lucas had appeared within the Cicalien Mountains, he noticed a strange silhouette less than one hundred tres ahead.
Without any hesitation, Lucas imdiately concealed his aura and breathing, and ca to a stop as he studied the silhouette in front of him.
It was a creature that looked like a mole yet was much larger than that. It was four tres tall when standing on its hind legs and had a pair of special hands equipped with claws on them which aided it in digging through the mountain floor. It had a long snout and its huge body was covered in intense brown-green fur that was as thin and sharp as needles.
Its long snout was coloured green, but of a darker hue.
At the mont, the monster was nibbling on so gnawed out rocks, seemingly having a look of bliss on its face.
'The Green-Snout tal mole ' Lucas thought as he stared at the monster. He then began to revisit the knowledge regarding the monster in his head.
The Green-Snout tal mole was a special kind of desolate beast limited to the Cicalien Mountains and any other zones with tal ore deposits. It had fur as tough as tal, which was threatening to attackers and predators. Its terrifying arms also packed a punch so powerful that it could crush a boulder with one hit.
Above of all, the claws of the Green-Snout tal mole was its most dangerous weapon, capable of cutting through refined steel with ease. It was thanks to this that it could dig deep into the ground and excavate tals.
The Green-Snout tal mole was a monster with a capable defense, offense and stamina. Its only known weakness was its speed and vision, which were nothing impressive. However, it seed to compensate in that departnt by possessing a long range attack option; it could fire so of its sharp needle fur at the target.
Generally, a Green-Snout tal mole was at the very least a third level beast, but most tis, the majority would be on the fourth level. If one were unlucky, they would stumble upon a fifth level Green-Snout tal mole.
Luckily, Lucas didn't encounter such a special situation. Even more so, this Green-Snout tal mole was at the third level, the weakest of its kind.
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