Miles looked at the green crystal with his guard up. He activated elental vision and confird his suspicions. The crystal indeed had the poison elent.
Elental Mineral? He looked at the stone dumbfoundedly. How can there be elental minerals here?
Elental Minerals were miracles of the Portal World. They contained elental energy within them and could be used to forge weapons, arrows, or ammunition Anything really. Ever since he learned how to forge he was curious about these wonders, but they were rarer than phoenix feathers, and could only be found in the D-circle and beyond.
Ever since he first read the docunts Evelyn stored in his mind and cross-checked them with the information he acquired in the mysterious room where he found the double elental orb, a discrepancy had bothered him. The point that interested him most was the difference in difficulty in forging. The docunts in the mysterious room pointed out that finding elental compatibility was easy, but in the information his mother sent, it was the hardest factor.
Miles thought about Elental Minerals when he saw the text, but he shook the idea off after so thought. After all, the mysterious room was on the edge of the G-Circle, and even in the F-Circle, it was impossible to find Elental Minerals. But now at the outmost periter of the G-Circle, in a strange cave, he found an elental mineral. Miles only now understands that the owner of the mysterious room could also access elental minerals.
Miles looked at the toads and the elental mineral. It wasnt strange for a giant toad to build its nest here, after all, monsters could increase their strength with the help of the minerals. In the D- and C-circles, there were lots of casualties when humans were trying to loot the minerals because most of the ti those minerals would be monster nests and those monsters were all strongest humanity ever faced. But here in the outermost periphery of G-Circle, there were elental minerals!
If the word got out, it would cause so much frenzy that people would swarm the place. Unfortunately for them, this cave was his and his alone. But since there was a giant toad guarding the minerals, he couldnt dare to touch them for now. But he was still curious why Jelly brought him here.
Miles looked at the jelly monster, and their eyes locked for a few seconds. An idea ford in his mind.
You brought here because you think you prevent from going to the lake to hunt fishes, so I couldnt practice forging because I dont have their monster cores? Miles asked and Jelly confird.
Can you read my mind? Miles asked with surprise. He thought it was unfortunate for him to not be able to go to the lake, but the idea flashed in his mind only for a few seconds a few days ago. So, Jelly has read his mind and compensated him with these minerals?
Jelly looked at Miles and he understood that the creature in front of him really could read his mind. It was scary but understandable. Even the puny Grunt-Rank vampire could read humans' brains to learn. It wasnt surprising to see a monster reading minds without getting in contact.
Miles has long predicted Jelly to be a Psychic elent monster. It could remove the aggro from humans and monsters alike, and it must have been related to Psychic elents. Reading minds was probably an extra perk.
Miles looked at the poison elental mineral and the giant frog. I cannot take it now, can I? That toad would eat if I were to do so.
You sure? Jelly told him to take it. The frog wouldnt cause him any problems.
If you say so. Miles approached the mineral and baby toads looked at him pitifully. Seed like they understood what the intruder would do. Dont mind if I do.
Miles wouldnt skip this chance just because a few pitiful frogs looked at him with tears in their eyes. He approached the mineral reaching to his knees and pulled it out of the ground. He pulled out an isolation container from his bag and kept the mineral. It would be worth billions if he were to sell it, but it would also cause too many problems for him. In the end, he could even be forced to confess the existence of the cave, so without making sure, he wouldnt sell it at all.
RIBBIT!
The giant toad roared to Miles but didnt take action. Miles bagged the mineral and hopped off with Jelly. On the way, Jelly led him to a few more monsters and had similar conversations with the other monsters as well. Because conversations were always silent, Miles made them up in his mind to amuse himself.
After each one, Miles got himself a mineral. So far he had got a poison mineral, a fire mineral, and a light elental mineral. Light elental orbs and crafts were super rare, and even their practitioners were rare. So just the mineral would be worth tens of billions.
Light elental crafts had great demand in the market but no person with this elent would lower themselves to work for others. Especially after the Mihr family took over the governnt by glorifying the elent by claiming them to be chosen ones that will vanquish the darkness. Besides the family, there were maybe a handful of other people with the light elent among the billion people, and all of them worked with the Mihr family.
Since it was so, the monopoly was in their hands, and that made the family quite rich. But now Miles had a source too. Although limited, the mineral would allow him to forge a set of equipnt with the light elent and sell them. He may not have been able to sell the minerals, but he could sell the equipnt with the said elent.
What should I forge with this mineral? Arrows wouldnt be much use to if they are brighter, and the sa goes for ammunition. There are better ways to blind monsters or humans. It would be a waste of heavenly gifts. Armor on the other hand would sell pretty good, but would only be decorative.
I will think about it after I co out of this cave. Maybe I can find even more minerals, then I could forge them all. Miles thought to himself and smiled ear to ear. His mood was great and he was glad to follow the little bouncer. After all, not only did it help him with the minerals, he even helped with the plants from ti to ti.
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