The Genius Blacksmith's Game
Land of Gold. (3)
“Do you not remember when we bit our index fingers, poured the blood into a cup, and drank it together? We are not mere friends. We are brothers!”
Baragon got excited and spat out of his mouth.
"Then, should I call you 'hyung-nim' from now on?"
"……cadet."
"older brother."
"cadet!"
“Brother!”
They have never shared blood from a single cup. However, the Dwarf King Baragon is a man of wits.
It was true that Baragon's Hyunsu was like a brother.
If he hadn't been my brother, I wouldn't have answered his call.
Of course, Hyun-su also decided to pay them a suitable price by calling them.
If I exploited them without proper compensation, there was no way the relationship could be maintained.
The Land of Iron was short on food, so Hyun-su decided to send countless amounts of food to the Land of Iron.
“My elder brother, it is His Highness Baragon.”
“……I see, uh, so you were brothers.”
“Hey, we’re your brothers, too!”
"We dwarves are all brothers!"
I am very happy to have so many older brothers.
We are happy too.
Haha.
At least Ananti and Kras knew that it was not a lie.
In particular, Kras grew up under the care of a dwarf.
“I don’t understand how this could happen. Dwarves are a race that excludes other races. I, too, originally intended to kill them, but I spared their lives after seeing them grip a hammer.”
Weren't they just being unusual?
“No. They always warned me. They said that if the other dwarves found out I was raising a human child, they would kill both them and me. This will truly go down in history.”
Kras had no choice but to admit the fact, and he saw Ananti, standing beside him, clutching her stomach.
“Ugh… my stomach hurts… I’ve never had a stomachache like this before…! Then is watching them mine for gold the only thing we can do here?”
"……yes."
Ananti looked around the surroundings.
What is useless land to one person can be useful land to another.
No, is it only for Hyun-su, the King of the Kingdom of Hyun?
Yes, it was land that only he could utilize.
Alright, let's go in!
“Let’s go!”
The dwarves moved toward the places that had now become ruins.
They first cleared away the spiderwebs and removed the safety lines, and were entering the mines here and there.
Hyunsu felt nervous seeing that.
"To realize my plan, I need a massive amount of money. To do so, I must secure the gold quickly."
Hyun-su does not simply want to obtain gold here.
The Pharion Empire started a war, and a ceasefire has not yet been established.
They could not just sit by and let it happen.
I intended to employ a strategy called "the darkest place is under the lamp."
To do that, speed is needed.
However, Hyunsu was very worried.
Even if Dwarves are a race specialized in mining, can they really mine quickly?
Hyun-su looked at the mine with a worried expression.
***
Inside the mine.
Thinking that they could help Hyun-soo for the first time, the dwarves began to strike the wall with all their might.
Kaaang-!
Kaaah-!
Not long after they swung their pickaxes, gold began to fall down in a shower.
“……That’s incredible.”
It’s not as difficult as you think.
What a child had to pound for days to dig up fell off with just a few strikes in the hands of the dwarves.
In the first place, there was no way children between the ages of 8 and 12 could have ever done mining work.
Conversely, dwarves are born with an advantage in mining from birth.
From a game system perspective…
[Unique Grade. Natural Miner.]
[Unique Grade. Jackpot Dwarf.]
[Epic Grade. Mining Breath.]
[Epic Grade. Miner's Eye.]
In this way, one is born with countless powers inherently.
One of the reasons the children could not endure the narrow, long mine was the problem of 'breathing'.
Breathing dirty air inside a confined space is certainly burdensome.
However, the dwarves' lungs were special.
It pumps such air to purify it.
Also, the miner's eyes.
The dwarves were a unique race whose eyes could project exactly where minerals and gold were located, and who could see everything in the dark without lighting a fire.
In fact, the dwarves worked in the mines without lighting fires.
Caw!
Kaaang!
*Thud*
"It keeps falling off every time I hit it?"
“Humans are idiots. To think they can't do something this easy?”
The dwarf who said that actually knew, too.
It is just that the things humans can do and the things dwarves can do are different.
Finally, dwarves began heading out from all over, loaded with gold bars.
It was only about 20 minutes after they had entered.
And Hyunsu was checking the notifications.
[1 kg of gold is worth 10,000 gold.]
Gold has special value in reality, but it also has special value in Ares.
Even if only 1kg could be mined, enormous wealth could be earned.
Therefore, there are users who go around frantically searching only for places where gold is found.
However, it was highly valuable precisely because it was so difficult to obtain.
A certain novice user who found a gold vein sold it and got a chance to win the lottery.
rattling sound
And Hyun-su was surprised by the sound of the cart that was already coming from somewhere.
Are you transporting stone fragments?
Just then, the dwarves appeared.
Gold bars embedded deep within the pile of rocks!
They had already started bringing in gold bars.
They swept them to one side.
[You will obtain 7kg of gold.]
“……!?”
The value of the gold bars poured out by a dwarf in a cart amounted to a whopping 70,000 gold.
The dwarves continued to pour out the gold bars from the cart.
[You will obtain 12kg of gold.]
[You will obtain 14kg of gold.]
[You will obtain 1kg of top-grade gold.]
[1kg of top-grade gold is worth 1 million gold.]
Strictly speaking, Ares was a game, and it was bound to contain gold that was special even more than reality.
Hyunsu watched the gold continuously piling up by the cart.
He was astonished by the dwarves' mining skills.
However, Hyun-soo really needed a lot of money for what he was planning.
Shhh-
Dwarf Baragon unfolded a blueprint.
The dwarves were the creators of the most magnificent city and the greatest architecture.
Hyunsu wanted to build a truly massive structure together with the dwarves.
And that was through gold that came from here, not money in the hands of the county.
“If I try to draw upon the county’s funds to create what I want, the country will go bankrupt. I am not sure if it will be possible with the gold bars obtained here.”
“I checked, and there really were a huge amount of gold bars buried there.”
But doesn't it take time?
"Only we're dwarves?"
With those words, the Dwarf King Baragon gestured to a certain spot with his chin.
“I think there’s something here?”
“Haha, it seems there is something hidden in my eyes as well.”
Dwarf's Eye!
They stood before a land through those eyes.
And then they started digging the ground among themselves. They were faster than moles.
As a dwarf struck the ground, something suddenly shot up.
Suwaaaaaaaak-!!
It rose up like a cool stream of water, stretched out like water, met the air, became a solid, and turned into gold.
Whoosh!
[It will pour down until the gold and water dry up!]
Is this a dream?
Hyun-su shook his head in disbelief as he watched Geum-su spread out like a stream of water.
[A total of 47kg of gold pours out from Geumsu!]
The dwarves, realizing the existence of the beasts, began to continuously unleash them.
Pwaaaak-
Pwaaaaaaak-
Rain of gold falls everywhere.
As Hyun-su watched this spectacular scene, he thought that what he had planned might actually succeed.
In addition, a dwarf came carrying a piece of gold the size of a soccer ball, struggling to lift it.
“This isn’t just ordinary gold, is it?”
The gold was shaped just like the sun.
[Acquire Legendary Gold. Sun Gold.]
[Sun Gold is worth 100kg at 1kg.]
Hyunsu was impressed.
The value of legendary gold transcended common sense.
After collecting gold for a day, a whopping 400 kg of gold was mined.
“It is three times more and faster than I expected…….”
Hyun-su was impressed by the dwarf's strength.
"So that means you can pour three times the financial resources into this blueprint?"
"you're right."
Dwarf King Baragon smiled.
Being able to burn money infinitely means being able to build the most perfect thing!
I will have half the dwarves mine, and the other half build.
Dwarf King Baragon moved quickly.
It appears that the daily mining volume reaches as much as 400 kg.
“What… 400kg a day…? Are you saying you mined in one day the amount of gold bars our empire obtains in two years?”
Prime Minister Ananti was flustered. In that instant, his heart ached again.
I couldn't even breathe.
Panic disorder is coming on.
“That was originally ours……!”
There were also reports from others.
The dwarves have started construction.
At those words, Ananti immediately rushed to Prax's territory.
Ananti was unbelievable.
There were indeed mountains of gold bars piled up all over the estate.
It was truly a gold mine of land.
And the dwarves began to build.
Ananti intended to stay here for the time being to see what was being built.
Because…
It is not that dwarves can make dry land fertile.
Making dry land fertile is a difficult task in the first place.
It is also a separate matter from the dwarves.
Dwarves are good at building, not farming.
I'm telling you, this is a place where no one can live!
Then what on earth are they making?
Only three days have passed.
During those three days, the dwarves completed its framework at an incredible speed.
When I spoke with Kras, it was said that it would take at least 300 years, but he shortened that timeframe ridiculously.
Come to think of it…
20,000 dwarves are working on the construction.
Moreover, they were fast, and they didn't get tired as rumored.
He also carried construction materials by himself that would have required six people to lift and move.
and.
“I sold the gold bars and bought the best things!!”
Hyunsu poured out only the most expensive building materials.
"Aren't these materials of the same caliber as those used to build the Imperial Castle of the Pharion Empire…? No, they are beyond that!"
They were literally pouring money into a single territory.
Five days have passed since then.
It is gradually taking shape and growing bigger.
However, Ananti still could not tell what he was making.
only……
It is incredibly tall. It also looks solid. Is this Dwarf technology? It is certainly not an exaggeration to say that the Land of Iron was the most magnificent and splendid nation…
Parian Empire Imperial City
Buildings that were much taller, more outstanding, and more durable than that were being constructed.
Chancellor Ananti was convinced that it would be difficult to destroy even the Parion Empire easily.
And when a few more days had passed…
Ananti realized that something was strange.
Hyunsu brought over hundreds of types of massive siege weapons.
And the dwarves placed them one by one throughout the territory.
There were also weapons costing anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of gold each.
It was only after seeing the weapons being deployed that Ananti realized what they were making.
'no way……!?'
It was an offensive fortress.
Moreover, the strongest fortress was being built right in the front yard of the Parion Empire.
