Chapter 327 – Village (2)
The next morning. We woke up early to meet Adele. Looking to her side of her, Ai was already changing her clothes of her. Her clothes her, which had been hastily thrown off during last night’s intense love affair, were strewn about on the floor. I massaged A.A’s ass as she changed her clothes to her. A.A freaked out at my touch her and kicked me, and I giggled as I collapsed on the floor. A.A said to me as she put on her pants her.
“Don’t play around and change quickly!”
I changed my clothes obediently. And crossed the corridor of the palace with arms crossed. A.A tried to die of embarrassment just because I crossed my arms, but I didn’t give in this time either. So we headed back to Adele’s workshop. In front of her workshop her, I freed her arms her. A.A opened the door, fanning her hand her to cool her flushed face her.
Adele was not beating her anvil in her smithy her. Today Adele was in her office in her in the corner of her studio, talking with dwarves dressed in more modest costumes. We searched for Adele for a long time and only after asking her apprentice her where she was, we were able to find her her in her office her. As we opened the door to her office her, Adele burst out laughing and introduced us to her dwarves.
“Greetings. This is Mr. Morugo, the general manager of our magic stone mine. Mr Morugo. This is the group of warriors who defeated the Demon King.”
“It’s A.A.”
“This is Peta Lucius.”
Morugo was staring at us, flicking his un-dwarven thin beard. I felt a strange displeasure at the gaze that seemed to judge our price. He looked over us slowly before reaching out his hand.
“This is Morugo.”
We shook hands lightly. Adele made sure we were talking to each other and laughed.
“Then let’s talk like this. I will go.”
When Adele opened the door and disappeared, Morugo started looking at us again. I lightly pricked A.A.’S side. A.A brought out a story she had prepared.
“Are you Morugo, the general manager of the magic stone mine?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
Contrary to his impression of revealing money, he responded to us with a very humble attitude. Said A.
“In fact, we are now in the magic stone mine…”
“No.”
However, Morugo turned the case down before we even got to the point. A.A, who was suddenly speechless, stared blankly at Morugo. Morugo spoke again with the utmost determination.
“Yesterday, from what I heard from His Majesty, the two of you said they would like a tour of the Magic Stone Mine. I can’t give you permission. This is because the Magic Stone Mine is a mysterious place where the Dwarves’ visions are handed down, and it is also a very dangerous place. There has never been a history of bringing in outsiders, and there never will be any in the future.”
“Can’t I do something?”
“No.”
Morugo said firmly. He was responding to us with the attitude of a plaster statue. AI looked at me. The question was what to do now. I asked.
“Is it really not possible?”
“Yes. If this is all you have to say, I will go back.”
“If you need money…”
Morugo’s face instantly rotated away. I hastily changed my words. There were opponents who hated bribes as much as there were opponents for whom bribery was the magic bullet. Looking at Morugo, it was the latter.
“…I mean travel expenses. If there are any additional costs incurred when hiring new people into the mine, I am willing to bear them. Safeguards and other things.”
“It is not because such action is necessary. Do you know? I’m sorry, but you can never enter the mine. Until now, countless nobles and wizards have hoped to enter the manastone mine, but they have never given permission. We cannot make an exception for you.”
“Okay.”
So the meeting ended that day. Morugo stiffly held her head up, and she added that if she ever thought of calling herself to such a pointless thing in the future, don’t. I wanted to make Morugo’s flat face as wide as a flat iron plate, but I decided to endure it only once for diplomatic relations.
We had to leave Adele’s workshop with no income. However, there was one thing that could be known for sure. Dwarf manastone mines aren’t just being blocked for safety reasons. And that there is something inside that mine beyond simple magic stone mining. The magic stone mining mine itself was not only in the Dwarven Kingdom. However, the magic stone mine in the Dwarf Kingdom was the most popular because it had the highest purity and the largest quantity.
“I have a feeling of something, but there is no clear evidence to dig into.”
But this alone was not enough to enter. Looking at my heart, there was definitely something suspicious inside, but I couldn’t tell if that ‘suspicious thing’ was Cioter or the magic stone mass production plant. If we went in recklessly and couldn’t find Theoter inside, only we would be in trouble.
“I know, right. I also heard the story a while ago and felt that the magic stone mine was really suspicious. But, that… Something is missing. Evidence.”
“I know, right. I wish I could give you some clues…”
A cart carrying a large load passed by on the street corner we passed. The cart was full of purple magic stones. Each of the magic stones seemed to contain such strong magical power that they radiated light like a mirror ball at a nightclub. I said.
“It would hurt your eyes to dig up something like that. Do you wear safety glasses?”
“Maybe?”
A magic stone tumbled to the floor. A homeless man lying curled up on the floor picked up a magic stone and quickly disappeared into an alley. When I saw it, I suddenly had this thought. Even if the magic stone mine was a place where only the highest classes came and went, would there really be no workers? Do those guys like Morugo really load the wagon full of magic stones and move them? Can it meet all the demand that way?
And wouldn’t there be a few workers scooping up the carts?
I looked at A.A. And said.
“Shall we search for the workers?”
“Yes?”
“Workers. There must be at least one porter moving the cart in the magic stone mine, but wouldn’t they see and hear something?”
“Maybe.”
“From now on, let’s go to the Magic Stone Mine.”
So we set off for the magic stone mine. I sent a letter to the dwarf kingdom saying that I was just going sightseeing, but I didn’t think the cunning king would believe my letter. The Magic Stone Mine was located at the end of a disgusting mountain range full of holes. Compared to other mountains, this place was easy to distinguish because there was not a single hole.
The entrance to the mine where they arrived was heavily guarded, but there were no restrictions on passing near it. We moved into the woods as close to the mine as possible. In order to keep the news of our arrival from anyone, we dug into the grass as far away as possible.
His superhuman strength and stamina kept him from getting tired even after a few nights. We watched the people while tearing off the beef jerky we had prepared in advance. There were three types of people who came and went during the surveillance. The first was the wizards who came to receive magic stones at the entrance of the mine. They stopped at the entrance of the mine, rubbing their hands and waiting for the magic stone to come out.
The second was the Dwarves who pulled the cart directly from the mine. After several searches at the heavily guarded entrance to the cave, they pulled the cart out. Then the wizards took over the cart. The workers who took over the cart disappeared into the cave again with dying faces.
“It seems to be a structure where the magic stone extraction workers take care of lodging and lodging inside.”
“You seem to pay attention to even this part.”
The last category was the janitors and dwarves like Morugo. They came to the cave once every few days, stayed for a certain amount of time, handed over the manastones they took out from the inside to the cartmen, and disappeared.
“I can’t.”
A.A said after watching the situation in front of the mine while camping for several days. The situation was desperate indeed. It was because there was no corner to get information. Workers who knew the inside information were taking care of lodging and lodging inside the magic stone mine, and managers like Morugo were moving under strict protection.
It was impossible to ‘sneak’ them out and get inside information. I had no choice but to go in and check it out for myself.
“In the end, I guess I have no choice but to go in and find out.”
“I see. There is no other way to guess.”
A.A did not respond at all. But he couldn’t help but find Theo Terre. It was because this was the place with the greatest potential within the Dwarven Kingdom.
“By the way, how do you break through the barrier? If we go in blindly, the alarm will go off.”
“I am not going that way.”
After I said that, I moved with A.A. We made a big turn around the mountain range and moved to the back of the mine. It was a huge mountain range, so it took quite a while to walk. He was sure that even if he shouted in the magic stone mine, he wouldn’t be heard this far.
There, as expected, thick bedrock greeted us. The entrance to the mine was heavily guarded, but there were no people behind this mountain range far from the mine. I reached out to A.A. Aie asked.
“Priest?”
“Would you like a sword?”
“Oh, I will.”
Realizing my intentions when I asked for a weapon, A.A lowered her sword on the bedrock of the mountain range. A large rock was neatly cut away. I put aside the rock A.A had cut out. Again, A.A raised the sword, held it at an angle, and stabbed it into the bedrock. And he drew all the way down with force. After repeating this twice, the bedrock was cut in the shape of a piece of cake. I roughly tossed the cut bedrock aside.
A.A started digging until he could see a mine inside the bedrock. I started looking around to see if anyone was watching the situation. Because it was so far away from the private house, there were no people coming and going. I slowly crushed the roughly thrown stones with my grip and pounded them lightly with my mace to turn them into a pile of stones that didn’t feel out of place.
Then, using divine power, we lit the inside we made, and pulled a pile of stones to cover the hole we made. A.A felt the knife go in at some point and told me.
“Priest. I found it.”
I waved my hand without speaking. A.A carefully used his sword to cut his entrance in a circular shape.
“I have arrived.”
