Chapter 328 [0325] A Huge Reward

Under the urging of Cassiopeia and the other two, the members of the "expedition team" dragged their tired bodies and quickly arrived at the designated col.

Although this natural, col-embracing terrain refreshed everyone in the team, when they followed the opening of the col and entered the col, the excitement quickly turned into disappointment.

Yes, the terrain here does give people a feeling of "something here", but after getting closer, they found that the mountain here is almost no different from the mountain bodies of the various peaks of the Waste Hills.

They are all basalt exposed to the air.

Although the northwest foothills of the Waste Hills are not as barren as the southeast foothills, and there are even many tenacious plants growing in the cracks of the rocks on the mountain, at first glance, the entire col is simply visible, and there is no blind spot at all.

Looking at this featureless basalt mountain and the flat ground, most people in the team feel that there may really be nothing here.

However, Cassiopeia looked confident.

Indeed, this valley didn't seem to have any big problems. If you focus on the mountain, even the most professional people are doomed to get nothing.

But Cassiopeia, who had read the original prospecting data, knew that the key to this barren hill tomb was not on the ground, but on the basalt that looked extremely solid!

Blood crystals are often born between the cracks of large basalts, so the prospecting team at that time needed to survey the conditions of basalts.

As a result, when surveying the rock conditions and taking samples, the problem was discovered by chance.

According to the survey report, although the mountain basalt here is natural, it has been artificially processed - there is no trace of blood crystal in the cracks of large basalts!

You know, blood crystals are often the "fillers" between the cracks of large basalts. Although it is blood red in color, it is essentially a high-concentration rock element material, which can be found between the cracks of large basalts.

It is precisely because the Barren Hills Mountains are the largest basalt mountains in Shurima that it is the main source of blood crystals.

However, there is no trace of blood crystals in the cracks of the basalt mountains in this col - this is very telling!

There is no blood crystal where there should be blood crystals. This is clearly because the cracks in these large basalts are artificially created, otherwise this situation would never happen!

Based on this, Cassiopeia directly ordered the miners with the team to start the process of prospecting.

The confused prospectors, based on the principle of taking money and doing things for others, honestly started the prospecting work.

Find the cracks in the large basalt, let the rock elemental mage hired at a high price in the team open a hole in the crack, fill it with a large amount of black gunpowder and then detonate it...

After a process, three days later, Cassiopeia received a "bad" news - there was no trace of blood crystals in the cracks of this basalt.

According to the prospecting workers, they had never seen such barren basalt - not to mention the lack of blood crystals, there were no common basalt associated minerals!

However, after hearing this "bad news", Cassiopeia was almost overjoyed. She directly found the rock elemental mage in the prospecting team, gave him ten times the salary, and asked him to find the place with the highest concentration of rock elements.

Relying on element concentration to prospect is also a common method. The higher the element concentration, the more likely it is to have elemental crystals, so this guy didn't think much about it. After spending three days, he finally gave Cassiopeia the answer.

"It's the cliff over there." In order to earn this sky-high reward, the rock elemental mage fought hard until his magic power was overdrawn, and he almost felt the entire col, "The element concentration there is the highest and most active!"

"Great!"

Cassiopeia followed the direction of his finger, looked at the featureless cliff, and finally called the other members of the prospecting team.

"Show us your ability to mine!" She used money again, "Ten times the reward, blow up that cliff for me!"

"We've already surveyed that place, there's no blood crystal at all." The prospecting foreman was a little confused, "We won't get anything even if we blow it up--"

"Do it for money, don't talk too much." Cassiopeia narrowed her eyes slightly, and finally showed a dangerous expression on her face, "I won't lose your money, is that enough?"

The foreman, who felt a little stiff, nodded hurriedly, and then honestly directed his prospecting workers to start arranging the black powder blasting again.

Seeing them busy, Sivir found Cassiopeia.

"You are increasing the cost and diluting my profit." Sivir said unkindly, fiddling with the cross blade Charikar in her hand, "I didn't come here to mine with you - I'm not interested in the ore veins, I just want to find the Tomb of the Gods in the Desolate Hills!"

"The Tomb of the Gods is in the rock." Cassiopeia smiled, "As for the extra cost... the cost is what is paid."

Hearing her say this, Sivir was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help sticking out her tongue and licking the corner of her mouth.

"This is against the rules." After hesitating for a moment, Sivir sighed, "Professionals should always be treated preferentially, they are not mercenaries."

"This is the rule of you Shurimans." Cassiopeia laughed and blinked her smiling eyes. Her eyes immediately fell on the weapon Charikar that was constantly turning in Sivir's hand. "And, I have heard that this weapon called Charikar seems to have some problems with its origin?"

"..."

After hearing what Cassiopeia said, Sivir finally fell silent.

In fact, the weapon Charikar in her hand was indeed obtained by her from killing people - theoretically, the owner of this weapon should be the employer who hired her at the time, but when she got this weapon and felt the power in it that was like blood connection, Sivir killed the stingy guy without hesitation and kept the weapon in her hands.

Now that Cassiopeia talked about this, the subtext was "You are not a rule-abiding person either", which was enough to make the mercenary lady speechless.

In the end, Sivir could only snort angrily, leaving a sentence "I won't do this kind of thing", and left the tent.

Just like that, three days later, when Kassadin and Ezreal finally arrived at this col after going through countless hardships and replenishing supplies at the oasis along the way, what appeared in front of them was a scene of busy mining.

"Mr. Kassadin, are you sure this is the location of the God's Tomb?"

"Of course." Kassadin looked serious, "and it seems that someone has already got there first!"

Karya's small class · hired mages:

In Shurima, mages can not only become guards and mercenaries, but many people with magic talents but not good at fighting will also be hired to work in related industries - gardening, mining, smelting, forging and other industries, there are many "technicians" who are born as mages.

And this tradition is said to date back to the Shurima Empire.

PS. Today's update is late, and I will update it in the evening!