Chapter 332 [0329] Sivir's Choice

By capturing desert jumping spiders and throwing them onto the spiders summoned by Elise to fight each other, Kassadin and Ezreal successfully cleared a safe area without spiders wandering around, and did not attract Elise's attention.

Although Elise discovered the death of her own spiders, the traces at the scene proved that they died of poisoning - and there were more dead desert jumping spiders around.

In Elise's opinion, it was obviously because her little babies were starving and provoked the local spiders while foraging, so she came to ask Cassiopeia when the miners would finish their work and when her little babies would have a meal.

On the other hand, Sivir was a little hesitant.

There is no doubt that Sivir, who only has money in her eyes, is a brave and aggressive guy. Whether facing sand bandits or dealing with colleagues, she has never been soft-hearted - even for some employers who can't pay, she will kill them and take back her own rewards personally.

However, when it comes to other people, Sivir always abides by the rules.

For Sivir, it is much easier to take the reward from a big shot that they are unwilling to give because of their stinginess than to take the pitiful property from a small shot.

Both physically and psychologically.

Although she can shout out the price of "half when we meet" without any worries, Sivir still feels very awkward and uncomfortable when she thinks of killing all the prospecting workers in order to avoid paying.

She could have turned a blind eye.

But because everyone is in the same camp, Sivir often hears the workers' gossip at night - they don't know Cassiopeia's arrangement for them, but just think that this is a hard but profitable job, so even if they work hard during the day and go to bed early at night, they are still in high spirits between meals and water.

"Add clothes for my wife", "pay off the family debt", "send my son to school" and other thoughts may be the motivation for them to encourage each other, but for Sivir, it is an unbearable torment.

In this nameless valley, Sivir realized for the first time in her life that she actually had a conscience.

Sivir, who had not been able to rest well for several days, made up her mind and planned to check the accounts - after seeing the remuneration of these prospectors, maybe she would feel relieved if she felt sorry for the money?

With this thought in mind, she found Cassiopeia.

"Check the accounts?" Faced with Sivir's request, Cassiopeia was confused, "Why check the accounts now?"

"I have to keep a close eye on every penny." Sivir said expressionlessly, "Why, you didn't prepare the accounts, but planned to fool me at the end?"

"...Wait for me for a day." Cassiopeia wanted to slap Sivir and call her a money-grubber, but since she still needed her help, she could only lick her lips and agree to be forced to work overtime, "Tomorrow, I will sort out the accounts for you."

"You'd better hurry up." Sivir nodded, then turned and left without hesitation, "Don't think about cheating me."

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The next day, Sivir took the accounts from Cassiopeia.

Material procurement, livestock leasing, salary deposit-Sivir quickly locked the salary column required for the hired personnel.

The salary column for guides and guards was marked [To be paid]. This was the reward for Sivir and her mercenaries, which was a share.

Then there are the rewards for professionals such as trap experts, folklorists, and locksmiths. The rewards for these people are paid in the form of deposit + subsequent payment, and everyone's salary is very high.

In the last column, Sivir finally found the salary of the prospecting workers.

But unlike the high salaries of those professionals before, the salary of these miners... can only be described as pitifully low.

In recent years, due to the war, the gem mining industry in Nashram has always been sluggish. Their former biggest customer, the Noxians, has invested almost all of their national strength in the war. Among the luxury goods such as gems, except for a few categories that can be used as staff materials, the market has been extremely sluggish.

The sluggish market has directly led to the difficulties in the lives of the prospecting workers-in this world, maintaining the existing gem mines is already losing money, so who would hire them to prospect?

Therefore, the working deposit of the more than ten people prospecting team is only ten gold hexes.

Considering that the deposit in this business usually accounts for about 30% of the total amount, even if Cassiopeia really gave them ten times the reward, the total amount would only be more than 300 gold hexes.

And this price was not only not enough to eliminate the torment in Sivir's heart, but made her more painful.

Did she really have to kill these prospectors on the spot after digging out the Tomb of the God of the Desolate Hill for these hundreds of gold hexes?

After pretending to read the simple account given by Cassiopeia, Sivir pretended to have a clear idea, but actually returned to her tent with a heavy heart.

On the cliff, the prospectors were still trying to fill the holes made by the rock elemental mage with black gunpowder before the hottest time of noon.

With a loud blast, Sivir turned the Charikar in her hand and finally made a decision in her heart.

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The stone wall of the cliff was getting thinner day by day.

According to the rock elemental mage, the elements inside are extremely active, and there may be something terrible inside.

At this moment, Sivir found Cassiopeia and made a request that she never expected.

"Those prospectors work very neatly, and I plan to take them under my command." Sivir pretended to be calm and relaxed, as if he just thought of it occasionally, "Their pay is the same as that of the mercenary group." Calculate.

However, what she never expected was that Cassiopeia did not agree to her request.

"That's not possible." Cassiopeia narrowed her eyes, looked Sivir up and down, and refused with a smile, "They are still useful!"

"It's even better if they are useful!" Sivir showed an interested expression, "If you want to hire them later, I will raise the price——"

"No, it's not employment." Cassiopeia's expression became subtle, "Elise's pets are starving. If those little ones don't eat enough during the next exploration of the Desert God's Tomb, I can’t work honestly!”

"?!"

After hearing what Cassiopeia said, Sivir finally could no longer maintain her expression control. Her eyes widened in surprise and she looked at Cassiopeia in disbelief.

"Didn't you say that?" Cassiopeia shrugged, spreading her hands with a helpless look, "If you are interested in mining exploration, I can help you introduce some good teams... "

Kalya's Little Class·Shurima's Gem Mining:

Shurima - especially Northern Shurima - is the largest gem-producing area in Runeterra, and there are a large number of precious gem mineral resources here.

Among them, places such as Kalamanda and Uzeris in the west are rich in cool-colored gemstones. Sapphire, lapis lazuli, amethyst and other gemstones have always been very popular in Demacia.

The central Nasramei and Talishni produce mainly warm-colored gemstones, such as blood spar, chrysanthemum, blood orange jade and other gemstones. Noxians are the main customers.

Unfortunately, due to the Ionian War in the past period, the market for cool-colored gemstones has been booming, but the warm-colored gemstones have suddenly fallen out of favor. As a result, many gem miners, prospectors, and gem cutters in Nashelame have even left. Kalamanda in order to support his family.

PS. There are two more chapters tonight.