Catastrophe Card King

Chapter 757: Chapter 244: A 3000-Year-Old Skeleton_2

Then, hugging Leonard Churchill’s arm with a sly smile on her face, she was led in a skip.

…

Although they had a prospecting map in hand, finding the coordinates in the Underground Cave world was not so easy.

They traversed mountains and valleys, navigated dark streams and waterfalls, and climbed through holes and walls—the journey was anything but smooth.

Anyway, Leonard Churchill and Vera Williams, looking at that map, were both unsure they could find that place in a short time.

But Elder Clinton was mysteriously confident, claiming he could find it.

Not sure if he had the right path, but the group groped their way in the dark and walked for an entire day.

All along their journey, they collected mineral samples and analyzed them with alchemy potions, but saw not a trace of Mithril Ore.

They didn’t know if they were correct.

Leonard Churchill just felt the general direction was not off and followed along.

Luckily, Elder Clinton might have had questionable abilities elsewhere, but his intuition for “avoiding danger” was reliable.

The group, on their way, aside from encountering a few monsters that weren’t too troublesome, didn’t meet any real danger.

After about fifteen hours, the group arrived at the edge of a cliff.

All around were cliffs glowing faintly green, shrouded in mist.

Although they still hadn’t found any traces of Mithril, they had to stop to rest.

Pigeon had been in the refugee camp for a while and was adept at survival, quickly gathering wood to start a fire.

Before long, the fire was blazing, a tent was set up beside it, and the aroma of meat soup was bubbling in the iron pot.

Leonard Churchill jumped up from the cliffside, took out rock fragments he had chiseled from the surrounding rock walls, and handed them to Vera Williams.

She began testing the samples.

It wasn’t long before the results were in.

Vera Williams looked at the row of alchemy potion test tubes that exhibited various colors indicative of metal reactions and shrugged, “There are indeed mineral deposits nearby. The rocks contain silver, iron, Green Copper… and over a dozen other metals.”

But as she spoke, she suddenly shifted her tone, speaking with visible reluctance, “However, the Quality of the ores is very low, the metal content extremely low. It doesn’t even meet the minimum requirements for mining. Moreover, there’s no Mithril.”

“…”

Leonard Churchill was also puzzled.

While he wasn’t particularly interested in ores, if there was no Mithril, wouldn’t it mean the Contamination Source wasn’t nearby either?

If they hadn’t encountered the Bloodsucking Vampire sacrificing people in Bolton Town, he might have suspected there was something wrong with the map.

But now, it seemed there was no issue with it.

Where had things gone wrong?

As he was pondering, he heard a muttering voice beside him, “Strange, it should be around here. Either there’s something wrong with this map, or we’re missing some information… but it should be nearby.”

Turning his head, he saw Elder Clinton supporting himself with a bowl of mushroom meat soup.

Presumably having heard the conversation between Leonard Churchill and Vera Williams, he deflected in a soft voice to defend himself.

Leonard Churchill, hearing that tone, couldn’t help but smile, saying, “I also think Senior Clinton wasn’t mistaken. The place indicated on the map should be here.”

Despite Elder Clinton’s unreliable look of a charlatan,

the fact was, he was reliable.

With Leonard Churchill’s backing, Elder Clinton finally had the courage to show his face from behind his bowl and suggested, “I say… let’s rest tonight and look properly tomorrow. Maybe the Mine Vein is hidden deep within the Earth.”

One must do something to earn his keep and have the face to show for it.

Hearing this, Vera Williams also smiled and nodded, “Yeah!”

Although she felt the likelihood was small.

If there were Mithril Mines nearby, it wouldn’t be possible to detect absolutely nothing.

But she understood Leonard Churchill’s stance; at this point, assigning blame was pointless, especially since she, too, wasn’t sure about the map.

And besides…

Vera Williams had come searching for the Mithril Mine with great anticipation, even risking most of her inheritance to continue purchasing Bolton Mechanical Town.

If she really couldn’t find it, it would be like losing a crucial gamble with fate.

Before, she thought she would be extremely disappointed.

But now, not anymore.

Having met Leonard Churchill, Vera Williams felt it was the luckiest encounter of her life so far.

Even if they didn’t find the Mithril Mine, she’d still be very happy.

With this thought, the heiress of the Financial Conglomerate showed a heartfelt smile in the dark and frightening cliff surroundings.

If she could, she thought this kind of “adventure” could continue.

Even if they kept searching indefinitely, it wouldn’t be boring.

As countless thoughts filled her mind, Vera Williams listened as Leonard Churchill spoke up, “Senior, do you think we still have a chance of finding the Mithril Mine? After all, we saw no sign of Mithril in the nearby rock layers.”

“Well…”

Elder Clinton did know about prospecting, and normally, there wouldn’t be hope.

But with the thought of the path he had chosen, perhaps to corroborate his own views, he recounted a mythical story, “It’s not entirely impossible. Some Mine Veins have a ‘Gold Aggregation Effect.’ The metals can be very concentrated in one area instead of being evenly distributed everywhere.”

Leonard Churchill and Vera Williams both glanced over, “Gold Aggregation Effect?”

Elder Clinton continued, “Yes, usually it’s the influence of some Extraordinary Power, like an array, Restriction, or some special item’s energy field, that causes abnormalities.”

“…”

Upon hearing this, Leonard Churchill’s eyes narrowed slightly as he immediately thought of the situation in the Alternate Dimension of ‘The Greedy Miner.’

The Sealing chamber with that jar had concentrated a vast amount of Mithril of varying densities.

This explanation seemed to fit perfectly.

Elder Clinton added, “Legend has it that the Mythical Dwarf race possessed a Divine Artifact known as the ‘Ring of Gold Aggregation,’ which functioned to gather the sparse elemental metals from the Mine Vein for easier extraction. But as a result, the ores in the outer rock layers were of much poorer Quality, sometimes leaving no trace at all…”