Due to the uneven distribution of mining technology in this world, some places are particularly backward in technology, and almost only open-pit veins and a few shallow veins can be collected.

The backwardness of mining technology has led to a relatively slow mining rate, and it is not uncommon for a shallow vein to be able to be mined for decades or even hundreds of years.

For a family, owning a vein, even a very small amount of non-precious metal veins can make the family rise.

Dwarves with advanced mining technology have become increasingly alienated from human society in recent centuries, and few national organizations other than the Ogordon Empire and the Free City-States Alliance have dwarven mining masters.

Having a Dwarven Master Miner also means being able to mine undiscovered veins and dig deeper.

It is precisely because of the backwardness of mining technology that most of the ore veins will be ruined by miners who have no common sense, but before today's civilization, there was also a technologically advanced Arcane Empire in the Mendes Continent that hardly looked like it could appear in this era, and most of the open-pit ore veins and shallow ore veins have been explored and collected by the Arcane Empire, and the ore veins left behind now are just some chicken ribs for the Arcane Empire, and it is a pity to abandon them without taste.

Eventually, these veins were preserved for a variety of reasons, and while it is unknown why the Arcane Empire, which sits on a continent, did not collect them all, it is a fact that they survived.

Now Cervantes thought of another possibility, that is, these veins are not that the Arcane Empire does not want to move, but that they can't move.

The location of the Duchy of Screaming Wind is close to the Black Forest, and the Southern Black Forest region is almost the heart of the Arcane Empire, so it's hard to explain why the shallow veins haven't been mined by the Arcanists.

Since most of the veins were ruined by miners who did not have any mining knowledge, Serena also made a special effort to rectify the mining chaos and spent a lot of effort to rebuild the mine before allowing the miners to continue working.

During this period, the officials provided other jobs for the former miners to survive, and after the mining was rectified, they were not called back immediately, but the opinions of the miners were asked, and only those who voluntarily returned to work could return to work, and the wages and guarantees were increased many times compared to the previous ones.

Because of this, the power of the Duchy of Sorrow, which has gradually developed with technology, has now discovered that there is still a relic of an Arcane Empire under their feet, and nothing has leaked out.

Cervantes and Ziegler stood in front of the cleared passageway, looking at the futuristic silver-white gate in front of them, the black dragon pursed his lips, but the red dragon hurried forward, raising his hand to caress the gate.

Ziegler narrowed his eyes and nodded in satisfaction, "It's indeed a relic of the Arcane Empire, like this gate, an unknown magical metal that we don't have, and most likely an alloy. ”

The puppet girl stood behind him, constantly pushing the nuts in the bag in her hand into her mouth.

Cervantes scoffed and said, "Why do I feel that the Arcane Empire is so bird-like?"

Hearing this, Ziegler frowned, and glared back at the black dragon, "You don't want to be so disgusting, okay?"

The black dragon shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, his face full of indifference, "That's the case, these ruins are everywhere, I'm a little strange, why did the Arcane Empire let these ruins spread all over the Mendes continent?"

Hearing this, the anger in Ziegler's heart dissipated, and his brows furrowed deeper and deeper, "I don't know ...... either."

He looked up at the gate in front of him, sighed and shook his head, "The Arcane Empire ruins I discovered, except for the one that found Rena, were all taken by the All-Seeing Eye and the Dragon Hunter Order. I'm not the first person to discover them, and I don't know what they'll look like when they're opened, but by the time I walked into them, they'd been destroyed...... However, as you can see from the last incident Grush encountered on the Eagle Plateau, these ruins are more than just 'ruins'. ”

"Aren't you talking nonsense?" Cervantes snorted lightly and looked up at the gate, "When will it be opened?"

"Wait patiently for a while......" Ziegler soothed the black dragon's irritable mood as he probed his consciousness into the gate.

[Psychic Tentacles] is a spell that almost every mage must learn, and if you don't learn this spell, you may not even know what is wrong with a magic item.

The mages standing behind Cervantes and Ziegler stared uneasily, and when they discovered the existence of the ruin, the mine keepers informed them as soon as they found out, and it was only after they arrived that they learned that today, more than eight hundred years later, the ruins of the Arcane Empire are still in operation—at least the gate.

The dutiful gate still guards the ruins, and it is unknown if it has stopped for more than 800 years, but at least it has been in operation until now.

"Where does the magic come from?" asked Cervantes coldly.

"I didn't see the magic furnace or the elemental furnace in the ruins where I found Rena, and I didn't see the elemental pool, it was basically supported by the magic of the leylines......," Ziegler paused, "but it's strange, if this place is also supported by the leylines, then Serena should have noticed it when she first launched the [Heavenly Parade]." No matter how powerful the magic channeling is, as long as this relic exists here and can receive mana for use, then there will be blockage. Could it be that it was after that that the ruins were reactivated?"

Ziegler expressed his guess, and Cervantes snorted coldly: "What are you doing so much away from him? If it was restarted after that, then there must be a lot of things in the ruins that can't be preserved, just go in and take a look!"

"It's also ......" the red dragon bowed his head slightly with his empty eyes, "be quiet next, the cracking is about to enter a critical period." ”

The black dragon folded his arms in dismay, but he also knew that he couldn't disturb Ziegler at this time.

The passage is very quiet, after the discovery of this ruin, the mine here has been suspended, if you didn't know anything before, it may have been more unscrupulous, but now that you know the existence of this thing, who knows what will happen if you continue to dig the vein?

I don't know how long it took, and a soft cry came from the ears of the black dragon who was standing and resting with his eyes closed: "It's done!"

Cervantes opened his eyes, only to see Ziegler standing in front of the gate and clapping his hands, pressing his hands on the gate, and forcefully pulling the gate open in both directions.

Because of their emotional tension, the mages who finally relaxed and took a good breath couldn't help but hold their breath when they saw this scene.

It's obviously to crack the key, but in the end, you still need to use violence?

"Cervantes, come and do me a favor!" Ziegler noticed that he couldn't pull away from the dragon, so he turned his head and beckoned the black dragon to come over.

Seeing his excitement, Cervantes always felt a little strange, hesitated for a moment, then walked over and helped Ziegler open the gate.

Since they had no point of focus, they could only use their claws to stick into the metal door and force the door to either side.

Click, click, click!

There is no rusty touch, perhaps because it is kept underground, or it is possible because the gate is made of magical alloy......

But what puzzled the dragon the most was why the gate of the ruin was facing a vein, and how did the Arcanists move around?

"I wonder too!" said Ziegler, who pulled the gate open in unison with Cervantes, gritting his teeth with all his strength, "if anyone were going to dig this vein, it would be here, and how it covered it, and why—I want to know all these things!"

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