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Wang gave a thumbs up: "I can tell you."

Then he turned to Nini.

"Another reward is Nini! We finally have a ranger. And such a powerful ranger! She also carries the powerful equipment, the Elf Cloak."

Nini was a little surprised: "Am I also a gain?"

"Of course! Having a companion to go on an adventure with is definitely a gain!"

Marika added: "And such a beautiful companion."

Wang didn't think much about it. "Yes, she is such a beautiful companion. She saved the priest's life as soon as she joined. She is so reliable! If you think about it carefully, there are so many gains in this underground adventure. Other props are incidental!"

Elizabeth: "I quite like that spoon."

"Of course the soup spoon is great, great!" The wizard rubbed his hands after finishing the summary. "In short, we have gained a lot, a lot. Now that we have summarized, let's go tell Ralph that they can resume mining!"

Chapter 104 The End of the Civil War

Ralph's eyes widened after listening to Wang's report: "Has the problem of the cavemen been solved?"

Wang: "If my guess is correct, the mercenaries should be returning one after another while we are sleeping and resting."

Ralph nodded, "Yes, there were about seven or eight mercenaries who returned after you went to bed. They reported that they didn't encounter any cave dwellers. I thought they were just lucky."

"No, the cave dwellers are all dead, because we cut off the connection between Lamashtu and the evil lich creations, and the fetal movement hall that stored the creations also collapsed. These cave dwellers were all created by Lamashtu's power, and the original cave dwellers are almost all dead."

Ralph: "I understand. We will organize an expedition team to confirm the situation at dawn. If the underground threat is really eliminated..."

Wang: "You can continue mining."

Ralph held his forehead with his hand. "Yes, I can't believe that our family's long-cherished wish, which started from my grandfather, is actually going to come true. You must be the messenger of Lancelot!"

Flint shouted in dissatisfaction: "It's Kailin's messenger. Our team only has one servant of God, and that's me, Kailin's chosen one!"

Ralph shrugged. "It feels like Kailin isn't the kind of god who would take care of this kind of thing."

Wang: "Based on my observation of the priest's promotion this time, as long as you tell Kailin that there is fun down there, Kailin will happily send his priest down."

Ralph had an expression that said "What the hell are you talking about?" It seemed that as an ordinary person, he could not accept the tone of Wang treating God as a creature on an equal footing with himself.

It should be said that mages are an absolute minority. If he really sees Karin, he might even try to conduct a quantitative analysis of Karin.

Ralph excitedly picked up the quill and scribbled something on the notebook on the table. Then he tore off the page and handed it to the messenger: "Go back to town and tell my dad that the caveman issue may have been resolved. Invite him to come and witness it tonight."

Wang: “Witness?”

"Yes, we will arrange to resist the cavemen tonight. If the cavemen don't come, it will prove your speculation to a certain extent, and we can start celebrating in the evening. At this time, of course, we have to call my father, Earl Ximu.

"Don't you want him to send troops to overthrow Stoke who now calls himself the Duke? It will be easier for you to discuss things if he comes over here."

The king nodded and said, "You make a lot of sense. Please inform your father."

**

That night, the old duke personally waited for the arrival of the cave dwellers in the underground fortifications of the fortress together with the defenders of the fortress.

Even the mercenaries who survived yesterday's operation came to witness this legendary moment.

Especially the bards in each mercenary team, they were almost going crazy, this was a chance to experience the legend firsthand, every bard dreamed of writing a song for the legend himself one day.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Elizabeth looked extremely nervous and kept pacing back and forth on the platform where the team was.

Wang: "Don't be so nervous. The cavemen will most likely not come."

"You only said high probability!"

"I did this to make the statement more precise. In fact, the reason why low-probability events are low-probability events is that they generally do not occur. So when we do experiments, we must use statistical methods to filter out results that are too outrageous."

Elizabeth: "I don't understand what you're saying! Basically, what you're saying is that the cavemen may not come, but you can't guarantee it, right?"

Wang thought for a while and nodded: "That's what it means semantically. It's not what it means mathematically. But you don't understand math, so it doesn't matter."

Elizabeth turned to Xiaobai who was chewing ham and said, "How is it? Did you hear the footsteps of the cavemen?"

"No." Xiaobai answered simply.

The elf echoed beside him: "There is absolutely no sound of the troglodyte. The wizard is right. He probably won't come tonight."

At this time Ralph came over and said, "Because it was past the time when the cavemen usually attacked, I was going to withdraw, but my father insisted on waiting. The old man seemed very excited and couldn't believe that the moment he had dreamed of had finally come."

Wang: "Then when he is sure that this moment has really come, remember to reward us handsomely. Oh my, why are you stepping on my foot?"

Elizabeth smiled awkwardly: "I'm sorry, he is just so outspoken."

Ralph: "Of course we will reward you handsomely. But our earldom is very poor and we have almost no magical equipment. We do have some scrolls and wands, but they were all used up in the war with the cavemen. We also used a lot of our assets to buy poison, and the poison is almost used up."

King: "I understand what you mean. Just do what you can. In fact, as long as you help us overthrow the fake Duke and help us restore the Duchess's rule in the Valley Territory, we will be satisfied."

Elizabeth added: "I think the Duchess's husband, my brother, will reward your merits. Maybe you can get the title of acting governor of the valley and take full charge of the work of reopening the mines."

Ralph laughed. "That would be great if that were true. Now, anyone who is not a fool knows that reopening the mine means a lot of money. After all, many nobles who owned the mine back then went bankrupt. Only nobles like our family firmly believed that the mine would be reopened one day in the future and insisted on purchasing the land deeds to plan for the future."

Ralph waved his hand and said, "You may not be able to imagine how big our territory is now. The former mines are no longer wanted, and everyone in the village has fled. These lands are so poor, but when the mines are opened again... I dare not even think about it!"

Flint suddenly uttered two lines from the famous dwarven song "Song of the Lonely Mountain": "We must set out at once, before daybreak, to find our lost gold."

Ralph: "Yes, we must set off immediately. When I was born, the territory was already in ruins, and people kept mocking my grandfather as a madman and a dreamer. My grandfather died of depression, leaving behind only one admonition: we must retake our mines.

"I suppose it's the same as the dwarves' obsession with the wealth that was taken by the dragon."

Flint: "We lost our homes and wealth to dragons, but you lost them to troglodytes. How can that be compared?"

At this time, Earl Ximu came over with his entourage.

He bowed solemnly to everyone and said, "Thank you very much for your help."

Wang: “You’re welcome. We just solved this problem by the way.”

Count Ximu: "I heard that Her Royal Highness used the funds from the mission to pay the mercenaries. The total expenditure exceeded 40,000 gold coins. Although we want to pay for them, we cannot afford such a huge amount. Does Her Royal Highness have any other requests?"

Elizabeth: "We are just solving the problem. You don't have to pay. We will just give you a favor when we pass by your place next time."

Earl Ximu insisted, "We must pay because we are the beneficiaries. The people of the entire Earldom of Ximu are the beneficiaries. We cannot help but express our gratitude. Just make your request."

Wang: "Sometimes free help is the most expensive help. You should ask them for some benefits to avoid them getting suspicious."

Elizabeth thought for a moment and said, "Well, since you don't have any money right now, you can use the mineral futures certificates to pay. Then when we get to Minos City with the futures certificates, we can help you spread the word that the mines in the Valley Territory have been restored, and more miners will come to immigrate to your place to make a living."

Count Ximu was delighted: "Very good! Let's do it this way. We will issue you a futures certificate that is valid for five years. When our mine resumes operations, anyone can come with the futures certificate and trade."

At this time, Nini said, "Aren't we losing money? We have to wait until the mine is restored before we can use these coupons. And don't we have to go along the Mayunya River on our journey?"

Wang: "Business in the Elven Kingdom is probably not well developed, so you have never seen futures. These futures certificates can actually be exchanged for money in Minos City, the capital of Monrovia. Even if we are not in a hurry to pay back the money, we can sell them to the local chamber of commerce in other trading cities that have business dealings with Minos."

Nini looked confused.

Wang patted her shoulder and said, "I'll tell you about futures when I teach you the arcane class."

Nini nodded: "Well, I'll wait."

**

Over the next two days, Ximu Town hired adventurers who had survived the underground to go underground and search for the movements of the cave dwellers.

It is said that Earl Ximu learned a new operation from paying the princess's team and decided to issue a mineral futures certificate to purchase the services of mercenaries.

Most of these mercenaries frequently travel the route from Minos City to Landon City, and they are not afraid that Earl Ximu will not fulfill his promise.

After careful investigation, it was found that there are no traces of cave dwellers in the shallow underground of Ximu Town, and most of the caves in the deep underground have collapsed. A new underground structure has been formed. Even if there are cave dwellers alive, they are trapped underground.

It is basically certain that the underground threat in Ximu Town has been basically eliminated.

Then all that remains is to send troops to assist the princess in overthrowing the rule of the "Duke".

By the way, as what happened in the Earldom of Ximu spread throughout the entire River Valley Territory, the lords of various places fell into a state of shock.

The lords first discovered that there were indeed no signs of cave dweller activities in their own ancient mines. Then they found that the cave dwellers had made the underground so riddled with holes that their ancestral mine maps were no longer useful.

So the envoys of the lords from all over the country rushed to the upstream city of Landen and the downstream city of Minos, preparing to hire geological survey talents in these two cities where a large number of talents gathered, to re-determine the location of the mineral deposit and formulate an excavation plan.

The originally lifeless river valley became full of vitality.

And all this is thanks to the Duke of Langdon's sister, Elizabeth Langdon's adviser and the legendary wizard's disciple Wang!

Then, there is no doubt that what the remaining lords have to do is to show their loyalty to the Duchess of Langdon - her husband!

**

Another four days passed.

"I will never admit it!" Stock slammed the table. "I am the Duke! How dare these rebellious nobles disobey me! What about the reopening of the underground mine? This must be a scam made up by that damn evil wizard! Don't believe a single word this evil wizard says!"

His son, Little York, turned his head and looked at the castle window, and said, "But outside are all the princes' coalition forces."

Stock: "They were bewitched by that witch! That woman must have slept with them! Or the Duchess came and slept with them herself! Otherwise, it can't explain why they suddenly changed their minds and supported Langdon's outsiders! I am from an orthodox Riverdale family!"

Little York said coldly: "My cousin too."

"That's enough! You better think of a way to make these damn rebels retreat!"

Little York: "We can't do anything. According to the intelligence we have confirmed, they have a dragon to help them. Once the siege begins, the dragon alone will be enough for us - no, we can't deal with the dragon at all. We only have a few common protective energy scrolls. And the report mentioned that the dragon also likes melee combat and is immune to the finger of death."

Stock: "This is a trick to deceive the enemy!"

Little York sighed, "That's enough."

"What did you say?" Stock stared at his son angrily, "How do you talk to your father?"

Little York raised his voice and roared: "Enough of your stupidity and nonsense! Guard, 'The Duke is crazy, take him away and put him in the death row!'"

The guards didn't move.

Stock laughed. "You think I don't know that you are cultivating a brotherly relationship with these guards? I am your father. I have eaten more pepper than you have eaten salt! Guards! My son is crazy, take him away!"

Several guards looked at Little York hesitantly, and one of them took a step forward with an axe gun.

In the blink of an eye, a huge black shadow blocked the doorway of the room, and also blocked all the windows on the same side of the door.

"Hello?" A majestic voice shouted from outside, "I am Black Dragon, and I am here to give you an ultimatum! If you don't want to die, open the city and surrender, and release the deputy sent by Duchess Ruth's husband, otherwise I will start to demolish the tower!"

As it spoke, the dragon flapped its wings at the tower.

Lakeside City had not been maintained for many years because of the decline of the Valley Territory. The huge study room's ceiling was shaky and ready to fall apart after the dragon's wing.