Chapter 325

“No way, Herz, Ian really didn’t contact you?”

“Yeah . I just came out of the dungeon, but it looks like he has closed out all the personal messages too . ”

“OMG… isn’t it weird?”

“Yeah . The last time he contacted was on the evening of the day before yesterday…”

In the Pyro residency .

Fiolan and Herz who were comfortably seated in the near table sighed .

“… today is Saturday, that means yesterday was Friday . Didn’t you start school? Or is Ian not feeling well from Friday?”

“No, it’s not about health, but he didn’t come to school . ”

“…”

“This happens sometimes . ”

“Aha…”

Fiolan shook her head .

In the meantime, there wasn’t much need for Ian, but today was a different scenario .

‘Uh, I’m a little nervous that Ian isn’t here…’

Then, about an hour later, the Red Crowe guild which was in the 13th rank of the guild ranking was starting a full-scale war .

And the Guild ranking of Lotus Guild has been the 15th, and the guild was one step higher than them .

The current guild ranking of the Lotus Guild, wasn’t so important for them, nor did it matter to them .

For the past one month, the head of the Lotus Guild had been working to let the ranking of the guild fall down, purposefully .

They had abandoned the form of guild activity from the side of the Lord Manor .

Besides the guild ranking points and the loss of fame points of the guild, but strategically it wasn’t a bad option .

Even after they had merged with the top guilds in the past, like Oaklan and Splendor, their rankings still fell .

The purpose of deliberately dropping the rank of their guild was to avoid the situation of a union of guilds coming against them .

If not, then the all-powerful Lotus Guild which was on the top rankings would attract the other guilds to unite against them .

There were times when several ranker guilds merged and the other guilds who felt insecure—crisis went against them .

But that was a lost situation .

If a few of the low guilds are taken out with full power, then the lost guild usually join the fight of the other guilds .

The Lotus Guild was now hiding .

Herz spoke,

“Well, Is it because of the Red Crowe Guild? Even if we don’t have Ian with us, we will win over them . ”

Fiolan nodded and responded .

“I don’t think that we’ll lose either . But I just can’t help but wish Ian was here . ”

Herz chuckled a little .

“But… if Ian was there the variables itself would disappear…”

Fiolan slowly got up from her seat .

It was the time she should check the guild power and start the preparation for the war .

“Phew, so what if Ian isn’t going to be there for the guild this time . ”

* * *

“Hehehe . ”

In the Northeastern side of the 25th division of the Devildom .

Inside the magic mines that belonged to Ian, the sound of gentle laughter could be heard .

And the one who was laughing was the owner, Ian!

“Master, even the slaves who work, take rest after 8 hours of work, what is happening in here?”

At those words from Kaka, Ian immediately responded .

“You’re so noisy, b*tch . It doesn’t sound like it, but are you complaining?”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Where I live, if I go to work, I need to work for 12 hours a day . ”

“…”

“But the subject of only the slavery is for 8 hours . ”

Kaka asked with a flustered expression .

“Then the place you talk about, it is the world I heard of, Hell…!?You here are working much harder than the slaves!”

And gazed at Ian with a grim expression .

“So, is that why my master is working like this…?”

After fighting with Kaka for a while, Ian picked up the axe and started to work again .

‘100 lesser spirit stones . Just that much and I’ll get out of here…! If I’m going to fail at digging out the legendary magic stones, I’ll have to find another way . ’

Ian had already been working in the mine for 20 hours, without a single break .

And Ian’s inventory had minerals piled up in it .

Ian looked into the inventory .

[Lesser marble stone – 267 ]

[Lowest grade marbles – 97]

[Lowest grade Iron – 879]

[Lesser Iron – 142 ]

[Intermediate Iron – 8 pieces]

[Lowest grade magic stones – 479]

[Lesser grade magic stones – 139]

[Intermediate Magic stones – 43]

‘Damn, I would’ve felt a little better, if I had obtained one of the higher grades…’

In the list of the mined minerals, it was clearly stated that there was a chance of getting the legendary stones .

However, the reality was different, it was a fortune to have a couple of intermediate items .

Kang – Kang- Kang-

Even while checking the inventory, Ian didn’t stop picking .

‘But I don’t want to stop . If I sell off what I have now, won’t they at least get me a little of 20 million gold?’

But right then .

In the pile of ore, that was being picked by Ian, a white light suddenly began to escape from the cracks .

“…!!”

And Ian looked closer to it .

‘This is it! just like Han had said, a high-grade mineral stone has a special light in them…’

Ian picked up his axe and started to carefully pick it .

And at last, the source of white light was finally revealed .

“Oh my… this is so beautiful…!”

Ian dropped the pickaxe he was holding and took out a small-sized mining equipment .

It was like an item that looked like half of a pickle and a shovel .

‘Well is it the time, for me to finally use this?’

Mithril pickaxe, the mining equipment that Han had lent to Ian before returning to his break .

Within two days, the affinity of Han with Ian was to the extent of lending him a precious mining equipment .

Ian carefully picked up the equipment and began to shave off the surrounding mud around the mineral .

Shak- Shak-!

Along with the uncomfortable movements, the ore began to shatter .

[Due to lack of finesse, the durability of the ore is damaged by 5!]

[Due to lack of finesse, the durability of the ore is damaged by 7!]

[The durability is less than 80%, hence the grade dropped one level . ]

[The durability of ore is less than 70%, hence the grade dropped another level . ]

After more than thirty minutes, Ian succeeded in mining it out .

[You have successfully mined out the mineral!]

[Insufficient finesse has damaged the minerals . ]

[Intermediate grade magic stones obtained . ]

“This… this…”

When Ian saw the messages that were emerging, he had a blank expression .

Due to the absence of the mining skills of Ian, a huge disaster had happened .

Kaka came over and watched the message from Ian’s side .

“You just took a highest grade stone and then made it drop two levels to an intermediate level… Master just had the chance to receive at least 10 million gold . ”

“…”

“This is really… you have the finesse of a monster, my Master . ”

While Kaka was beside him trash talking, Ian just couldn’t get himself to talk .

‘I just want to cut off my hands…’

Even Ian was starting to resent himself .

If two grades fell off due to the mining, then it would have been the highest grade of stone, as Kaka just said .

“Haa…”

Ian, who had been standing there with a blank expression, soon recovered the mining equipment .

“What is it, master?”

“Let’s just stop and go . ”

“We still haven’t got 100 low-grade stones, master . ”

“No matter what, I don’t think this will do . ”

“If you think so . ”

“I have been betrayed…”

Ian who was wounded stepped out of the mine .

Even then, that didn’t mean that he was disappointed in the mine .

‘Now I know what a mining system means . It’s a huge amounted capital, needing a lot of money… and when it works properly, it is a jackpot!’

The gold that Ian had invested so far in the mine was about 30 million gold .

However, looking at the system, as the mine level rose, the need for gold rises exponentially .

‘Once I get the money that is in the manor, I’ll take the mines till the third level . If it takes about 230 million gold… will I end up with all the slaves in the ministry? I don’t have the gold to raise the level to the 4th…’

Ian started to make plans .

Ian was not agitated, even though thinking of a whopping 230 million gold .

This was because he was all prepared for it .

‘It all depends on my ability, but just assuming that I’m hiring a higher grade… Ghor mined around 100 minerals a day . ’

Ian began to look at all the possible variables, including the per miner and the slaves that would be available .

‘The maximum number of slaves I can hire at level three is around 20… need to think about it…’

As he was in these thoughts, the entrance of the mine could be seen .

And soon he was out of the mine with calculation in his head .

“Nice . Even though I got only a minimum…we can probably break-even in a month or so!”

Kaka was puzzled while looking at Ian making a fist and mumbling .

“My Master just blew up a high-grade stone, and now he turned weird…!”

Ian didn’t care about the words from Kaka but just opened the portal using the Dimensional Beads .

‘I need to do all the settings of the mine, and then go to that ‘forgotten soul’ place . And need to find a Balrog… and maybe try to mine a weird mineral from it?”

Ian directly headed over to the Lotus Manor through his portal .

The plan was set up, and all he had to do was keep himself busy .

Wheeing-

But then .

Ian heard a familiar voice .

“Uh, Ian Hyung?”

And turning his head, he saw two familiar faces .

It was Hoonie and Canoel .

“Oh, what are you guys doing here?”

“Canoel Hyung had something to do in the Summoners Valley, and I just tagged along for a while . Hyung, are you coming back from the hell-like place?”

Ian was a bit puzzled .

“Hell-like place?”

“That place . Was it the Maurya Empire? It was a place you took me, which got me scared . ”

Hoonie thought that Ian could open the portal only to the Maurya Empire .

Ian who understood Hoonie’s words laughed .

“Ah, no . I am coming from Devildom . ”

And with that last word, Hoonie’s eyes grew bigger .

“What, what? The Devildom?”

“Huh . I opened the portal and came back . ”

“You can open it anywhere?”

Ian answered by shaking his head,

“No, not like that . Only to places that I’ve been to once . ”

“…!!”

“Huh…”

Hoonie was surprised at this while Ian just yawned .

Well, he was in the mine for over a day searching for minerals .

Hoonie held Ian’s hands and shouted .

“Hyung! Hyung you’re the only one I have!”

And seeing this Ian’s yawn stopped midway and turned to fluster .

“This, why this again? Yah, Noel-ah . Why is this guy being like this?”

At the question, Canoel just laughed and shook his head .