[Trying out the Brass Mountain Outskirt Cave!]

The next day, I know that I will have to spend some time to get myself back on track. After the thirty-hour mining streak, not only my Fine Grade 10 Brass Pickaxe is started to face some breaking issues, even the recently obtained Medium Grade Pickaxe, is barely usable because its durability is too low. In the same time, I will still need to process the 3000 units of Lower Grade 10 Crystals and look for a way to properly salvage the Goblin Custom Armour and the also regarding the issue with the Goblin Pouch. I wake up after lying lazily on the bed for about ten minutes and get a change of cloth before I quickly went straight to the Compartment Upgrading Store.

Within the store, I went straight towards the Reception lady and asked regarding the requirement on what the goblin pouch could be used for. The lady says that upgrading the pouch will only cost some Black Spirit Crystals, but it is useless because no human could utilize the Goblin pouch. After I tell her that I have other plans on upgrading this tools, she gives up on persuading me to not spend my money on useless trash. Waiting in the store, my turn came after thirty minutes of waiting. Since the goblin pouch is an ungraded item, not only the cost and requirement to upgrade this item is low, its success rate is even high enough to ensure almost perfect upgrade each time.

"This brother, I have a total of 55 Goblin Pouch with me, could you tell me what choice I have to upgrade them?" I politely tell the staff the request, as he looked at me for having too much money to waste. But since I am a customer, he controlled himself and replies my word. "Customer, to upgrade this Goblin Pouch into a higher grade, a cost of 25 Black Spirit Crystal is required. Every five pouch will be able to be refined and remade into a much better pouch, but I'm not sure what difference it would be because we couldn't use it after all."

Listening to him, I withdraw a total of 275 Black Spirit Crystals and the 55 Goblin Pouch for him to help me to refine them. The worker just speechlessly took the money and started to refine the pouch from five normal one to a better one. In total, eleven better pouch soon appears before me, but I am not satisfied with this all yet. "This brother, could the ten of this still be upgraded?" I asked. He looked at me for a moment as he replied. "Yes, it could still be upgraded. Five into one better pouch and the price for each is 100 Black Spirit Crystals" he explains the cost and how is the conversion from one stage to another.

Without a hint of hesitation, I immediately paid a total of 200 Black Spirit Crystals to the worker, as he again felt speechless and started to refine the two pouch for me. Receiving the pouch, I immediately went out from the store and head straight towards the Ore Cave without bothered to check the results of the two new item in my inventory. For me now, carefully utilizing my time is most important, because sooner, the Refiner Wars will start to get into a more troublesome exchange between members.

I know that based on the number of Brass Rod within my hand, properly repairing one will not be sufficient. So what I could do now instead is to mine for more Brass Rod, and return to repair the equipment before I come back again to start mining properly. After I reached the Ore Cave, instead of heading into the tunnel, I went straight towards the Trash Cave to sneakily keeps the disposable trash in my stash. This is also the moment when I could have a look on my two new items.

Goblin Single Upgraded Pouch

Goblin Double Upgraded Pouch x 2

Category: Compartment

Grade: Lower

Category: Compartment

Grade: Medium

Durability: 10/10

Durability: 15/15

Stat: Allows 5,000 Units to be stored within

Stat: Allows 25,000 Units to be stored within

Equipment Bonus:

Only usable by Goblins/Pedlars

Equipment Bonus:

Only usable by Goblins/Pedlars

Alright, it seems like the capacity of the item is still the came, it just compacted from 55 pouches into three pouches. This is quite a convenient way. I should try to hunt more goblins for now since it is easier to obtain all the pouches instead of looking for those few special item to create a compartment pouch. The moment I am done being impressed by the three new pouch of mine, I gathered a total of 55 sack and five more thousand in my own inventory like last time and entered the tunnel with a total of four empty carts this time. In my mind, I wanted to try something else, because, in my hand, I have two pickaxes!

I entered the deepest part of the tunnel as I run my scan skill for five times, opening the sight of all surrounding ores around me. But still, a disappointment, because no matter how clear it showed me, the density of ores within this mines could be only described by a word, "Disappointment". But having no choice, I could only choose to start my mining, because of no matter what, this is still a free cave for anyone to enters. There is no payment required, no restriction as well no limits on the number of miners, so this tunnel is open for anyone who wished to earn a small money to live. If I am still like last time, perhaps, I will be still sleeping by the side of the alleyway.

Starting my operation, I begin to activate two Pickaxe at the same time and allows both to work out for that ten minutes. The Fine Grade Pickaxe managed to fill half a cart, while the Medium Grade Pickaxe only manages to fill a quarter. The difference is quite significant, but since the grade differences are there, all I could is only to procure better pickaxe as I could, so I could increase my mining results. Although this is quite a waste as the Medium Pickaxe only could perform half of what the Fine Pickaxe could, but still, filling a quarter of the mining cart is better than nothing. And I still got experience from converting the batteries.

But with my usage of 2 batteries for every ten minutes, while only 1 battery is produced in every ten minutes, I only managed to refill half of my battery after fifty minutes. Since there is some waiting time is required, I chose to return to the Milling Area with four full carts after I mined myself for a little as well. Taking my time slowly, I milled all the stone into powder, and sieve all of them before I return to the tunnel. When I calculate the number of time I spend, compared to spending totally 100 minutes to obtained five full cart through utilizing the Fine Grade Pickaxe alone, using two pickaxe only yield me four full cart, where I even needed to mine by myself a little and mill all the rocks while waiting for the batteries to be fully converted.

But if I would really want to compare, this is a much better result, because the results are comparable to a 100 minutes mining! I would rather be spending more energy if I could actually reduce my mining time into half! Just like this, I repeat for another two more times, in a very relaxed way, to complete a total of 12 carts quota. From that 12 full carts, I managed to smelt out a total of 40 Brass Rod (1%) and returned to repair my pickaxe before another thing comes into priority. Since I didn't saw Lady Su Rou today, I went straight to the Forge Area after paying two Black Spirit Crystals, and immediately starts with repairing my most important Fine Grade 10 Brass Pickaxe.

With its brass component within had already falls lower than 60%, the durability of this tool started to reduce. With the fine grade tools usually possess around 40/40 durability, my tool currently had its durability on 9/40, which is already at the risk of breaking. I could be only said as lucky because it is not broken during my heavy usage a few hours ago. Depending on my expertise in repairing the tool, I started to melts the Brass Rod in two at a time, as I quickly repair all the parts that started to have a crack externally. Since repairing are easier than recovering the Brass component within the tool, exactly 31 Brass Rod later, I managed to recover the tool into a 40/40 durability, before I begin with the Medium Pickaxe. After spending another fifteen of the Brass Rod, I managed to make sure both tools are in their mint condition to be used.

With the remaining eleven Brass Rod, I decided to put them into the Medium Grade 10 Brass Pickaxe, because this tool will be easier to upgrade compares to the Fine Grade tool. After I applied all eleven remaining Brass Rod to it, its Brass Component within raise from 25% into 32%, as I left it be for now. I went out from the Blacksmithing Workshop and decided to return to the cave once again before I heard a word from a fellow blacksmith. "Big brother, please, you cannot do this to me! You told me that if I got that token to get into the Brass Mountain Outskirt Cave, you will bring me along and help me to improve. Now you suddenly change your mind, how am I going to change this back to money?" the younger blacksmith falls into tears because depending on his own capability, facing the threat from the Mountain Apes while mining might cost him his life.

"I don't care, you took more than one whole week to get that token, and now our group is on another contribution request, we have no time to accompany you into the Brass Mountain Outskirt Cave! Go find somebody to sell that token, at most you will only lose a few Black Spirit Crystals." the older blacksmith speaks and kicks the younger blacksmith away as he gets out from the Blacksmithing Workshop. I looked at that person and whispers a word for myself. "Asshole."

I walked over to the younger blacksmith to see if he is alright, and perhaps he mistook my kindness because he immediately forces me to purchase that entrance token from him. His persistence managed to irritate me because, at the end, I finally withdraw fifteen Black Spirit Crystals to pay for the token, as he left quickly before I changed my mind. "Now I know that it is not only [Asshole] people are around, even some persistent little [Beggar] is around. I should be more selfish and carefully approach people next time. But having this Entrance Token is not everything bad as well. Since I already have a token to enter the cave, this means that if I failed to obtain enough Mountain Borax Stone for the Workshop, I could still enter for one more time, to fulfil that quest.

Plus since this contribution request only demands 150kg of Mountain Borax Stone to be delivered, the pay is naturally be all the other resources obtained will be given to the miner. Since this is how it will go along, added with there is a base provided within the cave, I will go in and try my luck! With instant, I quickly head into the teleportation Portal and presents the piece of Token as I entered the gate, the next moment, the surrounding of my eyes started to change into a vast opened area below a mountain, with at least five so six mountain peak before my eyes. "This mountain would be as huge as the Mount Fuji in Japan! I wonder what kind of world is this! And there is a total of six peaks, doesn't that almost means that this mountain area is at least six times larger?" I whisper to myself as I walked closer to the mountain.

Just twenty minutes walk without any obstacles, I finally reached the so-called Base. But surprisingly, this is not an outpost... It should be called a village at least!