Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree

And as if responding to the players' exclamations, after opening the passage to the Underworld, another piece of good news came...

Someone discovered Magic Stones and a Mithril vein at the third construction site!

Not only that, but beneath the main vein, there was a large derivative vein of iron ore. Some life-themed players focused on forging even found precious adamantine!

This truly was a double blessing.

Having played the game for so long, players had become quite familiar with the common magic materials in the "Elf Kingdom."

Magic Stones needed no introduction, as they served as the main source of magic power for many Magic Arrays, with Teleportation Arrays running on the magic power provided by Magic Stones.

Mithril was not only beautiful like shiny silver, but it also possessed the characteristics of being light as a feather and as hard as steel, with exceptionally high magic conducting properties. It was a top-tier material for crafting quality Magic Weapons and various magic items!

Many of the players' equipment contained Mithril.

As for iron ore and adamantine, the former was the main material for various equipment, while the latter's magic affinity was even higher than Mithril, often used in forging Divine Artifacts!

It was interesting to note that players found these veins through the Earth Cave Spider's tunnels.

When they found the veins, they also discovered many gnaw marks.

However, those marks appeared to be quite old.

It was clear that Spider Queen Rose had once lived here.

However, she hadn't consumed all these veins. After staying for a while, she headed to Rivendell.

This was because Rivendell had richer and higher quality mineral deposits.

However, Rivendell's surface high-quality mineral deposits had almost been depleted, leaving only some mediocre quality ones.

Though there were abundant high-quality deposits deeper underground, players found it hard to reach those areas, only the Earth Cave Spiders, which were good at tunneling, could.

And even if players could delve deep underground to mine the deposits, whether Spider Queen Rose, who feeds on these deposits, would be willing, remained another matter.

Unmineable deposits were as good as nonexistent.

In such a situation, the discovery of this quality vein in the Dark Mountain Range was quite a pleasant surprise for the players.

What made players even happier was that they unexpectedly found these ancient Earth Cave Spider tunnels still usable.

Some players tried it and were pleasantly surprised to find that by using the Earth Cave Spider's passage, they could even make their way to Rivendell and emerge from one of the hidden caves!

The entire journey took less than seven days...

This efficiency was much faster than the month it would take to walk the mountain roads on the surface and faster than traveling through the deep caves underground!

Traveling through the Underworld to return to Rivendell also required crossing the underground lake system, taking ten days to half a month.

*Who said the Dark Mountain Range was barren and had no future?*

*This damn place was simply a treasure trove!*

The good news didn't stop there...

Half a month after discovering the veins, a third piece of good news arrived.

That was the road to the eastern Fertile Plain, which players also blasted open using Magic Stone Bombs.

Just as Little Xian Miao said, the part of the Fertile Plain adjacent to the southern Dark Mountain Range belonged to Aries Kingdom. Through the blasted passage, players could completely leave the Dark Mountain Range area in no more than an hour, and after no more than a day's journey, they could reach the nearest Human village near the Dark Mountain Range.

Of course, Aries Kingdom's map hadn't been fully opened yet, so players could, at most, reach the edge of the village, but this was enough.

The road had been opened, and trade routes had been established.

In the past, there was only one route to the upper western area of the Underworld, home to the Dark City State Alliance and the Silent City State Alliance, from the Fertile Plain.

That was Sandstorm City on the Death Desert.

However, going from there required crossing the harsh desert climate for seven days and nights, with the risk of attacks by Half-Beasts or desert lizards.

But now it was different.

If the road through the Dark Mountain Range officially opened, starting from the most remote village in the Human World and taking the road the players opened, it would take a day to reach the construction point of the committee and a few more hours to reach the entrance to the Underworld.

The efficiency was unimaginably higher than before!

The Underworld Western Region, Aries Kingdom, Death Desert, Elf Forest...

*Without noticing, the construction point chosen by Little Xian Miao connected all these areas, and the road to any of them was currently the most convenient!*

*Even the slowest-reacting players realized the value of this treasure trove.*

*A hub.*

*This was an undeveloped transportation hub, a future commercial capital!*

And at this time, the benefits of the rugged terrain of the Dark Mountain Range became apparent again.

Building cities in the mountains made them easy to defend and hard to attack.

*Even if such an important transportation hub would inevitably become a treasure coveted by all forces in the future, as long as a stronghold was built, players had nothing to fear.*

*At this moment, the entire Mengmeng Committee admired Little Xian Miao's farsightedness from the bottom of their hearts.*

*Amazing.*

*Truly amazing.*

*What seemed like a less favorable construction site unexpectedly held such value after a series of operations.*

In comparison, the low magic power concentration in this area seemed less important.

*And at this moment, thinking about the real-life age of their Guild Leader, every player felt as if they had lived their lives on a dog's body.*