NOVEL NEXT Chapter 10: Mined Gains
Three days, it has been three days since Rezar almost lost his life to a quad of moles. He was able to successfully raise all of the moles from the dead, but they were all dead except for one, and quite honestly the fact that it lasted the longest out of all the other moles surprised him. To be able to successfully raise one of those moles, he had to fail twenty out of twenty one times, so by the time had successfully raised the final mole; he had already raised the raise undead skill to level 4.
The time extended from forty minutes to three hours, the bonus of the son of death trait more than increased the capabilities of any dark and necrotic skills and spells. He was just too good at this, not to mention the sometimes random burst of knowledge and instinct had helped him greatly. Within the three days that he has had access to the moles he had used them strictly to mine, his top priority right now was to get back to the town spire, and make sure he was strong enough to face any more threats this cavern might have in store for him.
But even if that was his top priority, he still had other things to worry about.
The claws of the moles were akin to carving knives, so he was able to direct them to carve multiple bricks for him, it wasn't a lot but when he stacked them on top of the other blocks of stone he had placed, he was able to raise the walls on the side of his tarp, and then narrow the entrance from its original two meter wide gap to a meter and just let the tarp stay down, covering the entrance. This was essentially creating a living room for himself, but he didn't mind at all, more space wasn't bad.
As for the final mole, Rezar wanted to take it back to the spire with him, by some stroke of luck it had managed to level up from level one to five and was eligible for some sort of advancement.
To raise anything or person from the dead, the target would have to lose five levels of all classes. And the moles only had the class they were born with as very, very few monsters have access to a town spire and a chanced to host multiple classes.
If he wanted the mole to live and not expire, he had to take it to the spire and facilitate its advancement. Since he was basically the master of the zombie mole, he could control every aspect of its growth, including what kind of stats and skills to invest in and what class to choose. But he couldn't go back empty handed, but luckily for him, he wasn't.
[462 pieces of Stygian ore, 783 pieces of copper Ore. 17 black diamonds, 3 rubies, and two pieces of mythril ore.]
Rezar didn't need former memories to tell him that he had hit the mother lode; he had enough Stygian ore to meet up a three week quota and then some extra to use in battering. He would really like some new clothes, a new mining pick, but that would be useless with what he planned to do next. What he would need would be wood, a lot of rope, maybe some nails and a hammer, more food, and real money.
Now as a slave buying things would force him to buy at 100% the market price, there was no other way around that. But selling wasn't as bad, he would still be cheated by the system by selling it 40% below market price, but this was not a bad gain for him as this was just a long term goal for him.
The copper ore could be sold for ten copper elys per piece, which means he would be selling them at 6 copper elys a piece and with 783 pieces that would be...…
4,698 copper elys and it's a 100 copper elys to get a silver elys making it 46.98 silver elys. Or rather 46 silver and 98 copper elys. But his was just for the copper ore, 17 obsidian diamonds with one selling for a high price of 15 silver elys.
They were used to make jewelry that could be sold for as high as a gold elys, some with proper enchantments would be worth hundreds if not thousands of gold elys. 15 elys with the 40% below market price cheating scheme and he would be selling a single piece for 6 silver elys, and six silver elys in 17 places would be 102 silver elys, basically a gold elys and two silver elys.
The diamonds were much more rare and valuable than the copper ore, hence why just seventeen pieces was enough to completely offset the entire gains 783 copper pieces could make by more than a 100%
It just went to show just how effective a workforce these moles are, so once he gets back, he would not be as focused on mining. With great risks comes great rewards, so he would go looking for more moles, and then turn them into undead to raise his work force.
Why the prison mine never thought to tame this creatures surprised him, but then again he was raising his from the dead as opposed to tamed creatures that might rebel if there worked too hard or not fed well enough. And quite frankly Rezar knew that no prison mine was wealthy enough to handle such expenses.
As for the rubies and mythril ore, they were even more valuable, but he wasn't exactly sure what price he would get for them. He would just have to put his faith in the merchants that loiter around the mines market.
Rezar spent another thirty minutes fully loading up the cart with everything he had gained, his journey back would be harder as the mine car/cart had a lot more bulk than before. But he also had increased strength, so there shouldn't be too much trouble getting to the spire on time.
Rezar picked up the mole, ignoring its decay and stench of death as he placed it into a sack on his back, whilst giving it an order to be silent. And seeing as it was very much dead, that wouldn't be a problem, and so with everything ready, Rezar began to pump on the cart`s pulley, moving rapidly through the tunnels as he returned to the surface, three days earlier than he was told too. Hopefully nobody feels the need to tear him apart, because quite honestly....it would suck.