Age of Adepts

The plane of the mountain.

This is a rolling, monotonous world that is almost nothing but mountains.

Here, you can't see the endless flat grasslands, the lush green forests, and it's impossible to see the slowly flowing streams...

The plane of the mountain is worthy of its name.

The entire plane is almost a strange world made up of black loose soil and off-white solid rocks, and even the air is filled with a choking smell of dust!

Without water, clean air, and animals and plants, it is impossible to breed thousands of plane creatures.

So, this is a lonely world, but also a cold world!

At the foot of a huge mountain of broken rock, a small goblin camp is under construction.

Hundreds of goblin machines were spewing thick water vapor, and they were cleaning and leveling the ground with great effort. A dozen goblin engineers looked like standing on a huge rock, pointing at the surrounding area, seeming to be discussing the size of the camp and the distribution of buildings.

Dozens of combat magic weapons held magic energy ray guns in their hands, cruising and patrolling the periphery of the construction site, always vigilant about the movement around them.

And in the center of the camp, a weird magical device is supporting an elemental barrier, repelling the dirty air here, and reinjecting a stream of fresh and sweet compressed air.

A corner of the camp, the airship area.

More than a dozen cigar-shaped goblin airships were whirling and turning their propellers, sending a goblin engineer and seven or eight goblin fighters into the sky with difficulty, and then followed the terrain to fly somewhere far away.

Temporarily unable to adapt to the air here, each goblin wears a breathing mask to prevent inhaling too much air impregnated with rich earth elements, and turning himself into a stone.

The goblin airship was flying slowly in the sky. Engineer Justin Ossick moved a wooden box and put it on the side of the ship, climbed up with difficulty, and held his somewhat old X-ray II binoculars towards him. He kept scanning.

As a veteran geological prospector, Justin Osik didn't even need to land on the ground. He could roughly judge their ore composition and rare ore proportions only by relying on the exposed rock surface below him.

Many times, though, the surface of the rock formations is covered by the ubiquitous dust here.

At this time, Justin Osik would order the goblin airship to fly low, and use the huge wind generated by the propellers to blow away the floating dust on the rock surface, so that he could observe their ore composition by himself.

But such a move will undoubtedly bring certain dangers to the goblin airship.

During the seventh low-altitude circle after flying out of the camp for more than 100 miles, the goblin warrior standing at the bow and responsible for vigilance let out a terrified scream.

"Attack...attack...dodge!"

Under the exquisite control of the goblin technician, the goblin airship made a perfect side flight to avoid a huge stone thrown from the ground. And Justin, who was standing on the wooden box on the side of the ship, tightly grasped the iron chain on it with both hands, so that he was not thrown off by the rapid maneuvering of the airship.

After the airship washed and climbed to a safe height, Justin picked up the binoculars and quickly patrolled the ground, finally finding that nasty enemy.

Next to a thick crack in the ground, a stone element with a height of 3 meters climbed out with difficulty, and was waving its stone arm angrily at them.

It was like sounding a war horn, and more than 30 stone elements with 1st-level strength climbed out of the huge crack that stretched for a kilometer. While roaring in a low voice, they condensed stones the size of washbasins and threw them into the sky frantically.

Since the goblin airship is already a hundred meters above the ground, these stones simply cannot reach such a height. So, it rolled and flew halfway, and then fell powerlessly.

"These damned stone men..." The goblin squad leader in charge of the safety of the airship was furious, and raised his magic energy ray gun, intending to strike back at the natives. But its action was stopped by Justin.

"Don't waste firepower on them!" Justin shouted, stretching his neck, the howling high-altitude wind prevented his words from reaching five meters: "Inform the captain, fly westward along the canyon in front of you, there may be There are good things..."

After a while, the body of the goblin airship shook, and after slowly adjusting its direction, it quickly flew into the distance in the direction specified by Justin.

The group of stone elements under him chased angrily for a distance before returning to the lair angrily.

After going through this period of exploration, the goblins understood that the endless mountains below them were the habitats of earth element and stone element.

They are either hiding in the cracks in the ground, or hiding in the caves, or simply lying down somewhere to bask in the sun... Since there are mud and rocks everywhere here, if you want to get out of the rugged rock piles or stone crevices, Finding them is simply impossible.

Only when foreign objects invade their 'territory' will these grumpy guys lazily emerge from their hiding places and drive you away with a stone fist the size of a casserole or a stone the size of a washbasin. And the boulders they throw can be thrown to a height of 60 meters, which is quite a threat to the goblin airship.

Fortunately, they have a strong sense of territory, no matter how angry they are, they will not easily step into the territory of another stone elemental family.

This gave the goblin airship a chance to use its height and speed to throw them off!

As a last resort, Justin could only order the goblin airship to maintain a height of about 80 meters, and then he lay on the side of the ship and slowly observed the trend and changes of the rock formations on the ground. When he came across a place he was interested in, Justin would order the goblin warriors on board to shoot a few shots on the rock formations, and then judge the ore distribution here based on the reflection of the broken rocks.

Finally, near a valley 317 miles away from the outpost camp, Justin discovered something strange.

The goblin airship circled three times in the air, scanned the surrounding ground, found no traces of earth or stone elements, and then carefully landed on the ground.

Holding the metal sling in one hand and the magic energy ray gun in the other, the five members of the Seventh Goblin Squad, wearing magic armor, fell heavily on the ground.

Boom boom boom...

The thick metal mechanical foot stepped on the ground, leaving two deep footprints.

The dust on the ground billowed up, causing the members of the Seventh Goblin Combat Squad to cough violently one by one.

"Damn it, damn it...the environment here is really bad!" Captain Taz put on the breathing mask with his backhand, and a dull and distorted voice came out from inside: "Hurry up, hurry up...quickly occupy me The commanding height here. Beta, you take the magic cannon to the commanding height...Xuena, build a firepower point near the airship...Hansen, you and I protect Lord Justin..."

"Understood, head!"

"Leave it to me..."

"OK!"

Many subordinates agreed one after another, and started rushing to their positions one after another.

Justin, who climbed down the goblin airship with difficulty along the rope, held a pickaxe in one hand and a magic energy spectrometer issued by the Geological Exploration Headquarters in the other. Standing in the shadow of the airship, he looked around and finally designated a direction.

"go there!"

Immediately, the three-person team set off without any hesitation!

This journey is almost trembling.

These little goblins are only about half a meter tall, and in front of those stone elements that are often three to five meters long, they are a complete small bean. There is no need to fight, and most of the goblins will die just by stepping on Shi Yuan's terrible big foot.

Therefore, the two goblins who were in charge of protecting the geological surveyor, one in front and the other in the back, were driving the magical armor of less than 2 meters, and marched slowly and with difficulty on the rough ground with one foot solid and one foot empty.

But Justin, the geological surveyor, seemed to have quickly forgotten the danger, and from time to time he talked about breaking a certain rock with a pickaxe, and quickly scanning and analyzing it with a spectrometer. Many times, when it finds some strange places, it will pounce over cheering all the way, and then keep tapping, completely forgetting that this is a strange and dangerous world.

Facing such a leader who neglected everything after selfless work, the two goblin bodyguards could only do their best to follow behind, and the magic energy ray guns in their hands were always pointing at the more dangerous places around them.

Finally, as he walked and explored, Justin's cheers became louder and louder.

Outsiders may not be able to understand the strange whistling sounds from the spectrometer, but it can clearly identify the composition of various rare metals. And as they continue to advance, the components of these rare metals are still improving.

Justin dared to assert that there must be an extremely valuable rare metal vein not far ahead!

Finally, in front of a huge and strange rock mountain, Justin stopped, threw himself in front of a huge rock five meters away, picked up the pickaxe and began to strike.

As the gravel on the surface of the giant rock peeled off, a purple gem the size of a fist was clearly seen in the exposed cross-section. Around the gem, there are metal particles shining with silver light.

Purple Agate... Star Mine...

Seeing the scene in front of them, the three goblins couldn't help but feel ecstasy in their hearts, and they almost couldn't help singing and dancing.

But just when they were ecstatic, the stone mountain in front of them suddenly trembled violently, and broken rocks the size of a millstone rolled down from the top of the mountain like raindrops, turning a radius of ten miles into a dusty garbage field.

The three goblins couldn't care less about celebrating, they turned around and fled to the outside, crying for their father and mother.

When they ran hundreds of meters away, looking back, they discovered in horror that the originally tall and majestic stone mountain had turned into a stone giant who stood up to the sky and was slowly and difficultly getting out of the pit. Li climbed up.

On top of its huge body, colorful exotic gemstones and various rare and precious metal ores can be seen everywhere.

"Damn it, damn it... go back to the camp! This stone giant is probably at least level 3, and our strength is not enough to fight it. Withdraw, withdraw..."

After a while, all the goblins fled back to the goblin airship, and then struggled to fly up, flying towards the way they came from without looking back. And at this time, the stone giant had just stood up and was looking around for those nasty little things that disturbed its sleep...