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Author: Half-wounded but not broken

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The history of the mine can be traced back to the period of the god-killing demon king Balam, and the elf tomb buried in the mountain is even older. It is quite difficult for outsiders to pinpoint the exact location.

The information provided by the Sword of Salvation was found out from ancient books that there is an elf tomb nearby. As for the exact location of the mine, one can only find local records and read the information left hundreds of years ago.

come out.

Since I am relatively well-educated, my management of materials is quite free and easy. Outsiders may not even know where the materials are, let alone find the exact location.

This requires the cooperation of local people.

So, which of the locals works with information all day long and is still literate?

"I'm not surprised you're here, Mr. Carroll."

When Perrenli and the others first came to town, it was the gentle clerk Carroll who received him, and it was Carroll who handed Perrenli the topographic map with the mines marked on it.

Obviously, no one in the entire town knew that there was a cave where he lived. Only this guy had specifically marked the location of the mine on the topographic map. After a little thought, he knew that he must be involved in this matter.

Hearing Perenli's words, Carol raised his head in horror. Of course, since Perenli was now in the form of the demon king Atlas, he was completely unable to connect the sound of Atlas, which sounded like two metal plates rubbing together, with Perenli.

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Seeing his frightened hands and feet moving back with a look of "Don't come over here", Pei Renli raised his chin with interest:

"I have a question. You are obviously from the town, why do you want to be the mayor's lackey?"

I don't know which word in this sentence stimulated Carol. The fear on his face was replaced by anger, and his face turned red from suppressing it:

"This damn place! Why can't it be destroyed? A bunch of ignorant and poor pariahs! I should go to a big city and get a better life!"

"I understand, you just lack money, right? I thought you had some reason for bitterness and hatred. Thank you for answering my doubts."

Pei Renli snapped his fingers:

"He is yours."

In the large shadows reflected by the torches, pairs of red eyes emerged.

The originally angry Carol noticed the appearance of the Shadow of the Maze and tried to escape in horror. However, he, an ordinary person without any training, was caught up by the Shadow of the Maze in an instant, and its sticky, dark claws covered his body.

It was torn apart in the blink of an eye. Apart from leaving a pool of blood, Carol left no proof of her existence in the world.

"Don't eat too many late-night snacks, you will get fat."

A grunting response came from the darkness, like the echo of a hungry stomach.

The shadows of the maze do not need to eat. They usually exist in a dormant state in the shadows of the maze and only survive by absorbing the free magic power in the air, but they do not mind a little fresh meat.

Let’s not talk about this first.

Pei Renli didn't care at all about the sticky blood under his feet. Anyway, he had to throw away the clothes he was wearing. He led everyone to continue walking forward and walked to the hourglass suspended in the center that was constantly flipping.

"The decoration is quite exquisite, and it is indeed a creation of the elves."

The fallen angel admired, and then asked Pei Renli:

"How do you plan to use it and put it at the entrance of the Demon King's City?"

"No, decoration is an unnecessary thing for the time being."

As she spoke, Ravna stepped forward and held the bottom of the hourglass with both hands.

The magic aura surrounding the hourglass seemed to turn into a viscous liquid, trying to stop Ravna, but she didn't care about it, pulled it out with force, and gently placed it on the ground.

Without the hourglass, the sticky magic light dispersed and disappeared without a trace.

"It's a pity, it's obviously quite beautiful."

"It's beautiful but not worth eating."

Perrenli gestured to Ravna, who grabbed the center of the hourglass with both hands and broke it hard.

With a click, the three-meter-high hourglass was suddenly broken from the middle by Ravna.

"Take out the sack, the platinum sand needs to be put in and taken away."

When the lizard people heard what Ravna said, they suddenly realized that no wonder they were asked to bring a lot of sacks before coming.

Then everyone opened the mouth of the sack and lined up to wait for Ravna to hold the remaining part of the hourglass and fill it with platinum sand. It felt like queuing up to make soy milk.

"Is this how you plan to use it? What a waste!"

The fallen angel thought it was unacceptable, and the very nice decorations were taken down directly.

Pei Renli was too lazy to pay attention to her. Decorating this thing was a pure waste in the eyes of the pragmatic Pei Renli. He could do it when he had money and leisure. There was no need at all now.

He walked around the pool filled with large gold coins and walked to the original position of the hourglass.

As the magical aura surrounding the hourglass disappears, the shielding effect of the illusion also disappears.

On the floor at its original location, there is an additional hole, or groove, with a side length of about one meter.

Under this groove, there is a trapezoidal thing that looks like a small stand, and there is a very weird thing on this stand.

It looks like a sphere that is constantly shrinking and expanding, and the color changes with each contraction and expansion. Apart from being indeed a sphere, it is difficult to see that this thing has an entity, and it feels like an illusory image.

Magic is not omnipotent, nor can it be created out of nothing.

Although the power to lift the hourglass and turn it over can be easily achieved with magic, to maintain the Elf Kingdom from a thousand years ago to the present, the amount of magic consumed is definitely not a small amount.

A simple energy-gathering array cannot provide such a huge amount of magic power, it is like using AA batteries to drive a tram.

So when Pei Renli came in for the first time, he wondered if there was something powering the hourglass, such as a magical item that was at least epic.

Who knew that when I opened it and saw such a thing, I was somewhat disappointed.

The fallen angel started to move the thing out of the groove, and Pei Renli walked around it to look at it.

This thing is engraved with dense runes and some Elvish language. If you want to fully understand what it is, you need to study it carefully.

However, Pei Renli noticed that there was a slide rail on one side of the thing, something like a switch that could be pulled down.

Use the mage's hand to move the switch, and the sphere suspended on the stand immediately sinks. The stand itself also opens a gap to accommodate the sphere. Now it looks like...

The fallen angel frowned and said:

"Like an exquisite urn?"

"Your complaints are getting more and more direct..."

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Due to Ravna's unsustainable investment of high-value things into the crystal ball in the twenty years after the disappearance of the violent demon king, although the UR Perenli was finally extracted, almost all the gold coins, gems and magic items that can be directly exchanged for money have been spent.

Disappeared completely.

The only gold reserves in the Demon King's City now are the cursed gold collected by fallen angels and good fallen evil demons. That stuff cannot be disposed of casually.

Thanks to the high elves' habit of burying funerary objects, if it were a simple funeral like that of the tree elves, there would probably be nothing left in the grave.

The platinum sand in the hourglass is the most valuable thing. In addition to being directly made into platinum coins and spent as money, platinum is also a T1 level magic metal, and its value itself is not low.

The large elven gold coins need to be reprocessed and forged into the size of the gold coins currently used before they can be spent as money. However, this should not be a problem for the dwarves who have carved the forging into their DNA, but they are not in a hurry yet.

Currently, the Demon Kingdom has no foreign trade, and no currency participates in the internal circulation. It can only be said that it has obtained a large gold reserve.

Of course, in line with the principle of "come and come", Pei Renli did not forget to visit the coffins of some elf kings. For example, he directly opened the coffin boards and lifted the corpses inside to see if there were any valuable burial objects.

As a result, although no magic items were found, a large number of gold and silver vessels with a very elven style were found. These items cannot be melted and will be more valuable when sold as works of art or antiques.

All the treasures were put into sacks and transported to the Demon King's City by flying dragons, ensuring that they would be transported quickly and without leaving any traces.

Although the lizard people think that gold is of little use, they all know that this thing is dead, and they are smart enough not to fill it up too much.

In addition to the fact that he may not be able to carry a whole bag of gold, the sack may also indicate that he cannot.

In fact, Pei Renli wanted to pack up and take away everything including the coffin. It has archaeological value anyway, but the flying dragon really couldn't carry the sarcophagus. Besides, Pei Renli had no way to take action, so he couldn't rob it.

Let’s put the things in a museum, right?

Doesn’t that mean he’s having sex with Dai Ying?

Therefore, in line with the principle of leaving nothing to the enemy, the corpse in the coffin was lifted up directly, and the coffin was cut into pieces. Anyway, the elves will go to Avado after death, so there is no need to care too much about the things left in the mortal world.

——This is even more immoral.

The lizard man was left busy packing, while Perrenli took Ravna and the fallen angel to the ditch on the side of the tomb.

As mentioned before, there is a mark here that was repaired a long time ago.

It was just a stone. It was impossible to stop Ravna. It was smashed open with one punch. As expected, there was a small room behind it.

It is about ten square meters. Although the only furniture is a desk and a bed, and they are all made of stone, at least there are traces that someone did live here a long time ago.

Pei Renli naturally walked towards the desk, where there was a simple bookshelf, and a few books were still placed there.

But it may be that the rapid influx of oxygen after opening the room caused the oxidation reaction to accelerate. Pei Renli's fingers had just touched the cover of the book, and all the books on the bookshelf rotted into a mass of ashes.

This is a pity, because in Pei Renli's guess, this should be the collection of a necromancer, and this necromancer is probably the devil king from more than two hundred years ago.

However, although the pages of the book were broken, a little bit of the cover was still left, and one could see the words "Finger of the Dead" written in gold-plated letters on the cover of one of the hard cases.

This name is not unfamiliar. All the necromancy spells Pei Renli learned came from this set of books, but what he learned was the collection left by the tyrannical demon king.

Maybe... what is the relationship between the violent demon king and this unknown demon king?

With these thoughts in his mind, Pei Renli used his mage's hand to push aside the ashes on the pages of the book. In the corner of the desk, he saw a line of common language engraved on it.

'Comer, if you are not the devil, you just need to take my spell book and leave. If you are the devil, please remember the keywords I left, which are closely related to our real enemy.

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Pei Renli looked down slightly. At the bottom of the previous common language, there were a few letters engraved on it.

Translated it means...

--entropy
Chapter completed!