Lu Yang not only gave Grant considerable authority, but also assigned him half a floor for a laboratory. Many of the most outstanding pharmacists among the former Iron Blood Brotherhood players joined Grant's team.
No one could have imagined that, in the near future, this entire floor would become forbidden territory for ordinary people. Animal carcasses, monster blood, the shrieks of the undead, and Grant's maniacal laughter would be everywhere.
After Grant left, Lu Yang issued orders for part of the Iron Blood Brotherhood's warriors to garrison the crystal mine not far from the Underground City. He also sent large numbers of workers and equipment to mine the crystals.
The mine was on a mountain ten kilometers south of East Sea Underground City. There were only Demonized Creatures nearby and no creatures from the other world. Although there was a distorted space there, no monsters had been seen emerging from it.
It was merely that the energy spewing from it was too immense, causing the crystal mine to accumulate vast amounts of magical elements. Unfortunately, while there were many white crystals in the mine, not all of them could be excavated. Only the white crystals that had already been "contaminated" by the elements could be mined.
These discolored crystals had a daily output of only around two hundred. Of those, only thirty contained ice elements. Clearly, new crystal pits needed to be developed nearby to find more usable crystals.
As for animals with blood containing ice elements, they used the blood of Demonized Snow Foxes. Snow foxes did not excel at physical attacks, but after a full year of exposure to the other world's magical energy, the demonized snow foxes could actually use the magic cores in their brains to cast ice spells.
Second-tier snow foxes in particular could