Mine Owner Harold

Few elves could understand Mine Owner Harold's wicked pleasure, even as he faced judgment from the Silver Moon Elf, it couldn't stop the secret smugness in his heart.

Mine Owner Harold seems to have gotten used to the young Half-Elf's Mine Owners appearance in his backyard lately.

Every morning, he would stand on the third-floor balcony with a cup of Vanilla Tea, watching Roy arrange the Half-Elf miners and Gray Dwarf to work in the backyard mine.

The Half-Elf carried pickaxes, water, and dry rations, and pushed minecarts into the mine to begin their day's work.

Their feelings now are completely different from when they were miners. When they were miners, they were forced to work for Mine Owner Harold. Back then, they didn't have many thoughts about whether they did a good job or a bad job. They just hoped that when they came out of the mine, they could get their share of food.

They can now earn a salary for mining, and they are also free to leave whenever they want.

The Half-Elf miners wanted to earn some money before the Logistics Regiment arrived at the North Mithril Mine, so that they could at least find a place to stay after arriving in Padesto City, instead of sleeping on the streets or stealing apples from orchards in the suburbs.

Just as Mine Owner Harold said, the mine had just dug beneath a layer of rock, and the Mithril Mine was located beneath that layer, so even without any support structures in the mine, there would be no collapse.

In addition, Mine Owner Harold, laid a light rail line in the mine. This light rail line runs along the main Mine Road and extends nearly a kilometer into the ore vein. Roy entered the mine this time by following the light rail line. The Mithril Mine at the mine entrance has already been mined out.

The Mine Road is very spacious, and you can see some scattered silver lights on the walls on both sides.

The Half-Elf miners pushed their minecarts forward, and at each fork in the road, a few Half-Elf miners would leave the group and enter the Mine Road along the fork.

At the end of the Mine Road was a huge mine pit, the rich ore area of Mithril Mine, where the Half-Elf miners had carved out a space the size of a basketball court.

After more than a hundred Half-Elf miners arrived, they immediately dispersed. They were used to working in groups. The Half-Elf miners used chisels and sledgehammers to chisel cracks in the Mithril Mine on the cave walls, and then the Half-Elf -elf miners with pickaxes dug the Mithril Mine out piece by piece.

Once the minecart is full, Half-Elf miner will pull it out by holding onto a rope in front of the mine...

Normally, the furnace workshop can smelt about 100 carts of Mithril Mine per day. Every six minutes or so, a cart of ore is transported out of each mine. Of course, this is the result of the joint efforts of 350 Half-Elf miners. Working in the mine for ten hours a day is just enough to meet the furnace's smelting needs for a whole day.

Now, although the number of Half-Elf miners in the mine has been reduced to two hundred, the amount of Mithril Mine mined should theoretically decrease.

But that's not actually the case. The Half-Elf miners' enthusiasm for work increased significantly, and the output of ore actually increased slightly.

When they rested in the mine, they would discuss what to eat for dinner, make plans to go outside the mine to collect some cranberries on their days off, discuss how to spend the money they earned from Kole, and talk about family members they hadn't contacted in a long time.

Many Half-Elf were planning to write home to let their families know they were safe, because the Half-Elf Warrior in the mines told them that the Mine Owners, Roy, had the ability to send these letters to the Elf Continent... That was incredible.

The Half-Elf miners who originally planned to make a Kole and leave are now planning to write to their families, addressing the letters as ' Sudaso North Mithril Mine '. This means they will have to work at the mine longer, waiting for their families to reply.

The freed Half-Elf miners began cautiously exploring the outside world.

Roy's hard work over the past few days has finally paid off. The Mithril Mine transported from the mine is not only enough to meet the furnace's needs, but it has also been stockpiled into a large ore pile. The North Mithril Mine is not very big, and the space for storing Mithril Mine is extremely cramped. Some of the Mithril Mine can only be stored in the mine shaft.

In any case, the situation at the North Mithril Mine is much better than that at the South Mithril Mine.

The Gray Dwarf miners only knew that the Mithril Mine had been frequently changing owners recently.

They were used to working in the furnace workshop every day. Even when the mines were in chaos the first two times, they stayed by the furnace and worked diligently. This was the way the Gray Dwarf survived...

They wouldn't care even if the Mine Owners changed frequently, until they found an opportunity to escape.

In fact, the Gray Dwarf had considered escaping during the chaos, but no matter what the situation, there were always Elven Guard with longbows on the walls of the castle's backyard, so the Gray Dwarf miners simply couldn't find any opportunity.

As molten silver continued to flow from the furnace, the heatwave turned the Gray Dwarf's face bright red.

These past few days, the Gray Dwarf miners have heard something to celebrate: they will also have a day off every six days, but they can only stay within the Mithril Mine.

In any case, the monotonous life has at least changed a little.

The Gray Dwarf miners are already thinking about what to do on their days off.

If he knew Roy's true thoughts, he would definitely yell at Roy, "You're a devil!"

Compared to the Gray Dwarf who were busy working by the furnace, the Mine Owner Harold' families, who lived on the third floor of the castle, lived in constant worry.

Nearly eighty family members live in the dozen or so rooms on the third floor.

Among these family members are immediate family members, as well as distant relatives who have come to stay with him over the past few years.

With the Pattington Plane completely sealed off, the Slave Traders had no place to live. Among the distant relatives of Harold, some were Slave Traders from the Padesto City.

Mine Owner Harold had three wives, all of whom were Half-Elf, who bore him six sons and four daughters.

Now, all five sons and four daughters are married and have children of their own, except for the youngest son Tandupu, who is still a minor.

There are still many elven children in the castle. Half-Elf are like that; their fertility is much better than that of Silver Moon Elf...

Mine Owner Harold knew he was facing the toughest trial, so he was actually the one who took it all in stride and lived the most at ease.

He treated every day as if it were his last, so that when he opened his eyes the next day, he would secretly rejoice in his heart: he had lived another day! The sons of Mine Owner Harold placed their hopes on Earl Swynborne, hoping that when they arrived in Padesto City, they would have the opportunity to have a good talk with the commander of the Silver Pegasus Legion. They wanted to exchange the Mithril Mine for the freedom of their whole family.

Mine Owner Harold did not stop his sons from having this unrealistic idea. On the contrary, he felt that after so many things had happened at the mine recently, his sons, who used to only know how to enjoy life, seemed to have grown up a lot overnight.

Mine Owner Harold's wife and daughters just sat in their chairs, constantly sighing. Most of the time, they would just sit quietly, and when they thought about their future, they couldn't help but burst into tears.

Some distant relatives of the Mine Owner Harold have been as anxious as ants on a hot plate lately.

They were even secretly plotting an escape, but they had many concerns. They were not only afraid of the Highland Slavers, but also of the magical beasts that roamed the Sudaso Mountain Range, and worried about being captured by the Silver Pegasus Warrior. So, although they were making meticulous escape plans every day, no one dared to put them into action.

Some family members also wanted to establish a connection with the new Mine Owners, asking Mine Owner Harold Mine Owners the young man and hoping to build a solid relationship.

They were used to a comfortable life in the mines, and even if they weren't locked up in prison, they didn't want to experience hardship outside.

But everyone knows that Selling Elf Slaves is a serious crime, and this matter has far-reaching implications, even involving the Silvermoon Elven Nobles in the Padesto City...

Those Silvermoon Elven Nobles were all taken to Buenos City for trial, how could they possibly escape! In fact, Mine Owner Harold had also thought that if he had given the Half-Elf in the mine a little salary every week, even just a tiny bit, he could have argued in the courtroom that he and these Half-Elf miners he bought were only in an employment relationship, even if it was forced employment, it would have been easier for him to face the trial.

But it's too late to say anything now.

Who could have imagined that Lord Alvis would mess things up so badly, forcing the Half-Elf to launch a riot? For a while, everyone was in a state of panic. Later, the Silver Moon Elf army entered the Pattington Plane, and the whole situation completely spiraled out of control.

With Lord Alvis and other Silvermoon Elven Nobles being escorted back to the Elf Continent, Mine Owner Harold lived in constant worry.

Three years passed in worry. The owner of the mine thought that the Pagisto Plateau had been completely forgotten by the Silver Moon Elf upper class. The biggest problem of the Mithril Mine slowly became the large amount of Mithril Ingot that could not be sold. The Mine Owner Harold thought that this matter was over.

Unexpectedly, the Silver Moon Elf army still managed to storm into the Pagisto Plateau, like a torrent that routed the Highland Headhunters.

In just a quarter of an hour, he completely lost the North Mithril Mine.

Mine Owner Harold, had thought the Silver Moon Elf were not good at managing this kind of mine and would eventually give him a chance to negotiate. But now, seeing the ore piles growing larger and larger, he realized that the young Half-Elf standing next to the furnace in the backyard had successfully taken over the North Mithril Mine and its furnace workshop.

He now only hoped that Roy would remember his well-intentioned reminders and that the report would not contain anything detrimental to him.