Deep within an immense Silver Palace Complex, Saine met Fatis, a Level-6 Light Element Magician.
The native creatures of the Sanok Star Region generally had dark skin, almost as black as ink, yet the intelligent beings of this star region seemed to worship silver intensely.
Silverware was the most expensive luxury item in the Sanok Star Region.
And such a lavish undertaking as constructing an entire Palace Complex from silver metal could only have been afforded by the former king of the Sanok People, who possessed such power and wealth.
As he entered the Palace Complex, Saine looked at the Nine-Colored Light refracted from the palace's stone corners and could not help asking in surprise, "Could it be that the outer layer of this Palace Complex is all plated with mithril?"
Mithril and adamantine were two exceedingly precious metal materials among the commonly available resources of Wizard Civilization.
They were called "commonly available" because mithril and adamantine could generally be extracted and refined from derivatives of gold and silver.
They were called "precious" because the refinement yield of mithril and adamantine was extremely low. Mithril possessed the finest magic-energy ductility, while adamantine was indestructible.
Both commanded exorbitant prices within the Wizard Alliance.
With Saine's current wealth, even he could not bring himself to indulge in the extravagance of building a Palace Complex out of a vast amount of mithril.
It was simply... too wasteful!
With so much mithril, what couldn't one do with it?
No wonder Plane War was the fastest route to plundering resources. This Palace Complex alone, fashioned with mithril plating, was enough to make any Level-5 creature look twice.
Even a Level-6 Creature would surely have been satisfied with such a haul.
Saine had been dazzled by the mithril Palace Complexes he had passed through earlier, to