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The spear tip pierced the Black Wolf, and the wolf had no time to dodge.

Its body sent Ye Qian flying, but the girl, who had flown into the air, landed lightly on the ground and easily regained her footing.

Despite the cold spear piercing its body, the wolf's attack did not cease. With its body pierced, its claws flashed with a chilling light as it swung fiercely towards the girl.

Bang!

A powerful recoil suddenly came.

Force Field Barrier (Blue)

Using her still-unadvanced body, Ye Qian forcibly withstood the attack and retreated again, while a mouthful of blood gushed from her throat.

"I didn't expect it to actually block it."

The thought flashed through her mind, and she conjured another Ice Spear three or four meters above her head, then thrust it downwards with a fierce thrust.

Whoosh!

Under the control of his mind, the Ice Spear accelerated instantly, and with a bang, it firmly embedded the Black Wolf into the ground.

It struggled violently, seemingly in great pain.

But faced with the girl before him, he was ultimately powerless to fight and lost his life.

Ye Qian breathed a sigh of relief, took out a tissue, and wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth.

The soldier finally breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed to the ground.

He... was too badly injured and was on the verge of death.

In this situation, even Water of Purification cannot save lives.

However, medicine can at least temporarily prolong life and, incidentally, completely stop the pain in the body.

So Ye Qian took out a bottle and walked up to him.

"Here, drink it."

The soldier opened his mouth, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Sir, please be sure to protect yourself."

"Yes, thank you. Rest in peace."

The pain lessened and disappeared.

Ye Qian let out a long sigh, feeling a mix of emotions.

These soldiers were not cold-blooded and ruthless; they had their own thoughts and were people who had once lived.

It must be admitted that the way the Magic Net invokes the power of ancient heroes is truly unique.

Unfortunately, it was ultimately through the Magic Net, that fallen god.

"If even a fraction of the power of a true god is this formidable, then I should keep a low profile in the future. I need to be careful, not to mention ordinary people, but at least when facing beings of such a high level."

When facing weaker forces, such as secret societies in some small cities, Ye Qian became much bolder, using the Cannon Fodder Misses as expendable resources (but they didn't seem to die many times).

Turning my head to look at the distance, I saw that the battle was over.

Ye Qian ran over and saw two Berserker injured.

Immediately feed them Water of Purification.

Unfortunately, one of them was still too badly injured.

"Lady Ye Qian, your mouth is bleeding. Are you alright?"

"No problem, um... you're new summoners, so you don't know the situation. Actually, this is my clone right now."

Ye Qian wasn't worried that these people would reveal the situation once they knew it, because there was a contract between them that was enough to keep them from talking at crucial moments.

"I see, I'm relieved. But... sir, we don't want you to get hurt no matter what. There are a lot of Black Iron Rank creatures here, and even we can't handle them all." The Berserker captain knelt on one knee, pleading.

"Good."

Ye Qian didn't want to face it proactively anymore.

The fight just now was actually easy to dodge, since I had anticipated the situation and could have escaped. I took the initiative to attack because I wanted to see how powerful the Blue Skill.

The result did not disappoint her; she truly fought against an enemy a level higher than herself, even though the enemy was not actually in particularly good condition.

"Send two teams to scout the area. If it's too dangerous, we can retreat."

Ye Qian did the math and realized it was still a bit dangerous.

Without Berserker at the front, the current Elite Magic-Equipped Archer would truly be slaughtered if they encountered a large number of Black Iron Rank enemies.

But...

The price of 200 Elite Magic-Equipped Archer is about the same as that of one Berserker.

In actual combat, whether the combined fighting power of these two hundred men is equivalent to that of a single Berserker remains to be seen. If they use ranged archery, their output might be superior. However, against enemies with high defense, only Berserker might be able to break through their defenses; archers would be far from sufficient.

While Ye Qian sent the team out to scout, she observed the area through the mini-map.

Before long, they encountered some red dots.

Two red dots and this green dot have expanding halos, indicating that they have detected each other and may be entering combat mode.

If the aperture becomes two, then a fight has broken out.

Ye Qian discovered that the two 30-person squads quickly engaged in battle with the enemy. Judging from the outcome of the battle, their side won, but also lost several people.

"The Berserker is alive, that's good."

After waiting for more than ten minutes, the four teams returned.

"Lord Ye Qian, we have explored a 3-kilometer area and actually only encountered one Black Iron Rank unit. The rest were all ordinary individuals above level 10, and elites were extremely rare," a Berserker said.

"My squad didn't encounter any Black Iron Rank, but there were some troublesome flying creatures. Two archers were ambushed and seriously injured, but the arrows quickly pierced the targets."

The four teams reported in succession.

As a result, they only encountered one formidable enemy with Black Iron rank within a 3-kilometer radius.

"It seems that those Black Wolf packs aren't so easy to encounter after all."

Ye Qian felt a little relieved.

If this kind of situation were to occur everywhere, our limited forces wouldn't be able to handle it.

Looking at the rewards, I received a lot of Life Energy, over 600 points, but the currency dropped was limited, only a few dozen silver coins.

This is understandable, though, since monsters can't actually carry silver coins. The so-called silver is energy extracted from the Magic Net and coalesced into silver metal.

"It's hard to say whether it's a profit or a loss."

From the perspective of Life Energy, it's a great deal.

From a financial perspective, it's a huge loss; killing one is only enough to recruit a few Elite Magic-Equipped Archer.

"Don't count on getting money by killing monsters."

We still have to attack human towns.

Just as Ye Qian was pondering this, the last team sent out suddenly discovered a Mining Area on the edge of the map.

Pull the marker open...

[Silver Mine has been discovered.]

"Oh, this."

Really?

Isn't that too much of a coincidence?

Unexpectedly, the team soon returned to us excitedly.

"Lord Ye Qian, we have discovered a mountain with a large amount of Silver Mine on it," the Berserker said.

"Take me to see it."

Ye Qian immediately exclaimed excitedly.

Despite the abundance of gold, silver, and bronze in the Kalu World, relying solely on plundering from humans will eventually be insufficient; alternative channels are necessary.

This Silver Mine is incredible.

Not long after, they arrived at their target area.

"It really is..."

In this mine, some of the Silver Mine is exposed on the outside, and there is obviously more inside.

I don't know what the difference is between the Mining Area in this other world and those on Earth. Anyway, the Main World is a magical world, and there must be special energy extracted from the silver to summon ancient heroes and troops for the Magic Net.

"We must capture this mountain; it will be our base. I hope you can give me more time to gain the strength to compete against other contestants from other worlds as soon as possible."

2000 silver coins, because of their high purity, would require a very large amount of ore to be mined.

The efficiency of this process is unknown, but judging from the quality of the ore in front of us, we can estimate that we can collect quite a lot.

"Captain, take the boat back and bring a group of farmers over from the other side to prepare for building a mining site and Auto-Guided Arrow Tower."

Despite the fact that the automatic Arrow Tower are incredibly weak, Ye Qian still wanted to build them. This was because they had considerable penetrating power when used with Iron Arrow. Even the slightly thinner Black Iron Rank monsters would have to dodge if they were shot, otherwise, being hit in the eyes or throat would be dangerous.

In addition, Arrow Tower provide vision, so building more of them can only be beneficial.

Of course, the only real firepower we can rely on right now is the 100mm Magic Crystal Cannon.

If Black Iron Rank is hit by an explosion, it really can't withstand it without some resilience.

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Now that the Silver Mine has been discovered, the next steps will revolve around it.

Considering the weak defenses here, Ye Qian's approach was to repeatedly transport troops over using those three ships.

The goal is to station 2,000 Elite Magic-Equipped Archer here, and then slowly increase the number of Berserker.

The silver coins from the Kalu World will be transferred over later. However, that world desperately needs an army right now. After conquering the entire duchy, the surrounding nobles learned of the situation through magical communication and were all shocked.

Despite bearing the banner of the Kalu House, she was, after all, just a minor noble, and this force was still considered an unknown outsider.

Then the entire kingdom began to move, seemingly preparing to mobilize a large army to attack the province controlled by Cannon Fodder No. 2 and Kalu.

Ye Qian wasn't afraid of these challenges, but the current tens of thousands of troops were indeed insufficient, as a significant portion of the force needed to maintain order and garrison various locations. The occasional rebellions also caused them some trouble.

The final troop strength assembled for battle included 8,000 archers, 12,000 Spearman, and 8,000 cavalry.

This force may have to face a noble coalition of over 200,000 men.

Therefore, Ye Qian could no longer transfer resources from that side.

"The Kalu World is ultimately just to serve my development in other places, especially the Main World, so once things are settled there, I can focus on finding minerals and supporting this place."

Looking at the Silver Mine under construction in front of him, Ye Qian was certain that this would be the source of the future army.

Construction proceeded very quickly, and gradually 2,000 workers were transported over.

Three new cannons were completed and transported here by ship.

These cannons were temporarily installed near the beach to surround the port under construction.

The troops currently stationed there have not ventured out excessively; they have simply been clearing out the wild monsters that have intruded.

A day later, a large number of miners began mining Silver Mine.

Daily production reached 200 tons.

Yes, compared to modern technology, this speed is indeed too slow. But there's no other way; this kind of ore containing special energy can only be mined slowly.

A workshop specifically for smelting ores was also built. Although Ye Qian did not have the blueprints for the mint, the Player System did, so construction began.

The total resources spent on all these buildings amounted to 5,000 silver coins.

Because there were many workers, the entire job was completed by the third day.

After the ore undergoes complex processing, the silver content obtained from one ton of ore is just enough to mint 30 silver coins.