The Gnoll Tribe's city walls formed a half-enclosed perimeter, with an endless stretch of mountains behind them.
At the tribe's outskirts, far from the main residential area, two sizable ore veins lay buried deep underground.
Mu Yuan picked up several pieces of raw ore that had rolled onto the ground and briefly examined them.
"It's Black Iron Stone."
The other one was a Red Copper Ore Vein.
Black Iron Stone and Red Copper Ore were both extremely common entry-level materials. The former in particular could be called the most commonly used basic material. It could be found in equipment forging, Miracle Building construction, and many other areas.
His Tian Yuan Territory had always purchased these two materials from outside.
Sometimes Sophia bought them on Blue Star; other times, Daisy purchased some when she went to Shiling Town to trade and happened to find a suitable price.
Before Blue Star's fusion, Mu Yuan had already stockpiled a certain amount of Black Iron Stone and Red Copper Ore, but the inventory was still far from plentiful.
It was impossible for it to be plentiful.
Tian Yuan Territory had grown considerably, and all kinds of consumption had risen sharply with it.
Even though he hadn't carried out large-scale territorial infrastructure construction recently, nor built any additional large numbers of high-grade Miracle Buildings, Black Iron Stone was still being consumed like water gushing away.
They needed to make arrows, repair damaged armor and weapons, produce all kinds of tools, craft new equipment, and so on. All of that consumed basic materials in large quantities.
Unless he no longer wanted to develop and build rapidly, resource consumption would remain high forever.
"Now that we've received the Gnoll Tribe's gift, it's eased our immediate crisis. Otherwise, I'd have had to purchase them through the Elf Courtyard's