Suppressing his urge to fly over to the Elf Artisans immediately and investigate in depth, Zhou Xu decided to finish dealing with all the documents on hand first.
However, anyone could tell that his heart was no longer in the documents. Even so, the subsequent reports brought him no shortage of good news.
"Mithril!"
Looking at the clearly itemized resource list in his hands, Zhou Xu was still overwhelmed with excitement, even though this situation had been more or less within his expectations.
The Elf Ancient Tree alone made it clear that the Elf race had probably put down roots here from the very beginning of its founding.
The first time Zhou Xu had learned of mithril was through the Silver Steel Sword passed down from Shilke and the others' ancestors. The Silver Steel Sword had been forged with a small amount of mithril added to it.
During the Old Civilization Era, the Elf race had even been able to use mithril to forge weapons for ordinary Elf Knights. Although the proportion had been rather low, that alone was enough to prove that they must have possessed mithril resources on a considerable scale.
Discovering mithril veins and stockpiles inside the Elf Forest was perfectly normal!
But to Great Zhou, this was of tremendous significance.
Mithril could be said to be the most important raw material for producing high-quality Enchanted Equipment.
Before this, Great Zhou had already gained control of mithril veins, but whether on Mithril Island or in the Saint Roland region, their reserves were not high, and their output was low.
That had made it impossible for Zhou Xu to use mithril to arm his troops. Even the Assault Camp had not received such treatment. At most, it had been used for important military officers.
But now, this situation