On the fourth floor of the Salt Mine cave, the residents here are mainly ordinary Mana-Wielder rooms. Each room here is smaller, and there are usually 2-4 Mana-Wielders living in one room. There are two larger rooms, with large houses for more than a dozen people.
While walking, Landen suddenly had the illusion that he had been inspecting the student dormitories in the school before. I have to say that although the conditions on this floor are not good, both the room arrangement and the spatial layout are very reasonable.
Considering Mana-Wielder's height, the entire fourth floor is about 3 meters tall, which is lower than the fifth and sixth floors. Each four-person room is very close to the layout of Landen's previous school dormitory. Of course, there are basically no windows. Landen can't imagine why there can be such a coincidence cave on a mountain more than 100 meters away. This is not a cave, it is simply a specially excavated cave dormitory.
"It is indeed specially excavated, Master Landen." After Landen asked, Gandalf replied with a smile, "Not only the rooms you see, but also the sinks in the rooms, the sewer channels of the toilets, and the positions of Rune Board have been reserved. After I got here, I just drew Rune, and there are no new functions."
"What?" Landen didn't turn around.
"You don't think that this Salt Mine was discovered and mined by Barbarian, right? The entire Salt Mine area has a history of mining for thousands of years. This cave has been the dormitory of the miners in Salt Mine hundreds of years ago."
"How could it be such a coincidence?" Landen suddenly realized, "But that's not right. How many Magic Crystals are needed to operate so many Runes?"
"No need Magic Crystal, you think Human Race is being treated as a hard worker Will Mana-Wielder have his own Magic Crystal?" Gandalf explained, "This involves the knowledge of Magic Web. It is normal for you not to know. As far as I know, even Magic School of Dragon Tooth City does not teach this kind of knowledge."
Magic Web is generally considered to refer to a certain linkage relationship between magic elements throughout the world. Magic elements link up with each other in the air, water, and soil, forming regular macroscopic fluctuations.
Generally speaking, the fluctuations of Magic Web are steady and slow, but in the soil, as the bottom layer becomes deeper, many magic elements will have different concentrations in different bottom layers. When the bottom layer undergoes geological changes, a huge magic concentration difference will occur in the same stratum depth. This concentration difference may suddenly release a large amount of magic energy, or it may slowly release a fixed, small amount of magic energy.
Magic scholars call this kind of terrain that can release huge magical energy Ley Line. Ley Line is often located on volcanoes, minerals and other terrains. The energy contained in Ley Line is huge, and the formation and release of energy take thousands of years, so it can be regarded as a natural magic energy mine.
According to Gandalf's explanation, Ley Line underground in Salt Mine was discovered and used thousands of years ago. All magic and alchemy devices in this cave are operated by the energy released by Ley Line. Ley Line energy is first gathered into the heating pool of the first-floor workshop, and then distributed to each room on each floor.
"Are there other caves like this on this mountain?" Landen asked. He remembered that the Barbarian camp in the north of Salt Mine also excavated the surrounding mountains. He didn't know whether those Barbarian were just a sudden idea or continued to develop through existing mines.
"I think you are talking about the camp in the north, right?" Gandalf understood Landen's thoughts. "There are indeed caves there. I have visited them before, but there is no Salt Mine there, so they have not been used."
"I see." For Landen, isn't this similar to the geothermal energy in his hometown, except that geothermal energy requires a boiler to convert thermal energy into mechanical energy, and here it is directly utilizing the magical energy contained in Ley Line, which is really convenient.
"That means that if you can find a large Ley Line, you can build a city?"
"Of course, most big cities are built on Ley Line."
"Oh, that's it." For a moment, Landen felt something was wrong, but the whole team was about to go downstairs, and Landen did not continue the discussion with Gandalf.
The third and second floors of Salt Mine are the living spaces of Mana-Less. The third floor is mainly occupied by children, skilled elders, and management personnel, with a relatively small number; the second floor is occupied by laborers, with a large number.
Regardless of whether it is the second or third floor, the corridors on each floor are 4 or 5 meters high, and the living rooms are divided into two floors, so that more people can live there.
There are three halls on the third floor, one of which is not only very large, but also uses the geological space on the top of the cave for lighting, making it very bright.
According to Gandalf's introduction, these halls are children's classrooms, administrators' conference rooms, and places where Ascetic Monk hosts Mana-Less hold prayers.
In the well-lit hall, Landen met several Mana-Less, Monheqi, Doryav, Mike, Jarg, etc. who were responsible for Salt Mine's management. These Mana-Less Landen met at dinner last night. They are all Mana-Less who assisted Lannia in managing Salt Mine. It is these people who have managed more than 2,000 Mana-Less in Salt Mine in an orderly manner in the past few years.
These people are similar to the Butler in the Barbarian camp that Landen encountered before. They are all local Butler and scholars who were robbed by Barbarian after attacking various Human Race territories. They themselves have a deep understanding and practical experience in territory management, and they returned to their old business after arriving at Salt Mine.
Landen knew that she was about to take the Knights out of the main camp for a decisive battle with Gray Goose. In the future, all the Mana-Lesss in the camp would still have to take the test to support Lannia. Now she could not weaken Lannia's authority in front of her assistants.
"Ms. Lannia introduced everyone to me yesterday. In the future, I will lead everyone back to the Dragon Kingdom. Along the way, I also need everyone to help Lannia with various tasks in the camp." Landen must first clarify the status of Lannia.
"Don't worry, once we return to the Dragon Kingdom, there will be more than 3,000 Territory Residents in my territory, and we will need a lot of talents like you. As long as you are willing to work hard, I will not treat you badly."
"Yes, sir."
After several Butler expressed their opinions, Gandalf called over some more girls and children.
"Sir, please introduce me. This is Rima Zongtuo, this is Rei Haili, and this is Ninovia. You have already met their brothers. They are all Mana-Wielder or Knight Apprentice. They were already literate before they came here, and they have been assisting Lannia in handling various accounts and documents in Salt Mine."
"Very good, then they should be responsible for the paperwork, and you should follow Lannia.
Makoto? You also teach them how to settle accounts."
"Yes, my lord"