Near noon the next day, the caravan finally arrived at the Worrel Werewolf Tribe.
Xu Yi did not know whether he was imagining it, but he felt that Worrel Chieftain treated them a little more cautiously than he had last time.
The change was especially obvious when he dealt with Xu Yi.
Last time, Worrel Chieftain had looked utterly dismissive of Xu Yi. This time, he actually greeted Xu Yi with a smile.
Although the smile on his wolf's head was extremely ugly, even a little frightening, it was enough to show his warmth toward Xu Yi.
Of course, that might also have been because he had received five hundred thousand gold coins from Xu Yi and the other humans.
Even beastmen had to make a living.
With those five hundred thousand gold coins, the Worrel Werewolf Tribe could buy large quantities of desperately needed daily necessities from the humans, improving life for the entire tribe while making his position as chief more secure. Naturally, he would show Xu Yi and the others a little more warmth.
The caravan stopped briefly to rest at the Worrel Werewolf Tribe. After lunch, the guards escorted the wagons to the Nonferrous Metals Vein beside the tribe.
Opening a mine was not something that could be done in a day or two. According to the plan, the three merchant guilds would first build living quarters beside the deposit to house the workers responsible for the preliminary construction.
Only after the rest of the equipment and workers arrived in succession would mining actually begin.
They estimated that this would take roughly three to four months.
But compared with opening the mine, the real problem lay in logistics.
After all, this deposit was in the Black Rice Wasteland, a considerable distance even from Samara Town, the