After exhausting his Mental Power, the gains he made through meditation were noticeably faster than under normal cultivation conditions. Han Shuo reached this conclusion after returning to the Death Cemetery and spending a night meditating until his Mental Power was full again.
However, a necromancer without Mental Power could not cast any spells at all, which would undoubtedly put them at a severe disadvantage. Thus, under normal circumstances, no mage would exhaust all their Mental Power in one go.
Since the dwarves were willing to share the mine, Han Shuo could not help entertaining other ideas. The iron and copper deposits inside seemed enormous. At the dwarves' working pace, extracting all of them would take an extremely long time.
Han Shuo could easily use summoned creatures to speed up the mining. If he transported this copper and iron ore to the Empire, it would surely earn him a handsome return. In particular, from his own understanding and the dwarves' reactions, he knew the Black Iron Ore within must be an extremely precious resource. It might even fetch an astronomical price.
There should be many dwarven villages in the Dark Forest. This group of dwarves did not seem particularly large, and even all of them together probably would not need so much iron and copper ore. With that in mind, Han Shuo formed another plan.
After feeding blood and Demonic Essence into the Primordial Demon Cave, Han Shuo left the Death Cemetery early in the morning and headed toward the mine.
Han Shuo had thought he was early enough, but when he reached the mine entrance, he found that the dwarves were already there. There were twice as many of them today as usual. They seemed to have spent the entire night in excitement. Their eyes were bloodshot, yet they looked