367: Dragonbone Ore that drives people mad! Enhance the Miner Profession!!

My Lord! This is the contract between us and the Giant Temple!

Hu Youshan, who held the Professional title of Diplomat, eagerly presented a contract to Su Lie.

Su Lie took it and saw that Rogers had already signed his name on it; all that remained was Su Lie's signature.

He carefully examined the contract until he reached the supplementary clauses at the end.

Su Lie couldn't help but look up at the two men: "You... truly did an outstanding job!"

"This was all thanks to Bowen's eloquence! Rogers didn't understand negotiation tactics and revealed his bottom line immediately, so we tacitly adjusted our strategy!"

Hu Youshan said modestly.

Liu Bowen, standing nearby, laughed and said: "My Lord! Don't completely believe this idiot! He used his Talent to win Rogers' favor, which allowed us to open up a favorable situation!"

Neither of them claimed credit.

Su Lie laughed: "Good! Good! Good! Both of you, follow me! I'm going to give each of you a major reward!"

With that said.

Su Lie immediately signed the contract, and after the prompt from the mist rule appeared.

He then got up and led the two men to the basement.

This transaction was handled perfectly by the two men.

It exceeded Su Lie's expectations.

Originally, Su Lie had expected the two men to settle the deal based on his second set of cost prices, which was 12.3486 trillion.

Even if the price dropped to 10 trillion monster crystal.

The territory would still profit.

However.

To Su Lie's surprise.

In this transaction, the two men managed to negotiate the price directly to 15 trillion monster crystal.

And this was only the first cost-price transaction.

Subsequent transactions would be concluded at a price of 16.5 trillion.

This was simply too perfect!

What also surprised Su Lie was that the contract the two men signed with Rogers stipulated that the Giant Temple must pay the cost price first for every transaction.

The remaining ten percent would be paid on the day the transaction was completed.

"Hehe! My Lord! Don't you think, if we had dared to say we would bear the cost upfront, Rogers might not have understood immediately, but what would they think once he returned to the Giant Temple?"

Hu Youshan gave a cunning smile and explained: "They would think, how could a mere insect faction possess so much monster crystal!"

"There must be a problem here!"

He stopped talking at this point.

Su Lie suddenly realized the truth after hearing this; this was something he hadn't considered. Fortunately, Hu Youshan had compensated for his oversight.

Otherwise.

He really would have been suspected by the Giant Temple.

After all.

This was a transaction worth 15 trillion monster crystal.

If it were a transaction of tens of millions or billions.

Su Lie could still use the monster crystal previously gifted by Kronos as an excuse to gloss over it.

But 15 trillion was no small sum for him!

While they were talking.

Su Lie led the two men to the bone and marrow cleansing pool, and he explained the function of the pool.

This made the two men so excited they didn't know what to do.

Before long.

After the two men completed their bone and marrow cleansing.

Su Lie took out two moon scale thousand thread bodhi fruit and rewarded them.

And he explained the relevant information about attribute points and Talent.

Subsequently.

Su Lie then rewarded each of them with 1 billion level 0 monster crystal.

After letting the two men leave.

Su Lie checked the time.

He saw that it was already midnight.

At this time, the welcoming bonfire party hosted by Ling Xu and the others had just begun.

After thinking about it.

He took out the resources harvested from the Blood Secret Realm this time.

Buzz!

The next second.

Su Lie instantly teleported to the Resource Area's mining zone.

Su Liya instantly teleported right behind Su Lie, bringing cups for Su Lie to use at the welcoming party.

This place was still some distance from Xuan Lake, but he could see the bonfire there and hear the laughter.

Buzz!

Su Lie deployed all the dragon blood crystal ore vein spheres in the mining zone.

A new mining zone gate materialized.

Immediately after, Su Lie deployed 10 million blood coins ore vein spheres in the mining zone.

"Liya! Go find two Miners and have them mine!"

Su Lie turned his head and instructed Su Liya.

Su Liya quickly notified the training base upon hearing this, and soon two Little Skeletons were dispatched here.

They drove the mining machine into the mine shaft.

Su Lie then looked at the Resource Area panel.

He saw.

[dragon blood crystal Ore Reserve: 3.981 trillion units; Conversion Rate: 500 million units per day, 39,810 god-level ore vein heart.]

[blood coins Ore Reserve: 1,000 trillion units; Conversion Rate: 100 billion units per day, 10 million god-level ore vein heart.]

"The reserves are abundant!"

As he spoke, Su Lie took out the jade talisman containing the dragon skeleton ore.

After he released the jade talisman.

Rumble!

He saw a massive island floating in the sky above the mining zone.

Dragon Skeleton Island had a diameter of about 50 kilometers.

Looking up from below, it looked like a massive mountain inverted and suspended in the air.

Besides a mine shaft entrance leading into the dragon skeleton ore at the top of Dragon Skeleton Island.

There was also a military camp that had been destroyed.

Scattered within the camp were about 10,000 god-tier basic resource treasure chest.

Su Lie collected the Treasure Chest and sent them all into storage.

After thinking, he made a decision regarding the dragon skeleton ore: "Liya! The dragon skeleton ore contains extremely precious resources. Bring the three Miners from Qi Miaomiao's recruited team here!"

"Yes!"

Su Liya, who had been following Su Lie, quickly teleported away from the area.

In Qi Miaomiao's team, only the Enchanter Huang Susu and the Carpenter Zhuang Yun had been Strengthened into God-Tier Professional.

The rest were either Gold or Purple Professionals.

These three Miners were Purple Epic Quality Professionals.

Among them, Liu Haomiao was 20 years old, in college internship, and worked as a Courier. After entering the Mist World, he awakened as a Miner and mainly relied on mining work.

Furthermore, his Shelter was different from everyone else Su Lie had seen.

Liu Haomiao's Shelter was located underground.

Because 80% of his underground Shelter was submerged by lava.

He sought refuge with Su Lie only because he truly couldn't survive anymore.

Jiang Tao, 18 years old, a student at a mining university. After awakening as a Miner, he relied on mining to earn money. Additionally, leveraging his initial Talent of 50 times colossal strength, he used a great saber weighing 300 pounds to kill enemies.

Yesterday, he was almost killed by a sneak attack from several alien Survivors.

In order to survive.

He decisively joined Su Lie's team.

Wang Heng, 19 years old, majoring in excavator operation at Lanxiang Technical School. After awakening as a Miner, because his birthplace was entirely covered in trees, his Professional title provided almost no benefits.

He could only rely on his initial Talent, Fire Man, to burn trees for charcoal to get by.

Only after the Blazing Flame Disaster arrived did he manage to excavate some good resources using his Professional Skill.

Due to low combat power and his Shelter being destroyed.

He ultimately sought refuge with Su Lie.

All three were Miners.

Their Professional Talent was Mining Blessing, which gave them a certain chance to excavate higher quality minerals, as well as Mining Critical Hits.

They also had Skills such as crafting tools, prospecting, and extracting mine shafts into ore vein spheres.

Soon.

The three men arrived before Su Lie.

Slightly nervous, they greeted him: "My Lord!"

"Mhm! I have an extremely rare god-tier mine here, and I plan to hand it over to you for excavation!"

Su Lie said straightforwardly: "But your capabilities are insufficient!"

This instantly disheartened the three men who had just been happy.

Thud!

Liu Haomiao stepped forward: "My Lord, please rest assured! We are all Miners! No one understands mining better than us! Furthermore, every 1 unit of mineral we excavate has a 50x critical hit effect!"

"That's right, My Lord! Although our Professional Quality cannot compare to others, within our territory, we are the most professional Miners!"

Wang Heng quickly followed up.

Su Lie smiled and signaled the three men to calm down: "Therefore, I plan to make an exception and promote you all to God-Tier Professional!"

This statement shook the three men deeply.

Bang!

Liu Haomiao immediately knelt on the ground: "My Lord! My life, Liu Haomiao's life, is yours!"

Wang Heng and Jiang Tao also knelt down and kowtowed, expressing their Loyalty.

Su Lie nodded, and only then did he Enhance the three men.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

Before long.

All three men had been Strengthened by Su Lie into God-Tier Professional.

Moreover, a hidden Talent, Loyalty, had appeared in their Talent profiles.

Su Lie looked at the panels of the three men individually.

He saw.

The Mining Critical Hit for all three had become 500x.

Meaning, for every 1 unit of ore excavated, they would receive 500 times the profit.

Furthermore, all the mineral resources they excavated were of god-tier quality.

Moreover, when the three men operated specialized mining tools, they could gain a hundredfold bonus on top of the tool's inherent benefits.

Take the mining machine, for example.

Under the control of the Little Skeleton, it only gained a 100x mining rate, allowing it to excavate 5 million units per day.

But under the control of Liu Haomiao and the other two, the mining machine's 100x mining speed would turn into 10,000x mining speed.

In this case, they could mine 500 million units per day.

If the Mining Critical Hit was added.

Liu Haomiao alone could harvest 250 billion units of resources in a single day.

Furthermore, the three men also had Mining Blessing and special Skills.

This allowed them not only to excavate more mineral resources but also to gain other additional benefits.

Su Lie's eyes lit up after seeing this: "If I let these three mine the void-shattering ore, 1 piece yields 500 pieces, then... after tonight, the remaining 7,000 space fragment reserves..."

"The three of them can bring me 3.5 million units of space fragment!"

"As for the dragon skeleton ore, I still have reserves here, so there is no need to excavate it so urgently!"

Snap!

Su Lie suddenly looked up at Su Liya: "Liya! At the void-shattering ore site, once the Little Skeletons finish today's task, have them hand over their tools and guardian brooch to Liu Haomiao and the other two!"

"From today onward, the three of you will be responsible for the excavation work in this mining zone!"

"If there is an urgent mining task, the three of you will need to work simultaneously!"

"If there are no tasked minerals, you only need to excavate the dragon skeleton ore on this island!"

After arranging everyone's tasks.

Su Lie looked at the Resource Area panel again.

He saw.

The total number of mine shafts in the Resource Area had become 18.

Water resources still only numbered 2 locations.

However.

The dragon skeleton ore did not appear in the basic mineral data list.

It appeared in the material resource data list.

[dragon skeleton ore: Reserve 1,000 trillion units, Probable Products: dragon egg, solidified dragon blood essence, dragon soul pearl; Resentment Content: 80%; Curse Component: 10%; Negative Effect: The longer one stays, the lower their life's sanity, and the higher the chance of becoming a lunatic.]

After Su Lie saw this information.

He instructed Su Liya: "Before Haomiao and the other two mine, they must wear the guardian brooch, and the water source they use must be changed from ordinary water to Exorcism Holy Water! Before and after entering and exiting, find Liu Hua or Lin Lu to purify them once!"

Su Lie then instructed Liu Haomiao and the other two: "After you go in, you must summarize the experience of each entry, such as how long it takes before negative emotions arise, how long it takes to activate the guardian brooch, and so on!"

After completing the series of arrangements.

Su Lie went with the three men to the bonfire party.

At the bonfire party site.

In front of the huge bonfire.

Ling Xu, Luo Xu, and others were raising their cups with everyone.

After Su Lie joined, he accepted the toasts from everyone and said a few words.

Only then did he leave the bonfire party.

When he arrived at the Great Joy Tower.

Su Liya, Su Keqing, and Su Weier had been waiting for a long time.

Su Lie smiled slightly as he looked at the three women standing in front of the 9th-floor bedroom, holding clothing and towels, and then walked into the bathroom...