Chapter 30 - Ignite Gems

After approximately half an hour, all of the Grand Masters were done. They reached all their way to the edge of the mile long cave wall and seemed to barely have broken a sweat. Expectable from Grand Masters.

Mogranius and Eric on the other hand, made it halfway. More precisely they finished the fruit part of the area. And thought they were done. And under deep breath they sighed, as they were exhausted

"Finally. we are done."

But what they forgot, is that the fruit area is only half a mile long. And since all the fruits and vegetables are barely away from each other, it means that there is a half more mile to go before they truly finish.

Commander Alia approached them along with the Grand Masters. Seeing that they both are under their breath, she says

"Why don't the two of you take a break.

It seems like you had enough fun."

After saying that she gently wipes the mud from Mogranius' face while Mograniuses feels frozen but his heart beats fast like a rabbit's heart.

She proceeds to say

"The Grand Masters will take it from here. All of you served us more than enough.

Follow me."

Mogranius and Eric stand up and make their way to the exit. But seemed to have forgotten that the exit is a half mile away. So they sighed all the way there. When they almost reached the exit, they see Woldemir trying to hold off BlackWind from eating crops furthermore.

Commander Alia with a small laugh in her tone says to Woldemir

"Why don't you take him out to the forest.

He can eat until he collapses there. I will proceed giving the rest of your group a tour here."

Woldemir replies

"Good idea. You already have enough trouble."

and then he turns to BlackWind and says

"Come on boy, there is food in the forest."

They proceed to walk their way up and go outside while the rest of the Gang follows Commander Alia as they make their way down the spiral like roadway.

This time they did not enter a farm but entered what seemed to be a mine.

At the very entrance of the mine, a six foot tall Calidum Lutum was to be seen.

Rather unusual to see a Calidum Lutum this short.

Commander Alia makes a quick introduction

"This is our town's Blacksmith. Overqualified for his job, possibly the best Blacksmith in the continent, able to merge lava and iron together and his body size gives him advantages on his job as well."

The Blacksmith grunted in a way similar to greeting and with a hammer on his hand he proceeded to hit a boiling hot iron plate.

Behind him appeared to be the most vicious looking weapons the gang has ever seen.

Some being warhammers seemingly impossible to lift by an ignite or Kastarian.

Some being swords with hard volcanic rock at the non sharp part of the sword.

Some swords having multiple sharp edges giving a victim zero chances of survival.

Some looking like spears with lava on the tip.

Everything behind the BlackSmith looked like something that could kill you.

Eric proceeded to say

"It would be great if this Blacksmith made a sword for my father."

Commander Alia replied with confidence

"Oh he already is. The plate he is beating with a hammer is your father's future sword."

A second after, they saw a Mine worker carrying some sort of glowing gems.

Stefan got greatly curious and asked

"What kind of gems are these?"

Covered with dirt, their value and origin wasn't certain. So no one recognized them.

Commander Alia replied with a sigh

"Gems. we have hit a large deposit of useless gems. They will all end up down the volcano. Apart from replacing a Candle, they are pretty much useless."

Stefan runs and stands in front of the mine worker carrying the load of gems and says

"Stop!! Those are Ignite gems. Worth one hundred gold coins, each. This can literally solve your entire food situation and much more."

Mogranius approaches and says

"Well i'll be damned. Those are Ignite gems."

Commander Alia does a hand gesture telling the mine worker to gently place down the gems.

Stefan says

"These purple gems are too valuable. One of these fist like gems are worth four cold hard Iron ingots. How many did you find?"

Commander Alia doesn't know how to react to this discovery. She hits her forehead with her palm and says

"The mine workers have been dropping hundreds of them so far down the Volcano. If i only knew their value.

However, there are more. These gems stopped all our iron ore intake because it stood like a wall blocking the tunnels from further expanding."

Stefan replies with an enthusiastic tone

"Well these stones provide light five meters away. And unlike candles, they don't burn out.

If there are still many of them remaining, we can solve the light problem on the farm.

And what's left over, we can sneak our way to the closest kingdom and trade them for food."

Commander Alia shouts

"GENIUS. You should be crowned King as soon as possible. Your mind works way to much."

Then she turns to the gang and says

"Friends, you are forever welcome to Lan Zhe from here on forwards. I declare you honoured guests."

Eric replied

"Thank you. But i was more thinking about someone here to teach me Lava Controlling."

Mogranius added up

"Indeed. I can teach him everything he needs to know about Fire Blasting. But Lava Controlling is not my territory."

Commander Alia replied

"You are most welcome to come and learn here.

But for the moment, you are more than ready to reclaim Gaster Kingdom. That should be your main priority for now."