I'm a mage, what's wrong with loving farming?

Chapter 126. Gold Devouring Demon Bug, Curse of the Goddess
"A gold mine."

“…Is there a gold mine here?”

He didn't dare to believe it at first.

Gold actually has many uses in the magical world, especially unprocessed raw gold.

Gold coins are actually alloys of magic and some other metals, not pure gold.

Once unprocessed raw gold is discovered, major forces such as the church, the Mage Association, and the kingdom's royal court will rush to mine and pocket it at a very fast speed.

The fundamental reason is that gold, whether it is used to refine the core of a puppet, the core of a magic circle, or some other material needed to cast spells in alchemy, is the most perfect mortal gold.

As for the more advanced ones like Mithril, Orichalcum, and Star Iron...

Those are already considered magical metals, special entities that can only appear in magical mines, and are far beyond the reach of ordinary people.

If Croa had enough raw gold now, he could smelt it and start making his own golems and puppets.

He still had the bark of the simulated magic tree in his hand, which was the best material for making the puppet shell.

That's why he lost his composure when he saw Huang Jin.

“How much is this reserve?”

Cloya took a deep breath, placed his fingers directly on the ground, first moved all the ants to one side, and then began to push away the silt on the seabed through earth and stone shaping.

With the crazy infusion of magic power, a hole was soon "dug" out on the ground, and a dark, strange long strip of substance could be seen inside.

"Hmm?" He frowned.

This seems to be igneous rock after volcanic lava has cooled. There are many irregularly arranged pores on its surface, and you can vaguely see some fine gold inlaid in it.

Seeing this scene, he thought: "Could it be the gold mine brought by the volcanic eruption? The amount should not be very large."

"Hmm, there is a volcano in the distance. Could it be the remains of a volcanic eruption?"

In order to confirm whether his guess was correct, he continued to dig deeper and infused all his magic power into the earth.

The practice he had been doing during this period had almost condensed him into a fourth magic cyclone, so when he exerted his full strength, he could already have the prototype of an earth-shaking effect.

The earth was turned over by an invisible force.

Digging along the five or six meter wide black lava rock, five meters, ten meters, twenty meters...

After digging about thirty meters, they finally reached the bottom of the lava rock - it was a whole piece of lava rock with no visible boundaries, which could be considered a rock layer on the seabed.

He tentatively dug around and found that the ground around him was also full of this kind of igneous rock.

In other words, perhaps this flat seabed was once covered by magma, but it is unknown how long it took for it to be covered by the washed mud and various things to form the current seabed.

The only problem is that in such a long strip of igneous rock, only tiny gold nuggets can be seen, and no other minerals can be seen.

Although Cloya doesn't understand much about these, it stands to reason that igneous rocks should be very rich in minerals, including olivine and quartz.

Why are there only gold nuggets?
Is it in this river?

He really couldn't understand this situation, but it didn't affect him ordering the ants to mine the tiny gold nuggets inside, while he sat on the side to supervise.

Soon, the gray demon ants brought tiny pieces of gold to him.

At first, when he saw the gold being carried over, he was in a good mood.

But as these tiny pieces of gold gradually piled up in front of him, his expression became more and more strange.

Finally, I couldn't help but mutter:
"Isn't the purity of this gold a bit exaggerated?"

He picked up a pill and squeezed it lightly with his fingers, squeezing it until it was deformed. The dazzling golden light did not contain a trace of impurities, which made people feel purely strange.

Can the gold in the magmatic rock reach this level? Logically speaking, the raw gold ore that has not been smelted should not be so pure.

Is it really formed naturally, or...

“Could it be that there is something else in here that caused it to become like this?”

He stared at the huge magma rock with increasing confusion, and simply told the ants to get out of the way, then stretched out his finger and pressed it on it.

From where his fingertips touched the lava rock, the magic power was half red and half orange.

Gradually, a strange magic pattern the size of a palm was formed.

Just like the roots of a plant, more and longer tendrils extend from the palm-sized magic pattern, and finally come together to cover the entire piece of lava rock.

This is one of the derivative magics of earth and stone shaping, the fourth-level magic earth and stone shattering. The principle is to infuse magic power into these magic patterns to blast the huge stones.

It's similar to the principle of drilling a hole and then filling it with explosives.

"Let me see what's in there."

After the magic pattern of earth and rock shattering was formed, Kloya suddenly poured magic power into it.

Accompanied by a loud "bang!"

The originally huge magma rock had broken into countless irregular small pieces, lying quietly on the ground.

“There really is something there.”

He took a closer look and saw some fat bugs lying inside the black lava rock.

Each of them is about ten centimeters long and five centimeters wide, with some white patterns all over their bodies, which are particularly clear on the gray-brown skin. "Gold-eating worms?"

Kloya knew their names through the Astral Body Imprinting Technique. This time he did not need to look for the Holy Spring Chamber of Commerce to buy information because he had seen this kind of magic insect before.

It’s still in that book “Wendy’s Travels”.

A bard named Wendy saw these bugs in a mine. They would devour raw gold ore and then transform it in their bodies, turning it into gold of extremely high purity.

It is said that their habit comes from the curse of the goddess of wealth, who once invited all living things in the world to her banquet.

As a result, the ancestors of the gold-eating worms were not interested in the delicious dishes prepared by the goddess at the invitation of the god of fire and cooking. Instead, they began to gnaw on the golden table and chairs that the goddess used to entertain the guests.

Faced with this situation, the goddess was of course furious, and immediately used her divine power to curse the gold-eating worm:
You will always be on the road looking for gold, but you cannot eat it, your hunger will not be satisfied, and people will steal your gold!
As a powerful god, the Goddess of Wealth could of course easily influence a race - the protectors of insects. Gods with weaker powers dared not say a word at all.

Therefore, all the descendants of the gold-eating worms were affected by the power of this curse. They would find gold and swallow it, but would eventually spit it out and turn it into gold of higher purity.

Of course, it is not known whether this story is true or not, but due to the characteristics of gold-eating worms, as long as people can find them, they can find gold.

It is said that many people have become rich because of this.

It is one of the miners' favorite magic insects.

Of course, due to their insatiable hunger, there is almost no way to keep them in captivity unless they are provided with sufficient quantities of raw gold ore.

Otherwise they will make a lot of noise and hit themselves to death.

"What a pity, if I could raise it..."

He looked at the gold-eating worms crawling around and trying to burrow into the ground to escape. He habitually used the Astral Body Imprinting Technique to observe them. As a result, he found something inside the bodies of these simple-structured worms...

A strange mark.

It looked like a standard round gold coin with a portrait of a goddess on it. The goddess was wearing a luxurious golden crown and smiling, as if she was gazing into the distance.

He could see the goddess's face and instinctively felt that she was beautiful, but he was completely unable to recall her specific appearance.

Nose, eyes, eyebrows...

If you think about it a little bit, it's all just a mess.

Moreover, the portrait was covered in a gray light, like a deceased person's portrait.

Its outer ring was surrounded by extremely complex magic patterns. Although these magic patterns had dimmed by nearly nine-tenths, with only a little bit remaining, they still shone on the gold-eating worm's star body like the sun.

It's like suppressing something.

[Engraving completed, the curse of the goddess of wealth. 】

[At this moment, the gold-eating worm will not be able to accumulate enough gold magic to transform into a butterfly, and will always be on the road to search for gold. ]

[The goddess of wealth has fallen, and her power is gradually fading. ]

【Perhaps a power close to but not exactly the same can blind the goddess' eyes.】

A familiar reminder came, just like the thick potato that was blessed by the Mother Earth.

The only difference is that the target has been changed to the Goddess of Wealth, and at the end of the hint, it also specifically points out the methods that may be able to influence this imprint.

I don’t know if it was because Croa felt this that caused the change.

The gold-eating worm's astral body sent out consciousness——

"Help."

"End my suffering."

"I am willing to...give you gold!"

All the worms conveyed a unified consciousness, and then crawled towards Cloya, rubbing their heads on the ground as if they were bowing to him.

Croix was silent for a long while and sighed softly.

"Oh, who told me to be helpful?"

He thought about what method could be used to solve this matter - cover the goddess' eyes, then illusion? Or mental magic?

After thinking for a while, he suddenly clapped his hands.

"That's right! You can use this!"

In the fourth-level magic, there is a magic called Blindness, which actually makes people blind.

This blindness does not simply mean that the eyes cannot see, but also that the senses of touch and hearing will be completely blocked. It is a prerequisite magic for the fifth-level magic "Five Senses Deprivation".

Is it possible to use this kind of magic to double-mark that mark so that the goddess cannot sense it?

Now the power of the goddess' curse has merged with the celestial body. In a sense... it can also be considered a part of the celestial body.

As long as it is a star spirit body, it can be engraved!

He also had an idea of ​​the power required to perform this magic.

You can completely use the power of the Kongyao chip.

(End of this chapter)