132 C131 Sir Cheivden

Both Poiea and Desren looked at the woman holding the ore with curiosity as they wondered why the guest wanted such ore. In all honesty, this ore held no value and had gotten labelled as junk. They had tested many different refining, alchemical and magical tests to find this ore was almost null to each test.

It was the perfect ore for doing nothing important which had gained it the name 'Godless Ore' as even the gods had abandoned it when constructing the world. Many areas that held this ore, frequently massive amounts were found together which caused miners nothing but headaches.

Even in this mine, the ore was continuously dumped off to the side here as the amount had formed its only small mountain inside the cave. Miners were staring up at the tremendous growth of rocks like a monument to the lazy ore that had nothing useful to do.

"I'm sure it will be fine. You will have to speak to the mine owner and foreman if it's ok to take this ore."

Just as they spoke those words, a loud rumble could be heard off in the distance. The sounds of an angry dwarf coming over waving his hands in the air as his long thick beard covered his entire body with goggles and a sizeable coal-stained hat covering most of his head.

"Ahh, This is Sir Cheivden now."

Just as those words came past Desren's lips, the Dwarf clapped his hands together as his eyes already landed onto Auryn and her own hands touched one of his own mined ores.

"Ahh lassy, I can say that is a prime example of mineral superiority, and I will be happy to sell it for a small fraction of its worth due to the beauty you hold."

Both the Poiea and Desren groaned in despair as the man tried to sell junk to the foreigner like it was valued goods. Even Kaye who had heard the information began to frown as she had already learnt the value of the products.

"Well, It's sad to say sir that I've forgotten my pouch today. Maybe another time then. Or you could give it to me as a parting souvenir for me to remember our first encounter?"

The dwarf spent a few moments thinking as his head turned to look at both the council members. Cheivden only now realising that two council members were here and led around this person like she was royalty. His gut is telling him to play this off mainly due to the mistake of trying to sell useless junk to this person.

"Haha! That is fine lass. You can take it and take as much as you can carry!"

He said chuckling as he tried to play off the whole scenario like one massive joke. Both council members were letting out a sigh of relief as Kaye was still not pleased. During her time in the supply division, she always had to deal with scummy merchants that tried to rip people off.

"Thank you Sir: I'm Auryn, this is Kaye and Kai. We are representatives of the town of Sanctuary. Could you care to give us a tour of your lovely facility."

It only took Cheivden a few moments to pull himself back into his normal state as he walked along giving tours. The sounds of pickaxes hitting stone as carts became loaded with ore.

The dwarf pointing out each section as they eventually came to the entrance to the mines as a large fragment of rock stood to the side. Cheivden was making sure to stop next to it as he always loved to point this out.

"This is called the Designed Stone. Its a chunk of rock found only in this region."

Pointing to the rock, it was clear that different ores were present inside the rock. Almost layered like ice cream as the silver, copper, tin and many other ores were separated and layered against one another instead of together.

"This we suspect is the first area created by the god above. Designed and tested before putting to work. As we can see this ore is unnatural. It does make it somewhat easier to process on our end as we can cut out a chunk of whatever we need and process it that way."

Auryn looked at the rock with interest as she saw many lines of different ore, though one ore that was missed from the pile was one that most races coveted.

"I see no gold here?"

The dwarf Cheivden let out a small belly laugh as he pointed to Auryn with a big smile crossing his face. The beard wobbling with each moment.

"You are right Lass. This is by design, or something happened to the gold that we do not understand. We have found no pockets or empty areas were gold could have existed so we think it was never made during the creation of the land."

The tour continued into the mines with the dwarfs and elves inside mining away, testing structures and finally testing samples. The same layering of ores here as in the Designed Stone.

Eventually, the tour concluded as they left the mine. The amount of ore produced in this small section enough for the entire town of Sanctuary alone. Auryn had high hopes she could get a fantastic deal here, and it could mean less reliance on the so-called church territory that hurt others.

"This is an amazing facility. I hope to see Sir Cheivden's ore made into fantastic tools for use in our town."

Spoken by Auryn who continued to smile to the Dwarf who let out another belly laugh. It was not until a young elven man ran up to the council that everyone stopped chatting.

"Madam Desren. It seems Seros the Blacksmith has fled with a weapon for the Chief of Security. He's just vanished, and we can't find him!"

Everyone looked to each other as Auryn felt some guilt pressing into her. She had created the weapon that the man had fled with. The only words were able to form from her as she thought about the situation.

"Oh dear."