The Magus Era - Chapter 1408

Chapter 1408: The Same Master Shifu
In the west of Liang Zhu City, a million miles away from the city was the Tusk Basin .





Countless dark-green colored towering mountains reached straight to the sky, looking like enormous tusks, surrounding a fertile plain . Huge mineral reserves of heavy metals and crystals were buried under this area . Therefore, the natural magnetic power in this area was amazingly strong . An underground magnetic storm would happen in this area almost every day . Each time that happened, one could see colorful light streams rising into the sky through the straight mountains, blasting in the clouds and forming dragon-like lightning bolts, dazzling all over the sky .

Occasionally, a few electric bolts would strike down and land on the mountains . The mountains would glow blindingly, while the area struck by lightning bolts would be burned glowing-red . After a long while, the burned areas would gradually cool down, and the color of the mountains would turn back normal .

A large number of crystal plates had been hovering between the tusk-like mountains like butterflies . Groups of dark-kind slave warriors with all kinds of crystal weapons, wearing nonconducting, soft leather armors as they carefully squatted on the crystal plates . They bent their bodies and carefully reached half of their heads out from the edge of the crystal plate, vigilantly looking around .

Tusk Basin was a very important mine in Liang Zhu City . Even after years of uncontrolled mining, this mine wasn't depleted . Instead, more and more precious mineral resources were discovered in this area . The deeper they went, the richer mineral resources were found, and the more amazing the reserve appeared to be .

At first, Tusk Basin belonged to a small Flow Moon family . But, as the proven mineral reserves in this area grew larger and larger, this small family evaporated . By now, Tusk Basin was a common property, belonging to the highest council of elders, owned by the twelve families in power .





The mine under Tusk Basin was tremendous like an underground kingdom . Tens of billions of human slaves lived in there, working for the non-humankind and exploiting all resources they could touch .

Generation after generation, some of these human slaves had lived underground for thousands of years . They had forgotten about the glory of the humankind and the origin of human beings . Their brains were empty; they knew nothing but mining and giving birth to children .

But, some of them were sold to this mine not long ago . Many of these newly arrived human slaves were strong warriors from small to mid-scale clans . They were proud and disobedient . They were good workers indeed, but compared with the old slaves who had their brains washed, they caused many, many more troubles .

Because of them, a large-scaled non-humankind army was stationed in Tusk Basin area, preparing to crush a slave revolt at any time .

Each day, large troops of dark-kind slave warriors would patrol in the air with crystal plates designed especially for Tusk Basin, guarding the area vigilantly, in case any slave escaped from the mine .

"This bloody weather!" The leader of a troop of dark-kind warrior on patrol looked around at the five-colored light streams reaching from the mountains to the sky, cursing in a low voice . Their flying plates and weapons were all made from crystals, and would not conduct electricity like metals . But still, the consequences would be troubling if a lightning bolt struck on their heads .

Dark-kind warriors were cheap . Their leather armors were designed to protect them from lightning bolts, but no one knew how much costs of these armors was deducted by their Yu Clan masters . Before, an armor like this could take tens of lightning bolts without breaking . But these years, one lightning bolt could turn a leather armor and its owner into a piece of hard coke .

"We can't live like this! Our life is not even as good as those slaves! These years, their life has been getting better and better!" The dark-kind troop leader murmured in jealousy .

Followed a sizzling noise, tens of water-tank-sized lightning bolts descended from the sky . About ten crystal plates immediately scattered . They fled fast, but a crystal plate carrying ten dark-kind warriors was still hit by the lightning bolt .

Along with a series of shrill howls, ten dark-kind warriors, who had their skins burnt and dense black smoke puffing up from their bodies, leaped up from the plate . They fell to the ground and desperately waved their arms .





"They're dead!" the leader said in despair .

Ten dark-kind warriors were injured so badly that they were almost killed by a violent lightning bolt from the sky . However, the crystal plate they trod on remained undamaged, floating in the sky . It seemed that in the eyes of their Yu Clan masters, these flying machines were much more valuable than dark-kind slave warriors, because the lightning-protection they gave to these flying machines was way better than what they provided to these lowly slave warriors .

Dazzling lightning bolt fell one after another . The crystal plate dodged swiftly to protect itself . By the time this wave of lightning bolt passed, the ten poor dark-kind slave warriors had already fallen on the ground from thousands of meters high and died . Sharp rocks tore their bodies apart .

With sadness, the troop leader drove his crystal plate down from the sky . Hopping off, he walked to his head warriors and cursed with a low voice, "Dishi Jade Coin, that bloody miser, greedy b*stard . He let those human warriors eat meat, but downgraded our equipment to save money over and over again…Please lightning, strike him to death and get us a sane mine manager!"

Surrounded by a group of Jia Clan warriors, Dishi Jin held his head high and walked quickly in the broad mine, wearing a luxurious long robe .

He was the Dishi Jade Coin mentioned by that dark-kind troop leader . Jade Coin was his nickname because he was passionate about all kinds of wealth . He was appointed as the mine manager by the highest council of elders . After taking over this mine, his obsession with money aggravated to a crazy degree .

The living standard of the warriors who were responsible for guarding the mine plummeted straight down . Their welfares were almost taken away, and even their equipment had become low-grade, defective pieces . Dishi Jin tried whatever he could to squeeze the costs from these guards .

However, he was especially kind to human slaves working in the mine . Compared with former mine managers, Dishi Jin's attitude to these human warriors was almost 'as warm as parents' . The human slaves who had been licking his boots all the time, and the hard-working ones, would all be awarded by him . Booze, meat, and some benefits that slaves should never have, had all been given to these human slaves by him generously .

Walking past mine tunnels, countless human warriors bowed to him politely the moment they saw him . Dishi Jin smilingly nodded to these slaves, then nodded and said, "Don't bother, everyone, don't bother . We are following the guide of one Master Shifu . We are all brothers and sisters . Everyone, no need to be over-courteous!"

Dishi Jin giggled happily . Deep inside each of his three pupils, a lotus had been spinning slowly .