Chapter 896: Bragging Rights
The Empire has a lot of money, so there’s no problem giving compensation to a few people.
"You may also discuss this with experts from the Mining Department once I give the go signal," Arabella added.
The Mining Department monitors Valeria’s mines, primarily focused on mines that served as a source of income for the National Treasury.
"Ah, and the Magic Tower. Someone from the Magic Tower will also join the discussions since magic stones may also be present in the mines," Arabella added.
Alwin and Ferdinand had explained to Arabella that magic stones form exposure to a mana-rich source.
An example was Blanca and Esmeralda, whose presence caused a lot of magic stones to form around them. It was what was mined in Safiro.
Further, the Magic Tower had long been in charge of taking care of any anomalies that happened in mines.
Ferdinand explained that it was in case miners came across someone from the long-lived races who had been hibernating for a long time and had been buried beneath the earth over the years, or had intentionally gone into deep caves for sleep.
Arabella learned that it was normal behavior for the long-lived races to hibernate deep beneath the ground, since they may sleep for hundreds to thousands of years.
Thus, they usually create their own underground caves.
After all, there were long-lived races who hibernated before the Great War and still remained asleep ever since. Probably already having decided to die that way.