'Something's not right!'
Although he didn't know what was wrong, the City Lord's intuition was screaming that something was amiss.
The Oli Crystal Ore wasn't the hot commodity it used to be. The Mine outside the city had been shut down for years, and the inventory on the market still hadn't run out.
'Who would want this Mine?'
'Could it be that some rare treasure had been discovered in the Mine? The kind of dazzling, soul-bewitching, massive gemstone that would make a Dwarf lose all reason upon sight.'
'Or perhaps there was an even more valuable mineral hidden beneath the Oli Crystal.'
'Impossible. Absolutely impossible.'
'If something like that existed, the Elves would have discovered it long ago.'
This Mine had been in development for over a century. After the price of Oli Crystal plummeted, they had even brought in Prophet Mages to make predictions several times, all of whom concluded that the Mine had no chance of ever being profitable again.
