Exploring the Nether was, honestly, much simpler than exploring the first layer of the Overworld.
After all, the Nether only had a few resources worth bothering with, and it wasn't possible to set up a long-term base there. So, once Su Lin had enough of the resources he needed, he led his people back.
The rest was taken over by the Elven Kingdom.
As a boss, you always have to give your subordinates some space to show their value.
Currently, this batch of employees from the Elven Kingdom is very competent. In the three days since they arrived, the accumulated development value has already reached 80 percent.
At this rate, the fourth layer of the MC Dungeon can be built in less than a week.
The work of killing the Wither and slaying the dragon is urgent...
Su Lin originally thought that after three days away, the Elven Kingdom wouldn't be able to achieve much, but he had underestimated these long-lived races.
"The village has expanded to the vicinity of the portal leading to the Elven Kingdom, and its area can now be described as a small town."
"Furthermore, we strictly followed the manual provided by Mr. Su Lin to ensure that the town has sufficient light and no monsters will spawn."
Listening to the report from the Elven Elder who stayed behind, Su Lin and the others were amazed and didn't forget to express their praise.
What boss wouldn't like such intelligent and highly Execution employees?
Especially those Elf Race researchers, in three days, they not only successfully replicated a large number of mob farms and Iron Golem farms but also built a villager trading center.
Now, only the final debugging of the string farm remains, and then the legendary 'life current' can be activated...
Although Su Lin had never played in 'life current' mode, he had watched some videos.
Compared to those PVP masters, the masters who made their fortune playing 'life current'...
Aside from being inhumane, most of them weren't good at combat and were almost flawless.
While PVP masters pursuing pure natural resources were still searching for the portal to The End, 'life current' masters had already started an industrial revolution, arming armies with enchanted diamond sets.
Each of them was like a necromancer...
If the 'life current' experiment succeeds, Su Lin will no longer have resource worries, and the Elven Kingdom can arm its army in large quantities.
However, even now, some basic resources are no longer lacking. The Elf Race completely treated the manual Su Lin gave them as a bible, working tirelessly.
When he came back, Su Lin took a quick tour and even saw large-scale farms and ranches, and there were even Elves wearing enchanted iron sets patrolling the town.
Who would believe that this seemingly well-developed small town was just a crude village three days ago...
The Elf Race is indeed a smart race.
As a gamer, Su Lin would curse if he were on the same server as these smart, somewhat eccentric Elf Race.
But as a boss, Su Lin could only say,
"Well done, you've all worked hard these past few days."
It's a good thing the Elf Race was chosen as the first batch of workers.
"Mr. Su Lin, you're too kind."
Lawrence, the Elder of the Council of Sages, smiled and shook his head.
"The longer we stayed in the MC Dungeon these past few days, the more we understood the incredible nature of this Dungeon. If it weren't for Mr. Su Lin's manual, we probably wouldn't have been able to explore anything, even with heavy casualties."
Seeing that Lawrence was about to exchange a few more pleasantries, Hilulele became a little impatient.
The transformation of the village into a town in three days also shocked her. The more so, the more curious she was about the extent of the exploration work done these days.
"Grandpa Lawrence, can the Elven Kingdom's exploration of the MC Dungeon now benefit the Elven Kingdom?"
Upon hearing this, Lawrence became serious.
"That's exactly what I'm going to talk about next, Your Majesty..."
"Our previous thinking was too narrow; we only saw special materials like bone meal, but every single thing in the MC Dungeon has extremely high value."
"Many of the planned areas you saw in the town have almost all been replicated in the Elven Kingdom, including the farms and ranches..."
"This morning, a message from the Kingdom reported that within two days, we harvested enough food resources to feed all the citizens of the Elven Court for half a month."
"In addition, there are also those blocks used for construction..."
Listening to the Elder's detailed explanation, Hilulele and the others finally understood the tremendous changes that had occurred in the Elven Kingdom in the past few days.
Food was still the most insignificant.
The milk produced by the ranches solved all the difficult and miscellaneous diseases of the Elven Kingdom. Since yesterday, all patients in the Elven Court's hospital have been discharged one after another.
The Elf Race seems to have conquered all persistent diseases on the Aetheram Continent...
A large number of Iron Golems were deployed at various important passes of the Elven Court, playing a crucial protective role and freeing up a large number of soldiers.
They even created a batch of Redstone Cannons based on Su Lin's brief mention of Redstone blocks theory.
In three days, the Elven Court was completely revitalized.
Around the Elven Court, the military strength more than doubled, and even based on the Iron Golem farms, the Elven Kingdom achieved iron ore freedom.
Lawrence spoke eloquently for more than ten minutes, and even so, he only picked out the key points.
As for the discovery of a large amount of gold in several mines, and the soaring gold reserves in the Elven Kingdom's treasury, these were considered minor matters that Lawrence didn't want to waste his breath on...
Listening to everything, Hilulele only understood one thing...
The Elven Kingdom successfully escaped poverty. If she went back now, she probably wouldn't recognize her own homeland.
And all of this only took three days!
"Furthermore, we have mined a large amount of Lapis Lazuli resources in the MC Dungeon mines..."
At this point, Lawrence paused for a moment, his gaze becoming somewhat complex.
"In Mr. Su Lin's notebook, Lapis Lazuli is an enchanting and dyeing material, and for us, there are many better options for enchanting. Therefore, the manual describes Lapis Lazuli as a relatively useless material, but in reality..."
Lawrence silently pulled out his staff.
"Through our experiments, Lapis Lazuli has extremely strong magical conductivity and magical ductility; it can completely replace magic crystals..."
"What does that mean?"
Lop became serious, staring intently at Lawrence.
Magic crystals, this substance is the most important magical resource on the Aetheram Continent, commonly used in the forging of staffs and magical equipment, as well as the composition of many magic arrays.
Replacing magic crystals... This is not something to joke about!
Lawrence took out a magic crystal and a Lapis Lazuli and placed them together.
"This is a top-grade magic crystal, the highest-grade magical material on the Aetheram Continent, but it still has some loss during the magic conduction process. But Lapis Lazuli..."
"After multiple experiments, we have confirmed that Lapis Lazuli's magic conduction is perfect, meaning the process of transmitting magic is zero-loss!"
No more words were needed.
What zero-loss magic transmission means is self-evident. For the entire Aetheram Continent, this material is a magical revolution.
Su Lin was somewhat surprised, but not very much so.
As the core material for artificial enchanting in the MC Dungeon, Lapis Lazuli naturally has certain special properties. Placed on the Aetheram Continent... with the MC Dungeon's abstract characteristics and numerous bugs, achieving absurd zero-loss is understandable.
But Lawrence and his team were still too exaggerated; frankly, Lapis Lazuli isn't that great. Once the mods are loaded, there will be even more outrageous things.
Lop's eyes were full of anticipation.
"Is there a lot of this ore?"
"After our extensive mining in the Dungeon these past few days, nearly one-fifth of the core magic arrays in the Elven Court have already replaced magic crystals with Lapis Lazuli."
Pausing for a moment, Lawrence's tone was invigorated.
"According to the infinite characteristics of the MC Dungeon as stated in the manual, we may have an endless supply of Lapis Lazuli, completely replacing the existence of magic crystals."
After hearing all this, Hilulele and the others were already slumped in their chairs, a little breathless.
They had imagined the Elven Kingdom would become great again with the support of the MC Dungeon, but... they never expected it would only take three days?
This is only the first layer! If the Elven Kingdom continues to develop the MC Dungeon with Su Lin, what then... will they ascend as a nation? Achieve the Elven God Kingdom?
Su Lin, on the other hand, listened with great interest. He didn't care about Lapis Lazuli, but Redstone Cannons... he was truly overjoyed.
It seems the people of the Elven Kingdom also have a talent for Redstone Technology... This is exactly right!
Study Redstone Technology well, and sooner or later, the Elven Kingdom will be able to tell everyone on the Aetheram Continent that times have changed!
Doragon's magical alchemy?
Do you understand what a 'sky-based dragon-slaying cannon' is?
Do you understand what a 'world devourer' is?
Give Redstone Technology a fulcrum, and you can mass-produce even star destroyers!
"The upper limit of Redstone Technology is very, very high. A mere Redstone Cannon is just the most basic and simple use."
Seeing that everyone seemed to be more focused on the effects of Lapis Lazuli, Su Lin still couldn't help but offer a reminder.
"Assign a group of people from the research institute specifically to study Redstone Technology. These people will bring revolutionary results to the Elven Kingdom and to the entire Aetheram Continent in the future."
This was a rare instance of Su Lin expressing such high importance for a particular technology, and Lawrence nodded seriously.
"We had guessed that point, after all, you mentioned the TNT duplicator before..."
"That's been made too?!"
"Not yet, but we already have an idea. Once this thing is done, it will be enough for us to completely obliterate the entire Doragon Kingdom in one day, and we will suffer zero losses!"
"..."
The boss is happy that you value Redstone Technology, but your aggressive attitude worries the boss a little.
Are there no peace-loving individuals among the Elf Race?
Suddenly, Su Lin's joy at hearing about the progress in Redstone Technology dissipated quite a bit.
Lawrence seemed not to notice this and continued:
"Furthermore, the Council of Sages held a meeting these past few days. We plan to completely replace everything in the Elven Kingdom, and even the Verdan Eternal Forest, with the block resources from the MC Dungeon."
"Dirt, water sources, stones, and so on—these resources with MC Dungeon characteristics possess quite incredible properties."
"According to the infinite characteristics of the MC Dungeon mentioned by Mr. Su Lin... this plan is completely feasible!"
"Additionally, we also have plans to transform this current town into another Elven Court."
As he spoke, Lawrence became somewhat fanatical, standing up excitedly, his voice even a little frenzied.
"Although the MC Dungeon is dangerous, as long as we follow Mr. Su Lin's manual, building a city here might be even more suitable for our Elf Race to live than on the Aetheram Continent!"
"In our vision, we can transplant the Ancient Elven Tree to the MC Dungeon! By then, no one will be able to stop our Elven Kingdom from becoming great again!"
This time, even the radical Aelita was shocked by the Elders' radicalism.
"We only left for three days! Why is everyone already planning to move the Ancient Elven Tree?"
Aelita was somewhat distraught.
"Grandpa Lawrence! Can't you all be less radical?"
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Su Lin slowly turned to look at Aelita.
What she said... seemed to be his own line, right?