*sexy whistle*
(Author note: you should now what this mean.....)

"Well this place is rock and desolate."

"You forgot to say 'but has abundance of resources' mate."

"Are you sure about that?"

"What are you questioning around. You, yourself saw the scanners show that this place has large piles of raw materials here.

"Followed by the fact that it also showed an innumerable amount of question marks."

"Hey, where in a place that we don't know where it is exactly. So stop blabbering and deal with it."

No man's land. Or so call it. This place has been named by people all around the Republic as the place was deathly barren.

A barren land that extends for miles and miles away.

The people of Sonari might not step on this land. But the people from Philippines would.

The Filipinos asked if there are countries that extended their territory to this barren land to the Marsus kingdom.

Them on the other hand, gave the Filipinos a perplexed stare as they said,

"What kind of country would extend their territory that has no abundance to nature and magic?"

This in turn shocked the Filipinos as they didn't quite understand what they meant.

So, the questioning repeated itself for a number of times until both parties finally understood what each others questions meant.

And it all now leads to the current situation.

One of the scout team of the Philippines stepping on the land called No man's land.

As these people were talking, loud rumbling sounds were heard.

They looked back and saw that these sounds originated from armored trucks and construction vehicles.

"Well, well, well. The excavation team is here."

One of the armored trucks door's opened, and a man wearing a hooded brown camo came out. The man was followed by a gorgeous female wearing the same brown camo.

"Sooo, this is the so called goldmine....... "

The man looked around and nodded his head rigorously.

"Yep, that looks like a goldmine indeed."

The scout team lowered their heads. Even they themselves knew the meaning behind that remark.

The female behind the man just sighed.

"Commander don't be like that. You know that with this 'goldmine' our country's current state could finally be elevated right."

"Yeah I know that, and I'm happy for that."

After the man said that, he looked at the scout team that got here (No man's land) before them.

"Your the scout team right?"

The scout team nodded.

"Can I see the places the you guys marked already."

After this was said, one of the people on the scout team went ahead and pressed something on the wrist.

After that, a projection was shown and what appeared on the projection was curved lines and some having red dots.

"This here shows the areas we already ventured into. The ones with the red dots are the ones that the scanner can't recognized what materials are down there."

The man frowned.

"Can't recognized? Why so?"

The person that showed the projection shook his head dejectedly and said,

"We don't know, it's either that we haven't discovered what material it is or we haven't recorded it down."

The man became silent for a while. His face seemed to be showing some contemplation.

After some moments, he said,

"Alright, continue scouting and get some of our extraction team to start digging. I'll bring some of the extraction team with me as well. You, give me a copy of the map. I'll go to one of the marked areas."

A flurry of orders were immediately given. That, of course, gave rise to activity on the once barren No man's land.

......

"Well that was something."

The location of this unknown type of material was a little..... Tough.

Buried in seems what to be a small rock mountain which hardened for an unknown amount of years. They finally dug deep enough when they finally saw chunks and chunks of red crystals.

Seeing this, the man gave a broad smile and a huge thumbs up to the extraction team.

The team on the other hand, laid there heads on the solid ground while having tears.

"Giving a thumbs up my ass, do you know how many drills broke just to get these things. Those drills were expensive you know!" They all thought.

The man didn't give anymore attention to the team and looked intently at the crystals the extraction team were able to dig out.

"These crystals are deep blue in color...... I don't remember any crystals that looks like this before." He thought.

The woman came near him and said,

"So, any idea what this things is?"

"Nope. Not a clue. But the scanners readings are hectic."

"....."

The man then looked at the woman an said,

"Set up a temporary dig site. I'll go and see what these things actually are."

After he said this, he took a drill and jump down. Then he came back with a chunk of the deep blue crystal.

"And investigate this thing as well."

After he said that, the people he had with him started to set up the temporary dig site.

......

2 weeks had passed and the activity on No man's land still had not ceased.

By this time, chunks and chunks of materials have already been dug endlessly.

Even iron was incredibly abundant here which stupefied even the government.

They simply hadn't seen so much raw materials before.

By estimation, even making a small mountain just by using these raw materials was not an exaggeration anymore.

Shock, happiness, and relief was what all the people on the government felt.

But it wasn't just raw materials that we're very abundant. It was also other materials that they haven't seen before.

The Philippine researchers tried everything just to have a clue about these materials, yet, they can't get a thing about it.

The scanners that they have kept going koo-koo, but nothing's even happening.

In the end, they had to ask the people from Marsus kingdom.

However, when they saw the chunks of these things. They all fainted immediately.

Some strong willed people were left on their knees just seeing the crystals.

Seeing this, the Filipinos took the crystals away immediately as it might have affected the people from the Marsus kingdom.

When everything calmed down. The Filipinos finally understood why they fainted.

These crystals were simply too rare on their market.

The names of these cyrstals were Orichalum, Adamantium, Silver Adamantite, Black Adamantite, White Pagoda, Black Pagoda, Pure light crystal, Hardening stone, Fire stone, and magic crystal.

They were told that the magic crystal, Silver Adamantite, White Pagoda, and Fire stone can help a magic practitioner while the Black Adamantite, Black Pagoda, Pure light crystal, and Hardening stone can help a Martial practitioner.

The Orichalum and Adamantium can be used for creating magic arrays and forging magic weapons and armor.