Arthur decided to give her some time to absorb that terrifying experience of hers and have good control over her emotions.
He also started to grow an understanding towards the weird reaction of the people living in this world towards these ores.
Even Sara, who wasn't a normal person at all, reacted in such a way. So it was logical and acceptable for the people dwelling in this world to see this ore as a curse and not a blessing.
But he didn't think too much about it. After all he never put their opinions in his mind. He only cared about his benefit and his own view.
"By the way, I got a good way to control the energy inside the ores," after a few hours, and as he saw Sara's face returning to normal, he started to talk about what he had in mind for so long.
"How good is good?" Sara didn't show her nervous reaction like before and calmly asked.
"It's called diagrams," Arthur said before adding, "I don't have a good grasp over them yet."
"Then how can you tell if they are good or not?" Sara asked in logic and sense. It appeared that when she calmed down, her mind returned to dominate over her again.
"My originals use it," Arthur explained, "they seemed to have a different form of knowledge than us. After all, their civilization was so powerful in the past."
"But they eventually fell," Sara said in a neutral tone. Arthur knew she was trying to make him see another aspect of the facts, so he didn't get hyped over this.
"They fell because of something," Arthur said before deciding not to reveal the truth to her. "But their knowledge is very unique and new to us."
This time the eyes of Sara flashed in light. If she had something in common with Arthur, then it would be her curiosity for knowledge. "Can I meet them?" she instantly asked and Arthur could see what she really wanted.
"You will," Arthur said, "but first we need to find solutions to the few problems we have right now."
"We are in a big world," Sara got his meaning so she said, "finding a precious metal that's common in the entire universe won't be that hard. But we lack people knowing about such things. We can ask those who we took from this world, but I doubt normal and poor people would be familiar with such precious ores."
"Hmm…" Arthur stayed silent for a long moment, "I have two who might know."
His mind shifted towards Fox and Lara. The two weren't simple mages of this world. They were leaders of the grand settlement, and they knew a lot of information.
Arthur didn't think they wouldn't have a clue about such precious ores. But he didn't hurry to bring them out.
After all, they were still travelling. But after the persistence of Sara he decided to go down and take the two out.
The two came out and from their faces Arthur could tell they were busy training mages. They bowed first to Arthur before they noticed Sara.
"So these are the two you told me about… Hmm, not bad," Sara started to circle around them while the two felt odd and puzzled.
Yet they mistook her to be his girl so they bowed to her as well.
"You don't need to do that," Arthur could read through their actions, "she is one of my generals."
"We salute the general," however that didn't prevent them from saluting her.
"I like them," Sara said while smiling. "I want to ask you about something… You know many things about this world of yours, right?"
The two raised their heads before Fox answered:
"What my lady wants to know?"
Sara didn't wipe her smile on her face. "Are there any precious metals or ores here in this world?" she said.
"Well," Fox seemed to have some trouble answering as he turned to Lara and didn't say anything.
"You don't know anything?" Sara was surprised to hold her words inside.
"It's not that," Lara finally said, "we know a lot actually. But we don't know what exactly you are looking for."
Sara realized what they were thinking about, so she elaborated further. "I need something that can be found and appreciated by other worlds in the vast universe."
Yet her words didn't make things clearer. In fact she made the two in front of her more puzzled. She totally forgot that they never left this world or visited other worlds to know such a thing.
But Arthur realized this point. "What about you narrate the names of the most precious ores and minerals in your world," then he turned to Sara before adding, "if you heard any familiar name, just stop them and ask."
They all nodded before the two started to tell what they knew about the precious ores and minerals here while Sara listened.
She stopped them more than once but she never found something she could relate with. This extended longer than Arthur expected.
For six hours the three kept working and Arthur only stood on the side doing nothing. In the end Sara finally recognized something.
"The Gruben ore… Are you sure it's here?" Sara even jumped in the air when she heard that name.
"Do you know it?" Arthur couldn't take this any longer. So he asked with much impatience, hoping this would be the one they were looking for.
"It's present here," Fox said before adding, "it's not abundantly available on the surface. But I saw a couple of places with visible veins on earth with my two eyes."
"Damn! That's something!!" Sara said in such excitement that made Arthur relieved. He hated standing there without doing anything at all.
"But they said it's not commonly found here," Arthur tried to make sure they wouldn't pick up the wrong ore or something they couldn't easily find.
"Gruben ore is an extremely rare one. It can't be seen from the surface in normal circumstances. For an ore to be spotted it means its veins are so thick and its amount is very abundant.. For him to spot it on the surface means we are talking about a great deal here."
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