Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons

On the dried and barren earth

Heat waves swept across the land; even though there was no sun in the sky, columnar light sources still wantonly sprayed light and heat.

Hooves scattered the sand and gravel on the ground.

Kreya's equipment at the moment was no longer the Lion Armor she wore when she first entered the dungeon.

Instead, she had switched to a set of lightweight leather armor.

This was to alleviate the loss of moisture from her body caused by the surrounding heat.

For someone like her, with the ability to quickly change outfits, wearing cumbersome armor wouldn't even cause a hint of trouble.

Although they were well-prepared, they still suffered from the harsh environment.

The light and heat emitted by the columnar light in the sky were even more uncomfortable than the sun felt outside.

Moreover, the vast landscape ahead showed no signs of greenery at all, just a dried pale brown soil and gray gravel.

Originally lively Lilu was now lying uncomfortably on Kreya's back, her pair of crystal-clear butterfly wings drooping weakly on both sides.

Since entering the dungeon until now, they had been advancing for nearly three hours.

Kane was currently standing on Cotton Candy above Kreya and the others, scouting the surroundings.

Every interval, he activated Eagle Eye to check for concealed monsters.

"Ruins ahead, prepare for battle," Kane stood on Cotton Candy and flew down from the sky.

Upon hearing Kane's reminder, Kreya and the others quickly gripped their weapons.

A flash of light passed, and Kreya's leather armor changed to the grand and majestic Lion Pride Set.

Just a moment ago, Kane spotted not far from the left front, a fairly large ruin.

With Eagle Eye activated, he saw many large and small magic power reactions within the ruins.

Since Eagle Eye had the function of farsightedness, even though Kane stood in the air nearly 1 kilometer away from the ruins, he could clearly see the specific situation inside.

The entire ruin was almost without a trace of complete buildings, all composed of various fragments, if these fragments hadn't been rounded and squared with human-made marks.

It would make people think it was just a normal pile of rubble.

However, these piles of waste stone were stacked very high and spread very wide, causing the entire ruin to have many blind spots and obscured areas.

And the magic power reactions Kane saw were either behind the fragments or underground in the ruins.

Hidden extremely deep.

Leading the team cautiously towards the direction of the ruins.

Not long after they moved forward, they saw the ruins' fragments ahead.

Slowly approaching the side of the fragments, these pieces were much larger than Kane expected; due to distance restrictions, Kane had wrongly estimated their size.

His blue eyes slowly transformed into eagle-like vertical pupils.

A surge of magic power reaction appeared behind the front stone pile.

He waved his hand.

Kreya and Longbei immediately came to the front of the team, raising their shields to guard the team as they slowly advanced.

"Lure it out, let's see the attack method of these dungeon monsters."

Due to unfamiliarity with the nature of the dungeon monsters, such preliminary exploration was absolutely necessary.

Before Longbei appeared at the corner, the magic power reaction couldn't wait to charge out.

This dungeon monster had a scorpion-like appearance, its size almost like that of a regular tiger.

But the gears exposed from its somewhat broken shell, along with the exposed joint bearings.

All these clearly demonstrated its essence.

This was a mechanical structure, matching perfectly with the dungeon information Kane and the others had obtained before.

Moreover, you could clearly see its core within the broken shell.

Longbei and Kane's group did not attack first but waited for the mechanical monster to initiate movement.

The mechanical scorpion swung its giant pincers, the sides showing clearly visible rotating saw teeth.

The entire body emitted a piercing friction sound, seemingly used to disturb enemies.

Its tail needle raised high.

Whew!

The needle tip at its tail flared up with a tail flame, aiming straight for Longbei.

Longbei seemed to handle it effortlessly, actively stepping forward to receive the attack.

The tail needle struck his shield with a considerable sound.

But from Longbei's unwavering shield and completely stable body, it was clear this attack was excessively easy for him.

Seeing its attack ineffective, the mechanical scorpion swayed its mechanical legs and quickly charged toward Longbei.

The rotating saw teeth on the giant pincers whirred.

The swinging giant pincers slammed into Longbei's shield.

Longbei easily caught it, then forcefully pushed forward.

The tremendous force from the shield directly caused the mechanical scorpion to retreat continuously.

Once it stabilized its body, it resumed its attack on Longbei.

All of this was easily handled by Longbei.

After skirmishing with it for a while to confirm it had no other attack methods.

He swung his shield to smash open the scorpion's pincers, then used his right hand to grab the other pincer attacking him.

Forcefully swung backward.

Immense power carried the entire body of the mechanical scorpion off the ground into the air, then crushed it down into the ground.

A huge sound reverberated.

Sands and dust billowed into the air.

"Blow the wind,"

Lilu raised her magic staff to her lips, the tip turning into a pink circle.

Puffed her cheeks and blew air into the circle.

A strong wind with a rainbow-like tail blew towards the dust.

The magic worked fine, but what's with this fairy tale-like special effect?

Kane observed the scene and silently mocked inwardly.

The swirling dust was soon blown away.

Due to the brittle land, the mechanical scorpion was smashed directly into the ground.

A pit appeared.

Its metal shell was completely shattered, revealing its internal parts scattered everywhere.

The blue glowing core was even smashed apart, the area around the core leaking fluid resembling oil.

Soon after, the monster's corpse began to fade and dissipate, slowly turning into piles of gray-white dust.

Longbei immediately ran over to sift through the dust with his hand, revealing a beam of light penetrating from within.

"Oh! Got a drop,"

He promptly lifted the magical item that had dropped, showing it off to Kane and the others.

Kane and team were also pleasantly surprised, after all, this monster was indeed somewhat too weak, completely unable to keep up with their strength.

And such a weak monster had surprisingly dropped a magic item.

Though they already knew it was just magical materials.

But this did nothing to dampen their excitement when the item dropped.