Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons

Once the monsters in the ruins were completely cleared, Kane and his team began inspecting the ruins.

The hooves stepped off the cracked land onto the stone floor.

As they walked, a crisp sound echoed.

Kane and his team spread out, checking the surrounding ruins.

Kane touched the broken column in front of him.

The surface material had been weathered by wind and sand, becoming a bit rough to the touch.

The surrounding rubble was mostly in the same condition.

Only certain areas of some rubble were relatively well-preserved.

From these relatively intact surfaces, you could see that the patterns were composed of various square lines.

It appeared extremely orderly and consistent.

However, this area of ruins had been too severely damaged; from the few remaining broken columns and the ground full of rubble, it was impossible to piece together the original appearance of the site.

There wasn't even a basis to imagine it.

As they continued their inspection and study, the group gradually gathered in the center of the ruins.

The site housed the only relatively intact object in the ruins.

It was a mechanical structure lying on its side, with an irregular head and an oval-shaped body.

The whole figure was about 3.5 meters, nearly 4 meters tall.

The arms beside it were jointed together segment by segment, resembling a flexible whip.

The lower limbs were like a thick cylindrical calf, connected to a square foot, with three rectangular protrusions extending from the bottom of the foot.

These seemed to serve a stabilizing function.

The robot's chest had a gear-like groove, with a smaller nut-like groove in the middle.

This hint was overly obvious.

As if afraid the explorers wouldn't know what to do.

Kane took out two types of magic materials from his space equipment, each in one style.

With Kane's actions, everyone's eyes were drawn to him.

"Is it okay to do this?" Longbei voiced his concern, but the excitement in his tone had long betrayed his thoughts.

He was now eager to quickly install the two items into this structure's chest to see what would happen.

This dwarf had an insatiable curiosity not typical of his race.

As Kane proceeded.

Everyone drew their weapons, ready to handle any sudden situation that might arise.

Kane first picked up the gear-shaped magic material.

He slowly placed it into the groove, and whether it was due to the passage of time.

The process of placing it into the groove was not smooth, and a noticeable obstruction could be felt.

But with a firm press down by Kane.

The entire gear was securely pressed into the groove.

Then, the groove in the middle of the gear revealed a shape similar to the nut now in Kane's hand.

He then pressed the nut into the middle groove just as before.

With both magic materials in place in the chest groove of the construct.

A sound like rusty joints being forcibly moved came forth.

From within this construct.

Starting from the groove in the middle of the chest, blue energy stripes began to spread slowly throughout the body.

These stripes lit up in an orderly manner, connecting various surfaces of the mechanical puppet.

Finally, they surged into its irregular head.

A large and small, one above the other, two blue glowing bodies lit up from the head.

This gave an impression akin to its eyes.

The sounds of machinery starting and connecting became louder.

This mechanical puppet began to use its hands and feet, struggling to rise from the ground.

The connected arm segments were more flexible than Kane and his team had anticipated.

Finally, pressing its hands against the ground, with a strong push, the entire mechanical body stood upright.

But Kane and his team were standing at the rear of the mechanical puppet.

The mechanical puppet's head rotated 180 degrees, looking at Kane and the others behind it.

The eyes, originally emitting a blue glow, immediately turned deep red upon scanning Kane.

Oh no!

It looks like it's going to attack us.

But Kane was already prepared.

The joints of the robot's arms and the legs supporting its body were already entangled with spider silk by Kane.

Two thin strands of spider silk extended from Kane's hands to the mechanical puppet, and Kane gave a strong backward pull.

The spider silk on the puppet's body instantly tightened, restraining it completely.

With a loud roar, Longbei transformed into a small giant, jumped onto the puppet, wielding the 'Defeat Evil'.

The giant hammer, in white and gold, shone with a pale golden light.

It smashed onto the mechanical puppet.

This was precisely the skill that came with the giant hammer, 'Impact'.

The golden light erupted from within the puppet's body, shattering the area where the giant hammer struck.

At this moment, a golden light blade struck the core of the mechanical puppet.

The core groove of the puppet was directly shattered, but this did not affect its movements.

The energy from the magic materials seemed to have been fully absorbed by it during this time.

The mechanical puppet also seemed to perceive its danger, opening a gap in its leg.

Blue flames spewed out from the gap.

Lifting the entire puppet into the air, Longbei, who was on it, had no choice but to fall down.

Kane was now half-squatting on the ground.

Holding a weapon invisible to others, it was the sniper-type launcher Kane recently improved.

Aiming at the mechanical puppet in the sky.

"Bang!"

A loud explosion echoed, but if you listened closely, you could hear a subtle sound right before the explosion.

Four bullets flew towards the sky.

Three ordinary conical bullets flew ahead.

Followed closely by a slender armor-piercing sniper bullet.

Kane's sniper launcher was actually composed of four firing ports.

Below the slender gun barrel's sniper port were three smaller, normal firing ports.

This was to trigger Kane's skill, [Critical Strike].

Coupled with Kane's ability to trigger the skill Powerful Shot with the launcher.

The power of this shot was not to be underestimated.

The three regular conical bullets first hit the mechanical puppet's body, but did not penetrate the armor, instead embedding themselves onto it.

The subsequent sniper bullet struck the connection between the puppet's head and neck.

Facing such dungeon creatures without known weaknesses, targeting the head was the priority.

And the effect of this hit was significant.

The mechanical puppet's head, and the area connecting the head and body, as well as some parts of the upper body, all disappeared.

Whether or not Kane hit a vital point, such damage was unbearable for the mechanical puppet in the sky.

The massive body, lacking the support of the tail flame beneath, crashed down like a meteor.

A deafening noise accompanied by dust, filled the surroundings.