Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons

A colossal ruin on the Gobi Desert.

Though the ruin is dilapidated, its original appearance can still faintly be discerned.

From the arrangement of the stone pillars and the still-intact buildings, one can see that there was once a structure here, similar to a temple.

Even though it's now broken and damaged, one can still faintly sense its past grandeur and majesty.

Within the broken ruins, some mechanical steel balls are patrolling the skies.

Even if the temple is in ruins, they unwaveringly guard this place.

These steel-like spheres float in the air by some unknown energy, with a single eye like a camera, and a protruding long tube below, similar to a gun barrel.

On the ground of the ruin are similar creatures to those in the sky, except they move with three pairs of skinny hooked claws extending from their sides.

Despite the passage of time, their claws still flash with sharp, cold glints.

At the edge of the ruin, behind a broken stone wall.

Kane and his team are hiding here, observing the situation inside.

After leaving the small ruin they had found earlier, they soon encountered this large ruin.

Since this ruin was much more intact compared to those they had encountered before, and the patrolling mechanical creatures inside were ones they had not seen before.

This made them somewhat cautious and prevented them from rushing into the ruins.

Kane observed the creatures inside.

Both types of creatures, whether in terms of the magic power reactions or their precise and intact appearance, were much stronger than previous mechanical creatures.

"The creatures this time are quite strong, we can't be as relaxed as before."

Seeing his teammates nodding in agreement, Kane waved his hand forward.

With Kane's command, Longbei transformed into a small giant and leaped out.

Raising a shield for defense, a shell-like phantom appeared on his body, and with Meizike's earth-yellow shield added on, his defense was maxed out.

Since his taunts had no effect on these mechanical creatures, he could only roar to attract the monsters inside the ruin.

The creaking of mechanical movement.

Came pouring in from all directions towards Longbei.

The spherical patrols in the sky were also flying over.

Four transparent barrage dragonflies around Kane began to fly, aiming at the mechanical creatures gathering in front to fire bullets.

The ground mechanical creatures moved nimbly with three pairs of clawed hooks, jumping towards Longbei from the scattered stone debris and broken stone pillars around.

The spherical patrol machines in the sky also fired bullets from their gun barrels at them.

Noticing the incoming bullets, Kane quickly retracted the barrage dragonflies and immediately erected a thick transparent steel wall in front to guard himself, Meizike, and Lilu.

"Bouncing Ball"

A rainbow-like light flashed, and Lilu appeared directly outside the steel wall, but before her figure could be seen, she flashed back inside the wall.

A crystal ball appeared in the previous position, with a rainbow-like flow visible inside.

The crystal ball bounced along and fell into the pile of monsters in front of Longbei.

A joyful sound like an easter egg breaking rang out as the crystal ball exploded.

The mechanical creatures within the range were blown into confetti, colorful paper fluttering in the sky.

However, more mechanical creatures flooded in behind, instantly filling in the huge gap created by the explosion.

Longbei had to brace against the shield, defending against attacks from all sides, unable to find a chance to strike.

A pale phantom rushed into the horde of monsters.

All the mechanical creatures it pierced through on its path found their agile hooked claws suddenly slowed down.

The mechanical hooks originally attacking Longbei hung suspended in mid-air.

Realizing this, Longbei swiftly lifted his giant hammer, swinging it to clear the monsters around him.

Kreya manifested as a Ghost Knight, constantly shifting between real and ethereal forms in the monster horde, wielding an illusory giant axe to sweep away the surrounding mechanical creatures.

Seeing Kreya and Longbei controlling the ground situation, Kane took out his sniper rifle and began shooting at the aerial mechanical Sentinels.

Lilu fluttered her wings as well, flying around the sky, waving her Magic Staff to conjure stars that collided with the aerial mechanical Sentinels.

Boom!

A lightning bolt struck down, causing both the ground mechanical creatures and aerial mechanical Sentinels to plummet to the ground.

Even those not struck directly by the lightning were affected if they were near, convulsing madly on the ground, emitting the creaking sounds of mechanical failure.

Now, only a few mechanical creatures capable of attacking were left.

After swiftly finishing them off.

The group began systematically eliminating the remaining twitching mechanical creatures on the ground.

Once confirming all creatures were vanquished, they began searching the dust left by the exterminated creatures for loot.

This time, the encountered mechanical creatures were numerous and extremely agile, their attack power seemed not weak either.

The only possible flaw was their exceptionally fragile defense, basically, they were scrapped once hit by Kane and his team.

However, due to their large numbers, the ground was thickly layered with dust.

The group searched for a while before confirming they hadn't missed any loot.

Looking at the pile of Magic Materials before him.

Kane's face was filled with happiness as he'd never had such wealth before.

This Dungeon was indeed the right place to come.

But these materials were different from ones discovered before; they were small black balls with red lines.

Picking one up, he examined it closely.

[Madness Mechanical Core]

[Magic Material]

[Color: Copper]

[Attributes: Slightly boosts Magic Stone Energy]

[Description: A mechanical race with wisdom found the source of their existence and tried to use found substances to create a new race, but the outcome wasn't as they expected; a deadly plague arrived.]

Since entering the Dungeon, each type of material discovered seems to interconnect, like a story unfolding, maybe revealing the original history of the race in this World Fragment to Kane.

Yet, now he hasn't found any of this information useful for himself.

Only considered it as broadening his knowledge.

The important thing now is to count how much material there is in that pile?

With excitement, he began counting carefully, it was more thrilling than counting Gold Coins.

36, exactly 36 micro-materials.

Even if used to fully charge a single Magic Stone, there would still be some left.

Plus the micro-materials he previously obtained.

Jackpot!