Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons

"Grandpa Maken, I'm here to find you."

Adoma came to the old human's back and shouted loudly.

The old human seemed as if he didn't hear anything and continued with his mechanical operations, not even raising his head.

Just as Adoma was about to call out again, the old man waved a hand: "Alright, no need to shout, I'm not deaf yet."

He raised his head, took off his glasses, wiped the lenses with his sleeve, and then put them back on.

Kane looked at the oil on his sleeve, wondering if wiping like that would just make it blurrier?

"Alright, alright, you know how to operate this machine. If you want to find information, check it yourself. I'm going out for a cup of tea."

After saying this, Maken slowly walked past Kane, glanced at him, and then left the room.

Adoma waved to Kane: "Come on, tell me which dungeon you want to check. What's its name again?"

Kane walked over and said helplessly, "Demon Valley."

"Oh, right, right, De-mon Val-ley." She said as she operated the dense buttons on the machine.

Then a progress bar appeared on the screen, slowly moving forward.

Adoma looked up, saw the progress bar, and nodded satisfactorily: "Let it search for a while."

"What features does this machine have?" Kane couldn't help but ask curiously.

"This is issued by the council to the Explorer's House in larger cities. It's a machine that provides information inquiries for explorers, connected to the intelligence center of the Mist Council Headquarters."

Oh, it's equivalent to an information search platform.

Kane didn't have to wait long; the progress bar ran to the end while he was chatting.

Adoma operated the machine a little more, and then papers filled with dungeon information were printed out beside them.

Adoma organized the documents, glanced over them carelessly, and then frowned.

"This is a Silver-level dungeon; this should be too early for you, right?"

Faced with the girl's inquiry, Kane smiled and said a bit proudly, "Sorry, our team has already all been promoted to Silver."

"So fast? You're not deceiving me, are you?" Adoma expressed significant doubt that Kane could be promoted to Silver in just two months.

After all, when she first met Kane, he had just completed a dungeon and hadn't acquired Origin Skills. Although she knew he was a Mist Warrior, it shouldn't be this quick.

Mist Warriors don't need to follow basic rules.

Kane fully understood Adoma's suspicion: "Don't worry, I won't lie to you about something like this, as there's no point, right?"

Adoma trusted this point, but the news came too suddenly and was too unbelievable, leaving her quite skeptical.

"You're really impressive, it seems I'm about to witness the growth of a major figure." Adoma's tone was filled with amazement.

"Alright, this is the information you need." After organizing and handing the documents to Kane, she led him out of the room and back to the reception.

"Since you have things to do, I won't disturb you. You go ahead, sorry for bothering you today." After saying goodbye to Adoma, he left the Explorer's House.

Walking on the streets of the city, Kane planned to find an inn first, book a room, and rest for the night.

Meanwhile, he sorted through the documents to gain an understanding of the next dungeon, preparing adequately.

After all, the team's exploration targets were decided by Kane, and he needed to take the appropriate responsibilities.

On the way to the inn.

Kane couldn't tell if it was just his illusion, but compared to the city residents he'd seen before, both their demeanor and temperament seemed to have changed.

They didn't become worse but improved, no longer as numb as before, as if their lives were starting to get better.

After wandering the streets for a while, he finally arrived at an inn, consisting of a nine-story building. The overall architectural style gave a relaxed and refreshing feeling.

He booked a room at the "Wind Chime Nest" inn.

Kane went to his room on the fourth floor. Upon entering, the room layout was very simple, just an ordinary single with a private bathroom.

He went in and sat at the desk.

Then he took out the documents he had just received from his Space Equipment and began examining them carefully.

The "Demon Valley" dungeon turned out to be a historical shadow, not the usual regional-type dungeon Kane was accustomed to.

The so-called historical shadow refers to a dungeon created by significant events that occurred during a specific period in another world.

In theory, since it's a dungeon generated by a period's events, its randomness should significantly diminish.

In reality, compared to regional-type dungeons, its terrain and building variety don't exhibit much randomness.

But such dungeons are called historical shadows, and the so-called historical events span a time length ranging from a few years to over a hundred years, linked by numerous events large and small.

Explorers entering the dungeon may arrive at any point in time among these and completing the event of the time they drop into counts as clearing the dungeon.

This results in the intelligence that can be transmitted from within the dungeon being mainly the terrain and some creatures.

The time period within the dungeon and the various faction figures present are mostly for reference only.

The "Demon Valley" dungeon has exceeded two years since its creation, and the information confirmed is that the main creatures comprise malevolent beings, with middle to upper-ranked and strong monsters being mostly demons.

Prepare Flame Protection and Mental Protection. Get ready for dealing with malevolent damage.

It's now known that this time covers approximately 200-250 years, with all events centering around the sealed Demon Commander.

Explorers need to complete events mostly to assist some surrounding countries and churches, dealing with various demon-related incidents.

One point to note is that among allied forces, many have defected to the demons, so beware of being betrayed.

Important nodes from past to future are: the first 1-50 years focusing on discovering the Demon Commander's seal, 50-150 years centering on eradicating evil creatures and demons causing chaos around, with a total of three large-scale demon assaults that strengthen each time after 150 years.

If you're unfortunate enough to fall into a time period right after 150 years and during one of the large-scale assaults, you must strive to defend as much as you can.

Because once failed, the seal will break, and what you'll face is the Demon Commander, who has just stepped into a gold-level status.