Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons

"Hoo"

Meizike pressed his four hands together.

He slowly exhaled a breath of impure air, and then the fiery aura on his body dissipated.

The last Explorer's tombstone was also erected on the spot.

This one-against-five Explorer ambush was countered by Kane and his team.

The outcome was four squads annihilated, with one squad fleeing.

Only then did Kane relax and look at his teammates.

Meizike had many superficial wounds, and Kreya also had slight scratches.

The only ones unscathed were Kane and Lilulu.

Ever since Kane started battling in his Mecha, he hadn't been injured for a long time.

As for Lilulu, Flashing was already etched into her instincts, unless someone could lock the surrounding space, it was nearly impossible for her to get hurt.

Even if someone could lock the surrounding space, Meizike's ancestral Potion could break the Space Lock.

However, this Potion was not his own research but was passed down through generations, improved over time, and now in his hands.

Longbei was the most severely injured; after he withdrew from his Gray Stone Titan form, blood flowed all over his body, with wounds everywhere.

After all, he blocked almost half of the Explorers, and all the attacks from this half were directed at him.

Seeing this, Meizike quickly ran over, the bright red particles in his hands began pouring into Longbei's body under his control.

He also fed Longbei a few Potions to accelerate his recovery.

As for Kreya, the fine scratches on her could be solved with a bit of Healing Potion.

The scratches on Kreya's centaur body were not easy to handle, and seeing this, Kane wanted to go help, but then Kreya's red hair suddenly floated up, she picked up the red Potion and applied it to some unreachable wounds.

Damn it!

"What's wrong, Kane, why the unhappy face?" Lilulu fluttered her wings, sitting on Kane's shoulder, and asked.

"Haha, it's nothing!"

"Really?"

Hearing Kane's words, Lilulu no longer probed deeply, instead, she flashed directly onto Kreya's shoulder and said to her, "Kreya, let me help you wipe it."

Hearing Lilulu's words, Kreya didn't delay and said with a smile, "Sure, here you go."

Handing the red Potion to Lilulu.

Tsk.

Kane turned his head away with a face full of regret.

Meanwhile, there was movement in the sky.

Kane and his team's avatars appeared again in the sky, and next to them appeared 20 avatars, divided into 4 rows according to the composition of each squad.

Four red lines crossed through these avatars in the middle, then exploded and shattered, while Kane and his team's avatars slid to the center, surrounded by dazzling golden light, making them extremely conspicuous.

???

All the Explorer squads who sensed the anomaly in the sky and looked up fell into confusion.

What is this?

How did four teams get annihilated at once?

It's the Fog Squad again.

Still able to annihilate four teams at once?

They had only heard of the display showing several teams from the annihilating side. Never had they heard of several teams directly appearing from the annihilated side.

Now that dog-like Fog Squad successfully broke such a record, becoming the first case.

This scene was also very easy to judge, that the four squads must have reached some agreement by some method, joined forces to hunt the Fog Squad, and then were counter-killed, not losing a single member of the Fog Squad.

While everyone was shocked, they couldn't help but worry because, this way, the Fog Squad basically locked down half of the final top 10 spots.

"In the future, if we see the Fog Squad, we should go around them directly, or run as fast as we can and not linger."

This was the original advice of all squad leaders to their teammates at that moment.

They had mentally accepted there were only 5 spots left in the end, and they were now competing for those remaining 5 spots.

At this time, in the sky, not only did Kane and his team's avatars not disappear, they were directly enlarged into wanted posters, hanging side by side in the sky.

The style of the bounties had greatly changed from before.

The border changed from silver to golden, and the entire color and pattern of the bounty became more luxurious, almost more like a picture frame than a wanted poster.

Most importantly, the bounty at the bottom of the poster had increased from ×2 to ×3.

This meant that Kane and his team, with 45 people's points on them, once killed, would yield three times the reward.

Such points placed on anyone would drive them mad.

There would always be many Explorers who are not rational.

And that's not all.

In the sky, a map of the Dungeon also directly appeared in the center.

A red dot appeared in the middle of the white map.

This red dot represented Kane and his team.

This red dot would broadcast real-time Kane and his team's movement location to all the Explorers on site.

In such circumstances, the number of daring Explorers will greatly increase.

At this moment, Kane and his team were looking at the map in the sky, somewhat speechless.

"It seems that our journey ahead can't stay leisurely; we have to stay vigilant at all times. After all, our position is completely exposed, and we can't shake it off no matter how hard we try," Kane said calmly.

But indeed, there was no way around it.

Hearing Kane's words, Kreya nodded in agreement. Looking at their exposed position in the sky, she couldn't help but say,

"Being perpetually exposed to the enemy like this is really annoying."

"Who says otherwise? And then there's my face." Longbei looked at the wanted notice in the sky with a face full of worry.

The style of the wanted notice has changed, so can't they change the portrait too? Why so stingy and inhumane?

At this moment, inside the viewing area.

When they saw the five Explorer Squads ambushing Kane and his team either dead or fleeing, everyone fell silent.

Such a scene had not been witnessed by them before.

"Ah, it seems like another rising star is shining before us."

"Indeed, I never thought I'd be fortunate enough to witness such a moment."

"Maybe, when this Fog Squad becomes famous, I can boast to my children that I was there to witness their rise."

Those present no longer discussed Kane and his team's strength nor whether they could clear the Dungeon; they had no intention of recruiting them either.

Talents like these were not within their reach; such talents should be left to the real major forces that can truly nurture them.

The observers from these Guilds or Battle Groups weren't fools; without vision, one cannot hold such a position.

To put it bluntly, even the Presidents of their Guilds or Leaders of their Battle Groups would be crushed under Kane and his team at this stage.

So on what grounds could they recruit them? They have nothing to offer that could attract them—it's just wishful thinking.

And at that moment, behind these people, in the area where no one dared go near.

A woman made of blue Crystal and a burly man with a slicked-back hairstyle leaned against the wall of the building, chatting leisurely, their gazes clearly discussing the performance of Kane and his team.

"That Centaur girl and the boy from the four-arm tribe really suit our Path of Divine Martial. It seems I must report to the Masters," the man with the slicked-back hairstyle said, his eyes shining as he watched Kreya and Meizike's display of Close Combat Martial Skills on the screen.

"Hahaha,"

Upon hearing his words, the Crystal Woman beside him laughed, covering her mouth.

Hearing her laughter, the slicked-back man turned his head to look at her and asked, "What? What's so funny?"

"I laugh because you have quite the imagination."

"What do you mean?" The slicked-back man said displeased, "What, do you think our Path of Divine Martial isn't worthy of them?"

After laughing for a while, the Crystal Woman calmed her emotions and replied, "Worthy, of course, the Path of Divine Martial is worthy, but I think the hope is faint."

"Why do you say that?"

The Crystal Woman looked up at the slicked-back man, saying with a face full of pity, "It seems that your Path of Divine Martial is truly lacking in people."

"If you have something to say, just say it; don't beat around the bush and insult me," the slicked-back man said, clearly displeased.

"Fine, then I'll graciously tell you, so you don't embarrass yourself later."

"I've told you before, the leader of that Fog Squad, Kane, is the first to clear the boundary's first Dungeon. Do you know what that means?"

"What?"

"Are you illiterate? Such important information and you don't check it. Don't tell me your Path of Divine Martial doesn't have this information."

Listening to the Crystal Woman's surprised tone, the slicked-back man turned his face away in embarrassment, saying, "I don't really like to read those things."

"Okay then."

"As the first to clear the first Dungeon, when the World Ring appears, Kane will become the one to open the World Ring's gate and must be the first to enter."

"This is just a ceremony with no other use, but if Kane reaches the Golden level when the World Ring appears, that's entirely different; he will definitely obtain certain privileges."

"The council will give him, and the Mist will too."

"He surely got this kind of information from somewhere; otherwise, he wouldn't be desperately trying to promote his Explorer rank like he is now."

"But his desperate promotion of his rank isn't to join other forces; he surely wants to have his own force, with his own ambitions."

Then the Crystal Woman turned her head, poked the slicked-back man's chest with her finger firmly, and said, "Now you know, our chances of recruiting him are almost zero."

"Really?" He seemed still reluctant to accept.

On the other side, Master Rob was happily drinking and eating meat with Burton and the young man.

The young man said proudly, "I knew they could wipe out the teams of Explorers surrounding them."

"Hahaha, impressive! Cheers to that." Burton raised his cup excitedly to clink glasses with them.

"Burton, my brother, I won't ask you to persuade them to join the Mechanical Council, but you must convince him to accept an honorary membership. No actual joining required, just an honorary member."

"Then we can have some good communication about the art of mechanics. This young man is truly a genius."

"Haha, that's doable, that's doable."

Just being an honorary member is fine, as long as I don't have to persuade them to join your council, thought Burton.

He then raised his glass and continued to drink happily with them.