Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons

"Ready?"

Kane was on the floating platform beneath the starry sky, asking his teammates.

After resting for a day yesterday, they were ready to officially begin the final stage of their strategy today.

So they arrived early at the Dungeon, with the surroundings of the platform still the familiar starry sky.

Kane saw his teammates nodding and led them into the Mist first.

The teammates followed closely, slipping through the Fog Gate.

It was still the familiar dim corridor. Is it really the final stage, and yet it remains unchanged?

Leading his teammates through the corridor, they arrived at the well-known arena.

The arena of the third stage was still unchanged, just like before.

As Kane and his team stepped out, the battle officially commenced, and the previously silent, mist-surrounded stands came alive with the clamor of the audience.

A large hole reappeared in the center of the arena, revealing an old friend—a sand timer composed of various crystals.

However, this time, the timer did not float into the sky but hovered just a meter above the ground.

The Dungeon shook once more. Kane and his team steadied themselves, observing their surroundings.

This time, there wasn't much change in the terrain, but in the four corners of the arena, four identical doors appeared.

Kane glanced around with eyes as sharp as a hawk's.

The four doors had different patterns: goblin, puppet, beastman, and barbarian race.

These are the themed monsters from the first stage, aren't they?

At this moment, information given by the mist appeared in their minds: the final stage requires defending the central sand timer.

Each level of the final stage will choose one of the four doors, from which monsters will emerge to attack the timer.

Kane and his team need to protect the central timer and prevent these monsters from destroying it.

Ah, so it can be played like this.

The Dungeon has turned from an exploration to a tower defense, how creative!

But the four types of monsters on the doors are those they encountered in the previous two stages.

So, are the final stage monsters randomly selected from the previous monsters?

Block the monster attacks from each door, and when no more monsters emerge, the level is considered complete.

The four levels prior to the boss stage involve fending off the monsters from these four doors.

After receiving the information in their minds, Kane and his team quickly moved to the sand timer's vicinity.

Then the four doors started flashing lights, as if determining which door to open first.

Finally, the light stopped at the door with the goblin pattern.

Kane quickly ran his hand over the long robes of his three teammates, transforming their cloth robes into steel.

And swiftly retrieved [Goblin Assembly] from his space, using it to summon goblins.

"Stay alert!"

As Kane's words fell, the brightly lit door slowly opened.

As the door opened, a bunch of goblins rushed out, screaming.

Fortunately, most were ordinary goblins wielding wooden clubs, with only a few wearing helmets and carrying rusty swords.

There were also a few goblin thieves and sentinels among them.

No big goblins in sight yet.

Kreya swapped the sword in her hand for a wolf fang club and charged into the goblin horde, sending goblins flying or crashing dead along her path.

Longbei also used his skills, jumping into the goblin horde and brandishing his long halberd, scattering goblin bits everywhere.

The goblins' various weapons striking them couldn't even break through the outermost steel robes, merely clanging like a blacksmith at work.

Although weak, there are simply too many of these goblins.

Meizike pulled out two unseen potion bottles and tossed them at the doorway where the goblins emerged.

The two potions transformed into blazing walls of fire at the doorway, significantly slowing the goblin rush due to the firewalls.

Meanwhile, Kane and his team swiftly cleared the goblins that had already gotten past.

Kane found shooting arrows one by one far too inefficient compared to Kreya and Longbei's each attack sweeping away a large number of goblins.

Thinking of this, Kane pulled out the new skill [Launcher] acquired yesterday, using it with minimal magic power to shoot into the goblin crowd.

This was much faster than Kane's shooting speed, firing 2 to 4 shots per second.

The goblins in front started falling en masse.

Such rapid kills even caught Kreya and her team's attention. They saw Kane holding up one hand, directing it at the goblins, wherever he pointed, goblins would fall.

These fallen goblins had blood holes perforated in them.

Seems their captain pulled another trick out of his hat.

At last, a few big goblins broke through the doorway, extinguishing the firewalls in the process.

With the extinguishing of the firewalls, piles of goblins once again poured out.

Seeing this trend, Kane quickly took a swig of magic potion, another [Launcher] appearing in his other hand.

"You handle the big ones, leave the small fry to me."

Kane ordered his teammates, and upon hearing him, Kreya and Longbei swiftly rushed toward the big goblins.

And the smaller goblins fell like wheat under a scythe, in swaths.

Fighting the big goblins, Kreya called upon [Meat Grinder], a long blade over two meters long. Not even one big goblin could withstand a slash.

"Come on, you brainless trash."

Longbei taunted directly, drawing all nearby big goblins to gather around him, where he merely had to swing his long halberd.

The big goblins were like moths to a flame.

Kane gazed at the heap of goblin corpses before him, the other goblins rushing out swiftly joining the pile.

Even though holding guns in both hands was exhilarating, the magic power cost was very high.

Kane took out another bottle of magic potion and drank it.

Meizike continued hurling burning potions into the horde.

And the summoned goblins around him could only obey Kane's command to protect him.

The goblins pouring out of these doors were not strong, merely numerous to the point of being annoying.

With everyone's efforts, the goblin-filled door finally closed.

Few goblins remained on the field, and with the final crossbow arrow shot...

All the monsters of this level were entirely wiped out.

And the door with the goblin pattern shattered quickly, turning into blue magic fragments that merged into the central crystal hourglass.

Witnessing this, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, sitting down on the ground.

Meizike checked between the three, looking to see if anyone was injured.

However, Kreya and Longbei only had their robes slightly tattered, without even a scratch on their armor.

There was no choice. By the end, the steel effect had already worn off, but before that, it provided excellent protection.