Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons

After leaving the Pharmacist Association, Kane didn't hurry back but wandered around the area.

Because he discovered that this area on the map was home to various professional associations.

Among them, he found there was one called the Magic Power Machinery Association.

This was his actual target because when he found that his skills were extremely suitable for these mechanical constructs, his interest in them skyrocketed.

Which man wouldn't like moving steel, the sound of metal clashing, and the trembling of gears turning?

Not to mention that you can create the mechanical constructs you desire according to your own whims and aesthetics.

This is practically a man's romance.

Following the signpost, he circled around to the other side; this must be where the Mechanical Association is located.

Looking around,

The building of this association was even more peculiar, with an exterior piled together from various iron-made mechanical structures, appearing rather chaotic but inexplicably appealing.

Various unfamiliar mechanical devices were operating at the entrance.

This one should be a cleaning robot, with two rotating brooms as arms and a suction port underneath.

There were also various mechanical sculptures in different shapes, or perhaps they were just unpowered mechanical devices displayed directly there?

Quite a few people were going in and out as well.

After entering the association, Kane felt a bit confused, like he had traveled again.

From the steam era, he directly entered the iron wasteland period.

The entire interior of the association was filled with various mechanical bodies seemingly randomly pieced together.

Some mechanical devices had exquisite shells, while others exposed their mechanical parts, gears, and objects emitting a faint light interwoven and functioning inside.

People in the association had more or less some mechanical devices on them, like arms installed at the back or mechanical backpacks carried on their backs.

Kane even saw an old man with a mechanical prosthetic leg.

The style was extremely discordant.

Kane approached the front desk, which appeared to be made of various scrap metal pieces.

An old man was sitting behind the desk, his hair a bit messy and somewhat graying, holding a cigarette holder in his mouth and leisurely reading a newspaper.

He turned his head to glance at Kane and asked, "What's up?"

Without waiting for Kane to answer, he turned back to continue reading his newspaper.

Kane looked at the old man in front of him and said helplessly, "I want to learn about the association and how to make these mechanical devices."

Upon hearing this, the old man directly picked up a bundle of books from his feet and handed them to Kane, saying, "Read these books first. Once you understand them, then you're qualified to learn these things."

Kane glanced at the pile of similar books at the old man's feet; clearly, there were quite a few people asking the same questions as he did.

"By the way, a sincere 30 gold."

Picking up the top book, Kane flipped through it to confirm that the content inside was what he wanted.

He paid promptly and tossed the entire bundle of books into his space equipment.

Then he turned and left the association with Meizike.

He had achieved his goal, so now he was going back to study these books and see if the mechanical constructs were what he imagined.

After returning to the villa, Kane couldn't wait to get back to his room and take out the recently purchased bundle of books from his space.

He started flipping through them one by one to see which book might be more suitable for his initial understanding.

"Mechanical Knowledge in the Dungeon" — this is the one. Checking the introduction, it describes the origin of this mechanical knowledge.

He swapped "Fast Reading" into his skill grid and began reading. Sure enough, his mind became much clearer.

He quickly read through the books in his hands, with the recorded information swiftly entering his mind, organized distinctly into his memory.

Since this book only introduced the origin of machinery, without much expansive knowledge, Kane finished it quickly.

Closing the book, he shut his eyes and began organizing the information in his mind.

The knowledge of mechanical manufacturing in this world mostly originates from dungeons with mechanical relics.

After all, dungeons are composed of world fragments and historical shadows of other worlds. The buildings remaining in these worlds, as well as the books or various information-recording devices inside, are relatively well-preserved.

Explorers only need to go inside, eliminate any potential monster threats without damaging the surroundings, and can freely record these precious knowledge.

If one attempt isn't successful, another team of explorers can go in to continue recording.

This is practically a gift from the world to them, such precious knowledge is easily accessible.

Of course, not all knowledge can be perfectly digested and absorbed.

Due to different races in each world, different body structures, and various application habits, or the materials and energies required.

These issues could make using the knowledge difficult or completely useless.

This requires association scholars to differentiate, research, and decipher, and finally absorb the useful parts perfectly.

The knowledge of the Magic Power Machinery Association is acquired in such a way.

After all, there are many dungeons where the monsters or buildings inside are made of steel and various metal products.

The earliest scholars of the Mechanical Association utilized knowledge inside, combining it with the existing magical knowledge of their own world for fusion, ultimately founding the Magic Power Machinery Association.

As these dungeons increased, the Mechanical Association gained more knowledge.

The various mechanical products and various magic power mechanical weapons created were acknowledged by the Mist.

Though this association has been around for nearly 800 years, it is still a new organization in this world.

Currently, mechanical constructs are typically powered by magic cores.

The knowledge acquired from many dungeon worlds includes a variety of energy drives.

However, when the dungeon disappears, those energy acquisition channels are cut off.

So, mechanical devices requiring materials from specific dungeons to be made have been abandoned.

Only a few powerful or special mechanical devices have been preserved as singular items.

There are also intelligent devices like the Unceasing One, though the reason is unknown.

In this world, artificially creating items with souls or high intelligence is extremely challenging.

Kane exhaled, having about understood the mechanical constructs and their origins in this world.

The skill "Launcher" he held was hindered by the magic power structure in the middle.

For some unknown reason, even if he constructed an identical structure, removing the skill stone would render the structure incapable of magic power drive.

Now he knows that the mechanical constructs of the Magic Power Machinery Association are also driven by magic power, so they certainly possess such manufacturing technology.

This will greatly assist Kane in using origin skills in the future.