Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 685 - 605: The 2nd Stage of Battle Begins

Kane tidied up his mood, then looked around.

He happened to see Longbei waving the hammer outside a small tent.

Longbei put the hammer down and looked at Kane, who was walking over: "Good brother, it looks like this time you gained quite a lot, spent so much time, haha."

"Of course, Longbei, where's Kreya and the others? I have something to discuss with you all." Kane said with a smile.

"You wait here, I'll go call them out."

As he spoke, Longbei disappeared, and shortly after, Kreya and the others teleported out.

Seeing everyone gathered, Kane said, "My skills have been enhanced, and I might need to stay here for a while longer. Then we can go and take down the other two leaders together."

Kane intended to thoroughly study his newly upgraded skills here and then use more metals to forge even stronger weapons. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

He was currently bursting with inspiration, and the new skills seemed to solve many of the problems he had faced all at once.

However, all of these require time, and it would take quite a bit of time. Kane must make some trade-offs based on the current situation.

Anyway, they need to stay for a while, which would at least make future battles faster.

After all, Kane's weapons had reached a point where they had to be upgraded. Against Golden-stage enemies, they were only causing disturbance and scratching damage.

"Sure, no problem." Kreya agreed with a nod.

The others, including Lilu, nodded in agreement. There was nothing wrong with staying here for a while.

Kreya and the others didn't mind at all. Waiting for some time wouldn't cost them anything, since it relates to the efficiency of future challenges.

Moreover, Kane discussing sticking around with them at this moment definitely meant the skills had brought significant changes to him.

This change must be critically important, or he wouldn't have discussed it with them at this time.

The time spent would definitely become Kane's stronger capital, it's worth it.

Now, waiting for two more weeks means passing through faster later, why not? After all, they never consider time to be wasted.

Even if they stayed here, they weren't resting idly or playing around.

With the Guild Hall and using Platinum Country as a stepping stone, they could understand the rules anytime by entering the Platinum Country.

At this time, the importance of the Guild Hall was fully demonstrated, even while staying in the Dungeon, it didn't affect them becoming stronger at all.

They could even handle some outside affairs, just needing to transit through the Guild Hall.

Time is always on their side, there is no possibility of wasting it.

"Alright, since you all agreed, let's rest here for a while."

After speaking, Kane directly spent magic power to create a permanent wooden house around them.

Everyone used this wooden house as a temporary resting area, entering the Guild Hall through it.

The reason for transforming it into a permanent existence was that Kane had to enter the Guild Hall himself, otherwise, there wouldn't be a good resting place outside.

Subsequently, everyone sorted out their shifts and groups for guarding outside.

They thoughtfully excluded Kane, as Kane had important matters to attend to, leaving simple vigilance tasks to them.

With everything arranged, Kane entered the Guild Hall alone.

He needed to concentrate on his research in his personal space.

...

Two weeks later.

During this time, Kane finally fully explored his skills.

He collected many rare materials with Longbei and Burton's help and learned about many rare materials he never knew before.

Although Longbei didn't like forging, being part of the Dwarf Race, he had great expertise in ores, knowing that his skills included Ore Identification techniques.

Burton, also being part of the Dwarf Race, had certain research in forging and ores.

With the help of the two and Adoma and others transporting materials through the Guild Hall.

Kane gathered many materials he needed just within a few days.

He categorized them and began researching and simulating the needed ones in advance.

Several weapons that had been pending were finally completed, most reasons being the insufficient material strength or unmet requirements.

They were finally made, but since they were still in the Dungeon, Kane only crafted a few weapons that were just short of a couple steps.

These weapons should be adequate for clearing this Dungeon, at least providing a significant boost to his attack strength.

No matter what, the scratching damage situation wouldn't occur anymore.

Kane walked out of his personal space but didn't find Kreya and the others, then teleported out of the Guild Hall.

He appeared inside the previously built wooden house.

Everyone was here.

Seeing Kane appear, Kreya and the others seemed to be ready; the waiting time was finally up.

"Alright, friends, it's time to clear the Dungeon."

Kane said with a smile.

"It seems the harvest during this time was quite substantial, good brother." Longbei smiled, patting Kane's thigh.

Kreya and the others were curious about what secret weapon Kane had prepared.

To know, Kane had shut himself in his personal space for quite a long time.

Reaching the state of sleepless nights he had during previous research times if not for knowing Golden-level constitution could endure quite significantly without eating or drinking.

They might have thought Kane was going to starve in his personal space.

But now that Kane was ready, they wouldn't wait any longer. After all, enough rest had been taken; it's time to conquer this Dungeon.

They had a simple meal to fill Kane's stomach.

Then everyone tidied up and directly walked out of the door.

As for this wooden cabin, let it remain here as a memory.

...

At this moment, just not far ahead of Kane and his group.

"Did that bald guy beat the newcomers badly this time? I clearly felt that he's already dead, so why has it been so long and no one has come?"

A young man clad in armor, holding a silver long spear, said curiously.

He lay in a hammock strung between two trees, a tender branch hanging from his mouth. The sunlight filtering through the trees lazily basked on him as he complained.

Then he closed his eyes and sensed for a while.

His tone grew even more puzzled: "Strange, he hasn't returned, just nearby, why isn't he moving?"

"Sigh, I can't leave this area, otherwise I'd go look for them myself."

This was a relatively wide plain, overgrown with weeds, with only a few knee-high plants—the trees surrounding him.

This space also had a semi-circular transparent membrane covering it.

Just like the membrane on the wooden arena before, it seemed he was similarly confined here.

"Oh! It's moving, moving, coming towards me, ah, finally I can move my body a bit; otherwise, I feel like I'm rusting."

The young man said happily, then jumped down from the hammock and came to the center of the small plain, holding his long spear, waiting.

At this point, his entire demeanor had changed dramatically; he was no longer the frivolous type from before.

He almost resembled an undefeated general from countless battles.

Just a short while later, Kane and his group arrived at the membrane, looking at the enemy who had been waiting for them at the center.

"Could he be getting a bit impatient?" Longbei said inexplicably, looking at the enemy in the middle.

Kane used Breath of the Archangel, then turned his head and said, "Then you'd better pray he goes easy on you when he hits you later."

"Don't jinx it."

As the angel's apparition appeared in the sky, breathing towards Kane and his group, they began to apply various enhancement effects to themselves.

"Lilu hopes he's not another magic immunity enemy," Lilu said on the side, swinging her magic wand.

The previous bald man with magic immunity left Lilu merely a spectator.

"How can two enemies have exactly the same rules? That shouldn't happen, right?" Kreya said uncertainly on the side.

Kane threw out three intelligent cores, began forming weapons around the intelligent cores nearby: "Alright, let's go in."

Saying that, they formed their positions, tightly gripping their weapons, and stepped into the membrane in front of them.

As Kane and his group entered, the enemy standing in the center picked up his long spear and stamped it hard against the ground.

He seemed a bit impatient.

With the spear's impact, a blood-red aura spread rapidly in a circle around, pressing towards Kane and his group fiercely.

The gust brought by the pressure made Kane's team slightly squint their eyes.

The aura was filled with battle intent, madly yearning for combat.

"I hope you can let me experience the joy of battle, or else you'll only hear your own painful cries."

The young man in armor, holding a bright silver long spear, pointed at Kane and his party.

"I am Cloud, your slayer."

The young leader said, lifting his long spear, and charged towards Kane's group at high speed.

Because the enemy's size was similar to theirs, Longbei only slightly enhanced himself to become stronger, entering Titan state.

Holding a golden shield in hand, he prepared to take the enemy's attack head-on.

The spear tip rapidly hit the golden shield, yet a strange scene unfolded.

Longbei did not feel too much force transmitted through his shield; it merely felt like a slight bump.

Then the spear tip shot out a beam of light, arcing onto Longbei's shoulder.

Hit by this light, Longbei couldn't control his form, starting to twist and change, even shrink.

Seeing this scene, Meizike immediately scattered a large amount of magic particles and potions toward Longbei.

Kreya had already picked up the Flying Wing Dual Blades, clashing with the enemy to prevent further attacks on Longbei.

The massive force of the long spear directly swept Kreya aside. A rainbow-colored ray swiftly shot onto Cloud's shoulder.

The shoulder portion had a missing chunk, the surrounding area caving inward.

The enemy had magic resistance, but not magic immunity, which was good news.

However, Longbei had directly turned into a half-meter-long boar with long teeth.

"Snort, snort!"

He anxiously squealed.

Another potion bottle burst on him, the liquid seeping into his body.

Yet it had no effect.

Seeing this scene, Meizike loudly shouted: "It's a rule! One of his rules forcibly turns people into boars, be careful!"

However, Kreya, having exchanged several blows with the enemy and bearing some wounds, did not suffer the same fate as Longbei.

Cloud made another sweeping strike and then erected a magic shield, blocking Kreya and Lilu's attacks, as well as the missiles falling from above.

"It's not turning into a boar; it's transforming into the animal most similar to him."

He calmly explained to Kane's group.

Then he continued, "Don't worry, it can only force one person into this state. I particularly dislike people who carry shields."