Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons

Chapter 994 - 864: Handover and Rewards

East-41 District

A three-story fortress stood amidst a vast blanket of white mist, and through the windows of the fortress, one could see the lights inside.

Looking inside through the windows.

The center still had a huge stone platform covered densely with magic class inscriptions, with a complex array floating above it.

Looking now at the map in the array, one could see it divided into grids, and each grid had the name of a five-person team.

No longer were there situations where a five-person team had to defend two or even three different areas.

And now, every area was defended by a five-person team, with very few areas having only four people due to forced requirements.

Currently, only two areas on the entire map were radiating a faint red glow.

In an instant, the red glow in one area disappeared.

This indicated that the patrollers in that area had already killed or repelled the enemies attacking them.

On a stone table not far from the stone platform, there were plates of delicious magic cuisine.

Sitting by the stone table were Kane and his group, with everyone present.

With everyone gathered, they no longer needed to split into two groups to defend different areas.

It had been over two months since they first encountered attackers.

The steaming delicious food on the table wasn’t from a kitchen in the fortress but from the Golden Pocket, which Kreya still carried with her as a piece of Golden Equipment.

This was their guarantee of having hot magic cuisine anytime, anywhere.

"It’s all because we fought too fiercely last time; now they’re not coming anymore."

Longbei, holding a large beef leg, mumbled through his bites.

Hearing Longbei’s words, Kane rolled his eyes and elbowed him, then asked, "Who was shouting so fiercely back then, ’Kill, kill, don’t let them run!’ Who was that?"

Hearing Kane’s questioning, Longbei chuckled and rubbed the spot where Kane elbowed him.

"Oh well, we were just so enthusiastic about killing them back then. Who would’ve thought they got scared off after that?"

At this, Longbei sighed and took a big bite of the fragrant beef leg in his hand.

They weren’t talking about their first encounter with the enemy.

Rather, three days after that attack, the enemy, perhaps unwilling to concede, sent a total of 12 people.

And there were three individuals with two skills.

Faced with this, Kane and his team certainly wouldn’t foolishly engage twice their number with just their five-person team.

They immediately blew the whistle.

Support did take a bit of time to arrive, so they had to fight a few rounds with the enemy.

In this situation, Kane began setting up light screens around them.

The defenders from the nearby areas arrived to help rapidly, in under a minute.

The reinforcements comprised 8 people, and with Kane’s team, they outnumbered the enemy.

The balance instantly tipped in their favor.

As the enemy prepared to flee, Kane expanded the light screen on the spot.

The entire space was completely locked; the enemy couldn’t use space jump or blink to escape anymore.

The outcome was obvious.

Kane’s team, with the support of 8 others, took out the entire enemy group at the cost of two Explorers injured.

With the enemy unable to control space, none of their people died.

But they took down 12 enemies with just 13 of them.

The supporting Explorers themselves were amazed, as if they were still in a dream.

They rarely managed to kill the enemy, let alone take down so many at once.

It was indeed a severe blow to the enemy.

Losing 12 at once was a heavy blow to their already fragile alliance.

These weren’t just 12 chickens, they were 12 gods.

This brought such unease that for the next two months, no one dared to attack Kane’s area 41.

Not only 41, but even the surrounding areas had no attacks, fearing they might call on Kane’s team for support.

In this situation, Kane’s team spent two months in relative peace.

They didn’t have any way to change this.

After all, the enemy had learned of their strength.

Their area’s perimeter was constantly monitored, always watched, yet not attacked, just closely observing Kane’s team’s every move.

Fortunately, their time assisting in defense was almost over.

Since their synesthesia was also showing fatigue.

With more supporting Explorers joining over these two months, the personnel shortage issue was greatly alleviated.

"Time to prepare, Orochi has informed me that a new team will be arriving tomorrow to take over our shift."

"Then we’ll have about half a month to rest when we return."

Upon hearing Kane, Kreya and the others nodded, continuing with their tasks.

Since they were outside the mist, there was no precise sense of time, perhaps on the second day, a team of five arrived.

When they appeared, the others hadn’t noticed yet.

In their exchange, after Kane and his team handed over the disc, they returned to the main fortress in the East District through the leftover teleportation gate.

"So many people now? Aren’t these idle personnel who don’t need to defend any areas?"

Longbei, stepping out of the teleportation gate and observing the scene outside, couldn’t help but ask in surprise. After all, it had been almost three months since Longbei last came here.

In less than three months, the outside was almost crowded with people.

You could see Explorers coming and going.

Some Explorers were even seen expanding and renovating the main fortress.

Preparing to enlarge the main fortress.

"Let’s go find Orochi first. The last time he informed me, he asked us to see him once we’re ready to leave."

Kane said to everyone, then led them toward Orochi’s office from before.

As soon as they walked in, they saw Miraste and Archie, who were also getting ready to leave.

After all, they basically arrived with us, and their strength isn’t much different from ours, all at the tri-color level.

But logically, they should have been able to stay about half a month longer than us.

After all, their exploration time beyond the Mist is much longer than Kane and the others’.

Kane thought with some confusion.

"Kane, you’ve arrived."

Seeing Kane, Orochi walked over directly.

Archie and Miraste behind him were smiling and greeting them.

Orochi came over and said directly, "I called you over to tell you that after you’ve rested, the plan you thought of can officially be executed."

After speaking, he pointed to Miraste and the others behind him: "They are the main force of the operation, and at that time, Bagri will likely lead the team to test it in the East District first."

Hearing this, Kane turned his head to look and then saw Miraste and the others waving at him with a smile.

Even with full manpower, Miraste and the others only formed a team of four.

Besides their original three members, they included a council’s draconian, the one who first joined the Patrollers with Lily.

Their selection as candidates was within Kane’s expectations.

As Dungeon Masters, their strength is undeniable.

At this moment, Orochi patted Kane’s shoulder and said, leaning his head down: "This operation is very important and highly anticipated, with many people watching, so rest well and prepare when you return."

Hearing Orochi’s words, Kane nodded.

Then he said goodbye: "Then we’ll head back first and see you in half a month."

After saying goodbye, they directly used the nearby teleportation gate to return to the house they were previously in, arriving at Outer Ring City.

"Should we just head back from Outer Ring City?" Longbei asked.

Hearing this, Lulu immediately said beside him: "Silly, we haven’t been given rewards from Mist Mother yet, how can we leave, especially with so many people here?"

Hearing Lulu’s reasoning, they immediately headed toward the outside of Outer Ring City.

Leaving Outer Ring City, they quickly vanished into the vast mist.

Outer Ring City is a fixed point, but once you leave it, space becomes chaotic.

So even if everyone enters the mist together from outside the city, they might end up in different places.

Only by entering closely together at a single moment can they avoid this.

At this moment, the thought of leaving emerged in their minds.

Two Mist Balls slowly floated down above them, landing in front of them.

One hovered in front of the group, and the other floated solely in front of Kane.

"What’s up with this ball?" Kreya asked a bit confused.

Because the information they received in their minds was only about the single Fog Ball in front of them.

And Kane’s Fog Ball was clearly not included in the information they received, meaning this Fog Ball was exclusively for Kane.

After receiving the information in his mind, Kane turned to everyone and said, "It says this is a special extra reward for my contributions."

The gist is that without Kane’s extensive space lock, it would have been almost impossible to take down so many enemies this time, a huge contribution that greatly thwarted those with malicious intent toward the Mist.

Hearing Kane’s words, Lulu’s eyes filled with envy.

But Lulu didn’t say much, instead clenching her fist and giving it a hard wave: "Just wait, Lulu will work hard too, and I also need a solo reward from the Mist Mother."

Hearing this, everyone immediately shifted their attention from the Fog Ball in front of Kane to her.

Is God going to start working hard?

Perhaps a wave of internal competition is about to forcibly appear in the team again.

At this moment, Kane said, "This is a customizable piece of equipment."

But previously Kane had only said it casually, giving him custom equipment, he didn’t even know what he wanted.

Thinking of this, Kane said, "Let’s first see what’s inside this Mist Ball."

Then he placed the Mist Ball, which was condensed from their collective contributions, in his hand.

This Mist Ball was condensed from their collective contributions, and their contributions this time were at least of a mid-to-high level.

As the Mist Ball opened, a seven-colored radiance appeared before everyone’s eyes.

In Kane’s hand was something they once owned.

"Wishing Stone Fragment?"

Kane looked at the colorful fragment in his hand.

The last time they received mid-to-high level contributions, the Mist also rewarded them with this item.

It seems their luck back then was really astonishingly good.

"No wonder even those at the five-color level were attracted over that time," Kreya muttered to herself.

At this moment, Longbei seemed to have discovered a blind spot: "So, our luck worsened after that, because our luck was too good before."

Hearing this, everyone was suddenly speechless.

Because it did make some sense.

The law of conservation of luck?