Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 494 - 454: The Space that Seals the God

The fortress entrance under attack has fallen.

The soldiers who were originally waiting at the gate to deliver a deadly strike after Horn’s team charged in had to return to defend against Kane’s force from the entrance.

Meanwhile, the archers and crossbowmen on the walls found themselves in a dilemma, unsure whether to attack Horn’s team below the wall or Kane’s team behind them.

This chaos, however, was quickly organized by the remaining two commanders.

Most of the ordinary soldiers were fundamentally no match for these enemies in front of them, who had undergone enhancements and were of intermediate troop rank.

Even with the enhancements bestowed by Kreya, it was still insufficient.

Only the Lantern Knight Order under Kane could defeat their enemies in battles.

The rest, even those enhanced intermediate troops, could only temporarily hold back their opponents.

Ghost maids, transforming into soul forms with blue flames burning on their bodies, were madly harvesting enemy lives. Similar to them were the dark servants.

Where dark servants traversed, no enemy was left with an intact corpse.

At this point, one had to sigh—quality comes at a price.

Most conspicuous among them were the light cavalry infected by Lilulu’s fairy tale magic.

Mounted on white warhorses, they galloped up the walls with several leaps.

Rainbow-colored hoofprints lingered in the air.

These soldiers brandished their long spears, each swing tracing rainbow-colored trajectories.

Not only were the special effects abundant during attacks, but the force accompanying each strike also inflicted substantial damage.

However, the mesmerizing actions with special effects couldn’t help but draw everyone’s gaze.

The majority of the ordinary soldiers’ job was to stall these enemies; the primary damage was inflicted by these high-level troops and Kreya’s team.

Kreya’s team regarded these soldiers as mere slaughter targets.

Kreya only needed to transform into Ghost Form, leading her cavalry to rampage inside the fortress almost unimpeded.

Regardless of rubble or walls, they effortlessly passed through, igniting any soldier hiding behind them with blue flames.

Only those with magic attacks or magic resistance could escape harm.

But for them, Kreya and her ghost knights only needed to move a bit, swing their weapons to settle the score.

Four blue Iron Fists floating in the air took the life of a soldier with each strike.

These four blue Iron Fists did not hinder Meizike, who manipulated red healing particles to treat other soldiers.

The attacks from Longbei and Lilulu equally caused massive casualties on the enemy side.

Yet, Kane’s presence was nowhere to be seen.

That’s because Kane had already ridden Cotton Candy to the bridge.

Magic Power surged from his hands, connecting the center of the bridge to the fortress’s side shore.

A steel bridge was swiftly constructed.

Horn’s advancing troops quickly organized soldiers to cross the half-arched bridge and head towards the other side of the fortress, ready to flood into the fortress through the breach created by Longbei after just a few more steps.

Kane had to maintain the bridge’s stability, hence could not leave.

But this didn’t prevent him from attacking the enemy inside the fortress, as a firepower platform was already set up beside him.

By using Eagle Eye to mark the soldiers on the wall, these cannons naturally fired under Youyou’s control.

Under this series of actions, the fortress’s downfall was inevitable.

The enemy commanders knew it clearly.

The remaining soldiers inside the fortress knew it clearly too.

"Brothers, kill!"

The two commanders raised their longswords, shouting, leading the remaining soldiers in a charge against Kreya’s team.

At this moment, they resembled heroes. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

A missile landed on one commander’s head, instantly reducing him to ash.

The other commander hadn’t charged much further before a blue Iron Fist pierced his chest, felling him to the ground, blood slowly flowing from his chest into the surroundings.

Yet, an enemy’s hero is my foe.

However, the soldiers behind them showed no fear, instead frantically attacking forward.

Even in death, they aimed to drag one down with them.

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Soon after, the last soldier also fell under Kreya’s sword.

Horn’s soldiers opened the back gate.

Numerous craftsmen came over from the camp across the shore; they needed to quickly repair the fortress.

Some colors on their attire inside the fortress were also transforming from blue and white to red and white.

The soldiers under Kane’s command no longer needed orders and started to collect spoils from the ashes on the ground enthusiastically.

After collecting, each deputy reported how many soldiers remained from each team.

Although this attack by Kane and his side was quite successful, they still couldn’t withstand the enemy soldiers being stronger than theirs.

Some losses were unavoidable, but at least a few were brought back by the accompanying Meizike.

Even so, combined, their soldier losses exceeded two thousand.

Kane relied on his soldiers to quickly upgrade to the bottleneck, providing the guild with fresh forces.

However, each battle, while leading many soldiers to upgrade, also leads to the death of those close to upgrading.

In this siege, there were fewer than fifty soldiers under Kane who reached the bottleneck.

Luckily, there was an upgrade altar for all soldier types inside the fortress, regardless of melee or ranged.

Promotions were carried out on the spot, and under Abby’s guidance, they accepted the soon-to-be broken world camp and quickly joined Kane’s guild.

Kreya and the others also took this opportunity to upgrade their soldiers.

In front of the fortress was the infamous meat grinder within the dungeon, also the strongest area within the dungeon.

This area occupied the central part of the dungeon and was once the place of the fiercest battles.

As long as Kane and his team successfully took down this area, the rear areas would not require as much effort.

They must prepare for a long battle in this area.

But before that, let’s look at the spoils of war.

Since Kane exchanged for Magic Stone permissions, the battles of these days and the spoils gained by Longbei and others.

Brought Kane’s Silver Magic Stones back to a total of seven.

And a large batch of Copper Magic Stones joined the account.

Hundreds of Mist Coins along with various sizes and colors of equipment, categorized and placed in the guild’s warehouse.

At this point, looking at the guild’s warehouse finally gives a sense of a warehouse.

Many expansion functionalities of the guild require Silver Magic Stones to unlock, but none are essential at this stage.

So Kane did not rush to unlock them, preferring to hold onto them to see if new categories will emerge later.

And he also rolled the Angel Dice to see if it was suitable for Skill Extraction today.

However, a black dot discouraged Kane from extracting skills.

It seems today is not suitable for any luck-based activities.

They found a good area in the camp and set up the soldiers there.

Near there, they found a good stone house to serve as their temporary residence.

Returning to the stone house, finding suitable rooms for each, they rested, with Kane sitting cross-legged on the bed with his eyes closed.

At this moment, if you lifted his eyelids, you would see his eyes hollow and vacant.

In Kane’s Skill Grid now lay the Skill Stone of the God of All Machines’ limb.

Kane entered the space sealed by this skill.

In front of him was the index finger he had summoned from the God of All Machines, the finger that was sealed.

Since drawing this Skill Stone, Kane had only used it once, and after that, he never used it again, keeping it in the Skill Warehouse, usually placed in the Skill Grid for study.

The reason for not using this skill was that during the first use, he sensed something was amiss.

The bad premonition was brought by his Divine Martial Gaze.

Because of the sudden danger sensed by the Divine Martial Gaze, Kane cautiously sealed the skill, refraining from using it.

However, he discovered that as long as the sealed limb was not summoned, the threat was absent, and he could enter the space sealed by the Skill Stone to study the limb.

While entering the space, his Divine Martial Gaze did not give any danger predictions.

Though not entirely risk-free, it allowed Kane some peace of mind.

Unknown risks might still exist.

But the foreseeable gains made the potential unknown risks seem insignificant.

Kane performed simple research and magic on the surface of the finger, allowing his mechanical knowledge to progress significantly.

The greatest enhancement was in the fusion of Magic Runes and various energy and mechanical structures.

This finger showcased that although the God of All Machines was created artificially, in its creation, mechanical and Magic Power were perfectly fused.

The main issue Kane noticed was that some manufacturing technology he saw and his current energy circuit technology seemed to belong to the same style.

You could even see the shadow of energy circuits on some technologies.

This led Kane to suspect that the world that created the God of All Realms might be where energy technology originated.

This also made deciphering the surface of the God of All Machines’ limb easier and quicker for him.

After all, this technology was fundamentally the same as what Kane had been studying.

During this period, the significant enhancement of Kane’s mechanical weapons came from the inspiration and technology acquired from study.

You could see the increasing number of Magic Runes on his mechanical constructs manufactured during this period.

It showed that he was progressing further in the integration of mechanics and Magic Power.

These were all acquired during his recent time in the sealed space.