Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 495 - 455: Taking Advantage of the Weakness

On the raging river, the bridge that originally existed is being rebuilt.

An elderly man dressed as an artisan was leading Kane on a tour of the bridge.

All over the bridge, people dressed as artisans were working on various parts.

"So, Officer Cain, is this expansion feasible?" The old man, holding a blueprint, was explaining to Kane.

Kane looked at the blueprint for a while, then at the progress around him, and nodded: "Just follow this blueprint to expand, the bridge will be fully usable."

After inspecting the expanding bridge, Kane turned around and returned to the fortress behind him.

The reason this bridge needs expansion is that, due to defensive reasons, the previous bridge was always built quite narrow, making the transportation of soldiers and various supplies very troublesome.

Now, it has been expanded.

This approach has its pros and cons. The advantage is that afterward, it will be much faster to transport supplies and soldiers from behind the bridge section.

The downside, of course, is that if the enemy attacks here, the enemy’s offensive will be much harder to stop.

After all, the width of the bridge is also a means to restrict the enemy.

However, it no longer holds much significance. If they have already conquered this place, and the enemy counterattacks, then Kane and his team’s dungeon effort can be declared a failure.

When Kane returned to the fortress, Kreya and her team were already fully prepared, checking their soldiers.

And for Kane’s subordinates, Abby and Bonona were in command.

After all, among Kane’s subordinates, there were over 300 Spirits of Freedom. With their presence, Kane hardly needed to worry about his soldiers.

"Longbei, I’m leaving this to you." Kane walked over and patted Longbei on the shoulder.

Longbei, hands on his hips, waved his hand: "Don’t worry, with me here, no one can breach the fortress."

Indeed, this time Longbei was responsible for defending and staying at the fortress, while the task of attacking outward was handed to Kane and his team. However, this time they would not split into two routes to attack outward but would combine their forces.

Yesterday’s battle taught them that if the enemy’s soldiers were still divided into two groups to attack the enemy’s camp, the losses at each attack would be very severe.

So after discussion, they decided to regroup together.

This was the only option left. Now, they couldn’t rely on Horn and his team to attack the enemy’s camp anymore.

Previously, Horn’s soldiers could still engage the enemy forces, but now Horn’s soldiers could nearly only handle defense. This was unavoidable because the Broken Dungeon’s last-ditch effort empowered all enemy forces, and they were continuously being strengthened. Every crack in the sky would make the enemies stronger. Horn’s soldiers, aligned with Kane’s red forces, of course, were not empowered, and this resulted in a growing disparity with the enemy, to the point where it was nearly impossible for them to conquer the enemy’s fortifications during a siege. They could only hold the wall defensively to exploit their current strengths.

Kane mounted the mechanical warhorse and said to the remaining Kane: "We’ll head out first."

With that, he left the fortress with Kreya and more than 5000 soldiers behind them.

There were still 2000 soldiers left at the fortress, commanded by Longbei.

After several days of battle, their wartime achievements were still insufficient for a military rank promotion. Instead, a large amount was spent on replenishing the consumed soldiers.

There was no other choice. With increasing casualties, Kane and his team had to constantly spend more merit to fill the vacancies left by the fallen soldiers.

Thus, Hai An and his men charged out of the fortress, and outside, many artisans were still engaged in repairing and expanding the fortress.

They were investing resources to make the entire fortress more sturdy.

After leaving the fortress, outside was almost entirely a plain, only occasionally punctuated by small groves and hills.

You could almost call it a vast expanse.

Not long after they started running outward, Kane and his team sensed the enemy’s gaze.

Kane frowned and looked at a distant grove: "It seems there are enemy sentinels observing us there."

"Most likely, I feel it too." Kreya nodded and said.

Kane said nothing more, as five black mist clouds among his soldiers transformed into sharp arrows and shot towards the grove.

Pursuing enemy sentinels was naturally a task for their fellow assassin class, the Dark Servants.

In no time, the Dark Servants returned with their spoils of war.

Leading the group was Eva.

"Master, one soldier escaped our pursuit."

Although the enemy sentinels were positioned advantageously, for one to escape from the Dark Servants showed their formidable strength.

Upon hearing Eva’s report, Kane nodded and then accepted the spoils they handed over.

Next to him, Kreya said: "One got away, it seems it won’t be long before we have a battle on our hands."

"Never mind that, let’s head to the target camp we already set."

With that, Kane restarted their movement.