Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 504 - 462: The Total Collapse of the Sky

After reuniting with Lilulu.

Lilulu immediately flashed and appeared on Kane’s shoulder, inquiring about the events they encountered during their expedition this time.

"Don’t rush, let’s go to the recruitment area and fill up our idle forces first."

As Kane spoke, he led Kreya and the others towards the recruitment area.

When they arrived at the recruitment area, there were significantly more recruitment tents than before, even a recruitment building similar to a Mage Tower where they could recruit mages.

However, the price of mages was extremely high, and they had to be magic professions to recruit them.

Among them, only Lilulu and Kane could recruit mages.

For some reason, Meizike was not counted among the magic professions.

Kane recruited only 200 mages to test their waters, to see how many could survive to be promoted to advanced units, and eventually become Spirits of Freedom.

After several battles, there were still over 100 mages remaining in Kane’s forces, proving that as rear guards, they indeed had some life-saving techniques.

A few more battles might allow them to be promoted to advanced units.

There was also a Promotion Altar in the fortress for medium units to advance to high-level ones.

Due to the excessively expensive war achievements, Kane only recruited those 200 mages and never recruited more.

The main point is that it took too much time for them to be promoted from medium to high-level.

The mid-tier soldiers recruited at the same time were either dead, or the survivors had joined the Lantern Knight Order.

So almost all of Lilulu’s troops were replaced by mages, though the previous light cavalry were not abandoned.

After all, nearly 100 light cavalry had become Spirits of Freedom and were fully transformed by Lilulu into Fairy Tale Knights.

Currently, in her fairy tale world, many mages are undergoing fairy tale element infusion.

In the other tents, all kinds of units were available for medium-level recruitment, with a wide range of choices.

After scaling up to a force of 5000, it was hard to gain any more rank advancements due to the war achievements they already had.

Unless they were willing not to replenish their forces upon returning, but instead save them up.

However, the war didn’t give them such a chance; each battle returned having lost more than half of their citizens.

There was no other way, the quality of soldiers was vastly different.

forces were sufficient, so almost all their war achievements were used for recruitment now.

Each time they replenished their lost forces, there was not much left.

After recruiting the soldiers.

Now it was time to promote those soldiers who had reached a bottleneck.

They arrived at the central square of the fortress.

A huge circular stone platform stood there, with a general holding a sword sculpted on top.

It was the highest-level Promotion Altar, capable of any form of promotion.

First was Kane, with Mark by his side.

It was so that Mark could explain and guide the soldiers after their promotion success.

Once Kane’s soldiers were successfully promoted, the Book of Adventure appeared in front of him in a flurry.

Then followed the inviting, agreeing, and stamping services.

Afterwards, he pulled them all into the Defender Army.

Mark led them to the Knight Residence.

Thus, Kane’s Lantern Knight Order finally reached a thousand members.

Afterwards, it was waiting for Kreya and the others to upgrade their soldiers.

This process was repeated almost every time they returned to the main camp.

"Is it done, Kreya, Lilulu’s starving."

Lilulu floated in the air, lying flat with no concern for her image, saying.

Beside her, Kreya pulled her up, pinched her cheek, and smiled, "Almost done, don’t worry."

At this moment, Kane suddenly frowned, shaking his head in discomfort.

"You felt it again?" Kreya asked nearby.

To Kreya’s question, Kane nodded.

Just now, his Divine Martial Gaze gave him a strange premonition again.

It was somewhat akin to fortune coexisting with disaster.

This wasn’t the first time.

It started when Kane was just about to enter the dungeon.

Such premonitions would appear from time to time.

Initially, it was a bad premonition, but gradually it turned into fortune coexisting with disaster.

The premonition might be signaling the dungeon’s desperate arrival, perhaps.

With this feeling, something was bound to happen again.

Just as this thought occurred in Kane’s mind.

"Crack!"

A massive cracking sound came from the sky.

The immense sound caused all the Spirits of Freedom in the dungeon to look up at the sky.

Kane and his group were no exception, all looking up at the sky.

At this moment, the few big fragments in the sky that were barely connected finally couldn’t hold on anymore and shattered apart.

With this fracture, it seemed to trigger a chain reaction, causing other fragments in the sky to break apart one after another.

Large chunks of sky fragments fell downwards.

While falling mid-air, these fragments dissolved into red magic particles.

The shedding fragments revealed a massive void behind, with thick white clouds exposed in all directions.

And so they watched as one fragment after another fell from the sky.

"Wait a minute, is it still shattering? Could the entire sky be about to completely fall apart?"

Longbei’s voice was a bit shocked.

Because they had already experienced several episodes of the sky occasionally cracking.

Each time, some fragments would fall, but this time was clearly different from the past, the frequency of falling was too high, almost the entire sky was shattering.

One big hole after another kept appearing, showing no intention of stopping.

Kane looked at the situation and said, "The sky is about to completely shatter."

Kane and the others quietly watched, and not long after, the sky was completely gone, with both clouds and the sun disappearing without a trace.

The entire sky turned into a thick layer of white mist.

Paired with the Wall of Mist at the edge of the Dungeon, it was as if this world had been completely covered by a small box made of white clouds and mist.

The sky fragments that fell down transformed into red glowing streams midair, forming one ribbon after another, drifting everywhere.

All converged toward the other half of the map and directly dropped down.

This situation made Kane and the others frown heavily.

This indicated that the enemy would gain a large area of reinforcement, making their future battles even harder.

The subsequent losses might be even more outrageous.

Once the Dungeon started to shatter, the longer they stayed inside, the stronger the enemies they would face.

"Crack!"

A loud sound of shattering resounded, sharper than the sounds before.

With the sky already broken, which area was cracking this time?

Feeling the ground shaking, Kane and the others immediately jumped onto the nearby city wall.

Looking toward the ground.

The entire land was split open by a huge crack, just like the shattered sky before.

Without an ocean, does the earth directly start cracking?

However, this crack went right through the fortress, but did not cause any impact on it, as if the crack... did not exist at all.

Kane jumped off the wall to the side of the crack and squatted down to inspect closely.

Slowly reaching out with a hand to touch the crack on the ground.

Compared to the texture of the soil beside it, it indeed felt different, somewhat like frosted glass.

But it wasn’t hollow, not the kind of real crack that would cause things to collapse.

Kane knocked on it, but it didn’t make any crisp sound, just like knocking on dirt.

Thinking, he made a fist and struck down hard.

Just like hitting the soil, a dent appeared, but that was it, with no strange phenomena occurring.

No shattered fragments appeared either.

So, whether it’s the shattering sky or the cracking ground, is it just a visual effect?

No substantial manifestation.

However, the red light emerging from the cracking ground continued to gather on the opposite side.

Still strengthening the enemy.

Kreya and Longbei were also knocking on the cracks beside them.

Even explorers with vast experience, this was the first time seeing such a situation.

There might not be many explorers left who’ve seen this and are still alive.

"This experience is really novel," said Kreya, stepping in a horse stance, stepping on the crack.

Kane stood up, clapped his hands, and said, "We must speed up our strategy execution at all costs, or the possibility of failure will greatly increase later."

Although it didn’t matter even if they failed now, because the items that dropped wouldn’t disappear just because they failed to clear.

Even if they failed, the Dungeon would still be devoured, and those Spirit of Freedom soldiers who joined the guild with Kane could survive.

So, apart from not having the reward for clearing the Dungeon, actually there wouldn’t be much to lose.

"Kane, something’s up."

Meizike’s voice suddenly rang out as he pointed at the fortress’s main gate.

Hearing his words, Kane and the others immediately rushed toward the main gate.

Climbed the fortress’s city wall.

Opened Eagle Eye to look across.

Opposite the fortress, there were many enemy camps, and most belonged to different factions.

But now, all the soldiers in their camp had gathered a few kilometers in front of the fortress, looking ready to attack.

Kane carefully observed the soldiers opposite.

Almost all the soldiers had red glowing eyes, looking as if they were possessed.

"What’s happening?" Longbei asked.

He could only see all the soldiers from the enemy camp gathering together.

Kane looked at the situation opposite, fairly understanding the current situation: "The Dungeon is about to be devoured, and now it seems they want us explorers to be buried with it."

"The current problem is they seem only to be gathering, without any intention to attack, could they be waiting for all their forces to assemble from the rear?"

This possibility was very high, very much like a delaying tactic for dragging burial items.

After all, the blue side, in this all-or-nothing situation in the Dungeon, could be forced to gather all and attack the red side.

Kane thought for a moment and said, "Kallen, take all the Dark Servants and scatter out to scout the enemy’s rear camps, see if they have already gathered all their forces."

As soon as Kane finished speaking, several black mists drilled out from the back of his hand: "Yes, Master."

Then, several black mists went to the resting place of their soldiers.

After finishing all this, Kane and Kreya returned to the region where the soldiers were, comforting those Spirits of Freedom and telling them the current situation.

Quietly waiting for the Dark Servants’ report.