Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 527 - 477: Rule Extraction

The next morning.

When Kane walked out of his room with sleepy eyes, he saw Kreya had already arrived in the living room along with Longbei and the others.

He went over and sat next to Kreya, picked up a piece of bread in front of him, and started eating. Then he asked Kreya beside him.

"Why are you here so early?"

Kreya replied, "I don’t know why, but this year the Kingdom has more affairs than usual, and my father and mother are extremely busy lately.

If it weren’t for our previous matters in the dungeon, I wouldn’t have seen the two of them at all after coming back. My mother also rushed overnight to the Royal Capital last night to deal with those piled-up matters."

Hearing Kreya’s reply, Kane nodded.

If unexpected factors are excluded, this situation likely means something big is about to happen.

So, what big events could be happening recently? It’s self-explanatory.

Besides, the Kingdom itself is not far from the World Border.

In fact, for the whole world, this Kingdom can be considered the border.

At this moment, Kane suddenly noticed some activity in the personal mail system inside his space equipment.

Reaching into the void, he took out a teleportation array disc and placed it on the table in front of him.

At this moment, the teleportation array disc was slightly glowing red, indicating that Kane and his group had new mail.

Seeing this, Kane said, "It might be a reply from Funa and the others."

With that, Kane grasped both sides of the array disc with his hands, infusing it with magic power.

The runes on the array in the middle of the disc gradually glowed with the influx of magic power, forming a teleportation array in the end.

As the array activated, several letters appeared above the disc.

Kane first picked up the topmost letter and began to read it.

The signature on it was from Burton.

"This is a letter from Burton," Kane said and then opened the envelope.

Everyone gathered around, wanting to see what Burton had written.

The letter stated that although Burton wanted to accept Kane and his group’s invitation, he had already retired and no longer participated in dungeon explorations, unsure of what help he could offer by joining their guild.

Because all the battle groups and guilds exist to explore dungeons, most do not have the fancy features of Kane Guild.

When Kane and the group sent the letter to Burton, they did not describe the specific functions of their guild, only informing him that they were forming a guild battle group and hoped he could join.

Reading this reply, Kane thought about it and then turned to ask them, "What’s the date today?"

Kreya thought about it and replied, "I think it’s the 23rd of the 14th month."

"14th month?" Kane was puzzled.

Though his soul was not native to this world, having been here for so long, even if he wasn’t sensitive to this world’s dates, he still knew.

Usually, it’s 12 months, with occasionally 13-month years every few years, so what’s up with the 14 months?

Hearing Kane’s confusion, Kreya looked at him strangely and said, "This year is a Mist Year; there are 15 months."

"Oh, that’s how it is."

Kane knew about Mist Years, happening every 10 years in the first year, but having crossed into this world for less than 10 years, he hadn’t experienced one yet.

Kane continued to check the remaining two letters.

As expected, they were from Amis and Funa.

What a surprise, their letters arrived so quickly since their teams weren’t exploring dungeons when they sent them.

He first opened the letter from Funa.

It wrote about what Kane had anticipated.

Funa and her group agreed to join the guild and asked Kane to set the time so they could come over quickly.

The other letter from Amis revealed different circumstances, not about them not joining the guild.

Amis and his group encountered Raphael’s team in the last dungeon.

The team that once experienced the Eternal Victory Battlefield with Kane’s group, initiating two encirclements against them.

They roughly guessed Kane and his group’s intentions to form their guild battle group and knew Amis was in contact with Kane.

After meeting Amis, they expressed their desire to join Kane’s future guild formation.

Since Amis’s group just finished exploring, they’re currently in the same tavern with Raphael’s team.

They were initially hesitant about informing Kane, but turned out Kane sent an invite for them to join the guild at this time, so they mentioned it incidentally.

Regarding this matter, Kane turned to his teammates.

After thinking for a while, Kreya said, "I’m actually quite in favor. I have some impression of that team and have crossed swords with their companions. They’re pretty strong."

The others also held a favorable opinion of the matter.

Even though that team organized two encirclements against them, logically speaking, they should be disliked.

But actually, those two large-scale encirclements organized by that team brought about the fame of Kane’s group, coinciding greatly with their thoughts at the time, an alternative form of assistance.

Moreover, Kane had fought with their team members twice, leaving quite an impression.

Among the silver tier, they were certainly among the top skilled ones.

Kane pondered for a moment, thinking, how could it be detrimental to them if this team joined the guild?

Frankly, he couldn’t see how these people could cause trouble, especially with the permission-enabled system functionality there.

Kane really couldn’t think of how, with malicious intent, they could infringe upon their interests in a guild with a systematic function.

Moreover, once they reach the gold period, they’ll certainly recruit more people, making it harder to evaluate incoming members. It’s better to bring them into the guild now.

As long as various functions and systems are well-integrated and reasonable, there’s no fear of such interest-harming incidents occurring.

After thinking for a while, Kane wrote a new letter, agreeing to allow Raphael and his team to join his guild.

He mentioned meeting in Sokayamas on the 26th of the 14th month, and suggested bringing along Raphael’s team.

He then wrote two more letters with the same time and location, sending them to Burton and Funa respectively.

After completing all this, it’s a rare moment of leisure, with no worries, able to rest quietly and do whatever he wants.

Thinking of this, Kane swapped out the skill stone in his skill grid again.

Magic power surged from his hand.

An eight-sided die appeared in his hand and, under the blessing of the angel’s apparition, became usable.

Looking at the die in Kane’s hand.

Kreya thought for a moment and said, "I’ll go to the guild hall to check on Finaris and do some room decorating."

After saying that, she placed her hand on her seal, recited a secret phrase, and disappeared from the grand hall.

"Lilulu is going too." After speaking, Lilulu also disappeared from the hall.

As for Longbei, he quietly left the room when the magic power appeared in Kane’s hand.

Kane looked at the remaining Meizike.

Meizike glanced at Kane’s gaze on him, then lowered his head to check the potion bottle in his hand, shook it at Kane, and entered his room.

"Tsk!"

Kane helplessly looked at the die in his hand and tossed it into the air.

He had actually figured out most of the rules of this die during this time.

Without expending magic power to make the die usable in advance.

The die’s energy automatically restores, allowing it to be used once a week.

The die basically hovers between one black and one red, sometimes two red points.

There won’t be moments of extreme joy or sorrow.

Especially with the Mist Badge, it’s mostly one red or two red, which are lucky outcomes.

But to roll extreme joy or sorrow requires the expenditure of magic power.

Under these conditions, using the die results in either extreme misfortune or extreme fortune.

Mostly it’s misfortune; Kane hasn’t rolled extreme fortune yet.

So as long as it’s used once a week, waiting for it to naturally recover is not an issue at all; it can entirely be treated as a consistent luck-enhancing skill.

As Kane contemplated, the die came to a stop, showing two red points on the upward face.

Once again, it proved Kane’s assumption and verification.

The reason he’s using this die is quite clear; he intends to extract a skill.

Once confirmed as lucky, Kane opened the [Book of Adventure] and turned to the page with the Extraction Array.

With his other hand, he retrieved the remaining silver magic stone and a piece of magic material imbued with rule attributes from the space equipment.

He placed his free hand onto the array.

[Use silver magic stone for skill extraction?]

[Yes][No]

"Yes"

[Magic material with rule attributes detected]

[If you wish to use it, please first toss the magic material into the array]

Kane picked up the jade plate styled as an altar base and put it into the magic array in front of him.

[Rule: Promotion]

[Skill extraction in progress...]

As the array in front slowly turned, the altar-like jade stone gradually transformed into magic powder of the same color, merging into the array.

After the material disappeared, the array continued to operate, and the silver magic stone in Kane’s hand also vanished, replaced by a metal piece.

Kane looked at the metal piece in his hand.

On it were runes resembling a simple altar base; perhaps this was the rune representing promotion.

He then checked its specific attributes.

[Name: Glory Promotion] (Unique)

[Category: Active Skill]

[Hue: Silver]

[Explanation: Expends magic power to promote a life unit in front.

Requirements for the promotion unit: The promoted must not be stronger than the user. There must be some connection between the promoted and the user.

Each life unit can only be promoted once at each level.]

[Introduction: A rule crafted by a group of arcanists comparable to gods. They researched and created this rule over countless time based on personal needs and thoughts, integrating numerous rule attributes from nature.]

Among the other details Kane could ignore, but the word written in brackets next to the skill name was crucial.

Unique.

The unique identifier in a game used to indicate that the skill is certainly top-tier.

Skills without a unique identifier aren’t necessarily non-top-tier, but those with it are definitely top-tier.

Unique skills cannot be duplicated or acquired by any means.

If, for any reason, this skill stone disappears, it won’t be obtainable again.

However, the unique identifier allows Kane to unreservedly use and enhance it, making it the priority upgrade skill at each level.

Although there are numerous restrictions on usage, the introduction clearly described its origins.

Absolutely strong without confusion.

The only aspect that’s perplexing and ambiguous is the promotion mechanism.

What kind of enhancement does promotion exactly provide? This needs immediate confirmation.

He sprang into action to test it right away.