Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 671 - 593 Rules

A crescent moon hung in the sky, adorned by the curtain of the Star River.

A magnificent palace floated in mid-air, drawing clear streams from the lake below, flowing like a soaring serpent in the sky before cascading into a small river within the palace.

The river continued its journey and cascaded down like a waterfall, returning to the lake below.

Inside the palace, the decor was simple yet elegant. In a plainly decorated room, Kane sat cross-legged on a soft bed.

At the moment, Kane's brow was furrowed, and tiny beads of sweat trickled down his face.

Around him were arcane runes appearing and disappearing, their flashing twists dizzying the mind.

Suddenly, the runes flashed as if extinguished lights and vanished.

Kane abruptly opened his eyes.

"Huff, huff."

He was somewhat breathless, seemingly uncomfortable from the previous scene.

Indeed, comprehending rules was not as simple as he thought. Earlier, he had underestimated this and lost his sense of awe.

At first, when Kane began exploring the rules, it took him most of the day to comprehend them and get started, leading him to believe that rules were simple to grasp with time.

However, now he understood it was not so simple.

The Mist granted a chance each time, with 24 hours to comprehend the rules, which was actually a protective limitation for the Explorer.

As Kane entered the fold and truly delved into learning and mastering the rules, he realized their complexity.

Comprehending rules is not easy, requiring gradual cycles, and each bit of comprehension must be fully mastered and absorbed.

If too much understanding is stacked without letting the body and soul absorb and master it fully, it will affect future comprehension and put a heavy strain on the body and soul.

In such moments, forcing comprehension might even damage the body and soul.

The effects and efficiency of comprehension would be greatly reduced, possibly damaging the special senses used by those at the gold level to perceive rules.

It's like eating a lot without digesting it, not turning it into nutrients needed by the body, just storing it in the stomach.

The next meal would bring a feeling of fullness, making eating undesirable, and forcing overeating will only harm the body.

Though the two are vastly different, the analogy is quite evident.

Now, Kane was as though he had eaten too much, not yet digesting what's in his stomach to turn it into body nutrients, yet thought of continuing to eat more.

Ordinary explorers don't have this trouble, as even with fast exploration, they can't explore more than a few Golden Dungeons in a year.

With only two or three opportunities for rule comprehension, the duration between them allows for complete digestion of the comprehended rules.

Kane's situation was one of fortunate troubles.

Others didn't have enough to eat, whereas he had too much to finish.

Given this situation, Kane had to temporarily abandon the idea of quickly comprehending the rules, taking one step at a time to thoroughly master and engrave the rules into his soul and body before proceeding to the next.

Thinking this through, Kane got up and headed towards a training ground outside the Platinum Palace.

The quickest way to deepen already comprehended rules, engraving them into the soul and body, was to use them, transforming them into instinct and mastering them better.

For Kane and his kind, as Explorers, it was essential to have a good training ground around the palace.

Upon reaching the training ground, he found someone already training there.

It was midnight after all, although resting or not didn't mean much to a gold-level Explorer.

Kane looked over and saw an intelligent assistant, similar to Amis, shooting round balls towards the center of the arena.

Arrows forged from black and white flames shot towards the randomly airborne balls.

The balls hit by the flames were not burnt away but just wrapped in a layer of black and white flames.

This was Kreya's black and white flames, which could scorch either the soul or the body at her will.

Sensing someone's arrival, Kreya turned her head, and saw Kane approaching the training ground.

"Kane? Aren't you resting?"

Kane shook his head and asked Kreya, "Did you also encounter the issue of excess rule comprehension?"

"It seems you did too," Kreya said with a smile.

"In that case, let's have a duel. Let me see if your skills have improved lately." Kreya said with a laugh, then took out a Long Spear from her Space Equipment and tossed it towards Kane.

Kane jumped, catching the Long Spear, and swung it around.

"Alright, no problem, let's begin," he said.

With these words, Kane stepped hard on the ground, launching himself like a sword swiftly towards Kreya.

Kreya's hands also produced a Double-Edged Sword, and with all four legs exerting force, she charged towards Kane without hesitation.

"Ding!"

......

In the early morning, sunlight rose from the cliffs at the edge of the sky.

Straight light shone into the training field from the side.

At the edge of the training field, a carpet was laid out, and Kane lay on it with his head resting on Kreya's horse back.

A mechanical sphere with intricate structures floated in front of Kane, surrounded by complex floating machinery, constructed by Kane himself, which was being modified.

Kreya was holding a thick book, flipping through it.

The two had a night-long spar the previous night, stopping only when dawn broke.

Although it wasn't a life or death match, they both put in considerable effort, and such a duel certainly sped up their grasp of the rules.

After all, halfway through, they each started using skills related to the rules.

"It's finished!"

Kane bounced up, looked at the mechanical sphere in front of him, and said happily.

"Does that mean you can now complete your previous concept?" Kreya turned her head and asked after hearing Kane's words.

Hugging the mechanical sphere in his arms, Kane nodded. What he was holding was the first constructed intelligent core, Lamp.

"Lamp, enter self-check mode."

With Kane's voice command, the mechanical sphere Lamp started emitting the sound of precise mechanical operations.

The mechanical sound ceased, and Lamp's voice emerged: "Quality check complete, functions normal, energy storage at 97%."

Hearing Lamp's voice, Kane nodded with satisfaction.

"Let's go to the guild."

Saying this, Kane pulled Kreya up, and they both vanished from sight.

Left behind was Cotton Candy, bewildered, extending a mechanical arm to scratch its head.

At this time, a cloud with a face floated down from the sky. Cotton Candy, with a helpless expression, carried Cotton Candy away.

When they appeared in the Guild Hall, as usual, they first went to the bar to have a meal. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

They met Amis and others again, but seeing their relaxed expressions now, it seemed they had cleared the dungeon.

Amis looked at the two and asked, "Has the guild battle group been established? Even the base is built."

Saying this, Amis waved the magazine in his hand. Today was their first free time, so they took the latest magazine from the reception.

"It's already established, but we haven't officially announced the recruitment yet." Kane nodded and said.

"But we've already informed Adoma, maybe the recruitment will officially start tomorrow or the day after."

After speaking, Kane turned to Amis and the others and said, "You can now send invitations to those explorers you think are good, inviting them to Lion City for interviews."

After listening to Kane's words, Amis nodded, "No problem, we're preparing to return too."

"Aren't you planning to continue exploring? There's still some time before the World Ring opens."

Amis shook his head and said, "Before the World Ring opens, we definitely won't have the chance to advance to Gold. It's better to come back and prepare more for the World Ring."

Hearing Amis' words, Kane thought for a moment and realized he was indeed right.

For exploring the World Ring, there's not much difference between Silver Peak and Silver Bottleneck, as long as one hasn't advanced to Gold, the meaning isn't significant.

After all, entering the World Ring is a group operation, and while there are small teams, individual strength isn't as important, especially for Silver and Copper levels.

Seeing that Amis and others had successfully cleared and emerged, Kane suddenly thought of something and turned to ask Burton.

"Where is Raphael's team? Didn't they say they were conducting the Golden promotion exploration? Did they succeed?"

Burton shrugged when he heard Kane's question and said, "I saw members of their team a few days ago coming in for a dinner, saying they were preparing for the final strategy and wanted a good meal, but I don't know if they succeeded."

Why does Raphael always end up interfering at the strangest times?

Can't figure it out.

So now Raphael's team is at their final stage.

Kane wasn't too worried. For them, although the Silver dungeon is difficult, it isn't sufficient to cause fatality.

Explorers cherish their lives, and once they confirm there is no chance of victory, they will definitely use various tools to protect themselves and leave the dungeon.

Especially a team like Raphael's, preparing for the Gold promotion, would definitely have all sorts of tools prepared, and that's how Raphael is.

So Kane wasn't overly concerned either.

If Raphael's team successfully advances to Gold, Kane's battle group would essentially be among the top tier.

Few battle groups have more than five Gold members.

Most consist of about three people, and battle groups with even one Gold member are plentiful.

Kane's guild currently has Gold level members including Kane Squad, Burton, Bonona. Adoma has already advanced to Gold, and it's said that the Giant Wood Elder has advanced to Gold too, just staying by the Mother Tree.

Then there is Steel Armor undergoing retreat promotion in the Platinum Country, and Kane has seen that it should be fine.

Although the Platinum Country has many Gold members, since they can't participate in the World Ring battle, their role isn't too significant at this time.

And once Raphael's team advances to Gold, the guild would have 12 Gold-level forces available for exploring the World Ring.

They're definitely a force to be reckoned with.