Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 712 - 628: Encounter in the Air

A large convoy composed of numerous vehicles was swiftly traveling across the plain, led by a huge motorhome.

Around the convoy, some hidden spheres could be seen, collecting information nearby and further afield at all times.

The sky appeared somewhat dark, not because evening was approaching, but due to the overcast clouds that were drizzling rain.

Raindrops fell on the soft soil, adding more vitality to the earth, causing the ground to become loose and slippery.

Raindrops hit the convoy's motorhome, making a thudding sound, but this did not affect their speed at all.

It only made the interior of the vehicle slightly noisy.

After all, even while resting inside the motorhome, the Explorers need to remain vigilant of their surroundings, so Kane did not provide these vehicles with excessive sound insulation.

The special structure of these vehicles ensured that even when driving quickly on slippery mud, the occupants would not feel much of a bump.

This wouldn't affect other conditions of comfort, of course, with careful adjustments and constructions.

Who would refuse to be more comfortable?

"Meizike, keep an eye on the surroundings, mainly to see if there are any large forces coming towards us."

Kane's voice came from the motorhome at the head.

Sitting beside him, Meizike nodded after listening, eyes closed.

They had left the wilderness and entered the intersection of various forces mentioned by the Dark Servant.

The situation was indeed as the Dark Servant had said—the borders along the way were full of spies.

Fortunately, Kane and his team were fast, and they had only been in the area half a day since the Wall of Mist opened.

Half a day was not enough for these forces to start fighting, indicating that they were still very cautious.

As Kane's convoy drove through the middle, they attracted the attention of almost all the sentinels.

Upon entering this area, Kane spotted many spies on the outer perimeter using reconnaissance spheres.

Not to mention the Eye of Magic Power floating high in the sky; there were always people observing them within a few kilometers.

Fortunately, Kane had signaled the Golden-level Explorers in the team to release their aura without restraint.

Whether or not these spies could sense the difference in strength, these auras at least informed them that this convoy was not to be approached. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

These auras were exceptionally strong and undisguised. Once close, one could feel the malice emanating from them, enough to make one's skin crawl by mere sensation.

This led to many spies keeping their distance from Kane's convoy, merely observing from afar.

Unless ordinary people approached, anyone with some strength could feel that once they sense the malice, there's no need to hide.

After Kane and his convoy traveled a distance, new spies from other forces would always appear.

It was evident that this area bordered numerous forces.

Kane and his convoy drove forward without any intention of stopping, seeming truly just to pass by.

This made these forces not want to take action.

The sheer aura made others' skin crawl, so why provoke them when there was no intent to attack?

About two days later.

Kane and his convoy finally left this area and entered a region beyond the mountain woods.

The convoy slowly stopped at the forest edge.

Then everyone in the vehicles got out.

Before them lay a forest that they knew was impossible for the vehicles to traverse.

"Looks like we have to walk through this forest and mountains," Shire said, fluttering the white wings on his back.

Rui Fei went up into the air, then glided down: "This area feels somewhat vast; I don't know how long it will take to walk through."

He had just flown up and couldn't see the end at a glance, indicating that it would take a considerable amount of time to cross the area.

This journey would inevitably lead to discomfort.

Hearing their conversation, Funa smiled and said, "Not necessarily, maybe there's another way."

"Do you know something?" Finaris asked from the side.

"I just said it's possible, not necessarily… Okay, it seems it's just as I said."

In the middle of speaking, Funa suddenly interrupted herself and gestured with her chin for everyone to look ahead.

Everyone turned to look, only to see Kane already using magic power on the flat ground ahead, creating a large machine.

A huge cone-shaped machine, rounded at the back like a bullet.

The overall length was about 80 meters.

While Kane was constructing this mechanical device, everyone gathered around.

Once Kane finished constructing, he clapped his hands and turned to everyone, saying, "Now, let's put away your vehicles. We'll cross this area from the sky at the fastest speed."

Everyone nodded and immediately went to their team's vehicles, placing them into the Space Equipment.

Then Kane opened the hatch outside the device in front of him, inside which seats for everyone had already been arranged.

"Alright, everyone, please enter in an orderly fashion. We'll fly over from above."

Hearing Kane's words, everyone walked in through the hatch one after another.

Once inside, they curiously looked around.

Then they found suitable seats and sat down. Once everyone sat, the steel plates on both sides became transparent, allowing them to see the external situation clearly.

Yu naturally went to the driver's position, continuing to pilot this aerial vehicle.

Once everyone was ready, Kane sat in his seat and took a deep breath.

"Take off."

With these words, the entire equipment trembled slightly, and finally, a downward nozzle appeared underneath, beginning to hover upwards.

Not long after, this airborne vehicle flew up to a height of 800 meters above the ground, stopping at this position.

The massive nozzle at the rear started gathering power, accompanied by a loud bang.

A powerful magic rocket erupted from the nozzle, propelling the vehicle forward at extreme speed.

Sitting inside, everyone felt a strong thrust sensation and then saw through the transparent panels that the entire vehicle was flying quickly through the air.

This was the airborne vehicle Kane had prepared long ago.

In the months preparing to explore the World Ring, Kane certainly couldn't spend all his time resting, constantly preparing various ideas for entering the World Ring.

How could such a flying vehicle not be well designed?

The reason for not using the airborne vehicle at the start was the uncertainty of encountering unknown threats in the air, which could leave them little means to counterattack.

After all, it carried guild members, and if the vehicle broke apart in the air, even if Kane could repair it, what would happen to those guild members falling down? Most of them were silver members and didn't have good flying capabilities.

However, to quickly traverse the mountainous forest ahead, they constructed it to enable rapid passage.

If Kane had used it before, he might have needed a heap of magic potions to drive it leaving this area.

But now, since Kane comprehended energy rules, the consumption of creating objects to utilize their intrinsic functions has been greatly reduced.

So now Kane's magic allows this airborne vehicle to fly and soar rapidly with ease.

The guild members in the rear seats curiously looked outside, having barely experienced the feeling of flight.

Kane looked at the scenery below through the probe beneath the flying equipment.

Sure enough, this mountainous forest was rather vast, even quickly traversing at an altitude of 800 meters wouldn't reveal its entirety.

Because it was leisurely driving, Kane leaned against his seat and closed his eyes to rest.

Time slowly passed.

Several hours later, they still hadn't passed through the area.

However, this was expected, considering the region was indeed large, as the map roughly indicated.

At this moment, the leisurely alarm sounded: "An unidentified object is approaching the aircraft rapidly."

Hearing the alarm from the leisurely device, Kane waved his hand and a display screen appeared in front of him.

The screen showed the outside area, where a small black dot rapidly approached from the backlit area.

Due to the sunlight, the group couldn't clearly see the object's specific shape, only a general outline.

Everyone behind also saw this scene.

Raphael's voice came over: "Do you need me to go outside to engage? In aerial combat, I still have quite an advantage."

"Not yet; if it indeed turns out to be unstoppable later, then send you out; it's not the time yet."

Among the team were several aerial combat experts.

For instance, the siblings Raphael and Shire, both skilled in aerial combat.

"Hold tight, there might be some turbulence."

As Kane said this, he waved his hand, and a safety belt appeared around everyone's body, firmly fastening them to the seats.

Then the rear nozzle increased the power of the magic flames, and the entire flying vehicle's speed suddenly increased, creating a strong thrust sensation on everyone's backs.

The powerful thrust propelled the entire vehicle forward at high speed.

The small black spot equally accelerated and then paralleled the slope, allowing the group to see its appearance.

It was a giant dragon-like creature.

However, this creature was sleek overall, with matte metal scales outside, and its slender tail and wings emitted red flames.

Its body resembled a fighter jet, able to match the vehicle's speed.

Moreover, it expressed no desire to attack, but rather flew rapidly ahead, maintaining a certain distance from the vehicle.

At this point, Hollhos, the captain of Hollhos's squad, looked at the dragon-like creature outside.

His eyes hinted at a magic glow, then suddenly said, "He seems to want to race us?"

Hollhos had dragon-like features, possessing a pair of red dragon horns on his head, and his ear lobes and neck area had dense red scales.

His hands and legs formed dragon-like claws, and he had a dragon's tail behind him.

Suddenly saying such words, it's because he sensed the intent the dragon-like creature outside conveyed.

Upon hearing this, Kane's lips curved up slightly.

"Interesting, a race, is it? Then let's go."

Subsequently, everyone felt an additional seatbelt, and nearby appeared handles to stabilize themselves.

"Everyone, hold tight."

Following Kane's words, through the transparent panels on the side, they could see two cylindrical objects appearing at the edge of the entire flying vehicle.

Then the two cylindrical objects similarly emitted conspicuous blue flames.

The whole vehicle's speed doubled, pinning everyone tightly against their seats.

Seeing the suddenly accelerating vehicle, the giant creature beside it likewise increased its power, the emitted red flames leaving a red trail in the air.

Striving to chase the flying vehicle.