Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 718 - 634: The End

On the sea surface where light and darkness meet.

Cold and eerie auras clash with one another, making this stretch of sea drastically different from other areas.

The sea surface is covered in red, bloody fluid, which appears even more vivid under the golden sunlight.

On this red sea surface, a massive steel platform floats, upon which sit giant futuristic mechanical creations resembling turrets.

All the beams emanating from these muzzles are energy beams.

The long energy cannon muzzles of the turrets are already red-hot, with seawater splashing beneath them, instantly evaporating and emitting wisps of smoke upon contact with the barrels.

As the seawater evaporates, it leaves a black-red stain on the barrel.

This sea area seems more like blood mixed with seawater than seawater mixed with blood, causing the whole region to become viscous.

But no carnivorous fish roam here to forage, as a plethora of various dangerous auras densely overlap in this region.

The pervasive stench of blood fills the entire area.

Not long ago, a violent sea battle occurred here, and the large volume of blood in the seawater is the best evidence.

Now, however, apart from the waves sweeping blood and some giant pieces of flesh drifting forward, the area has quieted down.

Many enormous bodies have already sunk to the seabed, with some half-eaten corpses floating on the sea surface.

Kane pilots a mecha over ten meters high, wielding a crystal long spear, watching intently the sea beast in front of him from a few hundred meters away from the platform.

This sea beast is vastly different from those they just killed, with a size of about 30 meters or so.

Its overall shape resembles a dolphin, but its body is covered in chitinous armor, and its mouth is filled with sharp teeth.

There is a transparent part on its head and back, constantly emitting light.

It stares at Kane with blood-red eyes, not launching an attack.

It seems as if the deaths of those sea beasts in front of it have nothing to do with it.

Kane can sense intelligence in its gaze, and the Divine Martial Gaze sends warnings that this enemy is somewhat dangerous.

While it is of the golden level, this sea beast is worlds apart from the golden sea beasts just moments ago.

Those sea beasts seemed more like beast magic beasts, fighting purely with physical prowess and instinct.

The one in front of him is more akin to an intelligent creature, definitely mastering some rules; otherwise, it wouldn't exude such a sense of danger.

It may very well be the actual leader of the sea beast squad just now.

However, since it kept observing from the back without attacking, Kane and the others did not initiate an attack either, but engaged in a standoff.

Then a sharp sound emitted from the sea beast's mouth, resonating in everyone's ears.

Soon after, the message the sea beast wished to convey echoed in everyone's mind.

"Humans, do not approach or enter this sea area, or you will meet your doom; even the mist cannot save you."

After saying this, the sea beast did not give Kane and the others a chance to speak, silently sinking into the sea, returning to the dark sea area.

As for those exterminated by Kane and them, they had nothing to do with it.

Kane furrowed his brows in thought, meaning the gigantic monster seen earlier was indeed of a colorful level.

It likely has a contract with the mist, with an agreement not to act unless someone enters their territory, presumably such terms.

But after this battle and the previously transmitted probe information, Kane completely lost the desire to explore this sea area.

Now, he wishes to leave this sea area as quickly as possible, as for the situation in that dark sea area, forget it, those towering creatures are suffocating just to look at, let alone confront.

Piloting the mecha back onto the platform.

With the departure of this sea beast, the battle finally concluded.

The first battle upon entering the World Ring, both the guild members and Kane's party performed quite well.

Each team's healing professionals began treating the wounded.

After all, facing such large monsters, they suffered from varying degrees of injury.

Such huge bodies are easy to target and attack, but taking a couple of hits isn't a minor injury.

For instance, Longbei, who engaged the sea beast in close combat, had bruises and substantial fractures all over his body.

Never underestimate the physical prowess and strength of these sea beasts.

But before receiving Meizike's treatment, he was nearly as good as new.

Fortunately, although everyone bore more or fewer injuries, they weren't fatal.

Gnat's squad suffered the most severe injuries, considering their strength only recently solidified at the silver level.

Gnat, as the squad leader and defender, was the most seriously injured. One arm and one leg completely broken, and his forearm also suffered a comminuted fracture.

Faced with such injuries, their squad's healer and Finaris could not entirely restore him.

At this point, Meizike had to take the operation; he deployed his intelligent assistant, then used magic to create a sterile area, then commenced the operation on-site.

Meizike's intelligent assistant extended numerous tiny mechanical arms, precisely making incisions.

It took just over ten minutes to complete the full repair. At Gnat's deliberate request, two scars were left at the injury sites to serve as a warning.

Meanwhile, other healing professionals observed and learned on the side; such a live scenario was an excellent teaching opportunity.

Such injuries would fully recover in three or four days and not affect combat.

Afterwards, there were some injuries that needed light to moderate treatment.

Meizike treated the members while continuing long-distance reconnaissance through the Eye of Magic Power in the sky.

This place is indeed not very safe. Although there's no reinforcements behind, who knows if the enemy will continue to come and attack.

One cannot rely on others' words for safety.

Perhaps Kane and his group weren't taken out last time, so this time they might send more Sea Beasts.

Who knows if the Sea Beast just left because Kane and them have more people on their side.

Taking advantage of the members being treated.

Kane quickly donned the mecha for seabed operations.

The streamlined shell and various underwater propulsion devices, along with several large mechanical claws.

Directly plunged into the water.

After entering the water, he swiftly swam and dragged all those corpses into the Guild Hall.

Their bodies were covered in lethal wounds, floating in the ocean, staining it with blood, causing the surrounding vision to blur.

Kane had to activate Magic Vision for reconnaissance, as the magic power inside these Sea Beasts wouldn't dissipate instantly even after death.

These cannot be wasted; the immense bodies and relying solely on physical qualities to achieve gold and Silver surely mean they have many useful materials.

It's not an exaggeration to say that a golden-level Magic Beast is a treasure from head to toe, and in the outside world, such things are hard to come by.

The mechanical claws on his back grabbed these bodies and stored them in the guild warehouse, which was tremendously large. Kane temporarily sectioned off an area specifically to store these Sea Beast corpses.

When Kane completed this series of tasks and returned to the surface, the people on the platform had almost finished treating their injuries. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Kane immediately returned to the platform and dismissed the mecha.

Then he quickly transformed the surface platform back into the same ship as before, and under the careful steering, it swiftly sailed forward.

"Stay vigilant of your surroundings, hold on tightly, I am going to speed up, we need to quickly leave this area and reach a safe place."

As Kane finished speaking, everyone found something nearby to hold onto, stabilizing themselves, and stood on alert, prepared for combat.

More thrusters appeared at the back of the ship and balanced the front, and a Magic Array was used at the bow to reduce air resistance.

With blue flames emerging from the tail thrusters.

The tremendous inertia almost threw everyone off, and the hundred-meter-long ship cut through the sea like an arrow.

Leaving this area at an extremely fast speed.

......

They sailed for more than half a day, during which time the crew remained vigilant on deck, except for a few injured resting.

Kane had maneuvered out in a larger circle, only seeing that slightly dim sea area from afar.

Looking at the situation on the sea, Kane turned and said, "Everyone, go and rest. The enemy won't be coming for quite a while."

During this time, no enemies were spotted, and they had already left that previous area.

After hearing Kane's words, the guild members started returning to the cabin one by one, but many remained on deck to continue simple watchkeeping.

Some of the severely injured entered the Guild Hall directly; without proper recovery, they'd only be a burden in subsequent battles.

Then Kane equipped a large number of Intelligent Cores onto the underwater reconnaissance devices and deployed them.

These would conduct reconnaissance over a few kilometers around the ship, providing Kane and the others more reaction time in case of an enemy encroachment.

After doing all this, Kane finally conjured up a chair beside him and sat down to rest.

"Phew, exhausting." Kane's face was slightly pale, as such rapid advance had consumed much of his magic power.

However, he didn't use a potion to restore magic but closed his eyes to slowly recover.

"That Sea Beast wasn't ordinary; if it were any other ordinary Explorer, they might have perished in the depths." Kreya said beside him.

Kane nodded: "There were no reinforcements, so perhaps being able to survive these Sea Beasts' attacks was intended as a lesson for us, considering we may have offended others."

Fortunately for them, more than gold-level World Ring experts have signed contracts with the Mist, forbidding casual intervention.

It's evident this Mist World must have many such experts, given its enormously vast area.

But we should also be thankful these Sea Beasts that attacked weren't like Kane and his gold-level peers.

If these gold-level Sea Beasts each mastered a few rules, Kane and his group would have faced an arduous struggle.

It wouldn't have ended like this, with only some members being heavily injured and no casualties.

It seems there's a different promotion requirement between beasts without intelligence and those with wisdom at the gold level.

At this gold level, intelligent creatures are far stronger than these mindless Beasts.

But thinking closely, reaching the gold level seems improbable without intelligence, right?

These Sea Beasts felt like cultivated cannon fodder, and the Sea Beast warning Kane's group seemed like a normal gold-level creature.

Perhaps it was a Hero Commander unit.

To deploy dozens of gold-level cannon fodder, that sea area isn't ordinarily dangerous.

Kane directly made a crucial mark on the map, drawing a blood-red skull on it.

Warning others of the danger here.