The ruin entrance was quite large.
There was space left over even with five people walking side by side with space between them. We took Jung Nam-boks team and moved forward.
The use of these guys is finding the road and luggage carriers.
I could carry the items and ores on my own so I left all the equipnt for every day life to those guys.
They were things like dried food or blankets and flashlights that were prepared just in case.
Even if they were thinking about sothing else, there was a limited number of things they could do.
They already saw Soo-ahs monstrous ability so they wouldnt be able to gather the courage to rebel.
No, if they did so then I would be thankful instead.
I can take their items and chase them away without being ntally burdened after all.
Them dying after leaving has nothing to do with at that point.
Now then. Move according to the assigned path. Co back within 30 minutes. Move out!
Yes sir!
At Soo-ahs words, Jang Moon-boks team scattered quickly scattered into the ruins.
The inside was quite dark and wide. We sent them on recon in groups of 2 so they will contact as soon as they find sothing.
If they unluckily activated a trap or sothing then I was thinking about using the Wound Cure potions since I had them.
But since they had experience as level 3 hunters they probably wouldnt die that easily.
It looks like people werent here for a long ti.
Han Joon-suk who was inspecting the interior said.
The shape of monsters were carved on the ceiling and walls.
The Black Tiger and Giant White Tiger we t were there and the giant monkeys and boar like monsters were there as well.
But wouldnt those guys take the thing they find and run away?
Cho Young-gu said. The helt he was wearing was lighting up the entire interior.
The peculiar part was that although the intensity of the light was strong it did not blind the eyes.
They will co out once I pat them down. (Kyle: pat them down here can also an kick the crotch. As it is the Soo-ah we all know and love both can work although terrifying.)
Soo-ah said as if saying dont worry. Pat them down you say, what era is this from.
Our team sat down and took a rest. After 30 minutes or so had passed the guys that went to recon returned one or two at a ti.
We did not find anything.
Clear. No enemies.
Its quiet.
There was no particular gain. No monster or the common traps existed.
The long tunnels were connected and sotis the recon groups t each other.
However, one group had still not returned. It was the team with Jang Moon-bok.
I was thinking that it was about ti to go find them so I started getting up when.
Ahhhh!
Jang Moon-boks scream could be heard.
As I turned to the tunnel and saw Jang Moon-bok and the other guy running here in a craze. Did they fish out sothing?
Hah. Huh!
Jang Moon-bok who arrived at the entrance collapsed on the ground as if rolling.
After steadying his breathing he started talking with a desperate voice.
Inside! Theres a living stone statue!
Stone statue?
It wasnt a new story. I had seen them in the Red Hole and stone statues were protecting this ruin as well after all.
Since the other paths didnt lead to anything that ant that this was the right one.
I asked just in case.
Did you activate sothing?
I just tried lightly touching it since there were two stone statues blocking the wide path. But those things started moving. I tried hitting it with my sword but I couldnt win at all so I ran away. Thankfully, it was slow.
Looks like its just a gatekeeper.
And the fact that such a thing exists ans that this guy found the right path.
All mbers carry the luggage and move out.
Us, us as well?
At Jang Moon-boks words Soo-ah opened her mouth.
Of course. Who else would carry our luggage?
Of course we should!
He shot up and carried the luggage on the ground. He had been trained well.
Once we arrived at the path Jang Moon-bok told us about, two 3 ter tall stone statues were blocking the path.
They looked like the four heavenly guardians that stood at the gate. The figure of them holding spears was pretty intimidating.
I tried looking at them through the manual.
Guardian (?) : ???
I thought that there was an error at first. However, it was the sa even after rebooting the manual.
It was the first ti there was an existence that the manual couldnt distinguish.
In the first place, the manual was a sothing that had the ability to extract information from a person or item that it saw for the first ti.
But to say that its an existence of unknown level and ability.
I made our mbers retreat and took out the Dancing Sword.
Jang Moon-boks mbers were level 3 hunters. It ant that these were at least above that.
I coated Aura Blade on the Dancing Blade and sent it flying.
The stone statues felt the threat and started moving. It looked like slow movents but it was exactly enough to deflect it with the spear.
Boom!
What?
The giant stone statue that was trying to deflect it blew up with incredible force as soon as it got hit by the sword.
The Dancing Sword that destroyed the first statue continued on and penetrated the second statue as well.
Boom!
Hah. This was more of a let down than I expected.
Soo-ah turned her head to look at Jang Moon-bok.
His head fell to the ground. They were eyes asking why he made them cautious about sothing that dies so easily.
It was that strong. Theres no need to bla them.
I grabbed the Dancing Sword that ca back and put it into the manual.
As I went closer to the stone statue, I could see an ore like thing. It was smaller than a normal ore.
Strengthening Stone (5) : Strengthens an item.
It was a Strengthening Stone that dropped in the Red Hole. It was only a mont that I wondered why this dropped here and found a second ore rolling around beside it.
Dummicyte (5) : Is a rare earth tal type ore. Able to obtain various rare elents by refining. Can be used as a material for combination.
This was a level 5 ore dummicyte. We destroyed two stone statues and both dropped ore type items.
100% drop rate. I wonder if we have good luck or if these stone statues are the special ones.
For now, I collected the ores while leaving my doubt.
After progressing a bit more we saw more stone statues blocking our way. This ti, there were three giant wolf like stone statues.
Guardian (?) : ???
The outer appearance was different but the na was the sa as expected.
The things slowly started moving. They got destroyed while they were still stone statues.
The dropped objects were level 4 Strengthening Stones and ores.
Whats this? Does this place drop ores no matter what?
Cho Young-gu said as he inspected the broken stone statue. Afterwards, we destroyed more stone statues that were on the path.
The Strengthening Stones that we got like that numbered five while the ores numbered ten.
This is pretty profitable?
The ores that we obtained until now were usually level 1 monazite and bastnacite.
They were good for upgrading the manual but they were too low leveled to be used for combination.
However, the high level ores were pouring out of the ruin.
After destroying stone statues like that and advancing quite a bit, a gigantic door appeared.
Getting closer, there was a hole that seed to be a place to put a hand into.
There was a lions head carved there and it seed like sothing that would be operated by putting a hand into it.
I called Edward.
Hey, put a hand in here.
I dont want to. Isnt that a wrist amputator no matter how you look at it. This.
Dont you have regeneration abilities?
I do have it.
Then theres nothing bad about it. It will regrow after getting severed anyway.
To say that theres nothing bad about getting my wrist severed. Are you really saying that? What do you think another persons wrist is?
I will give you a bonus for the risk.
Do I just have to put it in here?
Edward carefully inspected the lion figure and put his hand in. After groaning a bit his expression lit up.
I can feel sothing.
Once Edward pulled on sothing the door slowly started opening. There was no unfortunate incident of a wrist getting severed or sothing.
What is that. That expression that seems to think sothings a sha.
No, its nothing.
To think that it was really just a lever.
After waiting for the door to open, we slowly entered. The inside was dark but thanks to Cho Young-gus helt there was no problem inspecting.
Wow.
An exclamation escaped from Soo-ahs mouth. The gentle light radiated in the room where hundreds of stone statues were.
If a archeologist or artist saw this then it wouldnt be enough for them to rely talk of its history or beauty for an entire day.
However, to it all just looked like money.
The statues all started moving at the sa ti. If it wasnt us but a low level party then they would have felt like they had entered the door to hell.
However, to who was using the Dancing Sword coated with Aura Blade this mont was the most enjoyable in my life.
The Dancing Sword destroyed the stone statues as if blowing up balloons, looking like it was slicing the light inside the ruin.
Wow. It was doing it but this really was beyond my imagination.
The Dancing Sword just went around the place once and yet dozens of stone statues crumbled down. Soo-ah also held Thors Hamr and charged in. The ranged attackers also held their weapons to support.
I could hear the voice of Jang Moon-boks mbers from behind.
What do we do?
Just stay still and shut up. Do you really think you should do sothing while watching that?
True Big sis is amazing.
In terms of firepower the Dancing Sword was overwhelming. But in terms of flashiness, nobody could compare to Soo-ah who was moving as fast as a bolt of lightning and creating lightning.
In the large stone room, the lightning and sound of thunder could be heard endlessly.
Wow! Theres a Strengthening Stone here!
Soo-ah held up an ore and shouted.
I had no idea why a person that worked as a porter had so little cautiousness.
The Strengthening Stone was relatively okay but the other ores radiated radioactivity at the level of eunuch creators.
Theres one here too!
Here as well!
Here too!
Every ti a stone statue got destroyed a Strengthening Stone or ore dropped. I shouted at my team mbers.
Radioactivity cos out so all of you back away!
There was no way there would be a hunter that didnt know this but stupid humans were bound to exist anywhere.
Even with modern dical science it was impossible to treat the bodies of people affected by radioactivity.
It was not without reason that the percentage of people with cancer was ten tis higher for hunters compared to any other occupation.
Thats why one had to take care of themselves.
After destroying the several hundred stone statues, the ground was littered with broken debris and ores.
I looked through the area for ores and put them into the manual.
After sweeping them all in Soo-ah approached.
How many were there?
Hm. Strengthening Stone, about 100. The rest are all ores. The types are different but theres more than enough even after using them for what we need.
For now, we had an entire ten level 7 Strengthening Stones. What was a sha was that there were only seven level 7 ores. We could still create two items that were level 7 with those according to the combination formula though.
Below that was well, we have enough to create as many as we wanted.
It was enough to replace all the items my party mbers had.
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