The blizzard continues to sweep across the world.
In the high sky where snowflakes are dancing, a mass of white clouds resembling misty snow can be seen swirling everywhere.
Beneath him rests a blue Eye of Magic Power.
In the cluster of giant rocks below.
A log-colored wooden cabin is built between two massive rocks, and because it is shielded by these rocks and the surrounding boulders, the house is not buried by the snow.
On the contrary, the accumulation of snow on both sides of the space has made their location even more concealed.
Clearly, the snow that has been falling for nearly two days is hindering the progress of the explorers.
Many explorers who are positioned deeper within the dungeon have almost all found sheltered spots to block the wind and snow, camping to rest.
Only those explorers who landed on the extreme outskirts of the map would be hurrying inward during these two days of snowstorm, to avoid being trapped in collapse zones when the map starts collapsing three days later, not even allowing them enough time to escape. Chapters fırst released on novel-fire.ɴet
Such scenarios are very common in dungeon explorations.
The source of such information is undoubtedly precise.
Outside the dungeon lies the Dwarves’ domain, and what is most abundant in the Dwarves’ domain? Of course, it’s the taverns scattered throughout the streets and alleys; when explorers die and exit the dungeon, the nearly week-long weakness leaves them idle and only able to pass the time in taverns. This is when they frequently criticize the dungeon’s collapse mechanism.
According to observers’ statistics, the explorers who die in collapses account for more than 20% of the fatalities in each exploration round.
Among these explorers, there are those who didn’t escape in time, were sabotaged by enemy explorers, fell into traps, or were too injured or weak to flee.
Looking at their current position, they haven’t reached the inner map yet, but at least they’re far from the edge, safe from the first round of collapsing.
On the third floor of the wooden cabin, Kane is covered with a blanket, holding a hot drink while quietly gazing at the blizzard outside the window.
He occasionally glances at the book beside him, looking utterly relaxed and at ease.
Meanwhile, a voice comes through the ruby lapel pin on his collar: "Kane, come down for dinner."
Hearing Kreya’s voice, Kane puts aside the book but still refuses to let go of the blanket around him.
He walks to the edge of the room wrapped in the blanket, presses a button next to a small space, and the whole space starts descending—yes, it’s indeed an elevator.
Being a mechanician, building an elevator with magic circuits in a wooden cabin he easily constructs feels quite reasonable, doesn’t it?
Because the range Kane can manage only extends 10 meters in radius, he can’t build the cabin too broadly, but he can certainly increase the height.
Thus, Kane built the cabin up to five stories.
The space height is constructed differently based on the body size of each teammate’s race.
The elevator stops on the second floor, just in time to pick up Longbei, who was also keen on building an elevator.
As soon as they reach the first floor, the aroma of delicious food hits their noses.
"What?" Kreya asks, looking at Kane standing just outside their open kitchen.
Kane doesn’t answer her question, instead staring intently at the apron-clad Kreya.
Hearing Kane’s compliment, Kreya’s lips curl up slightly before she shoos him away.
She’s grown immune to Kane’s occasional smiling compliments, no longer blushing or getting embarrassed over such trivialities.
What a pity, Kane thought.
Joining Kane at the dining table, watching Meizike intensely engaged in conversation with Lilu, he looks quite shocked.
The usually taciturn Meizike is now talking endlessly with Lilu?
Eavesdropping on their conversation, Kane finally breathes a sigh of relief—it’s about potion planting, of course.
When it involves Meizike’s main job, his words increase dramatically, reaching at least normal levels.
As for the trigger of their conversation, Kane knows quite a lot—Lilu had once used most of her mist coins to purchase a large Space Equipment capable of plant cultivation from the council.
You could think of it as a portable plantation.
Such equipment isn’t cheap, nearly costing them all the earnings collected from recent explorations.
The planting environment within the Space Equipment itself isn’t that great, failing to meet external conditions, but being a Little Fairy race, Lilu often interacts with plants, boasting world-class skills in planting.
Even though Lilu wasn’t born from plants but rather from a certain concept, she never neglected the traits of her race, improving the Space Equipment excellently.
Meizike had also wanted to purchase such Space Equipment, but he was well aware of its drawbacks. Seeing Lilu’s capability piqued his interest in making her a partner.
In the meantime, they exchange techniques and methods of various herb cultivating processes, which Lilu gladly obliges.
"Alright, let’s eat first," Kreya says after setting the table full of dishes, calling everyone over.
Lately, across Furnace Castle, thanks to Burton, Kreya’s culinary skills have improved significantly.
As everyone is eating, a commotion appears again in the high skies, accompanied by the appearance of icons during a kill.
"Huh? Why is our icon showing there?" Longbei asks, staring at the sky’s commotion with puzzlement.
Listening to Longbei, the group raises their heads to look.
On one side of the sky, instead of a few familiar team icons, there are ten.
The top row of icons belongs to Kane’s team, while below them appear icons of five people they haven’t seen before.
Next to their icons are displays of the team they had wiped out, a human brute squad, except two assassins managed to escape.
Such a display indicates that the two assassins were eliminated by the team beneath Kane’s icons.
This symbolizes a joint kill by two teams.
A day later, Kane and his team’s icons mysteriously appear in the sky once more.
"Those Mist Warriors must be mad, are they just hunting people the entire time since entering?"
Somewhere within the dungeon, a team notices Kane’s icon appearing again in the sky and can’t hold back a comment to their companions.
"Whether they’ve gone mad or not, they’re not to be messed with. If we encounter them, it’s best to avoid, let others with more power take care of them," their team leader says resignedly.