Chapter 1866: Where To Find The Good Stuff
Chapter 1866: Where To Find The Good Stuff
The food came out for all the tables, the full dinner special for everyone with extras that the kitchen didn’t usually make, as the majority of the miners were cheapskates and didn’t want to pay the extra.
They tried to save every credit that they could to get upgraded equipment and skills.
So, they ordered the cheapest of everything except liquor.
"So, you got more than usual? Did you find anything new?" The miner across from them asked.
"Not new, we took the right tunnels, so it is the same route that we usually mine, but since the bosses were cleared, we got far more than usual, and we could mine faster without fear of being ambushed.
The Verite vein spawned again today, so we got a pretty good chunk of it.
Likely enough to make two sets of armour."
Karl frowned. Wasn’t Verite the green magical ore? He had something close to an entire hill full of it, the Dryads had cleared out an entire vein of it.
"Why don’t we take a different route next time? You can mine different sections, and see if you get something better than your usual route. Worst-case scenario, it’s just one week, and you can switch back the week after," Karl offered.
"Did you get anything particularly valuable?"
Karl shrugged. "I’m not good with valuations, but I got a fair bit of the Verite Ore, a variety of elemental gems, and a rather large batch of fire elemental ore that I haven’t identified yet."
"Fire Elemental ore?"
Karl took a fist sized chunk out of Hawk’s space, and placed it on the table.
"Oh, that is good stuff. Where did you find it?"
Karl thought for a second. "It’s in the very back of the dungeon. Follow the tunnels past the large chamber with the azure water pond, then northwest and follow the downward sloping tunnel that crosses under the abandoned burrow."
The miners looked confused, and Karl wondered if he explained it poorly. But both Rae and Tian understood the spot that he meant, even though Tian hadn’t been there personally.
"Azure water pond?" The miner finally asked.
So that was the problem.
"If you take the forward route and keep yourself oriented in the same direction, just take whatever turn keeps you moving that way, you will end up at a dead end. Only, it’s not a dead end. There is a trap in the wall that leads to a circling tunnel.
Take that down a hundred metres, and then continue on the route, same direction as before.
You’ll get to the pond in fifty metres, just ahead of the exit."
"How did you even find that?"
Karl laughed. "We spend one of the summoned spiders down the trap tunnel to see what was below it, since they can climb back up. There is a bunch more dungeon down there, and it links back up with the main dungeon sections on the far left of the dungeon.
The portion that you have to go past the broken statue room to get to."
"Oh, now I know where you went. There is some good stuff in that statue room. The problem is that there is almost always a boss near there, and if you start digging, it pulls them to you."
"Yeah, that will happen. We found the Elemental boss not far from there. If we had stopped to mine in that room, it would have grabbed him for certain. But if you mine anywhere in the region, it will pull that boss.
It’s an Earth Golem. The vibrations are enough to tell it that there are intruders in the dungeon, it doesn’t have to see you or anything like that.
The worm is worse. It has the same sort of sense for vibration, but it’s also very sensitive to mana fluctuations, since it doesn’t have any traditional senses we would expect. There is no sight for it to be fooled by illusions, no sense of smell, no traditional hearing.
But if you want to confuse the worm, you can set off a mana bomb in its mouth. That will have an effect like blinding it, as the mana fluctuations will be so intense in its vicinity that it won’t be able to sense anyone else."
The Miners nodded. "We use Arcane Element grenades. Single use magical items, but they distract the boss for over a minute while the teams escape."
Karl nodded. "That sounds like an expensive escape. Fortunately, I have a skill that can do the same thing. But I also had the team to take out the boss, so we didn’t have to use it that way today, and the distraction technique was just to help get the team in place.
The worm isn’t all that smart, and if it can’t properly sense the team around it, most of its attacks will be flailing ones toward the last thing that hit it."
The teams nodded. The worm boss wasn’t known for actually killing the teams that it ran into. But you couldn’t kill it, and it would collapse the tunnels around you as it burrowed to attack.
The only way to stop it doing that was to stay and fight it, but if you did that, the other two bosses would be attracted by the vibrations and noise of the fight.
There really wasn’t a good way to deal with it except for massive levels of damage output.
"How did you even keep them from grouping up and doing more damage than the healers could deal with?" One of the other miners asked.
Karl winked at him. "Trade secret. If everyone knew, who would call us to help them out with the bosses? It’s a pretty lucrative way to make money, you know."
The members of the Yizimon Clan laughed. Of course, he wouldn’t give away the trick to taking down all three of the bosses with only ten members, most of whom weren’t even Peak Immortals.
But they still wanted to know, and they suspected that the Elders who went with them had a good idea that they would share with the Clan later.