Reincarnated with the Country System-Chapter 250: Dungeon Floor 4: The Vein

Belly Valley Ruins – 40 Hours After Hive Queen Elimination

Kain had seen a lot of fucked-up things in his life.

But this?

This was new.

The floor wasn't a garden. Wasn't a graveyard. It was a wound. A gaping, jagged gash in the world's flesh, stretching into the dark, pulsing with light.

Magic stones.

They jutted from the cavern walls like broken bones—some small, some the size of a man, glowing with colors too sharp for the eyes. Veins of raw arcane energy webbed through the tunnels, pulsing in slow, rhythmic waves, like a great beast breathing in its sleep. The cavern stretched out before them, deeper than their sensors could map in real time, the abyssal blackness punctuated only by the alien glow of the minerals embedded in the stone.

They had found a mine.

And mines meant money.

SYSTEM ALERT – Dungeon Resource Update

✔ Mana Quartz (Common) – Used in industrial spell matrices. ✔ Void Amber (Uncommon) – Absorbs energy, enhances shielding. ✔ Bloodstone (Rare) – Stores life force, used in high-tier healing artifacts. ✔ Etherium Core (Ultra-Rare) – Pure condensed magic. Practically priceless.

A fortune.

No. More than that. This was enough raw power to shift the balance of the entire war.

Kain's squad stood at the cavern's edge, silent, staring at billions of SC waiting to be torn from the earth.

His fingers tightened around his rifle.

"This shit just got complicated."

They could have left. Could have marked the site for later, called in the extraction teams, waited.

But waiting was for people who didn't understand war.

This was a dungeon. Unstable, unpredictable, alive. There was no guarantee it wouldn't shift, collapse, or consume itself before they had the chance to come back. If they wanted the magic stone, they had to take it now.

And worse?

Kain could feel it.

Something else was down here. Watching. Waiting.

He exhaled slowly, sending out a silent command through his neural link.

"New priority: Secure, extract, and defend. We're mining this place."

The Exo-Knights split into teams. Half on overwatch, weapons hot, scanning the cavern for hostiles. Their armor gleamed under the ambient glow of the mana-rich environment, sensor visors flashing as they locked onto movement in the distance.

Artificial Mages spread out, setting up arcane barriers at key points. Blue runes flared to life along the ground, forming shimmering walls of raw energy. Anything that wanted in would have to punch through a full defensive grid—no easy feat.

Seismic charges were placed at critical choke points. If the dungeon tried to seal them in, they'd blow their way out.

And then, the miners.

Industrial drone teams deployed, their mechanical limbs unfolding with a hiss of pneumatics. Autominers crawled from their containers, multi-limbed machines designed to crack stone, separate minerals, and refine raw material on-site.

Humans worked alongside them. Tech specialists, engineers, even some of the Knights—prying magic stone from the walls with plasma cutters and reinforced pickaxes.

The first chunks came free with ease. Raw Mana Quartz, veins of Void Amber—stones pulsing with ancient energy. They stuffed the ore into sealed containment crates, loading them onto extraction drones for transport.

Then the ground shifted.

Kain froze.

He knew that sound.

The dungeon was waking up.

The Resistance

"CONTACT!"

The first attack came from above.

Black shapes peeled from the cavern ceiling, their eyes glowing with stolen light.

SYSTEM ALERT – Dungeon Bestiary Updated

✔ Arcane Leeches (Level 50-60) – Feeds on raw magic. Drains power sources. ✔ Gem Hounds (Level 55-65) – Constructs made from the mine itself. Aggressive, pack-hunters. ✔ Shard Titan (Level 70 - Floor Guardian) – ???

Kain didn't hesitate.

"BURN THEM!"

The Artificial Mages shifted fire, launching pulses of pure arcane disruption into the air.

The Arcane Leeches shrieked, their bodies twisting as the energy shattered them mid-flight. They exploded into viscous, black sludge, their remains evaporating into the mana-rich air.

The Gem Hounds were worse.

They came from the walls, from the ground—born from the very stone they had been mining. Four-legged constructs of jagged crystal, eyes like burning gemstones, their bodies pulsing with an eerie, living glow.

They moved too fast.

An Exo-Knight was too slow.

A hound latched onto his chest, jaws of living rock crunching through ceramite armor.

"FUCK, GET IT OFF!"

Blood sprayed.

Kain didn't hesitate.

One shot.

A gauss round straight through the Knight's skull.

Mercy.

The cavern erupted into chaos.

Exo-Knights held the line, plasma bolts and mass-driver rounds tearing through the crystal hounds. Artificial Mages reinforced the barriers, creating kill zones of pure magical destruction. The miners kept working, because there was no stopping now.

One rule in war: you don't stop for the dead.

They kept pulling stone from the walls, stuffing it into containment crates, shoving it into drones.

A Gem Hound tore through the flank, ripping a tech's throat open.

His body hit the dirt, eyes wide and empty.

Another miner took his place.

The mission came first.

Then the cavern shook.

Not from gunfire.

Not from an attack.

Something worse.

The walls didn't just pulse now.

They split open.

And something stepped out.

A Titan.

Fifteen meters tall.

A body made of living crystal, veins of arcane fire pulsing beneath its surface.

Its face had no features—only a single, massive gem in the center of its head, radiating pure, concentrated malice.

It opened its arms.

And the world shattered.

The Titan's Wrath

Gravity warped.

Air cracked like glass.

Everything bent inward.

The Titan wasn't just fighting them—it was rewriting the laws of reality around itself.

Artificial Mages collapsed, their cores overloading in seconds.

Knights struggled to move, feet dragging against nothing, like time itself was failing.

Kain felt his lungs twist.

"FALL BACK!"

He didn't have time to think.

Only to act.

He slammed a command through his neural link, overriding the remaining Artificial Mages.

Full mana detonation.

All of them.

At once.

The Kill

The shockwave tore through the cavern.

Raw arcane destruction—a suicidal overload of power—slammed into the Titan's body.

Its form fractured.

Then it screamed.

The sound was not human.

Not anything.

Just pure agony.

Pure rage.

A dying god realizing it wasn't immortal anymore.

Its core shattered.

Its body crumbled.

And then it was gone.

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Mission Success

✔ Dungeon Floor 4 Cleared!

✔ Arcane Mine Secured!

✔ Total Extraction Estimate: 4.8 Billion SC

✔ Artifact Acquired: "Titan's Heart" (Contains a fragment of arcane singularity, purpose unknown).