Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 653 - 575: Gold Privileges

A giant steel yacht swiftly sailed through the somewhat turbulent sea, its sharp bow slicing through the waves like a blade.

On the side of the yacht, a large lantern logo was painted, indicating it was Kane and his company's Lantern Ship.

However, the yacht's direction was quickly heading back to the port they had previously departed from.

It was now just after sunrise, with the gentle dawn sunlight touching the deck and the shimmering sea surface.

Reflections created a slightly glaring brilliance.

Yet, the yacht continued to race forward at a frenzied pace, and ahead, through the faint sea mist, the port along the coast was faintly visible.

They were about to reach their destination.

In Kane's cabin, Kane lay on Cotton Candy, floating in mid-air resting. This helped him avoid feeling the ship's rocking.

Personally, Kane had fairly high standards for rest.

"Master, the port is near."

Kane heard a gentle voice from the broadcast nearby and then opened his eyes.

He wobbled off Cotton Candy and went to the bathroom to freshen up.

After hearing Longbei and the others yesterday, Kane had been returning to the previous port at the fastest speed, having traveled an unnecessary extra day.

He had no idea that gold-level Explorers had such rights, or rather, only gold-level Explorers could enjoy this privilege. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Due to various reasons including but not limited to spatial instability, excessive energy fluctuations, and the long distance over the open sea, it was inconvenient to set up large teleportation arrays.

This meant that for all the southern islands, coming from other directions required long travel routes, and these were unavoidable issues.

After all, large teleportation arrays were meant for civilian use, and setting such cross-sea teleportation gates was extremely prone to accidents, beyond the endurance of ordinary people or copper-level Explorers.

Some reasonably serious accidents could even leave silver-level Explorers permanently disabled.

The Mist Council could not afford the risk of setting up such long-distance cross-sea teleportation gates.

But for those at the gold level, these concerns were trivial; their constitutions were strong enough to be immune to such accidents.

So gold-level individuals were actually capable of using personal teleportation arrays within the Mist Council or Explorer's House for long-distance teleportation.

Since no one would use such personal teleportation gates for long-distance teleportation, mostly just for convenience and speed.

Aside from gold-level Explorers who could ignore the intense pressure to perform ultra-long distance cross-sea teleportation.

Things like this, which don't entirely follow the rules but are somewhat like unwritten rules, aren't widely publicized.

And gold-level Explorers are not common, which is why Kane and the others, who only knew Burton, were completely unaware of this.

It was only after Longbei went bragging in the guild yesterday, mentioning to his brother that he had been promoted to gold level and was returning by yacht.

That Kane learned from Burton about this special privilege.

Thus, yesterday's scene occurred.

After freshening up, Kane came to the deck to find Kreya and the others already gazing at the nearby port.

As Kane joined them, the ship was slowly decelerating, preparing to dock.

"Forget it, let's ride Cotton Candy over there; the docking will take a while anyway," Kane said, seeing many other ships at the port and deciding to jump over directly.

This port wasn't large, and with so many ships, it was bound to have a queue for docking; too troublesome.

Hearing Kane's suggestion, everyone nodded. Since they could reach the shore quickly, no one wanted to keep waiting.

Then Cotton Candy expanded its body to the maximum, carrying everyone towards the shore.

Once airborne, Kane waved his hand, and under public scrutiny, many crew members watched as a yacht in sunlight gradually disappeared.

"Ghost Ship, I just saw the Ghost Ship!"

Such an event, along with the sudden departure of ships a few days prior.

Thus, Kane unknowingly left behind a legend here.

Upon landing, the group briskly headed towards the Explorer's House in this harbor city.

Being a harbor city, the Explorer's House was situated not far from the port.

The group quickly arrived there.

They saw a large ship-anchor-shaped building, displaying the flags of both the Explorers and the Mist Council.

"This must be it, let's go in," Kane said and entered through the main gate.

Inside, they found the Explorer's House, seeing that the number of Explorers seemed sparse.

This made sense; after all, it was a small harbor city. Though there was an Explorer's House, the surrounding dungeons were scarce, naturally resulting in fewer Explorers.

Kane and his party moved to the reception desk.

At the reception desk was a young woman with wheat-colored skin.

She asked Kane and the others as they approached, "How can I assist you?"

Kane and the others seemed unfamiliar, likely having just arrived as Explorers in this city.

Yet upon seeing the robots beside Kane, and noticing their equipment and aura, they seemed to be a powerful group of Explorers.

"I'd like to use the private teleportation array of the Explorer's House," Kane said.

Hearing this, the woman smiled politely and replied, "I'm sorry, but the private teleportation array of the Explorer's House is generally not open to the public. For teleportation needs, you can use the station nearby."

"We need to perform a cross-sea teleport," Kane replied.

"Cross-sea teleport?" the receptionist was surprised to hear this, then leaned slightly and said, "Please wait a moment."

With that, she turned and walked away briskly.

She naturally understood what cross-sea teleportation implied, and it was clearly beyond her authority to decide or handle this matter.

After a while, an ordinary-looking middle-aged man walked over.

Kane glanced at the man; he seemed to have the strength of the Silver Peak period.

The middle-aged man walked over, looked at Kane and his team, then extended his hand to shake: "Mr. Kane, it's a pleasure to meet you."

"You know us?" Kane was a bit surprised, as he didn't recall introducing himself.

"Haha, I often read magazines too, so I'm familiar with the name of the Mist Squad."

The middle-aged man said with a smile.

Anyone who is interested in that magazine might not know Kane and his team but would feel they look familiar.

He then turned serious and asked, "So Mr. Kane, are you planning to do a cross-sea teleportation?"

"Yes." Kane nodded.

"Then you should know the risks on the cross-sea ship, not everyone can endure it."

He remembered clearly that Kane and his team became famous a few months ago, not even a year.

It was said that at that time, Kane and his team had just reached the middle Silver stage; they shouldn't have advanced to gold so quickly.

Kane continued to nod: "We've already advanced to gold, so we should be able to handle the pressure of this teleportation, right?"

"You're already gold!" The middle-aged man suddenly exclaimed.

He couldn't help but exclaim, as it was indeed a bit exaggerated. Just over half a year ago, Kane and his team were still at the mid-Silver stage.

Even at the fastest speed, it shouldn't be this quick. They've only been through a few dungeons and have already advanced to gold.

"Alas." The middle-aged man, who has been stuck at Silver Peak and unable to advance, couldn't help but sigh.

If he hadn't been unable to advance, he wouldn't be here as the head of this Explorer's House.

Even though this position is quite good.

After adjusting his mindset, he smiled and said to Kane and his team, "As expected of the Mist Squad, since you have already advanced to gold, then naturally there's no problem, please follow me."

With that, he turned around, leading Kane and the others towards the interior of the Explorer's House.

"By the way, I haven't introduced myself yet, I'm Lokum, the head of this Explorer's House."

"Although you have advanced to gold and can conduct long-distance cross-sea teleportations, there are still some precautions that I need to explain to you."

"Even if you're gold, there's a noticeable discomfort during teleportation; these are normal signs of cross-sea teleportation."

"And... well... if it's your first time, please be mentally prepared."

Saying this, they arrived at a personal teleportation station, with the entire teleportation array being tri-form.

Three layers of arrays connected at the bottom, middle, and top, circulating with magic at different speeds and ratios.

A teleportation crystal stone hovered at the top, essential for advanced teleportation arrays.

Although the teleportation array seemed not small, it should be considering the body sizes of different races.

"Well then, please proceed one by one."

Hearing Lokum's words, Kane turned to his teammates and then said: "Longbei, you go first; I'll be the last one."

Hearing Kane's words, Longbei nodded: "Alright, I'll go up first."

"So, where is the teleportation location?" Lokum looked at Kane, then at Longbei standing on the teleportation array.

Longbei directly asked on the teleportation array: "Can we teleport directly to Lion City?"

Hearing Longbei's words, Lokum slid and checked on the crystal stone disc in his hand: "Let me see."

"No problem, it's possible, but..."

Longbei immediately said: "Then set it to Lion City."

Hearing this, Lokum turned to look at Kane.

"If possible, then to Lion City," Kane said.

Lokum turned back with a somewhat strange expression: "Alright then, since that's what you want."

Then he tapped on the crystal stone plate: "Setup complete, wish you a pleasant journey!"

With that, the triple arrays began to rotate, and the crystal stone at the top emitted light.

Longbei vanished instantly.

"Next one."

Meizike stepped up.

Subsequently, taking turns, each of them stepped onto the teleportation array and disappeared.

Finally, it was Kane's turn.

"Thank you, Lokum, you've been a great help," Kane said with a smile.

Lokum nodded with a smile: "It's my duty; do remember to visit again if you have a chance next time."

With that, he pressed the teleportation button.

Watching Kane vanish, Lokum couldn't help but mutter to himself: "Teleporting this far directly, they really won't get dizzy? Maybe that's just the Mist Squad for you."

As Kane was being teleported away, he felt his whole body being compressed wildly, like a noodle entering a long, narrow tube, flying quickly.

Then he felt himself being compressed from a noodle into a sphere and then stretched into a flat strip.

Finally, his whole body began to spin rapidly, becoming like clay, oddly-shaped.

No wonder it requires gold level.

Had Kane come during his Silver level, losing a limb would be considered lucky for him.