Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 656 - 578 Chapter New -

Today's Lion City has changed even more compared to yesterday.

A new, particularly distinctive building has appeared among the cityscape. Without much thought, it is undoubtedly the guild headquarters built by Kane and his group, a massive lantern-shaped structure surrounded by a circle of buildings.

After just one day, the entire city's residents knew that another guild had established a presence in their city.

For them, living mundane lives, this might as well be considered an event of interest.

For many ordinary citizens, their only knowledge of the Explorers is about the profession itself and the existence of dungeons.

They know that being an Explorer is a high-paying and high-risk profession, wielding power. The dungeon is a place where one can acquire substantial wealth and strength, yet it is extremely dangerous.

Things like the Explorer's Guild are only seen in news reports and magazines.

At most, it just adds another topic to their mealtime conversations, without any real change or impact on their lives.

They still need to work and live numbly in this city.

At the moment, the first floor of the lantern building remains in the style of a large tavern, similar to the Guild Hall.

It's not that Kane didn't want to decorate it differently, but almost all Guild Halls, except for those with specific restrictions on certain skills and professions, are in the style of taverns.

After all, Explorers are ultimately in a profession that battles for life, and there's always a chance of losing one's life in the next exploration.

Though they can't all be described as brutish ruffians, most are people driven by personal vendettas and are quite carefree, being called wanderers wouldn't be inaccurate.

To Explorers, perhaps the tavern is the place they are most familiar with and where they can relax and rest the most.

Few would oppose having the Guild Hall styled as a tavern.

However, the entire Lantern Guild headquarters is closed off and not open to the outside.

At this moment, the guild's door was pushed open, and Kane and Adoma walked in from outside.

Although the guild headquarters now had tables, chairs, various decorations, and lighting, there was no one stationed here.

After all, it was only fully built yesterday.

They all entered the Guild Hall, and Kane and Adoma came in from outside because they went to the Explorer's House to establish a battle group.

However, evidently, they were not successful. Recently, the Explorer's House in Lion City has been overly busy. People coming from other places as support have not been allocated yet.

Those qualified to process the battle group creation procedures for Kane are currently busy outside, so Kane needs to wait.

As expected, no matter where you go to process procedures, there's always time to wait.

"Close the guild door, let's head into the hall," Kane said as he went forward to close the guild headquarters' door.

Soon afterward, both disappeared inside the guild headquarters.

When they reappeared, they were in the Guild Hall, the true location of the Lantern Guild.

Walking out of the Teleportation Room, scenes of the Guild Hall came into view, with various members seated around tables and chairs, most notably members of the Knight Order.

Additionally, there was a new child in the hall, the son of the Koro Crocodile, who had been sent over by his mother in the morning, and later brought into the guild by Kane.

This chubby little fellow was quite polite and hadn't been spoiled rotten by his father.

Just hope that later today he doesn't use his newfound strength to accidentally injure his father severely.

Given the Koro Crocodile's strength, which is of Copper mid-level, he should still be able to manage his 5-year-old son.

Near the nearby Forging Workshop, the door was tightly shut, which was unavoidable. After all, the Blacksmith Steel Armor belonged to the Platinum Country. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

They should still be living a time-accelerated life in the Platinum Country right now.

Speaking of the Platinum Country, Kane vanished directly from the Guild Hall, not outside, but appeared in his personal space.

He lay directly on his personal cloud bed, which Kane specifically spent a Copper Magic Stone on, the Cotton Candy cloud bed.

Having gotten used to the Cotton Candy, switching back to a normal bed is indeed somewhat uncomfortable, fortunately, there's a cloud bed in the furniture selection just like the Cotton Candy one.

Simplifying the complicated can be difficult.

Lying on the bed, Kane opened the Book of Adventure.

He flipped directly to the last page, where the new chapter unlocked when Kane first gained control of the Platinum Country was located.

The chapter's name is [Territory] (Platinum Country).

The name itself represents the functionality of this chapter, which pertains to the dungeons Kane controls and various internal information within the Platinum Country.

The sections on this page are quite complex, consisting of large volumes of data, very reminiscent of some 4X games Kane had played before.

Most of it involves data related to the population, territory size, and other aspects concerning the territory.

Kane even understands why this chapter exists and on what basis it's statistically formed.

The chapter's data is entirely sourced from the Platinum Country that Kane controls, as well as the Platinum Crown previously worn on his head.

By mastering the crystals, Kane controlled the Platinum Country, making it his private dungeon, thus naturally inheriting its rights. With practice and learning, he could almost reach a creator god's level.

However, through the Platinum Crown, he could skip this process entirely.

Because of this, the Territory System could directly gather the necessary information and data through Kane's control, very comprehensively.

This new chapter acts as a tool, saving Kane from time-consuming calculations by directly providing results.

Kane thinks the new chapter should be incorporated as an extension within the guild, as its own chapter, its functionality feels somewhat too singular.

However, it's not without good functions. For instance, it directly listed some unique minerals for Kane, which Kane discussed with Longbei. Many minerals are unique to the outside world.

These can be considered the specialties of this Dungeon.

You can treat them as various Gourmet ingredients of the World Restaurant, and the Town Recall Scrolls of the Rogue Camp.

Kane strongly suspects that this camp should also have identification scrolls, but he doesn't know why they are rarely seen in the market.

These are the only two private Dungeons that Kane knows.

Nevertheless, the new chapter is not a so-called statistical data; it has a function, which is the only thing that can greatly enhance the territory.

Only this feature seems like something a new chapter should have.

The Rune Crystal System can provide various attribute buffs to aid the territory.

This should be a variation of the various buildings in the Territory System from past games.

When playing games, aren't there buildings that increase population, attack power, knowledge, and production?

All these buildings are now integrated into the Rune Crystal System.

However, the runes below are all question marks; not a single one is lit up, with a circle question mark next to it explaining the Rune Crystal System.

Clicking on it reveals that the so-called rune crystals function entirely under Kane's authority.

To unlock enhancements that can strengthen the territory, one must learn and master the rules more comprehensively, or master these authorities.

In other words, whether Kane or Kreya, as long as they learn and master the rules and proficiently use the authority, they can unlock the rune crystals.

Moreover, it's very clearly stated above that the rune crystals represent the current effect achievable with their authority. Even without them, they can apply such enhancements.

The rune crystals merely reduce some of their repetitive labor and unnecessary time expenditures.

Allowing these enhancements to permanently persist.

What makes Kane feel strange is not these systems, but how the entire chapter of the territory is very peculiar.

The entire chapter is built on the items Kane already possesses, merely simplifying processes and reducing time.

Unlike chapters like the Guild or Skill Extraction, which have nothing to do with Kane's capabilities.

Speaking of which, five days have passed since they cleared the Dungeon; how long until the Platinum Country is completely unsealed?

Thinking of this, Kane closed his eyes and began to focus his Spirit, to sense the current state of the Platinum Country.

Feeling the passage of time in the Platinum Country, in these five days, the time the Platinum Country has experienced has already exceeded nine years, about to step into the tenth year.

He could clearly feel the state of the Platinum Country at this moment, much better compared to when Kane and his group left five days ago.

Although it hasn't reached a very good level, it can be felt that in just these five days, the Platinum Country has recovered to a normal stage.

Restored to a normal world, with the fragments post-collapse appearing as they should.

Rather than before, it being world fragments akin to debris.

This indicates that the interior of the Platinum Country has fully restored to the state of the fragment when the world initially shattered.

All credit is due to the Mist's handiwork. Kane had previously slightly explored after breaking the Golden Bridge.

Even with the golden rain formed after the Golden Bridge shattered, to restore the entire Dungeon, apart from spending considerable time, it requires more effort in development.

That's why Kane and Meizike had initially agreed to restore the Capital and its surrounding areas.

Because having this piece of land is enough to nurture the remaining population, then they'll go on to maintain and improve other areas.

During this period, Longbei will undoubtedly be the most exhausted.

But who knew that in the end, to integrate into the Mist World, time acceleration would be necessary.

And during this time acceleration, the Mist conveniently solved the problem troubling Kane and his group.

The Mist is truly helpful.

At this moment, a message came to Kane's mind, a transmission from the Mist.

Kane immediately sat up straight and seriously started examining this transmitted information in his mind.

The main message is for Kane to prepare, as the process of time acceleration will be completed in one day's time.

The time expended within the Platinum Country under Kane's control is exactly over ten years.

Once the time acceleration ends tomorrow, this Dungeon will truly become Kane's, hoping that Kane will properly develop this Dungeon.

Then came the most important information.

Due to the special nature of this Dungeon, a relocation of the entrance location is required, or it needs to overlap with a spatial area.

Hope Kane considers carefully where to place the Dungeon's entrance location and overlapping spatial area.

The so-called entrance location and overlapping spatial area are the World Restaurant Kane and his group had visited.

Kane and his group personally experienced how advantageous it is to control the Dungeon's entrance location and overlapping area.

Indeed, it requires careful consideration.

As he pondered, Kane fell asleep directly on the Cloud Bed.

Constructing the guild base and the long-distance cross-sea teleportation had consumed too much of his Spirit.