Chapter 314: Chapter 314: The Appearance of Colored Magic Stones
The blizzard has started to sweep across the map.
The ground is covered with a thick layer of snow, and the cold wind whirls the snow around, nearly reducing the visible range to its limit.
On the now white ground, a mass of snow can be seen moving.
This is Kane and his team’s vehicle.
However, the vehicle is already completely covered by the snow.
Kane doesn’t bother to clear it away, because even if he does, in less than 10 seconds, it’ll be covered again.
Even if the snow is cleared, the heavy snowfall has already reduced the visible range to its minimum, making clearing unnecessary. Anyway, Yoyo decides the route, as surroundings are sensed by Magic Circuits.
Moreover, Yoyo can judge their position based on the vehicle speed, so the snow doesn’t affect him much.
At this moment, Lilulu is lying in Kreya’s arms, sound asleep on the car seat.
The cold weather outside, combined with the warm environment inside the vehicle, always induces drowsiness.
Influenced by Lilulu in her arms, Kreya also closes her eyes, nodding off from time to time.
At the back of the vehicle, there’s a spot specially made for Meizike, with a work platform surrounded by stabilizing gravity circuits.
These circuits keep that area stable even if the vehicle jolts.
But now, Meizike is also curled up in the corner, covered with a blanket, dozing off.
Even in this state, he can still devote part of his Spirit to watch Cotton Candy’s Eye of Magic Power in the sky, scanning the surroundings.
It seems to be some kind of magic power technique that can split a portion of consciousness without interrupting the main awareness’s rest.
However, in this condition, two hands of magic power cannot be freely controlled, and he uses this method to manage more limbs.
As for Kane and Longbei, they are quietly playing chess. Kane constructed the chess set using his Origin Skills.
"Checkmate!"
Faced with Kane’s words, Longbei didn’t answer but kept staring at Kane’s neck.
Pointing with his finger: "Kane, your neck."
"It’s useless, you’ve been checkmated, surrender already, no takebacks accepted."
"No, I’m serious, the magic stone on your neck has been partly filled."
Listening to Longbei, Kane immediately looks down at his chest.
Sure enough, the magic stone that was always hanging on his neck now has a silver section.
Kane takes the magic stone off, holding it in front of his eyes, with furrowed brows.
That’s strange.
The magic stone Kane always wears on his neck is empty, once it has color, he stores it in Space Equipment.
He is sure the magic stone on his neck was blank before entering the dungeon.
When did it get charged?
Kane starts recalling.
The only possible scenario he can think of is from the energy generated when eliminating that lion-men team.
Kane carefully recalls the dungeon information previously seen, and then directly retrieves it from Space Equipment to review it thoroughly.
Explorers killed in the dungeon, then disqualified upon exit, feel weak and exhausted for 3-5 days, then recover quickly.
A month ago, the Mist Council classified this dungeon as a permanent dungeon.
The report at that time showed that all who died inside the dungeon gave a portion of their Spirit and magic power to the dungeon as a form of reward.
Of course, these rewards are harmless, and explorers recover in a week at most.
Understood, he intercepted the portion intended for the dungeon.
Or rather, he took some interest from that portion.
No choice, after all, it’s reasonable to claim some reward since it was him who killed them.
Kane thought so, comforting himself.
After figuring out the problem, Kane turns his gaze to the chessboard.
"Tsk!"
With some disdain, he glances sideways at Longbei.
While Longbei’s eyes dart away, because he took back moves while Kane was thinking.
"Humph, still checkmated your king."
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Landmark architecture, the triangular tower, can still be seen from a distance within the snowstorm, as a tall black silhouette.
Their vehicle moving through the snow is extremely concealed due to the cover of the snowstorm; nearly impossible to detect unless from within 100 meters.
Of course, unless using magic detection methods.
"No magic reactions spotted around." Meizike says after scanning with Cotton Candy’s Eye of Magic Power from the sky.
As for traces of others visiting, that’s too demanding, any traces would disappear without a trace in less than half an hour during a snowstorm.
"Still need to be careful, I’ll scout ahead."
After speaking, Kane pulls a cloak from the Space Equipment and drapes it over himself, then fades into the shadows.
In the shadows, aided by Origin Skills and Spider Silk, he moves swiftly towards the triangular tower without leaving a trace, feet never touching the ground.
This triangular tower is constructed from a metal resembling copper and iron.
The bronze steel frame zigzags along the top, crossing densely, creating an irregular, strange aesthetic.
Below the base are structures built from copper-yellow bricks with three large doors on three sides.
After circling the triangular tower, Kane confirms there’s no one nearby, then quickly enters through one of the doors.
Inside is an empty space, the top is not sealed, directly exposing the tower’s metal bronze steel frame, where snowflakes constantly fall through the crisscrossing gaps.
As soon as Kane enters, a clock’s phantom immediately appears in the air, its hands pointing to 12 o’clock.
Kane quickly retreats, and once he exits the entrance, the clock phantom disappears.
It seems that phantom is the countdown to claiming this spot.
"Safe, you can come in."
Kane speaks to the ruby lapel pin on his collar.
After a while, Kreya and others step inside the tower.
The clock phantom in the center starts counting down, once it completes a circle, the triangular tower will become prominently noticeable, signaling to nearby individuals that the tower’s occupation time is halfway through.
It’s then when danger peaks.
Kane inspects the tower’s structure, strategizing where to set up their base.
They can’t exit through the doors, else the occupation time resets.
Ultimately, Kane decides to seal the base with a roof, adding a second floor to the tower’s bottom level, resting temporarily on the second floor.
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