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Chapter 124
I managed to clean a few more statues during that run until I arrived at a very particular place.
The area was filled with ruins, and the monsters there were humans, or at least they looked like humans. The clothes indicated a prehistoric technology as it was barely more than furs on their bodies, and they used stone weapons.
I managed to fight them without much trouble, but when I arrived at the statue, I was speechless.
That thing was so large that the small crystals could barely cover it. It was a vehicle, easily as large as a heavy-duty truck, the type that would pull semi on the highway. That eighteen wheeler was impressive, but it also left me with a lot of questions about what to expect from that.
As we started cleaning that statue, I observed the vehicle more and more, and somehow, I was certain I had seen this vehicle somewhere. It was only halfway through that I realized where I had seen this. It was a command vehicle, the type that would transform into a command center of strategy games.
Seeing this, I knew that this boss would be the first one I had to get rid of. The last thing I needed was the sudden alarm that an atomic bomb had been detected inside this dungeon ten minutes after the second phase had started. That sucker had to go immediately.
Seeing the ruins around it, I knew that I could not afford to let that boss to even produce one infantry unit or else I would lose a lot of girls trying to get them to leave the barricaded buildings.
After a short moment of thought, I decided not to risk it and destroy the buildings immediately. I needed a lot of explosives for it, and I was not really loaded with high density stones to create a lot of these. So, I ordered the girls to use the digging skill from the miner job.
I led the efforts and did the same, and thankfully, the logistics team inside my dungeon took the effort to transform the rocks we dug up into ores and stones. I then used the stones to create explosives.
That's when I noticed that the number of monsters was going down while we were digging up rocks. I had found a way to reduce their numbers without fighting them!
I knew that using my job skills consumed the chaotic magic in the air, but seeing it affect a dungeon in such ways was a surprise for me. Then, I had a sudden idea of how to do even more damage to the dungeon, but first, I needed to level about fifty buildings in preparation for the fight with that boss.
I filled the buildings with thousands of explosives, which wasn't particularly difficult with the help of hundreds of girls, and then we watched the show. I have to admit that when one of the buildings shot up like a rocket, I might have put too much of those nice dynamite sticks inside of it.
Still, the girls seemed to enjoy the scene.
After clearing the place and only leaving the boss in that place, we returned to the fox area.
The idea was to test out the fishing skill, too, so we went to the lake in that area.
As it turned out, that skill also created a lot of trouble for the dungeon because the numbers of the first phase went down with us fishing inside. However, even with lures and all, no ghost ships emerged from the waters, so there was some interference with my skills.
I realized that even with the use of nets, the results of fishing were slower than the digging skill, and since I needed more experience with my miner job, I ordered the change of skill use.
There were a few girls that complained, but I promised them that it would be worth it. The girls guarding the fox statue also participated, and I observed it for a while.
I saw how a few crystal shards grew on the statue, but after a few seconds, they simply broke, turned into ash, and disappeared. We were consuming the magic inside this dungeon faster than it could produce it. This was a great discovery.
The speed was nowhere close as hunting monsters, but if we could get the number of the first phase down to a few hundred and then use this method to get the final ones, it could be a viable solution. At the same time, using this method to get rid of unwanted monsters, like the magical foxes of this dungeon, was also an interesting option. Simply leaving them til the end and then slowly killing them with this method.
Suddenly, I had another idea. I was unable to gain experience points by fighting inside the dungeon, but what about this job?
I ordered my girls to continue digging and broke a few rocks, obtaining ores from them.
I then ordered the logistics team to create a portable furnace and put it in my inventory.
I carefully observed the experience bar of my miner job and started smelting the ores into ingots. Nothing. Then, I asked the logistics team to smelt a few of them. This time, my experience bar reacted.
There was something inside this dungeon that prevented me from obtaining points, but it didn't affect the girls outside the dungeon. This was an interesting discovery.
I asked the girls that were with me to continue to dig, but most of them weren't motivated anymore, so I had to use extreme measures to get them to follow my orders.
I stood in front of them and told them with all sincerity that they could claim all gems found inside the rocks if they agreed to do it. Needless to say that this message got them to do it.
The logistics team was suddenly overwhelmed by the amount of ores and stones that we were sending them. The gems stayed with us, but it didn't take too long until they started complaining that their inventory was overflowing with shiny rocks.
So, we gathered them in a large pile in our middle, and I let them continue that work. I spread my wings and flew around, observing the rest of the dungeons.
I saw how some of the statues had lost a lot of crystal shards, but I also noticed that none of the monsters that had already spawned were affected in any way by our actions.
This was also useful information. I temporarily stopped their tasks and ordered them to clean up any monsters in this dungeon before continuing the task of digging up gems.
My girls had their sights on the gems, I had another goal in mind.