Random Skills: Exploring Dungeons - Chapter 19
Chapter 19: A Normal Dungeon
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The Explorer’s Home.
Explorers’ Quarter.
A cozy two-story building. A room on the second floor was brightly lit.
Kane sat cross-legged on the bed in his pajamas. His gaze was fixed on the air, as if something in it attracted him.
Suddenly he looked attentive. He got out of bed and fumbled in his bag for a while, taking out the charging materials he had just bought today.
[Kurtz’s Soul Core]
[Charging Materials]
[Color: Copper]
[Attribute: Minor increase in magic stone energy]
[Description: The core condensed after Kurtz died]
He took off the pendant around his neck. The magic stone on it was only slightly coppery. Most of the rest was transparent.
He placed the magic stone on the soul core. It was silent and still.
The system notification suddenly sounded in his ears.
[It is unethical to take the spoils of others]
[If you need more loot, please team up to obtain it.]
What do you mean, immoral? I paid for this.
It seemed that spending money to buy materials to recharge his skills was unrealistic.
He had encountered this notification in his previous life when he was playing games. It was an official warning when he forgot to turn on the offline mode and turn on the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow to earn money.
So only the magic materials dropped monsters killed by me or my teammates could be charged?
Then the question was how to open this team system.
The games he had played in his previous life would automatically open the first connection.
Now that it was the real world, how could he set up a connection?
Forget it. Thinking about something without any clues is just troublesome.
Turn off the lights.
Sleep.
…
Hey, how do I set it up?
…
It was the busiest time of the day at the Explorer’s House.
New commissions were accepted and approved. Nonsensical commissions were tossed into the trash can.
Some new commissions were posted in categories on bulletin boards.
Beside the front desk was a magazine basket open to the public. On it were the latest newspapers and magazines issued by official organizations in various countries.
It was the morning of the first Friday of the month. It was time for the full update of the weekly magazine.
What? You said annuals. Even dogs don’t even read that kind of update.
As for why the dates in the other world were the same as in his previous life, who knew? Perhaps the person who compiled the dates was lazy.
Kane was sitting at the front desk reading today’s Glorious City Daily News.
The headline in the paper was a particularly bold headline. [Old Ending, New Beginning]
It was probably about the disappearance of the local special dungeon for newbies, but there was a new red-label special dungeon.
This was the Mist’s reward for the glorious city. Under the wise leadership of the City Lord, they would work hard to build a city.
What otherworldly capitalists.
At that moment, Adoma walked over, shaking her cute goat-horned head.
It was autumn, and there was a chill in the air.
She was wearing a white turtleneck sweater that covered her thighs.
The tight clothes had a diamond-shaped opening between the collarbone. The bottom corner of the diamond revealed a hint of cleavage.
Her lanky and slender legs were covered in a pair of coffee-colored stockings that were as smooth as chocolate. There was a hint of flesh on her thighs.
Looking up, Kane stared at the plate she was holding to her chest. It was his breakfast.
When Kane came over to read the newspaper just now, he happened to meet Adoma at work. Knowing that he had yet to eat, she volunteered to buy breakfast for him.
She said that he had just arrived and did not know what was delicious, so she would recommend something.
“Hehe, is it delicious?” She shook her cute head, and the accessories on her horns tinkled.
He watched as the woman inexplicably fawned over him.
“If you have something to say, just say it.” Kane was exasperated. “It’s embarrassing when you do that.”
Hearing Kane’s answer, she said excitedly, “Then can you tell me about your first time? I want to hear it. Hehe.”
“Fine. I’m free now.” As he ate, Kane began to tell her about his first time.
The experience of exploring the dungeon.
His gentle voice told the story at just the right pace.
When she heard about the danger, she couldn’t help but exclaim and ask what happened next.
Adoma’s support had stimulated Kane’s narrative. He became more engrossed.
As time passed, the explorers around them gradually realized that something was wrong.
Adoma might be a chatterbox, but she stopped at normal relationships with any male. Any attempt to go further would be ruthlessly rejected by her.
Coupled with her exquisite face and figure that made men hot, her heartwarming personality was very popular among the explorers of Sok Yamas.
When had these explorers ever seen her so intimate with a man?
The people around seemed to be doing their own things, but their attention was already on the two people who were flirting with each other.
Jealousy was in the air.
But Kane sensed nothing amiss.
As his story gradually came to an end, Adoma was coming to her senses.
“What’s your next target, Kane? Which dungeon?”
It was then that Kane remembered that he had come to the Explorer’s House so early for information about the Crystal Arena, not to tell stories.
Damn it, this woman has messed with my mind.
As expected, women would only disrupt my exploration of the dungeons.
Kane cleared his throat. “I’m preparing to attack the Crystal Arena in the next dungeon. Do you have detailed information on this?”
“So it’s this dungeon. Of course there is.” She nodded her head.
When it came to her professionalism, she suddenly sat up straight and became serious. She said in a clear tone, “The Crystal Arena is a very standard copper-colored dungeon.
The average time for an Explorer team to clear the level is about two months. Depending on their strength and targeted arrangements, the time to clear the level could be a month.”
Kane suddenly interrupted. “You said it takes an average of two months for a team of explorers to clear the level?”
An Explorer team usually consisted of 4-6 people. Of course, accidents were not ruled out.
The team’s configuration was a classic combination of Warrior, Mage, and Priest. It corresponded to a melee tank, a long-range attacker, and a support healer.
The fact that such a configuration required two months puzzled Kane.
“Of course it will take two months.” Adoma looked puzzled, wondering why Kane had questions like this.
Seeing her expression, Kane figured it out.
Right.
The fast clearing of the first two dungeons made him think that all copper-colored dungeons were like this.
Now that he thought about it, the first two were actually special cases.
With his Eagle Eyes and Spider Nest Weaver, Kane directly bypassed the large number of humanoid plants in the periphery and entered the core area to discover abnormal dead wood.
Then, with his high mobility, he defeated the leader monster.
And most explorers could only rely on discovering the weak fire of the humanoid plants on the periphery.
He slowly advanced towards the core area. He also had to be careful not to alarm many humanoid plants in case he faced a zombie tide.
The [Trade Path Ruins] was another small map, but it also contained a complete method of clearing a pass.
In addition, there were not many monsters and they were weak. The behavior patterns of the dungeon were extremely mechanical.
That was why it became a dungeon that was very suitable for newcomers’ first time. Such dungeons were extremely rare. In the copper-colored dungeons that on average took more than 10 years to dissipate, most of them dissipated in just four to five years.
