The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 878

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The High Priestess suffered the most brutal beat down in the recent history of the Bara Dungeon.

Not only did it not manage to get a single major skill off, it was so thoroughly overwhelmed with pure brute force that it was on the defensive for the entire battle.

"Well, ladies and gentlemen. That is the whole run through the dungeon. In double time, as it were. Our total time is only a little over three hours, half what I had expected. Normally four hours is considered a top clear speed for practiced Guild Groups, so I must say that we had an exceptionally efficient day today.

Now, there are a few standards once we get out of the Dungeon. You are not obligated to tell others what you got, and that has turned to a general taboo on asking, unless you’re a vendor looking to purchase something.

But there is one more matter. The Darklight Host member has the ability to create mining illusions, and the mountain faces, as well as many of the ore nodules throughout the city, can be mined.

That is one of the primary reasons to do a full clear. If you don’t then the designated miners can’t work safely.

It is customary to split both the work and the reward in a pickup group if you do it at all. So, I have pickaxes in my inventory.

Today, we have a flying scout who can examine the city for anything we might have missed, like wandering Spiderlings. But I’ve done this a number of times now, and I am fairly certain that we got it all."

Thomas’ explanation caught them all off guard. They were going to mine out the dungeon? Only the crafting guilds did that, and none of them saw much benefit in spending hours gathering what was an abundant resource here in Bara City.

Karl and Little Butterfly both sent out a team of Dwarves with pickaxes, two dozen illusions each, with instructions to gather all the ore and gems.

The others laughed as they saw the small army headed into the dungeon, with a few starting work only metres away, where a node of ore was growing from the ground behind a tree - sized mushroom.

"I will pile it here if we want to split it. It’s just extra materials for our Guild’s Grandmaster Elemental Smith." Karl offered.

The others shook their heads. "Don’t worry about it. You have the Dungeon Pass, and that already saved us as much as selling those ores will gain. Keep them for your workers, we won’t begrudge you that. Especially when you have so many summoned miners to gather it."

"The amount of ore varies from run to run, and it doesn’t always appear at the same spots, unlike the basic dungeon features and the enemies, which always appear in the same locations." Thomas explained to Karl as the illusions spread and began piling up the ore in Cara’s space with the other loot.

"That explains why a group of Dwarves didn’t go straight to a specific spot for the most valuable nodules." Karl realized.

Thomas sighed. "Some stereotypes never fade, do they?"

Karl laughed. "Don’t think too deeply about it. I grew up in the Lithium mines, and spent most of my childhood deep underground. I know that the appeal of finding a particularly valuable vein, or a surprise inclusion."

The Dwarves all chuckled, and a few of them nodded in agreement. The Dwarves might get annoyed by being stereotyped as miners obsessed with ore and treasure, but it was still generally true.

The illusions spread quickly, and each nodule only took a minute or so to extract the surface ore from. Karl didn’t order them to dig deeper to follow the vein, and the butterfly didn’t know anything at all about mining, so they moved quickly through the dungeon, then vanished when the job was done.