My Stubborn Soul Card Follower-Chapter 545 - 417: Baris’s Token of Friendship (6K)_3
Actually, when it comes to blowing up mine tunnels, Shen Sui did it a thousand years earlier than Alice.
The mining system of "Dawn Link" is "inherited" from farming games like "Stardew Valley", and naturally, some mining operations from these games are "inherited" as well.
Using explosives in mining is one of the most basic operations.
To avoid the fatigue of repeatedly wielding mining tools, players often use bombs to blow up all the surrounding ore.
The ores on the upper levels of the Thousand-Year Mine had already been dug clean by adventurers and nearby Snowfield Tribe over the past thousand years, so Alice detonating the Self-destructive Puppet wasn’t for mining, but purely to help Laudon and his group escape.
With Laudon and two powerful Knights of Daylight opening the way, their journey to the Thousand-Year Mine was very smooth, and most of the teams they encountered along the way did not dare to provoke them.
However, when they reached the entrance of the Thousand-Year Mine, they encountered a crisis.
Logically speaking, with Laudon’s strength at the twelfth tier, he should be unhindered on the Ice Lake, since reaching the thirteenth tier essentially means being at the highest level of the Church, either a Saintess or the Pope.
But as luck would have it, Laudon ran into the only team with a thirteenth-tier powerhouse―the War God Church.
After the battle at Elm City, the War God Church lost their High Priest.
The newly appointed High Priest had no previous achievements and rose to position purely on strong strength, needing to quickly make some successful moves to prove his legitimacy.
Therefore, when he learned of the whereabouts of the Giant Crown, he set out without hesitation.
Recruiting the Giant Race for the Church as a combat force, in this tense environment among the Churches, obviously would be a grand achievement, and once completed, his position as High Priest would be exceedingly stable.
Thus, the War God Church’s team entering the Ice Lake this time was personally led by their new High Priest.
After the tenth tier, with each additional tier, the strength increase in direct confrontations becomes exponential, so in this direct encounter, Laudon had no chance of winning.
Laudon, also an experienced Knight, saw through the stakes at a glance, and without hesitation, led his team to retreat.
The War God High Priest noticed Laudon immediately and struck fiercely.
Laudon barely blocked this blow and protected Alice as they escaped into the Thousand-Year Mine behind them, while the two Knights of Daylight stayed behind to cover their retreat.
"We should split up," Laudon said with a clear mind, "his target is me, so he won’t trouble you."
The War God Church were battle enthusiasts; to track escaping enemies, their tracking techniques were extremely top-notch. Laudon wasn’t very confident he could shake them off, so he suggested they split up.
Alice always repaid kindness with kindness and grudges with revenge.
Seeing Laudon protect her, she naturally couldn’t let him take the risk alone.
So Alice detonated the Self-destructive Puppet in her ring, collapsing the entire upper level of the Thousand-Year Mine.
With the Dragon Scale as a teleport link, she wasn’t worried about getting out, her only concern might be for Laudon. But as a twelfth-tier Knight, Laudon had plenty of ways to get out too.
Along with collapsing the entrance, Alice also released a few Tracking Puppets and Eavesdropping Puppets to monitor the War God Church’s movements.
Similar to War God Balgas, the personnel of the War God Church weren’t that adept at Magic. Although they had some strong combat instincts, they couldn’t find the specific locations of Alice’s deployed puppets.
Alice wasn’t sure how long she could stall the War God Church, so the two decided to head deeper into the mine.
By this time, quite a few people had entered the Thousand-Year Mine.
The explosion on the upper level attracted their attention.
Alice and Laudon soon encountered those who had come to investigate.
Both didn’t hesitate much, directly dealing with these people.
"In the Thousand-Year Mine, there’s basically a Treasure Box on every level," Laudon said to Alice, "The bishops wouldn’t pay much mind to the Giant Crown, so the Giant Crown could be stored in any level’s Treasure Box."
"In such circumstances, we still have to find the Giant Crown?" Alice asked, puzzled. Laudon was still being hunted by the War God Church, and although she managed to delay them, they weren’t entirely without means to come down.
The simplest method was to dig directly inside.
From the information returned by the Miniature Puppets, they really intended to do that.
"Yes, that’s my mission," Laudon said very seriously, "As long as it’s a mission, it must be completed at all costs."
"Why does that sound so familiar?" Alice muttered.
Laudon squinted, smiled, and said: "Aren’t many Death Warriors like that?"
"Ah..." Alice didn’t dwell on the issue and instead asked, "But even if we find the Treasure Box, do we have a way to open it?"
Laudon fell silent.
"Um... Even if we can’t open the Treasure Box, do we still complete it at all costs?"
"Since there’s a precedent, there must be a way to open the Treasure Box." 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚
Sorry, I was the one who created that precedent.
And in every sense, it was Claude who technically opened the Treasure Box.
The area of the first-level mining cave wasn’t very large, and the two soon found the Treasure Box located in the corner.
