Upon hearing Kane’s words, everyone turned to look at him.

Kane gazed at the ore in his hand, which he had taken from Longbei.

He raised his head to meet everyone’s gaze, and smiled mysteriously.

"Then let me show you a little performance."

With that, he gripped the ore tightly in his hand and closed his eyes.

He was analyzing the ore in his hand, not necessarily needing to understand it thoroughly, but needing to have a general impression of it.

At the very least, it must allow Kane to identify its characteristics among the surrounding materials.

Then, Kane opened his eyes, golden light flashing in his pupils.

Finally, he slowly bent down, kneeling on one knee, and pressed his right hand onto the cracked, dull earth beneath him.

Magic Power poured from his palm into the cracked soil fissures.

The ground showed a hint of activity.

It began to tremble slowly, then the shaking grew increasingly intense.

The whole ground began to quake violently, and the cracked earth, already full of fissures, started to develop large chasms.

The ground began to rise and fall.

However, under Kreya and their feet appeared a disc that lifted them, floating them in the air unaffected.

The massive cracks caused various rocks and dust to erupt like a fountain, enveloped by a hurricane, plunging the surroundings into almost complete darkness.

Rumble!

With a tremendous sound, a dragon formed from the ore in his hand soared out from the ground.

Carrying more debris and clumps of dirt.

Meanwhile, Kane extended his other free hand and conjured a massive cylindrical machine on site, its central energy furnace clearly visible, emitting a strong blue glow.

The ore-formed dragon swam upward into the entrance of the energy furnace, and the entire machine began to operate, with intense light emanating from the various energy pathways surrounding the central energy source.

And producing a humming noise.

At this moment, at the bottom of the machine, within a circular transparent container, one could see silvery-white liquid slowly dripping down.

Having done all this, Kane finally calmed down again, but the ore-formed dragon continued to slowly swim into the machine.

Previously, due to the ground collapsing and rising, Kreya and others were lifted into the air by a stone platform created by Kane and now jumped down one by one.

Looking at the massive machine in front of them, and Kane’s skill in manipulating the ore to pull it directly from the ground.

Kreya looked at Kane in amazement, "How did you do that? I’ve never seen you use it in battle before."

Upon hearing Kreya’s words, and looking at Longbei and the others, Kane casually grabbed a handful of sand and stone from the ground and shook it at them.

Then he performed a simple analysis and understanding of the sand in his hand, scattering it.

Magic Power dispersed from his hand, and under Kane’s control, the earth’s stone rose upward.

"The characteristic of Origin Skills is not very practical in combat. It requires a certain degree of element structure on the spot to be controllable. However, it seems like it might be a good feature in this scenario."

After speaking, he winked at everyone.

Seeing the ore dragon still swimming toward the machine, they nodded in agreement.

Then Kane turned to Longbei and said, "Do you want to take advantage of the time we’re waiting for the ore to smelt to search this area for any valuable stones?"

Longbei waved his hand, adopting a know-it-all attitude towards Kane’s suggestion.

"No, no, no. Although this fragment is not small, that’s about it.

In such a range, having a mercury ore vein is already pretty remarkable. For such minerals, the Earth Power it extracts is substantial. So even if there are minerals around, they are mostly not worth much, not worth spending the time and effort to find and excavate."

After hearing Longbei’s explanation, Kane shrugged and nodded.

After all, he is the expert in this field; follow the expert’s advice.

It’s enough for an outsider to ask casually; best not to get too involved in serious matters.

Didn’t take long.

As the hurricane roared, the tail of the ore dragon slowly entered the smelting machine.

The container below was also filled to the brim with silver liquid.

Mithril, such a precious mineral material, Kane had also researched, so he was not completely ignorant of such minerals.

The container below was specially made, completely sealed.

"A bountiful harvest!"

Kane slowly transformed the container into reality and stored it in the Guild’s warehouse, then dismantled the machine.

Clapping his hands, he turned to everyone and said, "This place doesn’t have much left to explore, let’s tag it as useless and leave."

Upon hearing this, Kreya turned to look at him, "Aren’t you going to wander around a bit more? What if we miss something valuable?"

Kane shook his head.

"We’ve almost reached the end; let’s just leave. Even if we miss something, it’s not meant for us, no need to force it."

Since the leader had made up his mind, Kreya and the others had no objections.

After all, there’s indeed nothing worth staying for here.

After all, it’s a desolate world.

Seeing everyone agree, Magic Power surged in Kane’s hands, and an Array appeared in his hand, twisting as Kane chanted.

The Array began to transform, eventually forming a shining Fog Ball.

When the Fog Ball took shape, Kane gently threw it.

The Fog Ball condensed and spun in the air, as if emitting some kind of signal.

Surrounding white mist surged like a tsunami, overwhelming everything.

The white fog quickly flooded over their ankles.

Under the crushing force of the white mist resembling a tsunami, the hurricane appeared powerless. Instantly enveloped within.

A tsunami-like mist pressed down from above Kane and his team, crashing towards them.

In less than a minute, the entire world was completely enveloped in white fog.

In that instant, it was as if they had returned to the boundless world of mist just outside the fog again.

"So this world fragment has been stripped away?" Longbei asked, looking at the limitless white fog.

"It seems so, who knows. Alright, let’s continue, let’s check out other places."

Then, everyone continued to twist and turn, beginning to walk within the mist.

Even though there were no paths, they turned left and right.

But beneath their feet lay an invisible path of mist.

"Hey, this looks similar too."

They had barely taken a few steps before discovering another entrance to a space.

Looking at the thin layer of fog in front of them, which had no difference from the surroundings.

Kane muttered to himself, "Are they really so close to each other?"

Saying this, Kane prepared to reach his hand through, but retracted it before he had fully reached through.

"What’s wrong?" Kreya keenly sensed something amiss. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"There’s danger, get ready for combat before we go in."

Kane frowned as he stared at the mist ahead.

Upon hearing Kane’s words, everyone became alert, entering a combat-ready state.

Longbei assumed the Titan form, growing to three meters tall, entering the mist ahead of everyone, with Kane and his team following closely behind.

"Ah! Oh! Eh eh eh!"

"What is that?"

Everyone remained vigilant, and as soon as they entered, a strange, piercing sound echoed in front of them.

A twisted shadow, filled with overwhelming malice, surged towards them.

Instinctively, Longbei smashed down the thunder hammer in his hand, charged with electricity.

Boom!

A peal of thunder erupted.

The blinding lightning flashed.

The twisted shadow instantly turned to dust, disappearing without a trace.

...

"Is that it, just gone?" Longbei asked, puzzled.

For besides this entity, indeed there was nothing around that posed any threat to them, even in perception.

Hearing Longbei’s words and seeing his inquisitive glance, Kane and his team shook their heads.

They too had found no other sources of danger aside from this entity.

"How odd, this thing is too weak, and why does this world appear on the brink of destruction?"

Kane remarked curiously, before observing the surroundings again.

Though this world fragment did not have the overwhelming hurricanes they had encountered before, it was still deathly silent, and the ground was pitch black.

The air was all gloomy, and across the sky was a large crack.

The group slightly relaxed their vigilance, beginning to wander in this area.

However, after only two hours, they circled around this world fragment.

"Such a small fragment, it’s about the same size as the copper dungeon."

Hearing Longbei’s words, Kane merely shrugged in resignation.

The piercing sharp sound echoed once more in everyone’s ears.

"It’s coming!"

Kane shouted, then swiftly gathered a spike beneath the suddenly appearing shadow, piercing upwards.

The spike penetrated straight through the entire shadow, yet it had no effect on the twisted shadow creature.

Its distorted sound emitted tendrils of black towards the team.

The first transparent steel wall Kane created was directly penetrated by the tendrils, not physically, but as if it was not affected by the steel wall a bit, passing right through.

Kreya and the others seemed to sense something as well, dodging to the side and attacking casually.

All their attacks pierced through the tendrils flying towards them, having no impact, as if they were attacking a phantom.

Only on Longbei’s shield, where it was wrapped with flashing lightning.

The black tendrils crashed into it and were immediately reduced to dust.

"Longbei, it’s up to you!"

Hearing Kane’s words, Longbei unhesitatingly put away his shield, forming a thunder hammer of gathered lightning, which he projected out.

The thunder hammer swiftly and accurately hit the black entity, exploding it into dust in a flash of lightning.

Watching the twisted shadow vanish again under the thunder.

"What is this thing, our attacks are ineffective, although it’s not very strong."

This shadow’s speed and other aspects seemed unimpressive.

Yet Kane and his team’s attacks seemed unable to inflict any damage on it, except for Longbei’s thunder, which seemed to entirely counter this creature, easily blasting it into dust with a casual strike.

Everyone turned their heads to see Longbei, frowning, deep in thought, as if he knew something.

"There seems to be a mention of this in Titan’s knowledge, but it’s very brief, let me recall."

Longbei said, continuing to frown deeply, beginning to recall and sift through the knowledge obtained from his bloodline.

Searching for a familiar feeling in memory, to understand this creature’s specifics.