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    Ka-nk!


    The loud voice continued to echo.


    I was now inside the mine dungeon.


    My hand held the pick very firmly. Then the muscles in my body began to contract. After lifting the pick high enough, I dropped the pick onto the magic stones in front of me.


    Ka-nk!


    A loud sound echoed out again.


    Sweat drenched my entire body as I continued to mine.


    Drip! Drip! Drip!


    One-two-three, drop after drop of sweat poured out of the pores of my skin. My sweat dripped onto the dungeon floor.


    I continued to hit the chunks of magic stone stuck to the dungeon wall using my pick.


    Along with my efforts in hitting the magic stones with the pick, the sweat on my body also flowed more and more.


    It wasn''t just me, the other ves were also doing the same thing. There were already many ves around me who were mining with picks in their hands.


    You could hear the effort they were putting in from the number of hard-hitting sounds they were making.


    With every loud crashing sound, the light from the magic stones alsoes out.


    In addition to the light moss that helps illuminate the dungeon, there was also light from a magic stone that gushed out and illuminated the entire dungeon. So, even without a shlight, the lighting here was very adequate.


    ng!


    The sharp tip of the pick in my hand struck the magic stones and made them shake slightly.


    If it''s just one hit, the magic stones won''t be cut right away. I have to do it several times if I want to cut the magic stones.


    Magic stones are the same as magic crystals.


    However, magic stones are used to refer to magic crystals that are obtained by mining from mine dungeons, while magic crystals are used for those obtained from killing monsters.


    However, the level of hardness between magic stones and magic crystals is the same.


    The hardness of magic stones was very hard. It was already amon story. The hardest mineral on earth, as far as I know, was diamond. And the hardness level of magic stones was also like that.


    Even though the level of strength possessed by the ves mining here is different from the strength of ordinary humans out there, but, we still have to try very hard just to mine a few magic stones.


    If diamonds can only be cut using other diamonds, then magic stones was same.


    Therefore, at the end of the pick that I and the other ves were held, there was a shard of magic stone applied.


    Of course, there are some cases where magic stones can be destroyed using external forces that exceed the durability limit of magic stones. But it is not easy to do so.


    For example, one would have to use a magic spell that consumes a lot of Mana, and then split the magic stones.


    Instead of using the hard way, Marquess Stronghold used ves as free mining tools.


    Therefore, it was inevitable that there would be some ves who wouldin. Especially if it was a new ve.


    One of the ves near me stopped mining. He looked right and left to see if there were any poor soldiers watching.


    When he saw that there were no poor soldiers, he let go of the pick in his hand so that the pick fell to the floor. He also dropped his butt to the floor and sat down just like that.


    "Hey, do you know why there are no monsters here? Isn''t this inside a dungeon?"


    He suddenly asked me.


    Unlike him, I was still mining.


    When I heard his question, I looked up as if I was thinking hard to find an answer.


    "Maybe because we''re still at the mouth of the dungeon?"


    Like I said, we weren''t currently mining too far into the mine dungeon.


    Even so, we were split into groups to mine in several ces at the mouth of the dungeon.


    That was the underlying reason why there were no poor soldiers here. Because they were watching elsewhere. Only asionally did they walk over to see if we were working properly or not.


    "Is that all?"


    "Another reason? Probably because the monsters in this ce are always cleared by the raid team."


    At least that''s what I heard from Bubble before.


    He said that every day there would always be a raid team consisting of magicians and warriors from outside who would attack the monsters inside here.


    Unexpectedly, the people I had been talking about showed up.


    The ves who had been busy mining magic stones stood still.


    They stared at the figures of the people who had juste from the entrance of the dungeon.


    This dungeon, from the mouth of the dungeon entrance to this ce, was very simr to an ordinary cave.


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    Just an ordinary cave.


    Most mine dungeons had no entrance. It was as if the mine dungeon was just a closed cave.


    This mine dungeon was the same. The entrance to this mine dungeon was also made manually. But, the inside of this dungeon had no trace of human intervention. Except for some magic stones that were mined.


    "Tsk! This ce still stinks as usual."


    "Just endure it for a while. How long are you going to keepining?"


    "I hope we finish our task soon!"


    I saw that there were a few people from them who came here. There were approximately ten people. There were men and women.


    Interestingly, they were all wearing veryplete equipment. On the bodies of some of them were full body armors that hugged almost all of their bodies.


    The light from their full body armor almost seemed to rival the light from the magic stones and light moss in this dungeon.


    In their hands were various weapons. Some held swords, shields, and magic staffs, and some held daggers. Theirposition as a team wasplete.


    Unmistakably, they were a party of adventurers who used to explore dungeons. There were those in charge of taking the position of Tank, Magician, and Swordsman, and there were those who held the position of Assassin.


    They were clearly an adventurer party under the Marquess Stronghold, not an adventurer party that was purely affiliated and working for the Adventurer''s Association.


    The one who was alwaysining was the one holding the sword at his waist. He was someone who filled the Attacker position as a Swordsman.


    "What are you looking at!? Get to work!"


    He shouted and scolded the ves.


    I also went back to pretending to mine while still asionally watching him.


    Swoosh!


    Suddenly he kicked a small pebble on the dungeon floor.


    The target he aimed at was the ve beside me who was still sitting. He didn''t have time to stand up when the party adventurer arrived.


    As a result, he was rewarded with a hard pebble kick to the temple. A red color burst out on his temple. Not because he was frowning at his temple, but because blood was dripping from it.


    "Kuh!"


    He only endured the pain. He then managed to stand up with difficulty and continued mining magic stones without daring toin.


    At least he didn''t fight back like a fool.


    After finishing taking care of the ve beside me, that person strangely walked up to me.


    At first, I thought he wasing to the ve beside me and was going to chew him up, but I was wrong.


    He was clearly looking at me. His mouth opened slightly as if he had just found the item he had been looking for.


    "Hmm. Are you the ve named Mesties?"


    "..."


    "Oh, seeing that you''re silent, it looks like I was right."


    I stopped mining.


    Putting the pick to the floor, I looked at him with a small smile. I tried toe up with the same expression when I was dealing with my boss at work.


    "Is there anything I can help you with?"


    "As per the information given to us, you look very conspicuouspared to the other ves. It was not difficult to identify you. As expected of a noble child."


    He smiled and looked at me, but then he added, "Oops! I meant former noble child since you have be a ve now. Isn''t that so?!"


    He covered his mouth as if he had blurted out inappropriate words. But, from the look in his eyes, I could already tell that he was insulting me.


    "Hohoho. Are you curious who gave us that information?"


    Actually, I wasn''t curious.


    I could already guess that he received the information about me from the two soldiers who came to the Nest of very with me from Marquess Stronghold''s castle.


    "Then, let''s wee the person who gave us the information about you!"


    Coming from behind the crowd of the adventurer party, there were two soldiers in sight.


    They appeared from the entrance of the dungeon.


    My guess was correct.


    They were the two soldiers who had escorted me to the Nest of very.


    When I activated Judgement Skill on both of them, I was able to find out their names. The two of them were Obud and Hory.


    However, what made me a little confused was that there was one more person who seemed to appear. I was familiar with his face. After a little effort, my brain managed to remember him.


    His name was Fidel, a rank B adventurer who I had fought in the Adventurer''s Association.