3082 Mining Slave I
The person dropped the yellow gooey substance on my plate, and I moved on and sat in the place where my roommates were sitting.
This is early morning, and we are having an early lunch. After it, we are going to be sent too deep into the mine.
I haven’t slept properly all night. Thinking and worrying did not give me more than a few minutes of shut-eye.
“No matter how many times I ate it. I still felt like vomiting at every bite.” Said Jax and others nodded, including me.
This is really bad. The yellow substance is bad and so is the bread. It felt like the cook isn’t even trying to cook the meal. He just threw away everything in the pot and keep it on the heat, till it is completely cooked.
There are nutritious energies inside it if manipulated well. They could provide ten times more benefits than they are providing now.
“Thankfully, today wouldn’t be bad, since most of Ranya’s injuries had been here,” said Karta, the woman with a tail. “We could thank Michael for that,” said Rip. I smiled and continued to eat the disgusting meal.
Ranya recovered nearly whole through the night. Though she still had bandages covering her whole body.
Rim had said to keep them. If she had seen recovered, it might irk some people and I couldn’t agree more.
The young woman did not speak much, and I wouldn’t be if I had suffered what she had. Still, I couldn’t help but be fascinated by her, as she is an elf. I had read so much about her face.
It is a mythical to us.
We quickly finished our lunch and walked out of the cafeteria and directly went to the reporting station.
“You are quite early,” said the stone-skin man in front of the huge formation. I had noticed most of the people in the leading position here are from the stone-skinned race.
Jax said they all belong to the same family. The lobar family not only owns mines but also in the refinement business.
“We had to, boss. Yesterday, some of us had barely been able to finish our quota,” said Rim. “Good, work hard and you might earn your freedom, before time,” said the rock-skin man, with obvious mirth in his eyes.
The formation below our feet had lit at his command and we disappeared.
A moment later, I found myself alone deep underground, with five people from my room. Jax seemed to have gone to someone else, but nobody seemed surprised.
The mine stretched for tens of miles underground. The deeper you go, the more dangerous it will become, but also have more doras crystal.
I could feel the toxicity in the very air, and it is making very uncomfortable.
I controlled my emotions and turned to another stone skin person sitting behind a small rock table in front of me. It was a woman, and she seemed quite old and bored.
“You five will go to your usual spots, while you newbie will go to section 32,” she said and immediately, expressions of everybody changed.
While a map is projected in front of me from the collar. It is showing my current location and the destination I have to reach.
“What are you all waiting for, go!” she shouted, seeing us, not moving.
Hearing her shout, we scurried away. We had just moved when another batch of people appeared on the formation.
“Be careful. Section 32 is very dangerous, a lot of people have died there,” warned Ranya. It is the first time she spoke, without me speaking to her first.
“I will be careful,” I said. I am worried. They had told me the dangers this place had, from high toxins to monsters to doras burst, any of these things could kill me without a doubt.
A minute later, Karta took the turn to move to her section, and then Rim and the Gack, the man with the red gem on his forehead. The last one to leave me was Ranya. She waved as she walked toward her mine.
I waved back and walked toward my destination. It is a little farther and I could hear the sounds of hitting now and then; some people had come before us, and some might have stayed the night.
There are no restrictions on staying the night, but the next day, when one returns. One will need to produce the two day’s worth of quota.
Hun!
About forty minutes later, I reached section 32, and immediately, a surprise couldn’t help but appear on my face.
The toxic energy here is more than double than normal. Usually, such places have more doras crystals, but people avoid them like a plague.
Using the detection method, this dense toxicity is entered inside one, and nobody wants to happen, even for more crystals.
The toxic energy is dangerous, the more it entered inside you, the more harmful to you it will be.
The second method is useful, but unless you practice it to a very high degree. It will leave the toxins inside your body and weaken you slowly.
I stopped and looked at the map of section 32. It is huge, like all sections and I will be here till I till or escape. As it is big enough, that it will need a decade or even centuries to mine it all.
I took out took a pickaxe from the storage and looked at it. The weapon is strong enough to be one of the most powerful artifacts of our world, but here, it is a simple mining tool.
I had also practiced both of the methods that come with the collection. The first one is called Jemans Detection. It is a method for Doras crystals.
The second method is Hivers Refinement. It is technically a body refinement method to use toxins to refine the body.
Though, it only does that when one practices it with all forty-nine circulations, which also expels the toxins.
I had to use the power clone to comprehend the method in a single night. If I hadn’t, it would have taken me days.
The first method was simple. I had only needed a few hours with the help of my second clone.
Now, I am going to use it.
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My armor appeared on me, and I walked near the wall. As I did, I activated the detection method, and a few seconds later.
A wave released from my body, made of my energy, soul, and vitality, and soon, it came back with a response and as I expected; it brought the toxins back, along with the response.
I did not let the response come back to my body; I trapped it in my armor, along with the toxins I had brought.
For others, it might be hard to read the response without it touching their psyche directly, but I have no problem reading it through my armor.
As I had created a projection of my psych, in my armor, with the help of my seed.
I read the data and found nothing. No crystal, it disappointed me a little but did not surprise me.
If finding the daros crystal had been easy, it wouldn’t have been a struggle every day to finish the quota.