Child of Destiny

Chapter 716: Underground Dungeon (Part 2): High Risk, High Reward

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After a few more moments of waiting, the other top elites of the Hand of Midas Trading Firm finally arrived.

”You are late!” said Tinker sharply while glaring at the hooded player walking towards him.

Hearing that, that player seemed to smirk at Tinker before refuting. ”You are talking as if you donʼt know why I am this late. If you didnʼt leave those pillars behind, then I will be the one to arrive here first.”

Black Hammer removed the hood of his cloak when he arrived in front of Tinker. ”Young Miss said to seal off the entire place while we are waiting for her arrival.”

Tinker looked at Black Hammer mockingly before replying. ”Do you think I donʼt know that? I already sent the others to scout the surroundings to look for the perfect location to set those pillars.”

Black Hammer ignored the look that he was getting from the Chief Engineer of the Firm before signaling to the players behind him. ”Did you hear that? Coordinate with the engineering department and set up isolation pillars!”

”Understood, Chief!” said the players behind Black Hammer in unison before scattering in every direction. And not long after, they joined the people under Tinkerʼs department and quickly started to do their jobs.

They took out a group of strange black metals from their respective inventories before assembling them and building a black pillar that was stuck deeply on the ground.

In the meantime, the engineers working with them were busy installing strange apparatuses beside those pillars before connecting them one after another.

Tinker and Black Hammer observed the work of their subordinates working near them before turning their attention back to each other.

”Letʼs go, Young Master Siegfried is already doing the initial investigation inside the dungeon,” said Tinker while leading Black Hammer.

Black Hammer didnʼt say anything this time and just quietly walked behind Tinker. He observed their surroundings while moving ahead and quickly discovered the corridor that they were taking did not have ordinary walls.

”Magic Mithril coated with liquified Mana Crystals? This is interesting! This place is really made to be an unbreakable hideout,” said Black Hammer after checking the walls for the corridor.

For someone like him, who was an experienced blacksmith within the game, identifying the materials of the walls of the corridor was pretty easy.

”This is a labyrinth-type dungeon with a lot of traps installed everywhere. Sneaking inside with a small group is pretty easy, but clearing the dungeon with a large group is pretty troublesome,” said Tinker without even turning his head.

”And the type of monsters inside?” asked Black Hammer out of curiosity.

”Tch!” Tinker clicked his tongue when he heard that before replying with a bitter tone. ”That is the most problematic part. We are not dealing with monsters this time.”

”The guards within this place were NPC guards with at least a Knight Rank. Moreover, we are getting Sin Points every time we kill each one of them,” he added heavily.

”Tsk! That is indeed a little problem. With the scale of this Open Dungeon, we will not have enough pardon cards to clear out the ʼRed Tagsʼ that we are going to get,” commented Black Hammer noddingly.

”No wonder the Young Miss summoned the experts stationed in the other kingdoms. That way, we donʼt need to care about the Sin Points,” he added after assessing their current situation.

Then Tinker quickly continued with an even heavier tone. ”But that is not the most problematic part that we discovered.”

The corner of Black Hammerʼs mouth suddenly twitched when he heard that tone. He was pretty familiar with Tinker. After all, they were already working with each other since the founding of the Hand of Midas Trading Firm. And from what he could remember, it was pretty uncommon for this guy to say that they were facing a ʼproblematic matterʼ.

Given that Tinker was admitting that this dungeon was something ʼproblematicʼ, Black Hammer could already tell that the situation was pretty serious.

Tinker sighed for a moment before saying. ”The dungeon has a pretty strange nature. Aside from the traps installed everywhere, there are some places in this dungeon where the guards can get some buff.”

”The Spawn Rate of the guards is pretty low which is pretty much a good thing. But to balance it out, those guards are gaining a considerable increase in their stats every time we kill a certain number of guards.”