Tian’s method for searching the dungeon was a simple one. First he scanned the area with earth manipulation, and then when he found something that he couldn’t duplicate, he knew that he had found a rare ore or an elemental stone.
It wasn’t perfect, as there were many veins of other elements in the area that interfered with his senses, but those were also usually rare resources, so he would take those too.
He could make high-quality metals for gear, but these ores were imbued with many different elemental aspects that he wasn’t even compatible with. So, when he encountered them, he directed the golems to go dig up the strange stuff and pile it up for the Karl to sort.
After all, he didn’t want a bunch of weird elemental metals in his space, messing up the vibe.
Rae was using the golems to do a similar thing, sensing mana fluctuations, but also sensing changes to the temperature of the ground with her vision. Many of the metals transferred heat differently than the surrounding stone, and that told her where to have spiders dig up the rock.
They weren’t perfect for the job, but they also weren’t terrible.
Karl’s strategy was the opposite of the others. He was practically tilling the mines, tearing up chunks of every surface, so the dryads could search for anything that he couldn’t sense.
With thermal vision and [Earth Manipulation] he could sense most of the mine well. But there were surprisingly high amounts of material that were hidden well below the surface, and only found once the Dryads broke the surface open.
And they were good resources.
Most of it was rare grade or better Immortal crafting materials, but he had found four Supreme Rank fire gems in a vein of fire element ore earlier, which Hawk had already claimed, as well as one Supreme Rank Ice Elemental Gem that Remi had claimed just to annoy Hawk.
It was useful, as she had a high affinity with ice and all things water.
But that was not why she wanted it. She had chosen to put it as the centrepiece of the altar where she kept her treasured Alchemy Tomes, which meant that if she was home and Hawk wanted to talk to her, he would be staring right at it to look at her.
Perhaps she could get it made into a necklace?
She would have to ask Rue.
The dragon was making Supreme Grade good stuff for all the others, even if Karl forgot to pick his up before they left. That was fine though, it gave him a reason to test out his new skill, which was valuable research data.
Even the Dana Mage didn’t use her Supreme Grade {Dancing Blade of the Dana Mage} until they were out of sight of the mining team.
If Dana didn’t show it off, knowing that she was the strongest duellist among them, in Remi’s mind that meant that it would equate to a tacky show of wealth, like wearing too many gold chains, or rings on every finger. Only one could be magical, so wearing more was just tacky.
This run had been good for them, but none quite as much as Rae, who got to lead an army of fifty Immortal spiders into battle for the first time.
Not only did that please her, it pleased her Goddess, seeing one of the powerful chosen children looking out for the others and making sure that they were well-fed, even if they weren’t going to be around for long.


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