Chapter 450 Eye Of The Abyss

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"There was an ant inside the Mole King's stomach?" Helga asked in shock.

"Yeah, it looked like a typical ant monster, but it was standing upright, with only its last two legs. It had red eyes and a black jewel growing from its chest, and also was super strong." I said. "Is there no other reports of such a monster before?"

"Hmm…" Helga began to think, rubbing her chin. "I think we have heard of something like that, right?"

"Oh yeah." Blackard said. "There was a time, some years ago, when that dangerous dungeon was found. It was said that they found a ton of small black ants with red eyes who were awfully powerful. Most golems were eaten by them, and a lot of people died… it was pretty awful."

"They managed to purify the area using a lot of holy magic. Our country had to bring priests and magicians from the outside to deal with them. After that, the entire area including the dungeon got sealed by magic and then sealed once more with several walls of fortified stone." Said Helga. "I think this is the same dungeon that Aquamarine want you guys to investigate. To think there are ants from there in here…"

"Bu according to what you said, missy, these are awfully way stronger."

"Yeah, yeah."

"Can we even fight one?"

"No way, we'll die."

The dwarves seemed to know about these damned ants' way better than I expected. However, the ants they fought were not as strong as the one I killed. And on its description, it was called "Grand General", so this damn monster might had been a rare breed that was a general. It was also a parasite, so they probably start as small larvae that parasite monsters and slowly grow inside of them off their nutrients.

It was honestly better to bring the Dwarves back home for now so we can continue investigating things more leisurely by ourselves, having them here would be a hindrance, quite honestly.

"Alright then, I can see you guys really don't want to go back yet." Helga said. "We'll go back while we can and report this to the old hag. We managed to defeat those moles together, that's more than enough memories I want for now, I got a whole family and leaving them without a mother wouldn't really be a good thing."

"Thank you Helga, you can take some of the Moles as well as a reward." I offered.

"Oh no, don't worry, we already served ourselves picking up a lot of dropped items lying around, there's still a lot more but we can't fit them all in our backpacks." Laughed Helga. "Take care, Maria, I am sure you and your group's strong, so we'll be waiting for you guys back home!"

"Alright, I'll send you some Phantasmal Familiars so you have a safe travel back home." I quickly crated a few dozen large Phantasmal Snakes and sent them off with them. Like that, Helga's group swiftly went back home.

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"Well, who want some Mole Stew?" Emeraldine wondered.

Emeraldine quickly decided to cook something up while we were tidying up everything else. We had to quickly get every item dropped around. We mostly found ores dropped, something rather unique. There were colorful elemental jewels, magic gold and white silver ores, reinforced iron ore, and other crystals. Equipment were not rare, however, but most of them were quite low quality. Compared to what can be made out of alchemy, they were junk pretty much.

But still, according to Helga, there were special "magic item processing machines" that can convert dropped items from dungeons such as accessories into materials that can be used to make new and better items, which is something the dwarves do a lot which they simply call "recycling".

After we gathered everything, we even found some health and mana potions, and even antidote potions scattered around. But those were super rare, only finding five of them. Perhaps the Moles Drop Rate is mostly Ores, Stones, and Jewels than other because they're more connected to the ground, maybe? All the ores and jewels we found were the ones I had already mined, so there wasn't anything particularly new, but it was very valuable, nonetheless.

"Master, look! Look!" Partner, Laura, and Takeshi suddenly pointed out at something that was lying right besides the giant corpse of the Mole King, which I had yet to put inside my Inventory.

"Huh? What is it?" I wondered, flying there to find a strange drop.

This wasn't the dropped item of the Mole King because that was a big combination of various ores made into a ball, but this item was… some sort of black jewel with a red eye-like marking on top of it. Quite honestly, it looked very eerie.

"What the heck is this?" I wondered, grabbing the jewel gently.

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[Eye of the Abyss (A Grade)]

A special jewel said to hold a fragment of abyss itself within it. This jewel contains enormous quantities of Darkness and Chaos Attribute Essence stored inside and possess the spiritual resentment of a monster born within miasma. A jewel often used on forbidden rituals involving Secretions of the Fragment of the Evil God. Can be used as a powerful Core that could fuel Magic Items with energy for years, and it could even… do something even better in the right hands.

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It was indeed a flashy description. However, it does indeed looks interesting. Perhaps I could make it into an accessory like a ring… It might fit my elements and even strengthen my magic. If I'm fighting monsters like that ant more in the future, I might as well get new equipment too.

"It looks to be a very strong jewel containing darkness and… chaos? Is that even an element?" I wondered. "Well, whatever's the case, it is rather dangerous so I'll store it for now and see what I can do with it later. For now, let's go eat everyone, we need to discuss further what we'll do."

"Alright!" Partner, Laura, and Takeshi said in unison, following me from behind like ducklings.

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