The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 377

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Chapter 377
Chapter 377
The ore vein’s quality was exceptional.
And because of that.
[ Dwarf King’s Pickaxe ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type: Pickaxe
Grade: Mythic
Requirement: Level 600 or higher, Strength 2,500 or above, Mining Skill Lv 60 or higher
Description: A pickaxe said to have been wielded by the first Dwarf King, who is known to have established an underground kingdom lasting a thousand years.
I drew out an excellent pickaxe.
Among the Dwarves, it was called the Mythic pickaxe of the first Dwarf King.
Though it had a level 600 requirement, the level gap wasn’t severe enough to prevent me from holding out until we extracted the shared ore.
With that thought, I approached the nearest ore vein through my dark vision.
– Using the skill ‘Mining’.
Clang!
I swung the pickaxe powerfully against the wall.
My stats were exceptionally high, and despite the level 600 restriction, I was wielding a Mythic-grade pickaxe nonetheless.
Above all else.
– Using the skill ‘Crimson Field Blood Claw’.
Mining with Crimson Field Blood Claw applied.
Crash—!!
The cavern wall that remained unscathed even when the Lava Imoogi thrashed about using its divine powers now crumbled satisfyingly under my assault.
“Wow… You can mine too?”
“You’re skilled at crafting, and your mining ability is at this level too.”
“With this level of hardness, even the most skilled miner our guild could gather would have taken an incredibly long time.”
“Long time? At this level of hardness, mining would be impossible. By the standards of current Second miners.”
I ignored my team members’ voices from behind and focused on swinging the pickaxe.
As the wall was carved away and the position of the ore vein visible through my dark vision drew steadily closer.
I struck the wall cleanly with the pickaxe enhanced by Arcane Blade.
Boom!
With the sound, the ore vein revealed itself.
Swinging the pickaxe once more, the ores embedded in the vein tumbled down, and I picked up one that rolled to my feet to examine it.
[ Volcanic Heart Lava Stone ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type: Material
Grade: Epic
An Epic-grade material had dropped.
Epic-grade ore was treated as an extremely rare item in Second, but an Epic-grade ore infused with fire attribute was something else entirely.
This was far more valuable than other ores.
What mattered most.
[ Volcanic Heart Ore Vein ]
[ Volcanic Heart Ore Vein ]
….
The ores scattered before me.
Every single one of them was an Epic-grade ore—Volcanic Heart Ore Vein.
“Good heavens!”
“All of these are Epic-grade ores?”
“In other mines, if you extract an entire ore vein and get even one Epic-grade ore, that’s considered a great haul.”
“And here, Epic-grade ores are pouring out like this…?”
But it was too early to be amazed.
Through my dark vision, I could see that there were multiple ore veins scattered throughout the cavern.
Once the Mythic-grade pickaxe deactivated, mining would become difficult, so I rushed toward the next vein.
– Using the skill ‘Mining’.
– Using the skill ‘Crimson Claw’.
Crack!
I swung the pickaxe.
Rumble.
“Another Epic-grade!”
“Even the lower grades are Unique-tier.”
“The difficulty was insane, but this really isn’t an ordinary Dungeon.”
“The boss monster drops Mythic-grade items, and the walls are pouring out Epic-grade ores. This is better than any gold mine!”
“Gold mine? This place is infinitely better than any gold mine.”
“Agreed.”
Each time, high-grade ores cascaded down.
In that manner, I excavated every ore vein embedded in the walls.
Thanks to using White Aquatic Deity’s blessing to move swiftly and swing the pickaxe, I was able to extract all the ore veins from the cavern’s walls.
As a result, I harvested an enormous quantity of high-grade ores.
[ The skill level of ‘Mining’ has increased. ]
I even managed to raise the skill level of Mining.
Of course, since Mining was a production-type skill, it was linked to All Mastery, so the skill level of All Mastery increased instead of Mining.
Whoosh.
The Mythic-grade pickaxe, having fulfilled its role, gradually faded away.
With the cavern’s mining complete, I decided to check once more just in case.
[ Using Black Flame Transformation. ]
[ Borrowing the power of the Black Flame Dragon, Lucknir Desperate Ignoxtan. ]
I surveyed the surroundings once more while using Black Flame Transformation.
As expected, there were no remaining ore veins.
…or so I thought.
‘Hmm?’
That wasn’t the case.
One ore vein remained in the cavity.
But it wasn’t on the wall.
The location of the final ore vein in the cavity I discovered through Luke’s dark vision—and the ore vein that shone larger and more brilliantly than any other—was precisely at.
‘The Lava Lake?’
The Boss Room of the Volcanic Heart Ore Vein, where the Lava Imoogi slumbered.
It was beneath the Lava Lake.
Until moments ago, it was obscured by the lava’s luminescence, but once I enhanced my dark vision using Black Flame, I could perceive it.
The problem was how to descend down there.
That was simple enough.
[ You have equipped all pieces of the ‘Raging Magma’ set (5/5). ]
[ The set effect of ‘Raging Magma’ activates. ]
[ Raging Magma: You gain complete immunity to environmental lava. Resistance to lava attacks increases significantly. ]
The Raging Magma set.
With this, diving into the Lava Lake would be possible.
After switching my equipment to the Magma set, I immediately dove toward the Lava Lake.
“Mir!”
“Guild Master!”
“Aaaah, why are you doing this!”
Splash!
Thanks to the Raging Magma set’s effect, my body didn’t melt even as I entered the Lava Lake.
It was because of the effect that granted immunity to environmental lava damage.
However, that didn’t make diving easy.
Swimming through lava was an entirely different difficulty from swimming through water.
Still, I somehow kicked my way downward into the depths of the Lava Lake.
Indeed, a lake that cradled the Lava Imoogi?
It was deeper than I expected.
Thus.
[ You enter the Black Flame Rampage state. ]
Whoosh!
I descended further by channeling power through Black Flame Rampage.
Fortunately, using Black Flame Rampage and White Water Swimming simultaneously gave me speed.
After all, White Water Swimming was a skill book obtained from the White Aquatic Deity, so it could be used as a movement skill even in situations like this where I needed to swim.
Descending steadily, I finally reached the deepest point of the Lava Lake.
I could arrive before the final ore vein of the cavity as seen through my dark vision.
The appearance of the ore vein I reached was.
Thump—
Like a heart itself.
An ore vein that seemed to have formed from all the dungeon’s lava flowing into it.
With each pulse like a heartbeat, the lava surged, creating crimson waves that circulated between the Lava Lake and the lava flowing toward the depths below.
It was an object that would have been dangerous if this were reality.
I wondered if destroying this would stop the circulation of lava and cause some kind of natural anomaly.
But.
‘It’s a Dungeon.’
This is a Dungeon, isn’t it?
No matter what happens here, it won’t affect the outside world unless it’s connected to the main scenario.
Thump—.
Watching the ore vein pulse with energy once more, I understood the Dungeon’s name, ‘Volcanic Heart Ore Vein’.
[ Hephaestus’s Pickaxe ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type : Pickaxe
Grade : Mythic
Restrictions : Level 1,000 or higher, Hephaestus’s Seal, Strength 3,000 or above
Description : The pickaxe that Hephaestus, one of the twelve gods of Olympus, used when mining on Mount Olympus.
The finest pickaxe among all those I possessed.
I drew out Hephaestus’s pickaxe, known also as the god of volcanoes.
– Using skill ‘Mining’.
– Using skill ‘Crimson Fang Claw’.
I swung it toward the ore vein.
Crack!
Being at the deepest point of the Lava Lake, the mining was extraordinarily difficult.
Without the effects of Black Flame Rampage, the Mythic-grade pickaxe with its 1,000 level restriction, and Mythic-grade attack skills, I would have struggled as well.
Still, since this wasn’t a combat situation.
I relaxed and continued swinging the pickaxe.
Thanks to the turbulent magma set, there was no reason to rush.
Thinking that way, I continued swinging the pickaxe.
Crack, crack, crunch!
The ore vein began to chip away bit by bit.
Each time, the ore vein’s pulse grew stronger and throbbed fiercely.
I was bothered by how the ore vein’s light slowly dimmed, but I ignored it and swung the pickaxe even more forcefully.
Boom!
Finally, the ore vein shattered.
It had been such a massive ore vein, and the power I sensed through my dark eyes was more intense than any ore I’d ever mined from the cavern.
Yet only a single piece of ore came from that vein.
However, the moment I held that ore in my hand, I could tell.
How powerful the energy emanating from this ore vein was.
At minimum, Legendary grade.
Perhaps even higher.
Thinking so, even before checking the Item Information.
Creak—.
The lava began to harden and solidify starting from where the ore vein had been.
Sensing the danger, I
– activated the skill ‘White Fish Swimming’.
I dropped the pickaxe from my hand and used my movement skill, urgently escaping from the Lava Lake.
“Gasp!”
“Mir!”
“Why did you suddenly jump into the Lava Lake like that!”
“We were really worried!”
“But how on earth did you manage to survive in that Lava Lake for so long?”
I grasped the hands of my concerned team members and climbed out of the Lava Lake.
Then.
Crack-crack-crack-crack-crack-!
“Huh?”
“The Lava Lake is….”
“Hardening?”
The Lava Lake, which had been bubbling more intensely than any other lava in this Dungeon,
was solidifying hard and fast.
Visibly, at incredible speed.
The Lava Lake was so enormous that the massive Lava Imoogi could move through it freely,
yet the entire Lava Lake hardened in an instant.
And that wasn’t all.
All the lava streams connected to the Lava Lake that spread outward in every direction had completely solidified.
At this, one of the faster members of my team went to scout the area outside the cavern and returned to report.
“The lava outside has completely hardened as well. The Lava Waterfall and the Lava River—everything.”
“Is that really true?”
“Yes. And not only that, but the monsters have been greatly weakened.”
“That makes sense. All the monsters here were covered in lava on their bodies. If the lava hardens, they must have been weakened just like when the Guild Master used water magic.”
They delivered news I hadn’t anticipated.
Not just the Boss Room, but all the lava in the Dungeon had solidified.
But thinking about it, this wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.
“Actually, this is a blessing. To be honest, if you left, I wasn’t sure we could protect the miners and hold back all the monsters here on our own.”
“You’re right.”
“I was also worried about how we’d cross the Lava River again, but now moving between areas is much easier.”
“The miners can also begin mining with peace of mind, can’t they?”
After all, our objective from here on was to gather the miners and have them extract the ore from the Dungeon.
In such circumstances, the lava hardening was actually a favorable development.
Was that all?
With the monsters weakened, protecting the miners would be easier too.
Moreover, even though the monsters were weakened, the experience points flowing in were substantial, making this place the ultimate hunting ground—easy difficulty with abundant experience rewards.
“But what on earth happened?”
It was good fortune, certainly, but.
My team immediately turned to me with questioning eyes.
In response, I retrieved the item I had mined from beneath the Lava Lake and held it up for them to see.
I needed to check its Item Information anyway.
What I pulled out was a brilliant golden ore.
A heart-shaped ore of brilliant gold.
This ore, pulsing with life despite being mere mineral, radiating waves of power, its true identity was.
[ Heart of the Dragon Volcano ]
Form: Material
Grade: Mythic
This was the second Mythic-grade material I had obtained in this Dungeon.

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