Chapter 738: Chapter 449 Deep in the Cave_2
"What’s the matter?"
"Exploring the cave," Colin said succinctly. "I’ll explain the specifics when I come out."
Shelley paused before asking, "Do you want me to come with you?"
"No need, I’ve been to the cave many times already and won’t venture too deep. If anything seems amiss, I’ll immediately return and not put myself in danger."
Shelley said no more, only admonishing, "Be careful in everything. It won’t be long before spring harvest, and we’ll need you to take charge then."
"I will," Colin nodded.
The Tilamei spring harvest this year is being watched by many powers.
In recent times, the wheat has mostly begun to sprout ears.
Although high-yield wheat seeds have not yet been used this year, the yield has clearly increased after optimizing planting processes and details.
Indeed, for this reason, a steady stream of representatives from various powers and merchant caravans have been visiting to discuss grain purchasing in the last few days.
One can believe that once the spring harvest follows and the wheat harvest machinery and rough processing equipment are revealed, another wave will be set off.
But all that was for later... Colin thought to himself.
He suspected that his interest in further developing the estate wouldn’t be high until he advanced to the Fourth Rank.
Personal strength is the foundation of everything.
...
The following morning.
Colin successfully advanced to an Intermediate Third Rank Wizard.
Compared to when he was at the Basic Level, his Magic Power had increased by fifty percent, and his soul strength had also improved, further enhancing his capabilities.
He did not hurry to explore the cave right away but rested for a day to properly arrange the various affairs of the Tilaimei Plain.
On the second morning, with thorough preparations, he arrived at the cave area.
Aside from Atbolde, Lillian, and Shelley, he told no one else about this trip.
Not even Jennifer... after all, as Queen of Roon, the crowd around her was much more complex than the trio, and it was easier for word to leak out.
After the battle with Calvin, the whole cave area had turned into a huge, irregular Sky Pit, with many cave entrances buried.
However, far from becoming desolate, it had become busier due to the significant reduction in cave creatures and such a spectacular sight.
It had earnestly become an up-and-coming tourist destination!
People were even willing to travel thousands of miles to witness this great wonder created by the Lord of Tilamei!
Nevertheless, Colin’s destination was not here.
At that time, he had cast the Robert Explosion Skill three times, with the first two explosions creating this large Sky Pit in the original cave area.
The last explosion, some two hundred meters from here, had created a smaller Sky Pit.
Colin’s destination was that smaller Sky Pit.
Concealing his form, he descended and came to an entrance in the middle of the pit.
"Hissss... This Lord of Tilamei is truly formidable. Can such a huge pit truly be made by man?"
"Such power of a Wizard, truly formidable."
The tourists beside him chattered endlessly, oblivious to the fact that someone had quietly entered the cave right in front of them.
Walking swiftly along the pitch-black cave tunnel, Colin chose the cave entrance he had personally opened last, although it had been greatly altered by the battle’s impact.
However, that was only a short section near the surface; after walking deeper for a while, the surroundings gradually became familiar.
With Superbrain’s help, it didn’t take long for Colin to arrive once again at the cave where he had healed before.
Taking a deep breath, he released his Golden Blood Qi, standing in the center of the cave and concentrating his senses.
Before long, Colin detected an extremely faint, strange fluctuation.
When he first arrived at this cave, he hadn’t noticed anything unusual, but the mutation of the Divine Blood had made him subconsciously feel toward the direction of the Divine Blood’s surge, and he had immediately caught this peculiar fluctuation.
Swish!
Colin turned his hand into a knife and headed straight for the source of the fluctuation.
The rock wall was quickly penetrated, and Colin entered a passage, surveyed his surroundings, and continued to burrow downward.
Thus, half an hour passed in an instant, with Colin making no detours, heading straight for the source of the fluctuation. During the journey, he encountered several attacks from cave creatures, which he all resolved.
’I have arrived at the boundary between the shallow and deep layers of the cave.’
Colin observed the passage ahead with a noticeably darker color, pondering internally.
That fluctuation had become more and more distinct; he estimated it couldn’t be far now.
After resting for a few minutes and waiting until his condition had returned to its peak, Colin continued to stride forward.
Swoosh!
He continued to break through the floor beneath him, heading straight for the source of the vibrations.
However, a few minutes later.
Boom!
Colin’s figure reappeared in the passage, turning his head back with a frown as he looked at the tunnel he had just opened.
The grey-black debris that had fallen around was visibly merging into the walls beneath his feet at a noticeable speed.
And the tunnel he had just opened was inexplicably healing over by more than half!
’It seems that going straight through the cave walls to the source isn’t feasible in the deeper layers of the cave.’
Colin furrowed his brows, and it wasn’t just because the cave walls in these deep layers had the strange property of healing.
It was also because shortly after delving into the cave walls, he would gradually lose his perception of that strange vibration, even losing his sense of direction.
Moreover, there was one more thing... although only a few minutes had passed, he had at least moved forward several hundred meters, yet he saw no end in sight for the cave walls beneath his feet.
If he kept going, the cave would keep healing, and having lost his sense of direction, he might get trapped inside!
’The depths of the cave... are indeed not so simple.’
Colin figured out his direction and seriously continued walking along the grey-black passage.
After about half a day’s journey full of twists and countless detours, he finally arrived at a huge circular cave.
During that time, Colin had tried several times to pass through the walls, but he could never get to the other side of the rock face and almost got lost inside.
This made it clear that it was probably no coincidence when he couldn’t traverse the rock wall after several minutes the first time.
This must be one of the characteristics of the cave walls deep within the cave.
Hum—Hum——Hum——
Upon arriving at this huge cave, the strange vibrations were now almost tangible, with the omnipresent cave contamination pulsing in rhythm with them.
But despite several sweeps, Colin couldn’t find any suspicious places inside the circular cave.
The strange vibrations were evenly distributed within this circular cave, without a particularly strong point to be found.
’What is it that’s constantly emitting these vibrations... could it be these rock walls?’
Colin approached a rock wall on his right.
Grey-black, irregular... this rock wall looked quite ordinary, with such grey-black rock faces common throughout the cave.
Hovering quietly in mid-air, Colin stilled his mind, once more keenly feeling the strange vibrations around him.
Hum—Hum——Hum——
It was unclear how much time had passed when Colin’s eyes suddenly lit up.
’I’ve found it!’
He quickly made his way to the southeastern corner of the cave.
The ground here was empty, and the rock wall seemed no different, but Colin sharply sensed that the strange vibrations here were subtly stronger than in other places!
Swoosh!
Wrapping his palm with the power of his will, he kept digging into the floor and the adjacent rock wall.
Ding!
Moments later, a sound akin to metal striking metal suddenly rang out, and Colin’s expression brightened as he looked down at the hole he had just dug.
At the very center of the hole lay a fragment of broken bone that didn’t appear to be human; it was triangular in shape, more like the skull of some kind of insect...
"What is this..."
Just as Colin was puzzled.
Boom—
A thunderous roar suddenly came from behind him.
Colin quickly turned around to see a huge, narrow crack suddenly open in the cave’s dome.
Thump! Thump!
Two or three golden insectoid creatures with triangular heads, slender bodies, and six thin segmented legs suddenly fell down.
At the same moment, Colin was taken aback as he felt a familiar presence from the segmented golden creatures.
"They contain Divine Blood?!"
Colin murmured in disbelief.