"Very good," Luo Yan returned the silk kerchief to her and continued, "Try to deliver the sample to my Magic Workshop before this afternoon, I might only have time today."

"Got it——"

Before Hu Wan's voice had finished, a loud explosion suddenly sounded in the distance.

The dust raised by the explosion engulfed half of the mine and nearly blew into Demon King Ridge.

Luo Yan was startled, thinking it was the Lizardmen attacking, and instinctively drew his magic wand.

But he quickly came to his senses.

Those weren't Lizardmen at all, it was goddamn nitroglycerin!

Who the hell had managed to create that?!

"Youyou, who did this?!"

Youyou: "I don't know, Lord Demon King, the culprit has already been blasted to pieces... Ah! The player has resurrected! It seems it's that one who chugged the chemical pool."

Luo Yan: "..."

"What's going on?! Adventurer?! Hey, I'm over here! Save——ahhh~"

Chris clutched the bars of the Stone Prison with both hands, desperately trying to peer outside to see what was happening.

However, before she could shout "Save me," her body was emptied by a blast of Soul Drain.

"Enough! No more experiments in my mine! Get out and go do it outside the cave!"

Luo Yan unleashed the authority of the Demon King, roaring into the boiling dust, then turned to Youyou and ordered.

"Dock that guy's Contribution Value down to 0, then give him a mission... to create a more reliable Tien-Tie for me. If he can manage it, I'll give him back the deducted points."

Nitroglycerin is actually quite useful, as it can be used to make smokeless gunpowder to double the power of a musket.

But first, it's too troublesome to store, and second, Luo Yan worried that with the clumsy handling of the players, friendly casualties might surpass enemy losses.

Such immature technology is better left settled for a while.

Youyou: "Lord Demon King... His Contribution Value just dropped to zero, I can't dock any more points."

Luo Yan's mouth twitched involuntarily, but he continued without changing his expression.

"Then dock him 500 negative points, complete the mission and add 600."

Youyou murmured softly in response.

"Alright... okay."

...

The explosion near the Demon King Territory was just a minor incident.

Even though it caused a certain collapse of the mine, such incidents were not a problem for Alakdo, and the road was cleared within an hour.

Returning to the Magic Workshop, Luo Yan spent the better part of the day finally memorizing the Dragon Language pronunciations he had copied in his notebook.

After several repetitions and trials, he had gained a new understanding of the Dragon Language Magic, a special spell system.

Like Linte Isaac, he wrote down his insights in his native language in his notebook and also made a copy to post on the official website.

Many players were interested in casting spells.

Although low-level skeleton soldiers couldn't chant spells, this theoretical knowledge could always give them some inspiration.

At least from what he observed, some clever little players had already figured it out.

As long as there was someone to teach them, they could learn skills even without buying Skill Books from NPC stores.

Even if one was perceptive enough, they could incorporate skills into combos, creating playstyles that had never been considered before.

This part of the content had been updated on the forum by a player with the ID Yiye Zhiqu.

Luo Yan had Youyou pin his post as a featured thread, as a sort of official recognition from the game authorities.

The reason he priced the Skill Books so high was actually to encourage players to discover "skipping class" methods and then share and discuss them, leading to the creation of more "new things."

And indeed, they had not disappointed his expectations; already over twenty players had independently grasped how to condense "Spirit" into "energy" and use the method of "slashing" without having purchased any Skill Books.

Like the adventurers, they hadn't prayed to the Dragon God, but rather, after becoming adept, naturally unleashed that power.

By the way.

The number of Black Iron players in the Great Graveyard had finally become more common, exactly as Luo Yan had hoped for, heading into the triple digits...

...

At the entrance of North Peak Mine, a path twisted upwards.

A tall and a short skeleton, one in front of the other, were pushing and pulling a rickety wooden cart on which lay a bear twice the height of a man.

The two skeleton soldiers were Yiye Zhiqu and Hu Wan.

Currently, one was LV8 with attributes 5/6/3/1/3, and the other was LV6 with attributes 3/4/7/1/1.

Although Black Iron power was no longer a rarity in the Great Graveyard, their levels were still well ahead of the rest.

As for the bear lying on the cart, it was not an ordinary animal but a monster that roamed the western part of the Silver Pine Forest. It could roar out a shockwave and slap a pine tree flying with a single swipe.

After all, it was a game world, and the monsters on the surface were not much weaker than those in dungeons, sometimes even more formidable.

Yiye Zhiqu guessed that this creature was at least of the Bronze tier.

But for all its might, the bear was still not sentient, and its intelligence was that of a beast's.

After several feints of playing dead and sudden attacks, the dim-witted bear, in its raging frustration at not finding its enemy, was finally taken down by a close-range shot to the head from Hu Wan.

Until its last breath, the creature never would have imagined that its hunters were a skeleton soldier and an Undead Rat.

Besides the colossal bear, which stood nearly twice the height of a man when upright, the two had also hunted down many other monsters along the way. However, since they didn't find a suitable means of transport at the time, they merely harvested the Demon Crystals and left the carcasses to the forest.

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