"Three months."
Hope corrected him.
"Isn't that a bit excessive?"
Zhou Qing's eyelids twitched.
Along the way, although Nami Village had shops selling excavation tools, just judging by their appearance, they seemed even poorer in quality than the tools forged by blacksmiths in Nuoding City.
It was impossible that every Explorer who came to this layer of Abyss carried Soul Tools capable of mining, was it?
Take Riko as an example. She did carry a detachable shovel, but it was definitely not a Soul Tool.
Although the residents of Abyss Town had applied Soul Tools to every aspect of life, there was not much difference between their materials and those of the outside world.
Moreover, Abyss Town's Soul Tools used a great deal of mechanical structure. Their functions might have flourished in every direction, but in terms of the number of Soul Tool Core Formations, they were no greater than those outside. They relied on mechanical modifications to develop a single Soul Tool Core Formation into dozens, or even hundreds, of different applications.
But no matter how varied they were, Abyss Town's current development remained limited. Since most people could not withstand the Ascension Curse, it was simply impossible to establish a corresponding mining system on the Fifth Layer.
Even the Steel Base on the Fourth Layer had been primarily built by the original creators of the Abyss Ruins!
Not to mention that, judging from Nami Village's tool system, it was clearly still in the handicraft stage—not because they did not want to develop further, but because they could not.
The forms of the Fallen Ones were bizarre and varied. Most had lost their human memories and possessed incredibly simple temperaments. Those who could remember their former skills and carry out relatively complex handicraft production were already among the best