Losses

Spin Force Ore—or rather, scraps of bone from the "Heaven Swallowing Giant Beast"—was the local specialty that Aus Company treated as treasure.

This ore was not even bone itself, but permeated "crystals" containing traces of bone material.

At first, someone had discovered those bones and tried to excavate them. Materials from a monster of that level had to be immensely valuable.

But judging from the results, the excavation had been a spectacular failure. Even when Lu PingAn struck with all his strength using a silver weapon, he could not leave so much as a mark.

Just imagining it, he could guess how helpless those original excavators must have felt.

But a major company was still a major company. They had paid to hire a Rule-level powerhouse. That guy had gone all out and unleashed his ultimate move, successfully knocking off a tiny fragment—a thin sliver the size of a fingernail.

".Damn, this thing is ridiculous."

Looking at that tiny piece in the picture, Lu PingAn did not know whether he was marveling at the strength of Rule-level combat Professionals or the utterly absurd hardness of the thing itself.

According to the analysis in the records, if the mythic giant beasts currently roaming the world were ancient giant beasts, then this one was probably the ancestor of Ancient Divine Beasts and ancient giant beasts.

The report also mentioned that it might not have been killed. Since the local Explorers had not found its natural enemy, perhaps it had simply failed to adapt to the environment or died of old age naturally.

I wonder if the monsters on the surface can break through its defense.

Lu PingAn stroked the bone, deep in thought.

At that level of hardness, it had lost all mining value. Even if they truly recruited Rule-level "miners," they