Gold Silver Hands

"Women are made of water: so is the element of water."

"Corresponding title: Mistress of the Mist Fairy (Affection for fairy-type creatures +10)"

I glanced at the data panel.

Roger then focused his attention on the girl in front of him.

She is the "Mist Fairy" created by Roger using the Mist Authority Rank.

The instant she appeared.

Roger's mind was flooded with information about her.

Her name is "Ya".

In the mist.

She possesses all sorts of abilities that allow her to know everything.

Ya's personality is as enigmatic as a fog.

As soon as she appeared, she cheerfully passed through Roger's body, then playfully flew to the back of his head and blew a breath onto his neck:

"The fog will guide your way."

"My master..."

"Is there anything I can help you with?"

Ya's tone was clear and bright, yet with a hint of moisture.

"I'm a little confused about my situation."

Roger began:

Can you help me clear my mind?

Ya nodded and said:

"Certainly."

"This place is shrouded in mist, and it will tell me everything you want to know, but before that, I must greet the spirits within this mist..."

As he spoke.

Her body, which had been appearing and disappearing intermittently, instantly turned into a puddle of water and fell to the ground.

Roger waited patiently by the puddle for a while.

A full half hour passed.

The water splashed against gravity and into the sky—Ya reappeared, but this time, she looked somewhat tired. "The Mist has informed me of all the information about this place."

"The situation here is indeed very complicated. In addition to the Mist Elf, I also encountered a deity with Mist Authority Rank. He asked me for help. If you are interested, I will pass on his request to you."

A deity of the Mist Authority Rank? Hearing this...

Roger's heart skipped a beat. Could it be the legendary Divine Kingdom Practitioner perished in the Mist Shadow Mountain Range? But he was not in a hurry.

Instead, he preemptively asked the question that concerned him most, "What information do you have about the ' Nightmare Dragon North Wind ' that is entrenched in this area?"

Ya chuckled softly, "This happens to overlap with what that deity wanted to ask for help with."

"Don't worry."

"I'll tell you slowly..."

At present.

She then began to speak softly.

In Aya's narrative.

Roger finally gained some understanding of the secrets of the Deep Pit Mine!

The story begins with the Nightmare Dragon being defeated by Quinan.

At first.

The severely injured North Wind retreated underground to recuperate.

He originally intended to use this opportunity to escape the pursuit of the god Khunan.

But unexpectedly, this misfortune turned into a blessing, and North Wind found the place he had been searching for—

That is the site of an Ancient Ancestors hidden deep within the earth!

The north wind was overjoyed.

However, they discovered that this site not only had an extremely powerful Mountain Protection Barrier, but also had a Divine Kingdom Practitioner from the Mist Domain responsible for guarding it.

A fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

Nightmare Dragon was indeed a genuine Ascended Being; even with the support of the Mountain Protection Barrier, the God of Mist still suffered repeated defeats.

Left with no other choice.

The God of Mist merged his divine kingdom with the Mountain Protection Barrier to resist the invasion of the Nightmare Dragon.

That is precisely why.

Strange phenomena only began to appear near the Mist Shadow Mountain Range.

Some of the elves in the kingdom of the God of Mist were corrupted by the Nightmare Dragon and transformed into "Mist Witch".

They recklessly eroded the status of the God of Mist.

The latter was powerless to resist and could only hide in the Mountain Protection Barrier and struggle to hold on.

Fortunately, the north wind was also badly injured.

He soon entered a state of hibernation that would last for hundreds of years.

During this time, the God of Mist also sought help from several travelers, but ultimately none of them had a good outcome.

Year after year has passed.

The slumbering Nightmare Dragon continues to erode the ruins of the Ancient Ancestors.

The God of Mist eventually died.

But His obsession miraculously survived under the protection of the barrier, which led to the situation where the god fell but the divine kingdom did not collapse.

Over the past few centuries.

This obsession continues as they search everywhere for help to resist the Nightmare Dragon's corruption.

But before he could find a powerful enough helper, the Nightmare Dragon had already awakened.

However, he did not wake up on his own.

Instead, I was awakened by the clanging and banging of mining equipment overhead.

The Nightmare Dragon, still in terrible condition, was greatly angered by Drovas's relentless digging.

Because his true form was entangled in that ancient ruin, separating them even for a moment could destroy five hundred years of painstaking work, so he recruited some subordinates—

This includes the Jackalmen live underground.

While sending Jackalmen to kill the laborers who disturbed their sleep, the Nightmare Dragon also dispatched a terrifying army of evil spirits.

Some of these evil spirits possessed the crows, while others possessed the sentries.

This eventually led to the creation of all sorts of new monsters.

Drovas noticed this.

Turing took immediate action.

While using Drovas's core energy "Primordial" and the Nightmare Dragon to alternately vie for control of the Sentinels, he also organized a team to explore the ruins of the Ancient Ancestors.

The two sides have been locked in a fierce battle for more than a month in the Underground Great Rift, about 60 kilometers from the Deep Pit Mine.

The current situation remains deadlocked.

The Deep Pit Mine incident was merely a result of the Nightmare Dragon creating another batch of Evil Ghost Sentry to distract Turing.

In this process.

The God of Mist's obsession is naturally on Turing's side.

So, in order to cause trouble for the Nightmare Dragon.

Each time the Nightmare Dragon controls the evil spirit, a large amount of mist pours into the cave, designed to make it more difficult for the 'corrupted' Evil Ghost Sentry to operate!...

Upon hearing this...

Roger suddenly realized! Although he had deduced the relationship between the mist and the Evil Ghost Sentry.

But unexpectedly, cause and effect are reversed.

"Turing and Northwind have been fighting for over a month now."

"The main battlefield isn't here either."

"I really messed up this Campaign Mode..."

Roger was also somewhat amused and exasperated.

He can't be blamed for this.

Because the power of the God of Mist and the Nightmare Dragon greatly shielded his perception and divination abilities.

He could no longer see the full picture of the war as he had on previous occasions.

So he could only grind monsters alone.

This experience highlighted the importance of intelligence.

Fortunately, he summoned the Mist Fairy in time.

This wave of intelligence updates isn't too late.

And even though he was completely clueless.

But Roger's indiscriminate killing also indirectly reduced Turing's troubles—

At least on the flanks, we don't have to worry about anyone causing trouble.

As for the Nightmare Dragon...

Roger was undoubtedly the culprit who prevented him from opening a second front.

No wonder his clone was attacked so fiercely as soon as it appeared below!

"So, the God of Mist wants me to deal with the Nightmare Dragon?"

In the gradually thinning fog.

Roger quickly asked.

"That's exactly right."

Ya also quickened her pace. "He also said that he sensed the aura of the Ancient Ancestors on you, and asked you to stop the evil deeds of the Nightmare Dragon."

"The fog will soon dissipate, but don't worry, I will transform into the fog to guide you..."

"Oh, right."

"The God of Mist also asked me to tell you that the name of the ruins occupied by the Nightmare Dragon is..."

"Jade... Phoenix... Nest..."

She uttered the word with great difficulty, and then turned into a puddle of water again.

Roger suddenly looked up and around.

In the underground mine tunnels.

The fog dissipated completely.

On the data panel.

"Hint: You have obtained a clue to the Qi Refiner's Paradise ' Jade Phoenix Nest '"

"Combat Power Ratio between the two factions: Drovas 99 / Jackalmen Kingdom 1"

"It's simply illogical not to include the Nightmare Dragon!"

Roger was too lazy to even complain about how stupid the system was.

He waited there for a while longer.

It wasn't until the Divine Art Badge began to glow a pale red light.

He then solemnly rose and followed the mist rising from the puddle toward the southwest—it was Ya's will that was guiding him.

Very soon.

Roger then left the Deep Pit Mine and entered an underground space called the "Flame Great Rift".

He scouted the area for a while.

I found that what Ya said was pretty much the same.

The rift valley is home to a large number of Drovas professionals and elite troops from the Jackalmen Kingdom.

However, both sides' camps were far from the sentries' activity area.

The people here probably know that these Evil Ghost Sentry will repeatedly jump around.

Seeing this situation.

Roger couldn't help but be curious about Turing's methods:

"If the Nightmare Dragon uses demons to control the Sentinels, how did Turing seize control?"

"Could it be that the sentries have a back door?"

"What is this 'Primordial' that Aya mentioned? Do the Cowas People have such things? I've never heard of it."

A host of doubts lingered in his mind.

Roger felt that this war was not so simple, and there must be some hidden story behind it.

It would be a lie to say I wasn't curious.

But as a qualified Hidden Hero.

Roger's most important task right now is to clear out the sentinels in the Flame Great Rift!

One aspect is to Forging Authority Rank.

On the other hand...

Once we take down these backstabbing bastards, the "balance" mission will likely be accomplished.

So he temporarily stopped following the fog's guidance and heading deeper into the earth's core.

Instead, they chose to make a brief stop near the Great Rift.

This stay lasted for more than a week.

One week later.

A clanging sound came.

In a hidden crevice of the Great Rift.

Roger moved swiftly among the sentries, his knife flashing.

The Red Moon pierced the gaps in the Sentinel's shell with surgical precision, and with a flick and a slash, it sealed the fate of these monsters.

Not long after.

As Cindy laboriously carried the last Sentinel's parts back to the Xia Yin Realm.

The information that had been settled scrolled across the data bar.

"You have killed 1 Evil Ghost Sentry, bringing your total number of Evil Ghost Sentry killed to 7968."

You have accumulated a total of 5422 Forging Authority Rank Fragments.

"Notification: Your Forging Authority Rank has been increased to 0.49 (no further increase possible). Do you wish to upgrade to gain more Forging Authority Rank?"

Roger, of course, chose to deny it.

He even abandoned the Ocean Authority Rank, so how could the Forging Authority Rank possibly become his primary rank? He's only farming these rank items to enhance the strength of "Barehanded Forging".

The Forging Authority Rank granted Roger two specializations at stages 0.3 and 0.4 respectively—

"Barehanded Digging (Transcendent-grade Authority Rank Feat): You can quickly dig through rock and soil with your bare hands."

"Barehanded Mining (Ascension-grade Authority Rank Feat): You can efficiently mine ore from veins using only your hands."

final.

Under the coordination of Authority Rank power of 0.49.

These two feats, combined with "Barehanded Forging," form a completely new feat!

"Gold Silver Hands (Click to view attributes)"

"Gold Silver Hands (Immortal-grade Feat/ Self-Adaptive Adjustment): When your hands turn gold, you can Barehanded Digging, quarry, and forge with your bare hands; when your hands turn silver, you can catch any weapon below upgrade level with your bare hands without taking damage, but this will consume a lot of stamina."

Your hands can dissolve, absorb, and store most common metals; you can perform simple gold or silver plating on any item.

"Is this what hardworking hands are like?"

Look at those attributes.

Roger couldn't help but marvel.

And with the deaths of these sentries...

The task panel has also changed.

"Optional Mission: The Combat Power Ratio between the two factions has become closer, and you have achieved 'balance'."

"Hint: You have received the bonus reward ' Soldier Vest Crafting Blueprint'"

"What the hell is this ' Soldier Vest '?!"

Roger couldn't help but roll his eyes.

He painstakingly crafted the Red Moon and slashed the Sentinels, only to be given a vest blueprint in return.

"I'm never doing any more system tasks!"

That's what he was thinking.

But I still couldn't resist clicking to check the Soldier Vest's attributes.

"Soldier Vest: Local Defense Value +1"

"Feature: Infinite Stacking"

As I watched...

Roger's expression became subtle.