"Which caused varying degrees of mutation in the surrounding monsters."
"And that led to all those huge monsters we encountered, in all sorts of sizes and bizarre shapes?"
[The Fool] Hersi analyzed the information he had obtained.
After all, ruins like these could be found practically everywhere.
Just as he had said.
There were plenty of ruins both aboveground and underground.
That was true on both the Karim Continent and Storm Island.
So they were no strangers to such things.
Quite the opposite.
Some lucky people had arrived in this world with their shelters right on top of these ruins. It was not even uncommon for the shelters themselves to be ruins.
And when it came to such matters, [The Fool] Hersi had become something of an "authority."
No one could compare to him on the subject of "ruins."
After all, ruins represented "possibilities."
Leaving everything else aside, there was the knowledge they had found carved into stone tablets in certain ruins.
They could then have Katie's [Library] transcribe it into books to sell.
The income from that alone was enough to cover the daily expenses of everyone in the [Map Compilation Room].
That was not even counting the tools and other things found in the ruins.
They might have been a thousand years old.
They might have long since rusted or warped.
But when everyone was first starting out, those tools had played a considerable role.
The mortars and crucibles Lan Qingyou had obtained at the beginning were proof enough of that.
Their grades might have been somewhat lacking.
But they were still rare finds.
After all, the rewards on the Magic Desk at the beginning could only be claimed once per shelter upgrade, and even then, they had to choose.
In other words, back then...
One extra item