When Heaven Entrusts a Great Responsibility...

When Tang Luo and the others entered the ruins, they had nothing to worry about for the first stretch of the journey.

There were no forks in the road, and the chances of encountering ruin beasts or mechanical traps were practically zero.

Even if there had been any, they would have been cleared out during the time the ruins had been open.

The earliest adventurers to enter a ruin had to bear the risks of pioneering it, but they also had a greater chance of obtaining better treasures.

Some adventurers stumbled upon entirely new ruins and chose to pioneer them themselves, with a chance of becoming rich overnight and retiring for good.

After all, without entering a ruin, there was simply no way to tell its size or level of danger.

Some ruins were even nothing more than simple treasure vaults.

There was no danger whatsoever.

If the discoverer lacked confidence in themselves, they could still profit by selling the information.

They generally sold it to renowned adventure groups or adventurers' guilds.

Adventure groups would choose to pioneer the ruins, while adventurers' guilds would decide based on the circumstances—either resell the information or issue related quests.

Whenever a new ruin was discovered, it meant a business opportunity for nearby adventurers' guilds, opening the door to a new market.

Quite a few adventurers' guilds had steadily grown by benefiting from the ruins nearby.

As they went deeper, the scenery around Tang Luo and the others grew more complex.

Most ruins were labyrinthine inside, filled with branching paths and divided into separate spaces connected to one another.

Ruins came in several types: surface ruins, underground ruins, and special spatial ruins.

Surface and underground ruins were clearly classified by location.

Surface ruins had become rare within humanity's current main sphere of activity.

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