23 Chapter 21
Aura wasn't much interested in going to higher realms at the moment, since the first group of people to clear the trial towers would have a much harder time than those who clear it later.
Instead, Aura wanted to explore the areas outside of humanoid territory, because something had always bothered him about the game's lore.
When you read the histories of the many realms, you can tell rather quickly that something is majorly off.
Things regarding the origin mythos and records describing events more than 10,000 years ago are simply missing.
There is religion, there are gods and spirits and dragons, but nobody has any clue how the world began, and any records that players try to make of such things get lost rather quickly.
It's not that some calamity happened ten thousand years ago either, counries have records going back that same 10,000 years, but anything older than that simply disappears.
In his previous life, many people had commented on this, but it mostly got brushed off 'because it's just a game', but Aura didn't think like that.
The creator of the game was a supergenius who had revolutionized the world, creating new technologies left and right, gathering money and influence, until they controlled the governments of every country in the world, there was no way they'd ever make 'just a game'.
Aura was curious, and since reaching the fiftieth realm would take at least six hundred years, he figured he might as well try to see what's going on in the Outlands (new name for territory outside of humanoid influence).
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But before that, he needed to mine out this ridiculous deposit of ores and crystals.
In order to hurry things up a bit, he used the dungeon core to remove all the dirt and stone in the way, storing all the debris and materials in his Item Box.
Once everything was nice and stored away, he used the debris to fill the hole back in, setting off to get some clone fruit.
He used the time spent travelling to look over his haul.
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Adult Thunder Dragon Corpse x 1
Black Tuna x 1
Lifewood Logs x ~450
Rainbow Core x 1
Rainbow Crystals x A Lot
Crystalline Orichalcum x Several tons
Bloody Titanite x Several tons
Blue Serenium x ~100 tons
Delenium x ~200 tons
Orichalcum x ~200 tons
Mithril x ~500 tons
Adamantium x 3 pounds
Herdinite x ~400 tons
Debris x ~1000 tons
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It was a massive deposit of ores and minerals, with the most valuable being adamantium.
Adamantium was incredibly rare, but not unique in the slightest. It formed when iron was exposed to concentrated force for thousands of years.
Many knight families passed down a single iron sword for generations, hoping for it to one day become adamantium, a metal widely renowned to be indestructible.
Adamantium could only be processed using the force refining method, and was considerably difficult to mold, due to how bad it is at channeling force.
According to experiments done in his previous life, it is actually possible to break adamantium, but it took the combined efforts of millions of players thirty years to build up the force required for the spell.
Realistically speaking, nothing made from adamantium would ever break.
This made adamantium highly prized for armor and tools, but due to its poor performance in channeling force, it never really cut it when it came to weaponry.
Blue selenium was a metal that could store and release force, but wasn't suitable for artifact level storage, so Aura could only give up on his idea for now.
Delenium was mostly used for ammunition, since it caused paralysis when touched (making it really hard to work with).
Herdinite was a metal that attracked normal animals, and was used in civilized areas to keep livestock from running away.
As for the rainbow crystals themselves, Aura couldn't really count them due to the nature of gemstones, an amateur like him could only say 'ooh pretty' and couldn't evaluate which ones were worth anything.
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After picking up a nice stock of clone fruit, Aura headed home, looking forward to his experiments.
