Chapter 824: The Rift Valley Mine
Chapter 824: The Rift Valley Mine
Alice: [Lindsey, don't hang up the communication yet. I have some more questions for you.]
Lindsey: [Oh! What's up?]
Alice: [You mentioned the Expeditionary Force, right?]
Lindsey: [Yes?]
Alice: [Tell me about them—about the story of the Expeditionary Force.]
Lindsey: [You're curious about the Expeditionary Force? When I mentioned Ben and Nolan in the City of Law during its early days, you didn't show this much enthusiasm.]
Alice: [When I was younger, I witnessed the departure of an Expeditionary Force. The conversations I had with them back then still inspire my thoughts to this day.]
Lindsey: [Hmm... Alice, how old are you this year?]
Alice: [Don't answer a question with a question. I'm asking you now, what are the Expeditionary Force like?]
Lindsey: [Okay, okay, I'll tell you.]
Alice, for once, did not immediately hang up the communication.
The Righteous One girl asked Lindsey about the Expeditionary Force, and naturally, Lindsey recounted the conversation he had with Sonia and the others, sharing it with her in detail.
As they chatted in the friends' channel to pass the time...
Lindsey continued forward, and the mist ahead gradually revealed itself.
A few seconds later, Lindsey stepped out of the fog.
The scorching sun hanging high above the canyon immediately showered his face with its warm and passionate embrace, leaving a comforting touch.
The damp and chilly embrace of the Star Ocean seemed to instantly fade from Lindsey's body.
"Canyon, this is the canyon Sonia and the others mentioned."
"A canyon that pierces through the world!"
Lindsey looked around in excitement.
His current location was surrounded by cliffs and steep walls on both sides, each over 1300 meters high. There was only a single, straight path ahead, extending forward until it disappeared beyond the horizon.
The Expeditionary Force had told Lindsey about this.
The formation mechanism of this grand landscape was unclear, but it was indeed a canyon that pierced through the entire world.
Walking here, one didn't even need any ability to discern directions.
As long as you knew which side you came from, avoided exploring the tiny canyon branches, and proceeded straight ahead, you could smoothly pass through the entire world and reach another intersection of worlds.
The mine that produced uranium ore and the special area with temporal anomalies were also distributed within this canyon.
"This..."
Lindsey was about to sigh in awe when he stopped in his tracks.
The reason was simple—the Clue Radiance began to spread across both sides of this deep canyon.
[Battlefield Scar—the mark left by powerful beings on the world, now transformed into a unique landscape of this world.]
"Hehe..."
"You're kidding, right?"
"A canyon that pierces through the entire world, 1300 meters deep, is a scar left by battles!"
Lindsey found it hard to believe.
According to the information he currently had, a new world was born at the edge of the universe every 100 years. The place where the Expeditionary Force had set up camp was the current cosmic border.
In other words...
300 years ago, or no more than 400 years ago, an unimaginable Awakened being had engaged in combat here. By the time the Expeditionary Force arrived, they even mistook the remnants of the battlefield for the natural landscape of this world!
"Such an exaggerated scar couldn't have been made by a 7th-stage Awakened being."
"The 8th stage..."
"According to Sonia, they are still in the exploration phase of Essence Skills. The 5th stage is basically the peak, and there's not even a hint of the 6th stage."
"In this era, where did an 8th-stage Awakened come from?"
"An elemental spirit by birth? Or a magical beast?"
Suddenly, Lindsey recalled the temporal anomaly within the canyon, as mentioned in the Expeditionary Force's narratives. With his own actions, the Starry Sea behind him had also transformed into the unique Golden Water Marsh.
"The 8th stage, interfering with time and space."
"My skill level is definitely not up to this standard, but the things I've done seem somewhat similar, don't they?"
Lindsey was filled with mixed emotions for a moment.
Then, he smiled slightly and continued on his journey.
Expanding his vision and broadening his horizons, he looked beyond this universe to the endless void beyond.
Who knows if these are traces left by powerful beings from other universes?
Perhaps one day, when he has the time, he could make this a goal and embark on an adventure of his own.
[The Path of Exploration (Initial)]
[Journey to ancient ruins, primeval forests, and uninhabited worlds... Uncover a little-known secret or obtain rare treasures...]
[Quest Reward: Hunting Journal]
As if in response to Lindsey's thoughts, a line of text appeared in the quest bar.
Lindsey smiled and accepted the quest, then reorganized his thoughts and continued his journey in the new world.
The super-deep canyon was 1,300 meters deep.
This height was not much of a challenge for Lindsey at his current level.
He activated the flight skill of the Freedom Seal and ascended, allowing him to observe the terrain on both sides of the canyon.
The scenery was nothing out of the ordinary.
On both sides of the canyon lay a perfectly normal world.
Mountains, rivers, and vast basins.
Only this one canyon, created by a powerful being, stood out starkly, cutting through the world's land. For this reason, the Expeditionary Force named this world the Great Rift World.
By the third day at noon, as Lindsey continued his journey, the Professional Miner's Pointer began to give him prompts.
He opened the map and saw that a new mineral-rich area was marked, with a yellow radiation pattern warning of the danger in the region.
"It's really uranium ore."
"And the mining pointer can even provide warnings when encountering dangerous minerals, this function is really useful."
Lindsey lowered his altitude in the air and approached the mine's location.
Unsure of his life essence's recovery ability, he decided to play it safe and put on the Multi-Functional Survival Gear, its protective effects being reliable enough to safeguard his physical safety.
Lindsey landed at the entrance of the uranium mine, a modest-looking cave.
Beside it, a line of radiant white light flickered, the remnants of the Expeditionary Force's camp.
Due to the danger of the uranium, they had left in a hurry.
Lindsey even saw some scattered items, dragged around by the world's beasts, now with their scents dissipated, leaving behind worthless remnants.
Lindsey circled around the camp and approached the cave's entrance.
Here, he discovered a line of hastily written but sharp and powerful words carved into the rock beside the mine.
[!!!Warning!!!]
[Later explorers, please do not enter this cave! There are terrifying cursed ores within that can silently take your life!]
[Fourteenth Expeditionary Team - Andaphel]
(End of Chapter)
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