Chapter 158: Alexa #1

Ttang! Ttang! Tang! *Mining ores SFX.

Tang! Tang!

Inside the enormous cave full of gold ores, countless skeletons swinging their pickaxe, untiredly mining the gold ores all over this enormous cave with full swing.

Ores after ores being mined by them continuously as they continue working like a machine without rest.

Not far from them, Anna and Anni oversee their work while roaming around the enormous cave.

Dungeon Gold Mine.

Maybe you guys wonder, why did all my party members become very shocked when we found this cave full of dungeon gold ores? 

Isn't the dungeon ore wasn't that rare?

Of course, if it was Silver ores or Iron ores, that stuff wasn't too rare on the lower floor as you basically could find it anywhere within that specific lower floor.

But if we talked about the gold, titanium, or Mithril ores, the story will be different.

These ores are very rare and very hard to find.

These types of ores will not be dropped by monsters on this high floor anymore, thus to get the gold, titanium, or mithril ores, you need to mine them from a specific hidden place somewhere.

One more thing that made the ores here more precious is the fact that it was a "Dungeon" Gold ores!

Unlike the ores on the outside world, the ores in the dungeon contained a high purity of the mineral and having a high magic power conductivity on it.

That's why anyone surely will droll if they found a hidden place that contained a lot of Dungeon gold ores like this, since it's really that precious and held a high price tag in it!

It's basically a jackpot!

Leaving these things aside, the ores in the dungeon are also having a high demand on the market in every country as the raw material of magic item needed by Alchemist and other Magic Item Artisan.

That's why even if by chance that I didn't sell it for money, I can use these ores for creating a high-quality magic item or powerful weapon to arm my army.

Anyway, enough talking about the gold ores here.

Let's move to another topic, shall we?

Right now, we stay in this gold cave and hid from the sandstorm that already hit the rocky area outside.

Long story short, just after we found this cave, Alexa warned us that the sandstorm would hit this area within an hour, and so we decided to stay inside the cave to hide from the sandstorm, waiting for it to gradually passed and disappeared.

To better utilize the time we were trapped here, I gave an order to my Undead army to begin excavated and mining the gold ores here.

And so, with the Undead doing all the work, we ended up with a lot of free time.

Since we have nothing better to do, we began to find ourselves some work and became busy.

Anna and Anni who decided to oversee the Undead work, with their own mysterious reason aside, Alexa decided to observe the sandstorm through the gap of the rusty iron door( I also don't know why she was doing it... as expected, maybe we just want to spend our free time here doing random stuff...).

As for me? This time, I began to work and realized my idea about being more creative, after brainstorming a lot about finding a way to explore this desert more efficiently.

That is, creating a magic car that could run properly throughout the desert! 

With some raw ores I found throughout the dungeon, I began to utilize the production skills that lying-off without being used inside my Skill Storage.

Since I already created the magic car before, its blueprint was already automatically saved inside my Magic Engineering skill.

So what I just need to do is to slightly edit some part within the design of the blueprint for it to become a normal magic car blueprint( Not the levitating one) that can run properly in the desert with a fast speed.

Yes!

As you guys already know, the levitating function of my magic car isn't working properly here inside the dungeon, so it somewhat becomes useless right now.

Anyway, considering how slow our exploration in this hell desert, finding a transportation way that helps us explore the desert faster was necessary, thus I decided to spend my free time here by making the car here, inside the cave.

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With some of the Blacksmith production skills that I copied from some blacksmith inside my hidden city inhabitant, I began to make a special ingot from the ores I collected from this dungeon.

From this ingot, I began to make the steel out of it, shaping and assembling it into a skeleton of the magic car, as well as the Magic core machine that will become the source energy of my magic car to run.

The difficult part I faced during the work was at the part of the ores refining part.

Since this was the first time I did some blacksmithing, my movement and skill were still somewhat stiff even with the help of the skill.

But just like what the wise one once said, "failure is the mother of success".

Taking a lot of failure at the beginning, I gradually become more and more skillful before successfully refined the ores and changing them into a proper ingot.

And started from here, the work will become easier.

With the raw material already refined, what I need to do is following the new design of the car inside of my Magic Engineer skill.

With some of the leftover materials as well as items from my previous experiment of the magic car I did in the past lying around inside of my inventory, I didn't have to buy anything else with my Online Shopping Skill( considering it became unusable right now).

And just like that, I created a new magic car that resembling a lot of monster trucks in my previous world.

But of course, it was much bigger and the inside is more comfortable than the normal monster truck from my previous world.

Furthermore, with a heavy machine that powered up from the high-rank magic stone, this car is fiercer than the monster car in my previous world.

And don't forget the durable and light special steel made by the dungeon ores!

With some magic enchantment here and there, this ride will be perfect for us, who need some special means of transportation within this hell desert.

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After I finished with the thing about making a magic car, I checked my Undead Army to see the progress of their work here.

Meeting Anna and Anni, they told me that the Undead already mining about 70% of the total Gold ores inside this cave.

Looking at how the work progress of the Undead, It seems my work about making a special magic car was longer than I expected.

Anna and Anni told me that I already spend a day, working on the magic car-making with a high concentration.

Ma… working tend to make us forget about the time after all~

Anyway, since the Undead is still not finished mining the Gold ore here, I decided to stay in this cave for the time being.

[Come to think of it, where's Alexa?]

Recalling Alexa that was not around, I asked the twin about her whereabouts.

[Ah, it seems she's still at the entrance, observing the sandstorm outside~]

Anna briefly replied.

[Huh? Did the sandstorm is not finished yet? I thought we already pass one day here?]

[I didn't know in detail about it, rather isn't it better if you ask Alexa herself? she's more knowledgeable than us in this area after all]

Anna suggested.

And so, I nodded at the two of them before leaving them who were seem busy observing the Undead working to find Alexa.

Huh? You guys asked why did the Twin interested in observing my undead who work automatically like a machine?

I also didn't know what was inside their head by doing that, so better ask them yourself!

Leaving that aside, with Anna's suggestion, I go to Alexa whereabout.

Seeing she was sitting with her leg crossed on top of the cave floor and absentmindedly peeking the outside scenery through the gap of the rusty iron door which was not tightly shut, I became curious and decided to approach her.

[Alexa, what are you doing?]

Hearing me calling her name, she came back to her sense and turned her head to me.

Without replying, she just smiled( Albeit stiff), waiting for me to came closer, and sat beside her without a word.

Upon seeing me just sat beside her, she began to start the conversation.

[Did you finish creating that weird huge carriage thing?]

[huh? Did you observe me working on making it before?]

[Ah, I just glance at you who was busy making that stuff from here from time to time…

That weird carriage, did you created it to help us explore the desert terrain in the hell desert?]

[You're quite sharp…

You're right, we need some mean to make our exploration faster after all~]

[umm… you really have a vast variety of skills… I wonder how you can all that much of production skill aside from being so powerful with your combat ability.

…..

Maybe this is the difference of being the blessed one, you guys sure are special]

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Sensing a hint of sadness in her latter part of the sentence, I chose to be silent.

If I talked about some bullshit of me being ordinary and trying to be humble here, it will just annoy her for sure.

... After all, I know how she felt as I was once like in her position before.

...….. Silence .....

'Kuh, this awkward silence is killing me!'

[A-anyway, Alexa, maybe it's already late to ask it, but may I know about what reason you came here for?

I thought your party decided to take some break for a while?]

And so, I decided to break the silence by asking her this.

Truth be told, I actually quite curious about her reason too, but decided to not ask her before.

Now, since we were alone, maybe I can ask her this privately.

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[there's no deep reason on it.

I just decided to spend my time here and train to stay sharp.

….

Alex, how about you? Why you decided to explore this dungeon?]

[Me? I just want to train my people and so I bring them here~]

[Is that so…]

..... Silence .....

'This Silent again!! it's surely really hard to have a decent conversation with this woman!'

[Alex, about your proposal before… can I really take it?]

Alexa suddenly said and asked out of nowhere....

….

Huh?

Did I mishear something?

[Pardon?]

…

[The proposal about joining your harem, can I really enter it?]

This time, she gazed at my eyes with a very serious expression.

'What the hell is this woman?!! Why did she suddenly come to this topic?!..... hey, there's something wrong with how our conversation goes right?!!!'

As I having this chaotic thought inside my head, I just gazed at her eyes back with an incredulous face, confused.

Right now, I'm really confused by her abrupt question.

'This woman… she is really hard to read…'

'What exactly the heck inside her head right now?!'