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389 Extraction
Seeing that many stones, Ajax was flabbergasted and felt overwhelmed as he felt that he was in a dream.
"Th...this is a spirit stone mine,"
It took Ajax a few seconds to recover from his surprise and carefully looked at the red stones in front of him.
That's right!
The place in front of Ajax was a spirit stone mine. To be exact it was a fire elemental spirit stone mine.
A spirit stone mine was a place where spirit stones were extracted and it would take years or decades or even centuries for a single spirit stone mine to form.
This spirit stone mines would be formed when the essence of nature of any element was gathered or concentrated in a specific place for a specific time.
'This looks like a low-level spirit stone mine that means it must have been formed in the last few years,' Ajax picked one of the fire spirit stones and checked the purity of it before concluding that the mine was only formed a few years ago.
The more years a spirit stone mine takes to form, then the spirit stone's quality produced by that mine would also be increased along with it.
If it takes decades to form a spirit stone mine then all the spirit stones in it would be medium-level spirit stones. Similarly, if it takes centuries, then there would be high-level spirit stones.
'With these many spirit stones, I can buy many things in the dimensional crevice,' Ajax was excited as he started checking the size of the spirit stone mine.
Even though he didn't check the size of the spirit stone mine yet, he was able to guess, the mine should contain at least 10 million spirit stones, so he started thinking about ways to spend it.
'Adding this 10 million spirit stones to the previous 10 million spirit stones that the system has rewarded, I don't need to worry about spirit stones for some time,'
His hands were very skilful and the way he used the fireball was also very good making Ajax think, 'I think, he can be a good mine worker.'
Nevertheless, he only thought about it jokingly and he doesn't want one of his strongest elemental spirits to be mine worker.
Next to him, Nite used his first skill 'Brute Strength' which multiplies his strength by a factor of two. With that strength, he used his beast-like hand to extract the spirit stones from the walls of the spirit stone mine.
As for Bane, the poison elemental spirit, he used his 'Poison Scythe' along with the Scythe dao and carefully slashed the rocks of the spirit stone mine and collected a bunch of spirit stones in a single attack and he continued to repeat the process.
Among all the elemental spirits, the mining efficiency of Dabrus, the shadow elemental spirit was very less when compared to others as he doesn't have a suitable skill to extract more spirit stones in a single attack.
Nevertheless, he tried his best to extract something as per Ajax's order.
If Dabrus was the least efficient among all the elemental spirits, Slait was the most efficient one as he was able to extract four times more than Volcanis and Bane.
Slait directly used his skill 'Earth Clone' and continuously created 'Sand Dunes' and extracted thousands of spirit stones in a few minutes making Ajax flabbergasted.
'If I have another 1 or 2 earth elemental spirits, this extraction process will be completed in a few hours. Now I need at least 10 hours or even more,' Ajax thought having earth time elemental spirits was best when extracting something and in the end, he sighed as he had to wait for 10 or more hours to completely extract this spirit stone mine.
Nevertheless, he also started extracting the spirit stones, since one more additional hand would decrease the time taken to complete the process of extraction.
Beside him, Snow also used her lightning attacks to help Ajax.
Even though he said that there was no need for Sow to take this troublesome work, she was adamant on helping him.
As for why Ajax had asked her to not work was not because she was a beautiful girl or whatever, he just wanted Cerauno and Snow to take some rest as they went through some serious events just a while ago.
Similarly, Cerauno also started helping in the extraction.
As every elemental spirit was busy with the extraction, Ajax slowly glanced at the strengths of all his elemental spirits while extracting the spirit stones.