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The Iron Worm, which lost Ian, began destroying the mines in fury or madness.

But if you look closely, he wasn't just destroying the mines.

It swallows up minerals and fills its bellies.

"Ironsworms, I heard. They grow on minerals." ’

His body grows bigger every time he swallows evil spirits and minerals.

About 10 minutes after that, his body was about 1.5 times larger.

‘Hmm, I think I can almost see the attack pattern……. ’

Ian wasn't just staring at the swarm without thinking, he was lying on his back, avoiding the view of the swarm.

In case the worm's weaknesses are exposed, we've identified his attack patterns and techniques.

‘I haven't found my weakness yet, but it's worth a shot. ’

There are no real weaknesses in a swarm with a steel covering.

But the reason Ian thought it was worth it was because of a relatively simple pattern of Swarm attacks.

He may be violent, offensive, and defensive, but the rest of his body is slow and clumsy.

Ian, who has mastered a myriad of boss patterns, moves the Iron Worm to make it look simple.

“Heave-ho!”

Ian, who got up from the back of the mangle, took a deep breath once.

“Carpenter, you stay here. We don't know when to escape. ”

Phew! Phew!

Ian, who stroked his head once, leaps forward to the swam without hesitation.

Trying to find his weakness by sticking it directly into his giant head.

You little...!

Ian's new statue falls towards him, with sharp ripples.

Ian, who held the long spear upside down, pushed it as hard as he could toward his back head.

However, the place where Ian's spear ended up was the neck, not the back of the swarm.

The original target was to be the head of the Swarm, but the moving wind caused him to land on the back of his neck.

Kuaang -!

Ian's spear snaps into the back of the swarm as the big bang echoes.

- You dealt fatal damage to the Epic Monster 'Iron Worm of Magic Power’!

- Reduces the health of Magic Iron Worm by 1!

However, unlike the sound of a massive rupture, the Iron Worm only suffered one damage.

Grrrrrrrrrrr!

Ian's attack makes the Iron Worm roar, and Ian on his back goes crazy.

And as he began to twist and seizure, Ian flew and grabbed the spur on the neck of the worm.

Fortunately, the Ironsworm's skin is very bumpy and doesn't worry about slipping.

‘Ugh, I have to go up to my head...' ’

Ian looks up at the back of the giant swarm and grips his teeth.

Ian's first objective: the crown of the Iron Worm.

The weakness of the large monsters was often in his head, so Ian decided to try and climb up there somehow.

Kievik-!

When Ian couldn't find where he went, the Iron Worm roared with large eyes.

Ian, who was hanging by his neck, quickly swapped weapons.

- You have unlocked the 'Spear of Valor’ item.

- Equipped with the item 'Tiver's Sturdy Pickaxe’.

Ian suddenly pulls out his pickaxe for no other reason.

We can't do any good with weapons anyway, so we pulled out a pickaxe to make it easier to move around.

I was going to climb up his back head with a pickaxe, like climbing a rock peak at all.

The Ironsworm's skin resembles that of a rocky mountain, so it appears to be quite possible.

“Hehe!”

Ian holds a firm grip on one of the spurs with his left hand, raising the pickaxe in the air with his right hand.

Then you press your best into the skin of the Ironsworm.

Stick it in!

Quadruck-!

But then the next moment.

“ ……? ”

An unexpected system message appeared before Ian's eyes.

- Tyring!

- Mining failed.

- The Durability of 'Tiver's Sturdy Pickaxe’ items is reduced by 1.

- You dealt fatal damage to the Epic Monster 'Iron Worm of Magic Power’!

- Magic Iron Worm HP reduced by 95!

The pickaxe received from Tiber does not have an "Attack" stat attached to it.

Because of this, 99 percent of the damage done with a pickaxe is caused by Ian's own attack power.

But you've taken 95 hits? ’

Given that the damage inflicted by the 'Spear of Valor’, a well-crafted item, converges on 1, this is an utterly ridiculous situation.

‘What is it? Is there a secret to this pickaxe? ’

Ian raises his pickaxe again.

Then he began to elongate himself towards the skin of the Iron Worm.

Boom, boom, boom!

Ian slaps a pickaxe with his skilled hand held in his body as if he were mining minerals.

In Kailan, mining is fundamental to pickaxing with a uniform force in the right place.

How finely you pick a pickaxe on the same spot determines the quality of the ore being mined.

So Ian's hand, which had been pickaxing for over a hundred hours, had melted the basics of such mining techniques, and Ian's pickaxe continued to hold the same spot.

Kweek!

The Iron Worm struggles harder and harder, but Ian doesn't stop pickaxing, hung up like a villain.

- Mining failed.

- Mining failed.

- The Durability of 'Tiver's Sturdy Pickaxe’ items is reduced by 1.

- You dealt fatal damage to the Epic Monster 'Iron Worm of Magic Power’!

- Reduces the health of the Magic Iron Worm by 127!

- Magic Iron Worm HP reduced by 136!

- Reduces the health of the Magic Iron Worm by 152!

And as he continued to pick up his pickaxe, Ian's expression became more and more odd.

‘This is a mining pickaxe, so it's a little more dealable...' ’

It was certainly much better than swinging a spear, but it was still a blurry situation.

Whether it was 1 or 100, it was not enough damage without a chin.

Killing this monster with that amount of damage is virtually impossible.

‘Let's think a little more. I'm sure there's an answer to this pickaxe. ’

Ian pauses at the pickaxe, hanging from the neck of the swarm, and looks around his body.

And after a while...

Ian's eyes widened as he discovered something.

‘Is that blue spot...? ’

The blue spots that caught Ian's eye were shining all over the torso of the Iron Worm.

This is the spot where every time a swarm ate something, it wasn't there when it first appeared.

Maybe those blue spots are meant to be the weaknesses of the swarm.

“Heave-ho!”

Once you've organized your thoughts, Ian dares to fly!

Blame-!

Ian then landed on a light blue spot and swung his pickaxe.

Then you start pickaxing again with a cautious look.

Hoping for a significant level of damage this time.

Boom, boom, boom!

But then the next moment.

“Huh?"

Ian's face was more embarrassing than ever.

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- We've hit the exact location.

-There is a crack in the grain of the bed.

- Mining failed.

- You obtained a 'Dimensional Magic Stone Fragment’.

- Mining failed.

- You obtained a 'Dimensional Magic Stone Fragment’.

Ian was embarrassed.

I only attacked the Iron Worm because I thought its weaknesses were exposed, but I suddenly found minerals.

"Illumination" refers to the location where minerals aggregate, and it was found in the skin of the monster Sandworm, so Ian couldn't help but be embarrassed.

"What the hell is this? Is this monster even a living mine? ’

Even after pickaxing at the mineral site, the sandworm has taken no damage from even 1.

This makes it clear that this blue spot is not a weakness.

Furthermore, when he came to this point, Ian began to think in a slightly different direction.

‘Maybe this Epic Monster, Ironsworm, wasn't made to be defeated in the first place. ’

If what the blue spot means is not a weakness, but a point where ore can be mined, then this might not be a second chance.

And as he ran his thoughts, Ian was able to clearly understand what to do from now on.

‘Yes, let's think of it as mining in a moving mine. The difficulty is a bit harsh... But it's worth a shot. ’

Ian first opened his inventory and examined the information on the Magic Stone Fragment he had just acquired.

I needed to make sure this fragment was useful, too.

- Dimensional Magic Stone Fragment

Classification: General Goods

Rating: None

A ‘Dimensional Magic Stone’ fragment that is only mined in a Dimensional Forest Mine.

If you collect 10 Fragments and bring them to Blacksmith Tiber, there is a chance you can restore them to an intact ‘Dimensional Magic Stone’.

Fragments that fail to restore will vanish in place.

* Items disappearing when taken outside of a dimensional forest.

Ian's mouth dries up as he checks the information window.

Although there is a chance of failure, if it is possible to collect the fragments and form a Rough Stone, this giant Iron Swarm is truly prowling.

Grrrrrrrgh!

An Iron Worm that sticks to its back to pick up its pickaxe or keeps twisting its body.

But Ian, who was stuck on it like a leech, had no intention of falling apart.

I was going to settle down and farm here.

“I'm not moving here until I pull out 5,000 pieces, you son of a bitch. ”

Either he's threatening the Iron Worm, or he's determined to do it himself. Ian makes a terrifying remark, putting two feet between the grooves made of pickaxes.

And once your whole body is firmly in place, again, seriously.) I started pickaxing with my face.

Boom, boom, boom!

Ian's teasing is more than a few times more stable than pickaxing with one hand!

Every time Ian slaps a pickaxe into the skin of a swarm, the blue waves begin to surge around him.