Monster Integration

I reached my section and without wasting any seconds; I begin to mine as I do it daily. My movements are practiced, and my strikes are hitting the spots, the way I want them.

Two hours passed, and I have amassed a huge amount of daros crystals, and I am mining for more.

In my storage, huge piles of daros crystals are getting refined under the huge formations covering a large area, under the energy provided by the daros crystals itself.

A very inefficient method wasted a lot of daros crystals, but I do not have a choice. I could not just buy the things from the point store and start purifying them efficiently.

I am very sure, some of the things have been kept there for the purpose to catch the people like me.

The people running the mine are not idiots. They know very well that there are thousands of methods and artifacts that they could not detect. So, they placed those things as a trap.

I am planning on taking some of those things, but for valid reasons. They will know it when they spy on me.

Another hour passed, and I continued to mine, but my expression has turned serious. As I am planning on doing, that I have not done before. It is a very risky thing, and I had waited three weeks for it before making up my mind.

'Now, Nero,' I said while I had continued to mine.

Nero moved through my arm before entering inside the wall. I have carefully investigated and know they did not move their soul sense more than an inch into the wall.

The toxin is sticky and even if their level is higher; they did not want to take a chance with it. Not to mention, even their soul sense wouldn't be able to go deeper than twenty inches.

To go deeper than that, they will have to practice the detection method.

My method is simple. I want Nero to investigate and create a small tunnel for me to escape. For more than a month inside, he practiced with stones. Now he can effortlessly float inside them.

'The Prime world is really amazing, father,' said Nero from the wall. With his voice being tinted with shock. "It is also dangerous, so be careful," I cautioned, barely keeping the shock from my voice.

As Nero went inside, he begin to absorb the energies like crazy and it is not the normal energies he is absorbing, but toxins.

Thankfully, he is moving around, not staying in any place for more than a second. If he did it, he will drain one area too much and might get discovered. He is smart and understood that, without me telling him.

Hun!

He moved around while I mined. He would discover crystals and take them. It continued for over fifteen minutes before, suddenly, the pick-ax in my suddenly stopped before hitting the wall.

Nero comes across the crystal, not a crystal size of a finger or a hand, but one that is even bigger than me.

A huge load and what makes it even more shocking is its grate. It is not common P1, but P2. It is big enough to earn me my freedom.

Nero looked at it, before opening his mouth and swallowing it whole, and moving further below.

Nero did not touch the crystals near me, but he is taking it all of those away and I am ecstatic.

With the speed, he is collecting crystals. I will have a massive amount of it within a day and if I escaped safely, I wouldn't have worried about resources for quite a while.

As these crystals will buy me every resource, I will need to progress at this level.

Hours passed and with every hour, Nero was harnessing so many resources, I had not harvested even in a week. P1, P2, P3, you name it. He is finding them and taking them.

My eyes went red just thinking about the sheer amount of crystals he had accumulated so far and still doing it every minute.

If this continued, then in the matter of a few days, I would have so many daros crystals that I had never thought I would have since coming here. Still, despite collecting such wealth, Nero's eyes focused on our target.

It is to survey the ground and find the exit.

No matter the crystals we accumulate, they will be useless. If we do not escape from here. I am willing to sacrifice all the crystals and every resource in my storage to escape from here.

Lost resources could be earned, but life is not. Once it is gone, it will be gone forever.

Hun!

Suddenly Nero stopped, but this time, there was no crystal in front of him. He just stopped and closed his eyes.

He kept them close for a little over a minute before opening. 'Father, there is a life-detection artifact buried deep inside here,' informed Nero, and I am not one bit surprised about it.

I had expected it. This mine is precious, and it wouldn't be without such protection, and I am glad it is there.

'Can we be able to fool it?' I asked him worriedly. 'Definitely,' Nero replied and a smile couldn't help but appear on my face.

A second later, he resumed exploration, going deeper and deeper inside the mine, finding more life-detection artifacts.

There seemed to be a whole web of them. It couldn't help but make me curious about how they have buried them deep.

Maybe they have used some sovereign-level method or maybe they have used some type of spatial method.

I do not care what method they have used; it is good enough for me that I would be able to fool them.

Currently, Nero is making a map of the whole underground. Even with his ability to float underground, it will take him a few days to map the whole underground. Then he will have to make the tunnel through which we will escape.

It all seemed very easy, and it is, but also very difficult, as a hundred things could go wrong with it.

We will need to be very careful and if everything went well, then it might not take even a month for us to escape.

Nero is doing well at his end, and I will have to do well too. I will have to deal with the collar.

It is very dangerous. If I go out of its range, it will explode, taking my head with it.

I had made good progress on it; I had looked through most of its defenses and found a way to break them. There are only three remaining, and my clone and I are scouring the library for the safest way to break through them.

A month will be more than enough for me to do it.

For the first time since I had come to this mine. I had found a way to escape and now I can't wait to do it. There is a huge world for me to explore and grow.

Find my family and friends. I will make it happen and the first step to accomplishing it all will be escaping the hell out of this mine.