Chapter 60: Beetle Part 6 (1/2)

Chapter 60: Beetle (Part 6)

The crystal lantern let out a warm glow of light, shining on the path ahead, causing the scenes in front to grow clearer.

This was a giant open space, extremely spacious. It seemed as if it were a mountain that had been completely dug out. In the middle of the open space was a large pit, and a few skeletons were inside of it. However, it was hard to tell if the corpses were of beast or human.

Su Chen walked in and said, “Does this count as finding uncharted territory? Iron Cliff.”

“I think so, Master. However, it doesn’t seem like this uncharted territory has any value,” Iron Cliff replied simply and honestly.

“That might not be true.” Su Chen said, looking at his surroundings. The crystal lantern illuminated the walls, and then he pointed and said, “Let’s try mining here.”

Iron Cliff hefted the iron pickaxe and walked towards it.

The piercing sound of a pickaxes on rock once again echoed in the open space.

Not long afterwards, Iron Cliff actually did find a piece of starsilver. One could easily tell from the brilliant silver light that this was an extremely high-quality ore.

Iron Cliff’s energy was stirred up, and he began to swing the pickaxe with even more speed.

Piece after piece of ore was mined out the wall by Iron Cliff. After breaking through the outer rock layer, starsilver of all shapes and sizes appeared. In just an hour’s time, they had obtained more starsilver than they had from the past few days combined.

Not only was there lots of starsilver here, the starsilver was also pure. Su Chen picked up a piece of ore and estimated that there was at least thirty percent starsilver in the ore.

This was already quite a high purity content for starsilver ore.

However, it seemed as if the good times were only just beginning.

With a clatter, another starsilver ore the size of his fist fell onto the ground/

This piece’s purity was even higher. Based on the brilliance of its silver light, it was probably at least fifty percent pure.

A top-grade starsilver ore.

Even Su Chen had to sigh in amazement.

It was at this time, the ground suddenly trembled slightly.

It was not a strong tremor. However, Su Chen and Iron Cliff felt it at the same time.

Could it be that an earthquake was about to hit? If that was the case, then things were about to go south very quickly.

But Su Chen realized that this was not the case in the next instant because those tremors were increasing in strength, heading in his direction.

Su Chen jumped backwards purely out of instinct.

As he flew into the air, he saw that two giant scythes had cut into where he had been standing just a moment ago. If Su Chen had moved any slower, he would have already been cut into two.

As those two scythes landed on thin air, a howl sounded out, and an enormous maw emerged from the ground. That maw was extremely terrifying; its mouth was filled with razor-sharp teeth, and it oozed with a sticky mucus that actually melted the rock as it dripped to the ground. Those two giant scythes earlier were actually the two mandibles below the large maw. When they opened and closed, they made an unsettling sound.

This monstrosity had just crawled out of the ground. Apart from its frightening maw and keen mandibles, it also had a thick, hard outer shell on its rear section. The shell on this rear section also had two thin wings that flapped constantly.

This was clearly a beetle!

However, until now, Su Chen had never seen such a large beetle. Its mouth could swallow him whole, and it could probably even force Iron Cliff down.

“What the hell, what is this monster?” Su Chen said as he saw an existence that he had never heard of appear before him.

Iron Cliff’s jaw had also dropped.

Su Chen slowly pulled out the Moon-Swallowing Heavenly Wolf Blade, pointing it at this giant beetle.