My Skill Bar is Full of Monster Skills-Chapter 136 - 123: Such a Lucky Break?

"I think that foreman is lying; his gaze was evasive both times when he spoke." At this moment, the mage Loren, who had been silent, spoke up.

"Of course, this is just one point."

"And also, although the tasks issued by the Association often don’t match the reality, don’t forget, this time we’re on a promotion task."

"If it’s merely a prank by a miner, I suppose the Association wouldn’t be foolish enough to make it a Black Iron-level promotion task."

"I agree with Mr. Loren’s opinion. This Bonds, it’s the second time I’ve met him..." Raine then briefly recounted what happened last time.

"Hmm? Last time, it was Mr. Raine who discovered the Gray Dwarves?"

"Yes."

"Then let’s go find that foreman now, Karg will break his ribs to make him confess honestly."

"Not suitable; since the other party obviously has problems, going to find him now would clearly alert the enemy."

"Our task is to confirm the intelligence on the Gray Dwarves, there’s no point in lingering here."

"Let’s check out Thirteen Mine."

Raine, of course, did not object to this.

"Let the carriage continue for a while, Thirteen Mine, if I remember correctly, is right here." Raine pointed in an outward direction.

....

On the other side.

At the miner camp.

Seeing the carriage slowly drive away, foreman Bonds finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"A squad of classes, aura refined, they should all be Black Iron-level adventurer squad."

"Damn, which bastard secretly reported."

Muttering, Bonds, drenched in fine rain, shrank his shoulders as he walked back.

But suddenly, Bonds was startled as if shocked by electricity, it took a few seconds, then he suddenly slapped his thigh and shouted loudly:

"Damn! I remember now!"

"That horned helmet guy, isn’t he the one who killed So..."

"Damn it, must report immediately!"

"Damn, I should have said there are Gray Dwarves and let these guys go straight down!"

....

After the carriage drove a few hundred meters, it stopped by the roadside.

Raine’s group circled around, taking advantage of the drizzly autumn rain and dark clouds, they soon arrived at Thirteen Mine.

"Abandoned mine?" Royce frowned slightly.

"Last time we were in an abandoned mine too." Raine glanced around and found it was the same as his memory, located in the left front of the previous abandoned mine.

This made him more certain of the authenticity of the information written on the paper.

"These wooden boards are loose, seems like someone went in." At this moment, the dwarf warrior Bruno, walking at the front, picked up a wooden board used to seal the entrance, and said.

"Let’s go, check it out first."

"Wait! Could it be an ambush?"

At this time, a slight voice came from the abandoned mine: "Lords, hurry and come in."

Judging by the tone, it seems like a middle-aged male.

"It’s that miner’s voice, go in and find out the situation." Raine immediately recognized it as the miner who had fallen.

The other party being so cautious cannot be just for a prank.

Soon, the group entered Thirteen Abandoned Mine and quickly restored the sealing plates at the entrance.

"Light Technique!"

As Loren chanted softly, waving his short wand, four bright points appeared around, resembling fireflies but more dazzling, instantly illuminating over ten meters of the mine.

The just fallen miner, covered in mud, seemed to relax a lot upon seeing the Light Technique.

"Having a mage, that’s great."

"Lords, I’m a Kingdom Military Intelligence Ninth Bureau informant. My supervisor is Mr. Montoya, but three days ago he went down to check things out and never came back up."

"He told me he already contacted the Association through secret channels, and if an investigation team came over these days, they must go down the mine to investigate."

"Military Intelligence Ninth Bureau? Don’t you have your intelligence channels?" Royce frowned slightly and said, "Why contact the Adventurer’s Association?"

This question was on the minds of others present too.

"I don’t know the specifics, I’m just an informant, but I heard Mr. Montoya say he contacted the Dorne City branch but got no response for a long time."

"Then why not contact the Dorne City’s sheriff or governor?"

"I don’t know, but Lord Montoya said that his predecessor, Old Johnny, seemed to have contacted the Dorne City’s sheriff, and then suddenly an accident occurred."

Hearing this, Raine felt that the words of the informant before him were fairly reliable.

Because he had previously heard Reya mention Old Johnny’s matter.

He just didn’t expect that the other party was the personnel stationed by the Kingdom Military Intelligence Ninth Bureau at the Azure Mine.

"During this time, more than ten miners have died in our mine, but they all died from accidents, and the matter was suppressed by the foreman Bonds and the captain of the guards here, Cassius."

"Lord Montoya can’t reach those above, but he said if it’s confirmed that the evil race of Gray Dwarves appears in the Azure Mine, the Adventurer’s Association can directly intervene."

At the side, Loren nodded, agreeing with this statement.

"Indeed, according to Article Fourteen of the Valzeg Continent convention, if invaded by evil forces or races, the Adventurer’s Association has the right to issue a task to address it, and report to relevant tribes, city-states, kingdoms, and empires of the territory."

"This means the association has actually received Lord Montoya’s secret message, hence they are using this exploration task as our promotion assessment."

"In that case, there’s no need to return to Mill Town."

"Task confirmation is accurate."

"I don’t see the point in overthinking this. Since the task requires Gray Dwarves’ corpses, then killing Gray Dwarves should be enough," Karg said impatiently.

"If possible, sirs, I hope you can help rescue Lord Montoya." At this moment, a miner earnestly pleaded.

"We’ll try our best." Royce didn’t really want to get involved with the miner’s request.

Before taking on this promotion assessment task, he had already learned that generally, the difficulty of these tasks isn’t high. Normally, just bringing back a weapon used by a Gray Dwarf would barely suffice.

If one can kill and bring back the corpse of a Gray Dwarf, they are sure to pass, with a chance to earn reward points.

Just becoming a Black Iron Level Adventurer and having points is naturally a great thing.

"Is it down here?" Impatiently, Karg raised his giant axe, pointing towards the depths of the mine.

"Yes, sir, take two consecutive left turns, and that’s where Lord Montoya discovered the Gray Dwarves," the miner said.

"Wait a moment, what do the others think?"

...

In the depths of the underground.

Inside a subterranean hall by the Dark River.

The sound of fierce arguments could be heard even from tens of meters away.

"Damn it, Thorne, you should bring this matter up with Lilith." A blond man in a blue-and-white magic robe held his forehead, feeling quite exasperated with the Gray Dwarf Commander before him.

"I’m not in charge of assassination units."

"Aiel, the internal issues of your organization have nothing to do with me. Since you agreed to this, naturally, I’m coming to you." Clad in heavy armor and holding a warhammer like a rock, Gray Dwarf Commander Thorne calmly said.

But this calmness felt like the calm before a storm.

As for Aiel’s explanation, Thorne naturally didn’t approve at all.

"Damn it! Where am I supposed to find those two!" Suddenly, Aiel calmed down as if receiving some kind of message, appearing to listen quietly.

Seconds later, Aiel turned to look at the Gray Dwarf Commander Thorne with a rather strange gaze. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

This odd gaze made Thorne suddenly feel somewhat uneasy inside.

"Aiel, you?"

Just as Thorne intended to ask something, Aiel spoke:

"Thorne, perhaps you should thank the divine beings your Gray Dwarves worship. The murderer of your brother is in the mine above."

"However, they are currently leaving the Azure Mine. If you hurry, perhaps you can catch up soon."

"What?!" Thorne’s eyes suddenly widened, incredulously.

"Really?"

"Really."

"Alright! I’ll go immediately!" After saying this, Thorne turned to leave.

But in the next second, Aiel was stunned again; this time, his eyes also widened, surprised:

"Wait, the guardian array indicates there are six Classes Level energy waves intruding."

"Six, the numbers match. Could it be...."

"It’s the adventurer squad just reported by the surface, they’ve returned?"

"Hmm? Aiel, do you mean they’ve come down?" For a time, Thorne’s expression was also peculiar.

"It should be."

"Such good fortune?" Thorne murmured.

He remembered clearly; it had been a long time since he prayed to the respected Radug, the patron deity of Gray Dwarves...

....