I'm The supreme Fairy King

Chapter 225: Mining The Cave

Jim stood in front of a very broad ore vein that stretched from the ground until the ceiling of the cave before vanishing behind the rocks there.

'Put your hands over the rock surface and see,' the old man said, 'it's all brimming with energy, something you desperately need.'

'But... won't that be too excessive for me?' Jim turned around, 'after all there is no enemy here to fight.'

He used to absorb energy and release it during fights.

'You forgot? This is the depth of the pit,' the old man laughed, 'many monsters are lying in wait here.'

Jim understood his idea before putting his hand over the surface of the cave. The walls felt a bit cold, and strangely covered with a layer of water.

"Boom!"

The moment he touched the rocky wall and got out his sword, a muffled explosive sound erupted, attracting everyone's attention.

"What's happening?" Hector came running from far while Jim started to have a wild aura around him. The vein he was touching had a blue dark color, and he felt like he was absorbing dark fire inside his body.

"I'm absorbing the energy as you can see," Jim simply answered without pausing for one second off what he was doing.

"For what?" Hector was speechless, "you should mine it, not..."

"Crack!"

Before he could continue his words, the wall suddenly cracked. It started with small branches that extended from Jim's hand before extending everywhere around.

"Bang!"

Then pieces of rocks fell on the ground, causing much louder noise. "They are turning to dust!" Hector was speechless there for a brief moment before finally getting the idea of Jim.

"Brilliant," he patted on both shoulders of Jim before adding, "but how much energy can you take?"

"Small... I believe," Jim answered.

"Then stop when you feel full."

"No, I plan to continue digging," Jim said while extending both hands this time towards the main vein. Yet he didn't put them together, but spanned them as far as he could. "I'll find a monster and kill."

"..."

Hector was speechless as he stood beside Jim watching what he was doing like everyone else.

For them Jim was doing some kind of magic, or something foolish.

"Bang!"

This time the rocks fell to the ground in large numbers but they didn't turn to dust. "Some still retain their full energy," Hector grabbed some pieces to examine, "and some had lost part of theirs."

"An accepted loss I believe," Jim said before putting his hand deeper inside the gap he just created. "This way we can have much more ores than we initially imagined, right?"

"You heard the man," Hector turned to his men, "start copying him now."

"But boss..."

"Just do it and you'll be amazed by the result," Hector glanced again at Jim before asking, "how long can you sustain this?"

"Five more minutes... give or take."

"Good, there is a monster not far from us. You can reach it in less than two minutes," Hector said before firmly adding, "I'll accompany you to make sure you won't die on its hands."

Jim smiled and said nothing before continuing his weird way of digging. Once reaching to the main body of the vein, digging started to be fun.

This vein is really huge," after a few minutes he had to stop while watching the small tunnel he just created. "Three meters depth, meaning one meter per second," he calculated in his mind and felt some hope of getting out.

'You need first to solve your extra energy problem,' the old man warned, 'you gained some benefits, but there is a huge amount of energy you need to ditch.'

"No problem," Jim started to activate his spell by pointing his sword to the ground. "I'm ready to move at any time," he shouted, distracting everyone from what they were doing.

Yet their eyes to him this time seemed a bit different. They tested his theory and got a sweet taste of his brilliant idea.

"Follow me," Hector suddenly shouted as he appeared at the beginning of the tunnel, "ten of you come with me now," he added and instantly ten volunteered to move while more stopped where they were as they were a bit late.

"You have some loyal followers here," Jim said in some envy while running behind Hector in the tunnel.

"This thanks to part of me and part of you," Hector laughed, "after all you are turning them into rich bastards."

He laughed and the ten running with him laughed as well.

"Listen, this monster is like a worm with a strange agile tongue like a frog. It has a strong venom in its tongue, so keep yourself away as possible from the tongue."

"Is it that dangerous?" Jim couldn't help but ask.

"Everything moving down here is very dangerous," Hector said in agreement, "just stay behind us and release all your energy then retreat when I say so."

Jim felt surprised by this arrangement. "Shouldn't we kill it?"

"We can't," Hector went straightforward, "or else why do you think we stopped here?"

"Because this is the farthest you can reach given your time," Jim said in doubt.

"It's because we can't proceed further," Hector corrected, "this monster had a very weird ability to heal itself from any injury. Even when I attacked it, it healed itself in less than one minute. Can you believe that?"

Jim felt how dangerous this new monster was. "Isn't there anything else?" he asked.

"Feeling afraid already little boy?" one of the ten laughed while Hector said:

"There is only one monster dominating each level in this darkness."

"Sigh, no other option then."

Jim thought to release his energy over the rocks or even at the darkness outside, however his old man warned him that would only release it on a very slow rate, risking to cause him more damage than he initially had.

After all, he was already wounded... twice in a row.

"Be ready," as they reached the end of the tunnel, Hector said before turning to those standing in watch, "any news?"

"No boss, everything looks fine," one of those staying back to guard said.

"Keep your eyes open for me," he warned, "I'm heading down. If those bastards tried to come after us then don't hesitate to shout and bring the others here."