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Chapter 120: We Found the Hidden Black Mithril Vein… Then They Tried to Bury Us Alive · Nov 01, 2026

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101 Chapter 101: They Were Trying to Extract Bloodlines from Living People 2026-11-01
102 Chapter 102: They Were Turning Bloodlines Into Merchandise 2026-11-01
103 Chapter 103: The Black Mithril Was Never Just for Restraints 2026-11-01
104 Chapter 104: Someone Is Funding Bloodline Experiments Across Three Kingdoms 2026-11-01
105 Chapter 105: I Called a Level 71 Princess ’Indigestion’ 2026-11-01
106 Chapter 106: I Needed Black Mithril… Apparently I Need to Become a Noble 2026-11-01
107 Chapter 107: I Came to Buy Metal… Somehow I Became a Noble Problem 2026-11-01
108 Chapter 108: I Needed Black Mithril… So I Infiltrated a Noble Reception 2026-11-01
109 Chapter 109: My Fake Fiancée Turned This Into a Real Engagement Rumor 2026-11-01
110 Chapter 110: My Fake Fiancée Asked If She Was Hotter Than a Level 71 Princess 2026-11-01
111 Chapter 111: Made It Real Enough to Fool Everyone 2026-11-01
112 Chapter 112: I Needed 12 Pounds of Black Mithril… They Hid an Entire Vein 2026-11-01
113 Chapter 113: They Said 80% Black Mithril Didn’t Exist… I Had the Mine Records 2026-11-01
114 Chapter 114: The Mining Director Knew About Patron Seven 2026-11-01
115 Chapter 115: I Finally Found Enough Black Mithril… Inside a Mine That Doesn’t Exist 2026-11-01
116 Chapter 116: The Abandoned Mine Was Suppressing My Skills 2026-11-01
117 Chapter 117: I Killed a Level 25 Awakened Without Using a Single Skill 2026-11-01
118 Chapter 118: The Mine Took Away My Skills… So I Went Back to Black Hound 2026-11-01
119 Chapter 119: They Took Away My Skills… So I Turned the Mine Into a Kill Zone 2026-11-01
120 Chapter 120: We Found the Hidden Black Mithril Vein… Then They Tried to Bury Us Alive 2026-11-01
121 Chapter 121: Chose Valeria Over the Evidence… Then My Rifle Hit 52.8% 2026-11-01
122 Chapter 122: My Next Rifle Upgrade Was Inside a Monster Faster Than Me 2026-11-01
123 Chapter 123: I Found My Next Upgrade… It Almost Ran Me Over 2026-11-01
124 Chapter 124: I Couldn’t Outrun It… So I Learned How to Make It Chase Me 2026-11-01
125 Chapter 125: I Couldn’t Catch the Stormhorn… So I Started Controlling the Battlefield 2026-11-01
126 Chapter 126: I Charged the Stormhorn to 174%… Then It Came Straight at Me 2026-11-01
127 Chapter 127: GT Bonus 1: I Let a Level 27 Elite Break My Ribs… Then I Found Its Weakness 2026-11-01
128 Chapter 128: GT Bonus 2: I Finally Got the Pulse Core… Then Both Predation and FORGE Claimed It 2026-11-01
129 Chapter 129: I Gave Up a 92% Compatible Trait… and My Rifle Reached 74.1% 2026-11-01
130 Chapter 130: My Impossible Rifle Only Needs One More Component 2026-11-01
131 Chapter 131: Repeated - , do not read 2026-11-01
132 Chapter 132: I Explained Guns to a Blood Mage… 2026-11-01
133 Chapter 133: Every Bell in Kharad Rang… Then the Ground Started Breathing 2026-11-01
134 Chapter 134: The Ground Under Kharad Was Breathing… But Nothing Was Moving 2026-11-01
135 Chapter 135: Someone Faked a Burrower Attack… Then the Real Colony Answered 2026-11-01
136 Chapter 136: They Were Driving Monsters Under People’s Homes to Buy the Land Cheap 2026-11-01
137 Chapter 137: One Fake Explosion Woke the Entire Colony Under Kharad 2026-11-01
138 Chapter 138: The Street Collapsed… Then the Monster Came Through 2026-11-01
139 Chapter 139: One Explosion Could Wake Every Monster Under Kharad 2026-11-01
140 Chapter 140: We Found 31 Monsters Sleeping Around the Bomb 2026-11-01
141 Chapter 141: The Bomb Was Armed in the Middle of the Colony 2026-11-01
142 Chapter 142: The Bomb Went Off… and the Entire Colony Came After Us 2026-11-01
143 Chapter 143: The Monster I Needed Controlled All Thirty-One 2026-11-01
144 Chapter 144: I Couldn’t Hunt the Matriarch… So I Made Her Hunt Me 2026-11-01
145 Chapter 145: I Tricked an Elite Matriarch Into Leaving Her Colony 2026-11-01
146 Chapter 146: I Used Her Strongest Attack to Bring the Quarry Down on Her 2026-11-01
147 Chapter 147: Five Pieces Still Weren’t Enough[1] 2026-11-01
148 Chapter 148: Five Pieces Still Weren’t Enough[2] 2026-11-01
149 Chapter 149: Five Monster Parts Gave Me a 49% Chance of Explosion 2026-11-01
150 Chapter 150: My Rifle Was 51% Stable and Already Trying to Kill Me 2026-11-01

The blood split into four needles.

Raven didn’t waste time trying to punch through armor. One needle buried itself in a guard’s eye, another struck the crossbowman’s hand, and the last two severed the cords holding the lamps.

The chamber plunged into darkness.

Not complete darkness.

Enough.

Raven moved before the guards could adjust.

A man shouted orders somewhere to his right, so Raven threw the mace toward the opposite wall. It struck a support beam with a heavy clang, and three guards turned toward the sound.

Wrong direction.

Raven reached the nearest man from behind, hooked the knife across his throat, and pulled. Blood sprayed across the stone before the body had time to fall.

The next guard sensed movement and attacked blindly, but Raven was already beneath his arm. He cut the tendon behind the knee, shoved the man forward, and sent him crashing into another guard.

Both stumbled.

Raven grabbed a short shovel from the floor and struck the second man across the temple.

Once.

Then again.

The metal caved in part of his skull.

Valeria dropped from the grate above and landed better than Raven expected considering how badly the Black Mithril was suppressing her Blood Magic.

One of the remaining guards saw her.

”Von Nacht!”

Interesting.

They recognized her.

That meant someone had warned them about Raven and Valeria before they arrived.

The guard raised an enchanted spear. Valeria reacted by pulling blood into a shield, but the construct hesitated halfway through forming.

Raven saw the delay immediately.

He threw his knife.

Not at the guard.

At the lamp behind him.

Glass shattered, throwing the chamber into total darkness for less than a second.

That was all Valeria needed.

When the emergency lights flickered back to life, she was already inside the spear’s effective range with one hand around the guard’s throat.

A thin blood thread slid into his nostril.

The man froze.

Valeria made a small gesture.

Blood burst from both ears, and the guard collapsed.

She looked at Raven.

”Precise bursts.”

”Exactly.”

”I didn’t need you reminding me of my own plan.”

”It worked.”

”You’re still irritating.”

Another guard charged from behind.

Raven heard him first.

Valeria saw him first.

Instead of wasting mana on another Skill, she kicked an ore cart toward Raven.

He understood immediately.

They grabbed the edge together and shoved.

The incline did the rest.

The cart accelerated down the track, slammed into the guard, and carried him into the wall with a wet crunch.

He didn’t get back up.

The rest of the fight ended quickly.

Four guards became three.

Three became two.

Then none remained standing.

The last survivor tried to barricade himself inside the control office.

Raven kicked the door once.

It held.

Valeria lifted a thread of blood.

Raven shook his head.

”Save your mana.”

He picked up a fracture charge instead.

Valeria looked at it.

”Doesn’t that seem excessive?”

”Yes.”

”Excellent.”

Raven placed the charge beside the lock and stepped back with her.

A moment later, the door stopped being a problem.

Chamber Six was larger than Raven had expected.

Black Mithril ran through the walls in dark veins streaked with faint blue reflections. Some were only a few inches wide, while one near the back of the chamber was nearly as thick as Raven’s torso.

FORGE reacted immediately.

[High-Density BLACK MITHRIL Deposit Detected.]

[Estimated Raw Purity: 79–88%.]

[Structural Potential: EXCELLENT.]

[Prototype Rifle Requirement Source Confirmed.]

Raven approached the largest vein.

”We found it.”

Lina entered with the other fugitives, and for the first time since Raven had met her, she lowered her weapon completely.

”There it is.”

Valeria studied the exposed ore.

”Keller hid this for seven months.”

Lina gave a bitter laugh.

”Seven months that we know of.”

Raven took a small mining tool and struck an already fractured section. A fragment broke loose into his hand.

FORGE responded.

[BLACK MITHRIL ORE]

[Estimated Refined Purity: 83.2%.]

[Prototype Rifle Compatibility: 94%.]

[Refinement Required.]

Enough.

Not perfect.

Enough.

Raven pocketed the sample.

”The records.”

Lina pointed toward the ruined office.

”Some are in there. The rest are in the weighing room.”

They moved inside.

Shelves and desks were packed with ledgers documenting official production, actual production, worker shifts, payments, discarded material, and shipments.

Raven started with the numbers.

Valeria started with the names.

”Here.”

Raven stepped beside her.

She pointed to three columns.

Actual production: 418 units.

Declared production: 173.

Registered waste: 109.

The difference was far too large to explain naturally.

A separate ledger listed coded shipments tied to Keller, Transfer Station Four, a company in Varkess, two unnamed laboratories, and one name that immediately changed Valeria’s expression.

Orbrecht Industrial Holdings.

She turned the page.

”This wasn’t a single purchase.”

”How many?”

”Nine shipments in four months.”

”Material?”

”Refined Black Mithril. Between forty and sixty percent purity.”

Exactly the range used for suppression equipment.

Raven kept reading.

The ledgers contained more than shipments. There were numbered test subjects, containment costs, replacement equipment after failures, and detailed interference results.

One document referenced Bloodborn regeneration suppression.

Another listed hereditary mana-channel collapse thresholds.

Valeria closed her eyes.

”Nyxara is going to enjoy seeing this far too much.”

”I wouldn’t use the word enjoy.”

”She would.”

Raven found a smaller ledger beneath the others.

The final buyers weren’t identified by name.

Only codes.

One appeared repeatedly.

P7.

Patron Seven.

Raven tapped the page.

”We have the connection.”

Valeria leaned over his shoulder.

”Not an identity.”

”Not yet.”

Lina watched them carefully.

”Is that enough?”

Raven looked over the ledgers.

”For us.”

”And enough to get us out alive?”

He was about to answer when a distant impact rolled through the mine.

Then another.

The stone beneath their feet trembled, and dust sifted down from the ceiling.

Lina went pale.

”That isn’t extraction.”

Raven was already looking toward the supports.

A third impact followed.

Closer.

”They’re sealing the mine.”

Valeria turned toward the main gallery.

”Keller?”

”Doesn’t matter.”

Another tremor passed through the rock.

Raven grabbed the most important ledgers.

”How many exits?”

”Main entrance, ventilation, and an old tunnel toward Level Four.”

”Which survives if they collapse the access points?”

Lina hesitated.

”The old one. Maybe.”

”Then we move.”

Valeria grabbed two ledgers as well.

Raven took them from her.

”I need your hands free.”

”I can carry paper.”

”You’re also the only person here who can stop enough falling rock to buy us time.”

She didn’t argue.

That was trust.

They made it six minutes before the retreat turned into another fight.

The guards weren’t merely sealing the mine.

They were coming down after them.

One detachment descended from above while another team placed charges behind the advance, systematically closing routes as they moved.

Their insignia didn’t match.

Some were Keller.

Others wore badges Lina recognized as concession security.

Helmont.

Valeria saw the symbol and frowned.

”Edric said he wouldn’t send men.”

”Edric might not have.”

”That means someone inside Helmont is involved.”

”Another name for the list.”

The approaching guards spotted the fugitives.

”Documents on the ground! Workers are to remain under custody!”

Lina raised her pike.

Raven pushed the weapon down with one hand.

”Don’t fight here.”

”They’re going to kill us.”

”Yes. Which is why you’re not going to fight where they chose.”

He looked up at the corridor.

Old support beams.

Fractured stone.

A load-bearing column partially cut away during previous extraction.

Perfect.

”Valeria. Three seconds of barrier.”

”Where?”

Raven pointed.

She followed his finger, studied the rock, then understood what he intended.

”That could bring down half the corridor.”

”Only if you do it wrong.”

”What touching confidence.”

”You’re Elite.”

”Now you remember.”

Valeria raised both hands.

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