Calamity Upon This World

"Is everyone ready?" William asked as he looked at his team of cleansers and the 10 miners and porters they were supposed to accompany inside the dungeon.

They were currently standing outside a cave with a blue portal-like entrance.

According to what they had been told, their task was simple.

All they had to do was protect the miners from the monsters inside while the miners mined all the ores.

It would probably take one whole day, and once the miners were done mining, they were supposed to clear the dungeon and come back with the loot.

They had the right to any artifacts found inside, while all the ores and monster cores would go to Lark for commercial use.

William and his team had already met the miners they were supposed to accompany, and they looked like good people, so he wanted to make sure they stayed safe.

Hearing his question, a collective "yes" resounded throughout the area, after which they all entered inside.

~Vroom~

Space warped as the daring adventurers and miners entered.

Once they entered, the world around them shifted from an empty field with bright daylight to a narrow, dark cave.

But most of them didn't have the time to notice it, as everyone aside from William and a few experienced miners vomited.

"Blurgh"

"Blurgh"

"Blurgh"

This happened due to them experiencing teleportation for the first time in their lives, which made them nauseous and resulted in their vomiting.

William had gone through multiple teleportation gates with his parents before, so he was more or less used to it by now.

Ignoring the condition of his party and the people he was supposed to protect, he took a look around him and saw the dark cave they were currently in.

But that posed no problem for him thanks to his [Shadow Sense], which allowed him perfect vision and sense even in the dark.

As he looked around, he saw the dull rock sticking out at irregular intervals in the cave.

But before placing too much attention on them, he looked around for any potential threats and breathed a sigh of relief at the absence of any monsters nearby.

"Alright guys, enough, take out the lamps," William ordered.

Hearing the voice of the guy who was in charge, a few miners who had already experienced going inside a dungeon before took out the light-generating lamp artefact they had been given.

Strangely, as the lamp turned on, instead of lighting up a small area like it was supposed to, the entire passageway of the dungeon lit up.

The weird, dull rocks that William had seen earlier now glew a beautiful blue glow and lit up the whole passageway.

Seeing the sudden bright news, the people who were previously on the ground looked up and saw the eye-dazzling sight.

"Wow," Jasmine muttered in amazement at the sight she was presented with.

"I can't believe I'm still inside a dungeon," Max said as he looked at the prettiest thing he had seen his whole life inside a place infamous for blood and gore.

"But what is that?" asked a miner, looking clueless at the identity of the pretty blue rocks.

"Luminous blue stone," replied a miner as he looked at an ore encyclopaedia that had been given by Lark to help the workers recognise what type of mineral they were supposed to mine in case they encountered it.

"What's that?" asked another miner, clueless about what the name meant.

"It's an extremely rare type of mineral used in the creation of water and ice-type artifacts."

"It looks dull in the darkness, but when exposed to light, it glows in a beautiful blue light, like the one we are seeing now."

"And even a single piece of this stone is worth a minimum of 100 gold coins," he exclaimed in shock as he dropped the encyclopaedia and looked around to see the goldmine they had accidentally stumbled into.

Which wouldn't be a wrong comparison considering every single piece of this stone is worth 100 gold coins, and just in their plain sight, there were hundreds of these rocks.

Without even going any deeper, if they just mined the rocks near the entrance and left, they'd have 10 platinum coins, an amount of wealth that the whole nine generations of all of their families could live off in luxury.

Everyone was in a state of shock at the jackpot they had just hit.
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"Raya, can you pinch me?" Max asked in shock, still unconvinced that this was actually happening.

Not wasting even a single second, Raya pinched him on the cheek.

"Oww!" Max cried out in pain at the surprising strength of Raya.

"Finally, I can pay off my family debt," a miner cried out as he fell to the ground, thanking his goddess Elona for listening to his prayers.

"I can't believe this is real," another miner said, still in disbelief.

Everyone was excited about this potential opportunity to turn their lives around.

While everyone was just excited about potentially getting rid of their debts, curing their dying mother, or maybe even making their parents proud,.

Someone else had their greed flare up with a desire to take everything for himself and kill everyone else.

"Alright guys, enough fooling around. Let's harvest everything and leave quickly; we're still in a dungeon after all," William shouted, snapping everyone out of their excitement and reminding them about the potential dangers lurking around.

'I have a bad feeling about this' William thought, a bit unsettled by the idea of letting something so fortunate happen to him without some kind of catch.

And sadly, his uneasiness would soon prove to not be baseless.

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