Chapter 172: Thirty Seconds Of Silence!
Minutes before Chaos.....
Daniel moved through the oppressive darkness like a phantom, his S-Grade [Twilight Phantom Step] rendering him more shadow than man.
He rounded a final, sharp bend, his A-Grade [Voidwalk] making him utterly invisible and inaudible.
Daniel melted into a shadowy corner, his [Omniscient Insight] skill extending outwards, listening to their conversation as if he were standing right beside them.
The leader, a tough-looking man with a cybernetic arm that hummed faintly, kicked a loose rock with a heavy boot.
"We’re not out of this mountain yet. The longer we’re down here, the higher the chance some Academy patrol stumbles upon our work.
Pack it up. Quickly! I want this stone in Jaeger’s hands by sunrise."
"Still a shame about that other stash, though," another thief, a brutish man with a shaved head, grumbled as he packed bags with lesser, but still valuable, ores.
"The map said there was a massive nest of refined minerals just a few hundred meters from here.
We searched, but the whole cavern was stripped bare. Not even dust left. Someone beat us to it."
Daniel allowed himself a small, internal smile.