Chapter 725 – Dreamweaver World 63

The spiked ore monster moved with astonishing speed, its massive body rolling wildly through the mine tunnel, producing a deafening rumble.

Every time it changed direction, it plowed half-meter-deep furrows into the ground. Shattered rocks sprayed outward like bullets, leaving dense pockmarks across the cavern walls.

Mo Lan silently counted her blessings—thankfully, the dungeon rules determined that collisions between ore monsters didn’t count as initiating a challenge. Otherwise, the flying debris alone would have been enough to awaken every ore deposit in the entire tunnel.

She had prepared in advance, casting Featherfall on herself. Her body instantly became light as a feather.

Immediately after, a precisely controlled Wind Vortex lifted her up, letting her hover near the ceiling like a drifting feather.

The position was chosen with great care—avoiding the hanging crystal clusters while staying far from the ground.

The spiked ore monster rolled madly below, letting out furious shrieks.

It tried to create tremors by accelerating into the cavern walls, but Mo Lan’s wind-element magic allowed her to drift gently with the shockwaves, always maintaining a safe distance.

The spiked ore monster attempted to jump several times, but its heavy body could only leave the ground by half a meter at most—posing no threat whatsoever.

Mo Lan had studied the spiked ore monster’s information beforehand and knew it had other skills it hadn’t yet used. She quietly maintained a safe distance, ready with her defenses.

The spiked ore monster rolled futilely for over a dozen laps, utterly destroying the mine tunnel floor.

The refined iron ore that had fallen earlier had long been crushed flat, embedded deep in the cracks of the ground.

Finally, realizing it couldn’t reach its target, the spiked ore monster suddenly skidded to a halt.

Its curled body trembled slightly, and all its spines began to glow with a dangerous light.

The next second—

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Hundreds of ore spikes shot into the air like a torrential downpour.

Mo Lan swiftly raised a Metal Shield spell. After gauging the attack power of the ore spikes and confirming they couldn’t possibly break through the multiple layers of protection she had cast in advance, she relaxed and dismissed the Metal Shield spell. She began treating this battle like target practice, unleashing a barrage of spells at the enemy below:

Fireballs exploded across the spiked ore monster’s back. Ice arrows pierced through its body. An electric net wrapped tightly around it…

With each hit, the spiked ore monster burst apart into a shower of ore fragments, its body shrinking another size, its speed growing slower and slower.

After more than a dozen precise strikes, the spiked ore monster finally couldn’t hold on any longer.

It let out one last wail as its massive body collapsed and disintegrated.

The scattered ore fragments dissolved into points of light and vanished, leaving behind only a large pile of neatly shaped, high-purity ore.

They were all common, ordinary ores that Mo Lan had already collected before. She casually swept them into her Spatial Card.

“Warm-up’s over.” She gazed at the rarer mineral veins embedded in the cavern walls, a fighting spirit igniting in her eyes. “Now comes the main event.”

She recalled the 《Golden Mine Tunnel Ore Monster Difficulty Rating Chart》 compiled by adventurers on the forums. “Let me start with the easiest ones to get warmed up…”

She murmured to herself, her gaze sweeping toward the southwest corner of the mine tunnel. There, dozens of blocks of rose-gold-hued dream copper ore lay piled together.

Mo Lan flicked her fingertip, and a stone bullet struck the outermost piece of dream copper ore with pinpoint accuracy.

With a crisp clang, the struck ore suddenly softened and deformed, flowing to the ground like melting wax.

The rose-gold liquid rapidly swelled upward, coalescing into a humanoid monster. This dream copper ore monster had slender limbs and a surface smooth as a mirror, clearly reflecting Mo Lan’s figure.

Its head had no facial features—only constantly shifting ripples, as if simulating various expressions.

Most peculiar of all, it left faint golden afterimages in the air as it moved.

“Just like the forum descriptions said…” Mo Lan quickly retreated to open up distance.

According to the data, dream copper ore monsters excelled at psychic interference but had relatively weak physical defenses.

With Mo Lan’s vast reserves of psychic power, even without using any psychic defense magic, she was confident the dream copper ore monster couldn’t affect her—let alone now, when she had already sealed her mental sea under tight protection!

She stood her ground, letting the dream copper ore monster unleash its psychic interference. The result: she took no damage, while the dream copper ore monster was instead struck by backlash from the psychic defense network formed by her massive psychic power.

Unfortunately, the highest level of mage magic she had mastered only reached Peak level. Without higher-tier spell structures, she couldn’t cast more powerful Psychic Magic. Otherwise, practicing Psychic Magic on the dream copper ore monster would have been ideal.

She would have to use other magic instead.

Figuring its defenses were low, Mo Lan tried Vine Sorcery. The vines clenched tight, and with a sharp cracking sound, the dream copper ore monster was utterly destroyed.

She didn’t even glance at the dropped dream copper ore. She turned directly toward the remaining dream copper deposits and triggered them all at once.

Even the combined dream copper ore monster couldn’t cause Mo Lan any trouble.

And so, Mo Lan began methodically challenging various types of ore.

The lava lizard formed from fire-patterned ore was frozen into a sculpture by her ice magic. The lightning cheetah condensed from thunder crystals was trapped and killed by her earth-element magic… The pace of battle was astonishingly fast.

Individual ore monsters rarely survived more than a few spells before falling.

It wasn’t until she kept raising the stakes and triggered an entire dream gold ore vein that things finally changed.

The golden ore flowed like liquid, converging and ultimately transforming into a dream gold giant serpent a full thirty meters long.

The dream gold giant serpent had extraordinarily powerful regeneration. Unless it was completely shattered in a short window of time, its severed limbs would quickly reattach, restoring its combat ability.

Mo Lan’s adult dragon-level dragon-tongue magic was certainly destructive enough to directly pulverize the dream gold giant serpent, but she chose not to use it. After all, her primary goal right now was to train her Witch Magic.

Her Witch Magic, generally at First Rank and Peak level, could deal some damage to the dream gold giant serpent but could never quite kill it.

On the other hand, the dream gold giant serpent also struggled to harm Mo Lan, who had an endless array of defensive spells at her disposal.

The battle thus fell into a stalemate.

Mo Lan was delighted rather than frustrated. “Finally, a sparring partner that can last!”

She continuously unleashed every kind of Witch Magic at the dream gold giant serpent, experimenting with different combat styles and spell combinations.

Unfortunately, the dream gold giant serpent’s energy reserves were far inferior to Mo Lan’s. After two hours, it finally exhausted its energy and collapsed with a thunderous crash, scattering into a pile of dream gold ore.

The dream gold giant serpent had been such a perfect sparring partner that Mo Lan fought several other types of ore monsters afterward, found none of them as effective, and deliberately exited the dungeon. After the dungeon refreshed, she challenged the dream gold giant serpent again.

She killed the dream gold giant serpent over ten times in total, thoroughly practicing every Witch Magic spell she knew, completing all her magical experiments, and effectively raising her magic levels by a significant margin before finally moving on to challenge rarer ores.