After breaking the ice between the ladies and the Last Samurai, Elena told the ladies to have a practice bout with the supreme to show him their capabilities. Only then would he be able to properly guide them.

So, as the ladies started to fight the Last Samurai together, Elena started to meditate. She was trying to make a connection with the Ruination Temple itself in order to find out at least some clues regarding the location of Amilia's teammates.

Elena managed to resonate with the will of this place again quite easily and asked the will to stop resisting her probe. The will of this danger zone was not like the will of the worlds and was not very intelligent. So as Elena was able to make a connection with it, it followed Elena's words like a innocent puppy who was not getting shocked.

As soon as it stopped resisting, Elena used her various skills to start investigating the whole Ruination Temple. The very first thing that caught her interest was the Ruin God who was currently resting inside a temple like structure.

The will of the Ruination Temple and the Ruin God were not the same thing. Both were different entities and they had a symbiotic relationship. The will was more like a dungeon core and the Ruin God was the dungeon's final boss.

During the battle between the three supremes, the Ruin God had tried intervene at the very beginning and had paid the price for it. Even though none of the powerhouses had tried to seriously hurt it, even just the residual power of their attacks had injured it badly. So currently the Ruin God was resting in order to properly heal up.

Elena just took a casual glance at the Ruin God and did not disturb it anymore. She then started a carpet searching in order to find any clues. In this process, she did came across several secret areas and hidden treasures and marked them in her mind. Later on, she could give these locations to the ladies and they could have fun exploring them.

At the same time, Elena also noticed the amount of damage that her battle with the other two supremes had dealt to the Ruination Temple. She actually felt very bad about it.

The will of this place was treating her extremely well even though she was one of the reasons behind this destruction. So Elena decided to repay this kindness by helping the will out.

The Ruin God's intelligence was just slightly higher than the Will here. For this reason, the will was not able to perfectly control this region even though it should have the capabilities.

The Ruin God was supposed to be something like a subordinate to the will here. But as it had somehow managed to develop its intelligence before the will, it was trying to turn the tables and to get the will under its control instead.

So what Elena was planning to do was to increase the spirituality of the will with her spirit magic. That way, the intelligence of the will would increase by a bit. It might not be able to become as intelligent as a regular human but it should at least reach the intelligence level of the Ruin God.

With her decision made, Elena started to pour her spirit magic inside the will of the Ruination Temple while still continuing her searching.

After a few minutes, Elena managed to find a clue. It was in a region of this temple which had not been explored much by the explorers entering it. There Elena found the signs of human movements.

It was not the movement of the explorers who the mistakenly came to this region or the cautious steps of people who had stumbled upon this place and had started to explore it.

These steps were from people who had came to this remote location as if it was their daily routine. Elena had no idea what they were doing here.

So she immediately started searching through this particular region and started to discover one secret upon another. She had luckily managed to find the colleagues that Amilia was looking for without much trouble.

Amilia had shown Elena some photos of the people who went missing and had given her a description about their personalities. The people who Elena was able to currently see matched many of those descriptions.

But there were also a lot of other people here who were also there with Amilia's teammates. And all of them looked be in a very mysterious condition.

So next Elena started to investigate what was wrong with them and what they were doing here. After a little probing assisted by the will of this danger zone, Elena was actually able to find out what was happening here.

The root cause of this trouble was actually a special kind of monster born in the Ruination Temple. This was not just a single monster but a whole group of them. These monsters had the power to control other monsters and even people from other races. All the missing teammates of Amilia were under the control of these monsters. Elena guessed that the powerful monster that had attacked their group was also being controlled by these species.

As for the reason why they had kidnapped Amilia's friends and were kidnapping other explorers was quite bizzare and interesting.

These monsters needed a special kind of mineral to grow stronger. But in the area where these minerals could be found had some special kind of plants which were natural counter to the people of this species. So they were unable to mine these resources at all.

But those special plants had no effect on people from other races. After noticing this, this race of monsters started to kidnap and mind control other species to mine for them.

At first they were mostly using other monsters but latter they found out that these monsters were not very good at mining at all. On the other hand, the few outsiders that they had captured were exceptionally good at this.

This was why these monsters had started to capture the outsiders who were actually the explorers in a large scale. At first they only targetted the weaker explorers but as this race became stronger and stronger with a sufficient supply of the special mineral, they slowly started to target even the stronger ones.

That was how currently they had managed to get well over a thousand people to work for them.

So what was Elena going to do about this ?

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