Fairy Tail: You said you were just acting, are you serious

Boom!

The grasshoppers beside the magical beast leaped up at Ron's command, each displaying two overlapping miniature magic circles on their bodies.

Each grasshopper burst forth with a blinding white light, instantly enveloping the magical beast obsessed with the magic crystal, followed by a sound.

The explosion caused a slight tremor, even for Ron, who was leaning against the wall.

Once the vibrations on the wall subsided, Ron peered out to look at the location of the monster.

The magic crystals nearby stopped glowing due to the explosion, making the surrounding area appear somewhat dim.

Black smoke rose from the location of the monster, raising dust in the surrounding area.

As the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, the monster was already charred black and lay in the crater on the ground, unable to rise again.

Ron stepped forward to examine the charred corpse of the monster. He saw that its scales had been blown off, its front teeth had been broken off, and only the roots of its teeth remained.

Ron's grasshoppers had the same amount of clay as a clay spider, and unexpectedly, this explosion instantly killed the monster.

However, Ron shook his head, feeling that the power was still too great and that it had caused quite a commotion.

"We need to reduce the quantity by half again, and then blow them up to death, that will be just right, hmm."

As an artist, he naturally needs to control the amount of explosives to appear professional.

This charred appearance is not artistic at all!

Moreover, he discovered a very important problem.

Ron crouched down, carefully examining the surrounding rock walls, and even picked up a few fallen rocks.

He clenched his fist tightly, and the falling rocks crumbled like cookies with a single squeeze.

After rubbing it a few more times, it turned into quicksand and flowed down his hands.

Although the tremor was not significant, judging from the falling rocks from the top of the rock, the structure of this side tunnel is not as well-developed as the main tunnel.

If he doesn't control the amount of clay bombs, the tunnel is in danger of collapsing at any time.

"We need to find those mission targets as soon as possible. If they stay here any longer, the tunnel might collapse and we won't be able to get out. Hmm."

Ron dusted off the remaining sand from his hands, stood up, and continued deeper into the tunnel.

He took out more spiders and grasshoppers from the bag and spread them outwards from his spot.

He focused his mental energy and expanded his magical sensing range again through the magical connection.

He sensed that the small animals were moving faster without him even noticing.

Unexpectedly, three more magical beasts entered his sensing range a short while later.

"Sure enough, the commotion just now has attracted their attention."

Ron wasn't in a hurry. He continued to walk deeper into the area while controlling the three spiders to approach the three magical beasts.

When the magic sensing ranges overlapped, Ron issued another detonation command.

"drink!"

Boom!

Perhaps because the distance to the explosion was greater this time, the commotion was much smaller than before. The only thing that could be sensed within the range of magic sensing was the instantaneous dissipation of magic power on those magical beasts.

Ron continued forward and saw the three scaled rats lying on the ground, their charred bellies ripped open by spiders.

Most importantly, the tremor was not significant, and there were few fallen rocks nearby.

"That's perfect, isn't it?"

Ron nodded in satisfaction and continued deeper into the area.

......

Meanwhile, deep inside the side mine shaft.

Five young miners in overalls were hiding behind a pile of abandoned wooden crates and mine carts.

Everyone was trembling with fear, unable to suppress the terror of their recent encounter with the monster.

They had only recently reached the age where they could mine, but their luck ran out. After only half a month of mining, gregarious magical beasts took over the main tunnel, making it impossible for them to make a living by mining magic crystals.

They thought that since they couldn't mine in the main tunnel, they would go to the side tunnel, where they wouldn't encounter monsters and could mine some magic crystal ore to sell for money.

These young miners never expected that there was a passage connecting the two tunnels deep inside. As a result, when they were chiseling the magic crystal ore, they attracted the attention of several magical beasts, which allowed these beasts to sneak into the side tunnel.

Fortunately, these magical beasts were only sensitive to sound, and were somewhat insensitive to other things, which allowed the other magical beasts to bypass them.

There were several burlap sacks at their feet, all filled with high-value magic crystal rough.

Boom!

A loud bang suddenly came from the outside of the tunnel, causing a great echo.

The ground shook slightly, and several pieces of rock fell from the overhead rock layer.

"What happened over there? Why is there such a loud commotion?"

A taller miner mustered his courage and cautiously asked the other miners.

"Could it be a landslide?"

Could it be that those monsters ran amok and caused the outer area to collapse?

Another muscular miner speculated, his face pale.

"No, we need to find another way out."

"If this commotion alerts the monsters next door, and they all rush in, we'll have nowhere to hide!"

After saying this, the taller miner looked at the miner who had led the way in.

The other miners also turned their gaze to the leader, hoping he would make a decision.

The foreman of the miners broke out in a cold sweat, but finally adjusted his helmet and nodded, saying:

"Let's leave before those monsters turn back, otherwise we'll all be trapped here!"

The others nodded in agreement with his statement.

Everyone quickly stood up and carried the sacks on their shoulders.

Guided by the magic crystals on the walls and the glow emanating from the mouths of the sacks, they continued deeper into the tunnel.

The deeper they went, the thinner the air became, and the heavier everyone's breathing became.

They deeply regretted not studying the tunnel diagrams left by the old miners, which would have prevented them from getting trapped.

With each step the young miners took, they prayed that they would find a passage to the outside world, or step on a teleportation magic circle that would instantly transport them out.

Just as they reached the corner, the lead miner stopped and froze in place.

The miner behind him didn't have time to brake, and his chest collided with the back of the car, almost causing him to exhale all the air in his chest.

The tall miner was about to lower his head to ask a question, but following the gaze of the lead miner, he and the other miner widened their eyes in surprise.

In the tunnel ahead, which should have been glowing blue, the traces of the magic crystals on the nearby rock walls were gone, leaving only a pitch-black abyss.

rustling......

From deep within the abyss came a series of strange sounds, like rocks rubbing against hard objects.

Suddenly, one pair, two pairs, three pairs...

A dozen pairs of scarlet beast eyes glowed eerily in the abyss.