Alex spent the next three weeks in the mine, not going anywhere as he carved chunk after chunk from the wall.
With a sword that didn't lose its edge no matter how many hard surfaces he struck or dug into, Alex was able to do what many others would simply assume to be an impossibility.
Alex had now made such a big hole, that it could be a pathway in its own right.
He sent his spiritual sense into his storage ring and saw the nearly 700 Tons of Ore that he had carved out from the wall in all these days.
"Yeah, I've wasted a lot of time here," he thought. He hadn't improved at all in all these last few weeks as he had just focused on mining as much as he could. He did gain about 200 tons more than he would have if he trained, but that was not what he wanted at the time.
However, now that he did want it, he needed to leave this mine and get stronger. Thus he needed to go to the ancient battlefield as soon as he could, so he could train.
