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Dungeon Diver CH701

Ember speaks up in the silence of the lobby, still crossing his arms and looking up at the arrogant purple-horned demon that just accepted his duel without knowing the terms.

“How about we go all or nothing? You put up all the planets you’ve come to sell…”

Ember’s gaze shifts to the black-horned demon, then he holds up both of their escrow accounts.

“That means your planets too.”

He flips the holograms around for the demons and all spectators to see:

Dungeon Diver CH700

Ember gets up from his seat and walks out of the private room’s massive doors to be greeted by Randel and Syl.

“You’ve completed your assessment of the documents we had transferred over already?” Syl comments.

Ember shakes his head and begins walking down the narrow hall to make his way back to the main shopping center.

“No, not yet. There seem to be some unique guests selling worlds down on the first floor. I believe they’re going to cause some trouble. I’d li...

Dungeon Diver CH699

Ava raises her massive hammer, and it glows with a faint white light; nowhere near as bright as it was when she was trying to kill me.

“Alright, let’s spar. I’ll be activating the lowest setting for my attacks; otherwise, an hour of fighting will use up more Ether than I can extract from ten stones.”

She picks up the last stone from which I had absorbed the majority of its Ether, inspects it, and her expression changes to confusion while extracting the rest of it and throw...

Dungeon Diver CH698

“What do you mean, sense them?” the hobgoblin replies, picking up the black stone glowing with a faint white light.

As I open my mouth to reply, I witness the entire rock she holds become enveloped in a portion of her green aura. Then, all the Ether within it pulses and is sucked out, disappearing into her hand and settling evenly throughout her being.

The instinctual sensor in the back of my mind registers her body as slightly warmer than before, and the rock she’s holding ...

Dungeon Diver CH697

The hobgoblin comes my way again with even more speed than before, and the hot radiation coming off her hammer slams against my right arm as I block just in time.

The exact same sensation washes over me.

Upon impact, Celia’s barrier blocks the entirety of the blow’s force, but once the wave of white energy washes into me, an immense pressure sends me flying backward again.

I’m sent skidding across the rocks and don’t stop flying backward for another 200 meters until ...

Dungeon Diver CH696

Far below the thriving businesses in the Ellipsia Citadel, dense green clouds made of divine threads fly by while I continue to plummet downward.

Every few minutes, I try opening up my purple barrier to let as few threads inside as possible.

However, each time, no matter how little the opening is, I’m struck by the same unfathomably painful and instant attack on my physical form.

These passing minutes turn into hours, and it feels as though I’m making no progress at all....

Dungeon Diver CH695

A transmission is sent to a district six blocks away while Ember and Torvak continue to speak for a few minutes, catching up on current events in the lower and upper realms.

“Yes, even in the Lower Realm, the Demon’s influence is spreading. Their newest fifth royal family branch popped up about a dozen lifetimes ago. I managed to bond with the Vermillion’s Demons a few times, and in one life I bonded with the Morvale Family, but their selection process is even tougher—and inform...

Dungeon Diver CH694

At the top of a tower in the heart of the Ellipsia Citadel, three green-cored demons sit around a large table, overlooking the city below.

Glowing green transmission blocks project holograms of fifteen other demons based in other citadels across the Upper Realm.

One of the holograms of a Lord is far larger than the rest, leading their meeting. He happens to be the Vermillion Family Head.

His voice echoes for all his subordinates to hear.

“That wraps up our monthly pr...

Dungeon Diver CH693

My gaze sweeps over my new buff, and I feel my stats automatically increase by a massive amount. Not only have I gained over 200 million new links of loyalty in an instant, but the amount of stats I can borrow in total has risen to 50%.

At the same time, I feel a new wave of perception explode out from the tower and wrap around the entire globe.

Not only can I feel and see every single human connected to the system on the planet, but now I feel connected to all 21,480 dungeons cov...

Dungeon Diver CH692

My steps upward are far slower now. While it took less than a single minute to climb multiple kilometers with ease before, it takes me over an hour to climb the next 50.

I’m halfway through the final stretch, but I can feel these last 50 are not going to be easy at all…

The amount of green energy pouring through my core makes the entire orb I consumed earlier seem like a tiny drop in the ocean of power around me.

My core still feels the same, like a True Core cycling in ...

Dungeon Diver CH691

I walk forward into the silver tower, taking a step up the spiral stairs. There is no railing, as the silver barrier hugs the left side of the stairs all the way up.

They’re extremely wide—several hundred meters—enough to fit a full dragon, even in its normal form.

However, Ember stays in his human base form.

The moment we both step onto the first stair, the archway that connected these stairs to the outer room shuts, and the only way we can go is up.

The green t...

Dungeon Diver CH690

[Ascended Demon’s Core] [+1000% All Stats] is what my appraisal skill shows hovering over the largest black orb.

My curiosity grows at the sight of this, as pretty much all of the gear I’m wearing far surpasses this buff. However, a greater and Arch Demon’s core both fall with it, surrounded by shattered blood-bonded gear from the demon that surpassed 5000% buffs.

There must be a reason that it had all three, it definitely wasn’t for the stat increases.

I follow the ...

Status Update

Current Links of Loyalty: 146,921,008

Additional Base Stats Added:

Strength: 5,759,303,513

Speed: 5,622,910,040

Agility: 5,999,016,284

Defense: 5,809,312,595

Mental Strength: 5,700,945,818

+14,398,258,784 Additional Hp

+14,398,258,784 Additional Mp

[Status Open]

____________________

Name: Jay Soju

Level: 25,102

Hp: (125,515/125,515 + 14,398,258,784/14,398,258,784) = 14,398,384,299 Max Hp

Mp: (125,515/125,515 +...

Dungeon Diver CH689

The instant the green divine orb hits the open air, the compact threads within continue their violent unraveling.

With the Demon nowhere to be seen, shadow stepping my way in the darkness, I don’t waste any time and swallow the strange prize from the first floor.

The Vermillion Family Demon materializes in a black and purple mist, towering over me as he swings his blade.

All possible paths I can take using my foresight skill show the next few milliseconds ending in the fal...

Dungeon Diver CH688

Hundreds of millions of additional stats rush into my system as I make full use of the 40% of borrowed power accessible to me, and simultaneously my Astral Form pulses outward.

The future possibilities using my foresight skill shift, and far more options that don’t end in my demise or losing limbs become crystal clear.

While I grow in size, I shift my body and swing my soul sword to release a crescent of red fiery soul matter that flies in a circle, slicing through five of the D...

Dungeon Diver CH687

The black and purple dragon pulses with murderous Demonic Soul Energy, making the room twice as heavy as when the demon released its aura of intimidation, and its eyes lock onto Ember with genuine rage.

“You’re an Overseer… We were wrong… The Divine Beasts that reincarnated to this new world for their cycle were not all killed off…”

Ember grins, showing his sharp teeth while responding.

“Yes… I stayed on my last world longer than expected. I wasn’t able to ...

Dungeon Diver CH686

[Congratulations! Rising Emperor's Domain Milestone Reached!]

[50,260,997/50,000,000 Links of Loyalty Created]

[New Perk Unlocked: Rising Emperor’s Imperial Reach]

Info:

All Commanders can appoint 10 Knights and share 50% of their total borrowed stats. Each Knight may take up to 5% max of the Commanders' borrowed power.

All Generals, Commanders, and Knights can now borrow up to 2 Skills simultaneously from the Rising Emperor.

The generals may now borrow a...

Dungeon Diver CH685

The yellow and red flames fill the dome, and the last remaining member of the big three is consumed by fire.

There isn’t a single yell, curse, or attempt to escape the flames.

The man who lived his life consumed by numbers, certain he would live forever, merely disappears the moment the odds turn against him, accepting his fate.

I float downward as notifications ring in my inner ear.

[Level Up] x2365

[Use Absorption]

Skill: [Foresight][Divine Grade]

Dungeon Diver CH684

Not wanting to reveal the full extent of my abilities, after draining the Divine threads from Elara and her familiar, I still only let out the exact strength that I peaked at during our short exchange.

I sent a ripple of perception at the two remaining teams in the room.

The Demon’s status is still blocked entirely, filled with purple question marks and unreadable characters.

However, the last remaining member of the big three has a status that shines bright in my mind's e...

Dungeon Diver CH683

[All Conditions In Completing Trial 2 Met.]

[All Challengers Have Arrived.]

[Would You Like To Start The Third Trial?]

[YES] [NO]

This text immediately appears in my vision, but I seem to be in an empty black room.

However, it is shaped in a triangular fashion, with Ember and myself standing at its furthest side, facing the pointed end.

I press the [YES] option, and the room around me begins to mutate and change, just as it did before the first Trial.

Dungeon Diver CH682

Raven’s sharp gaze locked with the approaching Demon doesn’t waver, even as it laughs and mocks her while she seems pinned to the desert floor at the center of a crater.

“Any last words before I make your life worse than death, and you realize it is too late to submit?!”

Raven activates the buff that has entered her consciousness and feels tens of millions of stat points rushing into her body, becoming reinforced by her True Core’s threads and pushing her limits far beyo...

Dungeon Diver CH681

The silver flash of light fades, and a light blue background covers my surroundings.

I prepare to endure the bodiless, sensory-deprived reality or something equivalent this time as well, but soon a body materializes below my eyes.

Access to my links of loyalty is severed again, and my system skills are too, so I believe this is just another illusion.

However, that odd feeling I sensed when starting my last round is far stronger.

The Divine Ether left in my mind feels f...

Dungeon Diver CH680

Cut off from the outside, alone in a black void of darkness with no way to feel my body or know when time will pass, all I can do is wait.

The round’s name was Isolation, so my best guess is that I must endure and not crack under the pressure of endless time without stimulation.

On its surface, this seems like a quite simple and straightforward first round for the trial.

All I have to do is sit and wait, but the daunting underside of this is that there is no timer signifyi...

Dungeon Diver CH679

My Crimson Soul sword levels up and burns hot in my hands, ready for war after digesting that jagged piece of originator stone. However, it slowly fades back to black as it feels my calm heartbeat and senses no worthy opponents nearby.

There’s no additional information shown on my status about it, other than the hundreds of percent increases in stat buffs and the [Lv. 0] turning to [Lv. 1]. I’m certain I’ll find out more once it’s in the mood to fight again…

I walk forwa...

Dungeon Diver CH678

The ringing in my ears is extremely loud, but my vision has returned, as my full power isn’t fully concentrated on keeping my astral form at max capacity anymore.

Now, a large portion of my mind is occupied with using my self-regeneration to its maximum output while walking forward to the black box that’s fallen from the ceiling. Each step is painful, as my entire body is fatigued and filled with pins and needles that become sharp with every movement.

Ember, walking forward in...

Dungeon Diver CH677

Bri’s voice echoes throughout a local sector of the massive mountain above the divine flames.

Rodrigo questions all of the top officers within the headquarters they’ve taken over in mere seconds and finds city maps pinpointing the other control centers that manage security and a link to wire into the transmission coverage across the other nine districts.

Bri’s words of the big three that lived in the floating black boxes high in the sky and the fact that the creator of those...

Dungeon Diver CH676

I activate my new ranked-up buff, the [Divine Elemental’s Astral Form], and feel a very strange energy vibrate out from my True Core.

At first, it feels like pure mana, as if I’m just activating a normal system skill, but the artificial feeling of a True Core’s ability triggers in my mind.

By the time a yellow aura begins to grow outward, making another figure expand larger than my Greater Form, it feels extremely natural, like my divine energy is tethering with the mana man...

Dungeon Diver CH675

Ember’s voice echoes through my mind as the silver blade comes down toward us.

“Block it. This first round shouldn’t be difficult with the new power we’ve gained.”

Despite these words, I can’t sense the blade's true power. It is tens of times longer than my greater form’s rendition of my soul weapon, yet I still act as if this is a deadly strike, putting almost everything I have into a block, even activating the hexagonal defensive array in front of my blade while sw...

Dungeon Diver CH674

I hover down to the ground as the artificial sky turns dark, and the pillars of stone mold back into the floor.

A bright Rank Up notification glows in my mind's eye, waiting to be accepted, while my Soul Sword feels the presence of three items drawing me closer to them.

One feeling is far more compelling, so I fly down to hover above Redgrave's still-bright yellow glowing sword, which gives off the heat of a True Core even when its wielder is dead.

A new system panel hovers ...

Dungeon Diver CH673

Another dozen exchanges pass, and neither of us lands a single hit on the other.

Redgrave's advantage at the start, as I had a weaker set of weapons, has been nullified; and now, the element of surprise is no longer to my advantage as the divine flame user is fully focused and waiting for me to slip up.

Two massive divine energy wounds burn in my chest, while ten smaller slashes glow all over Redgrave.

All over this side of the world, more and more people are stopped in plac...