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Dungeon Diver CH523

The large man stops moving forward once he is less than five meters away from the teleport platform in the center of the room.

His six guards halt as well, and all of them cross their arms and stare forward as the three of us walk off the platform.

I don't waste any time and pull out a single item box from beneath my armor, then pull out the multiple item boxes from within it that have the Bedrock region's orders sorted and labeled.

Two of the guards step forward and pull lo...

Dungeon Diver CH522

“I’ll take care of any breaks you have, and in return, you give me a better deal on bulk ordering fresh produce than any of your current clients. I’ll collapse any break you have in the future too, and in return, I want to make a trade route connecting my settlement in Sector 2 to your land here in Sector 3.”

The middle aged man named Carson thinks for a moment but makes a decision rather quickly and nods, pointing to another shed on the property behind the large red barn that t...

Dungeon Diver CH521

“Each meeting today is scheduled out to allow a 30-60 minute window, so you can take your time with each client. Even though these were trial orders, most are still a large amount. I assume the leaders of each of the three settlements we visit will be present. For the morning shift, we can visit Sector 3 or 4. Which would you like to go to first?”

I reply, and the stealth armor I'm wearing changes my voice to a non-recognizable static tone. It’s identical to the Dark Guards, and e...

Dungeon Diver CH520

Once I walk through the guildhall doors, I see Ember and my body double both sitting down on the new furniture, talking to each other.

My double has a concealment disguise on and looks like a random citizen, while Ember just looks like his normal self.

There are hardly any other hunters in the guildhall yet. Only a few are here, buying some gear and potions early in the morning before their farming expeditions begin, but the two are off in a portion of the lobby isolated by themse...

Dungeon Diver CH519

The Demon stares straight ahead at me with a confused look.

“I’m from the central kingdom. More specifically, the Realm Capital, now run by the lords of the five remaining nations. I’m serving my sentence by being contracted out as a labyrinth guardian in the human world. If I grow my Labyrinth to its maximum potential, and bring its stored mana back to the Demonic Realm, I’ll be free. I’m not sure where else I’d come from, or why else I’d agree to become the guardian of t...

Dungeon Diver CH518

“So this is why I’ve never seen an A-Grade dungeon…”

The same system text floats in front of my eyes.

[Create a Labyrinth]

[YES][NO]

The possibility of a whole new type of farming comes into my mind.

If the creation of a labyrinth spawns demons and dragons, and this process is possible to replicate, I could find a place to farm demon cores with minimal effort.

All it would take is a few hundred containment stones worth of mana to bring dungeons up t...

Dungeon Diver CH517

Over the next few days, the trade routes continue to expand further into the desert in both directions.

The trading posts, inns, shops, and restaurants outside of the Crimson barrier grow as the construction teams use up all of the remaining supplies available.

An outer ring of the city is built for those that do not wish to stay and be under the Flame Emperor's protection.

Sixteen more small villages are connected to the trade route, and over 300 more links of loyalty are c...

Dungeon Diver CH516

The craftsmen teams have used up nearly half of the materials I delivered to them last week, and the impressive new apartment complexes rising up 5-10 stories for future residents are completed. There’s enough room to increase the population of this city tenfold if needed.

The new streets are built, and dozens of new storefronts line the roads, ready for businesses to move in.

Two small grocery stores are built, and I task a body double to buy supplies from large chains in Vice ...

Dungeon Diver CH515

The day goes on, and I continue training the elites in the Labyrinth.

Over the last week, while bringing them all from the lower level 400s to now mid-level 900s, I’ve gained a fair share of MCP myself, especially while training alone at night. My focus right now is mainly training my troops and expanding the city, but I still want to find a way to get stronger and climb higher floors of the Labyrinth too if I can. The billions of MCP gains that add to my energy control are slightly n...

Dungeon Diver CH514

I use a teleport crystal to transport back to the Crimson City, then collect the loot that has been farmed by all of the townspeople over the last four days from my body double in the guildhall. It's an additional 20% of the total necessary.

Most of the C-Grade items have been handed in by the army recruits after training hours.

Adding this to the 10% farmed earlier in the week, that’s 30% of the total. At this rate, I’ll have everything I need well before the deadline.

...

Dungeon Diver CH513

The first thing I do once I get back to Vice City is visit Bri.

I deliver the first 10% of supplies necessary for crafts, and she places them into item boxes so that her craftsmen can begin sorting and making them into magic items starting tomorrow.

After this, we brainstorm for a while and come up with a few ways to build her teleportation platform, rehashing old ideas and coming up with new ones too.

I propose my stealth bunker idea to her and pull out a sheet of A-Grade s...

Dungeon Diver CH512

Over the next hour or so, more recruits make their way to the small lounge area filled with couches, chairs, tables, and random food and magic items leftover from whatever leisure activities they were doing before I came.

The three elemental squad leaders are here, and naturally, the others split into the three groups they were training and fighting in together.

I pull the skill orbs out from my item storage again and let them slowly rotate around my open palm.

“Today, I�...

Dungeon Diver CH511

Over the next 8 hours, as the night slowly returns to day, I farm billions of MCP, hundreds of skill orbs, and an additional 15 firestones from the 39th floor to imbue with my mythic-grade plunderer skill and collapse rogue dungeons out in the desert.

An interesting thing I find when absorbing skill orbs is that they stay at the exact grade they are labeled on the monsters I take them from. I’m unable to change basic, special, or legendary skills farmed from lower grade monsters into ...

Dungeon Diver CH510

The energy blade that leaves my sword collides with the diamond armor, and at the same moment, I dungeon walk far away, over a kilometer back to where I spawned into this boss room.

I do this for two reasons. The first is completely instinctive; there is no reason for me to stay up close any longer than I have to when I’m facing an opponent with unknown tactics at close range.

The second is that the ground beneath my feet turned into hundreds of needle-shaped spears all covered ...

Dunegon Diver CH509

The monstrous roar that echoes from the back of the 42nd-floor boss room reveals its form soon after I hear it.

At first, when teleporting into this white-floored room, my all-seeing eye picked up the presence of a man standing just as tall as me with a golden collar around his neck.

However, it immediately evolved into its monster form when I arrived. It jumps up and over the nearest white hill to come into my vision, and its 6-meter-tall light blue-skinned muscular body contrast...

Dungeon Diver CH508

I start by clearing out the rest of floor 39, dungeon walking from monster to monster to drain their MCP, and opening up spatial magic portals to store their corpses in my storage.

Instead of leaving their bodies to dissolve in random places throughout the floor, having to wait up to a full minute for some, I see it as more time-efficient to keep their corpses on me and have them all dissolve together after I’m done with farming for the day.

I clear out every floor from 38-30 ne...

Dungeon Diver CH507

We make our way into the underground bunker, and I point to an open section of white flooring on the side of the room nearest the stairs.

The portion of the room with loot and materials can be sectioned off with the movable wall if need be.

“I’d like to build the first teleport platform right here.”

I put the luminite and old book from my item storage in the center of the room, letting them float in the air with telekinesis and sift through the pages until the design w...

Dungeon Diver CH506

As Bri yells out that the match is over, another voice responds while a beam of golden light erupts into the sky.

“Double or nothing! Ten more seconds, what do you say, Jay? Take me on alone. I wasn’t aware the power you wield is cursed energy too…”

Rodrigo turns his head toward me with sharp eyes and his whole body glowing gold.

By cursed energy, he must mean Soul Energy. It seems the Association calls it something different.

I respond with my fists raised, co...

Dungeon Diver CH505

“No way! Are you crazy? You want me to sign your death sentence? You already narrowly escaped it by a hair once; there's no point in going back to the Association if you don’t have to.”

He eyes me and Ember up and down.

“Plus, are you guys even ranked up? One of the requirements for entering that exam is hitting level 500. Based on the near non-existent mana readings I feel coming off you, I think you’d be killed off in the first combat round of the exams.”

He sh...

Dungeon Diver CH504

We both reappear from the back wall, and I take a few steps forward before Rodrigo turns his head to lock eyes with me.

He doesn't say a word as I walk closer and expand my [Hush] barrier throughout the room to make sure only the ears inside can listen.

His expression is one of confusion. I've changed quite a lot since the last time we met, both physically and mentally.

In his eyes, I may have just been a passerby, another random client of his sister's who happened to also b...

Dungeon Diver CH503

“It is. Why? Is he here?”

Bri looks around the room in a startled manner, spreading out her aura, but it doesn’t reach as far as mine, so I reply by pointing at the wall nearest to the street.

“Not yet, we still have a few minutes before he arrives. Why is this such a big deal? I’ve seen him meet with you here before and it wasn’t an issue to have me in the room.”

She replies.

“This isn’t just a casual sibling meetup. Rodrigo is coming to do the Assoc...

Dungeon Diver CH502

Once we approach the entrance underground, I’m happy to see three large men standing outside the heavy metal door that leads to the underside of her workshop.

After a quick inspection and appraisal, I can see all of them are between level 300 and 400. This is nearing Elite levels, and is surely the top of the line security one can get in a place like this.

There's no way any common thieves, or even professionals who have surpassed C Class could infiltrate this security without c...

Dungeon Diver CH501

The further I float down into the square-shaped hole, the more prominent the upward flow of Qi becomes.

The temperature grows slowly as I continue to fall hundreds of meters underground, watching the ladder fly by on my right side, and begin seeing a faint white glow beneath me.

The black stone that makes up the walls begin to change in composition, shifting from just regular dark stone to the same jet black material the monastery in the platinum district is made of.

I allow...

Dungeon Diver CH500

The three legacy fighters who introduced me to the rules of the arena when I first entered Valor City float before me now, unmoving while dark orange soul energy courses through their bodies.

Maria points at them and speaks up.

"Hey, it's them! We had dinner with them together that one night. The legacy fighters at the arena... They were underground the first time we ran from the 5th ranked Dark Guard! Is this where they were taken? What's... going on here...?"

Abby, Monk, a...

Dungeon Diver CH499

Ember speaks up after my final words to Lith.

“Yes, that’s a good idea.”

He points directly at one of the white mana-shielded walls of the penthouse suite. To me, however, it looks as if he’s pointing to the building with the multiple layers of denser shielding and compartments inside it.

“That building in particular, I think we should check it out.”

He opens a telepathy link between us and continues.

“I sense leftover residue of the Lich King's Sou...

Dungeon Diver Ch498

We materialize inside the lobby of the Galeheart Tower, and I immediately ask the two lobby men to tell me where Lith is even though I already know the answer.

“He should be in his office.”

The elevator dings, and opens, but no one is inside it.

I turn and walk inside. All of my teammates follow, then the fast-moving elevator moves us up dozens of floors in a matter of seconds before letting out a ding and opening up to show the visual of Lith’s high-rise office.

Dungeon Diver CH497

As the sun sets, more people join the festivities.

Many Elite fighters are fully rested, and the construction team under Maurice takes a load off from their hard day.

This is both the debut opening of the first large bar in town on the main street and a symbol of the beginning of a new civilization that will grow from nothing into a force to be known by the world.

I give a short speech and a simplified version of today's events once everyone has shown up but leave them all o...

Status Update

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[Status Open]

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Name: Jay Soju

Level: 2199

Hp: 11000/11000

Mp: 11000/11000

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Strength: 8594 [+10743] [+36181] [+10313] [+37728] [+62650] [+4297] [+8594] [+21485] [+21485] [+21485] [+34376] = 277,931 Total Strength

Speed: 7452 [+8272] [+11327] [+9315] [+19003] [+37111 ][+25784] [+38154] [+3726] [+7452] [+23250] [+18630] [+18630] [+29808] = 257,914 Total Speed

Agility: 7596 [+7...

Dungeon Diver CH496

I look off into the distance toward Sector 2, then speak up to Monk again.

“Let’s get back safely and rest. After that, we can talk.”

Everyone around us divides their loot and begins to chatter amongst themselves. I decide to wrap up my talk before I lose everyone’s focus, so I float back up in the air and put on my Flame Emperor's disguise.

“Now let’s go back to town and bring the good news.”

I float upward with Ember next to me, and my ranked-up teammat...

Dungeon Diver CH495

As I scan the battlefield to ensure there are no other enemies nearby, I slowly let my buffs and Soul Energy Aura deactivate and flow back inside my core.

I instantly absorb the new skill; Combat Magic [Superior Dark Summoning] and an additional 3188 Mental Strength points, but pause before accepting this new buff.

[Curse of The Lich King] stares at me in bright orange status text just as it did as a stain on every Dark Guard’s status I saw it on. It hovers above the pile of bon...