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Dungeon Diver CH435

Everyone around begins to line up and take the rations, then Fin speaks up again, looking through the people that approach him.

"Alright, who was it keeping notes this time? I forget who’s who sometimes, you all look alike to me, it'd be a lot easier if I asked your names before you all went under."

He chuckles to himself and makes a light remark under his breath.

"Oh well… the ones that aren't useful are just going to be left to die out in this desert once we're done cl...

Dungeon Diver CH434

As I continue to pace inside the small stone room, I expand my All-Seeing Eye and enemy detection perks to follow the path of the two men that just left.

To my surprise, they head back to the center of the city.

It doesn't take more than a few minutes for the duo to make it all the way to the fountain square where I stopped not too long ago.

Once they do, a large reading of dense mana erupts from the ground in that area for a few seconds, then both of the men are completely ...

Dungeon Diver CH433

My eyes track the odd phenomenon, but the mana reading coming off it is so low I don’t bother trying to dodge.

I just continue walking forward with an innocent look on my face, responding out loud to the duo.

“I’m not sure what you’re talking about. I’m new to town. I just ventured out here from a village up north. Heard there was opportunity to snag some free loot now that the Sector Leader went missing. Was I correct?”

As I finish these words, the shadowy hand ...

Dungeon Diver CH432

"Body Double."

I create two clones and have them appear on both sides of me. Then, speak up as we all look over the edge of the canyon.

"Alright, I want approximate levels, loot type, and monster names etched in stone using an earth magic skill marked next to every single one of these dungeons."

I look at the clone to my left, reaching into my item storage and pulling out a teleport crystal.

"Once the sun comes fully up, I want you to use one of these and go bring Arie...

Dungeon Diver Ch431

The wind speeding by my sides is powerful as we fly above the clouds. Ember slowly flaps his wings, and we get faster and faster with every strong gust, soaring higher into the air and further into the Dark Continent.

Every few minutes, clusters of tiny lights fly by below us, and I try to picture what kind of city we're passing by.

From Fisher's descriptions, I'm picturing small towns and villages, but as we get further in, the lit-up cities get much larger.

After just unde...

Dungeon Diver CH430

Lith walks over to the elevator with me and agrees to grant my request.

“Sure, I don’t see why not. This is another item specially crafted by the old Sector 2 leader, so there’s a good chance it will be impossible to replicate. You can try to dissect the Isolation Pods all you want, at least they’ll go to some use instead of rotting away in the storage room.”

The elevator moves down quickly to a very low floor and opens with a ding as we walk out into a room filled with ...

Dungeon Diver CH429

The conversation winds down and basically settles on the fact that we have to go out to the Sector 2 region to make any more progress.

Abby and Maria are tired out from their training in the Arena, so they head back down to the Isolation Pods to rest until morning. As they leave, I send a telepathy message to both of them, asking to get Monk to offer more Qi pills for all of us to train with; but the condition being I won’t be coming back to meet with him in the monastery.

If th...

Dungeon Diver CH428

My gaze tightens as I conduct a full body scan with my All-Seeing Eye on the tan-skinned archer who walks through the room and sits down in the last remaining empty seat in front of Lith's desk.

I'm not sure what I was expecting to see, but I'm surprised to find no Demon's Core inside Arie's body. With the amount of used-up Demonic Energy lingering around in his aura, it seems as if he just finished up a battle with a Demonic Creature.

Only one other possibility enters my mind as ...

Dungeon Diver CH427

The transport crystal breaks in my clenched fist, and I’m teleported back into the main lobby of the Galeheart tower.

I can feel the dense layer of Qi around my body get pulled through the instant transport rift with me, and I stand alone in the center of the white-walled room with both lobby men looking around with startled gazes.

The teleport platform registered a user arrive, but no one is visible in the room.

I deactivate my stealth skill and let my concealment items a...

Dungeon Diver CH426

Back in Bri's office, the room stays still as we take in the news about dungeons being found in the forest region where the Green Ridge Lookout used to be.

My eyes open wide, and so do Bri’s; we turn to meet each other's gazes. I'm the first to whisper under my breath.

“No way…”

Silence looms in the room for another few seconds before Bri responds to her assistant.

“Thank you very much, Bernard. This is valuable info, and I appreciate the good job in closing ...

Dungeon Diver CH425

A few hours ago, at the top of the Association’s HQ Tower in Vice City, a blond-haired woman named Samantha picks up her transmission tablet while she looks out the glass window of the top floor of her office suite.

She is the assistant to the Vice Region's Director.

The transmission tablet in her hand glows brightly for a few seconds before the deep voice of the Director, Brutus C. Matthews, replies on the other end.

“You know I’m out on business in the Apex Region ri...

Dungeon Diver CH424

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Close to another hour passes as I continue to farm in the volcanic region, testing out my new water summoning skill and finding that if I use about a fifth of my...

Dungeon Diver CH423

As far as I can see, the dungeon is split into three different parts. It's like a pie split into triangles, stretching out a few kilometers each.

I seem to be hovering over the rocky region of the dungeon right now. There are massive rock formations, plains of rocky dirt and soil, and large forests with small mountains and hills. At first, my view was blocked by a large plateau-like structure, but now I can see the rest of the dungeon clearly.

Nearby, I sense a huge lake filled wi...

Dungeon Diver CH422

“So that’s the Void Creeper Lord.”

I turn to Ember, and he responds.

“Oh? You actually met it?”

“Meeting it isn’t exactly what I’d call that… More like it killed me the second I laid eyes on it.”

Ember nods.

“Sounds about right… If you were killed in an instant, you have nothing to worry about.”

He turns back to the direction where the rift closed moments ago and continues to speak through our link.

“It's already been too l...

Dungeon Diver CH421

[Minutes earlier in The Great Plains.]

I watch from the perspective of one of my body doubles as my main body falls into the Titan’s domain.

My last thoughts before creating these clones were to notify myself at the halfway mark, and another 2-3 minutes before it looks like the Titan will leave through the rift.

Both body doubles wait patiently, airstepping high in the sky to watch from above as the Titan slowly makes its way across the 2km stretch of rolling grasslands to...

Dungeon Diver CH420

Ember's voice enters my mind using telepathy once I've situated myself within the Titan's domain.

"The technique I call Mana Suppression is really just an advanced form of manipulating visual Qi. You've already shown signs of mastering the beginning stages of this, so by raising your natural capacity and Qi control, Mana Suppression should be very simple."

I sit on a small blanket in a comfortable position, getting ready to start my training, listening to what Ember has to say. 2024-02-22 00:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Dungeon Diver CH419

“What do you mean the rift is closing? It's hardly even been a full day. I thought this tear has been closing for weeks, even months. Why is it closing so fast now?”

I do a full scan of the dungeon to locate the excess mana emanating from the rift, then Dungeon Walk us from the sky to directly in front of it.

The massive tear in space is now hardly over 10 meters in height.

Its black endless void is as ominous as ever, but just this morning when I looked at it, it was al...

Dungeon Diver CH418

“Sure, ask me anything. We’re going to be business partners very soon, and if you have a craftsmanship skill of your own, I’m sure I could teach you a few things.”

I nod, thinking about what exactly I’m going to ask her, but she responds before I do.

“And your ranked-up buff? It can help me craft better items? Is it some kind of team buffing skill or something?”

I respond.

“Kind of, but not exactly. I guess that’s a good place to start.”

I con...

Dungeon Diver CH417

I take a step forward at her request, doing a full analysis of the curved wall of shimmering mana in front of me.

My perception skills and buffs are activated out of instinct at a constant rate just like they were when I was training in the titan's domain for 6 months straight. With this, and my absurdly high level of natural mana control, I’m able to see through the barrier and still make eye contact with Bri standing inside through what looks to be a semi-transparent mirror made of ...

Dungeon Diver CH416

Over the next half hour, I point out new monsters in the jungle region on the 25th floor and Bri takes them out in style.

After just four additional mobs, the agile light magic user opens her status over the corpse of a fallen lizardman.

“Level 500… It’s finally time.”

From above in the trees, I watch the silhouette of her body immediately become enveloped in a bright white light. The blue text box of the system vanishes and pure mana flows through Bri’s body at a ...

Dungeon Diver CH415

While we walk through the portion of town filled with small shops and street vendors, the tone of commerce is much more scattered, and many hunters and merchants look up to the sky with confused gazes.

There are some whispers that escape from a few mouths as we walk by.

“Did you see that flash of light?”

“What could it be? Lightning?”

“No- That was an explosion! You all heard the rumble. The Association must be doing some testing… They could have at least w...

Dungeon Diver CH414

It looks as if a new sun has risen from the horizon as a flash of bright white light makes every rock and leaf in the forest visible as clear as day.

I turn my head back to watch the eruption of power unfold.

From a tiny point on the mountain's top, a sphere of energy expands to envelop the entire top half of the mountain in an instant. Massive skyscraper-sized blades of wind erupt from the ball of mass moments later, ripping through the earth all the way down the mountain, and fo...

Dungeon Diver CH413

A large white portal of spatial magic opens up below me about 15 meters down. It’s halfway between me and the ground.

Without waiting any longer, I let the Cursed Windstone fall from my storage and plummet toward the sandy floor.

The moment it emerges, the wind picks up and the mana manifested sand from the dungeon floor begins to float up into the air to meet the falling stone. In mere fractions of a second, a twisting sand tornado is created, and I turn to Bri and grab her wri...

Dungeon Diver CH412

I ponder the two favors Bri just asked me for, considering their true meaning.

Asking to see the mystery item I have seems like common sense for a legendary craftswoman. She's definitely curious about what kind of item is powerful enough to collapse a dungeon on its own.

Her request to enter the labyrinth and rank up, on the other hand, seems to have some hidden meaning behind it.

It isn't a mere coincidence Bri is wearing far superior gear today than at our last meeting, an...

Dungeon Diver CH411

I lightly activate my Dungeon Walker skill to sift through all the possible warp points I have in mind, but none of them seem like good options.

The ones out in the desert of the Dark Continent are way too far away from civilization, and the ones near dungeon hubs are too close to towns and have too many people currently farming in them.

I want to test this cursed item out on an abandoned dungeon, and not unnecessarily hurt anyone or be seen by prying eyes in the process.

I ...

Dungeon Diver CH410

I begin holding random items in my storage with my left hand while keeping contact with my right hand on Ember’s scales, attempting to imbue the Mythic Grade Plunderer skill into them, but I’m not getting the results I imagined I would.

Some of my failed crafts sit on my lap as I appraise them and use my all-seeing eye to check their abilities.

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[High Orc Ring][+70% Mental Strength][Plunderer Attribute]

All enemies below the user's ma...

Dungeon Diver CH409

I turn to Abby.

“Hey, can I try something… I want to test one of the perks of my craftsmanship skill.”

She nods as I reach into my item storage and pull out an old C-Grade HP potion of my own. I take off my gauntlets, then place a hand on her shoulder.

I scroll through my list of skills available to imbue into the HP potion with my mind, but nothing new shows up.

With a look of dissatisfaction on my face, I move my hand down and eventually hit her smooth skin rig...

Dungeon Diver CH408

"Considering we're in the 10-week training season of the year, the monastery allows each individual a maximum of 3 Qi Pills per week. There are over 30 members just working here, helping with cooking, cleaning, and maintenance; consuming an average of 1 pill every 2 weeks. On top of that, roughly 20 of us do extensive training, using the full 3-pill max; we run through about 75 Pills a week in total. However, in the off-season, we consume little to none, only taking in Qi from the gathering r...

Dungeon Diver CH407

Once I make my way down the steps of the monastery into the main hall, it seems very quiet, and much more empty than usual.

There are a few people dressed in the familiar orange robes walking around, and some eating meals at the tables, but very few.

I make my way toward the usual training room, and press my hand on the door to open it. To my surprise, I see Monk with both of his hands raised in the center of the room as I enter.

The Qi within his body is glowing hotter and ...

Dungeon Diver CH406

After about 30 minutes of soaring through the sky, we finally decide to come to the ground.

I activate my Enemy Detection skill to scope out the dungeon and thankfully pick up on the other Titan’s reading at the far back point of the Great Plains. I think to myself it would probably be best not to mess with it. Destroying the one I just left is enough to frighten them already.

I Dungeon Walk to a lower level E Class dungeon and use the exit portal while putting my ring of concea...