Kae

Dungeon Diver CH970

A massive pile of purple soul weapons and Royal Demon Horns fall out of my Soul Storage in front of me.

In this form, I have full control over my Royal Vibrations, Celestial Fire, Corruption, Ether Pool channeling pure celestial energy into high-quality glyphs, Pure Mana, Purple Divine Threads, and dense Primordial Aura holding it all together.

If I spread out their reach, I can feel nearly this entire domain.

All of the blast sites where Outer Guards and Ascended Demons wer...

Dungeon Diver CH969

It is extremely easy to absorb the raw Celestial Energy pouring out from the broken building behind me.

There is no need to channel it through my energy pathways, or grab onto the raw particles with my Royal Vibrations and Primordial Aura bubble from far away. Now, my ether pool is present on the outer side of my Sacred Body, so just the physical contact alone is enough to instantly siphon it into my energy stores.

I feel the entire bottom half of this building activate countless ...

Dungeon Diver CH968

On the far side of the Purple Zone, a crimson-eyed dragon in his human form sits on the edge of a tear in space that leads down to the zones below and the Lower Realm. A bright white ascended elf curiously floats around him, asking questions while they watch a galaxy-wide war taking place.

“None of them can wield Primordial Aura… how are they possibly going to win these fights?”

Ember doesn’t move, he only stares downward and lets out a sigh.

“I don’t know. That ...

Dungeon Diver CH967

Maria crashes down next to me. Her sword glistens brighter than every fractured glyph around.

Her ether pools are exhausted just like mine. Her source resin and soul sword seep back into her body to conserve the small amount of energy she has left.

The corruption that pulled my Astral body back together erupts outward to begin draining the pools of Demonic Essence falling around us, and pockets of soul storage open up to store this demon’s horns and soul weapons.

Maria gai...

Dungeon Diver CH966

My instincts are correct.

The instant the waves of Demonic Essence flood down into the crater below, the outline of an energy from a billion-kilometers-tall Outer Guard with two curved daggers comes rocketing toward us.

Both its blades are coated in dense Demonic Essence, and its eyes are sharp, focused on us while we continue to form more protective arrays after the last impact from the cannon.

The Outer Guard moves faster than any of the others I’ve been watching, but th...

Dungeon Diver CH965

The purple cores close the gap between us fast, and my vision of the settlement widens too.

The shapes of the approaching bodies all come into full view, carrying soul Weapons, and standing just as tall in their Demonic forms as the Griffin, Ogre, and Mammoth in front of me.

Imagery of wisps of the remaining ascended Demons in the territory slowly appear, and larger-scale glyphs and surveillance commands start to become clear, showing the strength of this city. All of the structur...

Dungeon Diver CH964

Two dark black crescents of aura come out of Ulgar’s blades into the masses.

A wave of rust-colored fire bursts out from Vardon’s fur, and layers of Glyphs peel off his tusks to create explosive arrays packed tightly within his aura.

Axel lets out a screech and flaps his wings to release two large gusts of wind magic tethered to Royal Vibrations and High Quality Ether Glyphs.

All three of them release vicious waves of Primordial Aura carrying their attacks as well, and i...

Dungeon Diver CH963

The moment I begin to focus on the barrier in front of me, and pour my Primordial Aura into the faint signs of glyphs I see, the entire collection of arrays becomes crystal clear. It has a very similar structural makeup to the small Domain barrier we opened in the Ogre’s domain and the border between the neutral lands and the ones now owned by the Demons.

This one is extremely thick and far more complex.

Bright blue and red Celestial Energy pours out of our palms, and it drains ...

Dungeon Diver CH962

A chain reaction of layers of glyphs in front of me are shattered to dust.

I feel my body, mind, and soul weakening as over half of my entire ether pool dissolves out of my control into the atmosphere.

Even the Royal Vibrations and Primordial Aura in the air start to press in on the back side of this barrier where the weaker points are. Only the front is tough enough to withstand the impact of this spiked bolt made of pure Demonic Essence.

It's packed with divine threads, an...

Dungeon Diver CH961

"You're right. The longer we wait, the higher chances of more Outer Guards swarming us there will be," Vardon remarks.

Ulgar begins floating deeper into the forest.

"Let's go, this way. It's not much further to one of their ritual domains. If anything will awaken the rest of your glyphs, that'll be it."

Maria and I follow, a the Fiery Mammoth slowly floats behind us.

My senses stretch out much further now, I can feel dozens of Primordial Trees in every direction. Each ...

Dungeon Diver CH960

A sharp pressure starts to creep into my mind, and these memories begin to become clouded by a silver and golden light around the edges of my consciousness.

I fight back, and look deeper into the enormous Primordial Tree, and even see the figure of a bright green woman that appears to be stepping out from its trunk. Her body looks like a hologram, sparkling with white and yellow light.

Her true core is a deep purple color, but there are fragments of silver threads flickering insid...

Dungeon Diver CH959

Every scenario that runs through the Generals’, Commanders’, and Knights’ minds all results in them losing their battles; no matter what they do, it seems hopeless. This invisible energy is far too strange.

Alveron processes all of their battle information and scans from the hours teleporting from star system to star system. Then, every single piece of footage the Rising Emperor has stored from his last battles to try and figure out a solution.

The Ancient True Cored Mind Fl...

Dungeon Diver CH958

The instant everyone begins to look for these strange outliers of Demonic Soldiers with invisible auras is the same instant that they all begin to move from their positions. At first, they were only watching from stable areas of deep space or appearing at random battlefields, but never making any hostile moves.

In the total ranks of millions of Imperial Soldiers, there are less than a hundred of these strange elites, but once spotted it is clear to see they have all teleported to the ba...

Dungeon Diver CH957

Flashes of white light, in the form of luminite-powered teleportation crystals glow all over the Lower Realm.

At first, it is just parties of elites and high-class monsters from the Galactic Trade Commission deploying teams to scan and scout out all the areas where Demons are spotted. No one goes in to attack, as the true power of these strange Demons is still unknown.

However, as members of the Crimson Army begin to gain insights from the Generals in the Green Zone, they begin lo...

Dungeon Diver CH956

~ Two hours ago, in the Green Zone:

Both Raven and Arie pull a full 5% of the borrowed stats available to them. Bursts of unique Noble Grade Vibrations resonate with the hints of a dark elf and scarlet clan berserker, and both flood through the entire zone.

These Auras clash with the thousands of High Noble Demonic Vibrations flooding out from the white demons that tear through space from the Lower Realm.

All of the newly renovated Citadels have updated ether defense systems...

Dungeon Diver CH955

My corruption falls back entirely into my core, yet it doesn't feel bloated or overstimulated at all by the massive increase in energy volume it’s consumed.

The purple and white light has all fallen into its depths, devoured, and seemingly disappears.

Yet, the moment I reseal its outer edges with a thick layer of Royal Vibrations, a ripple of white light flows through my whole greater form. It even makes my Primordial Aura tremble, and it creates a mirrored effect on Maria’s b...

Dungeon Diver CH954

“Stop! Don’t move any closer! If that Demonic Essence infects you, there will be nothing I can do to save you!” Vardon’s voice echoes out from behind me once he finally shakes himself out of shock.

A collection of shielding arrays starts to form in front of me.

Far past the tree I float toward, the dark outline of a Black Ogre comes into my visual range as well.

“He’s right. Their essence is nasty. It’s a mutated legacy, one mana-based lifeforms like us cannot ...

Dungeon Diver CH953

Some pockets of the Demon’s past strongest attacks still float in the air or are stained into the bark and leaves of nearby trees. They don’t dissolve or meld well with the natural atmosphere at all.

They become more and more visible to my senses as the barrier Vardon has created slowly peels away and falls back into his long white tusks. The only harmful thing that hits my senses once we’re exposed to the outside is the violent pressure of Primordial Aura and Royal Vibrations in ...

Dungeon Diver CH952

The lifeforms in front of me are all incredibly strong. It’s almost unbelievable.

In all of the zones below, I’ve managed to have some kind of edge on my enemies or quickly find the power to overwhelm them entirely. Now, I feel the true Auras of Purple Cored Demons and understand that they are on an entirely different level.

With the fractions of a second I have to think, the options of trying to borrow stats and activate my more powerful energy forms come to mind. However, th...

Dungeon Diver CH951

Ulgar’s vibrations grow tense, but I don’t sense any fear, only the sense that he is calculating what to do next. He’s deciding whether to fight or avoid them.

He looks far off to our right, then motions for us to follow. “Come on, we’ll go around.”

Our travel path changes drastically, shifting in sharp angles every few minutes as loud caws ring out through the air.

We encounter another four groups of ascended demons, in squads of between thirty and thirty-five. ...

Dungeon Diver CH950

A burst of violent energy floods through the air.

The dense waves of divine threads alone are enough to push both of us backward, sliding over trillions of kilometers on the flat ground. Ulgar's Royal Vibrations burst through the air as well, piercing deep into our psyches; however, they are just residue from the explosions and not targeted at us with malicious intent.

Even pockets of primordial aura collide with ours, but they mostly stay latched onto dense areas of Royal Vibrati...

Dungeon Diver CH949

The warm pressure flooding through us feels just like the burst of understanding I received moments ago peering into the Mammoths' Imprints. It makes the feeling of being stimulated by the elven artifact return again, and the perfect perception of the arrays and patterns in front of me returns just like the first barrier we opened up.

What Ulgar said was right; this one is much thicker, filled with far more glyphs and complex layers.

However, it feels like a warm invisible conscio...

Dungeon Diver CH948

The Orb of light holding an amplifier legacy from the Red Hydra in the Blue Zone deep in my Soul Sword has already been digested, but it's extremely stimulated by the hot aura filling the air.

An invisible pulse of energy floods out from my sword deep in my soul, and it goes back to sleep.

It feels like a wave of cool energy is flooding through my mind, like I’ve just splashed my face into a pool of cold water. I take a sharp breath of air in, and simultaneously, a wave of under...

Dungeon Diver CH947

Ulgar floats forward after killing the swarm of insects and absorbing the white mist they left behind. Maria and I jump upward and follow him away from the Domain barrier of the Black Ogre’s that just closed and left it invisible to the rest of the Primordial Garden.

As we float through the small bits of residue left behind in this mist, I don’t exactly sense any usable ether readings, but it does feel warm. It is similar to the hot feeling that briefly stimulated my glyph imprints ...

Dungeon Diver CH946

Pluto watches the countless Imperial Soldiers leave the purple throne and flood into the Demonic Realm. He begins receiving the same messages as the knights, commanders, and generals, watching geo points light up all over the galaxy.

There are videos and energy scans coming from the knights and elites of every system playing in his mind. The glowing white demons themselves do not give off any scannable readings, but the dents in space they make and the scale of destruction they leave be...

Dungeon Diver CH945

In the Lower Realm, more and more crisis events are popping up all over the outer ring of the galaxy.

At first, only a few thousand bright white demons were spotted, but this soon turned into hundreds of thousands, and even millions, attacking star systems.

“They’re being strategic! I don’t know where they’re getting this data, but it’s obvious they’re reclaiming the highest-grade worlds first… especially the ones we’ve recently cleared Vermillion and Morvale Force...

Dungeon Diver CH944

I stare up at the domain barrier.

Moments earlier, when we entered this place, I couldn't even sense that it was here.

Now, I can perceive billions of shifting arrays and groupings of glyphs moving together to create countless pathways. Not all of the symbols directly translate to actual words in my mind, but when I look at them all together, I can feel what each one does.

With Maria’s mind connected to mine, deciphering everything at the same exact time, we bounce theorie...

Dungeon Diver CH943

“What do you know about the Originators?” I reply.

It’s extremely rare for me to hear any mention of this race. The only places I’ve ever seen confirmed text from their language were on the human world, Kelfar, and in the Ravine. Odds are… this so-called Creator’s Legacy does come from them.

Ulgar takes a few deep breaths in and out to calm himself before replying.

“Well—like I said. Until now, I really only thought they were myths. I’ve never seen one myse...

Dungeon Diver CH942

As imprints of the glyphs we absorbed from the ravine temple’s walls flash in my vision all over Maria’s body, they flicker on mine as well.

The warmth of the glyphs fills my body, and I start to make out the shapes of many symbols I see. However, they’re not in any language I know.

This reaction gives me some hope, that maybe Ulgar was wrong and this artifact is capable of activating our glyph imprints despite it not being from an older generation. I even feel the sword in ...

Dungeon Diver CH941

My interest is piqued again.

There’s no way this artifact Ulgar is speaking of will work as intended if he believes it will only work on legacies younger than the elves.

However, maybe it will give me some more insight on what Glyph imprints really are in the first place.

“Fine, let’s do it,” I reply.

Maria and I follow him even further down the winding path, passing more torn-up tree roots and destroyed old structures.

Less and less housing turns up, and...