[CH399+ Continued] Dungeon Diver: Stealing A Monster's Power

Chapter 456

I turn to Arie.

"You should come too. As long as you stay within 100 meters of me, your body doubles won't deactivate. They can continue to train here by the Abyss while we go into the desert."

Then, I turn back in the direction of the rogue dungeon.

"Sure, I'll come along!" Arie replies.

The three of us head off into the desert, flying with various magic techniques to increase our speed and fly over 50 km in just a few minutes.

It reminds me of my flight over here from Sector 1 on Ember's back. During it, I felt quite a few other rogue dungeons out in the wilderness.

There's far less in these deserts than the crowded forest areas back in the Vice Region, but near every town out here there are rogue dungeons scattered about, the same as Sector 4.

The canyon that houses over a hundred of them is quite the mystery to me, honestly.

Dungeons of that magnitude and quantity are usually only found near massive cities where thousands or even millions of hunters excrete excess mana every day to fuel and grow them. There is hardly any activity way out here in Sector 2, and there couldn't have been more than 500 people living in the small town.

They must have been created or maintained artificially, but now isn't the time for me to ponder this.

I'm just glad there's a rogue dungeon not too far away, but not too close. If anything goes wrong in my test, the working dungeons won't be affected, and the town is far away from any potential blast radius.

"Here we are."

The three of us touch down in a desolate portion of the desert with the remains of what looks like it used to be a small trading station and check-in hut, but is now just scrap wood that has fallen apart and sunk into the desert sand.

Next to it is a small spinning blue dungeon portal, that gives off the mana reading of a middle-ranked E-Grade or possibly low-ranked D-grade at the highest.

Someone must have regulated this dungeon or farmed it pretty often in the past, but it has been long abandoned.

Even Arie, without a specific perception skill activated, can tell that this is an odd place to trek out to.

He speaks up as we all walk inside and take in the lush green scenery.

"What kinds of tests do you plan on doing with a dungeon this weak...?"

The rustling of jungle trees, long colorful flowery vines, and thick underbrush fills our vision.

"Here, I'll show you."

I place a hand on both Ember and Arie's shoulder, dungeon walking us to the center of the dungeon right beside two wild boar mobs at level 53 and 54 just to get a closer look.

We take the pair of monsters by surprise, but they hardly let out a squeal before the overwhelming aura of our trio suffocates them to death and they fall to the floor.

I activate enemy detection to find a few hundred other boars between level 50 and 60 filling the dungeon, but they're all running far away from us in fear.

With a sigh, I reach into my item storage to pull out one of the jet black firestones and place a hand on Ember's shoulder.

"Arie, you should probably place a hand on my back. I'm about 50% sure this will work, but to be safe, I'll be dungeon walking us out of here pretty quickly."

His eyes widen at the intense rippling black flames of the stone that I let hover over my right hand using telekinesis, and its fire burns so strong and bright that trees above in the jungle regions begin to erupt into flames.