[CH598+ Continued] Dungeon Diver: Stealing A Monster's Power

Chapter 618

I quickly make some upgrades to the shielding in this underground shelter.

With my remaining few million MP worth of mana crystals and a contribution of additional crystals from my four teammates here there's more than enough mana to get the job done. I imbue the shielding in this bunker to far surpass A-Class shielding, giving it additional mythic-grade stealth, hush, and barrier creation protection, lightly imbued with trace amounts of my True Core's divine threads.

This is not only to keep my teammates safe inside but also to keep everyone outside safe from what I'm about to recommend.

"Continue your orange divine core consolidation down here..."

I turn to the isolation pod.

"I want you to keep an eye on Ember and keep his pod within your circle of restoration. I can feel him healing at a much faster rate with it activated."

My eyes track up to the ceiling next, watching as the small red and orange threads of radiation that leak off their bodies become trapped by the True Core-imbued shielding I've created.

All of them have dense Qi barriers up, to not let their mana control disrupt the natural order of the low-level merchants and hunters above in the city, however, this isn't necessary.

I point at the new shielding.

"This should hold in enough power for you all to safely cultivate indoors. You may get quite the efficiency boost too, as a lot of the leftover threads can be recirculated within the bunker."

As these words come out of my mouth, I cough up more blood while the wounds all over my body pulse and burn into my flesh.

An annoying ringing sound in my ears starts too.

Though, I don't bring much attention to it as I walk up the spiral stairs to leave.

"I'm going off to find a place to heal these wounds. It's not safe for me to do it here. I thought it would be a good idea to check in before I left."

There are waves and short messages of goodbye as I activate my stealth skill and leave the bunker to walk out onto the streets and fly above the housing and businesses to make my way over to the canyon of dungeons.

I would have stayed to talk longer, but my fatigue and pain from my injuries are still rapidly getting worse.

On my way, I get the blaringly noticeable visual of the dark black abyss on the horizon.

Just under a thousand kilometers away, the center of the dark continent is visible to me, and the black pillar into the sky is clear as day. However, for most average eyes, all there is to see is the enormous black abyss.

It's a known phenomenon in the dark continent.

Over the years, the mass of darkness filled with mysterious invisible monsters has been creeping further and further outward every time there is a surge.

Today, it sits dangerously close to this settlement.

I have no idea how the darkness would react if it hit my Crimson dome. However, a new phenomenon is showing itself to me now that makes me believe I may not have to ever find out.

Instead of the abyss staying stagnant as it usually does or creeping closer like it does during each surge, the abyss is actually receding before my eyes.

It's incredibly slow, maybe a few centimeters a minute right now, but my eyes are far sharper than the average hunter, so I can see its movement from all sides throughout the entire dark continent.

Flashbacks of some of Celia's memories rush through my mind, as before each planet was consumed by darkness, they all contracted back on a single point before erupting around the globe.