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

Chapter 630

The 8 Great Regions and Dark Continent fade away from my perception, but the real-time memories of my doubles are still being relayed to me, and I can swap places with one anytime I'd like.

The progress on harvesting the Apex Region's mana has moved along quite nicely. By the time I have my meeting with the Regional Directors and powerful hunters in the morning, it should be complete and ready for use.

Even though I know Raven is near me in the sky, it's still quite fascinating that I don't sense a thing.

She vaguely described how her ability worked, revealing that when she activates her divine-grade stealth skill and tethers it with her true core's innate ability, she finds herself in a flow state between existing and not.

Physical contact and extremely close proximity are the only things that negate her power.

While she can stab an enemy through the heart while fully in stealth mode, it won't do any damage until she comes back to this physical plane.

While this is more than enough to kill anyone at her strength level or lower without them even knowing they've been stabbed, the big three have a power gap so large, they can feel her presence when she's within a very close proximity of their auras; a few meters would set off the mental alarms.

If I didn't have my purple barrier to trigger my perception when her silver blades were close to cutting me, I would never have been able to perceive her presence.

However, now that she is connected to me through a link of loyalty, I am capable of zeroing in on her general location with the geo-points my Rising Emperor's domain interface grants. Along with that, even while she's in her stealth mode, the instant long-range telepathy perk I have through the interface grants me an open speaking channel even if my perception can't pick her up in the physical world around me.

As the near endless forest of thick trees below us starts to turn into a more mountainous and rocky landscape, I realize something isn't quite right and raise a question.

"These aren't real mountains... Did someone make them?"

My perception is dampened, as to not send out any abnormal waves of divine energy into the atmosphere, but even now as we fly over them, I can sense that something is off using just my mana senses.

It feels like these massive pyramids of stone stretch for hundreds of kilometers in front of us and thousands of kilometers north and south to form a border between the sea and the land that leads to the 8 Great Regions and beyond to the east.

I know earth summoning well, as it's a skill I use often, but this massive scale of use seems unbelievable. Many labyrinths' worth of mana must have been used to create such a mountain range.

At the outer edges of my radar to the north, I sense these same mountains made completely of ice, and it feels like they're mostly made of mana as well.

To the south, the mountain range curves east and leads down to Raven's volcanic territory, but those mountains and landmarks are far smaller and more natural. This phenomenon has me stumped until Raven replies.

"You're right. These mountains aren't real. However, they've been around for as long as I can remember. Apparently, they were created in the Great War. Elara's kingdom used to be to the north, and Beckman ruled where we're flying over now... It's the residual aftermath of a battle fought long ago. Believe it or not, the divide used to be far larger; most of the mana has already dissolved back into the atmosphere."

I don't respond for a moment, thinking over her words, imagining the large-scale fight that must have taken place to create such a massive change in the landscape of the world...