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

Chapter 648

Just a few dozen meters away, the orange and yellow-cored hunters watch the scene before them unfold.

They're secured behind the heavy silver door in the transparent hallway.

I have a few fractions of a second where I can easily pull out a teleport crystal and make my escape; however, the instant the top of the dome cracks open, my perception is able to seep out much further than before.

I'm able to see past the endless abyss of flames around us.

Every moment that passes, and the dome above opens more, my gaze is able to surge further.

This is exactly what Marcus told me would happen when he described the common protocol for violent deals gone bad, and said even True Cores cannot survive the flames.

My initial hopes were that I would be able to stage an attack and that the wind mage would strike back, allowing me to stage them being struck in vital points and use another teleport crystal to run away and make it seem as if they died from this.

In the confusion of it all, I could have even killed this last yellow core and absorbed even more essence.

However, the order member here was a bit weaker than I predicted.

Not only would there be no witness to report this staged betrayal, killing her now would barely grant me a 1-2% gain of my Core's base.

This far more extreme option makes for a more convincing story, and with it, I'm able to leave this dome. Crushing a crystal to leave right now would be a waste of this opportunity.

The fact that we're near Central Headquarters makes me want to take a bit of a risk just to get a glimpse at what Central is really like.

The yellow flames rush into the dome, and simultaneously my perception does, in fact, spread out far enough to get a fuzzy picture in my mind of where Central Headquarters is.

The city is enormous, made of hundreds of skyscrapers at sizes that look like they can house entire cities like Solara or even Vice City itself in a single structure.

I can't get a clear view, only the outlines, as the thick divine flames all around me make for an impenetrable veil.

I can feel that this abyss of flames is a few kilometers high, and a few dozen kilometers wide. However, its length goes on for hundreds of kilometers in both directions, curving to make a massive moat around a mountain that reaches up into the sky.

There are huge cliffs burned with flames all around this Central City, and atop it mana control waves of millions of individual status screens blare through my senses. This isn't even counting the massive buildings that I'm unable to sense through in my current position. I estimate there are tens of millions of people in this massive central headquarters Civilization alone.

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My focus shifts back to the scene in front of me instead of wandering away to the outside world as the dome fully opens and the divine flames rush in.

I brace myself, activating all of my buffs, and creating a defensive layer of divine energy-infused Soul Energy shielding all around my body while activating my greater form and compacting its energy to compress around me.

My stealth skill is still active, but the immense energy I'm letting off can't be fully contained. The only reason the order member behind the clear protective barrier can't see me is because of the [Master of Illusion] buff I'm keeping on to manipulate the perception of reality around me.

I jump upward headfirst into the fire while it completely floods the dome.

My connection with the King and Queen's corpses is severed, and their bodies are burned to ash and dust in milliseconds.