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

Chapter 653

I don't even take the time to watch the portion of the artifact I sliced off dissolve; I just let the cluster of crystals fall into my item storage and swim forward with the extremely fast-flowing water under enormous pressure.

The jet of water floods inside the artifact, dispersing down into the hollow shell of the statue plunging into total darkness below the ocean floor.

It is hot and humid, but I airstep away from the water stream and hover in mid-air, deciding to take a breath while sending out a pulse of perception to get a reading on my surroundings.

The inside of this structure is filled with stale air.

I send a message through my telepathy link to Marcus through the small hole in the side of the artifact's wrist just as it completely heals itself.

"Understood, I've run into a small detour... this may take a moment."

The hole letting in massive amounts of ocean water seals itself, and the raining salt water all falls into the darkness below.

I can't see anything at all, but instead of sensing nothing as I did from the outside, now I can sense the energy particles in the air trapped within this massive structure and feel its exact shape.

I'm floating within the wrist, which leads upward to create the enormous hand that stretches up and out of the ocean, with the infrastructure of an enormous city built atop it.

However, down below, the rest of the arm is here.

It even leads to a shoulder, and that shoulder connects to a neck, torso, and three other limbs.

The impossibly large artifact appears to be lodged hundreds of kilometers below the planet's crust, and the deeper down I sense, the denser the air becomes filled with Qi.

There is no mana present within this structure other than the small amount that radiates off my body.

However, the further I push my senses into the depths of the artifact's darkness, I do feel the flash of divine energy again.

It comes and goes, giving off extremely strange readings.

One moment it's invisible, and another, it's creating a gravity well with the intensity of a True Core; other times, it's hardly the strength of a newly awakened red.

I don't sense any intelligent life, but every time my perception touches the odd divine energy reading down below, I get the intuitive feeling that it is looking back at me.

Overcome with curiosity, I float further down into the darkness, following the flow of denser Qi and divine energy.

I slowly make my way down the entire arm, deep below the ocean floor, and find that a large amount of water that fell in through the hole I made has pooled in the lower tricep of the bent right arm that reaches out of the sea.

As I pass it and move through the shoulder joint, steam rises up, adding to the humidity as the water down here instantly boils from the heat and pressure.

I'm flying many kilometers in a matter of a few minutes, but in this state of total darkness, it almost feels like I'm not moving at all, just pushing myself through endless hot air while following a mental map.

Despite this, I eventually end up right below the head, staring down at the void that leads to the statue's midsection and legs below.

This is where the heat, pressure, and Qi density are the strongest. However, my attention now shifts upward because beneath the statue's head, where its neck would be, there is a narrow hole, roughly 100 meters wide at its entrance, but as it goes further up to meet the head of the structure, it gets far more narrow.