The men on the ground begin foaming at the mouth, while the two Royal Guards freeze in place as my wave of buff-enhanced legendary Intimidation hits them.
They don't move a muscle as I run forward with my sword trailing black flames.
Given a few more fractions of a second, I would have turned on my Red Hydra's Buff and sliced the two guards clean in two, but a familiar voice echoes through the white-walled room, causing me to stop my attack.
"Enough, enough. You always do seem to keep things lively wherever you go, don't you?"
As a third door at the back of the room opens up from a flat wall, the tall, fair-skinned, blue-eyed hunter walks toward me, the corner of his mouth turned upward.
Clear wisps of magic flow from his fingertips in the form of miniature tornadoes, lightly bringing both the men on the floor to their feet.
In the same gusts of air, green potions float over and tilt into the men's mouths before they both begin coughing and open their eyes back to reality.
At the sight, I turn my high mana consumption buffs down and intimidation skill off, but keep my sword pointed straight ahead and eyes locked on the frozen Royal Guards at the back of the room.
"What do you expect? I come in here and get attacked seconds after being invited..."
Lith's curved lip breaks into a smile before he replies.
"Well, you knocked out my lobby men, so of course my Royal Guards came in to see what the issue was."
He looks left and right over his shoulders at both of them, the guards still trembling from the wave of magic that just shocked their systems.
While this goes down, I attempt to do a status scan on all of them, but the readings I get back are exactly the same as the last time I tried.
_________________________
[Lv. 824]
Active Items:
[??? Access Denied]
Active Skills:
[??? Access Denied]
Buffs:
[??? Access Denied]
_________________________
The two Guards show levels of 605 and 606. Their items, skills, and buffs have 'access denied' written all over them too.
He replies after confirming his guards aren't permanently harmed.
"It seems you weren't in any real danger if you can freeze two of my guards with a mental attack in mere seconds."
He looks at me curiously, then continues to speak.
"If you were that combative from just the sight of a few Royal Guards, it appears you know more than I thought already. The Origin worshipers didn't make me look too bad, did they?"
He takes a step forward as I raise an eyebrow at his remark.
"Origin worshipers? You mean...? How do you know I went in-"
Lith brings his hand up in the air again, and the tall walls around us change color to dark black with hints of white light. It looks as if the night sky is all around us.
Seconds later, the view shifts, and moving images of the city in a fast-paced slideshow begin to zoom in and out of all angles of the city. It looks like a video recording of the entire town, just like the arena.
A few lonely souls roam the streets, and some are still at some of the bars drinking in the golden district. I whisper under my breath.
"Real-time surveillance... but how? I couldn't sense a thing..."
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[CH200+ Continued] Dungeon Diver: Stealing A Monster's Power
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