[CH399+ Continued] Dungeon Diver: Stealing A Monster's Power

Chapter 499

Ember speaks up after my final words to Lith.

"Yes, that's a good idea."

He points directly at one of the white mana-shielded walls of the penthouse suite. To me, however, it looks as if he's pointing to the building with the multiple layers of denser shielding and compartments inside it.

"That building in particular, I think we should check it out."

He opens a telepathy link between us and continues.

"I sense leftover residue of the Lich King's Soul Energy."

Both Abby and Maria look in the same direction with Soul Energy Circulating inside their eyes, invisible to everyone else in the room that has not awakened this level of energy cultivation.

Abby is more fixated on another tower, the one filled with weapons and gear, while Maria stares down at the empty tower with a single hole in its lobby leading underground.

After a moment of silence, Lith answers my initial claim by walking over to the elevator and opening its door with a ding.

"I don't see why not... This will be the first time in months I've been outside in the center of the city. I'm interested to see how things are too."

We all get into the elevator and take it down to one floor above the lobby.

The door slides open with a ding, and a very similar-looking rectangular door is visible on the other side of the room.

Lith presses a small silver device and it opens up, revealing a containment room about twice the size of the elevator we just left. Once we're all inside, the door shuts us out of the building and puts up a dense layer of mana shielding. A final door opens on the other side of this room and it leads to the outside world.

The midday sun shines in as we all walk outside into the Royal Coin District of Valor City.

Our footsteps on the smooth black stone streets echo throughout the silent city.

Not a single soul is outside with us.

There are just under 20 office buildings with similar blocked off mana shielding setups like the Galeheart tower, but none of them are as large or as well maintained.

They're all business owners or trade associates that work in reselling goods and services in this city or Sector 1, or even other regions but have set up their base of operations here for tax purposes. Each and every one has a transport platform in their building, meaning all of these businesses are either monitored or working in conjunction with the Association in some way.

Even Lith in the Galeheart tower, at one point had to make a deal to get a transport platform installed.

However, the 3 largest buildings in this city, the ones that look newly built, and have the highest graded mana shielding on them, surprisingly do not have a single teleport platform inside.

The Association was not in control of the Dark One's actions at all, and this makes me even more curious about this scene.

We all walk out into the street, and the white door shuts behind us.

While walking through the streets, the emptiness and silence is pretty eerie.

It makes things especially strange with my advanced perception abilities. I can hear and sense people in the Platinum, Gold, and Silver district not so far away, going about their daily lives, shopping, and having fun in the city.

We walk past buildings full of workers that have no idea the entity they're hiding from indoors is dead and gone.

Everyone looks around this area in awe, before we make it to the front of the first large building previously owned by the Dark One.