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

Chapter 616

As my pulse of perception creeps into the center of the Dark Continent, the cylindrical pillar that grows out from the depths of the abyss becomes visible to me.

The clouds part in the sky to reveal the structure as it seemingly materializes from thin air into existence, climbing higher into the sky.

My divine energy-enhanced vision can see the obsidian black outer barrier of this tower crystal clear, but even with my new Mythic Grade All-Seeing Eye activated, I can't see within it.

The mysterious black pillar shooting up from the abyss is made from a material unknown to me, but with qualities that seem familiar.

From this distance, it's hard to say exactly what it is, but it has very similar characteristics to the black stone of Monk's pyramid back in Sector 1.

The pillar materializes higher and higher into the sky, so high that it eventually reaches too far for my senses to reach.

I watch the abyss swell and flow rapidly like an ocean during a storm, and the eerie sensation that rippled through me from the 3rd surge keeps repeating in my mind.

The fact that my clash with this other True Core at such scale has triggered this event becomes very clear, but what exactly that pillar is raises tons of theories to race through my mind.

Both Ember and the Lich King have stated in the past that the abyss is where the Throne will awaken, but what exactly that means I'm still very much in the dark.

The visions of past memories from Celia, the purple-cored being in her last minutes of life, showed me the aftereffects of what happens if a Demon is to claim that throne, but that doesn't explain much about what happens before it's claimed and most importantly how to claim it...

I don't know if this is normal, or if my interference has changed the trajectory of this world's future.

So many questions are left unanswered as I turn my attention away from the ominous black pillar and stare back into the hazel eyes of the silver-sworded assassin whose blades I'm still clashing with hundreds of kilometers above a crater in the desert.

However, the sight before me now is almost as shocking.

For the first time in our entire battle, the woman's expression changes.

Instead of continuing to attack me relentlessly without any emotion or sign of letting up, the sword user's eyes are filled with shock as well.

The odd sensation of fear, anticipation, confusion, and excitement ripple out of her, and I feel the telepathy link that I've been trying to send out to her for the past hour finally connect.

Her voice echoes through, but it doesn't sound like she's aware we've even linked; it is more of an inner thought seeping out in a moment of great stress.

"This is too soon..."

Her pupils shrink, and her intense battle instincts, overwhelming aura, and urge to kill me completely disappear.

For some reason, she's done fighting me.

This doesn't mean I'm taking any chances, so in this moment, I overpower her left arm's blade and aim my right directly toward her core.

This moment of hesitation has decided the fight.

I don't hold back while the tip of my Flame Emperor's blade pierces the center of her chest, but an unexpected reaction occurs.

Unlike every other time I tried to do this move in our hundreds of past clashes, when she would usually spin her body just enough to make my blade plunge through her shoulder while her blade punctures me; this time, my blade meets no resistance and pierces right through her chest.