Chapter 636

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The signal I'm receiving from the direction of Valor City is weak, but I'm positive there are three divine-cored beings there, just concealed by something...

Something is blocking me from seeing exactly where they are, and most importantly, blocking me from seeing them as being connected to the system itself.

My curiosity is piqued, and I walk straight out the door and hover upward as it closes, leaving the man and woman from the Crimson Army to keep the former prisoners in line while my double makes its way over to handle these hunters.

I get a local telepathy transmission from Raven as we float higher into the sky.

"You have more divine-cored friends than I thought. They're strong, and by the looks of it, very loyal because of a long history of growing together."

I turn my head toward Sector 1 and reply.

"If you're talking about the four you just saw, yes, we built this empire together. I thank you for staying concealed while we shared a moment. There are a few others you have yet to meet. However, the three you sense to the north... I've never sensed them before."

My gaze tightens, and I pull a teleport crystal from my storage that leads to the Galeheart Tower.

As we fly high out of sight from the hunters below, my double arrives, and I crush the white crystal while Raven's hand materializes to touch my shoulder and come for the ride.

The blinding white flash of light fades, and I find myself back in the mana-shielded lobby I've been to many times before, with familiar lobby men greeting me the moment I arrive.

"Welcome back Sir, it has been a while. Lith has been waiting for your return to bring you good news!"

I raise an eyebrow at the greeting as Raven disappears faster than the B-Class-rated guards are capable of seeing, then reply.

"Is that so...? Lith is here now? What is this good news?"

Simultaneously, I let out a deeper scan of the city now that I'm here to see what's really going on, and the readings I get back are quite confusing.

As I watch dozens of status screens and vitals within my Rising Emperor's Domain interface light up within the tower I'm standing in, the lobby man continues.

"I'll send him down right away. It's about those arena fighters you brought in after the battle with the Dark One. A visitor came by today and healed them all back to perfect health."

My curiosity grows as my enemy detection link shows me visuals of all of the members he speaks of, up and active, either training in private facilities within the tower, reading in the libraries, or eating in the dining halls.

They're all full of energy and life, when not too long ago, they were barely opening their eyes for an hour a day.

The methods Monk was using were working slow and steady, and with the increase in available Qi he was able to farm while I was away at the B-Class exams, I assumed the healing process to get a little bit faster, but a full recovery this quickly was not within my expectations.

My senses permeate further throughout the city as the lobby man contacts Lith, and the sensor on the elevator lights up to show it's in use.

I instantly pinpoint the source of the three divine cores; they're underground, inside the blackstone pyramid.

I can't sense fully inside, as the many layers of dense Qi and hard black stone that reject taking in any energy make up the entire fortress, but I'm positive there is divine energy coming from it.

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