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

Chapter 709

Merciless training in the shadows continues, never showing its power to others, replaying the destruction of everything it ever knew and loved from its childhood in the back of its mind.

This speeds its travels and ambitions up, never spending more than a few months in any small village, searching for what other goblins and old hobgoblin elders call the Golden City.

After five years, this goblin finds what it is looking for.

A massive civilization surrounds a great lake, with millions of goblins living together and countless dungeons to farm.

Their two suns—bright yellow orbs in the sky—rise to reflect off the massive source of water, shining a golden light upon their civilization every morning.

Just 13 years later, at the age of 65, the goblin hits level 1000 in a central clan's labyrinth, highly regulated by a council of Goblin Kings at the heart of the city.

The many years that pass go by in a blur as this goblin joins the central army and leads many battles in the world's vast wilderness to subjugate smaller clans that are growing too fast, bringing the dungeon resources and goblin women back to the Golden City for the Kings.

Countless battles, ruthless killings, and endless training flash by as the hobgoblin carries out the bidding of his kings to gain rewards of access to the labyrinths, slowly leveling up higher and higher—reaching level 10,000 at the age of 173.

This Goblin King gains access to the council of kings, being granted his Goblin King form from his 3rd rank-up, now giving orders to new promising hobgoblins that visit the Golden City.

The council of kings are the only beings on their known world that cultivate divine energy. They have made agreements not to fight for power, as they already rule their world in harmony.

At the age of 411, this Goblin King becomes the first to achieve a True Core in the history of their world, now being the oldest king left, welcoming new loyal kings to their council when they are granted access to the ranked-up labyrinths capable of producing level 10,000 monsters to train with.

Their greatest labyrinth, only accessible by the kings, has been stalled at 199 floors.

It has consumed a large amount of their 2nd Class world's resources to reach this point. The Noble Bloodline Demon and Dragon within it are on less-than-good terms with the Goblin Kings that have been keeping it for centuries, just one level away from completing its final vetting test.

The kings are able to train and bring their levels just below 24,900 max.

Another 200 years pass, as the new age council of kings takes over the daily tasks. This Goblin King goes into closed cultivation to attempt reaching a realm above what they believed was the limit.

Using all of the farmed Divine Energy from their entire world, as it continues to fly through space and collect more threads from the stars and clusters of divine threads in the unknown, enough consolidated energy has been trapped for their One True King to use in a final push to ascend past the known limits.

Many of the new kings appointed to the Golden City's council have never seen this King in person; they have only heard rumors of his existence.

In silence, one day, with only a handful of kings understanding the significance of the rumbling beneath their city, the Goblin King manages to fully saturate its True Core and compress it into the next stage: creating green divine energy.

Its body is eaten away and destroyed by the pressure, and the shockwave breaks the shielding in the old bunker, creating a sinkhole that destroys a portion of the Golden City.