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

Chapter 748

Their orders were not to be nosy; they were to empty out this room and leave a single black box behind.

Randel and Syl both open up their ether storages and empty the room in seconds.

Then, Syl opens her storage and drops the single box down before they turn to leave.

With a single thud of the ancient black door, their mission is complete, and both of them press the fast travel options on their systems to get out of here.

Unknown to them, the box they've left behind begins to ripple with a white light. While it was just carrying low quality ether refinement elixir before, there's been a slight change to its contents now that it has come back to the Fortress. A microscopic, yet complex device with small silver threads shimmering around it begins to activate, set to reach its full potential in 19 days.

While the Fortress is the most secure citadel in the green zone, even with all the resources of Ellipsia worth of bribes, it would be physically impossible to get into a storage unit without an access card. The only trickery that can be bypassed is the time it takes to get one there. It is impossible to infiltrate, though the automatic security allows anyone to leave without hassle.

The moment a white light surrounds them, and a teleportation array brings the two Red Ogres 100,000 kilometers away, to the outer surveillance ring where they first heard welcome notifications, two long sighs of relief escape them.

A large ether orb sends them whizzing back toward Ellipsia, and it's not until the Fortress is out of sight that Randel curses under his breath and turns to Syl.

"That took a thousand years off my life easily... I can't name a single more stressful thing I've done..."

Syl breaks out in nervous laughter, and she can't believe it's finally over.

"I'm never taking a bodyguard job for an illegal human again... no wonder Torvak was overpaying..."

Both of them are still reflexively shivering as the cold vibrations that had been slowing down their mental processes and system speed while inside the Fortress finally fade away.

Then, Randel pulls out the last fragment from his storage and tosses it up and down in the air.

"I don't think we'll ever have to. This will be enough to keep us living in luxury for the rest of our lives."

Both of them smile and stare off toward Ellipsia.

Though, it seems the two can't catch a break...

Syl looks upward and whispers.

"I haven't seen one of those in a few years."

Just as their nerves were beginning to calm down, a massive ripple of dark green divine energy covers the sky.

It's incredibly thick, easily thousands of kilometers wide, and its edges look like melted mirrors, as the intensity of a wave like this bends the fabric of the Upper Realm itself.

Its length is impossible to estimate, as it most likely doesn't even have a definitive size and goes on indefinitely to the edges of this curved realm in space.

In fact, it is a wave that doesn't even come from within this zone of the Upper Realm to begin with. Like the wind of a hurricane, waves like these are naturally occurring disasters that randomly strike.

There is nothing to do but watch it come. Randel yells to reinforce this point.

"Brace yourself. I've never faced a Realm Wave like this while off of Ellipsia..."

The two go from holding hands, enjoying the view of peaceful endless clouds, to shielding each other and turning their backs to the wave while getting to their knees in the fast travel orb that moves forward to take it head-on.

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An eerie creaking sound bends reality around the orb, but their forward momentum doesn't slow.

Unsurprisingly, the intensity and chaotic gravity waves ripple through the fast travel orb.

The two Red Ogres watch their bodies bend in strange directions they didn't know were possible, and their perception of time becomes slightly broken as well.

However, less than 4 full seconds pass until the wave washes through them and continues its way to the Fortress and throughout the rest of the Upper Realm.

The two riders do not get up from their braced positions just yet... as they know it is guaranteed that all waves come in twos.

Most commonly, the second will strike within a few minutes. However, there are times when it takes far longer—days, weeks, months, even years.

Just 16 minutes pass, and on the horizon, another enormous gravity-bending wave ripples through the Upper Realm.

More confident in the fact that they survived the first one, Randel and Syl aren't shaking in fear. Though, they still hold their breath as it passes.

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Once the second wave rattles their minds, the Red Ogres lie on their backs in the center of the fast travel orb as it continues to make its way back to Ellipsia, and Randel responds while holding the medium-quality ether fragment in the air within both of their sights.

"You know what... you're right. If that wasn't a sign, I don't know what is... Let's never take another bodyguard job for an illegal human again."

He grasps the small containment case, and they chuckle to themselves as their danger has passed.

However, the danger of a Realm Wave like this isn't exactly that it has physically destructive properties...

It's that it will distort the relative rate of passing time.

While just 16 minutes passed between waves here in the green zone, time has certainly moved differently in the zones above, as well as below in the Lower Realm...

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