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

The ether orb around myself and Ava locks in place, then bursts forward with a steady and extremely fast pace.

It is multiple times faster than the standard fast travel orbs that transport people within the Ellipsia Citadel, yet the travel time is still set to arrive in over eight hours.

In my fully unsealed form, I've already sensed around this Citadel for a few hundred thousand kilometers on every side. Plus, I know it takes less than an hour to travel about a million kilometers from the realm transfer point where I first arrived here in the Upper Realm. My training ground with Seraphel was far past this, roughly ten million kilometers away, so my guess is we're headed a similar distance, or possibly even further.

I turn to Ava as Ellipsia begins to get smaller behind us, speaking through our telepathic link rather than out loud after Ember's warning.

"Alright. This will be a quick mission. In and out. We blend in like normal lower-class lords looking to trade in some ether for mana in order to send to our home worlds. In reality, we'll make maps of the Citadel's inner workings and ether commands. I know what I'm looking for, but I'm not sure how hard it'll be to find it."

"Sounds good with me. I won't use anything more than an average basic avatar a 3rd Class lord would display until you've cloaked us from the new Citadel's surveillance," she replies.

Then we fly off into the endless green clouds of the Upper Realm.

My mind is half relaxed, and half trying to wrap my brain around this new power that I cannot quite sense.

Thinking back to the data I received from Bri on the exploration of Kelfar, I know where the auras on Abby, Raven, and Arie have originated from. The Wyverns, Berserkers, and Dark Elves had strong members of their races leave those artifacts behind.

Abby's even being named an inheritance for an entire race...

This triggers the memory of the strange black cube I found in the enormous humanoid statue back on the human world. It too called itself an inheritance... though... as far as I know, there have not been any specific perks that have made themselves known to me.

It has merged with my flame and dark swords to create a soul weapon and become a host for the unique cubic black artifact that was rotating around me, but no new memories or abilities have made themselves known linked with this so-called Amplifier...

This brings me to remember another small piece of information written in Asic's notes on soul weapons that I gathered for Bri, outlining that only one Amplifier is created for every race.

If that is true, whatever is sleeping dormant in my sword must have a higher purpose than just a tool for battle, though I have yet to figure out what or why.

As Ellipsia disappears from sight behind us, I ask Ava another question to try and piece together more clues about my wandering thoughts.

"You mentioned that you found an inheritance tomb on your home world, right? By chance, do you remember what race it was from? Or even better, a description of what you saw or felt once you accepted it?"

"Sure, I can tell you how it happened," she replies.

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As the clouds whiz by our sides, I listen to the story of Ava finding a tomb made of bright white Originator stone with very similar runes and markings on its inside like the one I found.

Her tomb was deep underground and came stocked with large amounts of divine threads and concentrated Qi, as if whatever left it behind knew it was dying or was already dead.