<h4>Chapter 138 - Andmass appears above skyscr.a.p.ers</h4>


    It was a bustling day as usual in the Blessed Empire, and today it was bustling even more as a momentous event urred.


    After days where almost all the dungeons in the world began breaking down permanently, in thest 24 hours, new ones had begun appearing!


    Hunters and governments had been gravely worried that the rate at which they increased their strength would drastically reduce without the constant supply of cores, skills, and items, but their worries did notst too long.


    A few days after the initial panic, huge monoliths began appearing around the world once more. The monoliths were different than the ones they had been used to, as they appeared ck and did not have a change in color over time. They never would have thought that they would be happy at the sight of dungeons, but people moved eagerly after these new ones appeared.


    They worked differentlypared to the old ones, and the hunters would learn more about their secrets as time went on.


    The bustling day today was interrupted by the appearance of something nobody could have guessed in their wildest dreams. Above the skies of the small city in the periphery of the Blessed Empire, a floatingndmass that entirely blocked the skies appeared!


    Thendmass caused surprise and panic on many hunters as they thought an unexpected attack had arrived yet again, and they were preparing themselves as they watched a blue light expanding from thendmass.


    The light went on to cover every nook and cranny of the small city,sting for a few seconds as the people in it began feeling the air around them change. A dense collection of essence was swirling around the city, and amazing scenes could be seen ying out.


    In one location, a child that was on a swing set found himself thrown in the air as he used too much force, and surprisinglynded on the ground unharmed as he began to feel unknown strength coursing through him. A status panel appeared on his eyes soon after, as he stupendously realized he had somehow awakened.


    Those that had some talent and luck found themselves with a status panel appearing in front of their eyes as many people underwent their awakening to be hunters all over the city, the converging essence being a catalyst for such a surprising event.


    The veteran hunters found themselves being able to move faster and easier as if they were constantly receiving a buff from the air around them. They moved ecstatically as they stared at thendmass blocking the sky.


    A top hunter and Admiral in Star City who held multiple S+ skills and was now a peak rank S, Elizabeth, was looking stupidly at the floatingndmass as the air around her continued to change. She watched with surprise as just as it had appeared, thendmass began shrinking rapidly before it disappeared in the blink of an eye. She thought that she felt a gazend on her in an instant from the disappearingndmass as she shook her head in confusion.


    Clear skies returned as things returned to normal, but the city itself had experienced a huge change.


    This scene repeated itself many times over the areas of the Blessed Empire where most people were congregated, as a magically floating Spiritual Land appeared and disappeared, leaving behind a changed environment where the essence had be increasingly dense.


    This process was already happening naturally as the world continued to grow, and the levels of essence in the air would sooner orter reach a simr level as that of the Beast World. But just like how thends in the Frozen Kingdom benefitted from [Boost Environment], the cities around the empire that experienced the same thing benefitted even more.


    When the Spiritual Land appeared in the skies of the capital, Steel Mikhail stood proudly in the air, two spears rotating around him as the air crackled with power. He felt the changing of the air as the newly appearedndmass continued to release a blue light that covered everything.


    His mind shifted to a certain man that had left not too long ago, was it even just over a month? Had he obtained something this spectacr so quickly? Mikhail thought of hs own power as he looked up to see the floatingndmass disappearing.


    He was somewhat d that the person inside of it did note down. He felt ashamed as he thought he was strong enough when hebined his skills to gain the power of EPIC rank, but it seemed he was still far behind that man who was chasing their enemies who knew where.


    Steel Mikhail felt the air around him that seemed to open up his pores and fill him with strength as his sight turned to therge monolith which appeared at the center of the empire a few days ago.


    The monolith was ranked to be an EPIC ranked dungeon, and even now it was not fully explored. He would prepare his team and dive down into this dungeon over theing weeks, training his skills as much as he could and increasing his strength. He could notg behind someone that was fighting for all them too much.


    He knew his role as the protector, but was slightly envious of the things outside this word he hadn’t yet gotten a chance to see. When would the chancee in the future for him to explore the unknown ces out there?


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    Many countries in the United Federation found themselves experiencing a simr urrence with the floatingndmass. The event wouldter be termed simply as a Worldwide Buff as many ces experienced elevated levels of essence that caused the awakening and strengthening of many individuals.


    With the advent of new dungeons that were not undergoing dungeon breaks if they weren’t constantly cleared, along with this new urrence, the hopes of the humans were extremely high.


    A surprising sight had yed itself out in the United Federation when the floatingndmass first appeared, where its top hunter, Kazuhiko, bolted into the skies trying to reach it.


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    "Hey hey hey!"


    His screams rang out in the skies as he stood on a katana surrounded by darkness which was propelling him further into the skies. He didn’t care for the dense essence filling the air as he bolted towards thendmass at even faster speeds.


    He found it to be shrinking as he neared it, seemingly about to escape his grasp.


    "HEY!"


    His figure flew even faster as he tried to reach it before it disappeared, but it shed away, and so did his figure. This was the first case that people noticed and talked aboutter, where a hunter had reached and gone inside the floatingndmass.


    It continued to appear and disappear all over the countries that held a significant amount of people in the next hour, where the figure of Kazuhiko also shed out as thest country was covered by the blue light.


    Hunters and governments would call and ask Kazuhiko exactly what he saw in the floatingndmass when he reappeared, but the reckless hunter didn’t give any answers. People only found him to be diving into the newly appeared dungeons with even more and more vigor, asionally screaming out how he wanted to see demihumans and own his ownnd.