Chapter 21: Divine domain skill

The lift groaned to a complete halt as it reached the twenty-fifth level. The panels slid to the side with a low sound.

Dante stood at the front of the giant alligator’s head, his digits remaining deep inside his hoodie pockets. He looked out into the vault sector. It was not a cave, nor was it a corporate office. It was a subterranean bunker made of blocks reinforced with iron bands.

The area was completely empty. The rows of defense terminals and weapon arrays were still humming, but there was not a single living guard left in the passages. Marcus had already realized that his lower-level vanguards and execution beasts were useless against Dante. Instead of wasting more men, he had ordered the entire sector evacuated, leaving only the automated locks to protect his wealth.

"My screen shows no life signatures within five hundred meters," Yenna said, her black cat ears rotating toward the dark corridor. "Marcus abandoned the floor. He tried to initiate a remote deletion protocol on the storage vaults from his office on the fiftieth level, but the gold keycard you stole from the administrator blocked his network command."

Dante stepped off the alligator’s head, his weightless black boots touching the grey mineral floor without a sound. "He didn’t abandon it by choice. He knew that if his men stayed here, they would just become more stats for my blade."

As they walked down the wide, silent corridor toward the main treasury doors, the digital text in Dante’s vision hit the midnight marker.

Ding!

[System Notification: Midnight reached. You receive 1x Free Daily Spin.]

[The Gachapon wheel is initializing its movement...]

The massive wheel appeared inside his thoughts. For the past twenty-four days, the pointer had always landed on common slots containing literal trash. But this time, the wheel spun with a strange, deep vibration that made Dante’s mind fortress hum. The segments blurred into a blinding ring of light before clicking to a stop on a brilliant red slot that he had never seen before.

[Spin Complete!]

[Congratulations! You have beat the 0.001% odds!]

[You got: ’Spatial Void Storage’ (S-Rank Space Attribute Skill).]

- Description: Allows the user to open a private pocket dimension capable of holding up to 10,000 tons of inanimate objects, resources, or minerals. Items inside do not lose freshness or energy.

An S-Rank skill. Even in his past life as the top hunter of Earth, an S-Rank space attribute skill was a legendary asset that entire nations would go to war over. It was a flawless reward.

But Dante’s twin system layout was not finished. A second later, the golden interface of his second system violently slammed down over the red notification text, forcing a supreme transformation.

[System 2: 100x Sovereign Multiplier Triggered!]

[’Spatial Void Storage’ (S-Rank) ---> Multiplied by 100x!]

[Calculating Ultimate Divine Evolution... Complete!]

[You got SSS-Rank Divine Domain Skill: ’The Sovereign’s World-Eater Void’ (Bound).]

- Description: You control a private, infinite cosmic dimension that operates under your absolute laws.

- Effect 1: ’Infinite Consumption’ - You can instantly absorb entire buildings, mountains, mineral mines, or treasury vaults with a single glance. There is no weight or size limit.

- Effect 2: ’Resource Assimilation’ - Any magical crystal, core, or mineral stored inside your private world is automatically dissolved, adding 1% of its raw energy directly to your permanent baseline attributes every hour without needing manual cultivation.

Dante stopped his movement in the middle of the corridor. A profound, look settled behind his eyes. He didn’t just have a pocket storage anymore; he had a literal pocket universe that could eat entire sectors and feed him their power while he slept.

He walked up to the main treasury vault at the end of the hall. The door was a five-meter-tall, dark tungsten mineral locked with twelve independent runic barriers.

Dante didn’t look for the keycard slot. He didn’t use his property seizure ability either. He simply focused his gaze on the massive door and the entire wall surrounding it.

"Open," Dante whispered.

.

A silent vertical rip opened in the air right in front of the treasury. It didn’t make a sound, but the gravitational pull inside the tear was absolute.

WHOOSH.

The five-meter-tall door, the concrete reinforcements, and the entire interior of Marcus’s hidden vault—including ten thousand Calamity-tier monster cores, stacks of rare mineral ores, and rows of unique weapons—were violently sucked into the black rip within a single second. The room ahead was left completely hollow, stripped down to the bare, grey foundation stone.

[System Notification: Vault 25 has been entirely consumed.]

[Stored Assets: 10,400x Calamity-Tier Beast Cores, 500 Tons of Rare Ore.]

[Resource Assimilation initialized. You will permanently gain +10 to all attributes every hour.]

Dante closed his eyes for a short moment, feeling the first wave of pure, refined energy dissolving inside his private world, flowing into his veins like hot fluid. His muscles tightened, his perception expanded, and his skin became even more impenetrable.

Yenna stood behind him, her black tail completely frozen in mid-air. Her amber eyes stared at the empty, hollowed-out stone cave where the greatest treasury of the mid-levels used to be. "The... the entire vault is gone. You didn’t even open the locks. You just ate it."

Dante turned his body back toward the elevator, his hands resting casually inside his hoodie pockets.

"Marcus wanted to use these cores to reach the SSS-Rank," Dante said, his voice flat and uncaring as he stepped back onto the giant alligator’s back. "Now, they are going to fund my climb up his stairs. Let’s go to the twenty-sixth floor.