[CH399+ Continued] Dungeon Diver: Stealing A Monster's Power

Chapter 442

I'm almost entirely drained of Qi, but I planned for this to happen.

As I watch the red blood drip from the Dark Guard's wound, his sword comes down toward me at incredible speed.

I still have nearly all of my Mana stores left, so I activate my Red Hydra's Buff along with all my perception and stat boosting abilities to bring my next move to its full potential, activating 4 of my newest skills all at the same time.

[Flash][Confusion][Screech][Phantom Step]

Letting out an ear-shattering yell, with a simultaneous flash of light that erupts from my body, the sky fills with a bright white light.

Waves of eerie confusion energy erupt in all directions, and illusions of my body take on the form of purple ghost-like phantoms, splitting off into 3 different directions. One goes to the left, the other to the right, and the other flies upward.

In my main body, I activate stealth with all my leftover mana and airstep backward, then down toward the ground using gravity to my advantage to accelerate my fall, narrowly avoiding the downward strike of the bright orange energy sword that hardly slows down at all despite the barrage of distractions.

I still feel its immense heat and power melting through my mana shielding, burning my armor, and blackening the outer layers of my skin without it even hitting me.

I continue to plummet as the Dark Guard's forward momentum continues.

I swallow another Qi pill and plunder MP crystals while adding wind magic above me to accelerate the fall, getting further and further away from the man in the sky as fast as I can. The large gash and burns left across my chest and all over my arms and legs are slowly healed by my self-regeneration, but I see over a quarter of my health bar gone just from getting close to its soul energy without my Qi barrier up.

Once fully recovered, I hit the empty desert floor with a thud, making a crater over three times the size as the one I made decimating the neighborhood back in the city. I look up into the sky while readying my Qi around my body and into my sword.

Residual mana and Qi are left in the wake of my attack, and it's no surprise I sense the orange man's presence coming down toward me.

However, his rate of descent is surprising.

He looks far less intimidating with a lost limb and blood dripping from his stump of a shoulder, but the calm smile on his face and slow descent toward me is not the sight I was hoping to see.

The fact that he's relying on the Lich King's soul energy, and not able to see Qi in its base form just like me before Monk awakened me, means I have an edge in this battle that I didn't have previously.

Even if his fully charged sword could potentially overpower me, the only way it's possible for him to charge it up is if he lets other portions of his defenses down.

Even knowing this, he floats down and readies his energy blade with a single remaining hand with a creepy grin.

He touches down on the desert sand about 50 meters away.

My eyes dart back and forth, analyzing his Soul Energy flow, and seeing thin spots of shielding where I'm positive I could pierce through if I replicated my last attack.

I grip my blade with both hands and breathe slowly and deeply to wait for him to make his next move... Then, our telepathy link opens while something very strange begins to shift in his Soul Energy Shielding.

"I didn't know why the Dark One liked you so much... but now it's starting to become clear..."

He takes a step forward while the Soul energy around his body drifts toward his lost limb.