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

Chapter 510

The energy blade that leaves my sword collides with the diamond armor, and at the same moment, I dungeon walk far away, over a kilometer back to where I spawned into this boss room.

I do this for two reasons. The first is completely instinctive; there is no reason for me to stay up close any longer than I have to when I'm facing an opponent with unknown tactics at close range.

The second is that the ground beneath my feet turned into hundreds of needle-shaped spears all covered in golden light the moment the monster's eyes met mine.

It used telekinesis to shoot them upward, and if I stayed any longer, they would have all collided with my Soul Energy barrier as well.

There's an explosion of red and golden light in the distance as these attacks collide.

The concentrated slash makes it through the mountain hermit's outer layer of golden shielding and even cracks its diamond armor, but to my surprise, it doesn't make it all the way through before my attack dissipates into the air and is eaten up by the golden energy that seeps out from the monster's core.

As collateral damage, the entire top quarter of the mountain is decimated by the extreme release of power. Hundreds of meters of dungeon mass are destroyed and sent flying into the air, being melted and incinerated into pure mana.

My opponent stands on top of the rubble, reforming its diamond armor and letting the golden light around it reform as if nothing has happened at all.

I had the advantage on every front during that attack.

The element of surprise, using my full power, and even making the environment for my strike optimal.

All it managed to do was drain about 10% of its HP using lifesteal while mildly irritating it by damaging its ultimate ranked-up defense form.

Other than this, I'm back to square one.

Rocks and trees coated in golden light rain from the sky again as the horned creature raises its staff high up on the mountain and stares down at me with an unfazed expression in its dark eyes.

This doesn't stop me from dodging the incoming attacks by a hair, then activating stealth and dungeon walking in mid-swing to attack it again.

With an expanding aura of lifesteal, plunderer, intimidation, and confusion all infused with Soul Energy radiating out from my core, I send another attack off at the beast.

Its life energy is drained away, taking another 8% of its HP before I release the red slash from my sword.

Just like before, its head immediately turns to its blind spot, but this time it swings its weapon coated with golden energy back at my sword slash.

I dungeon walk away from the danger zone as the silver-bladed edge of its battle-staff takes my attack on at point-blank range.

From the bottom of the mountain, two clashing auras of energy erupt again.

I expect the remaining top of the mountain to be blown to bits, just like last time, but something different happens.

There's a loud roar and pulse of golden light through the entire boss room as the mountain hermit dispels my attack, making the two energies explode in the air with equal force.

I dungeon walk to another portion of the room to escape the incoming raining debris controlled by telekinesis, teleporting around the dungeon a few times before attempting my close-range attack again.

This time, before I can even release the entire energy attack from my sword, the monster's uniquely shaped weapon comes rocketing my way and collides with the edge of my flaming blade.