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

Chapter 527

We continue sparring following the same routine.

Ember calls out a level of mana control I need to hit, and I instantly change my strength output to match it.

During this whole process, I continuously have my All-Seeing Eye and natural perception released abnormally high.

Even if my perceived output is at level 100 mana control, I'm still scanning my surroundings and taking in as much data as I can from these matches at levels near my maximum output.

Over the next few hours as the sun rises overhead, I begin to see and feel a change in the invisible and unseeable barrier that resides around my body.

Each time I drastically switch levels of control, there is a minuscule ripple in the barrier. Every time I feel this ripple, the barrier gets closer and closer to my skin and I can feel it happen with far more intensity like it's connected to my central nervous system.

Almost like the instinctual senses I receive when I activate my swordsmanship skill, it's getting more and more intense the more I focus on it.

I can't consciously create the ripples that are occurring, but I can focus on them more and adapt the way I switch between mana control levels to make the rippling effect more intense and noticeable.

It feels almost like a bell is ringing in my ear when the ripples get intense enough, but there's no actual noise.

Ember doesn't tell me specifically to do this, but once he realizes I am, the jumps between mana controls get faster and further apart in power to help me stimulate this change and get into a flow-like state.

More hours pass, and we spar well into the afternoon.

The sensation of bells ringing throughout my body, and the invisible barrier rippling over and over, gets so intense to the point where it crosses a threshold and feels like one long continuous ringing vibration.

I don't even sense my own breathing; the only thing I can feel is the power level in my body rise and fall, until I see the barrier between my inner being and the world around me fade away in my mind's eye.

My true mana control seeps out, and flows strong like a river as the continuous feeling of infinitely fast vibrations ring through my ears and mind.

The full extent of my mana control pours out into the desert and a wave of natural intimidation and pure crimson aura expands to become kilometers wide.

The moment it does, my concentration completely breaks, and the bells stop ringing.

Reality floods back into my conscious mind and the vibration of this divine limiter ceases completely, my mana control is concealed and hidden from the outside world again, but for a moment, it was there.

I fall backward into the sand covered in sweat and hear Ember slowly clapping his hands.

"That was it. You managed to break through. The feeling is now ingrained in your mind, you'll be able to do it again."

Breathing heavily, I nod to myself and respond.

"You're right... about everything... This power isn't something I can directly control, but it is something that I can align myself with in moments of extreme focus. It's very possible."

We both grin as I get back up to my feet and place my hands back into the fighting position.

"Let's do it again."

While the sensation is fresh in my mind, we get back to sparring.

I don't even want to talk about it, I just want to focus on the ripples and bells while I can still feel them.