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

Chapter 537

We all walk forward into the jungle environment through the silver door.

Once it clicks behind us, the exit disappears, and it feels like we're inside a normal dungeon.

However, there are a few major differences.

Floating high in the sky is a visible timer now counting down from 55 minutes.

Below it is a large blue holographic text prompt.

[A Party of B-Class hunters failed to subjugate a dungeon break. They've been separated into multiple areas after splitting up to defeat this dungeon. Save the 3 remaining survivors and clear the break!]

Four massive holograms pop up in the distance. Three of them are yellow exclamation points, scattered far out into the jungle, pinpointing where each of the hunters are, and the 4th is a red arrow with [Boss Room] hovering above it.

When I scan the dungeon using enemy detection, I do sense enemies in here, but they feel much different than normal monsters. There's enough mana inside them to trigger my perception, but there's a visible holographic [Lv. 668] hovering above the head of the closest one I find in my mind's eye.

That's not from my inspect skill; it's visible to anyone that looks at it.

When I try to fully appraise the creature, nothing shows up; it just feels like a huge energy blob of pure mana being manifested into the form of a monster.

Everyone in the squad takes in the view and reads the message in the sky.

Before we can even devise a plan, the monster closest to us starts to make itself known. I yell out to make sure everyone's prepared.

"Incoming! Lizard monster, twelve o'clock! We take this out together then come up with a plan!"

Immediately, everyone gets into position.

Marcie begins to glow with mana and runs up ahead of us, activating her armor set and imbuing large amounts of energy into her spear while scanning the jungle ahead.

Dane jumps into the air and takes out two thin curved swords imbued with wind stones and hovers in the air while Natalie runs back to stand beneath him and stay alert.

Ember and I stay put, right behind Marcie, and wait for the monster to show itself from beneath the thick trees.

I pull out my daggers and let the lightning magic crackle on them, and Ember ignites his fists with a low sizzle of flames.

We all move forward slowly as the cracking of sticks and presence of a strong aura grow closer.

A 6-meter-long green-skinned lizard with massive beady eyes and a long red tongue comes flying out from the trees.

The moment Marcie jumps up to make the first contact with it, a layer of dense stone is summoned all over its body.

Her spear tip hits its underbelly, and a layer of pink mana shielding forms around her in a semi-circle to block the shattering stone as she pierces through to land a hit.

Wind blades come curving in from behind as Dane lets out an attack at the now-exposed monster's underbelly too, while Marcie steps back and pulls out her spear.

I curve to her right while Ember curves around her left.

The wind blades create a wide-open X-shaped gash, far deeper than the spear wielder's hit because the monster's outer shielding has already been shattered.

I aim for its neck with my blades while Ember lets fire erupt from his fists to attack right where the weak spot Dane and Marcie already created is.

The creature's body explodes in a ball of fire, and its head rolls to the artificial dungeon floor as its long red tongue crackles with static electricity, still reacting to the clean slice I followed through with to its neck.