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

Chapter 558

"Not yet. You're not ready for another one. Give it an hour or two."

I drop the red fragment back into my storage and speak back to him while staring at the rock wall in front of me that is no longer made up of millions of violet ethereal strands.

"What was that...? I— I could see it. Everything. I could see everything."

Ember turns toward me with a curious gaze.

"So you could see it? It must be that perception skill of yours, impressive. That saves me from doing a lot of explaining."

Both of us stare up toward the sky for a moment, but after a few seconds, I realize my body is still being torn apart from the inside by the leftover threads of red energy.

It's nowhere near as intense as it was when I first swallowed the gem, but it is still using up a large amount of mana for my self-regeneration skill to heal.

I sense that Ember's body is also going through the same violent breakdown and repair process too.

He's plundering mana from a very large diameter around us in the air, as not much is needed to continue the healing process.

Over the next hour, the red threads within me completely fade away, and Ember explains a few things about the fragments that make far more sense to me now that I've eaten one myself.

The energy that we're absorbing doesn't usually exist in the form it's taking right now. The red gems are a crude manifestation of what pure Divine energy really is. This entire simulated world we stand in is a mere construct for challengers like myself to comprehend the complexity of this unique energy.

The red, orange, and yellow crystals that were shown in that recording before we entered this realm are all fragments of a single stream of energy, divided into visible and malleable parts for those that want to participate in this trial to absorb with more ease than the higher density raw energy itself.

Ember hints that there are more than just these three, but he isn't sure if a physical construct like this one will be able to create them. On top of that, we're both not sure how the monsters that roam this realm have made their way in here, but the more I think about it, the more likely it's all part of the creator's test.

After another hour goes by, the burning completely stops, however it does feel as if I've just had an all-out battle for the last two hours.

While I only consumed tens of thousands of MP to heal myself, it almost feels like I've exhausted hundreds of millions worth of MP in attacks and constant buffs.

"Is it going to be this energy exhausting every time?"

Ember nods and grins.

"Oh, it'll only get worse. However, just like when you began to learn Qi, harnessing a higher level of control with any energy type always increases the effectiveness of the others. I wasn't kidding when I said those two A-class hunters won't even be close to our strength level once we're done here."

He stares up in the air and lets out a sigh.

"That reminds me, I believe I figured out why that Director is so obsessed with healers... It all factors into why he's having the strongest hunters from the 8 great regions farm fragments for him in a rift that can only be entered once per challenger..."

He turns back to me, and gears start shifting in my mind.

I remember back to the time Trax was healed in the tournament area by the healer tank, and they seemingly switched conditions in an instant, bringing him back to as good as new.