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

Chapter 559

We continue climbing the massive mountain together.

The monsters up this high make gaining hundreds of millions of MCP fairly easy for my teammates over the next 24 hours.

Their controls rise to the point where they begin needing far less food and rest.

In just a few days, I've managed to bring them from barely passing the B-Class exams alone to rivaling the mana control of the Apex Region's elite applicants.

At this point, they're all thoroughly convinced that there is something not quite right about us, the two random applicants from the Bedrock Region.

While most applicants from this region should have barely made it into the top 30, we're effortlessly carrying them through the exams. Neither of us have eaten, slept, or shown any signs of fatigue in the days we've been together.

On top of that, Ember and I absorb all of the red fragments in our possession. He even leaves our group to go up and farm more while I stay in range of the three teammates to keep their absorption skill activated.

Occasional questions are asked, but they soon realize whatever is going on here is not something I plan on explaining to them any time soon.

Our ascent upward gets faster and faster the more they grow, and they accept the silent partnership and the decades worth of power gifted to them in just a matter of days.

While each of them surpasses 1 billion MCP in their natural mana control, I consume 13 more fragments, bringing my total up to 15. Every time I do, the crystallization of a crimson gem in my chest gets brighter and brighter.

On top of that, more and more threads of red energy are left behind trailing from the core every time I stop.

I have to continuously regenerate my flesh at more extreme rates as the burning sensation never really goes away now.

Just as Ember said before, it only gets worse.

The more the crystal clear core saturates with red threads, the hotter and more constant this burning becomes.

It gets to the point where even after the initial surge of energy passes, I'm able to imbue small portions of red essence into my skills and enhance their innate qualities.

I test out throwing mana blades at a few monsters as we travel upward and let the red energy flow into them.

I still don't sense them being different in any way... It just feels as if the building blocks of the mana and Qi being used in the techniques I'm activating are far more consolidated. The structure of the attacks is more rooted in reality.

Tendrils of the red threads spread throughout the crescents of mana; imbuing themselves deep into the attacks and spreading through the air they're traveling through as well.

It gives off the visual feedback of the attack being stronger, however, the same exact amount of mana is being used. The more I look at these attacks that I throw, it's like reality itself is bending and weaving itself throughout the energy released to make a deeper impact on the objects it hits.

My mind bends to try and comprehend the phenomenon.

No extra energy is being used, it's just that the presence of these red threads makes the mass and air around the attacks more susceptible to getting hit.

It makes the most sense in the minute or so of clarity that I get when absorbing a fragment, but floods away and leaves me in my thoughts afterward wondering how it works.

Every time I use the divine power, portions of the red threads leave my body, and I visualize the birds I faced earlier with cores that haven't fully formed yet either. They would run out of the red energy surrounding them if they used it up completely.