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

Chapter 562

The impossibly large mass of stone connected to the top of the nearest chain turns the entire sky dark as it falls toward us at a speed impossible to measure correctly.

The closer it gets, the larger the stone mass seems to become.

What I assumed to be a few kilometers wide stone turns into a few dozen, then even larger, reaching too far out of the depths of my perception skill to even see.

Ember and I airstep toward the outer edges at first, but as the huge mass of earth gets closer, we change our trajectory to head back down toward the sea where we came from.

Our soul energy-powered air steps push us through the sky much faster than any of the other creatures trying to get away.

As they fall far behind us, the rock mass keeps getting closer, catching stragglers and pinning them against its mass as it continues to fall toward us.

The winds pick up, the echoing cracks of rock breaking and shifting fill the air, and the dangling chain sways and clanks together now that its links are far looser.

The sky turns dark blue, and fragments of smaller stone fill the air.

I pull two teleport crystals leading back to the shoreline where we left from my item storage and throw one to Ember with my telekinesis skill, speaking through our link to tell him we'll use them as a last resort as the landmass above us gets so close I finally feel its true mass and shape.

The air pressure shifts as everything below this falling rock is getting pushed with it. However, even while following the current to push toward its edge, our speed isn't going to be enough to make it.

One moment we're gliding up into the sky, killing insects without a problem in the world, and the next; we're about to be crushed by a city-sized rock falling from the sky.

I grit my teeth and prepare to crush the transport crystal in my hand, but another series of noises and chain of events hit my senses that make me stop.

As if the entire construct is bending to something's will, a massive purple ripple in space forms beneath the falling stone, and it stops like all time itself has been paused.

The chain beneath, connected to the rock, continues to sway and jingle from the slack and downward momentum it still has, making loud echoing metallic clangs ring through the air.

Hundreds of orange-cored insects are crushed to bits from both the air pressure against the rock from moments ago and colliding with the purple ripple of space that appeared to catch the massive stone from falling any further.

I don't take this moment to stop and stare.

Even as the purple fabric of space fades away to leave nothing but open sky, and the huge stone above us still continues to float for reasons unknown, I keep airstepping down and away from the monstrous rock in the sky with everything I have.

Ember stays in his hybrid form, and I'm in my Greater Form, using soul energy and the red threads that power my movements to get away from the boulder in the sky.

Even at these speeds, it still takes over 3 minutes to reach its outer edge.

Only then, when I finally see light blue sky above me, do I let out a long sigh and power down to rest.

"What was that...?!" I yell out loud as Ember has the same look of shock on his face as well.

We float upward past the point where the purple forcefield stopped this island from falling, and we pass through it like it was never here.

Still, moving away from the rock mass, I finally turn to see what's on the other side. It isn't what I expected at all...

Ember responds while looking up at the sky, eyeing all of the other chains far off in the distance.