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

Chapter 567

Ember doesn't stop flying through the air for almost half a minute as the final bursts of the yellow fruit wear off.

He powers down his full dragon form and we both float in the open air in our base forms while staring back at the black forest.

My body and mind feel many times sharper than they did just minutes ago, before eating this fruit, but at the same time, I feel a massive wave of exhaustion come over me as my body isn't used to exerting that amount of mental and physical force.

It feels like the withdrawal symptoms of the red and orange core. All of my raw unfiltered senses scream at me to eat the yellow stone resting in my hand that dropped from the lizards' corpse, but I can tell my mind is playing tricks on me.

I grit my teeth and let it fall into my item storage and boost my self-regeneration skill as the feeling of exhaustion and yearning for more yellow energy grows stronger and stronger.

A noticeable amount of the perception boost remains in my system even after the majority of the yellow power flows out.

I can still sense the weak presence of all of the lizards who try to hide their presence in the trees nearby.

I take deep breaths and focus on them lurking in the trees waiting for more orange-cored insects to fly by.

Far off in the distance, I hear the rattling of chains and rock breaking and shifting.

Islands are falling down to the ocean below while others are coming back up to this far more populated area.

More insects come swarming in, more fruits grow in the trees, clouds float by, and the wind whistles throughout the endless black forests on each of the islands that grow to reach high into the endless sky.

My mind wanders through my surroundings while my physical functions basically pause, only focusing on a small amount of wind magic to keep me in the air while the rest of my mana and physical functions are being consumed to constantly heal and regrow my rapidly deteriorating flesh and bones.

The insects buzz by, and the lizards never leave their islands.

The first hour is the worst, but my energy begins to come back and my fatigue fades soon after, becoming more like a calming meditation.

Over 8 hours go by before I feel as if I'm at 100% again, and when I open my eyes to look down at my body, it is still filled with traces of yellow tendrils of energy.

Ember still floats in the air about 5 meters away beside me, and it seems for the first time, I've finished my recovery process before him.

Absorbing the excess energy must have taken a lot more out of him than wielding a lesser amount did to me.

I pull out the yellow fragment from my item storage to take a look at it, and the bright glow and extreme weight on reality it gives off forces me to throw it back into my item storage the next second.

It was far less intense when I had it in my hand while still under the influence of that yellow fruit.

If I had to guess, it is equal to, if not even more potent than all of the energy I consumed just 8 hours ago.

It wouldn't be wise for me to eat this without Ember's help in controlling the runoff. Plus, the most efficient use for a surge in power would be to challenge another lizard creature while I'm at my maximum strength.

Even with these leftover threads coursing through my muscles and bloodstream, I'm still unsure if I could take out one of those monsters in a single blow again without taking advantage of a power surge.