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

Chapter 568

Two bright green eyes, larger than the islands themselves, look down at me from the sky.

They're in the far corners of my perception, so it's hard to see the entire picture, but it looks as if an enormous serpent floats high in the sky, unmoving and unblinking.

Its body trails off higher than I can perceive, and the part that I can see stretches for kilometers and looks to be semi-transparent, made entirely out of green tendrils of divine energy.

It looks like I'm staring up at a massive hologram of a monster, but the extreme pressure and heat that radiate off of it tell me this is certainly not an illusion.

Seconds pass, turning into minutes as I continue to stare upward, and the massive green eyes just curiously watch back.

I assume whatever this is, it's always been here; just now, my perception has grown enough to see it. Ember stares up at it too, then speaks up.

"It won't attack. Higher life forms with green cores awakened don't fear beings with physical bodies. We can climb to get a closer view, but don't expect it to even interact with us at our current strength."

The longer I stare up at its unmoving gaze, Ember's words make more and more sense.

I eventually reply while we both fly up to the next island to continue our lizard farming to collect as many cores and fruits as we can on our way up, even though now we aren't eating any more as our yellow cores are fully saturated.

"Even if it won't reply, I still want to get a closer look..."

We continue upward, killing hundreds more lizards, hopping island to island over the next few hours.

Some of the black forests on nearby islands finally stop growing into the sky, and we can see their tops.

Taking this into account, I come to realize the black forests were actually absorbing stray red, orange, and yellow divine threads, filtering the air and making it far easier to combat the growing pressure.

The air gets thicker and hotter, packed far more densely with yellow threads of divine energy. More and more green threads fill the air too, but no matter what I do, whenever I try to reach out to touch one, it just phases through my fingers.

As I fly through the air, any green threads that touch me just flow through me as well, not showing any signs of being manipulated by my aura.

The sheer number of islands thins out more and more too as we get higher until eventually there is only a single one left.

It stands high in the sky above all the others, and its obsidian forest is the thickest and densest of them all. With no other trees on nearby islands to compete for energy, this forest has bloomed and grown the highest into the sky.

All of the lizards on this island are glowing bright yellow; it's as if they're saturated with far more energy, and their auras stretch out much further than the monsters on the islands below.

Even so, we cut them down all the same and continue the climb upward.

Continuing to consume fragments isn't necessary at all now, as my saturated core continuously collects yellow threads from the air inside my aura to regenerate anything it's lost, but every few kills up at this height, I still swallow a fragment whenever I get the chance.

It gives me a slight surge of power that counteracts the pressure and heat that are starting to take a toll on my body and mind.

It feels like the gravity up here has increased by a noticeable amount. The heat feels like it could easily boil water too.