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

Chapter 572

Seconds later, there's another loud crash and explosion as the serpent's downward momentum hits another island's base.

Then, another, and another.

Before my eyes, a path of destruction is created through the sky.

Some of the islands begin to crack and disintegrate even before the monster hits them. The sheer overwhelming pressure of its green aura obliterates everything in sight.

I'm held high in the sky in a blue orb of light, like a tiny lightning bug shimmering between the city-sized cyan-colored armored guards on the serpent's back.

It doesn't even seem real.

The serpent's flight path starts to turn upward, but it takes the destruction of over ten more islands before we begin to angle up into the sky again.

Its impossibly long body follows its head, but the downward momentum still takes out a few more entire islands while it turns completely.

As the thousands of black trees fall into the endless sky below, I see them all begin to change in color.

The moment they're hit, none of them break or even sway under the pressure. They're all as rigid as stone.

However, once they're in freefall, each island appears to have a small black glossy orb at their centers connected to the chains that connect to the sea below.

As their mass is disrupted, and these small cores fall with the broken chains, many of the black trees, whose roots were seemingly siphoning life from these cores, start to have altered appearances when they're separated from the source.

The trees turn grey, then white. When they collide in the air, they break apart like fragile glass and are blown away in the wind just like the fragments of rock from the islands.

The only thing that stays in a perfectly solid state as it falls away and out of my perception is one black glossy orb per island.

My best guess, looking at the sight before me, is that each forest was really just a single organism growing from one central core. However, at these high speeds and in this chaotic atmosphere, I can't exactly discern what's going on.

Ember's words about how taking one of these trees out of the construct would be a profitable idea come to mind.

I attempt to activate my spatial magic at long range to let one fall into my storage, but I can't seem to activate any magic outside of the blue dome I'm trapped in.

They're most likely all falling into the sea below, so if I have the chance, I can go swimming to find them eventually... However, the more I think about the likelihood of this happening, the reality of this situation really sinks in.

The serpent's head points to the sky and we move upward at impossible speeds, leaving the obliterated islands behind and out of my vision in seconds.

All there is is endless sky around me.

I see the top of the snake's head and two guards holding me captive as I'm rocketed toward the top of the construct.

It's possible to guess how fast I'm moving at first, as the fragments of the island are still in my vision, but once we make it high enough into the sky where they're gone, all I can see when I look behind me is the tail and body of the serpent wriggling in the air to push us upward.

Again, it feels as if I'm stationary inside this orb, but I'm certain we're still moving upward.

As much as I try to spread my perception aura outward, nothing leaves this 30m spherical cage.