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

Chapter 596

As I turn to the real yellow divine fragment in my hand, the body double that was on its way here as this display from the Lich King unfolded sends a telepathic message as it arrives nearby.

"The last remaining isolation pod has been recharged up to a stable 10.5x dilation. Ember can begin his hibernation beneath the guildhall with my supervision right now."

It touches down, and I think about a response while it pulls the large cylindrical metal contraption out from its item storage.

As it sets it down, I walk over and open the front, typing into the control panel to give myself a 3-minute session, which would be the equivalent of just over half an hour inside the chamber.

"I want to test something quickly."

I take a step inside, then turn to my teammates and nod.

"Tell me what you see while I'm inside. I'm curious if this will work..."

Once the door closes and I'm left inside the small mana-shielded room, the air becomes thick with pure mana while the pod activates.

The thought of channeling divine energy inside a pod made only to hold mana seems like it might be too stressful on the structural integrity of this magic machinery. However, if there's a chance it will speed up the process, I have to give it a shot.

I sit down in the center and consume the small yellow gem that I had hovering above my hand while the Lich King gave his presentation. The same sensation as the last hundred times I did this rushes into my body.

Yellow threads flood out of the concentrated fragments and enter my core.

They swirl around and give me a surge of power for a few seconds before flowing out through my chest, arms, and legs on their way to leave my body like usual.

However, this is the first time I've consumed a fragment with the purple barrier that wraps around me, skin tight.

My first instinct naturally allows the excess threads that have already filtered through my core to flow out.

However, by the time most of the energy has left, I realize that it is only leaving because I allow it to.

I pull another fragment from my storage with different plans on my mind this time around.

The moment I swallow the next gem and its built-up energy starts circulating in my core, I concentrate hard on making the barrier made of semi-dormant purple threads to keep all of the filtered yellow threads from leaving my body.

A few seconds later, a wide grin creeps onto my face as the yellow threads circulate through my body and collide with the outer limits of my skin once they hit the purple barrier, keeping their momentum and pushing back toward my core.

A few minutes pass, and some of the excess energy does, in fact, filter back through my core, but at the same time, my flesh and body containing so many excess threads is ripped apart at a much faster rate. It is very painful, and pretty exhausting to activate my self-regeneration to maintain while concentrating on keeping it inside.

Even so, I've been through far worse, so I eat another fragment once the flow of the first excess energy starts to slow down.

There's another cycle that passes, and the purple barrier holds all of its energy inside my body, slowly circulating through my core again and again.

However, this energy starts to become stagnant too, just like the first.

I eat one more fragment, and the cycle continues yet again.

I find that keeping the energy inside my body and using new fragments to stimulate the leftover energy increases the efficiency by roughly two to three times at most.