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

Chapter 597

While I continue to think, I eat another yellow fragment to continue the process.

Even though it's not quite perfect yet, it's still close to 100 times as efficient as just eating a gem in the open desert without the aid of the trees or my limiter.

Over the next hour or so, I repeat the process, cycling the energy from four more fragments.

It feels as though I've consumed hundreds of yellow cores, and finally, I sense a tiny noticeable difference in the size of my own core. It appears to have grown in size by a fraction of a millimeter in diameter.

While it's not much, and it would take tens of thousands of identical sessions to match the size of growth the Lich King's display showed me, I feel like I'm moving in the right direction.

Even so, I have just under 300 total yellow gems left in my storage. At this rate, consuming them all in this manner wouldn't get me anywhere close to the Sun God's level.

This dormant purple barrier and the obsidian trees are what set me apart from that Director in our cultivation processes.

Even so, I need something that will set us apart even further.

With the new realization from the construct's creator, telling me the abyss in the Dark Continent could potentially become the end of the world if I'm not the strongest one to conquer the trials once it awakens really puts things into a far greater perspective. On top of that, a being tens of times stronger than me, The Sun God, is actively sending their army to try and take me out. I need to get stronger by any means and not waste any resources.

I reach into my item storage and pull out a bright green fruit.

The words of the Lich King repeat in my mind, telling me that if I were to ascend to the next tier without awakening my true core, I wouldn't even compare to other higher lifeforms that have.

So, I don't plan on doing so, but there must be a use for all this energy I managed to farm.

I come up with an out-of-the-box idea that may only be possible for me, considering the mutation I went through when using absorption while farming this green energy from the serpent's aura.

I take a bite out of the massive fruit, then continue to eat the whole thing in a matter of seconds without thinking twice about my decision.

As the bright green divine strands flow through my body and instantly begin eating away at my flesh and bones, I concentrate fully on holding the purple barrier around my body strong.

The energy in each one of these green fruits is the amount of green threads I was able to withstand in my body to the point where I was on the edge of death each time I allowed the trees to tear the energy away from me.

Right now, it doesn't feel any different, but I have a theory that I want to test, and if it works, all this agony will be well worth it.

I eat a yellow fragment while my barrier still holds back all of the green threads to slowly flow within my body.

Portions of my arms, legs, chest, and even face are being burned away, and all that remains is a green holographic energy form while I sit calmly in the lotus position, healing myself as best as I can.

At the same time, my core starts to cycle through the new yellow energy I've introduced, but once it tries to eject the excess energy out, it hits a barrier of greater bright green energy.

The immense pressure of the green divine threads saturating and tearing apart my physical body is so much heavier and more dominant that it makes it nearly impossible for the excess yellow energy from the fragment I just consumed to leave my core.