[CH598+ Continued] Dungeon Diver: Stealing A Monster's Power

Chapter 659

We fly away from Valor City, finding the nearest rogue dungeon, and I dungeon walk us to another rogue dungeon near the border of Sector 2 and Raven's territory.

The massive crater in the desert, stretching hundreds of kilometers wide and deep, comes into view as we fly over.

My aura is controlled behind my barrier, but Maria's radiates out around her for a few hundred meters even in her resting state as we continue to fly away from all civilization.

Once we're far enough away, in the center of the crater, I speak up.

"This is far enough. Let's see what you can do."

Maria nods, allowing her shared conceal skill to dissipate while pulling out her silver blood-bonded sword.

As she activates her Superior Ice Summoning and releases her aura by going into attack mode, she points her sword forward at me and replies.

"I'm testing my raw power first, to see what my natural strength has grown to. Then we can increase from there."

I nod and put my hands up in a defensive stance.

"Good idea. Don't hold back."

The instant these words leave my mouth, a pulse of cold yellow energy fills the air, and she ice-walks forward faster than I've ever witnessed her move before.

In response, I grin and raise a hand to block the incoming sword vibrating with dense yellow threads and royal blue soul energy.

The air around her body bends, and I feel gravity become stronger as she comes near, but I'm able to defend against her strike with ease.

I catch the sword without changing my expression, but the shockwave it produces sends ripples of energy off into the open desert, making an echoing cracking noise in the silence.

Maria expected this result and uses her free hand to power up a close-range attack while simultaneously activating her greater form.

Her aura increases in intensity multiple times, while the yellow threads of divine light surging from her core tether with the Royal Blue Ice Goddess form that expands, sending a growing icy fist toward me.

With ease again, I block this incoming strike with my other hand while releasing the growing greater form of her sword.

Another echoing crack reverberates throughout the endless crater below, and our sparring match begins.

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I don't fight back, only blocking her blows at the last moment before impact so she can get used to this immense increase in power.

At first, her attacks are rather slow, but with a power increase like this, I don't blame her cautious style.

While she was able to farm in the labyrinth for a few hours with Abby as an orange core, those mana manifestations are nowhere near powerful enough for her to go all out.

The last real battle Maria has been in was when the A-Class hunters attacked the Crimson City, and even then, her opponent hardly put up a fight.

She's grown hundreds of times stronger since then, and with every strike I block, I can feel her confidence growing and her endless base of power and battle instincts getting used to the divine threads tethering with her movements and Soul Energy.

Dozens of exchanges, echoing and sending out blue and yellow waves of light, turn into hundreds.

Down below in the dark crater, the floor becomes coated with ice as her larger-than-life greater form goes all out.