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

Chapter 796

The wolfman's soul weapon stays on track for my chest, and his angry gaze doesn't leave me, his target.

This makes me scan my surroundings one more time and find that the serpent slithering through the trees toward my back is actually very well hidden, using a stealth skill.

My baseline senses are far too advanced to register this, and it just appears normal to me once it enters the small aura I've been letting out.

'Even better...' I think to myself while twisting my body and faking getting hit in the lower stomach by the attacker's blade.

Light magic mirages of my avatars cracking and a horrible wound opening up in my side are what the wolfman sees, and he laughs again, far louder.

He lunges forward again and lands another fake hit, slicing off what looks to be my right leg.

"You sure are a lucky one! A shame, such a nimble human could have been quite the tool! Now die!"

That annoying sound of the wolf's teeth grinding can be heard echoing in my ears as he closes the gap again. His body starts to shimmer white as a skill activates, increasing his speed many times over.

I would be wracking my brain for more ideas on how to dodge in style, but in the very same movement, I sense the black serpent's eyes finally lunge out from hiding in the treeline.

It doesn't unveil its stealth cloak, but it does release a wave of intimidation that paralyzes the entire battlefield.

Well... almost the entire battlefield.

My eyes subconsciously track its location right before it releases this wave, and somehow, that pale human that has been watching my fight this whole time reacts to the disturbance just as fast.

The white-haired, white-eyed human takes a single step back, and its entire body disappears into a veil of light magic just like what I'm using now...

Ava's voice rings in my inner ear as the wave of intimidation hits us, and we share a mental back-and-forth within a few milliseconds to come up with the perfect plan.

Neither of us is weak enough to actually be affected by this mental attack made from pure mana and divine threads. Having millions of low-quality ether in our true ether pools negates anything like this without even having to try.

Unfortunately for the others on the battlefield, having ether inside the avatars that do not link to the Lord's true being, no matter how much it is, does not block this mental attack without preparation. This is clear to see when all three of the wolfmen freeze in place, unable to function, paralyzed with fear.

Instead of killing them both on the spot, Ava smirks and kicks both frozen wolfmen with white, blank eyes in the chest, making them fly backward and hit trees about 30 meters away, right beside where the frail human disappeared.

Me, on the other hand, I pretend to be affected by the wave of intimidation just like the wolfmen, aiming my fall to hit a nearby rock jutting out of the ground, pretending to use this momentum to fly out of the way.

The boss with blades all over its body watches me fall, its pupils still managing to track me, but its body frozen in paralysis from the effects of a divine-grade intimidation wave hitting him.

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The black serpent continues to lunge downward, aiming its open mouth at the frozen, energy-rich target in front of it.

However, I begin to see the wolfman's arms and legs twitch, and its grip on the blade in its hand tighten. A ranked-up buff is activated, and an even more intense white aura of mana and ether, commands only found on premium avatars, activates.