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

Chapter 413

His partner looks back at him as we walk past in full stealth mode.

"We should stand guard inside to make sure no mutants escape into the forest. We may be over 20 kilometers away from the city, but we wouldn't want to take the chance of any monsters slipping out and harming civilians."

The guard with the transmission tablet finishes up reporting the break to the Association and responds.

"You're right, we should."

Wisps of sand and wind magic start to flow outside of the portal now, pushing manifested dungeon mass into the outside world. The only other time I've seen anything like this was that one time I faced the Volcanic Salamander dungeon with Maria in the Dark Continent. The heat expelled from the dungeons out into the cave. This was only because the dungeon was on the verge of complete collapse.

The fire magic user points it out to his partner.

"Look at that.... We must be in the midst of another intense surge. This was a stable dungeon as far as I knew. I have no idea what could have caused it to act this way... Let's go-"

As soon as they both turn to enter the portal, I whisper under my breath to Bri by my side.

"Brace yourself for a high-powered mental attack. This might hurt a bit."

Fractions of a second later, I turn around and release my stealth skill and take down all my mana shielding barriers to activate my intimidation skill on full blast focused at the two men that are about to step through the red portal.

Their eyes roll into the back of their heads and they both fall to the forest floor knocked out from the burst of intense focused mana attacking their psyche.

"Body double."

Next, I create a body double and use it to run forward and plunge deep into the red portal to watch what is about to unfold inside with no risk to my real body.

It disappears into the crimson swirling mass of mana, and in my real body, I turn back to Bri.

"Help me carry these guys to a safe distance away. I have a feeling once this dungeon fully breaks and collapses, it isn't going to be pretty."

Bri deactivates her light magic while holding her head and shaking off the effects of getting caught in the crossfire of my intimidation skill.

"You weren't kidding. That's a pretty strong mental attack. I'm glad I'm not on the wrong side of it."

We take one guard each and sling them over our shoulders while air stepping away from the mountain off the cliffside. The sun has almost fully set over the horizon, but with my enhanced sense and eyesight specifically, it's basically as light as day even at night.

We make it to the ground in the valley just below the mountain and the memories from my double come flowing back into my mind.

"I already died..."

Inside the dungeon, the moment my double entered, the light swirling winds had already reached the exit point.

Considering my double is fully made of mana, it began getting sucked in toward the center of the swirling mass. Using plunderer and my other stat-boosting buffs, my double was able to resist the pull for about 30 seconds as Bri and I made our way down the mountain, but ultimately the dome expanded too far out to resist any further.

All of the sandy hills and rock formations have collapsed and been sucked into the windy mass, and dozens of sand golems have faced their demise all around the dungeon.

The hole in the dungeon floor reached a depth of over 400m and the diameter of the swirling dome hit over 1km as my body double got sucked in and broken down into pure mana to add to the central mass.

Once these images show up in my mind I imagine the possibilities of what will happen once it has no more energy to pull from.

My all-seeing eye can sense the red portal swirling more and more violently now, starting to spew larger amounts of wind magic and mana into the real world.

However, suddenly it stops.

The twisting wind and violently glowing crimson portal stops expanding with power and contracts on itself quickly and instantly.

Everything is calm and peaceful.

Bri and I don't stop moving forward toward the city, and the sun fully sets, leaving us in the dead of night for a full 20 seconds of silence.

Then, a glimmer of transport magic brings all foreign material out of the collapsed dungeon.

The foreign material being a highly concentrated, extremely volatile, unpredictable, cursed element stone imbued with a mythic grade skill holding billions of MP from a high C Grade Dungeon.

Once it spawns in, my All Seeing Eye picks up on it like a bright candle burning through paper on the radar in my mind's eye.

It gets hotter and hotter, reaching out for mana to drain, but out here in the plain old real world, there isn't much of that to go around.

It sucks up the trace amounts of mana in the atmosphere, but soon begins to crack and splinter as its needs are not satisfied.

The item description warning about it's structural integrity collapsing repeats in my head as I watch the outer crystal walls of the stone break down in my mind's eye.

A few seconds later, and the eruption of power that is released is far greater than anything my imagination had in mind.

The dark night sky is lit up like its daytime as the element stone explodes.

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