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

Chapter 522

Loud cracks echo through the sky down on the workers below, but the speck that disappears from their view is gone before they can examine what it might be.

Soon enough, I sense something in the edges of my vision that is quite a bit stronger than an E-Grade dungeon.

I feel a high C-Grade break happening in the center of a field that has decimated crops for nearly 10km in every direction.

I sense a nearby town with some magical goods in it nearby, but the entire population has been evacuated and no one is working in nearby fields.

A bright red dungeon portal hovers in the middle of the field and over 3 dozen massive 5 meter long caterpillar creatures are digging up the earth and destroying the crops.

They all have advanced-grade earth magic and sit between level 450 and 475.

These are some serious monsters; no normal amateur hunter could ever handle one of these. It may even be difficult for hired help from Solara to take these monsters out. High-level association elites would need to be deployed to take out a threat like this. Even then, it would be quite the struggle.

This reminds me of the breaks I was sent out to take care of in Sector 4 by my team on my first Dark Continent mission for the Association. If they're sending more squads like this out, Carson is right. It may take days, or possibly even over a week to get men out here if they're already dealing with other regions.

"Well, time to handle this myself."

I dive down, activating most of my skills and buffs so I don't harm the farmland while touching down onto the soft soil in front of the red break, then jump through.

Once inside, the dungeon itself is just massive dirt mounds with occasional trees every couple of hundred meters with trunks larger than any tree I've ever seen. The trees are covered in the same green caterpillars, and the soil is infested with them too.

High in the sky, there are 3 mutants clearly higher level than the rest, each of them over level 500, with an additional skill, buff, and new ranked up forms with colorful wings and slimmer bodies.

Two of them have wind magic, and another has a skill I recognize very well from a gang leader I killed back in Sector 2.

Poison Mist [Special Grade]

My version of this skill is already legendary grade, but it's worth wasting a few seconds and taking a detour to kill this mutant.

So, I change my flight path to arc upward and slice the colorful ranked-up butterfly creature in half on my way to the boss room, upgrading this skill to mythic grade on the spot.

My flight path arcs downward again, and I ignore all of the other mobs in here until I see even more mutants near the boss room.

They're over level 500 too, but still in the form of caterpillars.

There are 4 of them guarding the dark black boss room portal.

Three of them have legendary body hardening along with advanced earth magic, but one of them has another skill.

I slice it to pieces on my way through the boss room and acquire a brand new skill, instantly upgrading it to mythic grade due to my absorption perks.

Cocoon [Mythic Grade]

While killing another ranked-up butterfly mutant in the boss room, I look at the details of this skill, and it looks like it's an advanced form of body hardening.

While I assume with these monsters, activating it works to morph them into a different form during their rank-up or something, the skill has adapted to my biology and created an ultimate defensive skill.