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

Chapter 538

While out of the sixty-six applicants on the board, I'm in the top ten because of my MVP points and extra points for the second trial, I still want to try to get ahead of some of these Apex region hunters. It's not like they've done anything in particular to make me want to defeat them; top twelve is all I really need to place in. I'm just feeling competitive and see a challenge in front of me that I want to accomplish.

My guess is I'll have a better chance at doing so once we get to the later trials and even these elite hunters must get tired at some point.

The fifth, sixth, and seventh trials go similarly to the last two. They're dungeon breaks, having to save stranded hunters at checkpoints and protecting villages from hoards of monsters.

Dane joins us for the seventh trial after he's rested up, but it is one of the most intense ones we've faced so far.

The seventh is another multi-wave trial, and some of the waves even consist of multiple level 675+ monsters. Ember and I push our speed and striking power to the max, clearing out waves of ogres, serpents, orcs, giant scorpions, and even some unique humanoid monsters.

Dane is overwhelmed by the ruthlessness, strength, and pure power of some of the monsters after a few stages go by. He's hit hard by a few attacks and stays high in the sky to wait out the rest of the waves while we continue to battle it out.

We come in third place for this stage, but surprisingly only five total teams even passed this trial. This makes Dane feel much better about having to sit out the strongest waves.

Marcie holds up very well, but after seven hours of straight fighting monsters at and above her level, even she begins to get fatigued and exhausted, especially from the healing procedure done after this seventh trial to mend some of her deep gashes and burns.

Dane is healed up too, but falls asleep to fully heal once the process is complete.

Every time Nat heals, her own fatigue grows too, but she understands this is part of being a team player.

While the HP potions provided can heal standard injuries and slowly heal flesh wounds, some of the larger injuries being tanked would take many days to heal or even longer if not for our healer. No one on the team would be taking the risks in battle if not for this insurance.

Moving onto the eighth round, I can tell Marcie is getting tired, but we agree this will be her last one then she'll take a rest.

"I don't know how you two manage to narrowly miss injuries over and over and keep using so much mana in your attacks while not getting fatigued, but I guess it's best not to question it and just be glad you're on my side."

As she says this, I realize Ember and I have been outputting hundreds of thousands of MP over the last few trials like it's nothing.

I remember back to one of the exam questions about how much rest time a hunter needs after exerting 0.1% of their mana control, and if this were my true control that I'm showing her, right about now would be when I'd start feeling the effects of using up so much mana.

However, I shrug it off.

"We've been through worse. Don't worry about us."

Once the door opens and we walk through, the three of us are stranded on a desert island.

The sky is covered in clouds and there is fog that hovers over the sea in all directions, limiting our vision to a few dozen meters ahead at most.

Text pops up in the sky next to a timer.

[Memorize the pattern of safe stones to make it all the way to the final island. You have 55 minutes to make 100 steps. You must travel from step to step in order to complete this trial! Go back to the start as many times as you wish, but if you step on a danger stone, you have failed to complete this trial.]