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

Chapter 539

[Congratulations! [00:50:47] Remaining! Trial 9 Complete! 1 Point awarded to all applicants! 1 MVP point awarded to Ray Anderson. You've come in 1st place, 1 additional point awarded to all applicants present! Please rest until your next Trial begins.]

Surprisingly, only 7 out of the 13 teams even complete this trial.

We rest in the room again and take on trial 10 alone too while our teammates all sleep and recover from their long day of testing and trials.

There's a wide open desert with a single boulder at its center that stretches about 2 kilometers in distance. The prompt reads [Split this boulder in two.]

Ember and I both verbally agree to use our ranked-up buffs, but in reality, we're just lessening the barrier of our mana suppression and letting out more mana to send off stronger attacks.

[Congratulations! [00:42:18] Remaining! Trial 10 Complete! 1 Point awarded to all applicants! 1 MVP point awarded to Emrie Carter. You've come in 1st place, 1 additional point awarded to all applicants present! Please rest until your next Trial begins.]

Ember wins the MVP point for having more explosive attacks.

Fire is far more destructive against rock than electricity is.

Again, only 5 of the 13 teams complete this trial completely.

As the night goes on, fewer and fewer teams complete full trials.

While the first few trials it was 13 for 13, now we're lucky if even half complete them. Some teams are up against the wire on time, completing the trials with just seconds to go.

Eight more trials go by.

The only other team that completes them all is the Apex Region team. While the three teams consisting of Vice and Veridian hunters constantly place high in the rankings, they are not as consistent as the Apex Elites team.

The three first-place wins from us on rounds 8, 9, and 10 in a row were merely luck.

As there are more puzzle events that require different elements like water to put out fires or healers to bring villagers back to perfect health.

While I could use water magic of my own or even use self-regen potions on the villagers, it isn't worth exposing our identities for a few points.

We still manage to win 2 more out of the 8 events that pass through the night and do end up completing every one of them which gives our team an overwhelming advantage above many of the others.

Between Nat, Dane, and Marcie, every few rounds when they feel up to it, they join us to complete challenges together.

However, as the rounds go on, the challenges only get harder and stronger monster spawn. Under the facade of mine and Ember's ranked up buffs, we're easily able to dispatch these higher-level trials. Though, it's clear many teams are not even supposed to be able to complete these nearing the end.

As everyone gets progressively more tired, the trials get more difficult. Some of the monster waves have level 700-750+ monsters. They're tough, but not impossible. It's supposed to be this way.

Even so, we make it a point to clear every one of them to gain extra points for everyone.

From this alone, as we move onto the 19th round, everyone on our team is in the top 15 of this stage's point leaderboard. Ember and I are both in the top 5, outranking a few of the Apex members that haven't had the opportunity to gain MVP points as often and some that have taken rests while their teammates complete rounds and get 1st place points without them.

Some of the other teams from the Vice and Veridian Regions have single hunters that are being pushed up the ranks for claiming MVP every round. It's a smart strategy to gain personal points if you're much stronger than the rest of your team.