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

Chapter 553

I pull up the menu in a hurry, but this doesn't help my confusion at all either, as everything is still there, showing my teammates and citizens of the Crimson Cities' names, vitals, and level, but they're all greyed out and frozen in the positions they were when I was back in the exam site.

While looking down, scrolling through all of the inactive options, one of the masses of mana in the nearby forest shifts from its normal path and begins running my way.

It isn't fast, but it breaks me from my concentration on my status, and I pull my daggers from my item storage to get ready for a fight. The readings are not strong, but whatever this may be I'm not going to underestimate it.

My daggers are charged up, and static electricity courses through my body while my perception is focused on the single point of mass coming my way.

The bushes move, then a few tree branches above shake, and a jet-black jaguar comes running out covered in a white aura of wind magic.

Its sharp eyes stare me down as it doesn't hesitate to send half a dozen wind blades my way.

They're slow and weak, at least compared to the fights I was in during the tournament; however, I still use the speed and power I used to face Trax in the final round just in case there's energy in this monster I can't sense.

I dodge every one of its wind blades and send two lightning crescents back its way at speeds impossible to dodge.

The yellow crescents slice it to pieces in an instant, and its remains fall to the rocky floor in front of the forest.

A blue text box pops up above it.

[Use Absorption]

MCP: 52,596

[YES][NO]

It's not much at all, but it's more than the 0 I was expecting. The minimum 0.1% absorption rate of my skill activated.

Despite there being no level rating above this monster, it still has mana control to spare. This means it isn't a body double or mere hologram of manifested mana like the monsters in the simulations prior to this one.

My gaze tightens as I walk closer to the creature, and the waves of gravity, just like I felt near the barrier, begin to ripple off its corpse.

They're nowhere near as strong as the waves from the rift; I'm even able to touch the jaguar with my boot once I'm close enough, and it doesn't take much concentration to keep my limiter active.

I accept the MCP, and the status screen disappears. I'm even able to plunder the mana left in its body to bring my MP bar back up to full.

After about a minute, the remains start to dissolve away into the air. The waves of gravity don't stop until it's fully disappeared.

For a fraction of a second, it looks like a small clear crystal has dropped to the ground. However, it doesn't give off any readings, and dissolves into the air as well before I can get a closer look.

I was fully expecting one of those red gems to drop, but nothing is left behind. I'm left standing alone as the wind whistles, staring into the trees.

At the same time, I feel a new presence on my enemy detection radar with a level spawn in behind me and see Trax wander out with the same look of wonder I did just a few minutes earlier.

After he begins to piece together where he is, he immediately senses me, but I yell out first.

"We can either get this over with right now, or we can go our separate ways and battle it out once we have some artifacts to actually fight over..."