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

Chapter 559

Despite this, I still test out other skills than just my attacks every once in a while.

This includes my enemy detection and all-seeing eye in my greater form.

Doing so, I can perceive the top of the mountain and the beginning of a new zone that Ember mentioned earlier.

In addition to this, I can directly see the presence of other dense red cores when I use the threads of energy to boost my vision. They don't appear in my mind as energy, more like other ripples or disturbances in space.

Eventually, we come across another awakened bird as a team.

Ember and I stand back this time and let Nat, Dane, and Marcie handle it alone.

I even deactivate my shared stats and mana control buff to see how they'll fare with their own power alone.

The red core awakened I find for them has the remnants of a wind magic element, showing flowing red energy around its wind and sending blades of blood-red wind at all of us from a distance.

The six wandering scavenger birds that stay nearby are quickly taken out by Dane and his pure white wind attacks.

Marcie is by far still the strongest out of the three of them, and most confident in close-range combat.

She's able to weave in and out of the falling birds attacked by Dane, taking control of the real enemy, facing off against it in close-range attacks, blocking and attacking with her spear.

She uses pink walls of manifested mana to disrupt and extinguish any attacks her spear is unable to fend off.

Dane joins in after, sending in a barrage of long-range attacks once the red-cored monster is occupied by its immediate threat, the spear wielder.

Nat still stays behind, watching from afar with daggers in her hands with sharp eyes. Without the fire skill I've been sharing with her, it seems she'd be hesitant to jump into battle especially with the bright red aura that reaches far out from the creature they're fighting.

In less than a minute, the team takes out the monster, but both Dane and Marcie who were very up close and personal to the bird and its attacks have tendrils of red energy coursing through their veins as well.

Dane has far less, as he wasn't near the denser parts of the bird's aura, however, Marcie has far more.

Her armor was even hit point blank with the attacks a few times.

While they protected her from the brunt of the blow, I can see with my enhanced vision their bodies being broken down just the same as mine is now, just at a much slower rate.

Marcie follows the falling bird's corpse and collects its red core and throws it into her item box.

Nat floats over to Dane first, then Marcie once she returns, and heals them as she would after most battles, and I witness an interesting energy exchange take place.

As her white aura envelops their bodies, I watch the red energy that infects their bodies flow toward Nat and creep into her body instead.

They both seem very rejuvenated while Nat becomes exhausted and filled with the burning sensation herself.

I don't say a word or do anything yet while I watch Nat heal herself. The red threads fade slowly, but they don't go away entirely. Most move toward her chest and begin the process of making a very small pink translucent core.

Ember witnesses this too and speaks to me through our link.

"She's strong enough now to the point where it will be fine. If she's not directly ingesting the stones I doubt even a full month of this would be enough to accidentally spark a core formation. I recommend leaving her with some self-regeneration potions though."