[CH598+ Continued] Dungeon Diver: Stealing A Monster's Power

The seconds before the collision are the most intense.

The entire flight over has been slightly nerve-wracking, but now that I am about to collide with a bronze earth dragon that is 5,000 levels above me, with a True Core of similar strength to my own, the reality of my predicament sinks in.

The air becomes thick as our silky white-yellow auras intertwine from over 20 kilometers away, exerting pressure on each other even before we physically meet.

I can feel dense gravity waves emanating from this beast.

They are far more concentrated, refined, and powerful than the malformed yellow core I fought this morning two continents away.

The scope of the power I'm facing nears that of what I felt when meeting the green divine serpent in the sky.

This is a monstrous force. It is a being at its prime and has refined its power to create a glistening core so mighty its beauty is awe-inspiring.

The difference between my interaction with the green serpent and the bronze dragon before me now is that the power that violently cycles within my own chest, waiting to be released, feels as though it can match the incredible force approaching me.

There may be a god-like entity attacking me now, but as I lift my blades above my head, I feel as though we are equals.

My entire greater form grows in size and becomes far brighter as I allow my purple limiter to let every drop of mana control and divine threads through.

All of my stat-boosting buffs activate, and I channel the maximum amount of Soul Energy into my blades.

Both myself and the dragon collide at hundreds of kilometers per hour, not holding anything back.

I swing both blades across my body, aiming straight for the creature's neck while preparing to make an immediate counter or dodge, not counting anything out. I know nothing about my opponent, so I'm leaving nothing up to chance.

As I swing my blades downward, the world around me blurs into darkness, and all I see is the bronze dragon glowing with its yellow light.

Its eyes stare into mine, and its expression doesn't change at all from the confident yet bored look it showed when I caught it on my sonar thousands of kilometers away.

It opens its mouth to show its sharp teeth and readies its talons, coating itself in mana shielding enhanced by its silky yellow divine energy.

I'm ready to react to whatever attack it throws at me, but the only thing that happens is a single small hexagon of yellow light forms in the path of my blades.

I don't sense any Mana or Qi interwoven in the thick yellow manifestation that looks like a massive floating dragon scale.

If it weren't for my natural senses and looking at the hexagon with my own two eyes, I wouldn't even believe it was there.

Nonetheless, my blades make contact with it, just meters away from the monster's neck, and the loudest, most intense noise I've ever heard echoes through the mountains and endless dunes of rolling sand.

It's as if two entire worlds collide in the sky.

Both of my swords halt in mid-air as they sink into the pure manifestation of Divine Energy.

Out from its sides, a portion of the force put forward from both of us colliding at full speed erupts outward. The gravity waves are so intense, that the mountains over 20 kilometers below us are shattered to dust and gravel just from being in our presence.

More and more waves of energy ripple off the collision point while we are both stopped in mid-air, pushing forward with all of our strength.

A deep vibrating sound echoes out from the waves of gravity and gets more and more intense as a ball of yellow and white light forms between us at the collision point.