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

Chapter 643

I cut him off, letting some of my aura leak out from my purple barrier, instantly making him choke on his words and fall to his knees behind his dragon.

"Maybe I phrased things poorly. This isn't an offer, it is a demand. We'll be upgrading this labyrinth, or I'll drain every last drop of mana and create a new one with a demon that wants to cooperate."

Every few milliseconds that pass, I let the pressure from my aura rise by an increasing amount, making the floor crack and the entire boss room shake, while a small amount of my true core's essence leaks out from my barrier.

All of the bones of the demon and dragon are shattered, and their skin is melted and peeled off, pushing them both deep into the ground of the dungeon floor until I see their HP bars drop below 1%.

Once they do, I retract all of the pressure back into my barrier and put on an obviously fake smile while levitating, opening, and pouring regeneration potions into their mouths.

A few seconds pass while green glowing light brings them back from the brink of death, and the demon crawls out from the hole in the boss room floor, now with a face showing far more fear and understanding.

"Y-You... You're an Ascended Arch Demon... That yellow power... How—"

I cut him off again, not knowing what he's rambling on about, but satisfied that he's understood my point.

"The reason I cannot let this mana be siphoned back to the Demonic Realm is because I will be the one who claims the throne."

The Arch Demon's eyes widen at my words, and I can feel many emotions conflicting in the creature's mind.

Its odd attraction of loyalty to another being far away starts to fade, and more admiration and awe toward me begins to grow. However, far more fear, unease, and distrust also permeate from the demon too.

I nod and speak again before these negative emotions grow further.

"I'll honor every part of our last deal. I will grant you a skill right now, anything of your choosing. Whether that's a human-only ability, an elemental power, or one of dungeon monsters, I will find it. Once this labyrinth reaches 200 floors, if you still wish to leave, I will honor it. And if you give me the chance, the demon lord you meet will be me."

I inwardly grin to myself while the admiration grows and the fear and distrust fade away, and the demon responds.

"You can truly grant elemental skills...? This is impossible, no demons can wield the elements of natural mana-born beings."

I activate all of my elemental skills, making shimmering balls of light of each of them rotate around in circles.

"Of course, anything you wish, and at the superior grade."

As these words leave my mouth, an idea hits me, and I have one of my body doubles leave their job creating dungeons to come fulfill a task of mine.

Instantly, one dungeon walks in to meet me here, and I share skill orbs that contain every elemental skill that I own that is stuck at [Extreme Grade].

It disappears in a blip, tasked to force-feed them to monsters that have enough proficiency points in this labyrinth on the high floors to use upgrade crystals, then kill them on the spot. Notifications of all of my extreme elemental skills upgrading to superior grade fill my inner ear.

The demon looks back at his dragon, then to me, and replies while these notifications fill my ears.

"An earth element, like my bonded dragon. This is what I want."

I nod, sending a telepathy wave to my double, who is farming on all of the higher-grade floors in this labyrinth, collecting rare loot while it continues to upgrade my elemental skills.