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

Chapter 664

Ember stands still with his arms crossed while she powers up, then gets into a fighting stance, releasing a small amount of divine energy from his invisible barrier.

He matches her output, feeling and looking like a newly awakened yellow core from here.

They both fly forward, and their spar begins.

Ember calmly blocks her attacks with his bare hands, and they fly all over the sky, giving off flashes of yellow and green light.

Every few dozen exchanges make Abby's control over her new power much more concentrated and deadly.

Just like Maria, she hasn't had the chance to have a good fight going all out since long before she even started wielding divine energy.

After over a hundred exchanges, she begins sending spears of earth magic imbued with divine threads Ember's way, and the fight reaches the next level.

Instead of just blocking with his palms, Ember shoots dark flames shimmering with yellow threads at each of the speared attacks, disintegrating them on the spot and dodging others while still clashing fist to dagger with Abby's main attacks.

A full ten minutes at this basic level pass, and I watch Abby's speed and precision of strikes increase more and more.

Ember keeps a cool and unchanging expression the whole time but yells out loud after one of their exchanges.

"Come on, let's bring this up a notch. What do you say?"

He lets more of his aura leak out, bringing him to the level of a mid- to high-level yellow core, similar to that of the old Apex Region Director. Even from a distance, it's clear Abby is affected by the overwhelming aura.

That is, until she activates her ranked-up buff, and her entire body turns green, while the yellow core in her chest continues to glow and spread throughout her body.

Instantly, she seems fine and flies forward, unaffected by the pressure tens of times greater than her own.

Ember grins, raising an eyebrow while preparing to block her incoming attack.

At the last moment, centimeters before they collide, I watch portions of her body return to their natural state, and she's able to land hits on Ember's fists; but they're nowhere near strong enough to do damage.

Ember strikes back, but his fist pushes right through her body like it's not even there, despite the clear difference in strength.

Abby uses this moment of surprise to spin around to Ember's back and release another earth-imbued crescent, but millimeters before impact, Ember spins around and blocks this too. He counters again, but when his fist makes contact with her stomach, it phases through like nothing is there.

Both lunge back, and Ember laughs, releasing the full aura of his True Core.

"It's really the same power! The Immortal Form while still holding a Yellow core, quite impressive. Use that new buff Jay granted you. I want to see everything you've got!"

As his True Core's aura ripples out, and they're only a hundred or so meters apart in the sky, Abby can feel that if she's too close, she'll be knocked out from the pressure, and any exposed limbs or body parts would be shredded by the pressure alone. Releasing her buff to attack would not be a good idea.

Moments later, Abby replies to this challenge by opening up her status interface and pulling the full 1% of stats from over 6.1 million links of loyalty.

Her entire body glows bright green, and her aura grows, giving off an immense amount of mana control and stat-based power.

However, I don't feel the same eerie sensation I did when Maria accessed these stats.