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

Chapter 697

The constant flow of hot white pressure stops coming from her hammer, and my body is instantly able to move again.

I reflexively sit up when she pulls the hammer from my chest, and the warmth flowing through me dissipates, leaving only a tingling rectangle where her hammer was last.

This time, it takes far longer for the tingling to leave...

I feel an odd pulling sensation from my subconscious to hyper-focus on the area, and the sensation of warm energy in my body pooling up from seemingly nowhere covers the area full of residue.

A thin wave of white energy washes over my chest beneath my barrier, then flows back into seemingly nowhere.

All of the tingling stops, and I question whether I just imagined that or not.

A blaring voice rings in my ears while a hammer is pointed at my face.

"Don't play with me! State your name, faction affiliation, and your business here before I make you wish you never tried to steal from our mines."

My mind is still occupied by the internal energy I just summoned and the similarities of it to the times Ember has created undetectable pockets of space to pull random items out. Also, he has used healing magic that doesn't give off any mana or divine aura.

Before I can connect the dots any further, I'm hit in the chest by another hammer blow.

"Are you even listening to me? I've got a quota to meet, I don't have all day. I don't care if you're a Lord—if you don't state your faction affiliation, I have every right to kill you right here."

As I'm sent flying back again, I replicate the same feeling I used to heal right after I was hit by this hammer, and before I even smash into a rock pile 70 meters away, I'm completely healed and my body is totally rid of the foreign white energy.

It triggers an idea in my mind while I see the hammer coming for me again.

As I turn to block, I let the warm flowing feeling cover my arm as if I were trying to heal a nonexistent tingling sensation.

The faint white glow summons in a raw form, washing over my forearm at the moment the hobgoblin's hammer makes contact.

While I was expecting something interesting to happen, the heavy hammer slams against my purple barrier all the same, and an intense wave of white energy overpowers the white glow I produced with ease.

I'm sent flying back just like any other strike but have a wide smile across my face, as I've instantly healed the contact point, and it feels as though the warm energy I summoned is still present in my arm.

With even more time before the next attack comes, I take a deep breath and focus, trying to summon even more using the same subconscious, instinctive feeling.

When I'm struck, an even denser layer of white energy covers my arm, but it still isn't enough to do much.

Despite this, I'm positive I'm onto something here.

She yells at me while raising her hammer.

"Last chance! You can surrender and leave us alone, or die with your stubborn silence!"

While I could easily do as she says and leave, I'm on the brink of a breakthrough and can't pass up being hit by this hammer just a few more times.

I don't say a word and focus on summoning even more wisps of faint, warm Ether from the depths of my consciousness to cover my right forearm and block her next strike with over three times what I did before.

On impact, I feel the dense warmth in my arm pulse, and a tight pressure allows me to consciously brace for impact.

Even so, the intensity of the hobgoblin's hit is too strong.