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

Chapter 697

I'm sent flying back again and again, over half a dozen more times, over a full kilometer back from where our fight started.

"This was your doing! It's a shame to kill a Lord with a planet of their own. Your people will be without a ruler, but I must protect my own..."

She yells while colliding with me again.

Now, when her hammer hits my arm, with almost ten layers of my Ether covering it, a dense white vibration of colliding pressures ripples through me on contact.

The Ether doesn't even make it to my mind, nor the rest of my body. It is solely concentrated on the single point I've spent time protecting.

Yet, I'm still overpowered and flung back into the endless green fog.

I expect to collide with another rock pile, but instead, I feel the sensation of weightlessness again.

She really meant it when she said this was her last warning.

I'm sent flying over a deep circular pit.

I couldn't see or sense it before, as it was too far away, but now that I've been pushed into it, I can't sense the floor and realize it's a long way down...

Not only that, but I see the angry green woman following me with a faint streak of white light coming off her hammer, chasing me down.

Images of her pinning me to the floor earlier come to mind, and if she gets me in that position again, it will most likely be far tougher to get out.

Plus, the fact that she jumped in after me makes me believe the bottom isn't too far away.

I grit my teeth and concentrate on the only defense I have, allowing as many wisps of warm white energy in my consciousness to cover my armored arm as I can.

By the time I hit the ground with an echoing thud, my mind has gone completely into a focused state, trying to channel and remember everything I've felt of this strange divine Ether substance.

I think about the times during this battle I've used it, and also the mental pressure I've employed back on the human world to subconsciously block intimidation attacks.

The warm sensation that flows like a wave out from an invisible space in my mind flows out to cover my arm in a silky white energy far denser than it was when I started to fall.

I have fractions of a second to brace myself on the floor of this pit, another 500 meters below the surface, but raise my arm to block. When I do, the black rocks beneath my feet rattle as a crater is formed, similar to when I fell from the sky.

I feel the impact ripple throughout my whole body, but also feel the Ether defenses I've created pulse and ripple back.

My eyes widen with excitement as I see the hobgoblin stuck in midair above me, slamming down with both hands grasping her hammer tightly.

Her expression turns from anger to surprise extremely quickly too, as I'm not the only one sent flying back from this attack.

Both of us receive equal blowback after this collision.

I'm forced deeper into the impact crater below, and she's pushed back, flying across the rocky ground.

I can't help but let out a laugh while watching her fly back. Simultaneously, the raw, unstable white energy barrier around my arm disperses outward off my body and into the atmosphere.

Now, with a moment to breathe, my Ether senses pick up over a dozen more hot energy signatures in my general vicinity, deep under the black rock we're standing on. One of them is less than 10 meters in front of me.

Breathing heavily, I climb out of the small crater and walk forward toward the hobgoblin who is equally out of breath but still looking at me with eyes ready to kill.

While I could continue to fight, my initial curiosity is satiated. Now, if I want any friendly relations with this clearly intelligent monster, it's time for damage control.

I raise both my hands.

"Hey, hey. I give up. Let's call it a draw, alright."

She doesn't look convinced, as the last time I said something similar, we started fighting again seconds later.

However, I stop walking after a few steps and begin digging through the heavy piles of black rocks on the floor, throwing the useless ones behind me.

"This is what you're so angry about, right? I didn't mean to steal anything; I didn't know anyone even lived down here..."

I let out a sigh as I grab another one of those black stones, about half the size of my palm, with tiny white cracks in it, leaking trace amounts of Ether.

Then, I raise it in front of myself, showing the monster that is still charging up her hammer for another attack.

"There are tons of these things down here. I don't know why you'd even be so pissed off about me taking one in the first place. Here, all yours."

I toss her the rock I just pulled from about a full meter below ground level, and it falls right in front of her.

The eyes of anger, confusion, and battle-ready focus turn to shock when she takes them off me and looks down at the stone I've thrown her way.

There is silence between us for a full five seconds before she looks back up at me.

"How...? How did you find that Ether Stone so easily...?"

I raise an eyebrow, as right now, I'm positive there are many more all around us.

"What do you mean...? You can't sense them?"

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