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

Arie's True Core consolidation looks far more natural than the absurd footage Ava received of Abby's just minutes ago.

For starters, the larger yellow orb of light that has hit its critical mass is, in fact, still inside his body.

Though, it appears he is using his 2nd ranked-up buff, along with a large amount of his Concentrated Essence—also known as further refined demonic soul energy—to assist this core collapse.

The six dark arms that manifest out from Arie's back—this is what he used to hold three bows back in the war around the throne and even the war over the Dark Continent in order to defeat one of the Lich King's minions.

However, now, he doesn't hold any weapons.

His physical body sits on the brightly glowing yellow floor, eyes closed in the lotus position. The six palms of his demonic spirit arms all bend inward and phase through his body to wrap around the yellow core.

They have been doing a similar thing for the last few days in order to hold the last excess threads in without the core destabilizing; however, now that it has, with a single inward push from all of the palms, this triggers a True Core Collapse.

Wisps of light purple mist float off of his greater energy form, and the room begins to shake and fracture just like Abby's consolidation.

Ava replies back with her [Minute 10] report and gets a barrage of messages back over the next three minutes with updates on days 49 to 63.

She watches Arie's True Core compression complete quite quickly, and only 5 of the 52 massive walls protecting him from the moon's atmosphere crack. They self-heal in the same way Abby's did.

The following two weeks of footage just show the three True Cored generals working toward saturating their cores.

It appears as though Abby's rate of saturation is far faster than Raven's. Raven is about 90% saturated, while Abby is already close to 80%.

Even after just 15 days with a True Core, Arie's is over 40% saturated as well.

A feat like this would normally take a human years, possibly decades, or even an entire lifetime—even if they had this much divine energy fragments to cultivate on their own. However, a combination of unique physiques and the advanced technology of a 1st Class World Superpower that rules hundreds of strong worlds has given them the tools to make use of their talents.

Of course, being able to pull 4% of the raw strength from trillions of links of loyalty certainly speeds up the healing and adaptation process significantly.

However, even with all these benefits, there is still a slight discrepancy in speed because of natural talent.

Raven has had many more years to build up a base, and while she is among the peak of talent within the human race, the two other True Cores she's cultivating beside are monsters on another level entirely.

At this rate, all three of them should hit full saturation in just a few more weeks.

Ava sends her [Minute 13] Report back in to show that there is still a disruption in the time between realms, and in return, day 64 through 68 footage comes back.

It is more of the same. The prospecting party down on Kelfar has killed off almost two-thirds of the world's Demonic Beasts and collected all of the stray artifacts in dozens of regions around the home base.

However, they've made sure not to cross the perimeter they did before, as the Kings stay relatively close to the throne.

Alveron states that this isn't always the case, and they often move about—the commanders just haven't had a lucky day yet.