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

Chapter 676

I activate my new ranked-up buff, the [Divine Elemental's Astral Form], and feel a very strange energy vibrate out from my True Core.

At first, it feels like pure mana, as if I'm just activating a normal system skill, but the artificial feeling of a True Core's ability triggers in my mind.

By the time a yellow aura begins to grow outward, making another figure expand larger than my Greater Form, it feels extremely natural, like my divine energy is tethering with the mana manifestation and replacing it entirely.

If I wasn't completely focused on the silver sword above me, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the mana particles being activated and the divine energy that is melting together with it.

Ember grows larger as well, both of us expanding many times our original size before making contact with the silver blade that falls down on us. My energy form grows to over 150 meters tall, making my sword alone near the size of a sports field.

I brace for a mind-bending pressure to vibrate through my bones again, pouring every drop of power into this buff, feeling as though there is no end to the expansion it's allowing. I would have grown even larger if there wasn't a time constraint of having to block the falling sword.

However, on impact, it doesn't even feel heavy at all...

Before I know it, the second blade comes crashing down, then the third, and the fourth as well.

My intense concentration is broken out of shock at how easy this block was, but it doesn't even matter; all four blades combined don't even stack up to the pressure I felt in the first round.

I didn't even form the hexagonal defensive array to slow the blades, and it feels like I was blocking a wooden sword in a practice room without even activating magic.

The numbers count down to zero, and the swords dissipate.

This massive Astral Form feels so real....

Unlike my Greater Energy Form, where it is clear I'm controlling a mana manifestation, this incredibly massive Divine Flaming Perfect Energy Depiction of myself feels as though I'm standing in my normal body.

I see clearly out of the multiple-meter-wide eyes, and grasping my sword feels eerily natural.

Ember's voice echoes in my mind as I watch his form continue to grow.

"Don't hold back. The moment you deactivate this form, we're going to be in trouble. Give it your all until the Trial is over."

As silver text for the 5th round and an ancient voice ring in my ears with far more clarity than before, I shake myself out of the awe of the new form and continue pouring every drop of mana and divine threads I have into it.

The five silver blades come crashing down on us one by one, and my Flaming Yellow Astral Form reaches over 200 meters in height.

The blades that collide with my crimson-glowing Astral Soul Sword definitely hold weight this time, but it still feels like something I'd receive in a friendly spar.

Ember's eyes are as serious as they were in the third round when we were almost crushed to death, and when this round finishes and the 6th begins, his bright yellow Astral Claws start to shimmer with silver light.

My body becomes over 250 meters tall, and at this point, I can feel the growth begin to slow.

The excess divine aura radiating off of me feels as if it's constrained within this small room, as none of my yellow threads can seep out of the black walls. It reminds me of the green serpent I saw in the sky of celia's construct, as its aura stretched thousands of kilometers.