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

Chapter 681

The silver flash of light fades, and a light blue background covers my surroundings.

I prepare to endure the bodiless, sensory-deprived reality or something equivalent this time as well, but soon a body materializes below my eyes.

Access to my links of loyalty is severed again, and my system skills are too, so I believe this is just another illusion.

However, that odd feeling I sensed when starting my last round is far stronger.

The Divine Ether left in my mind feels far more comfortable melding with my consciousness. It feels warm, flowing, and far less foreign than it did before; but I can't quite figure out why...

Other than this feeling, the body below me is certainly not real. It is like a mirage controlled by my mind, with no organs, cores, or access to mana or divine energy.

Before I can inspect it any further, my vision is filled with squares of shimmering glossy glass that appear like mirrors, but when I look into them, nothing at all is reflected. They just show more endless light blue sky.

More and more squares appear, easily thousands of them, forming a curved wall shape before me.

They finally stop multiplying, and then a silver text box shimmers in my vision reading [0/50] [0/50].

No voice comes with it, but simultaneously, the thousands of clear glass mirrors begin to shift in color and reveal a familiar face.

Every single one of them reveals Ember in his human form.

His eyes move back and forth identically on all the mirrors, and when he speaks, his mouth opens on all of them as well.

"I can only guess you see the same as me...? But... a better question would be, are you still sane?"

I raise an eyebrow, crossing my arms and looking at the wall of mirrors reflecting the long red-haired dragon, and reply.

"Am I sane? Even if I wasn't, that would not be an easy question to answer... Why?"

Ember's eyes don't stop darting around, as if he's looking at all of the mirrors on his end. Then they sharpen, and he moves forward with a palm in front of him.

I hear the crashing of glass, and the silver text before me changes to [0/50][1/50].

Ember nods, then his eyes go back to darting around while speaking.

"I was left to withstand over 900,000 years of darkness. I have both the experience to endure this passage of time and a mental technique that speeds it up for my conscious mind. I am curious to know how you are still understanding my words and not driven to insanity with merely two decades of life experience."

My eyes begin darting around the wall of mirrors, understanding what I have to do now from the change in notifications. The objective was to make it to the finish, and as Ember destroyed a mirror to move forward, we both need to pick the correct mirror 50 times to reach a middle ground.

I reply while the warm feeling in my mind subconsciously guides my eyes.

"Maybe we had different tests? I only remember a few months, or maybe a year of darkness at most. I just remember everything going dark after a while and waking up like nothing happened..."

As these words come out of my mouth, one of the mirrors in the top left corner of my vision feels warm in my mind. There is no visual feedback, but something tells me that this one is alive while the others are just mirages.

Without thinking any further, I jump upward and effortlessly crash through the pane of glass with Ember's confused face on it.

[1/50][1/50] appears in my vision in front of a whole new curved wall of mirrors.