Dungeon Diver: Stealing A Monster’s Power - Chapter 872

Chapter 872: Chapter 872
As a ripple of white celestial light trails behind me, over a billion futures flash by in my mind.

This includes images of myself not making it to Maria in time, watching the entire top of the green zone be encased in ice, and the cracks leading to the cyan zone opening up far too wide to close; destroying this zone in a far more violent fashion than Miriel’s plan to fill it with corruption.

Other visuals show me making it in time, and containing the blast in a similar fashion using a massive sphere of defensive arrays. However, the amount of energy this uses, and the millions of variables make it harder and harder to see the end result of doing such a thing.

Some result in the energy being contained, or pushed downward toward the open space of the green zone below. However, that would result in me suppressing Maria’s power, and possibly halting her breakthrough; or an equally devastating result, freezing the entire green zone solid with the waves of Celestial Ice she’s holding back.

Every path I see in my mind leads to more and more catastrophic events the closer I get.

Yet, I also begin to see the possible paths in greater clarity.

Her vibrations, and cold celestial aura pushing outward get thicker and more potent the closer I get, and I can comprehend with far greater precision how my own energy will react.

However, there are strange variables that continue to come up in my foresight readings that change the results.

“Nothing is working as it should….” I remark through my gritted teeth while stepping forward through the open air again, moving over a million kilometers forward in a single stride.

My eyes glisten with bright white celestial light, and vibrate with red and black vibrations as I push myself to the limit; even unsealing Seraphel’s suppression technique once I get far enough away from the Grand Citadel’s citizens.

However, in doing so, my release of energy adds even more unpredictable variables to my mental equations.

This is because Maria looks down my way and realizes I’m coming, making the cracks in space that splinter out from her burst out even faster. I can’t tell if it’s from the moment of lost concentration, or that the strength of her own vibrations and celestial energy just increased in power almost instantaneously upon feeling mine.

The reason behind this is a mystery to me, but it does not matter, all I need is a solution.

Not only is the zone itself cracking apart, but as I get closer I begin to see even Maria’s Celestial Angelic form begin to crack and fracture on its surface.

The cracks are glistening with reflective source resin, however, they glow to reflect outward what is deep inside her Soul energy core. I see compressed green threads of a saturated true core hitting their limit, and beginning to turn cyan by force from the pressure.

“So it’s not only the Green Zone in danger… it’s you too…” I whisper.

Then, take in the millions of updated futures processing through my mind using this new growth curve.

Pushing my mind this far, not holding back at all, puts pressure on the entire green zone.

Not only are Maria’s cold uncontrollable vibrations and celestial waves making the green zone shiver with fear, but now the strange combination of my own vibrations as well as the ones I absorbed from Miriel’s will; all burst outward with both hot and cold pressure.

This in turn gives me perfect imagery and energy readings of every single citadel and living being in the green zone.

I watch Ren, the white-haired elf, falling from the sky through the empty space where I just was. They are plummeting down through the clouds with a half smile, and half distant dormant state expression on their face while falling directly down toward Ember, sleeping in his human form.

I see all of my generals looking toward the icy cracks in the sky, and the red and black ball of energy that is myself flying up toward it. The Warlords have succeeded in their battles too, and proudly stand in front of Ellipsia, with their loyal citizens behind them; all watching the ominous sky fracture.

There are even streams of notifications that ripple into the back of my mind from the Lower Realm that are blaring in my consciousness, from the commanders and troops on the Great Belt of Brymia facing an imminent attack.

So many lords, wars, and variables to keep track of…

“I need to focus…” I murmur.

Then, begin blocking them out of my mind one by one.

First, those at the coast of the Sea of Corruption. They are the furthest away, and they have succeeded and can fend for themselves.

This portion of my mind goes black.

Next, Ava, Ren, and Ember. All of the enemies from that Citadel have been dealt with, and Ember would not have gone into his resting state without knowing he would be protected. This portion of my mind goes black next.

The Ellipsia Citadel has been saved by the Warlords once again. They will be the closest to this impact, so I send a mental wave of energy down into its core.

The full reset of the ether shielding arrays and automated surveillance system retriggers.

It is the best I can do. Any extra precautions would lead to me not making it to Maria in time.

This imagery goes black too.

I then answer the calls of the Lower Realm with three fast messages and mental commands.

Three new administrator roles are submitted to the Rising Emperor’s Army.

[Current Administrators][4/5 Slots Filled]

[Ren]

[Bri]

[Alveron]

[Pluto]

[-EMPTY-]

The interface flashes in my mind, and the accessibility of 1% of borrowed stats each is distributed to these individuals.

Bri, the yellow core stationed on the Great Belt of Brymia itself, in the center of the star system.

Alveron, watching via advanced telepathy and holographic projections many star systems away.

Finally, Pluto, the True Cored Demon Commoner awaiting orders in the approaching fleet of the Vermillion Family’s Lower Realm’s Demons.

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I do not even wait for a response after this, I simply shut the Lower Realm out of my mind to conserve energy.

Everything is black.

All I see when I stare up ahead of me is a single image, the Angelic Ice Empress staring back at me.

There is a combination of fear, pain, and determination in her eyes.

Yet, as I take another massive stride forward, and the vibrations rippling through me grow stronger, I begin to feel other emotions deeper down.

It does not show on the surface, but the closer I get, the more simultaneous relief, and anxiety that builds up and is released through her waves.

“Don’t come closer! I can’t control it. You- You’ll get hurt!” she yells out, through a crystal clear telepathy link. It sounds and feels like she is right in front of me in a silent room.

I watch as the cyan threads in her core grow more in quantity as they become more and more compressed. The glowing light bursts out from the growing fractures in her Angelic form that has already grown over double in size, surpassing 4000 kilometers head to toe.

When I kick off the air again to push myself another few million kilometers forward, the density of the cold atmosphere, and gravity pressure from the core of a higher divine realm gives me flashbacks to Celia’s construct, attempting to fly through green atmosphere while still only a yellow core.

It becomes harder to move forward, and I’m forced to start absorbing the waves that come my way. Not only are they filled with bursts of cyan threads, but also stray pulses of celestial ice magic, source resin, and violent Vibrations that match the level of a Royal’s.

In order to push forward again, my Sacred Body’s outer shell is blasted by the cold, and freezes over like a sharp crystalline shell.

The cyan threads pierce all the way through my Sacred Body, and fall directly into my saturated true green core.

And my strange combination of High Noble, and Royal Vibrations; they start to resonate with the strong force coming off of Maria. They begin to mutate slightly, and shift their frequency; as a hint of understanding begins to wash through me. The missing condition for my full royal Breakthrough… I don’t know what it is, but this feels like it’s part of it.

I yell back through our telepathic link, “If I can’t help you now, it’s going to hurt me far more than anything these rifts can do to me!”

Another powerful stride forward brings me millions of kilometers closer again.

Within the range where some of the cracks in the green zone begin to fracture all around me. I have to swerve and twist my body to change my flight path in order to not make contact with these dimensional rifts threatening to tear apart reality.

My words make Maria’s eyes widen. Not only do I feel a shift in the Vibrations in the air, but a look of relief and almost shock written on her face.

Portions of my Sacred Body are freezing solid, and crumbling and fracturing off.

Simultaneously, waves of white and red celestial fire begin to burn from deep within me, attempting to counteract this cold with my own hot Royal Vibrations. The areas that freeze and shatter off grow back just as fast as they are frozen. This in turn speeds up the process of me absorbing what is in the atmosphere, as I’m using the ambient mana, celestial energy, and divine threads to rebuild my body.

“I- but- you’re-” she does not have a coherent response, only worry fills her mind and soul for a moment watching me fight to fly forward.

Then, a barrier in her mind gives way, and the Vibrations in the air finally align with what is coming out of her mouth and shown on her face.

“Jay. I- do need your help… I just wanted to be as strong as you. To fight by your side, like we used to…”

This pushes her Soul Energy Core to contract inward, and pulse out again, pushing colder and colder waves out uncontrollably. This pushes her Angelic body to grow even larger, close to 10,000 kilometers in size. It puts so much stress on her that the fractures all over her Angelic Form start to stack up in the tens of thousands.

Bright bursts of cyan threads surge out from all the cracks and it truly looks like her entire Angelic Energy form is about to destabilize, shatter, and explode…

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Chapter 873: Chapter 873
Maria’s cores, body, mind, and soul are at the brink of shattering. Everything is unstable, and pushed way too far beyond its safe limits.

The cracks that break out from her body force more and more cracks to form in the green zone itself, forcing open new fractures in space and making the distance between us seem even further away despite me moving closer.

I see Celestial teardrops fall from her eyes as a sea of rainbow icy aura has burst out from this core pulse, far more dangerous and cold than the waves I’ve been flying through, yet I don’t back down.

It momentarily blocks my view, but I take another long stride forward through the air, and dive headfirst into the waves of cold celestial ice, cyan divine threads, and source resin.

At first, the cold pressure that surrounds me is overwhelming. It freezes my Sacred Body faster and with more intense cold than ever before. Instead of just fracturing shells on its surface that crumble and rebuild, it’s plunging deep into my Sacred muscles, bones, and blood.

I feel that for a third time in this war today, that my body is being shattered and destroyed.

As I get closer and closer to the source, the pressure does get more intense, but I’m simultaneously adapting to the cold.

The Celestial fire that rebuilds my Sacred Body grows stronger as it is repeatedly used and refined over and over. It makes my medium quality ether pool hotter, and begins its refinement process again.

Just as I had to train my low-quality ether beneath Ellipsia in the exile zones, it seems that Celestial Energy is not the end result of the merging path between mana and ether. It can be refined further…

While this allows for my fire to burn hotter and resist the cold, another mechanism is at play.

The Vibrations in the air that were entirely hostile before have shifted drastically. First when Maria noticed it was me coming her way, secondly when she asked for help instead of trying to overcome this herself, and now, as I plunge into the cold celestial ice, within one million kilometers of her.

Our presences are extremely close, and our paths’ waves are both fighting and bouncing off each other, while other portions of them resonate and shift to align on the exact same frequency.

The closer in I get, the more of these waves align.

Yet, this point where I’ve plunged into the icy explosion of celestial and divine light, is where all of my foresight futures halt.

Every other future, where I do not jump into this wave, results in the zone itself being destroyed, or Maria being overcome by the massive power building up inside her.

It pains me to even look at these futures, making my human heart hurt, not only my energy cores.

The only possible path I can take to save her is through this wave, but there is no guaranteed future path to follow, I only have one shot at this.

It feels like time slows down as my body fractures and is rebuilt by celestial fire over and over.

More cyan threads flow out from Maria’s aura, and are absorbed into my own body, making my green core tint brighter and brighter cyan the closer I get.

I burst through the densest part of this wave, and fly forward through the thick space.

Tens of thousands of deep and dense cracks fracture outward in all directions from this breathtaking angel in front of me. Her shimmering icy sword orbiting around her, phasing through the cracks in space, but disrupting them every time it passes through.

Cyan threads burst out from the cracks in space where her Soul Sword slowly orbits.

It makes it extremely hard to move forward, as I zig and zag in strange patterns and directions. In some instances, I cannot fully avoid these dimensional cracks either. They have grown so thick here at the source, that certain areas only have a few tens of thousands kilometers worth of free true space left between them.

My own Soul Sword, red and black, orbits around me at the same rate. It collides with the edges of some of these rifts too, spraying dense cyan threads into the air, and only making my true core shine brighter as I absorb these threads that fill the air.

“I- Can’t move…” Maria’s voice sounds in my mind again.

I see so many cracks continuing to form all over her body, and jut out into the atmosphere, making it harder and harder for me to find a path to fly through.

The flow of divine and celestial energy through these bends and tears in space is completely illogical and mind-warping. Following these senses to move forward would be impossible.

Gravity bends space and time all around me. It makes a short path forward seem like the logical and simple option, but one step in the wrong direction now will send me straight into one of these dense cyan and rainbow cracks.

The energy flows, and perception of right, left, up and down all become extremely strange. It makes my foresight skill completely useless, only giving me headaches when I try to activate it. Especially looking into the cyan rifts, as the amount of energy behind them in a tiny area is similar to the mass of this entire green zone.

Trying to understand what is behind them, or where they even lead, is truly impossible at my current mental state.

So, I close my eyes, and only follow my Royal Vibrations that resonate with Maria’s.

Dead space, or distorted frequencies mean danger. Perfect resonance means I’m able to step forward and push through.

“Just hold on… a little longer…” I call back through our link.

Everything in my mind is black. I’ve blocked out the entire green zone and lower realm, and now, I can’t even trust my eyes or senses in the small portion of space I fly through.

All I see is a dark mental manifestation of the cracks and fractures through reality in my mind. They sparkle with glistening celestial source resin on their edges, and the space between them shows up like dark black rippling puddles.

The more violent the splashing space in between the cracks are, the more my Vibrations with Maria’s are having trouble connecting.

Only the spaces between cracks where the puddle of darkness is calm and smooth, this is where I step through the air, and fly the final million kilometers toward her.

It feels like I am in a dream.

The closer I get, the brighter the outside of a glistening angel in my blacked-out mind becomes.

It feels both extremely cold, while simultaneously, my own body becomes increasingly hotter the closer I get, allowing for the differences to perfectly cancel each other out.

Neither of us speak another word, but it feels like we are having a million conversations through this mental dance in the dark.

The cracks in space get larger and larger, but it is impossible for me to notice. It all seems the same to me, because I need to get to the end goal no matter what… There is no other option.

The final hundred thousand kilometers are the most impossible series of steps, twists, and body mutations, but again, it all just feels like the same dance to me.

Where our vibrations align, I move toward it, not questioning a thing.

It is the most intense, yet satisfying form of mental meditation to solve a complex problem I’ve ever experienced. My body follows my feelings, with full trust in the vibrations that give me a path to fly through.

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It all comes to a halt once my hands wrap around the back of a cold curved waist, and the explosion of ice and fire bursts through my body, mind, and soul.

I open my eyes to see a bright blue pair staring back at me.

Cold hands wrap around my back, and pull me closer while I pull her in toward me with equal force.

My Noble Vibrations begin to fade away, and my Royal Vibrations become strengthened more and more, resonating with a stronger purpose. They are on the brink of breaking through entirely.

Maria’s Angelic Form is completely shattered… the only thing holding it together right now is the fact that our Vibrations are in sync; and the bits of sparkling source resin at all of the fractured seams.

With my chest against hers, even our divine energy, and celestial energy flows start to mix.

My core has fully absorbed enough cyan threads to shift its color.

Fractures break all over my Sacred Body too… the release of cyan threads and intense royal waves force the green zone of the Upper Realm to crack and fracture, breaking out even more rifts upward into the cyan zone just like Maria’s energy release have caused.

All of the pathways of free, unaltered space where I made it through are now filled with rifts and bending space.

There is no turning back, escape is not an option for either of us.

I cannot see the future, yet, I stay calm.

“You have definitely become strong, Maria. This is not your fault, it is equally mine. For leaving the Lower Realm without you. It will never happen again… Do you trust me?” I speak out loud, rather than through our links.

The horrific pain from the dozens of dimensional cracks breaking apart my Sacred Body almost make my mind go dark to shield my consciousness from the pain, so seeing tens of thousands all over Maria’s makes her ability to reply even more impressive.

“Yes. I trust only you. I just didn’t know how- or when to tell you… But if I’m going to die here, I need you to know how I feel!” I feel her squeeze me even tighter.

The coldness of her Angelic Celestial body flows through me, but it does not freeze or shatter my Sacred Body. It feels warm, and rejuvenating. I only see the beautiful woman deep down inside this Celestial energy form.

The warrior that left me speechless upon her arrival to the Upper Realm.

The woman that left the Association and fought by my side in the Dark Continent on the human world, and defended our empire when I left.

The cheerful young blond haired blue eyed hunter that lived next door to me when I was an E-Class hunter, giving me a reason to go out and fight every day.

“I trust you too, and I should have told you sooner… but this isn’t the end. We can make it out of this alive…”

I bring one of my hands up her back and over her shoulder to hold her chin.

Our soul swords circle around both of us, like we are one center of gravity. They break apart more and more fractures in space, bending reality around us, making it seem as though we are trapped in a vacuum. There is no sound, no temperature, no gravity.

There is nothing at all but an angel staring up at me.

“I know how you feel, and I feel the same.” echoes in the silence.

I lean down, and kiss Maria on the lips.

Our Vibrations resonate even stronger, and I feel the shattered pieces of her Angelic Body hold together strong enough for her to kiss me back.

Our Soul Swords spin around us even faster, and the bright white and cyan tears in reality all blend together around us from every side.

All sense of doubt and fear dissipates from my mind in this moment, and so do the final waves of High Noble Vibrations.

A surge of pure Royal Vibrations envelops both of us.

We both use this wave of energy to move upward, into the brightest source of the dense cyan cracks above us.

This reaction cannot be stopped, and the green zone cannot withstand the pressure.

The only way to survive is to move up, into the Cyan Zone of the Upper Realm.