Dungeon Diver: Stealing a Monster's Power

Chapter 72

We walked for another 20 minutes or so.

The terrain changed a little bit. There are much fewer rocks, less trees, and the ground feels a lot harder. It just seems like there's unlimited flat ground surrounding us in all directions... it's a bit eerie.

Finally, a new monster appears up in the distance. Rei steps back.

"Both of you should take this one on, High Orc's this deep in the dungeon can be stronger than the ones you just faced."

Maria and I acknowledged her. We nod at each other, then ready ourselves for the approaching beast.

It lets out a roar, I use inspect and appraisal.

[Lv. 257]

Active Items:

[Steel Mace] +250 Strength

[Steel Sword] +250 Strength

[High Orc Heavy Armor] +300 Defense

Active Skills:

[Berserker]

[Swordsmanship]

"Interesting..."

It looks exactly the same as any other Orc we faced charging toward us swinging its mace. This one has a swordsmanship skill, I wonder how differently it'll fight?

"Jay! I'll distract it, then we'll both attack!"

Maria sprinted forward before I could get a word in. I followed close behind avoiding the path of ice magic she leaves behind in her tracks.

She began to form a massive wall of ice in front of her while I veer off to the right side.

Moments later the beast falls for her trap and shoots thousands of ice fragments into the sky making a cloud of snow. I use enemy detection and ignite my blade while diving into the heavy snow cover.

*SHINGGGG*

Both of us fly out from either side of the snow cloud. I leave a fiery gash across the Orc's chest while she leaves shards of ice deep in the monster's back. The snow dissipates and it lets out an ear-piercing roar. The mace flies out of its hand and the beast begins to glow dark red.

Maria and I grin at each other while admiring our dual attack's damage. The High Orc reaches for its sword and glares at both of us.

Maria runs forward and glows bright blue. I follow and veer off to the right again. As she creates an ice wall, I see a shift in the monster's eyes. This will be different... I change my trajectory and watch the events unfold.

*SHINGGGGG*

The High Orc slices the Ice wall in two with ease, it narrowly misses Maria as she dodges to the left. Her eyes open wide with fear.

I ignite my sword with flames and run toward the beast as fast as I can. The sudden change in temperature as my flames burn bright catches its attention.

"OVER HERE TOUGH GUY!"

It grunts and turns to face me, then charges.

*CLANGGG*

I'm met with the overwhelming force of a much stronger opponent's blade. This time I didn't have much time to dodge, I'm more focused on distracting it from Maria.

The monster follows through and pushes my sword back effortlessly, throwing me to the ground and landing a deep gash across my abdomen. I reflexively burst into a ball of flames and the beast shrieks while stepping back.

I quickly regenerated the best I can to stop the bleeding and dart away. My status reads 655/1215 HP and 1040/1215 MP.

I look around to see Rei still just standing by with her arms crossed and Maria getting to her feet glowing bright blue 20m behind the Orc.