"You know," Yuki's voice mused from beside him. "If you hadn't stranded us between worlds, that would've actually been impressive."
Damon took a couple of ragged breaths before turning to the rift core.
"No treasure chest?"
He raised a brow as he looked around the core and found nothing near it.
"No two S-Rank rifts are the same. There are always differences, sometimes unnoticeable, but there still are."
Damon nodded and didn't dwell on it, he didn't have the luxury of time to do so.
He turned his sword back into the glove before moving swiftly toward the core, raising his arm quickly toward it.
[Mana Absorption Activated.]
[...]
[...]
Yuki stood beside Damon with a slight unease as she watched the process, which seemed to be taking longer this time.
The sharp tug he felt last time started as a faint sensation which slowly escalated to the same burning tug, and just as it reached a very uncomfortable threshold—
[You have absorbed 921 Mana]
