Sirens echoed across Seoul.
The corrupted gate continued expanding above the ruined district while dark monsters slowly crawled out one after another.
Hunters retreated in panic.
Civilians screamed while emergency teams evacuated the streets.
And in the middle of the chaos—
Suho stood silently surrounded by shadows.
The corrupted knight pointed its blade toward him.
“…Choose.”
“Humanity…”
“…or the throne.”
Purple lightning crackled across the sky.
Suho’s shadow moved unnaturally beneath him.
For a brief moment— he could feel something ancient whispering inside his mind.
Power.
Domination.
Evolution.
The temptation felt terrifyingly real.
Then—
Jinho’s voice snapped him back.
“SUHO!!”
Suho blinked.
The whispers disappeared instantly.
His eyes sharpened again.
“…I’ll decide my own path.”
BOOOOOOM!!
Dark mana exploded outward from his body.
The corrupted knight narrowed its eyes slightly.
Then suddenly— the knight stepped backward.
Not attacking.
Retreating.
“What?”
The corrupted knight looked toward the unstable gate behind it.
“…You are not ready yet.”
The monsters continued pouring into the city streets.
“But soon…”
“…the king will awaken.”
The knight slowly dissolved into dark particles.
Before disappearing completely— it spoke one final sentence.
“We will meet again, successor.”
And then it vanished.
Silence lasted only one second.
Because immediately after— the corrupted monsters charged.
“ROOOOAAARRR!!”
Chaos erupted again.
Hunters rushed forward desperately.
“Stop them!!”
But most normal hunters were overwhelmed instantly.
The corrupted creatures were far stronger than regular dungeon monsters.
One monster smashed through a police barricade. This story is hosted at g.com.
Another leaped toward fleeing civilians.
Suho clenched his fists.
“Shadow Soldiers!”
The shadows behind him moved instantly.
BOOM!!
The shadow wolf tackled one corrupted creature head-on.
His elite shadow soldier blocked another monster’s attack.
Darkness and corrupted mana clashed violently across the streets.
Suho activated Mana Reinforcement again.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Mana Consumption Increasing━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
His body accelerated instantly.
WHOOSH!!
He dashed through the battlefield faster than the monsters could react.
SLASH!!
One creature fell.
Then another.
Then another.
Black blood splattered across the road.
Nearby hunters stared in shock.
“That guy’s moving like an A-rank…”
“No…”
“…even faster.”
But Suho quickly realized something.
His breathing was becoming heavier.
Mana drained rapidly from his body.
The system noticed too.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Warning━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Mana Efficiency Extremely Low━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Suho clicked his tongue.
“So I can’t keep using this carelessly…”
A corrupted beast suddenly lunged toward him.
Its claws aimed directly for his throat.
But—
CLANG!!
Someone blocked it first.
A female hunter with dual blades pushed the creature back aggressively.
Cha Hae-In landed beside Suho calmly.
Her sharp golden eyes immediately focused on him.
“…You’re the double dungeon survivor.”
Suho looked slightly surprised.
An S-rank hunter.
Even he recognized her instantly.
She looked toward the shadow soldiers fighting nearby.
“…Interesting ability.”
Before Suho could respond— another explosion shook the street.
More corrupted creatures emerged from the gate.
Cha Hae-In frowned.
“There’s too many.”
Suho looked toward the unstable gate.
Then toward his own shadow army.
“I need to become stronger faster.”
The system flickered instantly.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━New Objective Available━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Combat Training Required━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Cha Hae-In noticed Suho staring blankly again.
“…You do that a lot.”
“…Long story.”
She pointed toward the battlefield.
“If you can fight, then keep moving.”
Suho nodded.
Together— they charged back into the battle.
Hours later… the corrupted gate was finally sealed temporarily by the association.
Destroyed streets filled the district.
Smoke rose into the night sky.
Hunters sat exhausted across the battlefield.
But Suho remained standing silently.
Because he could still feel it.
The corrupted mana lingering in the air.
And deep inside himself— the fragment continued growing stronger.
Cha Hae-In approached him quietly.
“You’re dangerous.”
Suho looked at her carefully.
“…That supposed to be a compliment?”
She stayed silent for a moment.
Then answered honestly.
“I’m not sure yet.”
Before leaving— she looked back one final time.
“But if you want to survive…”
“…train properly.”
After she disappeared into the night— the system activated again.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Special Training Quest Generated━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Objective:
Become Stronger Than Death━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Suho looked toward the dark Seoul skyline quietly.
The battles were becoming bigger.
The enemies stronger.
And he was still far too weak.
His fists slowly tightened.
“…Then I’ll keep evolving.”
Far away— inside a hidden dimension beyond Earth— multiple glowing purple eyes slowly opened in darkness.
Watching him.
Waiting.
TO BE CONTINUED….!!
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