Rain poured heavily over Seoul.
The city still hadn’t recovered from the corrupted gate incident.
News channels called it a “mana anomaly.”
The Hunter Association sealed most information from the public.
But rumors spread everywhere.
About monsters with purple eyes.
About a mysterious hunter controlling shadows.
And about an E-rank survivor whose mana kept rising abnormally.
Inside a small training gym rented secretly by the association—
BOOM!!
A training dummy shattered into pieces.
Suho stood in the middle of the room breathing heavily.
Sweat covered his body.
His movements had become far sharper compared to before.
Faster.
Cleaner.
Deadlier.
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Suho wiped sweat from his face.
“…This system really rewards everything.”
For the past several days— he had done nothing except train, level up, and study his shadow abilities.
And the results were terrifying.
Even low-rank hunters could no longer keep up with his movements.
The shadow wolf beside him suddenly growled softly.
Suho looked toward it.
“You sensed something?”
The wolf’s glowing eyes narrowed toward the television nearby.
Breaking News flashed across the screen.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Emergency Dungeon BreakEastern Seoul District━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The reporter’s voice trembled slightly.
“A high-level beast-type dungeon has become unstable. Several raid teams have already failed to enter.”
The screen showed destroyed streets and burning buildings near a massive red gate.
Suho’s expression darkened immediately.
Another dangerous gate.
Then—
BEEP.
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“…Of course.”
A knock suddenly came from the gym entrance.
“Suho!”
“I was just about to call you.”
Jinho stopped after seeing the destroyed training dummies everywhere.
“…You destroyed all of these?”
“…Maybe.”
“That wasn’t even reinforced concrete anymore.”
Suho ignored the comment.
“The beast dungeon?”
Jinho nodded seriously.
“The association requested backup hunters.”
He hesitated slightly.
“…Cha Hae-In is going too.”
Suho’s eyes narrowed slightly.
An S-rank raid.
That meant this gate was serious.
Very serious.
Hours later— massive association vehicles surrounded the red gate entrance.
Hunters gathered everywhere preparing equipment nervously.
Unlike normal gates— this one emitted violent red lightning constantly.
The mana pressure felt monstrous.
Several hunters looked pale just standing near it.
Then—
Cha Hae-In arrived calmly wearing black combat armor.
The atmosphere shifted instantly.
Even veteran hunters stepped aside respectfully.
Her golden eyes scanned the area— then stopped directly on Suho.
“You came.”
Suho nodded slightly.
“You expected me not to?”
Cha Hae-In crossed her arms.
“You attract dangerous things.”
“…Can’t argue with that.”
Before their conversation continued— the association commander stepped forward.
“This dungeon is different from standard beast gates.”
He looked grim.
“Mana scans show abnormal mutations inside.”
“Mutations?” a hunter asked nervously.
“Creatures are evolving at unnatural speed.”
Suho immediately remembered the corrupted knight.
The same feeling.
The same corruption.
Then suddenly—
BOOOOOOM!!
A roar echoed from inside the gate itself.
The ground trembled violently.
Several hunters instinctively stepped backward.
Even Cha Hae-In’s expression became serious now.
“That roar…”
“…definitely not normal.”
The system reacted instantly.
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Suho’s heartbeat accelerated slightly.
Something inside that dungeon was connected to the fragment.
He could feel it.
The gate suddenly pulsed violently again.
And for one brief second—
Suho saw giant glowing purple eyes staring from deep within the dungeon.
Watching him.
Waiting.
Then the vision disappeared.
“Did you see that?” Suho muttered.
Cha Hae-In looked toward him immediately.
“…See what?”
Suho stayed silent.
The raid commander raised his hand.
“All hunters prepare for entry!”
Weapons activated.
Mana flared across the battlefield.
The massive red gate distorted violently before them.
Suho looked toward the darkness inside.
His shadow beneath him slowly expanded again.
Like it was excited.
Then— the system whispered quietly inside his mind.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The hunt begins.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
And together— the raid team stepped into the Beast Dungeon.
TO BE CONTINUED….!!
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