Darkness swallowed the raid team the moment they entered the gate.
Cold air rushed through the massive cavern while strange beast-like growls echoed from deep inside the dungeon.
The atmosphere felt wrong.
Too alive.
Purple crystals covered the cave walls, pulsing like beating hearts.
Several hunters immediately became uneasy.
“This mana pressure…”
“…it’s insane.”
Suho slowly scanned the area.
The moment he stepped inside— the shadow fragment within him reacted again.
A cold pulse spread through his chest.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[Special Environment Detected]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Shadow Energy Density: High━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
His shadow stretched unnaturally across the cave floor.
Cha Hae-In noticed instantly.
“…Your mana changed again.”
Suho sighed quietly.
“It keeps happening.”
The raid commander raised his weapon.
“Stay alert. We move carefully.”
The hunters slowly advanced deeper into the dungeon.
Every step echoed through the enormous cavern system.
Then—
CRACK.
A hunter froze.
“Did you hear that?”
Silence.
Then suddenly—
BOOOOOOOM!!
The cave walls exploded apart.
Massive black beasts rushed out from the darkness.
Their bodies looked like giant wolves mixed with armored insects.
Purple veins glowed across their skin.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Mutated Beasts DetectedThreat Level: High━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
“CONTACT!!”
Chaos exploded instantly.
Hunters activated magic and weapons simultaneously.
Fire.
Steel.
Mana blasts.
The entire cave shook violently.
One beast leaped directly toward Suho.
Its claws tore through the air.
But—
WHOOSH!!
Suho dodged instantly.
Faster than before.
His training and level-ups were finally showing clearly now.
The beast crashed into the wall behind him.
Suho counterattacked immediately.
His dagger cut across the creature’s neck.
But—
CLANG!!
The blade barely pierced its armor.
“…Tough.”
The mutated beast roared furiously.
Then attacked again.
Faster.
More aggressive.
Suho narrowed his eyes.
Combat Analysis activated automatically.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Weak Point Analysis Failed━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
“…What?”
For the first time— the system couldn’t fully analyze an enemy.
The beast lunged again.
Suho barely blocked using mana reinforcement.
BOOM!!
The impact still launched him backward.
His arms hurt from the force alone.
Nearby, several hunters were already getting overwhelmed.
“These monsters are too strong!”
“They’re adapting during battle!”
One beast suddenly tore through a hunter’s mana shield instantly.
Blood splattered across the cave floor.
Panic spread quickly.
Cha Hae-In cut through multiple beasts with incredible speed.
But even she frowned slightly.
“They’re regenerating…”
The wounds on the monsters were healing unnaturally fast.
Then—
Suho noticed something.
Every time the beasts regenerated— purple energy briefly gathered near their cores.
His eyes sharpened.
“…That’s it.”
The system reacted instantly.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Special Combat Requirement Achieved━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
New Skill Unlock Available━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Purple light exploded across Suho’s vision.
Information flooded directly into his brain.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Skill Unlocked━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Shadow Sense Lv.1━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Suddenly— the entire battlefield changed.
Suho could now sense flowing shadow energy around every creature.
Weak points glowed clearly within their bodies.
Even hidden mana circulation became visible.
His eyes widened slightly.
“…I can see everything.”
This time—
Suho moved first.
WHOOSH!!
He vanished from sight instantly.
Appearing directly beside the creature.
Dark mana concentrated around his dagger.
SLASH!!
The blade pierced directly into the glowing shadow core.
CRACK!!
The beast froze mid-motion.
Then—
BOOOOOM!!
Its entire body collapsed instantly.
Nearby hunters stared in shock.
“He killed it in one hit?!”
Suho looked at the dissolving corpse silently.
Shadow energy slowly flowed from the monster toward him.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Experience Absorbed━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The feeling was addictive again.
Power flowing directly into him.
Growth.
Evolution.
Then suddenly— the entire dungeon shook violently.
BOOOOOOOM!!
The cave ceiling cracked above them.
Several hunters stumbled.
The mutated beasts suddenly retreated all at once.
Silence filled the battlefield.
Cha Hae-In’s expression darkened immediately.
“…Something stronger is coming.”
Deep growls echoed from the darkness ahead.
Heavy footsteps followed.
BOOM.
BOOM.
BOOM.
Each step carried monstrous pressure.
The system flashed red instantly.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WARNING━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Boss-Class Creature Approaching━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Purple eyes slowly opened within the darkness.
Not one pair.
Dozens.
And at the center— something massive began moving toward them.
Suho’s shadow beneath him trembled slightly.
Not from fear.
Excitement.
TO BE CONTINUED….!!
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