BOOM.
BOOM.
BOOM.
The entire Beast Dungeon trembled with each approaching step.
Hunters slowly backed away while staring into the darkness ahead.
Purple eyes glowed everywhere inside the cavern.
Watching.
Waiting.
And then— the creature finally appeared.
Silence spread instantly across the battlefield.
It was enormous.
A giant beast nearly three times larger than the mutated monsters before.
Its body resembled a black lion covered in armored spikes.
Purple energy flowed across its muscles like burning veins.
And its eyes— those glowing purple eyes— locked directly onto Suho.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Boss-Class Creature Detected━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Abyss Fang BeastThreat Level: EXTREME━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Several hunters froze immediately.
“T-That pressure…”
“No way…”
One hunter dropped his weapon completely.
Even veteran hunters looked terrified now.
Cha Hae-In slowly pulled both swords outward.
Her expression became serious instantly.
“This thing…”
“…is close to S-rank level.”
The Abyss Fang Beast growled deeply.
The sound alone shook the cavern walls.
Then suddenly—
BOOOOOOOM!!
It charged.
FAST.
Far too fast for something that large.
A hunter near the front never even reacted.
CRASH!!
The beast tore straight through him instantly.
Blood exploded across the stone floor.
“AAAAAAAHHH!!”
Chaos erupted.
Hunters scattered desperately.
The monster continued rampaging through the battlefield mercilessly.
One swing of its claws shattered mana shields instantly.
Another hunter got crushed into the wall.
Suho clenched his fists tightly.
“This thing’s different…”
The system reacted immediately.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Emergency Hunt Quest Activated━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Defeat Abyss Fang Beast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Reward:
Major Level Growth Shadow Authority Expansion
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Suho narrowed his eyes.
“Shadow Authority…”
The beast suddenly turned toward him.
Its glowing eyes sharpened slightly.
Then— it spoke.
A distorted growl escaped its mouth.
“…King…”
Every hunter froze.
Suho’s heartbeat accelerated.
Again.
Another creature recognizing the fragment.
The beast roared furiously and charged directly toward him.
BOOOOOOM!!
The ground exploded.
Suho activated Mana Reinforcement instantly.
WHOOSH!!
He barely dodged the claws.
Even the air pressure cut his cheek slightly.
Too dangerous.
The Abyss Fang Beast attacked again immediately.
No openings.
No hesitation.
Pure killing instinct.
Suho countered with Shadow Sense active.
Weak points glowed briefly beneath the monster’s chest armor.
But reaching them would be nearly impossible.
The beast was too fast.
Then—
SLASH!!
Cha Hae-In appeared beside it instantly.
Her swords cut across the creature’s side.
Purple blood sprayed outward.
But the wound regenerated almost immediately.
Cha Hae-In clicked her tongue.
“It’s regenerating too fast!”
The beast swung at her violently.
CLANG!!
She blocked—but still got pushed backward several meters.
Suho’s eyes sharpened.
“We need to stop its regeneration.”
The system flickered again.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hint Available━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Shadow Core Exposure Required━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
“…Shadow core?”
Suho immediately focused harder using Shadow Sense.
Then— he finally saw it.
A glowing black-purple core hidden deep beneath the beast’s chest.
Its true heart.
The source of regeneration.
“I found it.”
The beast suddenly lunged toward Cha Hae-In again.
Suho reacted instantly.
“Shadow Soldiers!”
BOOM!!
His shadow army emerged from the darkness.
The elite shadow soldier blocked one claw attack.
The shadow wolf bit into the beast’s leg aggressively.
For the first time— the Abyss Fang Beast staggered slightly.
Cha Hae-In looked shocked.
“…Your shadows can actually hold it back?”
“Only for a few seconds.”
“That’s enough.”
Suho took a deep breath.
Dark mana gathered around his dagger.
Shadow Sense.
Combat Analysis.
All activated simultaneously.
The system pulsed violently.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Skill Synchronization Achieved━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Suho moved.
FASTER.
The world around him slowed instantly.
The beast roared and attacked.
But this time—
Suho saw every movement clearly.
Dodge.
Step.
Counter.
He slipped beneath the monster’s claws.
Directly toward its chest.
The hidden shadow core glowed before him.
“NOW!!”
Cha Hae-In attacked simultaneously from above.
SLASH!!
The beast’s armor cracked open.
The core became exposed for one second.
Suho attacked instantly.
“Shadow Strike!!”
Dark mana exploded from his dagger.
SLASH!!
The blade pierced directly into the shadow core.
CRAAAAACK!!
The Abyss Fang Beast froze.
Its eyes widened.
Purple energy exploded uncontrollably from its body.
Then—
BOOOOOOOOOOM!!
The entire cavern shook violently as the monster collapsed.
Silence.
Hunters stared in disbelief.
“…They killed it…”
“No…”
“…that E-rank killed the core.”
Suho dropped to one knee breathing heavily.
His mana was nearly depleted.
But then— something strange happened.
The dead beast’s shadow began moving.
Darkness leaked from beneath its corpse.
The system appeared instantly.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━High-Grade Shadow Available━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Extract Shadow?YES / NO━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Suho’s eyes widened slowly.
A powerful instinct rose inside him.
This creature… would become something incredible.
Cha Hae-In looked toward him carefully.
“…What are you about to do?”
Suho slowly raised his hand toward the corpse.
Dark shadows gathered around him.
And the entire dungeon suddenly became colder.
TO BE CONTINUED….!!
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