The Beast Dungeon had fallen silent.
Only heavy breathing echoed through the shattered cavern.
The gigantic corpse of the Abyss Fang Beast lay motionless on the broken stone floor while black smoke slowly leaked from beneath it.
And before Suho— the system window floated silently.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━High-Grade Shadow Available━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Extract Shadow?YES / NO━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Cha Hae-In stared at him carefully.
“…What are you doing?”
Suho didn’t answer immediately.
Because even he wasn’t fully sure anymore.
Every instinct inside him screamed the same thing.
Extract it.
Claim it.
Make it yours.
The shadow beneath his feet slowly expanded.
Dark smoke swirled around his body.
Nearby hunters stepped backward nervously.
“That mana…”
“It’s changing again.”
Suho slowly raised his hand toward the dead beast.
“…Extract.”
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Shadow Extraction Initiated━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
BOOOOOOM!!
Darkness exploded across the cavern instantly.
Purple-black energy surged out from the beast’s corpse violently.
Hunters shielded their eyes from the pressure.
The dungeon itself trembled.
Then— the extraction failed.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Extraction Failed━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Target Resistance Too High━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Suho staggered slightly.
“…Failed?”
The dead beast’s body twitched unnaturally.
Its shadow resisted violently.
Like the creature refused to obey.
The system reacted immediately.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Retry Extraction?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Sweat rolled down Suho’s face.
Mana drained rapidly from his body.
But he clenched his fists tighter.
“…Again.”
Darkness surged outward a second time.
“ARISE.”
The word escaped his mouth instinctively.
The entire cavern shook violently.
The shadow beneath the beast began tearing itself upward slowly.
Purple energy exploded everywhere.
Hunters stared in horror. This chapter was copied from g.com without permission.
“What the hell is happening?!”
The Abyss Fang Beast’s corpse slowly rose from the ground.
Not physically— its shadow was rising.
A giant black wolf-like silhouette formed above the body.
Its glowing purple eyes opened slowly.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Shadow Extraction Successful━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Shadow Beast: “Fang” Acquired━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Silence filled the cavern.
The massive shadow beast slowly turned toward Suho.
Then— it kneeled.
Cha Hae-In’s eyes widened for the first time.
“…You revived it.”
Suho stared silently at the new shadow creature.
It was far larger than his previous summons.
Far denser.
Its shadow energy alone overwhelmed the nearby hunters.
The system window expanded again.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━New Shadow Added to Army━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Name: FangRank: Elite Shadow Beast━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
A strange feeling spread through Suho’s chest.
Connection.
Like he could sense Fang’s emotions faintly.
Loyalty.
Obedience.
Hunger for battle.
The shadow wolf beside him lowered its head respectfully toward Fang.
Even the elite shadow soldier stepped aside slightly.
Fang was stronger.
Much stronger.
Then suddenly—
CRACK.
Everyone froze.
A corpse nearby moved.
One of the dead hunters from earlier slowly twitched unnaturally.
Dark energy leaked from beneath him.
Another corpse moved too.
Then another.
The surviving hunters panicked instantly.
“T-The dead bodies—!!”
“What’s happening now?!”
Suho’s eyes narrowed.
The corrupted mana inside the dungeon was reacting again.
The dead hunters slowly stood up.
Their eyes glowed dark purple.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Corrupted Dead Detected━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
“Everyone get back!”
The corrupted corpses charged wildly.
Faster than normal humans.
More violent.
Suho frowned.
“This dungeon is turning the dead into monsters…”
One corrupted hunter lunged toward a wounded survivor.
But—
Fang moved instantly.
BOOOOOOM!!
The giant shadow beast crushed the corrupted corpse with one claw.
Dark energy exploded across the cavern floor.
The remaining corrupted dead froze briefly.
Fear.
Even corrupted creatures feared Fang.
Suho slowly realized something.
His shadow army wasn’t just growing stronger.
It was evolving hierarchy.
Ranks.
Instincts.
Authority.
The system appeared again.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Shadow Army Growth Achieved━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━New Ability Available Soon━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Before Suho could think further— the dungeon shook violently again.
BOOOOOOOM!!
The cave ceiling cracked open.
Purple light poured into the cavern from above.
Then— a deep ancient roar echoed throughout the entire dungeon.
Every monster froze instantly.
Even Fang looked upward cautiously.
Cha Hae-In’s expression darkened immediately.
“…There’s another one.”
Suho felt cold chills run down his spine.
This pressure… was even worse than the Abyss Fang Beast.
The system flashed blood-red.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WARNING━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Dungeon Mutation Escalating━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Far above the shattered cavern— something enormous slowly opened its eyes.
And it had been waiting for Suho specifically.
TO BE CONTINUED….!!
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