BOOOOOOOM!!
The cavern ceiling exploded apart.
Massive rocks crashed down everywhere while purple light flooded the dungeon like a storm.
Hunters screamed and scattered desperately.
“MOVE!!”
“THE CEILING’S COLLAPSING!”
Suho immediately raised his arm.
“Fang!”
The giant shadow beast reacted instantly.
ROOOOAR!!
Fang leaped upward and smashed falling debris apart with its claws, protecting several hunters below.
The surviving hunters stared in disbelief.
“That shadow beast… saved us?”
But Suho barely noticed them anymore.
Because the pressure descending from above had become unbearable.
Heavy.
Ancient.
Monstrous.
Even his shadow soldiers seemed tense now.
Then— two gigantic glowing purple eyes appeared through the dust-filled darkness overhead.
Everyone froze.
Slowly… a massive creature descended from the broken ceiling.
Its wings spread across nearly the entire cavern.
Black scales covered its enormous body while corrupted mana leaked endlessly from its mouth.
A dragon.
No— something far worse.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Dungeon Mutation Boss Detected━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Corrupted WyvernThreat Level: DISASTER━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Silence filled the dungeon.
One hunter collapsed instantly.
“…We’re dead.”
Cha Hae-In tightened her grip on her swords.
Even she looked tense now.
“That thing shouldn’t exist in a gate this size…”
The corrupted wyvern slowly landed.
BOOOOOOM!!
The impact alone shattered nearby stone pillars.
Its purple eyes locked directly onto Suho.
Then— it growled.
“…Shadow…”
Suho’s heartbeat accelerated.
Again.
Every corrupted creature recognized him somehow.
The wyvern suddenly opened its mouth.
Purple energy gathered rapidly inside it.
Cha Hae-In’s eyes widened.
“EVERYONE DOWN!!”
A massive beam of corrupted mana exploded across the cavern.
Entire sections of the dungeon vaporized instantly.
Hunters screamed.
Stone melted.
The shockwave threw Suho backward violently.
CRASH!!
He smashed through broken ruins and rolled across the ground.
“GHH—!!”
Blood dripped from his forehead.
The wyvern roared again triumphantly.
Its mana pressure continued increasing.
Suho forced himself back up slowly.
“This thing…”
“…is completely insane.”
The system flickered rapidly.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Emergency Evolution Combat Active━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Host Must Adapt to Survive━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Then another message appeared.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━New Ability Available━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Shadow Reinforcement Lv.1━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Information flooded Suho’s mind instantly.
He could now strengthen his shadow soldiers directly using mana.
His eyes sharpened.
“…Perfect timing.”
The corrupted wyvern charged another breath attack.
Purple energy concentrated rapidly again.
Suho immediately reacted.
“Shadow Reinforcement!”
BOOOOOOM!!
Dark mana exploded outward from his body into Fang and the shadow soldiers.
Instantly— their forms grew denser.
Larger.
More powerful.
Purple-black energy surged around Fang’s claws.
The giant shadow beast roared back at the wyvern.
For the first time— the corrupted dragon paused slightly.
Then—
Fang attacked.
BOOOOOOM!!
The shadow beast collided head-on with the wyvern mid-charge.
The cavern shook violently from the impact.
Darkness and corrupted mana exploded everywhere.
Hunters stared in complete shock.
“They’re fighting equally?!”
Suho narrowed his eyes.
“Not enough yet.”
He activated Mana Reinforcement simultaneously.
Then dashed forward at full speed.
WHOOSH!!
The world blurred around him.
Weak points appeared across the wyvern’s body.
But unlike before— this monster barely had openings.
Its regeneration was terrifying.
Then suddenly— the wyvern’s tail slammed toward him.
FAST.
Too fast.
CRASH!!
Suho barely blocked using mana reinforcement.
Even then— the impact launched him across the cavern again.
His arms trembled violently.
“…So strong…”
The wyvern laughed.
Actually laughed.
“You are incomplete…”
Its distorted voice echoed through the dungeon.
“…yet the king’s scent grows stronger.”
Suho stood slowly.
Purple light flickered faintly in his eyes.
“…Stop calling me king.”
The wyvern’s eyes narrowed.
Then— it smiled.
“…Soon you will remember.”
Suddenly— dark visions flashed inside Suho’s mind again.
A black throne.
Endless armies.
Dragons kneeling before darkness itself.
And someone— someone sitting above them all.
The pressure from that figure alone felt absolute.
“—!!”
Suho snapped back immediately.
The fragment inside him pulsed violently.
His shadow began moving wildly beneath his feet.
The system flashed urgently.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WARNING━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Shadow Fragment Resonance Rising━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The corrupted wyvern spread its wings fully.
Purple storms formed across the cavern ceiling.
“This world…”
“…will soon belong to shadows again.”
Then it charged directly toward Suho.
At the same moment—
Suho’s shadow exploded outward unnaturally.
And something inside the darkness behind him… started waking up.
TO BE CONTINUED….!!
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