Rain continued falling across Seoul.
Neon city lights reflected across wet streets while news about the Beast Dungeon spread everywhere online.
“Mysterious Hunter Survives Disaster-Level Gate.”
“Unknown Shadow Ability Shocks Association.”
“Was an Unregistered S-Rank Present?”
The entire hunter world had started talking about one person.
Sung Suho.
And inside Hunter Association headquarters— that same name filled every discussion room.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Association Emergency Meeting━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Several high-ranking officials sat around a massive digital screen displaying Suho’s battle records.
Mana readings.
Dungeon footage.
Witness statements.
All of it looked abnormal.
One official spoke nervously.
“His mana output keeps increasing after every battle.”
Another frowned deeply.
“That’s not normal awakening behavior.”
The chairman remained silent for a moment.
Then asked quietly—
“What about his re-evaluation results?”
The room became tense.
One inspector slowly placed a file onto the table.
“…The results came back this morning.”
He opened the report.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hunter Re-Evaluation Result━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Previous Rank: E-RankCurrent Estimated Rank: C-Rank━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Several officials looked shocked.
“C-rank already?!”
“In this short amount of time?”
The inspector nodded grimly.
“And honestly…”
“…even that may be inaccurate.”
Meanwhile— inside the private testing hall downstairs—
Suho stood calmly in front of a giant mana measurement device.
Technicians watched nervously from behind reinforced glass.
One whispered quietly.
“Is this really the same guy from the hospital reports?”
Another swallowed hard.
“His mana pressure feels completely different now…”
Suho sighed slightly.
“This again…”
An association examiner stepped forward.
“Hunter Sung Suho.”
“This will be your official re-evaluation test.”
“Please place your hand on the device.”
Suho nodded quietly.
The moment his hand touched the crystal sphere—
Dark mana exploded throughout the testing room instantly.
Purple-black energy surged violently through the machine.
WARNING ALARMS activated immediately.
“Mana overload detected!”
“The readings are unstable!”
Cracks spread across the crystal sphere rapidly.
The examiners panicked.
“Pull back!”
CRAAAAACK!!
The measurement device shattered completely.
Silence filled the hall.
Smoke slowly rose from the destroyed machine.
The technicians stared speechlessly.
“…It exploded.”
The examiner looked pale.
“That machine handled A-rank hunters…”
Suho slowly removed his hand.
“…Sorry.”
Far above the testing hall— inside the observation room— several officials watched everything unfold.
One whispered quietly.
“…Monster.”
The chairman narrowed his eyes thoughtfully.
“No.”
“…Something worse.”
Down below— the system suddenly appeared before Suho.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Special Growth Condition Achieved━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Rank Advancement Bonus Granted━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Then another message appeared.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━New Skill Available Soon━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Suho frowned slightly.
The system was evolving rapidly again.
Almost too rapidly.
Then— the room temperature suddenly dropped.
Cold shadows spread across the testing floor unnaturally.
Suho’s eyes sharpened immediately.
He felt it again.
That presence.
Watching him.
The lights flickered violently.
And for one second— everyone in the room saw it.
A gigantic shadow standing behind Suho.
Towering.
Armored.
Its glowing purple eyes opened briefly.
Several technicians collapsed in fear instantly.
Then— it disappeared.
Silence.
The examiner’s hands trembled visibly.
“…W-What was that?”
Suho slowly looked at his own shadow.
Even he couldn’t answer anymore.
Before anyone spoke again— the chairman entered the testing hall personally.
Every official immediately straightened.
The chairman stopped directly in front of Suho.
Then spoke calmly.
“Sung Suho.”
“From this moment onward…”
“You are officially promoted beyond E-rank status.”
A new hunter ID card was placed before him.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hunter Rank Updated━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━C-Rank HunterSung Suho━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Nearby staff began whispering instantly.
“Fastest promotion ever…”
“But his mana still feels abnormal…”
The chairman looked directly into Suho’s eyes.
“However…”
“…the association will continue monitoring you.”
Suho already expected that.
After everything that happened— there was no way they would leave him alone.
Then suddenly—
BEEP.
The system activated again.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hidden Quest Triggered━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Become Stronger Than All Hunters━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Reward:
???
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Suho stared at the message silently.
Then slowly closed the screen.
Far away— inside a hidden dimension beyond Earth— multiple ancient beings sat around enormous black thrones.
One finally opened glowing purple eyes.
“…The vessel has reached C-rank.”
Another dark figure responded quietly.
“…Too fast.”
And deep within endless darkness— something ancient smiled for the very first time.
TO BE CONTINUED….!!
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