Silence covered the ruined city.
Broken buildings burned beneath the dark sky while corrupted mana storms raged above the battlefield.
And beneath a mountain of shattered rubble— something moved.
The giant executioner stared downward cautiously.
Its glowing purple eyes narrowed slightly.
Because the shadow spreading from beneath the ruins… felt wrong.
Ancient.
Absolute.
Then—
BOOOOOOOM!!
Darkness exploded upward.
The rubble shattered apart instantly.
Suho slowly stood from the destruction.
Blood covered his body.
His clothes torn.
His mana nearly empty.
But his eyes— his eyes glowed deep purple now.
The entire battlefield became colder.
Every surviving hunter froze.
Even the corrupted creatures stopped moving.
The shadow beneath Suho stretched across the ruined streets unnaturally.
Like an endless abyss.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Critical Evolution Triggered━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Suho breathed heavily.
His heartbeat echoed strangely inside his ears.
Then— the same ancient voice whispered again.
“Command them.”
Suddenly— black smoke erupted from the corpses scattered across the battlefield.
Dead corrupted creatures.
Dead monsters.
Even fallen hunters.
Their shadows began moving.
Cha Hae-In’s eyes widened instantly.
“…No way.”
The giant executioner stepped backward slowly.
Fear.
Real fear.
Suho slowly raised one hand.
And instinctively— he spoke. You are reading on g.com, the official source.
“…Arise.”
BOOOOOOOOOOM!!
The entire ruined city trembled violently.
Dark shadows burst upward from the dead bodies everywhere.
One after another.
Twisted black silhouettes emerged from the darkness.
Their glowing purple eyes slowly opened.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Shadow Extraction Chain Activated━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ten shadows rose.
Then twenty.
Then dozens more.
An army of darkness filled the ruined streets.
The surviving hunters stared in absolute shock.
“He’s reviving the dead…”
“That’s impossible…”
The newly created shadow soldiers all turned toward Suho simultaneously.
Then— every single one kneeled.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Shadow Army Formation Successful━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Suho himself looked stunned.
“…An army…”
He could feel them.
Every shadow connected directly to him.
Their movements.
Instincts.
Strength.
All linked through the darkness.
The giant executioner roared furiously.
“THE KING’S POWER—!!”
BOOOOOOOM!!
It charged toward Suho violently.
But this time— the shadows moved first.
ROOOOOAR!!
Fang slammed into the giant executioner from the side while dozens of shadow soldiers attacked simultaneously.
Dark blades tore across the giant’s armor.
Chains shattered apart.
The executioner staggered backward.
For the first time— it was getting overwhelmed.
Suho slowly stepped forward.
The shadows around him reacted instantly.
Like soldiers obeying a king.
The system flashed wildly.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━New Title Acquired━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Commander of Shadows━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Mana surged through Suho’s body again.
The more shadows he controlled— the stronger he became.
The executioner roared and smashed multiple shadow soldiers apart.
But— their broken bodies simply regenerated from darkness again.
Its glowing eyes widened.
“…Infinite…”
The surviving hunters slowly realized the terrifying truth.
The army could keep returning.
As long as Suho remained standing.
Cha Hae-In stared silently at him.
The pressure surrounding Suho now felt completely different from before.
Not human.
Not monster.
Something in between.
Then— deep beneath the ruined city— another roar echoed upward.
LOUDER this time.
The ground cracked violently.
The system immediately flashed red.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WARNING━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Dungeon Core Entity Awakening Complete━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The giant executioner suddenly looked downward in horror.
“No…”
Purple cracks spread throughout the streets.
Entire buildings collapsed inward.
And from the darkness beneath the city— something massive began rising.
Much larger than the executioner itself.
The shadow army froze.
Even Fang growled nervously.
Suho slowly looked toward the collapsing ground.
Then— a gigantic glowing purple eye opened beneath the city ruins.
Watching him.
Ancient.
Hungry.
Awake.
TO BE CONTINUED….!!
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