Darkness spread across the hidden chamber.
The air itself felt heavier now.
Like the dungeon was alive.
The glowing red eyes of the stone statues illuminated the massive temple-like room while terrified hunters slowly stepped backward.
Nobody dared breathe too loudly.
At the center of the chamber… the giant black throne continued pulsing with dark energy.
And the shadow sitting on it— was moving.
Drip.
Drip.
Blood fell from Suho’s injured arm onto the stone floor.
His breathing remained unstable.
But the strange system inside him kept flickering nonstop.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[Double Dungeon Quest Active]Survive the Hidden Temple━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
One hunter grabbed the raid leader’s arm in panic.
“We need to run NOW!”
“Run where?!”
“The gate disappeared!”
Another hunter pointed toward the statues.
“T-They’re moving again…”
CRRRRACK.
Stone cracked.
One of the giant statues slowly stood up.
Then another.
Then dozens.
Their glowing red eyes locked onto the hunters.
The pressure alone felt unbearable.
A woman near the back collapsed in fear.
“This… this isn’t a dungeon…”
“It’s an execution ground…”
BOOOOOM!!
Without warning— one statue attacked.
Its giant hammer crushed a hunter instantly.
Blood exploded across the floor.
“AAAAAAAHHHHH!!”
Panic erupted again.
Hunters scattered in every direction.
But the chamber had no escape.
The statues began slaughtering everyone mercilessly.
Suho gritted his teeth.
“Damn it…”
A sword swung toward him.
WHOOSH!!
He barely dodged.
The blade crashed into the floor, creating massive cracks.
The system reacted immediately.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[Combat Analysis Active]Weak Point Detected: Neck Joint━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Suho’s eyes focused instantly.
The world slowed around him again.
He could see movement patterns.
Attack timings.
Openings.
“…Move.”
His body reacted before fear could stop him.
He dashed forward.
SLASH!!
His dagger struck the statue’s neck joint.
CRACK!!
The statue froze for a moment.
The hunters nearby stared in disbelief.
“He damaged it?!”
“But he’s only E-rank!”
Suho jumped backward breathing heavily.
His hands shook violently.
Even with system support… he was still weak.
Too weak.
Then—
BOOOOOOM!!
The throne at the center suddenly exploded with dark energy.
Everyone froze.
A massive shadow slowly rose from the throne itself.
Tall.
Armored.
Covered in black smoke.
Its eyes glowed deep purple.
The pressure it released instantly crushed the room.
Several hunters dropped to their knees.
“M-Monster…”
“No…”
“That thing is WAY above monster level…”
Suho’s instincts screamed danger.
The shadow figure slowly stood up from the throne.
Then— it looked directly at him.
Not the others.
Only him.
Suho’s heartbeat accelerated.
“Why is it staring at me…?”
The system screen glitched violently.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[UNKNOWN ENTITY DETECTED][Data Corrupted]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The shadow took one step forward.
BOOM.
The entire chamber shook.
Another step.
BOOM.
The pressure became unbearable.
Then suddenly— the statues stopped moving.
Every single one kneeled before the shadow entity.
The hunters stared in horror.
“…They obey it.”
The shadow finally spoke.
Its voice sounded ancient.
Cold.
Empty.
“You…”
Its glowing eyes narrowed at Suho.
“…carry the fragment.”
Suho froze.
“W-What…?”
The shadow raised one hand slowly.
Dark energy gathered around the chamber.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[Hidden Requirement Met]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[The System Has Chosen Its Vessel]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Suho’s eyes widened.
Vessel…?
Suddenly— pain exploded throughout his entire body.
“AAAAAAHHHH!!”
Dark energy rushed into him violently.
The hunters stepped back in shock.
Black smoke surrounded Suho completely.
Memories flashed inside his mind.
War.
Shadows.
Endless dead armies.
A king sitting upon darkness itself.
Voices echoed everywhere.
“Arise…”
“Grow stronger…”
“Become worthy…”
Suho clutched his head in agony.
“STOP—!!”
Then— everything disappeared.
Silence filled the chamber.
The black smoke slowly faded away.
Suho stood there breathing heavily.
But something had changed.
His eyes.
A faint purple glow now flickered within them.
The shadow entity stared at him silently.
Then— for the first time— it smiled.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[Unique Skill Unlocked]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Shadow Extraction (Incomplete)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Suho looked at the floating message in shock.
“…Shadow… Extraction?”
Suddenly— a dead hunter lying nearby began trembling.
Dark smoke emerged from the corpse.
The body slowly started rising.
The remaining hunters screamed instantly.
“T-The dead body is moving!!”
Suho stepped backward in horror.
“No way…”
The corpse stood up unnaturally.
Its eyes turned pitch black.
Shadow energy wrapped around its body.
Then the system spoke again.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[First Shadow Available]Extract Shadow?YES / NO━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Suho’s hand trembled.
The shadow entity on the throne kept watching silently.
Waiting.
Testing him.
Suho slowly looked at the floating screen.
Then at the dead hunter standing before him.
His heartbeat thundered.
If he pressed YES… everything would change forever.
And deep down— he already knew.
There was no going back anymore.
TO BE CONTINUED….!!
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