The chamber fell into complete silence.
Only the sound of Suho’s heartbeat echoed inside his ears.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[First Shadow Available]Extract Shadow?YES / NO━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The glowing blue screen floated before his eyes.
The dead hunter stood motionless nearby, surrounded by black smoke.
Its empty eyes stared into nothingness.
The remaining hunters trembled in fear.
“T-That corpse moved…”
“What kind of monster are you?!”
Suho stepped backward immediately.
“I didn’t do this…”
But even he wasn’t sure anymore.
The shadow sitting upon the black throne continued watching silently.
Like a king observing his successor.
The pressure in the room became heavier.
Then— the giant statues slowly stood up again.
BOOOOOOM.
Stone cracked beneath their feet.
The hunters panicked instantly.
“RUN!!”
A statue swung its massive blade.
SLASH!!
Two hunters died instantly.
Blood splashed across the walls.
Screams filled the chamber once more.
The dungeon had become pure hell.
Suho clenched his fists tightly.
“We can’t survive like this…”
The system suddenly flashed again.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[Emergency Survival Notice]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hidden Rule Discovered”Bow before the throne.”━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Suho froze.
“…Bow?”
He looked toward the throne.
The shadow entity remained seated calmly while the statues slaughtered everyone around it.
Then Suho noticed something.
Whenever a hunter accidentally faced the throne respectfully… the statues ignored them temporarily.
His eyes widened.
“That’s it…”
Another hunter screamed nearby.
“HELP ME—!!”
CRASH!!
A hammer smashed him into the floor.
The survivors had almost completely lost their minds.
“We’re dead…”
“There’s no exit…”
“This place is cursed…”
Suho gritted his teeth.
“LISTEN TO ME!!”
Everyone looked toward him in shock.
“Bow toward the throne!”
The hunters stared at him like he was insane.
“What?!”
“Are you crazy?!”
But before anyone could argue— another statue charged.
Suho immediately dropped to one knee facing the throne.
The giant statue stopped inches away from him.
Silence.
It didn’t attack.
The hunters’ eyes widened.
“…It stopped…”
“He’s right!”
Several hunters instantly copied Suho.
One by one, they kneeled toward the throne desperately.
The statues slowly backed away.
The slaughter finally paused.
Heavy breathing echoed throughout the chamber.
Bodies covered the floor.
Blood spread across the ancient stone.
Only six hunters remained alive.
One woman started crying quietly.
“We’re actually going to die here…”
No one answered.
Because everyone knew it was true.
Suho slowly stood again.
The system screen remained floating beside him.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Extract Shadow?YES / NO━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
His eyes stayed locked on the message.
The shadow entity suddenly spoke again.
“You seek survival…”
Its voice echoed through the entire chamber.
“…then embrace death.”
Cold chills ran down Suho’s spine.
The dead hunter beside him twitched violently again.
Dark smoke intensified around the corpse.
The system flickered.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[Warning]Shadow extraction requires mana consumption━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Suho swallowed hard.
“If I use this… what happens to me?”
No answer came.
Then— the throne room suddenly shook violently.
BOOOOOOM!!
Cracks spread across the walls.
The statues slowly raised their weapons again.
The trial wasn’t over.
The hunters screamed.
“WHY ARE THEY MOVING AGAIN?!”
The shadow entity’s eyes glowed brighter.
“Second judgment…”
“…begins now.”
Instantly— all the statues attacked at once.
Absolute chaos exploded across the chamber.
Suho barely dodged a sword strike.
CRASH!!
Stone exploded beside him.
Another statue grabbed a hunter and crushed him alive.
Blood sprayed everywhere.
“AAAAAAAHHHHH!!”
Suho’s breathing became unstable.
There was no escape.
No winning.
No surviving normally.
Then— the system suddenly changed.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Emergency Option Available━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Would you like to activate”Shadow Extraction”?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The corpse beside him shook violently.
Black energy spread across the floor like living darkness.
Suho stared at it.
Fear filled his chest.
But another scream echoed nearby.
Jinho had been cornered.
Three statues surrounded him.
“S-Suho!!”
Suho’s eyes widened instantly.
Without thinking— he shouted:
“YES!!”
The system activated.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[Shadow Extraction Initiated]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Darkness exploded outward.
The dead hunter’s shadow ripped itself from the floor.
A humanoid black figure slowly rose behind Suho.
Its body looked unstable.
Incomplete.
But alive.
The remaining hunters froze in absolute horror.
“A… shadow soldier?”
“No way…”
Even the statues paused for a moment.
The black shadow slowly turned toward Suho.
Then kneeled.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[Shadow Soldier #1 Created]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Suho stared at the creature in disbelief.
“I… created this?”
Then suddenly— the shadow soldier looked toward the attacking statues.
And raised its weapon.
The battle inside the double dungeon had officially changed.
TO BE CONTINUED….!!
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