The desert became silent.
Too silent.
Hot wind moved across the endless dunes while the bodies of the dead Sand Fang Wolves slowly dissolved into black particles.
Suho stood in the middle of the wasteland breathing heavily.
Sweat covered his face.
But despite the exhaustion— his eyes felt sharper now.
More focused.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Level Up Available━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The blue screen floated before him.
Suho hesitated for a moment.
“…Status.”
Instantly— the interface expanded.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━NAME: Sung SuhoLEVEL: 3TITLE: Survivor of the Double DungeonCLASS: Unknown━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Strength: 15Agility: 18Stamina: 14Mana: 24━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ His eyes widened slightly.
“My stats increased again…”
The feeling was addictive.
Every battle.
Every near-death moment.
The system rewarded growth immediately.
Then suddenly—
RUMBLE.
The sand beneath his feet trembled violently.
Suho froze.
“…What now?”
A massive bulge moved beneath the desert surface.
Fast.
Coming directly toward him.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[Danger Detected]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BOOOOOOM!!
The sand exploded upward.
A gigantic monster burst out from beneath the dunes.
Its body resembled a giant armored serpent covered in black scales.
Rows of razor-sharp teeth filled its mouth.
Purple energy leaked from its eyes.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Desert Devourer DetectedThreat Level: HIGH━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Suho instinctively stepped backward.
“…You’ve got to be kidding me.”
The monster roared.
The sound alone shook the desert.
Then it charged.
FAST.
Way faster than the wolves.
Suho barely dodged.
BOOM!!
The sand exploded where he had been standing.
The monster turned instantly and attacked again.
No hesitation.
No pause.
Pure killing instinct.
Suho rolled across the ground desperately.
“Damn it…!” but this creature was on another level.
The serpent’s tail whipped toward him.
CRASH!!
Suho got thrown across the desert violently.
“GHH—!!”
Pain exploded through his ribs.
Blood dripped from his mouth.
The monster slowly approached again.
Its glowing eyes stared at him like prey.
For the first time since receiving the system—
Suho felt true fear again.
“I can’t beat this thing…”
Then— the system flickered.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Emergency Combat Condition Met━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Shadow Extraction Available━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Suho looked around quickly.
The dead wolves nearby were still dissolving.
“…Wait.”
A dangerous idea formed in his mind.
The serpent lunged again.
Suho barely dodged and slammed his hand against the sand.
“Extract!”
Dark energy erupted instantly.
The shadows of the dead wolves twisted violently.
Then— three shadow wolves emerged from the darkness.
Black smoke covered their bodies while glowing purple eyes opened slowly.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Shadow Wolves Summoned━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The serpent paused.
The shadow wolves immediately attacked.
SLASH!!
They leaped onto the giant monster aggressively.
The serpent roared furiously.
BOOM!!
One wolf got destroyed instantly by its tail.
But the others kept attacking.
Suho’s eyes sharpened.
“This is my chance.”
He rushed forward.
The system activated Combat Analysis automatically.
Weak points appeared across the monster’s body.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Weak Point DetectedNeck Core Area━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Suho jumped onto a broken rock formation.
Then launched himself toward the serpent.
The monster noticed too late.
SLASH!!
His dagger pierced into the glowing weak point.
CRACK!!
Purple energy exploded outward.
The serpent let out a terrifying roar.
Its massive body thrashed violently.
“Die already!”
The shadow wolves attacked simultaneously again.
The serpent’s core cracked further.
Then—
BOOOOOOM!!
The entire monster collapsed into the sand.
Silence returned once more.
Suho landed heavily onto the ground breathing uncontrollably.
“…I actually won…”
The serpent’s body slowly dissolved into darkness.
Then— something strange happened.
Instead of disappearing completely… part of the shadow entered Suho directly.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Shadow Fragment Acquired━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Suho’s eyes widened.
“…Fragment?”
Pain suddenly surged through his entire body again.
“AAAHHH—!!”
Dark memories flashed through his mind.
Broken worlds.
Endless darkness.
A throne floating in empty space.
And a voice— deep and ancient— echoed through the void.
“You are evolving…”
Suho collapsed to one knee breathing heavily.
The desert around him suddenly began cracking apart.
The sky distorted unnaturally.
Reality itself looked unstable now.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Penalty Zone Collapsing━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Suho looked upward in shock.
The entire world around him started shattering like broken glass.
“What the hell…?!”
Then— dark cracks spread across the sky.
And through those cracks— gigantic glowing eyes slowly opened.
Watching him.
Ancient.
Monstrous.
Not human.
Suho’s blood ran cold.
The system began glitching violently.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[ERROR][UNAUTHORIZED ENTITY OBSERVING HOST]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The eyes in the sky narrowed slightly.
As if they had noticed him.
Then— everything shattered completely.
And Suho fell into darkness once again.
TO BE CONTINUED….!!
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