The Orc King’s guttural laughter rumbled deep in its ruined throat, a sound thick with cruel, triumphant amusement that vibrated through the very bones of the chamber, echoing in Zander's shattered skull. It adjusted its massive, bloodied foot, shifting its weight, grinding Zander’s armless, mangled torso deeper into the cold, unforgiving stone floor with deliberate, almost gentle pressure. Ecstasy, pure and perverse, flickered like an infernal flame in its single, bloodshot eye, as it savored the raw, agonizing horror etched on Zander’s bloodied, contorted face, relishing every shudder, every silent scream.A weak, almost inaudible laugh, more a ragged gasp of bitter defiance than mirth, escaped Zander’s bloodied lips. “You… you perverted… monster,” he whispered, the words barely audible over the Orc King’s triumphant growls and the distant, fading sounds of the lesser horde. “Enjoying… someone’s pain… this much?” His voice was a thin, reedy thread of sound, but the contempt, the bur

Zander's body spasmed one last time, a final, cold surge of stolen energy coursing through him, and then collapsed onto the blood-soaked stone. A triumphant chime, like a slot machine hitting the jackpot, echoed in the sudden, ringing silence of the chamber.[Ding! Level Up!][Enemy Defeated: Orc King (B-Rank)][Experience Gained: 75,000]Hours later, a low, pained groan escaped Zander's lips. His eyelids fluttered open, his mind a hazy mess of searing pain and… something else. He remembered the agony of his armless state, the sickening cold seeping into his core as his life essence drained, a robotic voice promising power, a monstrous hunger. Then, blissful nothingness. He blinked, taking in the familiar yet unsettling gloom of the Orc King's chamber.Corpses were strewn everywhere, looking like deflated balloons, their life force completely gone. And the big green guy? Just a regular B-Rank Orc King, he vaguely registered, its massive form bearing visible wounds—rents in its armor,