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Under Watch
Morning came quietly.Too quietly.Jiwoo stood in front of the bathroom mirror inside the temporary Veilbound residence, staring at his own reflection.Nothing looked different.Black hair slightly messy.Tired eyes.An ordinary seventeen-year-old student.Yet somewhere beyond the sky, beings powerful enough to destroy worlds had apparently noticed him.The thought felt absurd.Until he remembered the servant’s eyes.“…Confirmed.”Jiwoo shut the faucet tightly.The water dripping suddenly sounded unbearably loud.A knock echoed from outside his room.“Jiwoo.”Kangmin.Jiwoo immediately straightened himself. “Coming.”When he opened the door, Kangmin stood there already dressed in fresh black combat attire, his injuries hidden beneath a long coat. Only the faint stiffness in his movements revealed how severe the battle had actually been.“We’re leaving,” Kangmin said.Jiwoo blinked. “Leaving?”“The Association wants a direct statement.”Of course they did.A dungeon disappearing entire
The Irregular
The private conference room remained dead silent after Kangmin's demand. The weight of an S-rank Hunter's undivided attention pressed against Jiwoo's chest, heavier than the ambient mana still swirling outside the safehouse walls.Jiwoo forced his hands to remain steady in his lap, ensuring his expression maintained a perfect mix of confusion and residual fear. He knew he couldn't play completely dumb—not in front of the two sharpest minds in the hunter industry. He needed partial truths."I don't fully understand it either," Jiwoo said, his voice straining slightly to convey vulnerability. "When I was in the lower routes... I heard a voice. It wasn't human. When I got close to the central chamber, the dungeon core itself reacted to me. It didn't try to destroy me like the others. It tried to... connect."Lee narrowed his eyes from the shadows of the corner. "The core tried to synchronize with a porter? That’s structurally impossible unless your mana wavelength shares an identical sig
After the Collapse
The transition from the depths of a collapsing dungeon to the outside world was not a relief. It was a chaotic blur of noise, flashing lights, and suffocating tension.Sirens wailed in a deafening chorus across the cordoned-off perimeter. Overhead, the heavy thrum of media helicopters chopped through the night air, their piercing searchlights cutting through the thick clouds of dust billowing from the dungeon's entrance. Veilbound security personnel and emergency response teams panicked, struggling to maintain boundaries as the ground beneath them continued to shudder.Hunters stumbled out of the cavernous threshold, dragging the injured and carrying shattered weapons.But behind them, something abnormal was happening. The dungeon gate wasn't just closing; it was imploding. The massive stone archway warped inward like melting plastic, its spatial coordinates collapsing until the entire structure simply vanished into nothingness."The mana readings..." a technical handler stationed at t
The One It Seeks
The dungeon was breaking.The ceiling gave way in massive sections, chunks of stone crashing down as unstable mana surged wildly through every corridor. The air itself felt torn, as if something far beyond the dungeon’s rank was forcing its way through the fabric of reality.Kangmin stepped forward, his sword raised in a white-knuckled grip. Beside him, Lee Taeyun stood with magic formations rotating faster and denser than before, the glowing circles casting long, flickering shadows across the ruins.Between them, the servant remained still.It was watching.Not the two Guild Masters but the shadows in the rear.It was watching Jiwoo.“…It’s ignoring us,” Lee muttered, his eyes narrowing behind his flickering barriers.Kangmin’s grip tightened. “Then we force it to look.”He vanished.Steel tore through the air, aimed directly at the servant’s neck. The servant moved at the last possible moment—not to dodge, but to shift its weight. Its hand caught the flat of Kangmin’s blade.The imp
The Irregularity
The humanoid vanished.Not forward.Not backward.Gone.Kangmin’s blade sliced through empty air where the servant had stood a moment ago. The momentum carried the strike forward, carving a clean arc through drifting dust and unstable mana.Lee Taeyun’s eyes narrowed.“…Wait.”Something felt wrong.Kangmin had already realized it.His gaze snapped toward the shattered corridor behind them.“…It’s not attacking us.”The realization struck too late.Far behind the battlefield, Jiwoo pressed himself against broken stone, his breathing shallow as the echoes of the clash faded into an uneasy silence.Then the air behind him twisted.The space bent inward like glass under pressure.A presence emerged from the distortion.Jiwoo’s blood ran cold.The humanoid servant stood only a few steps away.Its dark armor reflected faint fragments of light from the fractured dungeon walls. Black blood still ran down one arm where Kangmin’s blade had cut earlier, yet its posture remained calm.Observant.
The One Still Standing
The dust did not settle immediately.It lingered in the air, thick and suffocating, carrying with it the scent of broken stone and ruptured mana.For several seconds, no one moved.Hunters lay scattered across the ruined corridor, some conscious, others struggling to breathe. The dungeon itself groaned, cracks spreading slowly across the walls like veins under skin.Then a shape emerged.Standing.Unmoved.The humanoid.Its dark armor was intact, untouched by the chaos it had unleashed. Its posture remained relaxed, almost casual, as if the violent exchange moments ago had meant nothing.A few meters away, another figure shifted.Kangmin.He pushed himself up from the rubble, his sword still in hand. Blood ran freely from his side, staining what remained of his armor. His breathing was heavier now, but his eyes were clear.Focused.Alive.Nearby, Lee Taeyun stepped forward from the fractured stone, one hand pressed briefly against his shoulder where a shallow crack in his barrier had
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