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Chapter 13: OVERPOWERED!
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The lingering scent of blood, thick and metallic, still hung heavy in the air, a subtle undercurrent to Zander’s racing thoughts. The moment his armored form stepped out of the Orc King’s charnel house, a system notification flickered into his vision.

[Enemy Detected: Goblin (Level 38)]

The lone goblin scurrying around the corner was met not with Zander’s startled fear, but with a predatory stillness that emanated from his very being. The scent of its fetid, earthy breath, faint as it was, triggered a deep, primal alertness within him, a ghost of the 'Bloodlust' trait stirring his new, mutated blood. His crimson-tinged silver eyes, now fully accustomed to their unsettling hue, narrowed with a cold, calculating focus.

Recognition sparked within him. This was one of them. One of the wretched little green bastards that had almost ended him, if not for that ludicrously convenient loose stone.

“Oh, it’s you,” Zander hissed, his voice a low, dangerous purr, laced with a dark, mocking amusem
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