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They kept moving north. The column pushed across a plain glazed with snow, boots crunching over a hard crust that gleamed under a pale sky. Breath steamed in the cold and drifted like thin banners.
Just then, without warning, the ground shivered.
“Wh-what is that?”
“An earthquake?”
It felt wrong almost at once. The tremor did not ripple out in rings. It marched in from a single direction like a drumbeat.
A heavy thud split the air, and the earth buckled and burst. Something vast bored up from beneath the plain and broke the surface in a shower of dirt and ice. A cylindrical body as thick as a house rose straight into the sky and twisted as if tasting the wind.
Darkul’s face drained. “A Giant Worm!”
It was the famous monster that even he had heard about, the kind that made veterans lower their voices. It was the boss of an AAA-Rank Dungeon, the sort of threat only a fighter on the Transcendent level could handle without throwing lives away.
“What is a thing like that doing out here?” Darkul muttered.
His cry sounded like a curse. The Giant Worm flexed, coiled, and threw its mass around the column, circling with deceptive speed. The movement was clear enough to read as the monster meant to crush the entire column. It carried the clean, cold intent of a creature that only understood prey.
“Wait, no!” Darkul breathed.
The barbarians in this column were far from weak. A few stood at the Advanced tier, while most were Intermediate or Novice. Even so, that meant they were hardened men, carrying scars that proved their battles...
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