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[Welcome to the fifty-fifth floor of the Tower of Ordeal: The Seized Fortress.]
[Challenger Kwon Su-Hyeok has been hired as a mercenary. His employer has tasked him with reclaiming a fortress that has been occupied by an unidentified force.]
[Assist the employer in reclaiming the fortress. Time remaining: 47 hours 59 minutes.]
The tower had summoned me deep within a dense forest.
A thick, eerie darkness shrouded the woodland. Almost no light managed to pierce through the heavy canopy, and the moon and stars remained hidden by an impenetrable veil of clouds.
The trees here seemed unsettling. Their gnarled branches did not stretch skyward as people would expect, but instead drooped downward as if weighed down by an unseen force.
Beyond the brush, atop a distant elevation, stood the fortress.
The moment my eyes adjusted to the dimness, an unpleasant sensation settled over me. That felt heavy when breathed in, thick and cloying.
It wasn’t only the ominous atmosphere that unnerved me, however. The very essence of the mana saturating the air felt different. It was denser, almost suffocating, and instinctively repulsive.
“Demonic… energy.”
“Demonic?”
“This forest… is steeped in… dark mana. I have… encountered this… once before…”
I didn’t know much about demons, but I now understood why I had felt such an instinctive aversion. Demon Slayer would warn me about the presence...
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