"Hey! Hey! Get back here! Don’t say something like that and just disappear!! What the hell?" Damon started sweating. So he was right after all! The damn thing had seen him and was definitely continuing to see him. Then why the hell hadn’t it attacked him yet?
He waited for the damn snake woman, but she went completely radio silent and did not bother answering anything he asked. Could she even do that, considering he was now bonded with the ring?
Damon did not know, but it sure looked like it. "Whatever!" Damon gave up after a few minutes. The corrupted continued recklessly running towards him, and nothing had really changed. There was only one question in front of him.
Leave now? Or stay a while and leave later?
A part of him also doubted if he would be able to leave peacefully. What if the thing was only calm because he hadn’t tried to leave yet? What if it decided to finally make its move when he activated the teleportation skill?
Damon thought about it, but then shook his head. He was definitely overthinking things. He had come here only after knowing how dangerous things were but this was not the same as the purification raid. Even if the boss was triggered, it wouldn’t be an impossible fight.
The big boss inside was peak C rank at most. Damon still had no idea what specific beast it was but the information about its power level was rock solid. He knew it was some sort of draconic beast but the exact boss details were not released to the public.
The only thing everyone warned about was the noxious environment here and how the players were susceptible to mental corruption and physical sickness once they stepped into the zone. Apparently some even experienced sudden health loss and inexplicable death.
Damon still hadn’t experienced this sort of sudden health loss but everything else was well within control. The only thing that was slightly shocking was the mana sense of the beast.
Damon couldn’t help but feel that something was off. Could a peak C rank beast really have such strong mana sense? Mana sense spreading to this distance without even stepping outside its lair felt unnatural.
Even the strongest C ranks he had fought before couldn’t project their perception through layers of stone, poison haze, and corrupted mana streams like this.
He cut down another plagueforged ogre, its corpse collapsing into a puddle of oily sludge, and the thought stuck in his mind like a burr, either the intel he had was wrong, or this "peak C rank" wasn’t what it seemed.
Maybe it was wounded, maybe it was sealed, or maybe it was something far older pretending to be weaker so idiots like him would wander in unprepared?
Maybe it was using some sort of natural array to sense those who wandered into its territory? Maybe its power depended on the amount of corrupted here and since he was culling down quite a few, it came to notice him?
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