As I stepped through the gate into Stage Two, a familiar wave of déjà vu washed over me.
Same crimson sky. Same twisted trees. Same suffocating mist curling around my boots.
"So… Hollow Wolves again?" I muttered under my breath.
The system didn't keep me waiting.
[SYSTEM CHALLENGE]
Objective: Eliminate 5 Hollow Wolves within 60 seconds.
I rolled my eyes. "Figures. This is exactly how it went last time."
But the second those words left my lips, five shadows burst from the mist—hulking white wolves with fur like bone and eyes like bottomless pits.
They didn't growl.
They glared—unblinking, malicious, and eerily intelligent.
The pressure they radiated hit like a wall. My breath caught, heart instinctively spiking.
D-Rank Monsters: Hollow Wolves
Savage speed. Coordinated assault. Killing machines.
But this wasn't last time.
