Hyun charged through the forest with her in his arms, leaping over broken trees and battering down lesser beasts. But then, the woman who was silent a grave suddenly stirred.
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Tossed like a bag of rice, Hyerin wobbly watched the scattered limbs and corpses fly here and there like unwanted trash as the man tore the monsters into pieces. When all of a sudden, her eyes catch a glimpsed of something sparking under the pile monsters.
Hyerin gasped. "Wait, is that... a treasure chest?"
Could that be… a monster drop? Like the ones that players get in a game?
Hyerin squinted her eyes, muttering under her breath as her gaze locked onto the faint glow rising from the ground where the beast had just perished.
A golden shimmer pulsed gently in the forest gloom—quiet, but impossible to ignore. Like a hidden ember of hope flickering within this deadly land.
