The Author's POV

Using my sword to turn over the body of the monster that I just killed, I speculated that it was some sort of sandworm variant.

Everything from the top and bottom resembled a worm, however, its mouth once opened resembled a four-petal flower. But unlike flowers, it was anything but pretty.

If one looked closely, once the worm-like monster opened its mouth, chainsaw-like teeth sharply protruding from the edges of its mouth would meet your sight.

Its exterior which was as hard as titanium had some sort of mucus-like substance excreted from its body.

-Tshh!

Using my finger to pick up some of the mucus, I felt a stinging sensation on my finger prompting my brows to involuntarily frown.

'Could this mucus be the reason why they can travel in the sand like a fish swims in the ocean?'

Examining the mucus up close, I took a look at the area where the worm was, and from there I could instantly understand how the worm was able to move freely in the sand.

The mucus that the sandworm-like creature excreted had some sort of acidic property which slowly eroded the sand around it, enabling it to move freely in the sand.

'Fascinating...'

Wiping the mucus on my finger with the sand, I placed the corpse into my bracelet.

Taking my phone out, I opened the monster encyclopedia and quickly scrolled down the list.

After scrolling for a bit, I finally found a monster that matched the description of the monster I killed.

Name : Sand sprout

Rank: F-D rank

Description : Monster that is typically found in desert regions, and is around the size of an adult arm. If caught off guard, with its razor-sharp teeth the sand sprout can easily tear off the limbs of its prey, rendering them immobile. Has extremely durable skin that is as tough as titanium, and excretes a strong acid measuring at around a ph of 1.

Weakness : Mouth, the only area that is not protected by its tough outer exterior.

Location : [Everlasting sunset], [Dunes of sorrow],[Lord's wrath],...

"ph 1?"

Raising my brow, I looked at my finger, which previously touched the mucus-like substance.

Fortunately, apart from my finger being slightly red, there seemed to be no abnormalities.

'It looks like consuming the [Seed of limit] helped my body become stronger...considering that an acid of ph1 is nothing to me anymore...'

Putting my phone back in my pocket, I continued venturing deeper into the dungeon in hopes of finding the boss of this area.

During the journey, for every monster that I killed and knew nothing about, I would look through the monster encyclopedia app on my phone in hopes of finding more about them.

-Screeech!

-Phfttttt

Without even looking at what attacked me, I stabbed my sword to the right and once I felt my sword become heavier, I tapped my bracelet.

"38..."

So far, the most dominant monster present in this desert-like place was the sand sprout, and since I have fought about a dozen of them, I could more or less predict their movement now.

attention, right before they attacked, you could feel a slight vibration beneath your feet. With this slight vibration, I could approximately determine when they were

observed, they never attacked the front, which meant that they would only attack my right,

this, whenever I feel a slight vibration coming from beneath the sand, I could reduce my scope of concentration and

some odd reason whenever they attacked they would always let out

judging the precise position of where they are

before they attacked, due to their tremendous speed not everyone could

pattern, they were

"huh, what's that?"

my location I could

seemed to be in some sort of mess, as they were all

"Party wipe?"

that uncommon for parties to be wiped inside of a

"Should I help..."

a dungeon...but from the looks of it the party has at

think this

a passerby's pity, and then suddenly attack them when

Hmm...Probably not.

finding anyone nearby was extremely

was like that, I

Slap!

on the cheek, I continued staring

almost reverted back to

an F rank dungeon, they were

strength, I shouldn't be confident to the point where I could

the more I was sure that they weren't trying to rob people, as they genuinely looked like they

real question was whether

did help them then it would mean that some of my supplies would be cut short as I would have to share some of it with them, but that aside there's one thing that's been bugging me since

they called for help

all dead, if one looked closely,

of them were

problems sending a distress

But why weren't they?

situation was very

me that if I were to leave right now, I

"Ah...screw it!"

sighing, I jumped down the sand dune I was on and slid my

if it's a

I had my suspicions, it was better

than me wanting to help them, it

five F ranks could be reduced to this state in an F rank

have a tough time

to their location, there were evident signs that a battle had taken place. Typically the sand in the desert was shaped

the state of the surroundings, a big fight had taken place. However, oddly enough, there were

when fighting against a monster, you would see signs of blood everywhere or some sort of

the party members, there wasn't anything that suggested that they

about it, the odder the situation

that I thought about it,

fought against a

you die or

Nothing else.

party was

that they weren't fighting monsters but