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.

you could feel a slight vibration beneath your feet. With this slight vibration, I could

which meant that they would only attack my right,

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

some odd reason whenever they attacked they would always let out a

this, judging the precise position of

even if they did screech before they attacked, due to their tremendous speed not everyone could react in

once you knew their pattern, they were essentially the easiest

"huh, what's that?"

from my location I could see a couple of silhouettes

some sort of mess, as

"Party wipe?"

that uncommon for parties to be wiped inside of a dungeon, as a lot of things can

"Should I help..."

obligation to help as everyone was on their own inside of a dungeon...but from the looks of it the party has at least 5 people, so what could

calmly think

trying to arouse a passerby's pity, and then suddenly attack them when they let their guard down in hopes of stealing

Hmm...Probably not.

of finding anyone nearby was extremely low so

like that, I didn't think they could beat

Slap!

the cheek, I continued staring

almost reverted back to my arrogant

were five people in total, furthermore, since they were in an F

confident in my strength, I shouldn't be confident to the point where I could defeat five F-ranks without coming back

weren't trying to rob people, as they genuinely looked like they

the real question was whether

it would mean that some of my supplies would be cut short as I would have to share some of it with

called for help

like they were all dead, if one looked closely, they were

some of them were

they would've had no problems sending

But why weren't they?

situation was

me that if I were to leave right now, I may come to

"Ah...screw it!"

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

even if it's a

had my suspicions, it was better

it was

of five F ranks

have a

signs that a battle had taken place. Typically the sand in the desert was shaped in little waves, however, here the sand was all over the place as craters could be seen

state of the surroundings, a big fight had taken place. However, oddly enough, there were no monster carcasses

everywhere or some sort of sign that a fight against a monster had taken

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

about it, the odder the situation

about

against a monster,

die or

Nothing else.

here, although the party was injured, they were still

weren't fighting monsters but