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.

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

what I observed, they never attacked the front, which meant that they would

feel a slight vibration coming from beneath the sand, I could

reason whenever they attacked they would

position of where they are

even though they were extremely fast, even if they did screech before they attacked, due to their tremendous speed not everyone could

were essentially the easiest monster

"huh, what's that?"

my location I could see

some sort of mess, as they were all not

"Party wipe?"

that uncommon for parties to be wiped inside of a

"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 cause them to be in

think

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

Hmm...Probably not.

finding anyone nearby was extremely low so this sort of scheme wouldn't

I didn't think they could

Slap!

the cheek, I continued staring at the people in the

back to

total, furthermore, since they were in an F

be confident to the point where I could defeat five F-ranks without coming

more I was sure that they weren't trying to rob people, as

real question was whether I

cut short as I would have to share some of it with them, but that aside there's one

they called for help

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

them were even moving, albeit

had no problems sending a distress signal and

But why weren't they?

was

wanted to just leave and ignore them, but my instincts were telling me that

"Ah...screw it!"

I was on and slid my

if it's a trap

I had my suspicions, it was better

to help them, it was more about figuring

of five F ranks could

the boss monster would have a tough time against

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

the surroundings, a big fight had taken place.

you would see signs of blood everywhere or some

from some red blood, presumingly coming from the party members, there wasn't anything that suggested that they

it, the

I thought about it, why

fought against a monster, there were only

die

Nothing else.

the party was injured, they

they weren't fighting monsters