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.

a slight vibration beneath your feet. With this

attacked the front, which meant that they would only

I feel a slight vibration coming from beneath the sand,

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

this, judging the precise position of where they are going to attack

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

knew their pattern, they were essentially the easiest monster to

"huh, what's that?"

from my location I could see a couple of silhouettes that looked

sort of mess, as they were all not

"Party wipe?"

uncommon for parties to be wiped inside of a dungeon,

"Should I help..."

I didn't have any obligation to help as everyone was on their own inside of a dungeon...but from the looks of it the party

think this

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

Hmm...Probably not.

anyone nearby was extremely low so this

like that, I didn't

Slap!

myself hard on the cheek, I continued staring at the people

almost reverted back to my arrogant

were in an F rank dungeon, they were all most likely either F rank Heroes

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

I was sure that they weren't trying

the real question was whether I

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

haven't they called

a distance it looked like they were all dead,

them were even

no problems sending a distress signal and

But why weren't they?

was very

leave and ignore them, but my instincts were telling me that if I were to leave right now, I may come to

"Ah...screw it!"

I was on and slid my way towards where the party

even if it's

my suspicions, it was better to be safe than

it

was simply no way a party of five F ranks could be reduced to this

monster would have a tough time against five F

there were evident signs that a battle had taken place. Typically the sand in the desert was shaped in little waves, however, here

from the state of the surroundings, a big fight had taken place. However,

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

coming from the party members, there wasn't anything that suggested that

I thought about it, the odder the situation

that I thought about

you fought against a monster, there were only

die or

Nothing else.

party was

that they weren't