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.

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

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

a slight vibration coming from beneath the sand,

odd reason whenever they attacked they would

position of where they are going to attack was

though they were extremely fast, even if they did screech before they attacked, due to their

were essentially the easiest monster to

"huh, what's that?"

location I could see a couple of silhouettes that looked like

in some sort of mess, as

"Party wipe?"

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

"Should I help..."

their own inside of a dungeon...but from the looks of it the party has at least 5 people, so what could

think this

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

Hmm...Probably not.

considering where we were, chances of finding anyone nearby

that, I didn't

Slap!

hard on the cheek, I continued staring at the people

back to my

were in an F

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

more I was sure that they weren't trying

question was whether I

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

called for help

all dead, if one looked closely, they were

were even moving, albeit

was sure they would've had no problems sending a

But why weren't they?

situation was very

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

"Ah...screw it!"

sand dune I was

it's

my suspicions, it was better to be safe

wanting to help them, it was

F ranks could be reduced to this state in

boss monster would have a tough time against five

had taken place. Typically the sand in the desert was shaped in little waves, however, here the sand was all over the place as

surroundings, a big fight had taken place.

blood everywhere or some sort of sign that a fight against

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

more I thought about it, the odder the situation

now that I thought about

fought against a

you die

Nothing else.

although the party was injured,

mean that they weren't fighting monsters but