Calamity Upon This World

"Why hasn't the dungeon core appeared yet?" a miner asked in confusion.

It had now been more than 20 minutes since William had defeated the statue, and yet no dungeon core had appeared, and they were still trapped.

The dungeon core is usually supposed to appear almost instantly once the boss is defeated, but due to Williams's condition after fighting the boss monster as well as the whole drama with Tony's now-dead brother, they didn't notice until now.

"Maybe the tower is just lagging; let's just wait for the core to appear," a miner suggested, trying to be optimistic despite their current situation.

Sadly, his attempt at optimism was useless, as the people around him were unconvinced.

"Everyone, look at the throne," a miner said in horror.

The massive throne that the statue previously sat on was now nowhere to be seen.

In its place was a simple door.

The door wasn't massive or had weird engravings on it like the one that led to the boss room, but just the sight of the door along with the absence of a dungeon core sent chills down the spines of everyone present in the room aside from one person.

This was because their worst fears had come true, and the dungeon they had stumbled into was actually a double dungeon.

In a double dungeon, the second dungeon is always tougher than the first dungeon, and they had barely just defeated the boss of the first dungeon.

So how were they supposed to defeat someone even stronger?

"This can't be," a miner said as he fell on his knees, already having accepted his inevitable death.

Seeing him, the already low morale of everyone only got worse as they all felt the jaws of death sneaking in on them.

"Everyone stay away from the door; don't go near it." Williams shouted as he erected a wall of ice, separating the room into two parts.

The first part contained all the cleaners and miners, and the other part just contained one single door.

'Fuck, this can't be' William thought, still unsure of what to do.

His mana still hadn't recovered, and it would probably take another hour for it to be back to normal.

He knew that he had no choice but to somehow clear the double dungeon if he wanted to get out alive, but he also knew that chances were that if he tried to challenge the double dungeon, things wouldn't end well for him.

He didn't know how or why, but his flaw probably, as usual, played a role in his first ever dungeon turning out to be a double dungeon.

The dungeon he was currently in was supposed to have rank A.

And in a double dungeon, the second dungeon is always harder than the first one, so at the minimum, the second dungeon was at least S rank.

How was he supposed to clear a S-rank dungeon when he had trouble clearing even an A-rank one?

Not to mention he even had 10 liabilities he needed to protect, and while his party was decently strong and could probably help him against weaker opponents, against actually strong opponents, he'd be forced to once again solo it.

'It seems that Zephyr was right after all; this flaw will most certainly cause my death sooner than later unless I fix it.'

William sighed as he sat down to wait for his mana to recover.

**

'This is insane. I can't believe that I will finally be able to turn my life around.

'Not only will I be able to take revenge on my uncle and family, I'll also be able to potentially heal my mother,' Sung thought as he stared at the system prompt in front of him.

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[Are you willing to throw away your morals for this opportunity?]

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Sung hesitated for a second, as he wasn't sure what the system prompt meant by this, but he had a feeling that whatever it was, the people around him wouldn't like it.

From what he had seen, the man called Edge Lord looked like a genuinely good guy, and he had talked to a few miners before who also looked to be pretty decent people.

Causing something bad to happen to them would probably weigh on his conscience, but definitely not as much if he missed this once-in-a lifetime opportunity.

He had seen everything that was happening around him, especially the whole double dungeon thing, and he had a pretty good guess about what he was supposed to do, but he had no clue how he was supposed to do it.

So he asked the system.

"What am I supposed to do and how?"

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[Just run to that door and enter; everything else will happen on its own; all you'll need to do then is survive the agonising pain you'll go through for your rebirth.]

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'It's as I expected,' Sung thought.

"But how do I do that?" he asked the system.

If he tried to do something funny or enter the door, he'd get killed or restricted almost instantly without being able to do anything.

After all, Sung was one of the weakest people present in this dungeon, and even many of the miners were probably stronger than him.

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[Just Use These]

1. shield of invulnerability x 1 (duration: 1 minute)

2.Curse of Death x 1 (will guarantee an agonising death for the person targeted)

[Use the curse on the strongest person in the room and use the shield on yourself; after that, the only thing left to do is run with all your might.]

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~Gulp~

Sung gulped as the implications of what he was about to do finally settled in. For his own selfish gain, he was about to kill someone.

'If I do that, how will I be any different from my uncle? '

'No, it doesn't matter if it means getting revenge; I'll gladly become a worse scumbag than even my bastard of an uncle'

With a steeled resolve, Sung pointed his fingers at William, or rather, as he knew him to be Edge Lord.

"Activate the curse of death."

[Ding]

[The chosen target will die agonisingly in a few minutes.]