When Sung Jin-Woo walked out of the double dungeon, he was no longer the weak, trembling hunter the world mocked.
The System had chosen him. It gave him power — limitless, terrifying, intoxicating.
But power always comes with a price.
And in this story… the price was his soul.
The First Fall
At first, the world cheered him. The weakest hunter had become humanity’s greatest weapon.
But as his shadows grew, so did the hunger inside him.
Saving people became unnecessary.
Protecting humanity felt meaningless.
Why should he protect a world that once laughed at his weakness… when now, it trembled beneath his strength?
The dungeons, once prisons of fear, became his hunting grounds.
Hunters who entered them became prey, their shadows added to his ever-growing army.
A World in Fear
Guilds rose to challenge him.
Nations sent their strongest hunters.
Even the S-ranks, once untouchable, united to strike him down.
But against the Shadow Monarch, they were nothing.
Every battlefield ended the same: screams swallowed by shadows, armies turned into his soldiers, flags of nations torn and burned in silence.
Sung Jin-Woo was no longer a man.
He was a calamity.
The Monster in Human Skin
To his mother, he was still her son.
To his sister, still her brother.
But to the rest of the world, he was no hero.
He was a nightmare wrapped in human flesh.
And yet… deep inside, buried under the darkness, there was still a faint spark of the old Jin-Woo.
The boy who once risked his life to save strangers.
The boy who bled to protect the weak.
But would that spark survive the shadows?
Or would it be crushed forever beneath the weight of his own power?
The Final Question
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If Sung Jin-Woo turned evil…
No guild, no army, no nation could stop him.
The Shadow Monarch would not be mankind’s protector.
He would be its greatest nightmare.