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"Rumble—!"
In just a few short seconds, the ground shook so violently that dust began falling from the surrounding walls, with some places even starting to crack.
Kneeling on one knee, Noah could only do his best to remain steady. Feeling the ground quake more and more violently, he could not help but feel uneasy.
At that moment, Noah involuntarily recalled something everyone in this world knew.
The Dungeon was alive.
"—!"
Just then, the Dungeon's tremors abruptly vanished, as though they had suddenly come to a standstill.
"Crack..."
A sound like that suddenly rang out from the ground in front of the wall that had only just collapsed and spawned Goliath.
It was the sound of the ground splitting open into a huge ravine.
"Crack, crack—!"
The next instant, centered around that fissure, the entire ground began to bulge upward, as though something were burrowing inside it. It pushed aside massive chunks of rock and earth as it emerged.
Noah's gaze sharpened at the sight.
Because Noah clearly saw it.
Within the raised mound of ground, buried beneath rock and dirt, a pair of pitch-black eyes suddenly lit up.
"Rumble—!"
The ground once again shook with extreme violence, as though the entire seventeenth floor were trembling and continuously letting out mournful groans.
During this process, the bulging ground ahead rose higher and higher, while more and more rock and dirt were pushed aside. When it reached its peak, it crashed down like a collapsing snow mountain, kicking up thick clouds of dust.
Then, the enormous creature that had burrowed out of the ground, buried beneath rock and dirt, finally revealed its full body.
Its entire body was black like