Nearly a thousand Rage Howlers lay sprawled across the ground, their eyes void of light.

A mountain of corpses.
Thick, dark red blood soaked the vast floor of the cavern without leaving a single patch dry.
The deafening noise had faded into silence.

“Phew—”

Standing amidst that sea of blood and bodies, I took a deep breath in and let it out slowly.

“Haa—”

This was a process of refinement—to pull my senses back to reality from the unconscious trance I had fallen into.

As I locked away the adrenaline that had been flooding my system, an overwhelming wave of emptiness and fatigue crashed down on my body all at once.