The ULTIMATE EXPERIENCE SYSTEM

DIFFICULTY: LEGENDARYObjective: Survive for 1 Minute

"One minute? That’s all?"I scoffed. After the hell I’d just crawled through, this sounded like a break.

But then the world shifted.

The air thickened in an instant—so dense it felt like the atmosphere itself had turned solid. My lungs fought for breath. Gravity no longer played fair; it felt like someone had thrown a mountain onto my shoulders.

My knees hit the ground with a painful thud. Bones creaked. Vision blurred. It was suffocating."What the hell... is this?!"

Panic surged in my veins. I instantly equipped the Blaze Armor—S-rank defensive gear I had earned during the seventh challenge. Fire wrapped around my body in a flash of brilliance—

—and shattered the next second like fragile glass.

I coughed blood, my chest aching from the backlash."What?! That was S-rank!"

Then I saw her.

A small figure, no taller than a toddler. Her skin was pale crimson, her black hair cascading down her back like shadowy silk. Two short horns curled from her forehead. Her eyes—glowing, golden, and ancient—locked onto mine.

A system prompt flickered to life: