"Upgrade is in progress."
The blue system message floated in front of Suho for several seconds before fading away.
Suho stared at it with tired eyes.
"…How much longer is this going to take?"
After clearing Stage-2 repeatedly, Suho had become absurdly stronger physically thanks to the double level effect. His body had adapted beyond human limits. His reflexes sharpened, his stamina increased tremendously, and even the pressure he emitted now felt completely different from before.
Yet—
His sealed power still refused to unlock.
Even the achievements related to it didn't appear no matter what he did.
It was as if the system intentionally ignored them.
Still, Suho continued training without rest.
Every day, he practiced the breathing technique from the book he got from hidden stage. At first, it felt meaningless, but after repeating it thousands of times, the strange rhythm gradually became natural to him.
At the same time, he continued combat training with Meho and Veno.
What started as simple sparring slowly turned into brutal survival training.
Broken bones.
Exhaustion.
Near death experiences.
Those things became normal for Suho now.
And recently—
Suho had developed a completely different interest.
Crafting.
The former final boss of Stage-1, the Goblin Commander, was now working as Suho's blacksmith instructor.
Or more accurately—
One of them.
Suho had multiple Goblin Commander variants now, but the very first commander naturally became their leader.
Surprisingly, there was almost no conflict inside Suho's army.
Most of Suho's earliest summons had automatically become leaders of their own species.
As if an invisible hierarchy already existed.
The goblins handled forging.
The monsters gathered materials.
The skeletons organized equipment.
Meanwhile Suho sat in the middle trying to understand basic alchemy books with the expression of someone reading alien language.
"…What the hell is this?"
The pages were filled with formulas and strange mana circuits he couldn't understand at all.
One page alone made his head hurt.
Even so—
He didn't give up.
Because Suho realized something during the tutorial.
Talent mattered.
But persistence mattered more.
And while all this continued—
The time limit for Stage-2 was almost over.
After the hidden stage, Stage-2 itself was no longer difficult for Suho at all. Since his powers were still sealed, he couldn't create skeleton summons inside this stage.
So instead—
He forcibly tamed everything.
Again.
And again.
And again.
As a result, Suho's army had grown to an unbelievable size.
And finally—
The last hour of Stage-2 arrived.
BOOM!!
The dungeon floors shook violently.
An enormous army charged through the dungeon at full speed.
At the very front—
Suho was running with a terrifying expression.
Behind him followed countless monsters carrying random relics and materials.
One goblin carried three swords despite being too small to even hold them properly.
A skeleton was dragging a giant treasure chest while running sideways for some reason.
Another monster was holding cooking pots, ores, monster horns, broken shields, and an entire table stacked on its head like moving luggage.
The entire army looked less like a military force and more like robbers evacuating after looting a kingdom.
And somehow—
Every single one of them was running with complete seriousness.
Even their running poses looked ridiculous.
One skeleton leaned forward too much and kept almost falling face first.
A goblin commander was sprinting dramatically with a blacksmith hammer raised toward the sky like a war hero.
Veno was running calmly while Meho looked like an overexcited dog chasing destruction.
And Hogwarts—
The Skeleton Dragon—
Was somehow trying to maintain dignity while running together with them despite holding an entire giant pillar in its mouth.
The scene was complete chaos.
"KIEEEEEK!!"
The monsters living on the dungeon floors froze in horror.
"…It's him."
"No no no no—RUN!!"
The moment they saw Suho's face—
Every monster immediately turned around and fled.
Suho's expression looked exactly like a villain from a nightmare.
And the worst part—
He was laughing.
"HAHAHAHA!! DON'T LET THEM ESCAPE!"
The monsters almost cried hearing that voice.
Even the stage bosses started hiding.
One giant ogre squeezed behind a thin pillar despite its massive body being completely visible.
A lizard boss buried its own head underground pretending Suho couldn't see it.
Another boss slowly closed the dungeon door and locked it from inside.
Unfortunately—
Suho's army wasn't there to defeat them this time.
They were there to kidnap them.
"Grab that one!"
"Don't kill him! We need more manpower!"
"KIEEEEEK!"
The bosses screamed while getting dragged away by dozens of goblins and skeletons.
One boss desperately held onto the wall while being pulled across the floor.
Another got tied up with chains for absolutely no reason.
The dungeon had officially become a horror game for monsters.
And just like that—
Suho and his chaotic army crossed the Stage-2 clear portal.
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Stage-2 has been cleared.
Time limit has ended.
All participants who have cleared Stage-2 will move to Stage-3.
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Just like in Stage-1—
Time and space inside the tutorial didn't matter.
Whether someone cleared first or at the last moment, everyone who survived would move together.
But then another message appeared.
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Special rewards will be given to the first 50 players who cleared Stage-2.
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Inside the white waiting room, Suho stared blankly at the message.
Behind him stood his massive army.
Meho.
Veno.
Hogwarts.
The Skeleton Dragon.
Goblin Commanders.
Hundreds of monsters.
All of them silently stared at Suho with extremely serious expressions.
Suho's eye twitched.
"…What the hell is this?"
Some players had cleared Stage-2 in a single day.
On their first try.
Suho slowly turned around.
Every summon continued staring at him silently.
Even Hogwarts nodded seriously.
As if judging him.
Suho pointed at them angrily.
"DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT!"
The army remained silent.
Suho shouted in frustration.
"I KNOW I CLEARED IT IN LESS THAN AN HOUR TOO!"
He paused.
"…BUT IT WAS THE LAST DAY!"
The white room became awkwardly silent.
One skeleton slowly looked away.
Veno lowered its head like a disappointed parent.
Suho nearly exploded from irritation.
Then—
The system window changed again.
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Leaderboard is now active.
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Fifty names appeared one after another.
Suho narrowed his eyes.
"So players with talents and constellations are really this strong…"
Clearing the stage in one attempt wasn't normal.
At least, it shouldn't have been.
But Suho didn't know yet.
The players who rushed to clear the stage quickly had unknowingly made the biggest mistake.
And by complete accident—
Suho was the only player who continued farming the stage until the very last day.
The only player gaining the maximum possible benefits from Stage-2.
Soon another leaderboard appeared.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Point Leaderboard Activated.
Points are calculated based on:
• First Clear
• Number of Monsters Defeated
• Different Methods Used
• Achievements Obtained
• Hidden Pieces Discovered
• ???
• ???
• ???
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Suddenly—
A new notification exploded before Suho's eyes.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Authority "Ignored By The Universe" has been activated.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"…What?"
Suho froze.
Immediately afterward—
Dozens of notifications flooded his vision.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
????
????
????
????
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Every message was covered with question marks.
As if even the system couldn't properly process them.
Suho stared blankly at the screen in shock.
At the same time—
Across countless tutorials throughout different dimensions—
Transmigrators.
Regressors.
Constellation-backed geniuses.
Every single one of them believed this tutorial would become the legendary beginning of their stories.
Their talents.
Their experience.
Their knowledge.
Everything gave them confidence they would dominate the rankings.
But then—
The leaderboard updated.
And all of them froze.
Because at the very top—
Above all talents and constellations—
A completely ordinary name appeared.
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First Place — Ignore By Everyone
Points — Calculation in Progress…
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Silence spread through countless worlds.
Nobody understood what they were seeing.
And inside the white room—
Suho looked at the floating message with a confused expression.
"…Huh?"
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Stage-3 — Special Stage
Party Formation Stage
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This stage is a party-based stage.
Players may send and accept party requests.
After the given time ends, players without parties will be randomly assigned to one.
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⚡ **End of Chapter 26**
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