True Damage Abyssal Hunger

"Ding Warning: You are entering the Hollow Vein. Monsters within this zone significantly exceed your current level. Proceed with caution."

The notification chimed the instant Kael stepped past the threshold. He barely registered it.

He'd run this exact mine more times than he could count in a life that no longer counted for much beyond what it had taught him.

He knew every tunnel branch, every monster spawn, every collapsed shaft worth avoiding, all of it memorized the hard way, long before tonight.

Every monster inside was elite-tier, level 30 and up genuinely dangerous territory for an ordinary level-26 player, the kind of place that chewed through full parties working together and spat back nothing but wipes.

For a Beastlord running three top-tier companions, it barely qualified as a warm-up.

The tunnel opened wide enough that even Void Behemoth's bulk moved through it without trouble.