Second Hunt Finale [4]

To understand the weight of the shadow lingering within the central thickets of the Jeju Forest, one had to understand the terrifying hierarchy of the Abyssal corruption.

What exactly was a 2nd-Tier Abomination?

Every animal, beast, or mortal human that succumbed to the horrific, chaotic radiation of the Abyss began their evolutionary descent at the 1st-Tier.

Even at this baseline level, these mutated monsters existed far beyond the realm of ordinary human physical limits.

A single 1st-Tier Abomination possessed enough kinetic force to decimate stone buildings with a single blow, requiring an entire organized squad of mundane soldiers or standard Sword Apprentices to hunt down and slay.

Yet, within the 1st-Tier, there existed a distinct ceiling.

Beasts that reached the absolute peak of this baseline tier would undergo a terrifying mutation: