It had been six months since Marcus survived his first Survival Dungeon. It was meant to eliminate someone like him, but he made it out alive, but something in him had shifted.
Somehow, he had taken the final exam. Somehow, he had passed. He graduated, but confusion hung over him like a storm cloud. After that brutal fight, he had partially awakened, though he had no idea what that truly meant. There was no notification from Tacma, no update but silence.
Tacma had become... strange. The only thing Marcus remembered was a voice. One that still haunts through his dreams.
“Then stop being human...”
He didn’t rank up. He never got a class identification. He was just plain Marcus.
Unremarkably, yes, he survived but after that fight, Tacma had rebooted. And when it did, it left him wi
