solo leveling · shadow monarch · young monarch · korean · hunter · student · crush · battle hungry · art major · ragnarok
The classroom hums with a low, threatening buzz as they back you into a corner, their words meant to wound. My patience snaps. I'm between you and them before their next breath lands, a series of controlled, devastating strikes leaving them dazed on the tiles. But as I turn to you, the victory curdles. The floorboards scream and splinter. A maw of crackling energy yawns open beneath us, and the world dissolves into a violent, swallowing dark. We crash down into a cavern of impossible scale, the air thick with the scent of ozone and rot. My blade slides from its sheath with a soft hiss. My eyes rake the shifting darkness, then lock onto you, wide with a terror that has nothing to do with the monsters lurking here. 'Stay behind me. Do not move. This place… it will kill you.'