Grandfather Mandok Shingun and Hwa-eun gazed at the beautiful Neidan in a trance, their expressions blank with awe. But the moment I saw the creature that had spat it out—now reduced to a pitiful one-meter form—a scream tore from my throat.

“Gyaaaaaah!”

And my legs gave out beneath me.

—Thud.

“What?! What’s wrong, So-ryong? Are you hurt?”

“What happened, So-ryong? Did you get hit by debris?”

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I sat there, staring down at the pitiful-looking Bi-cheon Shin-sa with hollow eyes.

“My… my Bi-cheon Shin-sa…”

“What about it?”

“What happened to it?”

“It looks… so pathetic… After all that effort to catch it…”

“…Uh…”

“…Ahem.”

—Shaaa?

The magnificent six-meter-long beast, with its dazzling sapphire scales and its proud, emerald-like hexagonal horns—

Gone.

What remained before me was a pitiful, one-meter-long snake.

Its once-glossy cobalt scales had faded to a dull sky blue.

Its grand twin horns had vanished, leaving only two tiny, stubby little goblin-like nubs on its head.

All the hardships I had endured to capture this thing came rushing back, and I was hit with overwhelming despair.

Days of struggling alongside a team composed solely of thieves and hunters, trading aggro, deciphering its patterns, chasing it through sleepless nights—

And now, my Bi-cheon Shin-sa had shrunk like a deflated balloon.

A once magnificent Rare-grade creature had downgraded to something barely Uncommon.

“That beautiful form… I never told it to consume its Neidan! Why did it do this!?”

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