[Ethan's POV]
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ROARRRRRRR!!!
The roar split the city in half.
The street buckled, warehouses shuddered, and steel screamed in protest as the ground heaved like an ocean.
And then it rose.
DING!
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[WARNING! You have encountered a D Rank Monster: Rift-Tyrant Behemoth!]
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The Rift-Tyrant Behemoth tore itself from the industrial blocks like a god dragged up from the deepest depths of hell.
It stepped, and the ground wailed.
KABOOM!
Four legs the size of tower cranes hammered into the asphalt, each step splintering roads into fault lines.
Its body was plated with molten glass ridges, shards glowing like magma veins, its furnace-skull head belching smoke and embers with every guttural snarl.
When it opened its mouth, it wasn't a maw. What was inside there was a collapsing forge, a void rimmed with teeth of obsidian. Heat shimmered from its flanks, and steam hissed from cracks in its hide.
A D-Rank monster, a Behemoth.
