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"It can't die just like that, could it?"

An unsettling silence descended on the battlefield.

Nox stared at the massive, unmoving corpse of the Dreadfiend Tyrant. His breaths were ragged, his muscles ached from the brutal fight, and his mind buzzed with confusion.

'That was… too easy,' he thought. A boss of this magnitude shouldn't have gone down without more resistance. The fight, though intense, felt anticlimactic at the end. His instincts screamed at him that something was wrong.

Nox clenched his fists and summoned his status panel, specifically reactivating his [Monster Kill Notification]. He had turned it off earlier to avoid distractions during the life-or-death encounter.

[Monster Kill Notification: Activated.]

He waited.

Nothing.

His eyes widened. No kill notification.

A faint vibration rumbled beneath his feet.

Nox's heart raced.

His grip tightened around the hilt of Oblivion Edge.