Eighteen-year-old Oliver Shaw is just your average, introverted high school student. No friends, no presence, no future. His life of quiet classroom corners and late-night games is turned upside down when his entire class is suddenly summoned to a fantasy world.

There, they're hailed as heroes — champions chosen by the Goddess to defeat the Demon King and save the world from destruction.

But while his classmates awaken powerful combat skills and legendary classes, Oliver is given… Linguist.
An F-rank support skill with no combat abilities and no future. Just a single line of description: "Can understand any language."

Mocked, ignored, and ultimately cast aside, Oliver finds himself abandoned at the edge of death.

But in the silence where others hear nothing… he begins to hear everything.

Now, in a world shaped by words and magic, the boy they left behind may hold the one skill that can break it all.

It didn't lead to a floor, but to a massive, cavernous expanse that defied logic. Towering stone shelves lined the walls, stretching up into the darkness, but the floor itself was a twisted forest of petrified trees and jagged rocks. The mist here was red, smelling of iron and wet fur.


[Floor: The Archive of Fangs] [Trial: Survival of the Fittest]


Oliver stopped, raising a hand. "Quiet."


Amy and Sophia froze, clutching their staffs.


"Do you hear that?" Sophia whispered, her voice trembling.


It wasn't wind. It was breathing. Hundreds of lungs, heavy and wet.


From the shadows of the petrified trees, eyes ignited. Yellow. Red. Green.


"They're waiting for us," Oliver muttered, his grip tightening on his sword. "Defensive formation. Back to back. Don't let them separate you."


A howl tore through the silence—a sound so loud it vibrated in their chests.


Chapter 128 - Defend the city [1]