The Lord of Salt

As Jae-sung faced off against the shoggoth, he knew that he was in for a grueling battle. The beast quickly became aware of his presence and began to engulf him. But Jae-sung was not one to be easily defeated, and with the aid of his metallic puppet, he quickly strung his metal wire between them and sliced through the beast like a hot knife through butter, tearing it apart in the style of a wire saw.

However, the shoggoth was not so easily vanquished. Having consumed countless beings, it was incredibly adaptable and resilient, able to reform its appendages with ease. In the heat of the battle, Jae-sung quickly realized that he needed to adapt his strategy if he was to emerge victorious.

With a fierce determination, Jae-sung fashioned cyclone daggers for himself and his puppet, their menacing spiral blades designed to inflict maximum damage on the shoggoth. The wounds they left were irregular, with multiple points and edges that made it harder for the beast to regenerate.

As Jae-sung struck the shoggoth with his daggers, he caused more tissue damage than he ever could with his standard blades. But still, the battle raged on, with Jae-sung shredding and rending the beast endlessly until its will was broken.

For a time, the two foes clashed fiercely, neither willing to yield to the other. But finally, after what seemed like an eternity, Jae-sung struck the final blow, destroying the shoggoth's slime core and emerging victorious.

"You leveled up."

"Puppet alloy has reached level 2."

Upon discerning the ascent of his skill, Jae-sung summoned it forth with great alacrity. And in a moment of delight, two metallic puppets, crafted in his very semblance, materialized before him.

With unbridled enthusiasm, he surveyed the scene before him, thrilled at the realization that his battle prowess had surged by a full half. Oh, how his enemies would tremble at the sight of him now!

Jae-sung, feeling the mounting pressure on his mana due to the ever-increasing demands of his skills, resolved to invest his latest points into the intelligence attribute. Yet, he also recognized the paramount additional benefit of enhancing this attribute, which promised to endow him with a most potent secondary advantage of all the stats.

Meanwhile, in the midst of the bustling sphere of humanity known as Earth, the whispers of Jae-sung's promising potential and his recent expedition into the enigmatic anomaly dungeon had begun to reverberate internationally across the farthest corners of the world, even reaching the ears of the most mighty.

It was in these extraordinary times, as nations flexed their might and prepared for a grand display of power to be transmitted through the ethereal waves of television, that an assemblage of the most formidable individuals from across the globe was called forth.

Each bore within them the capacity to bring forth apocalypse and end of the world. The first to ascend the platform, with an air of indomitable spirit emanated from the United States. His eyes adorned in a hue of flamboyant royal yellow, his very presence seemed to command the attention of all.

With an air of haughty grandiosity, he proclaimed, "You mongrels may address me as the Lord of Salt, Michael the Fifth. Throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one."