Kill one monster, stack one poison, and I alone will poison my way across the world!

Su Chen and Lin Shiqing were completely unaware of what was happening inside the instance.

at this time.

The two of them arrived at the outside of a simple camp.

The campsite has a very rough and rugged style, with simple wooden structures forming various crooked buildings.

"Little Su, this is the orc camp."

Lin Shiqing cast a few scouting spells and tugged at Su Chen's sleeve: "Little Su, there are a lot of monsters and defensive towers. Let's push them slowly."

Su Chen glanced at it.

Orc Defense Tower

[Rank: Black Iron]

Attack Power: 1600

Durability: 500000

……

Unlike regular monsters, defensive towers are considered buildings.

Their armor is a separate type of city defense armor, which greatly reduces both physical and magical attacks.

If an ordinary professional were to face this, it would be extremely difficult.

We need weapons to breach the city walls to deal with this.

of course.

For Su Chen... there was absolutely no problem.

He casually tapped the ground with his staff.

next second.

Countless snake guards burst forth from the ground.

"Whoosh whoosh-!"

The orcs on the defensive towers acted quickly, immediately drawing their bows and shooting arrows, launching an attack on the snake guards.

but.

The snake guards also began to fight back.

Whoosh-!

The venom hit the turret, turning the entire turret a dark green color.

next moment.

"-143994232!"

"..."

A huge damage number popped up.

The mere 50 durability-valued Iron-grade defensive tower collapsed instantly.

The defensive tower instantly turned into a pool of green pus, and the orcs on it were thrown around in a daze.

Su Chen smiled.

What about city defense type armor?

In the face of real damage, it is still no different from a blank card.

"..."

Lin Shiqing's mouth was slightly open, her expression one of utter shock.

No.

A few days ago, when we were sprinting through the provincial capital's dungeon together, Su Chen's damage was only a little over ten million, right?

What the hell is going on here?!

Fourteen million?!

"Awooo—!"

After the defensive tower collapsed, the orcs began to charge at the two.

In a short time.

The beastmen almost formed a green ocean.

Su Chen didn't care about this at all, and simply summoned more snake guards.

"It's my turn to play tower defense."

……

Sky Dome Academy, Monitoring Hall.

A huge holographic light screen floated in the center of the hall, densely covered with light dots representing various teams.

On the right side of the screen is a real-time updated leaderboard of points.

The deans and mentors of each college were sipping tea, watching this year's "ordeal of the freshmen" with a sense of contentment.

however.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the hall was eerily quiet.

All eyes were fixed on the person at the top of the leaderboard.

【1. Su Chen/Lin Shiqing Team - Points: 4580】

【2. Zhao Tianyu's Team - Points: 320】

【3. Sun Lei's Team - Points: 280】

A precipitous lead.

and.

The score representing Su Chen's team was still fluctuating wildly at an unreasonable speed.

+50.

+120.

+300.

"Is...is there a bug in the system causing this rapid increase in points?"

The dean of the Array Master Academy wiped the cold sweat from his brow. "They've only been in the dungeon for half an hour, right? And they already have over four thousand points? How many monsters did they have to kill?"

"They must have raided a large monster lair."

"..."

Upon hearing this...

The dean and mentors all looked somewhat shocked.

A large monster's lair... is not something an ordinary five-person team can touch.

Most of the time, it requires several small teams to work together.

Even if we were to fight, it couldn't be this fast!

"It's fine if killing monsters is fast."

The Dean of the Combat Academy frowned and pointed to an area on the light screen. "Look at the map."

On the light screen.

The two points of light representing Su Chen and Lin Shiqing once again swaggered across the map.

As they moved, they encountered several points of light representing other new teams.

Logically, under this "no-looting" rule, when new teams meet, a fierce battle is bound to break out until one side is forced out of the instance or hands over their credits.

but.

The light screen showed that after the light spots of the new recruit teams came into contact with Su Chen's light spot, they not only showed no signs of fighting, but instead fled in the opposite direction as if they had seen a ghost, creating distance between them.

There were no energy fluctuations or combat records throughout the entire process.

"What's going on?"

Another dean frowned as well. "Are these freshmen forming some kind of alliance? Have they agreed to not invade each other's territory?"

"Impossible. This is a selection competition for resources. Who would jeopardize their own future?"

Everyone looked at each other, completely baffled.

At this moment, Zhao Hongtao, the director of the Academic Affairs Office who had been standing by and observing, coughed and cleared his throat.

He walked to the light screen with his hands behind his back, revealing a mysterious smile.

"Deans, your thinking is too limited."

Zhao Hongtao pointed at Su Chen's point of light, "Have you considered one possibility?"

Everyone looked at him.

"So... this freshman named Su Chen is so strong that the other teams don't even have the thought of putting up a fight?"

Zhao Hongtao paused for a moment, then said, "To subdue the enemy without fighting—that's true strength. I've said it before, there's a real dragon hidden among this year's freshmen."

Upon hearing these words, the mentors gasped in shock.

If that's the case, then the sense of oppression from this freshman named Su Chen is simply terrifying.

What could possibly make the elite students of Sky Dome Academy run away without even daring to fight?

What kind of strength does that require?

"I've heard about this kid's strength. In the playoffs... never mind, those who know, know."

"I understand what you mean."

"Heh, this kid's profession is a poison mage, he's got a knack for working with our mage academy!"

"Pah! Who says mages have to go to a mage academy? Our combat academy can train them too!"

"Deans, please stop arguing. Let me take care of this child. Please give Wang Long some face."

"Who are you? I usually respect you and call you Professor Wang. If I didn't, who would I be?"

"..."

however.

Before the dean and mentors could finish speaking...

The Dean of the Combat Academy, who had been staring at the other side of the light screen, suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

"what?"

The "Eh?" sounded particularly jarring in the quiet hall.

"Old Li, what's wrong?" a hospital director asked, turning around.

The Dean of the Combat Academy did not answer. Instead, he strode to the control panel, tapped rapidly on the virtual keyboard, and zoomed in on a corner of the map.

The area on the light screen that should have had five green dots is now empty.

"Signal from the Seventh Hunter Squad..."

The Dean of the Combat Academy's face turned extremely grim. "Disappeared."

"Disappeared?"

Zhao Hongtao was taken aback. "Were they forced out of the instance? In previous years, there have been cases where hunter teams were unexpectedly wiped out by newcomers."

"impossible."

The Dean of the Combat Academy shook his head, his face grim. "Even if they wanted to leave the instance, they would have to walk to the portal, but now, the signal has been completely erased from the system network!"

He raised his head, looking at the equally shocked crowd around him, his voice trembling slightly.

"There's only one possibility for the signal being erased... the sensors representing their vital signs were completely destroyed. They... are probably dead."

The hall fell into a deathly silence.

During the selection competition, a second-year hunter team was completely wiped out without even being able to send out a distress signal.