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

"boom!"

A level 22 berserk armored bear crashed to the ground, its massive body twitching twice before its health bar was completely depleted.

[Successfully defeated the Berserker Armored Bear, gaining 220 experience points and 22 credits!]

Su Chen casually waved away the remaining lightning at the tip of his staff and yawned.

Lin Shiqing put away her staff, walked forward, and skillfully picked up a few gold coins and a piece of equipment emitting a black light from beside the Ironclad Bear's corpse.

"Black Iron grade bracers."

She tossed the wristband into her backpack with a look of disdain, then turned to Su Chen. "Hey, Su Chen, we've been grinding monsters here for over an hour. Aren't you going to steal other people's credits?"

"I see on the leaderboard that Zhao Tianyu, who is in second place, is constantly looking for fights. The selection process is turning into a battle royale."

Lin Shiqing retied her ponytail with a gold hairband. "Let's take a casual stroll around the outskirts, won't our credits skyrocket?"

Su Chen walked to a tree, sat down, took out a bottle of blue potion from his backpack, and took a sip.

"Grab credits? What's the rush?"

Su Chen spoke casually.

If we try to grab them now, how many credits will those freshmen have?

Running around is a waste of energy.

"Let's raise pigs first."

He smiled and said, "The rules of this selection competition are very clear: there is no ban on grabbing. This means that as time goes on, credits will continue to accumulate in the top few teams of the pyramid."

"If we go and steal now, we're just picking up sesame seeds. Once they've collected most of the credits, we'll go straight to the portal and block it."

Su Chen made a gesture as if he were pulling in a net.

"Taking down those big players all at once would save time and effort. Isn't that better than searching for people everywhere?"

Lin Shiqing was stunned for a moment, then rolled her eyes.

"You're so ruthless... But then again, if you were to try and steal that damage now, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to control yourself and would kill the person instantly."

As she spoke, she turned to look at the other armored bears.

however.

Her movements suddenly froze when her gaze fell on the armored bear.

The flesh and blood of several armored bears are twisting and dissolving in a bizarre way.

A dark purple aura emanated from their mouths and noses, corroding the surrounding grass and turning it scorched black.

A chilling, unsettling feeling spread through the air.

[WARNING: Some monsters in the dungeon have been transformed into Abyss-level monsters!]

"Little Su..."

Lin Shiqing's voice trembled slightly as she pointed at the mutating armored bears, "What... what's going on? How did these monsters... become abyssal?"

The relaxed expression on Su Chen's face vanished instantly.

He stood up, walked to the corpse, and frowned slightly as he looked at the dark purple aura that was constantly emanating from it.

"It's nothing."

Su Chen spoke calmly, offering no further explanation.

Lin Shiqing did not reply.

She looked up at Su Chen.

The boy's expression remained calm, as if he were already accustomed to this terrifying abyssal aura.

"you……"

Lin Shiqing's eyes suddenly reddened. "Are you cursed by the abyss?"

On the day the report was published, she heard from Lin Wei and Lu Qingyan more than once that Su Chen seemed to be under some kind of curse.

She was too busy being jealous that day to take it to heart.

Now it seems... Su Chen is clearly under the curse of the abyss.

Without wasting any words, Su Chen immediately unleashed a chain of lightning.

“Pah!”

The azure lightning bolts struck several armored bears. Even though they had already transformed into abyssal forms, they were still reduced to green pus in a second before the Venomous Lord.

[Successfully defeated the Berserker Armored Bear (Abyss Transformation), gaining 440 experience points and 22 credits!]

……

"Experience points have doubled, but academic credits remain the same."

Su Chen pursed his lips.

It seems the school didn't consider the possibility of monsters turning into the abyss.

"Little Su..."

Lin Shiqing bit her lip, her voice trailing off, "Being cursed by the abyss...it must be incredibly painful, right?"

Su Chen looked at the tears welling up in her eyes and was momentarily at a loss for words.

"Hey, hey, stop!"

Su Chen quickly waved his hand, "Stop imagining things, okay? What curse or not, it's just that some monsters have become abyssal."

"You lied to me again!"

Lin Shiqing sniffed, then suddenly turned her head and pretended to wipe her eyes with the back of her hand as if she were wiping sweat.

"Let me tell you, Su Zi, you're my rival who's been fighting me since we were kids...!"

"If you dare die from any backlash, I'll make you pay! From now on, no one will run dungeons with you, but I will! I'll buy you all your mana and health potions, you hear me!"

Su Chen couldn't help but laugh at her flustered appearance.

"Alright, alright, Miss Lin is rich and powerful, I'll rely on you to take care of me from now on."

Just as the two were talking, a violent commotion suddenly came from the bushes not far away.

"Help! Help me!"

"Run this way! I just checked the map, Su Shen is at these coordinates!"

Accompanied by terrified screams, more than a dozen injured freshmen scrambled out of the woods.

Behind them, three enormous Abyssal Chimeras roared as they chased after them.

【Abyssal Chimera Beast (Elite Monster)】

[Level: 25]

【Strength: 2400】

[Agility: 2600]

[Stamina: 3500]

【Spirit: 2200】

[Skills: Body Embedding, Fatal Strike]

……

"What...what kind of monster is that?"

Lin Shiqing's expression changed, and she immediately raised her staff. "This doesn't seem to be a creature from this dungeon!"

Su Chen frowned slightly.

The average of the four dimensions exceeds two thousand points... It certainly doesn't seem like a monster from the selection dungeon.

The purpose of a school is to train students, not to ruin them.

Without much hesitation, he immediately unleashed a chain of lightning.

“Pah!”

Lightning flashed between the three chimeras.

It jumped nine times in just one second.

However, for a Chimera Beast with a stamina of 3500, this damage is not fatal.

but.

next second.

"-145373518!"

"-145381584!"

"-145389650!"

"..."

Three huge damage numbers popped up.

The dozen or so fleeing freshmen didn't even see what happened before the terrifying monster that had been chasing them vanished into thin air.

"Dead...dead?"

"Instant kill?!"

"It's God Su! It really is God Su! We're saved!"

"..."

The freshmen collapsed to the ground, some even crying out of excitement.

however.

Su Chen ignored their cheers.

His gaze was fixed on the shattered Chimera carcass.

The system's kill notification did not sound.

The scattered pieces of flesh and severed limbs began to wriggle and merge rapidly the moment they touched the ground.

In just a few seconds.

The three enormous corpses split into six smaller, but equally ferocious, chimera beasts!