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

After bidding farewell to the Poison Granny, Su Chen followed the hidden, rotten path in the Bone Forest, heading deeper into the back mountains.

It took about ten minutes to walk.

The gray-white trees ahead thinned out, and a huge underground fissure came into view.

The edges of the crack were covered with purplish-black moss, and a pungent green miasma was constantly billowing out of the cave entrance.

This is the Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons.

Su Chen stood at the edge of the rift and habitually cast a scouting spell around him.

【The Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons】

[Dungeon Rarity: Nightmare]

[Dungeon Level: 25-30]

[Number of players: Maximum 1]

[Instance Time: None]

……

Nightmare-level single-player dungeon!

The area outside the instance was deserted; apart from the strangely shaped poisonous plants, there wasn't a soul in sight.

Su Chen noticed a wooden sign standing prominently amidst the swirling green miasma.

[Assassin's Academy Warm Reminder: This instance is extremely dangerous, please return immediately!]

"No wonder no one's coming..."

Su Chen clicked his tongue.

The fact that the Assassin's Academy has such a sign suggests that many people have died there.

Without hesitation, he stepped directly into the swirling green miasma.

[Notification: You have entered the Ten Thousand Poison Cave dungeon!]

[Warning: You have been exposed to environmental toxins!]

"-20"

"-20"

"-20"

"..."

As soon as he stepped into the cave, countless red damage numbers began to flash wildly on Su Chen's retina.

A fixed 20 health points are deducted every second.

Su Chen glanced at his pitiful stamina.

Without any protection, the 20 points of magic damage per second hitting him is almost the same as real damage, and it would kill him on the spot in just a few minutes.

Fortunately, he was still wearing the [Abyss Dragon Language Robe], which provided a shield of over 80,000 points. The 20-point consumption per second was nothing to him, barely even a tickle.

"When ordinary people come in, they have to be constantly given red pills."

Su Chen made a comment and, using the faint light emitted by his staff, began to examine the interior of the cave.

The cave was much larger than I had imagined, with stalactites hanging upside down and the ground pitted and filled with foul-smelling green puddles.

"Hiss—"

A sickening scraping sound came from the dark corner ahead.

Su Chen looked up and saw several spiders, each the size of a washbasin and covered in purplish-black pustules, rapidly crawling down the stalactites.

A reconnaissance spell was cast.

【Corrupting Spider】

[Level: 25]

【Strength: 800】

[Agility: 1500]

[Stamina: 2000]

【Spirit: 500】

[Skills: Venom Splash, Venomous Blood Backlash, Toxin Immunity]

[Venom Spray: Spits venom from a distance, dealing (Spirit * 1.5) poison magic damage and inflicting 1 stack of [Poisoned] status (reduces Spirit * 0.5 health per second for 5 seconds).]

[Poisonous Backlash (Passive): When attacked by melee or ranged physical/magical attacks, forcibly inflicts 1 stack of the [Poison] status on the attacker.]

[Toxin Immunity (Passive): Immune to all poison-based magic damage.]

……

Su Chen was speechless after looking at the panel.

Holy crap, what kind of weird monster mechanics are these?

If you hit it, you'll get poisoned; if it hits you, you'll get poisoned too. Is this hedgehog some kind of monster?

The level 25 normal monster doesn't have very high stats.

But that passive skill, [Poisonous Blood Backlash], is absolutely disgusting.

If you cut it, you'll get poisoned.

If you get hit by it, you'll lose health.

So no matter what, you're going to get poisoned.

Not to mention the [toxin immunity] property.

"Immune to poison magic damage? Sorry, I deal true damage."

Su Chen chuckled.

This poisonous spider is indeed troublesome; an ordinary professional would be disgusted to death if they encountered it.

But for him... there's absolutely no need for him to get involved.

"Time to get out and work."

Su Chen raised the Explosive Staff in his hand, and his mana instantly poured out.

Corrosive Serpent Guard!

Sizzle—!

Hundreds of snake guards appeared instantly.

These snake guards, barely formed, immediately locked onto the venomous spider crawling down from above.

puff!puff!puff!

A barrage of venomous bullets, like machine gun fire, shot out from the snake guard's mouth, striking the venomous spiders with pinpoint accuracy.

"-186702088!"

"-186725235!"

"-186748382!"

"..."

After drinking the tea from the Poison Granny, Su Chen's poison damage increased by 20%.

Without any suspense, the moment the level 25 Corruption Spiders came into contact with the Serpent Guard's venom, their pitiful health bars were instantly emptied.

Before it could even scream, it turned into a puddle of pus emitting white smoke.

[Successfully killed a level 25 Corrupted Spider, experience +1750]

[Successfully killed a level 25 Corrupted Spider, experience +1750]

[Successfully killed a level 25 Corrupted Spider, experience +1750]

……

Even in nightmare-level dungeons, level 25 normal monsters don't give much experience.

In addition to the kill notification, several snake guards were instantly poisoned.

Their stamina was inherited from Su Chen, and they were poisoned to death in just a few seconds.

But Su Chen didn't take it seriously at all.

We have as many snake guards as we need, and exchanging them one for one is perfectly acceptable.

Su Chen didn't linger and began to rampage through the Ten Thousand Poisons Cave.

As they went deeper, the light inside the cave grew dimmer, and the surrounding green miasma became increasingly dense.

A wide underground cave appeared ahead.

In the swamp.

Instead of those spiders the size of washbasins, there were hundreds of enormous pythons, their bodies covered in green scales.

【Azure Scale Poisonous Python (Elite Monster)】

[Level: 27]

【Strength: 2500】

[Agility: 2000]

[Stamina: 5000]

【Spirit: 1500】

[Skills: Toxin Immunity, Death Strangulation, Corrosive Poison Mist]

[Death Strangle: Entangles the target, dealing physical damage equal to 2 points of Strength, and inflicting 1 stack of Poison.]

[Corrosive Mist: Sprays a large area of ​​poisonous mist in a fan shape in front. Targets within the mist take (Spirit*2) magic damage per second and are inflicted with the [Slow] and [Poison] statuses.]

……

Su Chen's eyes lit up as he looked at the hundreds of giant pythons writhing in the mud.

This [Corrosive Mist] skill is quite interesting; it's a large-area AOE attack that also slows enemies and causes continuous damage.

If he had that skill, wouldn't he be able to take off on the spot?

Su Chen touched his chin.

It's a pity that this game doesn't drop skill books from monsters, otherwise you'd have to farm them to get one.

"Hiss—!"

Sensing the presence of the intruder, hundreds of Azure Scaled Serpents simultaneously raised their massive heads, their cold, vertical pupils fixed on Su Chen.

next second.

They opened their gaping maws, and a thick green poisonous mist swept towards Su Chen's location like a tsunami!