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

"Hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss—!!!"

Thirty-five thousand dark purple venomous rays intertwined to form an impenetrable net of death above Ashtown.

The thousands of Abyssal Limb-Splitters at the forefront didn't even have time to let out a scream.

Their proud 15,000 points of stamina melted instantly upon contact with the venom ray.

[Highly Toxic] trait triggered.

"-5225688000!"

"-5225712000!"

"-5225844000!"

"..."

The terrifying true damage figures, reaching five billion, rained down like a purplish-black waterfall, flooding the skies above Ashtown.

The densely packed numbers piled up together completely obscured the dark purple sky.

The monsters in the front row instantly turned into puddles of pus bubbling with green.

The Shadow Throwers in the back row had just raised their black fireballs when the venom ray pierced their skulls with precision.

"Clatter."

The burning fireball fell to the ground, evaporating completely along with the body of the person who threw it.

[Successfully defeated the level 50 normal monster, Abyss Limb Splitter, experience +1000]

[Successfully defeated the level 50 normal monster, Abyss Limb Splitter, experience +1000]

[Successfully killed the level 50 elite monster Shadow Thrower, experience +4000]

The system's kill notification sound flooded the screen.

Su Chen picked at his ear.

He took out a bottle of intermediate mana restoration potion from his backpack, bit off the stopper, and took a sip.

On the city wall behind Su Chen, the formation of the forty-nine senior elites had completely broken down.

Because... there's no need for a formation at all.

Zhang Ming stared blankly at the vacuum zone outside the town, which had been plowed flat by venom, his mind a complete blank.

"Fifty...ten billion damage?"

Zhang Ming's voice was so soft it was almost a whisper, "Did I see that right? That damage number... had tens of digits?"

Chen Shan collapsed to the ground, casually tossing the dark gold-grade tower shield aside.

He looked down at his hands, then at his proud attribute panel.

【Strength: 2500】

Normally in the academy, this attribute is enough for him to walk around with impunity, and he is revered as a god of the Berserker class by his juniors.

But now, he feels that his 2,500 strength is a joke.

"What's the point of fighting now...?"

Chen Shan shook his head with a wry smile, then simply took out a pack of cigarettes from his backpack, pulled one out and put it in his mouth. "I haven't even seen what the monster looks like yet, and my health bar is already gone."

Li Huo'er had completely given up thinking.

She walked to the edge of the city wall, leaned on the parapet with both hands, and looked down at the purple forest composed of 35,000 totem poles, her eyes filled with confusion.

"Could this be some kind of special dungeon mechanic item?"

Li Huo'er muttered to herself, "Impossible, the guide didn't mention anything about Ashtown having such a powerful weapon..."

"Wake up, Sister Li."

The stealthy assassin next to Chen Shan plopped down beside him. "That's Su Shen's own skill. Didn't you see those pillars were created by him snapping his fingers?"

The assassin-type grass stared blankly at the barrage of billions of damage messages, his eyes completely numbed.

"The way we spent those 100,000 credits is just too damn magical."

"I originally thought that there was still some risk in carrying 49 people, so I bought a lot of life-saving items."

"And the result?"

The assassin pointed at Su Chen, who was sitting on the crenellation drinking blue potions, and then pointed to the abyss monsters below that couldn't even touch the edge of the city wall.

"This is what you call farming the Calamity dungeon? It's easier than farming Undercity, okay?"

"..."

The forty-nine soon-to-be graduates were completely convinced.

I've entered a bizarre "I'm useless, I'm just lying here" sage mode.

Several students had even put away their weapons and huddled together to discuss which restaurant to go to for a meal after they cleared the game.

The NPC guards on the city wall were no less impacted than they were.

The greatsword in the hands of the guard captain, Raine, was still dripping black blood. He remained frozen in place, like a stone statue, in a posture ready to fight to the death.

Just minutes before, he had prepared to perish with Ashtown.

A few minutes later, the monsters outside the city walls had been cleared, creating a vacuum circle with a radius of several hundred meters.

"Is...is this the power of the savior?"

Raine swallowed hard, his legs went weak, and he knelt down on one knee behind Su Chen with a thud, pounding his chest with his right hand.

"My lord! Your power is comparable to that of a god!"

As Raine made his move, the remaining dozens of NPC guards all knelt down in unison.

Su Chen glanced back at them but didn't reply.

He glanced at the snake guards.

Although the 35,000 snake guards had fierce firepower, their range was only 100 meters.

As the front row of monsters was cleared out, the monsters in the back row seemed to be terrified by the terrifying damage and began to linger in the distance, no longer daring to charge forward.

"The range is a bit insufficient."

Su Chen said casually.

Raine, being a battle-hardened NPC, immediately understood upon hearing Su Chen's mutterings.

He whirled around and yelled at the several stunned NPC mages behind him, "Mage group! What are you all standing there for! Cast [Blessing of Wind] on the master's summoned creatures! Now!"

The NPC mages seemed to wake from a dream, scrambling to the city wall, raising their worn-out staffs, and beginning to chant.

A light green breeze began to swirl around the outermost snake guards.

[Blessing of the Wind: Increases movement speed by 50% for 3 minutes.]

Instantly.

Suddenly, countless fine roots sprouted from the bottom of the snake guards, and they began to wriggle outwards at an extremely strange speed, like centipedes.

"hiss--!"

The Serpent Guards' line of fire advanced dozens of meters in an instant, bringing the monsters that were trying to escape back into their firing range.

"Hiss hiss hiss hiss—"

The damage figures of five billion have once again soared.

The killing continued.

Zhang Ming was utterly speechless at the sight.

"Not only is it monstrous itself, but it can also coordinate with NPCs to advance automatically... These summoned creatures can even move?!"

He silently turned on the recording function of the team channel and aimed it at the purple inferno outside the city walls.

He felt that once they left the dungeon, even if he talked himself hoarse, the instructors in the academy would never believe what had happened in the Fallen Capital that day.

Only this video can prove what kind of perverse experience these forty-nine people witnessed.

One hour later.

The once densely packed, sky-covering horde of abyssal monsters was completely wiped out.

Outside Ashtown, only a thick layer of foul-smelling green slime remained.

Not even a complete monster corpse was left behind.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Shortly after the settlement notification for the first phase faded, the earth suddenly began to tremble violently.

This tremor was completely different from the feeling of the monster tide that had surged before.

It was an extremely heavy feeling, as if every step was pressing down on the heart.

The dark purple sky, which had brightened slightly after the monsters were cleared out, was instantly shrouded in thick black fog again.

In the clouds, purplish-black lightning crisscrossed wildly like a spider web, emitting a deafening roar.

The putrid smell of sulfur in the air was so strong at that moment that it was nauseating.

"What's going on?!"

Chen Shan, who had just been sitting on the ground smoking, suddenly jumped up, dropping the cigarette butt from his hand.

He instinctively grabbed the tower shield and stared intently at the black mist deep within the ruins outside the town.

"Something's wrong... this pressure is strange!"

Zhang Ming's voice suddenly cut off as he frantically scrolled through the strategy guides on his phone, exclaiming, "What the hell is this?!"

"It's the BOSS!"

Renn, kneeling on the city wall, suddenly roared like a madman.

The voice just fell.

A massive black shadow, twenty meters tall, slowly tore out of the black mist.

It was an extremely deformed, terrifying Frankenstein's monster.

Its lower body was a huge mass of flesh pieced together from countless rotting limbs and agonizing, twisted faces, while its upper body was a demon clad in heavy, dark gold armor with four thick arms.

In each of its hands, it held a massive weapon burning with eerie green abyssal demonic flames.

【Lord of the Abyss - Baltu (Dark Gold Rank BOSS)】

[Level: 55]

【Strength: 85000】

[Agility: 52000]

[Physical Fitness: 125000]

【Spirit: 80000】

[Skills: Abyssal Demon Flame, Endless Stomp, Dark Gold Domain - Despair]

……

"boom!"

As Baltu fully appeared, a dark golden halo emanated from him and instantly swept across the entire Ashtown.

[Dark Gold Realm: Despair]!

The moment this area was covered, the forty-nine elites on the city wall turned pale almost simultaneously.

"Forehead!"

Li Huo'er's knees buckled and she knelt on the ground.

She felt as if a sledgehammer had struck her chest, and even breathing became a luxury.

"Eighty-five thousand units of strength...one hundred and twenty-five thousand units of stamina..."

Chen Shan gritted his teeth and used the tower shield to support his body.

But those thick arms were trembling uncontrollably. "These stats... is this the kind of boss that should appear in the outer city stage?!"

"This is Baltu!"

Zhang Ming lay prone on the edge of the city wall, his eyes bloodshot with extreme fear. He roared in despair, "The guide says it only roams the outer city and is a wild boss. How did it appear in Ash Town?!"

"Could it be because Su Shen killed too quickly just now, triggering some hidden mechanism?!"

"..."

"It's over... 125,000 stamina, plus a dark gold-level damage reduction field, this is simply inhuman!"

Fear instantly overwhelmed the forty-nine people.

If they thought Su Chen could wear down the previous monster wave by using a large number of summoned creatures, then they believed he could defeat it.

So what use are these fragile snake guards against a Dark Gold-level BOSS with a stamina of up to 120,000?

With a single [Endless Stomp], Baltu could crush a large swarm of Serpent Guards!

"Ants..."

Bartu opened his four gaping maws and let out a deafening roar.

The sound waves transformed into tangible shockwaves, shattering the bricks and stones on the city wall.

"die!"

It raised four massive weapons burning with demonic flames, and with heavy, mountain-like strides, charged toward the walls of Ashtown like a runaway heavy tank.

With each step, the earth cracks open, creating a huge fissure.

The earth-shattering power caused Raine and the NPC guards to completely give up resistance and close their eyes in despair.

"Su... Su Shen..."

Chen Shan turned his head to look at Su Chen, his voice already trembling with tears.

He genuinely felt that this was going to be a disaster.

This is a level 55 Dark Gold BOSS, the true overlord of this outer city ruins!

however.

Su Chen simply stood at the edge of the city wall, watching the enormous monster charging menacingly towards him, his brows furrowing slightly.

"It's so noisy."

Su Chen picked at his ear impatiently.

He casually waved his staff.

Boom! ...

The fireball struck Baltu squarely.

next second.

A dense, almost blackish green energy suddenly and violently exploded inside Baltuna's massive body without warning.

next moment.

"-5366824000!"

A damage number so enormous it would make your retina rupture popped out from Baltu's massive demon head.

5.3 billion.

Bartu, who was running wildly, suddenly froze on the spot with his body as heavy as a mountain.

Its four fiery weapons, raised high and ready to smash into the city wall, froze in mid-air.

Its four ferocious, roaring faces froze at that moment, their expressions turning into one of unbelievable astonishment.

"Click."

A soft, crisp sound rang out clearly in the deathly silence of the battlefield.

Followed by.

Under the stunned gazes of the forty-nine elite NPCs and all the NPC guards.

Baltuna's massive body, covered in dark gold heavy armor, resembled a weathered statue that had stood for millions of years, crumbling inch by inch starting from its head.

"Splash..."

That twenty-meter-high mountain of flesh transformed directly into a cloud of green, viscous water.

"Clatter".

Several pieces of equipment radiating dark gold and golden light, along with a large amount of materials, fell from mid-air and crashed into the ruins with a crisp sound.

From the moment of appearance.

Go to the release area to show off.

Then it was completely wiped out.

The entire process took only three seconds.

"Boom!"

With the BOSS's demise, the oppressive black mist and purple lightning in the sky seemed to have lost their source of power, instantly dissipating completely.

[Successfully defeated the level 55 Dark Gold BOSS, Lord of the Abyss, Baltu, gaining 2400000 experience points!]

The system notification sounded particularly abrupt in the deathly silence.

On the city wall.

Those forty-nine senior students, who had just been immersed in endless despair and thought they were doomed to die today, were now rooted to the spot like wooden stakes.

Chen Shan's mouth was wide open enough to fit a watermelon.

Zhang Ming's glasses slipped down to the tip of his nose, but he didn't even reach out to fix them.

Li Huo'er stared blankly at her trembling hands, her mind a complete blank.

"Fifty-three billion?"

Someone, in a sleepwalking voice, read out the damage number that was still floating in mid-air and hadn't completely dissipated.

"Damn! That's a whopping 5.3 billion damage! Not a single bit of damage reduction!"

"What the hell is that damage?! How did he even manage to deal that?!"

"A Dark Gold-level BOSS with 125,000 stamina was instantly killed without even uttering a sound?!"

"Could our deans... even with their full-force attacks, deal a fraction of that damage?"

"..."

If the fact that the 35,000 snake guards had just instantly killed the monsters made them think that Su Chen was an unreasonable numerical monster, then Su Chen's actions were truly remarkable.

Now, Su Chen's casual strike, which instantly killed the Dark Gold-level BOSS, has completely robbed them of their ability to think.

Outside the city walls.

The few abyssal monsters that had been lingering in the distance, upon seeing their lord instantly killed, let out mournful cries and turned to flee like madmen, disappearing completely in the blink of an eye.

Su Chen remained calm.

I already killed him instantly once before, even using the Poisonous Explosion technique. Now it seems that the Poisonous Lord can die with just a simple jump.

However, once the team grew to 50 people, the experience points distributed were really too few.

He turned around and looked at the group of petrified senior students on the city wall.

"It was agreed upon beforehand."

Su Chen pointed to the pile of loot in the ruins, which was gleaming with an alluring light, and said, "All the dropped items are mine."

Su Chen's words finally pulled the group back from their daze.

"Huh? Oh! Right, right, right! Loot the corpse!"

Zhang Ming suddenly realized what was happening.

Chen Shan and the others also realized what was happening and craned their necks.

Although they agreed not to touch the drops, they also wanted to see what such a terrifying BOSS would drop.

Su Chen stepped forward and casually scooped it up.

[Hint: Obtained the [Demon Lord's Decapitation Greatsword (Dark Gold Grade)].]

[Hint: Obtained [Magic Spirit Armor (Dark Gold Grade)].]

[Hint: Obtained Magic Essence (Rare Material) *2.]

[Hint: Obtained a [High-Grade Skill Stone (Dark Gold)].]

[Hint: You have received 7045568 gold coins.]

……

Huge explosion.

There are two pieces of Dark Gold equipment, one of which, the Demon Lord's Decapitation Greatsword, had been dropped once before.

However, since they were all level 55 equipment, Su Chen didn't hesitate and threw them directly into his backpack.

Glug!

Someone swallowed hard.

They were all top students at Sky Dome Academy, and they could tell what the spoils were at a glance.

Dark Gold grade equipment!!

If this were on the market, it would be snapped up like crazy!

but.

They all looked obedient and showed no dissatisfaction with Su Chen keeping all the spoils for himself.

Su Chen didn't bother to explain and said, "Let's go."

He looked towards the black city walls in the distance.

With the outer city phase over, the next step is to truly enter the core area of ​​the fallen capital.