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

The eerie blue exhaust plumes from the airship had long since disappeared into the thick fog above the inner city.

The deafening sonic boom gradually subsided, and once again only the mournful wails of the demonized civilians remained in the ruins.

Inside the dispelling barrier of the defensive position, the forty-nine elite seniors looked at each other in bewilderment.

"It... flew away?"

Chen Shan leaned the heavy, dark gold-grade tower shield against the broken wall, plopped down on the ground, and let out a deep sigh.

"An epic airship... a supersonic race at 800 kilometers per hour..."

Zhang Ming pushed up his cracked glasses and gave a wry smile. "I think I've figured it out now. Su Shen is from a completely different world than us."

Li Huo'er also put down her staff, rubbing her sore shoulders as she walked to a corner.

"But... even if we have an epic-level airship to solve the map traversal problem, those four nodes aren't so easy to dismantle."

The Assassin class member frowned and took out a tattered parchment guide, a precious document left behind by their team's predecessors.

He pointed to four red dots on the map and said in a serious tone, "Look, these four Abyss Corruption Nodes are not static wooden stakes."

"The Eastern Node is located in an abandoned arena, where tens of thousands of mutated beasts roam, and a level 60 BOSS guards the entrance."

"The southern node, located in the Royal Tomb, has an extremely narrow terrain, is full of poisonous traps, and has an endless sea of ​​skeletons that can resurrect."

The assassin swallowed hard, her voice trembling slightly.

"The most terrifying are the northern and western nodes."

"Especially the last node, according to the guide, the barrier there has an [instant death] buff!"

"Back then, the War God team lost two of their top warriors right here!"

Upon hearing about these mechanisms, the crowd, who were initially stunned by Su Chen's airship, gradually calmed down.

"Yeah... what's the use of flying fast?"

One of the mage students sighed, "Airships are only good for getting around. You can't exactly fly an airship into a boss, can you? When you get there, you'll still have to land and fight by hand, right?"

"Those four locations are each like the final stage of a large guild dungeon, with hordes of monsters, deadly poison, environmental kills, instant-death buffs... they're all hellish mechanics!"

Chen Shan pulled a piece of dry rations from his backpack, took a big bite, and mumbled, "I think Su Shen might have overestimated himself this time."

"I think even if he wins, it will take him at least twenty hours."

Li Huo'er glanced at the time. "This is under the ideal condition that he doesn't make any mistakes and isn't instantly killed by the instant-death buff."

"Twenty hours..."

The assassin-type beauty let out a long breath and lay sprawled on the ground.

"Alright, since we're going to have to wait this long, brothers, let's get on with our business."

"Anyway, I won't die in this barrier, so I might as well treat this as camping in a Calamity-level dungeon."

As he finished speaking, the forty-nine senior elites snapped out of their tense combat state.

Someone took out a makeshift tent from their backpack and began setting it up.

Someone took out a magic stove and started a fire, preparing to cook some hot soup.

Chen Shan even pulled out a deck of cards and invited a few of his acquaintances to come and play cards.

"Three to three."

"Go for it! Eight!"

"This dungeon is so damn boring."

"Be content. If you had actually gone to fight, you'd be dead by now. Su Shen is risking his life while we're just watching from the sidelines. Those 100,000 credits were well spent!"

The old general leaned against the broken wall, watching the group of young people playing cards and cooking soup in the Calamity-level dungeon, his cloudy eyes filled with confusion.

He had spent his entire military career and had never seen anything like it.

Time passed by, second by second.

The roars outside the barrier seemed to become background noise.

The rich broth in the pot began to bubble and release an enticing aroma.

Chen Shangang slammed the pair of royal flushes in his hand onto the ground.

"A royal flush! Pay up! Pay up!"

Just then.

"bite--"

A crisp, heavenly system notification sound rang out in everyone's ears without warning.

[Note: The Eastern Abyss Corruption Node has been destroyed.]

Remaining nodes: 3/4

Chen Shan's hand suddenly froze.

Li Huo'er, who was drinking soup, almost choked to death.

Zhang Ming suddenly looked up and glanced at the timer on his wrist.

"Nine...nine forty-five?"

Zhang Ming's voice sounded like a rooster being strangled, "Only eleven minutes have passed since he flew away?!"

"Ten minutes to destroy a node?! Including the time it took to fly there, how many minutes did it take him to clear the monsters after landing?!"

"How is this possible!"

The assassin-type heartthrob threw away his playing cards, exclaiming, "There's a boss and tens of thousands of monsters at the Eastern Node!"

However, before they could recover from their shock...

Ten minutes later.

"bite--"

[Note: The Southern Abyss Corruption Node has been destroyed.]

Remaining nodes: 2/4

This time, the entire defensive position fell into a deathly silence.

Only the soup in the pot was still bubbling away.

Ten minutes later.

"bite--"

[Note: The Western Abyss Corruption Node has been destroyed.]

Remaining nodes: 1/4

The system's notification sounds were like death knells, one after another.

"He's insane... absolutely insane..."

Chen Shan's legs went weak, and he knelt directly on the ground, his rugged face filled with a blank stare that seemed to doubt the meaning of life.

"Ten minutes to dismantle one node? Is he dismantling building blocks?!"

"Doesn't the southern node have an endless horde of resurrected skeletons?! Doesn't the western node have a poisonous maze?! Doesn't he even need to find his way?!"

"Is this some kind of Calamity-level dungeon or a parkour game?!"

Li Huo'er stared wide-eyed: "The last one... the last node has an [instant death] buff! Shouldn't he stop and think about how to break the mechanism?"

Everyone held their breath, staring intently at the system panel on their retina.

One minute.

five minutes.

ten minutes.

"See! It's stuck!"

Zhang Ming grasped at a straw, "Ten minutes have passed! He definitely has to get out..."

"bite--"

[Note: The Northern Abyss Corruption Node has been destroyed.]

Remaining nodes: 0/4

[Mission: Stop the spread, completed!]

[Time taken: 42 minutes and 15 seconds.]

[Rewards have been distributed, and the teleportation array to the central royal city has been activated.]

……

boom!

These few lines of golden text were like several heavy hammers, shattering the last bit of common sense in these forty-nine people.

Forty-two minutes!

Thirty-hour task limit!

He used an epic airship to speed through the city, and in just 42 minutes, he swept through four extremely difficult points located far away in the inner city!

Strange sea? Gone in seconds.

A highly poisonous trap? Ignore it.

Instant death buff?

Before the instant-death buff takes effect, why not just destroy the barrier along with the boss?

Clang.

The iron pot in Chen Shan's hand fell to the ground, spilling scalding hot meat soup all over the floor.

"Forty-two minutes..."

Chen Shan muttered to himself, his eyes terrifyingly empty.

"The War God team fought for three days and three nights, and more than a dozen people died."

"He only took forty-two minutes."

The Assassin-type Grass lay sprawled on the ground like a lump of mud, watching the abyssal poisonous miasma gradually dissipate in the sky, emitting a neurotic sound that was both crying and laughing.

"What were we just discussing?"

"Would it take him twenty hours to discuss? Or should we just camp out in a tent and sleep there?"

"The Joker is actually myself..."