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

Su Chen's gaze lingered on the helmet, which emitted a blend of dark gold and purple light, for two seconds.

The Fallen King's Helmet (Epic)

[Usage Requirements: Level 60]

"Level 60 again..."

Su Chen looked at the line of red usage requirements and silently complained to himself.

The level restrictions in the underworld meant that I finally managed to collect two pieces of the set, but they just ended up gathering dust in my backpack.

He was too lazy to look at it any further and simply swept the helmet and skill stones into his backpack.

With the armor I got from soloing before, this epic battle set is now taking shape.

If you could collect a complete set and sell it, an epic set of equipment would definitely fetch an astronomical price. Unfortunately, for now it's just a collectible that takes up space.

After confirming that not a single copper coin remained on the ground, Su Chen turned around and looked at the hidden stone door behind the throne.

"Keep up."

He casually uttered two words and walked towards the stone gate first.

The forty-eight pendants, as if granted a pardon, quickly lined up in two columns and followed stealthily behind.

Passing through the stone gate, there is a wide, straight stone staircase leading downwards.

There was no light source inside the passage, only the occasional flashes of dark purple abyssal energy veins on the stone walls on both sides, emitting a faint and eerie light.

The stench in the air was several times stronger than before, and the temperature had dropped to freezing.

We had just walked down a hundred meters or so.

In the group, the assassin who had previously spoken to Zhang Ming at the defensive position suddenly stopped in his tracks.

His eyes gleamed with an eerie gray-white light, a unique ability of high-level assassins known as "Eagle Eye Perception."

"Wait, wait a minute..."

The assassin's voice was extremely low, trembling uncontrollably.

He strode to the front of the group and stopped abruptly three meters away from Su Chen, bowing slightly.

"Su Shen... there's an ambush ahead."

Su Chen stopped, turned around and glanced at him, raising an eyebrow slightly.

"ambush?"

"Yes, yes."

The assassin swallowed hard, cold sweat trickling down his forehead. "My skill has a [Beyond Visual Perception] that allows me to ignore most terrain obstacles. About four hundred meters ahead... the cracks in the stone walls and the ceiling of the passage are teeming with monsters, densely packed together."

Upon hearing this, a hint of surprise flashed in Su Chen's eyes.

Wow, you can even see that?

Last time he soloed the dungeon, because he didn't have advanced reconnaissance skills, he walked 500 meters deep before triggering the monster's ambush mechanism.

I almost got slapped in the face by those Abyss Rift Stalkers that kept refreshing right up to my face.

It seems that these senior students aren't entirely useless people just here to gain experience.

The fact that Sky Dome Academy can rank them as top students shows they have some real talent.

At least their reconnaissance capabilities are very strong.

"understood."

Su Chen nodded. "You all wait here."

Having said that, he gripped the Wrath of Annihilation and continued walking down the stone steps without looking back.

"Su Shen!"

The assassin-type heartthrob panicked and instinctively whispered, "We can't go down like this! There are too many monsters there!"

Zhang Ming, who was behind, also came closer, looking at the dark passage below with a pale face: "God Su, ambushes in these narrow passages are the most deadly. This is a typical saturation attack formation. The monsters in front are responsible for blocking, while the monsters above are responsible for cutting off the back row. Once you go in, there's not even room to cast spells!"

"Yeah, Su Shen, how about we form a formation here and try to lure them over little by little to fight them?"

Chen Shan also suggested in a low voice, gripping the tower shield tightly in his hand.

They had witnessed Su Chen's devastating attack capabilities.

However, his attack is a single-target burst plus splash damage.

In this narrow and winding passage, the monsters are extremely spread out. A single fireball can only kill a small group at most, while the horde of monsters that follow can instantly overwhelm you.

Moreover, once the spellcasting rhythm is interrupted at close range, even a fragile class like a mage will die, no matter how high their damage output is.

Su Chen stopped on the stone steps, his back to them, and sighed helplessly.

"Pull monsters? Do you think I'm that bored?"

He ignored the group's tactical analysis and walked straight into the darkness.

Forty-eight people stood still, watching Su Chen's lonely figure gradually disappear into the darkness, their hearts pounding in their throats.

"This is insane... Trying to force your way through this terrain will really cause trouble..."

The assassin-type grass gritted her teeth, staring intently at the movements below.

Four hundred meters was just a short walk for Su Chen.

The moment he reached the middle of the passage.

"Click-click-click—"

Suddenly, countless cracks appeared on the originally smooth stone walls on both sides.

Countless scarlet eyes lit up in the darkness.

[Abyssal Parasitic Ghoul (Elite Monster)]

[Abyssal Rift Stalker (Elite Monster)]

[Abyss Berserker Wall of Flesh (Elite Monster)]

All of them are around level 60.

Without uttering any roars, they surged towards Su Chen like a black tsunami, crashing down from the cracks in the stone walls and from the top of the passage.

Even from hundreds of meters away, the forty-eight people waiting above could feel the suffocating pressure.

"It's over... the monster swarm tactic..."

Zhang Ming's face was ashen.

Faced with this monster horde, which could instantly engulf a group of a hundred people.

Su Chen simply slammed his staff heavily onto the stone steps.

"Domain expansion".

[Skill Activation: Sinful Poisonous Soil!]

Om-!

Centered on Su Chen's feet, a dense, almost dripping dark purple poisonous mist instantly erupted.

It spread outwards in a hemispherical shape and stopped precisely on the boundary line with a radius of thirty meters.

The originally solid stone steps were instantly corroded into a bubbling purple swamp the moment they came into contact with the poisonous fog.

The ghouls at the very front, caught completely off guard, crashed headlong into the poisonous fog.

[Hint: The target has entered the poisonous realm of sin!]

[Area effect triggered: Movement speed reduced by 30%!]

[Area effect triggered: The [Violent Poison] status is instantly fully stacked!]

Those incredibly fast monsters, the moment they stepped into the area, seemed to sink into extremely sticky glue, their movements abruptly halting.

next second.

laugh!laugh!laugh!

In the deathly silent underground passage, a series of chilling sounds of flesh dissolving echoed.

Countless terrifying green numbers exploded in the toxic fog.

The actual damage amounted to over five billion, so densely packed it resembled an impenetrable wall of numbers.

Those elite ghouls with tens of thousands of stamina didn't even have time to scream before their bodies melted into puddles of black water in mid-air and crashed into the poisonous swamp on the ground.

The stalkers falling from above touched the edge of the domain in mid-air and instantly turned into black rain.

The thick-skinned and fleshy [Abyss Frenzied Flesh Mountain] squeezed into the area, relying on its massive size.

As a result, it only moved forward half a step, and its huge body melted away like ice and snow under the sun.

[Successfully defeated the Abyssal Parasitic Ghoul, experience +2600.]

The ornaments behind them stood atop the stone steps, gazing at the dark purple light at the edge of their vision.

They can only see.

The horde of monsters that surged forth like a black tsunami, upon touching the layer of dark purple light, felt as if they had crashed into an invisible flesh-shredding machine.

No matter how many come, they all die.

No monster could cross that red line with a radius of thirty meters.

In just thirty seconds.

The once hopeless army of the abyss was suddenly broken in two.

The passageway fell silent once more.

Apart from the bubbling black water all over the ground, not a single living monster remained.

The dark purple poisonous mist receded back into Su Chen's body.

He shook his slightly sore wrist and looked up at the group of pendants that had completely turned into statues.

"Get down and keep going."

The flat sound echoed in the passageway.