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

Under the cover of [Hidden Light], the two silently passed through the last dense forest shrouded in miasma.

The view ahead suddenly opened up.

What should have been an open space is now completely occupied by an extremely large ancient tree.

This ancient tree soars into the clouds, its thick trunk requiring dozens of people to encircle it.

The withered bark was covered with twisted burls resembling human faces, and countless thick roots, like writhing dragons, burrowed deep into the ground, while the surrounding soil took on an eerie purplish-black hue.

【The Decaying Ancient Tree Spirit (Gold-Rank Boss)】

[Rank: Gold]

[Level: 20]

【Strength: 800】

[Agility: 100]

[Stamina: 2000]

【Spirit: 700】

[Skills: Root Entanglement, Poisonous Breath, Frenzied Growth, Life Drain (Restores 5% of maximum health per second).]

……

Su Chen's eyelids twitched.

What a disgusting monster!

Although its attributes are far inferior to the previous Mine Tyrant, this old tree spirit has an extremely disgusting skill: Life Drain.

"With 2000 stamina points, on Nightmare difficulty, assuming each stamina point provides 1000 HP... the total HP would be at least 2000 million!"

"Five percent is equivalent to 100,000 health points regenerated per second!"

Su Chen's lips twitched.

With 100,000 health points regenerated per second, can other players really reduce its health?

It's probably faster to get a response than to call.

At this moment, Lin Shiqing also saw the BOSS's panel and grabbed Su Chen's clothes.

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Her voice was very low, but she spoke very quickly.

"Little Su, listen to me, this dungeon is different from the others!"

"Why is it different?"

Lin Shiqing explained, "In other dungeons, the boss is at the end, but in this dungeon, the boss is at the very beginning, and there are still more than three hours of gameplay to go!"

Su Chen asked in confusion, "Wouldn't killing them clear the level?"

Is there some special mechanism involved?

"Hey, don't interrupt."

"..."

Where should I insert it?

"Ahem, please continue."

Su Chen swallowed his words back, almost causing himself internal injury.

broken.

After being teased by this girl, his mind was also a bit muddled.

"Listen up, Xiao Su."

Lin Shiqing, unaware of his thoughts, continued, "To defeat it, you must find and destroy its four [Roots of Decay] in the four corners of the underground. Each destroyed root reduces its health regeneration rate. Only by destroying all four can you completely cut off its regeneration ability, and its stamina will decrease by 50%!"

She had clearly done her homework in advance for today's mission.

Lin Shiqing proudly raised her chin and quickly deployed her tactics.

"So, let's not get close to the BOSS yet. Let's go underground and find its four [Roots of Decay]..."

"See that cave behind it? We can just go around it."

Su Chen raised his eyebrows slightly as he listened to Lin Shiqing's explanation.

It's quite similar to the previous secret realm mechanism; you need to kill other monsters first before you can deal damage to the BOSS.

"The Provincial Department of Education has put a lot of thought into this; they are testing the students' judgment."

Su Chen looked thoughtfully at the enormous old tree spirit in front of him and asked, "Looking for something else, right?"

"Yes! We have to find all four, otherwise no matter how many green sticks you have, we definitely can't outlast it!"

Lin Shiqing continued to emphasize that she was gripping the staff in her hand tightly.

Su Chen ignored her and walked straight over.

"Little Su! Are you crazy! You haven't found him yet..."

Lin Shiqing's eyes widened, and she quickly followed.

"Corrosive Serpent Guard!"

Su Chen gently tapped the ground.

He didn't summon many more, only one hundred snake guards.

brush--!

One hundred thick snake guards suddenly appeared.

The old tree spirit seemed to sense a threat. It reacted extremely quickly, frantically waving its vines in an attempt to smash the suddenly appearing summons.

However, the snake guards moved even faster.

"puff!"

One hundred corrosive serpents launched their attack simultaneously.

The dark green venom instantly engulfed the old tree spirit's massive body.

"-720"

"-748"

"-1464 (Critical Hit)"

"..."

A dense array of damage numbers appeared.

Su Chen's current spirit level is 1660 points, which was reduced when he attacked the old tree spirit.

Lin Shiqing's mouth was slightly open.

She knew Su Chen's damage was high, but how could he break through the defense of a BOSS with 2000 stamina points?

Just how high is Su Chen's spirit?

but.

Facing a monster that can regenerate 100,000 HP per second, everything is in vain without breaking the mechanics.

however.

next second.

Lin Shiqing's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpoints.

"-6889000!"

An absurdly long red number suddenly jumped out from the top of the old tree spirit's head.

"This...this..."

She rubbed her eyes hard, counting on her fingers: "Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million... six million eight hundred thousand?!"

Lin Shiqing felt like her brain was about to short-circuit.

She looked at it several times before she was sure she hadn't misread it.

Just as she was questioning her life, several huge numbers jumped by every second, completely overshadowing the number of 100,000 HP per second.

"-6889000!"

"-6889000!"

"-6889000!"

"..."

Only four seconds passed.

The old tree spirit let out a huge scream.

The massive tree trunk instantly carbonized, and countless burls resembling human faces dissolved rapidly as if splashed with sulfuric acid.

It collapsed with a crash.

It turned into a ruin made of black charred wood and pus.

[Hint: Defeating the level 20 Decaying Ancient Tree Spirit (Gold-tier BOSS) grants 1000000 experience points.]

[Hint: Your team has cleared [Dark Forest (Nightmare difficulty)], gaining 2000000 experience points.]

……

The entire instance space instantly fell into a deathly silence.

Only the toxic water on the ground, emitting bluish smoke, was still making a "gurgling" sound.

Lin Shiqing's mouth was agape, and the staff she was holding was frozen in mid-air.

Her brain completely shut down.

"Little Su, how...how did you deal 6.8 million damage?!"

She looked like she'd seen a ghost.

Keep in mind that even a level 100 mage in her family might not be able to achieve that number!

What level is Su Chen?

Not even a single turn!

Su Chen asked speechlessly, "Have you forgotten that I use poison?"

This is such a huge nightmare-level dungeon, and there are so many monsters, yet not a single one can withstand the direct damage from the Serpent Guard.

This boss is the only one that can withstand a few seconds of damage.

But not much, only four seconds.

Throughout the entire game, this was the first time Lin Shiqing had witnessed the damage inflicted by the Poison Master.

Lin Shiqing's eyes widened as she recalled the wooden stake that Wang Xiaoli had struggled to carry over on the playground that day, only to have it easily melted by Su Chen.

"Little Su, you mean... your DOT damage that ticks every second... is over six million?!"

"That's right."

Su Chen shrugged.

Lin Shiqing looked at Su Chen with a complicated expression. After a few seconds, she said, "You're such a pervert."

"How can you say that? All of this is the result of hard work and sweat."

Su Chen rolled his eyes. "Stop spacing out, the BOSS dropped loot."

Several bright lights shimmered on the pus from the old tree spirit's corpse.

Su Chen stepped forward and gently touched her.

[Hint: Obtained the [Rotten Treant Leather Armor (Gold Grade)].]

[Hint: Obtained Root of Decay (Rare Material) *6!]

[Hint: You have received 24310 gold coins.]

……

A piece of gold-grade equipment, some rare materials, and more than 20,000 gold coins.

It's not as good as the Abyss Dungeon or the Malphite's Rift I did before, but it's still pretty good.

Su Chen glanced at it and saw that the dropped equipment belonged to assassins, and neither of them could use it.

He put the spoils into his backpack and said, "Neither of us can use them. Let's sell them and split the money fifty-fifty."

Lin Shiqing showed little interest, clearly not lacking in money.

She pointed to the entrance to the cave ahead and asked, "Little Su, are we still fighting?"

"Yeah, are we still going to fight?"

Su Chen was stunned.

That's a good question.

In theory, this dungeon requires exploring the underground area before you can defeat the boss.

Now that the boss is dead, they've cleared the game, but the monsters underground are still there.

"You just said that there are still more than three hours of gameplay left after this instance?"

"Yes, I calculated it based on how quickly you beat it. Other teams would need at least five or six hours to play on normal difficulty."

"..."

Su Chen fell into deep thought.

There should be quite a few monsters ahead... but the question is, is the efficiency really that high?

Each monster only gives you a little over a thousand experience points.

A single boss can yield 1 million experience points, and clearing a dungeon grants an additional 2 million, totaling 3 million experience points per person.

Even his experience bar twitched slightly.

Su Chen's eyes lit up.

He had a bold idea.