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

Meanwhile, outside the lobby of the First Star Arena.

A huge screen hangs in mid-air, displaying the real-time rankings of the 1011 top scorers from various cities.

The examiners and principals from Jiangnan Province, along with the students who had not yet left, gathered below the scoreboard, nervously staring at the names on it.

Song Yi looked at the big screen, her brows slightly furrowed.

The score on the big screen had just started to jump.

Except for a very few individuals, most candidates' scores increased by several tens of points.

"In previous years, the first hour of the playoffs was mostly a reconnaissance and probing phase, with everyone familiarizing themselves with the environment or looking for suitable teammates, so the scores wouldn't be too far apart..."

Song Yi was talking to the person next to her about her past experiences.

Sudden.

Holy crap!

Wang Xiaoli exclaimed in surprise.

Song Yi suddenly turned her head.

At the top of the scoreboard, a name shot up like a rocket without warning, taking over the top spot!

and.

His score was changing at a speed that was imperceptible to the naked eye!

It took him a full half minute for his score to stabilize.

[First Place: Su Chen (Tianhe City, Jiangnan Province). Points: 7512900]

"..."

"..."

The hall remained silent for a full minute before a gasp of surprise erupted.

"How much?!"

"Seven and a half million?! And they've only been inside for less than twenty minutes!!"

"Can anyone tell me what he was doing in there?!"

"The second-place player only has a few hundred points, and he has a whopping 7.5 million points?!"

"..."

Everyone was shocked once again.

The difficulty of the playoffs is far greater than that of the first three matches.

In previous years, even the best students would only score a few hundred thousand points throughout the entire game.

In just ten minutes, Su Chen has broken the record again!

At this moment, Li Zhiyong was stunned again.

He also played in the playoffs back then, and it took him a whole day to get 8,000 points!

This kid scored seven million points in ten minutes?!

Is it a person?

He grabbed He Kaishan by the collar and shook him violently: "Old He! Tell me! What kind of monster have you raised?! Are you trying to crush all the geniuses in the country?!"

He Kaishan was so dizzy from being shaken that he spilled his thermos and his thighs were covered in wet goji berries.

He hurriedly pushed Li Zhiyong away and swallowed hard.

How would I know what he did?!

"Um... well..."

He Kaishan forced himself to remain calm and said in a deep voice, "Old Li, don't make a fuss. That's how I always teach him: even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit, so you have to be efficient when killing monsters."

Song Yi turned her head and looked at the goji berries still dripping water on He Kaishan's thigh, her eyes twitching wildly.

What are you pretending to be calm about!

Your hands are shaking!

In the corner, Lin Shiqing, who had been staring intently at the screen, exclaimed with a gleam in her eyes, "Little Su is really amazing!"

Just then, suddenly...

"Buzz—"

In mid-air, the enormous, deep purple portal suddenly emitted an extremely piercing roar.

The once stable purple light curtain began to flicker violently, and even black spatial rifts were torn open at its edges.

[Alert! Alert!]

[The spatial anchor point has been invaded by unknown energy!]

[Projection rules have been tampered with!]

The piercing system alarm blared throughout the arena, and the red warning light illuminated the hall as if it were a living hell.

"What's wrong?!"

"What happened?!"

"..."

The crowd in the arena was in complete chaos.

This doesn't look like a normal exam procedure at all!

Song Yi suddenly raised her head, her face deathly pale.

"What's going on?!"

He Kaishan couldn't sit still any longer. He kicked aside his wheelchair and stood up.

"This...this aura..."

Song Yi stared intently at the black crack in the portal, his voice trembling, "It's the Abyss! Someone forcibly entered the coordinates of the Abyss dimension within the dungeon!"

"abyss?!"

He Kaishan's pupils suddenly contracted.

The horrors of the abyss... are known to all.

Even ordinary abyss dungeons are not something students should touch.

"This is impossible! This instance was personally built by Elder Zhan, and it hasn't had a single flaw in decades!"

Li Zhiyong roared.

"How would I know?!"

Song Yi roared angrily.

Lin Shiqing hurriedly said, "Director Song, quickly shut down the instance and pull everyone out!"

"..."

Song Yi abruptly raised his head and roared at all the examiners in the hall, "Immediately initiate the forced repatriation procedure! Bring out all the candidates from Jiangnan Province! The monsters inside... have probably exceeded the limits!"

The examiners quickly performed a series of actions.

But soon, a line of text appeared on the panel.

[Invalid operation, permissions have been locked.]

"How is this possible?!"

Song Yi's eyes widened, her face filled with disbelief.

He Kaishan hurriedly asked, "Director Song, what happened?"

Song Yi's expression turned grave: "This is a mandatory procedure left behind by Elder Zhan, yet we don't have the necessary permissions?! Unless... someone has tampered with Elder Zhan's copy from the bottom up!"

"..."

Everyone gasped in shock.

A dungeon that tampered with the old warrior's design?!

Who on earth has such ability?

……

The Gobi Desert is a raging sandstorm.

The originally dark red sky now had a huge black cross-shaped gaping hole in it.

Thick, black mist poured down from the opening like a waterfall.

Wherever it passed, the sand and stones on the Gobi Desert instantly decomposed into black mud.

The air was filled with a nauseating stench of blood and an extremely oppressive abyss-like atmosphere.

Zhao Xuan, the top scholar in the capital, is leading his four-person team in a difficult battle to defeat a bronze-level desert scorpion boss.

Suddenly, the sky darkened.

Zhao Xuan raised his head and stared blankly at the sky.

From the black cracks above their heads, countless dark shadows slowly emerged.

He squinted and saw the true forms of those creatures.

They were a group of monsters over three meters tall, covered in dark red barbed armor, and with wings on their backs.

They wielded giant axes engulfed in black flames, and their eye sockets glowed with crimson soul fire.

[Abyssal Flame Demon Guard (Elite Monster)]

[Level: 30]

【Strength: 1600】

[Agility: 1200]

[Stamina: 1400]

【Spirit: 1000】

[Skills: Flame Demon Charge, Abyssal Shock, Flame Slash]

……

When the group saw the Flame Demon Guard's interface, they were terrified and turned pale.

"A level 30 elite monster?!"

"What kind of twisted attribute is this?!"

"Holy crap!! Over a thousand for a 4D ultrasound?! Are you kidding me?!"

"..."

The female priest in the group was so frightened that she dropped her staff on the ground.

It should be noted that these top city-level geniuses, who are hailed as the nation's leading talents, currently only have a little over 100 in their four-dimensional attributes.

This monster's stats are more than ten times theirs!

How do we fight this?

Are you going to hit me with your head?

It's not just the Flame Demon Guards.

Further away, a deep-sea bone dragon, over fifty meters long and with six heads, slowly crawled out of the crack.

It spread its bony wings that blotted out the sky and let out a roar that shattered eardrums.

【Abyssal Skeleton Dragon (Epic Boss)】

[Level: 30]

【strength:? ? ? 】

【agile:???】

【physical strength:? ? ? 】

【Spirit:???】

【Skill:???】

……

"Epic...a level 30 epic boss..."

Several people's legs were shaking uncontrollably.

The highest level among them was only around level 17, and they hadn't even completed the first-tier job advancement.

Even if there's only one of these level 30 epic bosses, which you can't even see the attributes of, you can wipe out their entire party in a minute.

What's more... this is a monster from the abyss!

Their attributes are several times higher than those of ordinary monsters.

And now, there are hundreds or thousands of Abyss Flame Demon Guards above them!

"Run! Run!"

Zhao Xuan shouted at the top of his lungs, completely disregarding his image as a genius of the capital, and scrambled away in the opposite direction.

The same situation.

This happens simultaneously in various locations within the instance.

Students were frantically fleeing everywhere.

"Captain, the shield... the shield is broken!"

"I can't run anymore!!"

"..."

A sense of despair spread across the entire Gobi Desert.

A thousand top-scoring students from the city, among the nation's most elite young talents, were utterly powerless against the true army of the Abyss.

Some people attempted to use special teleportation devices to skip the exam.

"Click."

The crystal shattered.

But nothing happened.

"The space is sealed off! Teleportation items are useless!"

"Help! I don't want to die here!"

"Is this the college entrance exam?! Are you kidding me?!"

"..."

Various screams and cries were mixed together.

The Abyssal Flame Guardians revealed cruel smiles, raised their giant axes, and prepared to reap these vibrant lives.

……

It is less than one kilometer directly below the spatial rift.

Su Chen stopped in his tracks.

He looked up at the huge black gap in the sky and the abyssal army that had appeared.

The surrounding temperature plummeted, and the abyssal aura made the air thick and sticky.

[Status: Abyssal Gaze (Cannot be dispelled)]

[Effect: While in the core area of ​​the abyss, your physical and magical attack power decrease by 5% per minute, down to a minimum of 10% of your base value.]

Su Chen glanced at the red debuff icon that had appeared in the status bar.

"This feels so familiar."

"This space of the War Elder is really realistic; they've even brought in the debuffs from the Abyss dungeon."

"..."

Just as he was complaining, an Abyssal Flame Demon Guardian discovered his presence.

It flapped its wings, roared, raised its giant axe, and unleashed [Fire Demon Charge].

The level 30 elite monster in the abyss is incredibly fast, covering a distance of over a hundred meters in the blink of an eye.

Su Chen casually waved his staff.

A basic attack landed on the Flame Demon Guardian.

"-20"

Affected by the Abyss debuff, Su Chen's direct damage became extremely pitiful, dealing only 20 points of damage.

The soul fire in the Flame Demon Guardian's eye sockets pulsed violently.

It seemed that it hadn't expected Su Chen to be so calm, yet he still managed to inflict such embarrassing damage.

It even thought this human might be interesting!

however.

next second.

[Hint: The trait "All things decay" has been triggered!]

[Hint: The trait "God of Poison" has been triggered!]

The Flame Demon Guard's dark red armor was instantly stained with a ghastly green.

"-11682536!"

The Flame Demon Guard's charge came to an abrupt halt.

Its massive body suddenly stiffened, and with kinetic energy, it plummeted from the sky, turning into a pool of green pus.

[Hint: Defeating a level 30 Abyss Flame Guardian (an elite Abyss monster) grants 6000 points and 12000 experience points.]

[Note: The current experience pool is full. Experience will be automatically saved.]

[Hint: Triggering the [Misfortune Absorption] trait permanently increases the maximum number of poison stacks by 1. Current stack limit: 4217 stacks.]

"Um?"

Su Chen's eyes suddenly lit up.

He stared intently at the system notification, his previously somewhat bored expression instantly vanishing.

"Not only do you get points, but you also get experience points?!"

"It can even stack passive effects?!"

The previous three exams, and the Gobi monsters we just killed, didn't give any experience points, and we can't stack them.

But now, these abyssal monsters not only provide a huge amount of experience beyond their level, but can also trigger his [Misfortune Absorption]!

Su Chen looked at the abyss army that blotted out the sky, and grinned from ear to ear.

"You've made me feel more energetic!"

I haven't been able to layer anything all day, and it feels like ants are crawling all over my body!

"roar--!"

A tremendous dragon roar came from the horizon.

Su Chen spotted the epic-level abyssal bone dragon from afar.

"It's an epic-level boss?!"

His eyes were filled with excitement: "I wonder... what kind of explosion will it drop?"