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

Accompanied by the system's urgent warning sound.

More than a hundred centaurs suddenly underwent a strange transformation.

Their skin quickly turned purplish-black, their eyes spewed out purplish-black abyssal flames, and their already enormous bodies grew even taller.

Su Chen lost a reconnaissance skill.

【Crimson Centaur (Abyss Transformation - Elite Monster)】

[Level: 23]

【Strength: 760】

[Agility: 660]

[Stamina: 1100]

【Spirit: 420】

[Skills: Charge Stomp, Armor-Piercing Strike, Bloodlust]

……

As expected, all attributes doubled.

Not only that, their aura became extremely violent, as if they had gone mad, wildly waving their spears in all directions.

"Is this the effect of the Abyss Curse?"

Su Chen rubbed his chin.

He originally thought that the abyss transformation was just a random mutation of a certain monster.

But now it seems that it's not just one individual, but a large-scale collective abyss transformation!

If it were any other team, they would be fighting monsters when suddenly the monsters all transform into Super Saiyans.

Who can stand this?

Su Chen now understood.

No wonder everyone says that once someone is cursed by the Abyss, no one dares to team up with them.

This absurd group mutation mechanism means that whoever forms a group will die.

but.

"What would be a annihilation threat to others, I..."

Su Chen chuckled lightly, "This is basically just giving away experience points!"

With a wave of his staff.

"Corrosive Serpent Guard".

Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!

A thousand corrosive serpent guards burst forth from the ground in an instant, surrounding the more than one hundred abyssal centaurs.

A dense stream of venom poured out instantly.

The Abyss transformation doubled the centaurs' stamina and greatly increased their health.

But in the face of the deadly poison, it still melts instantly.

boom! boom! boom!

More than a hundred Abyssal centaurs exploded into pus in one fell swoop.

[Hint: Defeating the Crimson Centaur (Abyss Transformation) grants 4400 experience points!]

[Note: Triggering the [Misfortune Absorption] trait permanently increases the maximum number of poison stacks by 1.]

【…】

The crisp system notification sounds flooded the screen.

"My experience is barely enough now."

Su Chen closed the panel with satisfaction.

The experience points are similar to those gained from grinding in the Abyss dungeons.

"Unfortunately, the probability of becoming an abyss is still a bit low. It would be great if it were 100%."

Su Chen uttered shameless words, stepping over the pus and bits of flesh scattered on the ground, and continued walking deeper into the dungeon.

Push forward smoothly all the way.

Ten minutes later.

After killing more than three hundred centaurs, Su Chen arrived at the deepest part of the monastery.

A massive altar stained dark red with blood.

In the center of the altar.

Standing there was a terrifying body twice the size of a normal centaur.

It was clad in heavy, dark gold armor and carried a three-meter-long, bone-chopping heavy sword.

With each breath, a strong, metallic smell of blood would emanate from his nasal cavity.

Su Chen cast a reconnaissance spell over there.

Centaur Warlord Carlos (Gold-tier BOSS)

[Level: 25]

【Strength: 800】

[Agility: 760]

[Stamina: 900]

【Spirit: 600】

[Skills: War Stomp, Fatal Strike, Bloodlust, Centaur's Glory]

[Centaur's Glory (Passive): When health is below 30%, lifesteal is increased to 50%, and strength is increased by 50%.]

……

Seeing the data panel, Su Chen remained completely unmoved.

That's it?

"Even the Death Knight in the job advancement dungeon can't compare."

Su Chen pursed his lips.

Even gold-level bosses of the same rank are no match for him.

If we're talking about strength, it's only that passive skill.

When health drops below 30%, strength increases by 50%, and lifesteal increases by 50%... It can indeed be a bit of a headache for a normal team to encounter it.

After much hardship, we brought this boss down to low health.

then.

With its 50% life steal, the BOSS can recover its full health in just a few hits.

Wouldn't he be so angry he'd vomit blood on the spot?

"Intruder...die!"

Just as Su Chen was silently complaining, Carlos let out a deafening roar.

Its enormous body crashed down like a truck.

tread!tread!tread!

Each step left a deep pit in the hard stone slab, sending gravel flying.

The bone-cleaving greatsword, accompanied by a fierce wind that tore through the air, cleaved down from above!

Su Chen stood still, showing no intention of dodging, and simply uttered two words:

"illusory."

Boom—!

Dirt flying everywhere!

The Bone-Slaying Heavy Sword cleaved through Su Chen's body and slammed him hard into the ground.

The ground was instantly smashed into a huge crater with a radius of more than two meters.

Su Chen, on the other hand, looked at his own body with great curiosity.

After becoming ethereal, his body turned into a faint, transparent color.

He did not attack, but let Carlos attack wildly.

soon.

Su Chen then walked into a wall.

"roar--!"

Carlos was completely enraged by Su Chen and slashed down with his sword.

Boom—!

The thick wall collapsed with a crash.

"This feels really good."

"Movement speed remains unchanged, and attacks and spellcasting can be performed normally."

Su Chen calmly looked at the collapsed wall.

Against physical enemies, intangibility is practically equivalent to invincibility.

of course.

Using the intangibility ability against mage-type enemies is suicidal.

"I'm not playing with you anymore."

The invisibility effect only lasted for 120 seconds. After exploring it enough, Su Chen unleashed a normal attack.

Instantly.

Carlos's dark gold heavy armor hissed and emitted puffs of white smoke.

"-124762008!"

boom--!!!

That seemingly indestructible dark gold heavy armor couldn't even last a second before being corroded into a puddle of pus.

Carlos's pose is frozen in time.

Fear didn't even have time to surface in its scarlet eyes.

There was no chance for the passive skill to be triggered.

Its massive body then collapsed with a crash.

boom!

It was as if a mountain of flesh had smashed the stone steps of the altar, turning into a pool of pus.

[Hint: Defeating Centaur Warlord Carlos (Gold-tier BOSS) grants 5000000 experience points!]

[Hint: Successfully cleared [Crimson Monastery (Hard)], earning 10000 credits!]

……

Five million experience points is not a lot.

Su Chen was not satisfied.

"There are academic credit rewards for clearing dungeons?"

Su Chen saw the second notification.

Song Xin did say before that clearing dungeons is the main way for students to earn academic credits.

However, Su Chen cleared a difficult-level dungeon solo and only managed to get 10,000 points.

If the team is full of five people, wouldn't each person only have 2000 points?

This clearly demonstrates the value of academic credits.

"But why does this feel a bit boring?"

Su Chen pursed his lips.

Throughout the entire dungeon, whether it was a regular monster or a boss, everyone died after being poisoned.

In a novel, this would be called padding the word count.

"Unfortunately, this is reality. I guess I'm just too strong after all?"

Su Chen stepped forward and began to loot the BOSS's corpse.

[Hint: Obtained the Bloodstained Greatsword (Gold Grade)].

[Hint: Obtained the Bloodthirsty Armor (Gold Tier)].

[Hint: Obtained the Skull of Carlos (rare material).]

[Hint: You have received 42580 gold coins.]

……

Two pieces of gold-grade equipment dropped.

Both items are for warrior-type classes.

One is a gold-grade greatsword, and the other is a suit of armor.

Su Chen casually tossed it into his backpack, intending to sell it for money or exchange it for academic credits.

At last.

It was a huge head with its eyes still open.

"That's it for today, time to go back and hand in the mission."

Su Chen tossed the head into his backpack and headed towards the dungeon portal.

"I wonder what's inside the legendary Tower of Babel?"