Igris pulled up his status. Even with his Stage 2 Cancer penalty bringing his

Strength down to roughly 45 points, applying a 100x Multiplier would give him an

effective combat strength of 4,500.

At Level 8, he was a walking nuclear warhead.

"Twenty-eight minutes, huh?" Igris muttered, rolling his fully healed shoulders.

A competitive, predatory smirk spread across his face.

He turned around and walked right back into the abyssal mouth of the dungeon.

A few students noticed him re-entering.

"Hey, look! The Null Talent guy is going back in!" "Did he die in the first five

minutes and just respawn?" one of them laughed. "He must have a death wish!"

Igris ignored them. The moment the darkness of the dungeon swallowed him, the

System chimed.

[ Would you like to reset the Green Lizard Dungeon instance? ] "Yes," Igris

commanded.

The prehistoric forest materialized around him once more.

This time, there was no crouching. There was no sneaking.

Igris drew his Epic-grade, jet-black katana. The blade hummed, thirsty for more

souls.

"System," Igris said coldly. "Activate the 100x Multiplier on Agility and

Strength."

[ 100,000x Multiplier System Activated! ] [ Current Output Locked At: 100x! ]

Igris took a single step forward.

KA-BOOM!

The earth didn’t just crack—it completely vaporized beneath his foot, leaving a

crater three meters deep.

Igris broke the sound barrier instantly. A deafening sonic boom echoed through

the dungeon as he launched forward, tearing a literal trench through the tall

grass. He didn’t bother dodging the massive, ancient trees. He simply ran

through them. The sheer kinetic pressure surrounding his body blew the

three-meter-thick oak trees into splinters the moment he made contact.

A patrol of five Green Lizard Sentries was wandering near the stream. They

turned their heads toward the deafening noise.

They didn’t even see a blur.

Igris blew past them at supersonic speed, casually holding his katana out to the

side. The compressed air pressure trailing off the edge of his blade sliced all

five Lizardmen perfectly in half before the steel even touched them.

[ Multiple Enemies Eliminated! +50 EXP ]

He didn’t stop. He crossed the 500-meter distance to the main encampment in a

matter of seconds.

The war drums didn’t even have time to sound.

Igris crashed into the center of the camp like a meteor, creating a shockwave

that flattened every bone-hut within a fifty-meter radius. Dozens of Green

Lizard Warriors were thrown into the air like ragdolls.

Before gravity could pull them back down, Igris leaped into the sky.

Dual-Skill Casting!

Channeling his DUST energy, he executed the basic Rapid Slash with an effective

Agility and Strength of over 4,000.

A terrifying dome of jet-black sword shadows erupted in mid-air. It looked like

a blooming lotus flower made of pure, lethal kinetic energy. Every single Lizard

Warrior caught in the dome was instantly minced into green mist.

[ Multiple Enemies Eliminated! +1,200 EXP ]

Landing gracefully amidst the rain of blood, Igris didn’t pause. He kicked off

the ground again, rocketing straight toward the massive stone palace at the back

of the camp.

The Superior Mutated Commander stepped out of the palace, hissing furiously as

it drew its twin bone-blades.

Igris didn’t even slow down.

As he ran past the Commander, he casually flicked his wrist.

CLANG-SHLUCK!

The Commander’s twin bone-blades shattered into white powder, and its head spun

into the air.

BANG!

Igris didn’t bother pushing the massive stone doors of the throne room open. He

kicked them. The reinforced stone doors blew off their hinges, rocketing across

the hall and smashing into the far wall like artillery shells.

The gaunt, three-meter-tall Green Lizard King was just standing up from its bone

throne, its yellow eyes widening in shock at the sudden, violent intrusion.

It raised its crackling, lightning-infused War Hammer and opened its jaws to

speak. "Huma—"

Igris was already standing right in front of it.

"Too slow," Igris whispered.

Swing One. The jet-black katana cleaved upward, colliding with the massive War

Hammer. The sheer, overwhelming force of the 100x Multiplier snapped the boss’s

legendary weapon clean in half like a dry twig.

Swing Two. Igris reversed his grip, slashing horizontally. The blade

effortlessly sheared through the King’s impenetrable midnight-black scales,

shattering its ribcage and exposing its organs.

Swing Three. With a fluid, graceful spin, Igris brought the katana around in a

full 360-degree arc.

SHING!

The Green Lizard King’s head slid off its neck, its crown of skulls clattering

loudly onto the stone floor.

[ Green Lizard King (Level 15 Boss) Eliminated! ] [ +1,000 EXP. ] [ Floor

Cleared! ] [ System Notice: You have broken the Global Zenith Record for the

Green Lizard Dungeon! ]

The blue light of the exit portal washed over Igris, depositing him safely back

at the Greenshade boundary.

He adjusted his jacket, breathing a bit heavily, and looked up at the massive

holographic leaderboard hovering over the T-Rex jaw entrance.

[ GREEN LIZARD DUNGEON - FIRST-YEAR LEADERBOARD ]

1. [Player Hidden] (Solo) - 07

Minutes, 42 Seconds.

2. Starlight Team - 28 Minutes, 14 Seconds.

Igris stared at the number one spot and grunted in profound dissatisfaction.

"Seven minutes? I wasted way too much time testing out my movement speed."

Without a second thought, he turned right back around and walked directly into

the abyssal mouth of the dungeon.

For the next two hours, Igris became a localized natural disaster.

He speed-ran the dungeon three more times.

With every single run, he optimized

his route, fully utilizing the terrifying physical capabilities of his Heavenly

Asura Bloodline and his 10x Multiplier. He didn’t even bother sneaking anymore.

He simply blitzed through the prehistoric forest like a crimson meteor.

Every Green Lizard Sentry took exactly one hit. The Mutated Commanders took one

hit.

And by the final run, even the towering Level 15 Green Lizard King was

eradicated in just three fluid swings of his Epic-grade katana.

When Igris finally stepped out of the exit portal for the fourth time, the

golden bell of the leaderboard tolled deafeningly across the plaza.

DONG! DONG! DONG!

The board violently glitched, updating his best time.

[ GREEN LIZARD DUNGEON - FIRST-YEAR LEADERBOARD ]

1. [Player Hidden] (Solo) - 03

Minutes, 12 Seconds.

Looking at the glowing numbers, Igris finally smirked. "Much better. I can live

with that."

Satisfied that he had established an absolutely insurmountable record, Igris

casually pulled up his status screen, eager to see how much stronger he had

grown.

He had slaughtered hundreds of monsters during those three speed-runs.

He

should have easily gathered enough kills to fully unlock the 100x Multiplier

tier and max out his Asura stats.

But as his eyes scanned the blue holographic interface, his smirk froze.

[ Kill Points: 84 / 100 ]

Igris blinked. He rubbed his eyes and looked again. The numbers hadn’t moved.

Neither his System’s Kill Points nor his Bloodline’s Soul Devourer had

registered a single kill from his three reruns!

"What the hell?" Igris laughed bitterly, scratching his head.

"System, why

aren’t my kills counting? I just slaughtered that entire camp three times over!"

A cold, mechanical prompt materialized in his vision.

[ System Notice: Dungeon instances are artificial constructs of DUST energy.

When a dungeon resets, it merely recreates the physical vessels of the monsters

based on the dungeon’s core soul template. ]

[ Warning: During the Host’s first

run, the ’Heavenly Asura Bloodline’ permanently devoured the foundational Soul

Essence of this dungeon’s inhabitants. ]

[ The monsters in the reruns possessed

no souls, therefore granting no Kill Points. Furthermore,

because the core soul template has been devoured, the Green Lizard Dungeon is

now destabilizing and will permanently collapse within 24 hours. ]

Igris stared at the prompt, his jaw slightly slacked.

He hadn’t just cleared the dungeon. His Divine Bloodline had literally eaten the

dungeon’s foundational code.

"So... if I want to upgrade my Multiplier to 100x, I can’t just farm the same

easy instance forever," Igris muttered, rubbing his chin. "I need to find a

completely new dungeon. A new species to devour."

"THREE MINUTES?!"

A shrill, hysterical scream shattered Igris’s thoughts. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

He looked up and realized the entire plaza had descended into absolute bedlam.

Thousands of students from both Marlin Academy and Penta-Star Fortress were

staring at the leaderboard as if they had just seen a ghost.

"Is the System broken?! That’s literally impossible!" a Penta-Star elite yelled,

his previous arrogance entirely erased. "They didn’t even have a team! It says

SOLO!" "Who the hell is Player Hidden?! Did an Instructor sneak in to mess with

us?!"

Near the front of the crowd, Arian Nickel’s face was beet red. The aristocratic

Godscion was stunned.

His

perfect, flawless 28-minute record had just been utterly humiliated by someone

who cleared the dungeon almost ten times faster than him.

Even Dawson, the arrogant Vampire from Penta-Star, had dropped his haughty

smirk, his crimson eyes wide with genuine shock.

Igris casually pulled the collar of his camouflage jacket up, preparing to

quietly slip away into the crowd.

But he realized that apart from the overwhelming, hysterical attention the

leaderboard was drawing, there was a much bigger problem forming right behind

him.

BZZZT... CRACK...

The massive, T-Rex jaw entrance of the dungeon flickered violently like a broken

television screen. A web of jagged black spatial cracks began to spread across

the stone archway.

The dungeon was actively collapsing.

Without making a single sound, Igris ducked his head, blended into the screaming

crowd of students, and rapidly made his way toward the thick tree line.