[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste":3,"chapter-pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-98":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},687732,922,"Chapter 98: Eighteen Soul-Hooking Ghosts, Lord of Slaughter Badge","pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-98",98,"\u003Cp>In the end, Beom In had no choice but to start shouting Sin’s name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That killer might be ruthless, but at least he’s still human—made Beom In feel a little less like he’d been dumped into another world alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, that guy had sharp senses. If Beom In called for him, he’d probably come out soon to kill him… and then he could just beg for mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beom In’s plan sounded great in his head, but reality couldn’t have been more different. From his initial cautious testing to eventually yelling at full volume across the campus, not a single person responded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were moments when Beom In honestly felt that if he turned around and saw that terrifying pale green mask, he might even feel a bit relieved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality, no one appeared…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Opponent, teammate, game, audience—it all felt like a dream now, no trace left behind, and he had no idea which way to go.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sin, you’re such a dmn bstard… Why’d you take my Exit Token…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beom In muttered under his breath, eyes darting around sneakily, as a terrifying thought surfaced in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>......\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the alternate dimension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thirteenth Step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Park Bu Seong was now on his fourth physical transformation. At this point, he had a dog’s head on a human body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His previous demon forms either couldn’t handle the demonic backlash and collapsed, or were literally beaten to pieces by Lu Ce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned his head slightly, eyeing the large hole next to him with a bit of dread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, a section of the staircase wall had collapsed, revealing a ten-meter-wide hole. Through it, you could see endless dark space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond the hole was a turbulent temporal storm. This was an alternate dimension after all—and it had been shattered by Lu Ce’s high-energy blast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Park Bu Seong didn’t know what kind of weapon that was. It looked just a bit bigger than a handgun. “Sin” held it and shouted, “Fifty!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, his previous body—along with a horde of abyss demons—were instantly wiped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The terrifying blaze still made his blood run cold just thinking about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good thing this was his home turf. Otherwise, that one blast would’ve meant certain death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What tier was that weapon? Another Legendary one?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Park Bu Seong’s thoughts were a mess. Suddenly, his legs gave out, and he plopped down on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His strength was fully drained. Even with the Legendary-tier boost from Song of Ice and Fire, he had nothing left in the tank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, the horror mystery “Thirteenth Step” had reached its power peak—the strongest summonable demon had appeared: the Eighteen Soul-Hooking Ghosts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each had the head of a beast and the body of a human—griffins, lizards, and so on—and Park Bu Seong was now one of them too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mouth opened as if to taunt, but when the words reached his throat, he couldn’t say a thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—The gap was just too wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This stage wasn’t meant to be brute-forced. But “Sin” insisted on brute-forcing it, completely ignoring his own safety in the process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, most of the major demons were already dead. And he was still standing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Are there really players like this in the world?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was far beyond human. Does the human race even deserve to have someone like this among them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Park Bu Seong’s dog face, fear and desire intertwined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fear—because the pitch-black hallway was now splashed with colors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red was dominant, accented by others. It was the blood of demons and the carnage of scattered brains and guts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the past hour, Sin had been like a mad painter, using demon lives to color the entire space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If dead demons weren’t absorbed by the alternate dimension, the place would’ve been piled sky-high with corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one understood Lu Ce’s strength better than Park Bu Seong. Not even the audience. Only he knew what kind of beast he’d been facing this past hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Ce’s figure now looked like it might collapse at any moment. Park Bu Seong felt like victory was finally within reach—but he’d had that illusion a few times before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fighting, killing, taking damage—then gulping down a Healing Potion and continuing to fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even just watching him was exhausting! Park Bu Seong didn’t even want to lift his head to cast another ice-fire spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, desire sparkled in his eyes—if he really won, the world would know what kind of monster he defeated!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t ask how he won—just whether he did or not!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, he didn’t dare make any extra moves. Just kept up the stalemate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the horror mystery, the scene looked bizarre. No one moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each of the Eighteen Soul-Hooking Ghosts had an iron hook chain that pierced through Lu Ce’s body and latched onto one of his bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Ce’s explosive power, combined with the constant buff from the Wrath Mask, had already pushed him past the game’s upper limit. Even eighteen demons couldn’t tear him apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, he couldn’t move recklessly now either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone was in a deadlock. Lu Ce’s Mysterious Cloak was no different than being soaked in a river of blood. The eighteen bones the chains latched onto were slowly bleeding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sat on the steps, feet relaxed—one on the step above, one below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wounds on his body were too many to count. The Mysterious Cloak, like the most caring lover, concealed all his wretchedness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with eighteen chains impaled through him, he still carried that unmatched, king-of-the-world aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this horror mystery, Lu Ce never saw himself as a challenger. Neither Park Bu Seong nor the demons dared see him that way anymore either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was the real problem here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, Lu Ce, chained by eighteen iron hooks, was... reading a book!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each chain pulled on his bones, weakened his body, and tainted his soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as he read Confessions of the Disillusioned, the soul corruption vanished entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the Eighteen Soul-Hooking Ghosts, the person they’d hooked had a will like iron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unshaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His soul was even sturdier than his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, he was building up Rage Points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Player “Sin” has triggered an in-game achievement and received the Legendary Badge—Lord of Slaughter!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, amid the wails of demons, the game system prompt rang out in Lu Ce’s ear, interrupting his thoughts. He immediately snapped:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can you shut the f*** up?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【......】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a tilt of his head, he decided to go big.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He chugged an Advanced Healing Potion, starting the frenzied healing of his wounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chosen of Agony, stat boost!”\u003C\u002Fp>",1086,"2026-06-02T09:03:27.233Z",1,"novelbin.me","b120106cd008f90218b04bd0f4d1aba504f8e58af7f825160ff0f425a524f3a2","pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-99","pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-97",867,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fpain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-cover.jpg"]