[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl":3,"chapter-started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-100":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Started with a 10,000x Multiplier in a Game World",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1136253,1466,"Chapter 100: The Void-Bishop’s March","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-100",100,"\u003Cp>The sounds of the three rival armies tearing each other apart faded as the squad of Dante pushed deeper into the Sky Demon Forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The environment rapidly deteriorated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive ancient trees were heavily corrupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is significantly worse than the swamp,\" Lila muttered. She held her wooden staff tight. Her blue eyes darted nervously between the dark sludgy trunks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The ambient corruption here is actually eating away at the lighting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante checked his system interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Zone Alert: Sky Demon Core]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Hazard Detected: Severe Demonic Corruption.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Warning: Environmental toxicity is actively suppressing standard healing modifiers. Natural regeneration is disabled.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aura chimed softly from her spot hovering over the shoulder of Dante.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Grade 8 Doom Harbinger pulsed a wave of starlight that effortlessly cleared the heavy and oppressive atmosphere within her twenty-foot radius.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are fine,\" Dante said. \"Just stay close to Aura.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Casanova was back in his shredded silk shirt and looked like a terrified tourist. He practically glued himself to the back of Dante.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am standing exactly inside the safety circle, Boss. Do not move too fast.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mei marched ahead. Her massive [God-Slaying Skillet] rested comfortably on her shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She seemed completely unbothered by the toxic environment while Pip the tiny dragon rode safely inside her tunic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Intuition stat of Dante suddenly flared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a massive and concentrated spike of raw and unadulterated cosmic energy. It felt like standing next to a live reactor core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hold up,\" Dante ordered and raised his gauntlet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The squad stopped at the edge of a massive circular clearing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante crouched low and peered through the dense corrupted brush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clearing wasn’t a natural formation. The trees had been violently sheared away to create a flat expanse of scorched black earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the dead center of the clearing stood a massive towering portal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t a standard swirling blue dungeon entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The portal was forged from black bone that glowed with an intense sickly green light. It was easily fifty feet tall and actively tore a hole in the localized reality of the server.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing in front of the massive portal was the source of the corruption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t a standard beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a towering twelve-foot-tall humanoid figure clad in heavy ornate clerical robes woven from pure shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entity held a massive staff topped with a glowing corrupted crimson eye. Its face was hidden entirely beneath a heavy bone-white mask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Zone Boss Spawn: Void-Bishop Morgrim]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tier: Dark Demon]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Level: 25]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[HP: 300,000 \u002F 300,000]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is a very big and very angry priest,\" Mei whispered and gripped her frying pan with both hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He is a Dark Demon,\" Dante noted. His eyes locked onto the boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had fought a Level 20 Dark Demon in the Abyss, the massive unkillable sphere of Gluttony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew exactly how structurally dense and mechanically unfair Dark Demon bosses were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t rely on simple melee attacks. They possessed reality-bending curses and passive immunities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it wasn’t the Void-Bishop that made Dante hesitate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was what was coming out of the portal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The glowing green vortex wasn’t idle. It was violently churning and actively disgorging a relentless tide of mutated corrupted beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Massive multi-limbed horrors forged from bone and black sludge poured out of the portal by the hundreds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t look like standard mobs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were grotesquely disproportionate, and their health bars flashed aggressively in the dim light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They weren’t just standing around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as they exited the portal, they formed up into a highly disciplined organized marching column. They headed straight down a wide pre-cleared path leading north out of the forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss,\" Casanova squeaked and pointed a trembling finger at the marching horde. \"Those are not just random spawns. That is an army.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante did the math instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He possessed Zenith-tier skills. He had zero cooldowns. He had infinite healing and an indestructible Vanguard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he couldn’t fight a 300,000 HP Dark Demon boss while simultaneously fending off a literal army of thousands of corrupted beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sheer volume of incoming damage and hard crowd control would eventually overwhelm the cleansing pulse of Aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t drop [Cyclone of Ruin] on an entire marching column because the sheer mass of the bodies would choke the vortex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he engaged now, it wasn’t a battle. It was a war of attrition, and the portal was generating infinite reinforcements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We cannot take him here,\" Dante decided. His voice was low and incredibly serious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I drop the health of the boss below a critical threshold, he is just going to pull the entire army back to defend him. We will get completely swarmed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lila looked pale. \"So we retreat? We just leave an SSS-Rank boss sitting in the woods?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We do not leave him,\" Dante corrected. \"We dictate the engagement zone. We need to lure him away from the portal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Dante could formulate a pull strategy, Erebus decided to help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was standing quietly next to his leg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiny barefoot Celestial boss didn’t use telekinesis or reality warping. She just lifted her pale hand and pointed directly at the towering Void-Bishop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are ugly,\" Erebus stated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice wasn’t loud. But the resonance of her Half-Soul carried the words perfectly across the massive clearing. It cut through the ambient noise of the portal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Void-Bishop stopped chanting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive bone-masked head snapped slowly toward the brush where the squad was hiding. The glowing crimson eye on his staff flared violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boss didn’t need to see them. He felt the weight of the insult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well,\" Dante sighed and drew the [Dawn-Breaker Blade]. \"Stealth was fun while it lasted.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Void-Bishop simply raised his staff and pointed it directly at their position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire marching column of corrupted beasts stopped moving north.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands of glowing red eyes turned toward the brush simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Run,\" Dante ordered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t hesitate. The squad broke cover and sprinted back the way they came while tearing through the corrupted underbrush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind them, the forest erupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive horde of beasts abandoned their march and surged into the trees. They chased the threat with terrifying aggressive speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They are too fast!\" Mei yelled. She glanced over her shoulder as a massive corrupted hound crashed through a dead pine tree just thirty feet behind them. \"I cannot block a thousand of them!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lila, pin the front line!\" Dante commanded and pulled up the rear to intercept the fastest beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lila didn’t stop running. She just tapped the butt of her staff against the ground behind her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Skill Executed: Gravity Well]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The invisible cylinder of high pressure slammed down. It instantly crushed the leading edge of the horde into the dirt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the sheer volume of the army was too massive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beasts behind the pinned vanguard simply ran directly over their crushed allies and completely ignored the roadblock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is not enough!\" Lila yelled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t have time to chain [Phantom Dash] executions on a horde this massive. He needed a hard stall tactic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aura!\" Dante shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiny silver fox was flying just above his head and understood instantly. She didn’t pulse a heal or a cleanse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She utilized a basic utility skill she had retained from her previous grade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Skill Activated: Holy Light Glint]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aura didn’t project an aura. She physically flared her own digital body. It burned with a blinding intensely concentrated burst of pure celestial starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flash was instantaneous and entirely blinding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive horde of corrupted light-sensitive beasts rushing through the dark canopy-covered forest took the flash point-blank in the eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire front half of the army shrieked in agony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mass Blindness Applied. Duration: 5 seconds.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beasts stumbled blindly. They crashed into trees and trampled each other in absolute panicked confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The organized and terrifying pursuit instantly devolved into a localized writhing pile of mutated limbs and claws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Void-Bishop striding confidently behind his army staggered slightly. He shielded his bone mask from the intense light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Keep running!\" Dante ordered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The five-second blind gave them exactly the window they needed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The squad tore through the forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They sprinted for five minutes straight before Dante finally held up his hand to signal them to stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were standing near the edge of the Sky Demon Forest. The trees began to thin out and revealed the open plains leading back to Ironhold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Casanova collapsed against a tree trunk and gasped for air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am a bard! I am not built for cardio! My stamina bar is screaming!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t look tired. He looked at the digital map floating in his system interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They are not chasing us anymore,\" Dante said and traced the red dots on the map.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because we are too fast?\" Mei asked and leaned heavily on her massive frying pan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No,\" Dante said. His voice dropped to a grim register. \"Because we are not the primary target.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He zoomed the map out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive red cluster of hostile entities hadn’t scattered back into the forest. They had reformed their marching column.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were moving steadily north and completely ignored the anomaly squad that had just blinded them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lila stepped up next to Dante. She looked at the glowing holographic map.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dante,\" Lila whispered. Her blue eyes were wide with horror. \"Look at their trajectory.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Void-Bishop wasn’t amassing an army to fight random players in the woods. The Dark Demon boss was operating on a highly specific siege mechanic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive red line of the marching horde was pointed directly perfectly north.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Straight at the towering steel gates of Ironhold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They are not stopping,\" Dante confirmed. \"The system is triggering a massive invasion event. The Void-Bishop is marching on the capital.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If that army hits the city gates while everyone is out here fighting in the mud, the NPC guards will get overrun in minutes,\" Casanova realized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His flamboyant persona was completely replaced by genuine panic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ironhold is the primary respawn point for the entire Veridian Alliance! If the city falls, we all get server-wipe penalties!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t hesitate. He dismissed the map.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three rival armies of Vanguard’s Legacy, the Black Dragon Syndicate, and the Apex Coalition were still actively butchering each other in the center of the forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were completely oblivious to the fact that their home city was about to be burned to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We need to get back to the city,\" Dante said. His voice carried absolute authority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We just ran all the way out here!\" Mei groaned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are not running,\" Dante corrected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante reached into his infinite inventory and pulled out the glowing blue crystal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The emergency extraction talisman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grab hold,\" Dante ordered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lila and Mei grabbed his armor. Casanova scrambled over and awkwardly hugged the leg of Dante.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Erebus went back into her pet space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante crushed the blue crystals in his gauntlet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blinding column of teleportation magic erupted around them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They vanished from the edge of the Sky Demon Forest and left the marching corrupted army behind them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had to warn the City Lord. The Siege of Ironhold was about to begin.\u003C\u002Fp>",1848,"2026-06-03T12:02:19.066Z","2026-06-03T12:02:25.060Z",1,"novelbin.me","439e1d7ec80845dab12dc3dc2506fdf1267167b755acdf41dd7fe1f08fa3cd91",null,"started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-99",109,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarted-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-cover.jpg"]