[{"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-24":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},1136177,1466,"Chapter 24: The Resonance of the Tear","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-24",24,"\u003Cp>The canyon turned into a slaughterhouse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t wait for the three hundred players on the ridges to make a decision. The twelve spatial clones erupted from the jagged tears in reality and completely surrounded him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wipe them out,\" Dante ordered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clones moved as a single and terrifying unit. They didn’t have the mobility constraints of a normal player.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They utilized the sheer verticality of the canyon walls. They launched themselves upward with explosive kinetic force. Their boots cracked the volcanic rock with every step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The archers and casters of Vanguard’s Legacy didn’t even have time to ready another arrow or prep another spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A clone landed directly in the center of a group of twenty mages. It swung its glitching copy of the [Crimson Edge] in a wide and horizontal arc.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-24,000!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-24,000!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-24,000!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The damage numbers were entirely overkill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire group was instantly vaporized. They turned into a massive cloud of blue pixels that drifted over the edge of the cliff!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another clone blinked directly behind the heavy shield wall blocking the canyon exit. The tanks were facing inward and completely ignored their exposed backs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clone unleashed a localized [Abyssal Cleave].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black shockwave tore through the backline. It instantly deleted forty heavily armored players and shattered their iron shields into digital scrap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t even participate. He stood in the center of the canyon floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The [Sun-Forged Cuirass] gleamed under the violet sky. He watched his afterimages dismantle an entire army in less than ten seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a complete route.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surviving members of Vanguard’s Legacy broke rank and ran. They dropped their weapons and abandoned their gear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They scrambled frantically over the ridges. They were desperate to escape the canyon before the clones targeted them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ten-second duration of [Fractured Reality] expired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clones flickered and dissolved into black smoke. They left the ridges completely empty, save for the massive piles of dropped loot and silver coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence returned to Embercraig Canyon. It was broken only by the bubbling of the magma pool and the crackling of the fading plasma trail of Dante.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante slowly sheathed the [Crimson Edge].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t bother collecting the low-tier loot scattered across the cliffs. He had billions of credits. He didn’t need rusty swords and beginner spellbooks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Contract closed,\" Dante muttered to mock the final words of Malric.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned his attention back to his actual objective. He had come here for the reagents of Vespera. The massive battle had completely derailed his gathering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He checked his inventory. He had collected one [Sunflare Orchid] before the scouts of Malric interrupted him. He needed nine more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spent the next hour walking the perimeter of the canyon floor. He avoided the massive pools of liquid slag left behind by the Inferno Behemoth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found the glowing yellow flowers tucked into the crevices of the volcanic rock. They usually grew near the hottest thermal vents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time he plucked the ninth orchid, the temperature in the canyon had started to cool down significantly. It returned to its baseline state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One more,\" Dante said. He wiped sweat from his forehead. Even with the mitigation of the armor, the heat was exhausting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spotted the final flower growing halfway up a steep and jagged incline near the eastern wall of the canyon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He used a short [Blink Step] to close the distance. He landed cleanly on a small outcropping of rock right next to the glowing plant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reached down and wrapped his iron-plated gauntlet around the stem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he pulled the tenth [Sunflare Orchid] from the rock, the system didn’t give him a quest update prompt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, an intense and violent burning sensation erupted against his chest!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante winced and stumbled backward. His hand automatically flew to his collarbone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the hell?\" he hissed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heat wasn’t coming from the environment. It was coming from his inventory!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A notification window aggressively forced itself open in his vision. It flashed a blinding and warning red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[System Alert: Mythic Anomaly ’Tear of the Forgotten’ is resonating.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Warning: Containment failure imminent.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Dante could even process the text, his inventory interface glitched violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The endless and scrolling black void of his [Band of the Void-Walker] distorted. It ripped open like wet paper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A small pile of gray ash shot out of his chest. It completely bypassed his armor!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the remnants of the pendant of Lillian. It was the crystal that had shattered to save him from real-world brain death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ash didn’t scatter in the wind. It rapidly spun into a tight and swirling vortex of violet light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light intensified and grew brighter and brighter until Dante had to shield his eyes with his arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The swirling violet light shot forward like a bullet!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It slammed directly into the solid volcanic wall of the canyon just inches from where Dante was standing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no explosion. The impact was entirely silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the stone didn’t shatter. It melted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive and swirling spatial rift tore open in the canyon wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was ten feet tall and completely pitch black. It was rimmed with the same violent violet light that the pendant had possessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like a wound in reality itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante stared at the rift. He was completely frozen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Zenith Protocol didn’t have random portals. Rifts were always tied to specific dungeon triggers, raid encounters, or high-tier quest chains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this wasn’t a game mechanic. This was the pendant of Lillian forcing a tear in the code of the server.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aura materialized rapidly by the shoulder of Dante.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiny silver fox wasn’t floating happily. She was visibly trembling. Her three starlight tails were tucked tightly against her glowing body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She let out a low and mournful chime. She stared directly into the black void of the rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante looked at her. \"What is it? Do you know what is in there?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aura didn’t respond with a system prompt. She just drifted closer to Dante. Her tiny head pressed against his cheek.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could feel a profound sorrow radiating from her digital form. It was an emotion so heavy it made his chest ache.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked back at the rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The violet light rimming the edges was pulsing in a slow and rhythmic pattern. It felt deliberate. It felt like a beacon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lillian had left the pendant for him two years before the game even launched. The pendant had saved his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now the remnants of that pendant had torn open a hole in the world. She was leading him somewhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Silas has an army sweeping the map,\" Dante muttered to himself. He weighed his options.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Vespera is waiting for her flowers. The global leaderboards are probably exploding right now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared into the pitch-black void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"None of that matters,\" Dante decided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t pull out a weapon. He didn’t activate a defensive skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He simply took a deep breath and stepped off the rocky outcropping. He walked directly into the swirling spatial rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The violet light flared and completely swallowed him whole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fraction of a second later, the rift collapsed in on itself with a sharp and static crack. It left the solid volcanic wall completely untouched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Embercraig Canyon was empty again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t hit the ground. He was falling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The transition through the rift was completely disorienting. There was no light, no sound, and no sense of direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air was freezing cold. It rushed past him at a terrifying speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t tell if he was falling straight down or being pulled horizontally through a vacuum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to activate [Blink Step]. He hoped to stop his momentum or find a solid surface to anchor to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Skill Executed: Blink Step]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Error: Spatial coordinates unavailable. Skill failed.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Great,\" Dante gritted his teeth. The wind roared in his ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was in a completely unmapped and coordinate-free zone. The system didn’t even know where he was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He kept falling. Minutes passed. The sheer duration of the drop was terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the physical world, falling for this long meant he had crossed miles of empty space. He was plunging deep beneath the bedrock of the Overture server.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the panic started to genuinely set in, the absolute darkness broke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A faint violet glow appeared directly beneath him. It rapidly expanded as he accelerated toward it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante braced for impact. He brought his arms up to protect his head. He fully expected to crash into solid ground at full speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hit the violet glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no crash. The impact was incredibly soft. It was like landing on a massive and highly pressurized trampoline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The violet light was a barrier. It caught him perfectly and absorbed all of his kinetic energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The barrier slowly lowered him the remaining fifty feet. It deposited him gently onto a smooth and cold stone floor before fading into mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante stood up. His boots clicked against the stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was standing in the center of a colossal underground temple. The scale of the room was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was larger than the entire Outpost 404 safe zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Massive and heavily eroded pillars stretched hundreds of feet into the darkness above. They supported a ceiling that Dante couldn’t even see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The architecture was ancient and completely devoid of the sharp digital design of the Zenith Protocol. It looked primordial. It was carved by hands that predated the system entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where are we?\" Dante whispered. His voice echoed endlessly across the vast and empty hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aura materialized next to him. Her glow cut through the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wasn’t trembling anymore. She floated slightly ahead of Dante and looked toward the far end of the temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante followed her gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the absolute center of the room was a grand altar. It sat atop a raised circular platform of white marble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And resting on that altar was a weapon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante couldn’t clearly see the details from this distance, but he could feel it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The weapon was radiating a dense and oppressive aura that distorted the air around it. It felt like standing near a black hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t just heavy. It was gravitational. It actively pulled the light into its center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante slowly walked toward the platform. His hand rested cautiously on the hilt of the [Crimson Edge].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t trust this place. It was entirely too quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he approached the steps of the white marble platform, the gravitational pull intensified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a physical sensation now. It tugged at his armor and tried to drag him forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He climbed the steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Resting on the altar was a sword. It was a broadsword and similar in shape to the ones Dante preferred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the design was terrifying. The blade was forged from an entirely light-absorbent and jagged black metal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t reflect anything. The edge looked jagged and unfinished. It looked like it had been violently torn from a larger piece of material.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hilt was wrapped in what looked like dark and fossilized bone. There were three circular and empty sockets carved into the crossguard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante stepped up to the altar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gravitational pull was almost overwhelming. It made his teeth ache.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t trigger an appraisal skill. The system interface was completely silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reached out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment his iron-plated fingers brushed the dark bone hilt of the sword, the world exploded!\u003C\u002Fp>",1895,"2026-06-03T12:02:18.787Z","2026-06-03T12:02:25.060Z",1,"novelbin.me","e839bfb2156caecff67b989e949c051a9009d045da09e664f589d408ea960944","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-25","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-23",109,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarted-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-cover.jpg"]