[{"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-40":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},1136193,1466,"Chapter 40: The Lore of the Protocol, Annihilation-Tier","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-40",40,"\u003Cp>Dante turned his back on the empty tunnel and walked back through the carved hole into the circular basalt chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Casanova was standing near the massive bronze double doors and staring at them intensely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He is gone,\" Dante said. He waited for the sixty-second duration of the Siphon debuff to expire so his stats would return to normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss,\" Casanova said. His voice was unusually quiet. \"Look at the doors.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante walked over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavy bronze doors weren’t just sealed. They were covered in intricate and glowing silver runes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the runes were rapidly flickering. They shifted from a bright healthy silver to a sickly corrupted purple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Void-Blight was actively eating through the magical seal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The dimensional fracture is right behind here,\" Dante said. He pulled the two [Aetheric Ward Banners] out of his inventory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He handed one to Casanova.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Take this,\" Dante ordered. \"The second I push these doors open, you run to the far left side of the room and plant that banner into the ground.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do not stop. Do not try to fight anything. Just plant it and stay alive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Casanova grabbed the silver banner tightly, and his knuckles turned white. He didn’t make a joke. He just nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante stepped up to the center of the double doors. He placed his heavy iron gauntlets against the bronze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The doors didn’t resist. The corrupted seal completely shattered the moment physical pressure was applied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavy bronze swung inward with a loud echoing groan. It revealed the massive core of the Wyrmrest Caverns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air inside the core was suffocating. The purple mist was so thick it looked like an ocean of ink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it wasn’t the mist that made Dante stop dead in his tracks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The center of the massive cavern was entirely occupied by a tearing hole in reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked exactly like the spatial rift the Tear of the Forgotten had opened, but a thousand times larger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And something was coming out of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are too late,\" Dante whispered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system didn’t flash a standard localized warning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive server-wide crimson alert projected across the sky outside. It overrode the previous Catastrophic warning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The text bled into the cavern itself and projected directly into their vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[CRITICAL SERVER EVENT: ANNIHILATION-TIER CALAMITY UNSEALED.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Entity: Cerberus Void-Dragon]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Status: Awakened.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Warning: The Outpost 404 region is currently targeted for complete atmospheric eradication. All players are advised to evacuate the zone immediately. Revive protocols disabled.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive digitized roar shattered the cavern! It didn’t just hurt their ears. It caused the solid stone walls to crack and fracture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A colossal head tore itself free from the swirling dimensional rift!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a dragon, but it looked nothing like the Dreadwyrm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was forged from pure raw Void-Blight. Its scales were pulsating cancerous tumors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t have one head. It had three. All of them were mounted on long serpentine necks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its eyes burned with a sickly toxic black light that seemed to devour the surrounding mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was massive. The sheer size of the entity made the cavern feel claustrophobic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Annihilation-Tier,\" Casanova gasped and dropped the banner onto the stone floor. \"Boss, that is... that is not a game boss. That is a server-wipe mechanic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three heads of the Void-Dragon snapped toward them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t breathe fire. The center head opened its massive jaws and let out a localized pulse of gravity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The roof of the cavern violently exploded outward!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dragon didn’t want to fight in a cave. It launched itself straight up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It tore a massive hole through hundreds of feet of solid bedrock and burst completely out of the cavern system into the violet sky above the forest!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The force of its exit collapsed the entire tunnel structure behind them. Rocks the size of houses crashed down and sealed the exit completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante and Casanova were trapped in the core. They stared up through the newly created hole in the ceiling at the massive three-headed dragon blotting out the sky above the Outpost 404 region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is going for the safe zone,\" Dante said. His voice was entirely flat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he could activate [Meteor Stride] to chase it up the vertical shaft, the space directly in front of him rippled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A clean blue portal tore open in the center of the cavern floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A figure stepped through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the Outpost Elder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t wearing his standard flowing gray robes. He was wearing tattered and ancient battle armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His glowing white eyes were completely focused and lacked any trace of standard NPC scripting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are too late, Outworlder,\" the Elder said. His voice carried the heavy and resonant echo of an ancient entity. \"The seals have completely failed. The Void-Blight has breached the primary layer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante looked at the Elder. \"Who are you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Elder didn’t immediately answer. He looked up through the hole in the ceiling at the massive dragon circling the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You play this game, Outworlder, believing it is a trial designed for your amusement,\" the Elder spoke. His voice was completely devoid of the usual Zenith Protocol formatting. \"You believe the system is a machine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Elder turned his glowing eyes toward Dante.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Zenith Protocol is not a game,\" the Elder stated and dropped the massive lore bomb effortlessly. \"It is a cosmic recruitment drive. A desperate draft.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For ten thousand years, a war has raged across the shattered dimensions between five universal factions. Humans, Beasts, Demons, Celestials, and the Fey.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante stared at him. The lore of Overture had been incredibly vague up until this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The balance is completely broken,\" the Elder continued. \"The Void seeks to consume all five.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The system pulled your planet, Veridia, into the fold because humanity possesses a unique and limitless potential for violent escalation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You are the prophesied Outworlders. You were brought here to be soldiers. To tip the scales.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Elder reached to his hip and drew a weapon. It wasn’t a standard NPC staff. It was a heavily rusted and chipped longsword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The dragon above is not a monster,\" the Elder said and gripped the rusted hilt. \"It is an executioner sent by the Void to wipe this recruitment node before you are ready.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the hand of the Elder tightened on the grip, the thick rust covering the blade violently shattered!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brilliant and blinding white light erupted from the steel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chipped longsword completely transformed into a radiant and perfectly flawless greatsword of pure celestial energy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system finally updated the status of the NPC above his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Entity Identified: The Blade-Saint]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Faction: Human Guardian (Dormant)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Level: ???]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am the warden of this Outpost,\" the Blade-Saint said. He turned his radiant sword toward the sky. \"I cannot let it fall.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1127,"2026-06-03T12:02:18.787Z","2026-06-03T12:02:25.060Z",1,"novelbin.me","3ad29d291e340821a623c29d464b9f97a6fb0a79d9478c7ca7dfaf8f21339270","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-41","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-39",109,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarted-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-cover.jpg"]