[{"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-47":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},1136200,1466,"Chapter 47: The Analyst’s Blade","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-47",47,"\u003Cp>The VR capsule hissed, depressurizing with a loud, mechanical sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The curved plexiglass lid swung open. Dante ripped the neural-link cables off the back of his neck and sat up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His real-world body screamed in protest. His joints were stiff, his muscles ached, and his stomach felt completely hollow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The eight-hour mandatory lockout had triggered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He climbed out of the pod, his bare feet hitting the cheap linoleum floor of his Oakhaven apartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The neon lights from the mag-train outside cast harsh, flickering blue shadows across his tiny living space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked into his cramped bathroom, turned the shower dial to freezing cold, and stood under the weak spray for five minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He threw on a clean black t-shirt and a pair of faded jeans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he could even check his datapad to see his offshore bank balance, a sharp, rhythmic knock rattled his front door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante walked over and looked through the scratched peephole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lila was standing in the hallway, holding a massive, greasy cardboard box that smelled like cheap synthetic pepperoni.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante unlocked the door and pulled it open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, data guy,\" Lila smiled brightly. Her blue hair was tied back in a messy ponytail. \"Sera ordered way too much synth-pizza from the place down the street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We figured since you helped us move the heavy VR plating yesterday, you earned a few slices.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I won’t say no to free food,\" Dante said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped out of his apartment, making sure the cheap deadbolt clicked shut behind him, and followed Lila next door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The layout of their apartment was identical to his, but it was already completely dominated by their gaming studio setup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three high-end, military-grade VR capsules took up the entire living room. Thick power cables snaked across the floor like black serpents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sera was sitting on a folding chair near the kitchen counter, rubbing her temples. She looked completely exhausted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nyx was sitting cross-legged on the floor next to a stack of pizza boxes. She wasn’t eating. She was aggressively swiping through a glowing holographic projection hovering above her datapad. Her dark glasses reflected the scrolling text.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grab a slice, Dante,\" Sera said, gesturing to the boxes. \"Don’t mind Nyx. She’s been doing that for two hours.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante grabbed a slice of the greasy pizza. It tasted like cardboard and highly processed salt, but his starving stomach didn’t care. He sat down on a nearby folding chair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Market crashes keeping you busy?\" Dante asked casually, taking a bite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The market is fine,\" Sera sighed. \"I mean, it’s chaotic, but chaos is profitable. We moved a massive shipment of beginner gear today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, Nyx isn’t looking at the market. She’s obsessing over the forums.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nyx suddenly slammed her hand down on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I knew it,\" Nyx announced, her voice filled with absolute, terrifying vindication. \"I told you the math didn’t make sense. And Oracle just proved it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lila dropped her pizza slice back into the box. \"Oracle posted a new breakdown? Let me see.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who is Oracle?\" Dante asked, keeping his expression perfectly blank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Only the best theory-crafter in the entire Zenith Protocol,\" Nyx said, swiping her datapad. The holographic projection expanded, floating in the center of the room for everyone to see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The guy is a genius. He doesn’t even play the combat zones. He just sits in the safe zones, analyzing leaked combat footage frame by frame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reverse-engineers system mechanics that the developers haven’t even announced yet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante looked at the projection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a massive, highly detailed forum post. The title read: [ANOMALY DETECTED: The Mathematical Impossibility of Player ’Dan’].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The post already had over three million views. It was climbing by the thousands every single second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oracle got his hands on some blurry footage from the Embercraig Canyon fight,\" Nyx explained, her eyes glued to the screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Some rogue from Vanguard’s Legacy was hiding on the ridge and recorded the moment Dan wiped their backline.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nyx tapped the screen. A short, looping video played.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a terrible angle, but the subject was unmistakable. It showed Dante standing in the canyon. It showed him raising his empty left hand. Then, it showed the massive, Zenith-tier hurricane of [Cyclone of Ruin] exploding outward, sucking the Legionnaires off the cliff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s a big tornado,\" Dante said, shrugging. \"Magic. Spooky.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nyx glared at him. \"It’s not just a tornado, Dante. Look at the frame data.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She slowed the video down until it was playing frame by microscopic frame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Right here,\" Nyx said, pointing at the exact millisecond Dante activated the skill. \"Look at the particle effects forming around his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those are faint, green wind currents. That is the exact visual signature of a Novice-tier wind spell. Specifically, a garbage utility skill called ’Gust’.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante stopped chewing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay,\" Sera leaned in, genuinely interested. \"So he cast a Novice skill. How did it turn into a hurricane?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s exactly what Oracle figured out,\" Nyx said, her voice dropping to an excited whisper. \"Look at the next frame. Literally one-tenth of a second later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The video advanced. The faint green wind currents instantly violently shifted into deep, swirling purple and black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The visual signature shifts from Novice, entirely skipping Adept, Master, and Grandmaster, and hits Zenith-tier instantly,\" Nyx said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Zenith Protocol’s combat engine doesn’t allow for skipped skill tiers. You have to grind the proficiency. You have to cast a skill thousands of times to level it up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe he just grinds a lot,\" Dante offered smoothly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"On day one?\" Nyx scoffed. \"Mathematically impossible. To reach Zenith tier, you need tens of millions of skill executions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he spammed the skill every single second since the server launched, he wouldn’t even be halfway to Master tier.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lila stared at the screen. \"Then how did he do it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oracle deduced the exact mechanic,\" Nyx said, highlighting a massive block of text at the bottom of the forum post. \"Dan isn’t grinding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He possesses a system anomaly. A hidden, unlisted innate talent. Oracle thinks Dan has a massive proficiency multiplier. Something that registers a single skill execution as thousands of uses simultaneously.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante felt a cold drop of sweat form at the base of his neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oracle hadn’t just guessed close. The theory-crafter had completely, flawlessly reverse-engineered the [10,000x Skill Proficiency Multiplier].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire server was currently reading an exact breakdown of his secret weapon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A massive multiplier,\" Sera breathed, her business mindset instantly calculating the value. \"If that’s true, he can max out any skill in the game in seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could buy a cheap, one-copper fire spell and turn it into a raid-wipe mechanic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Which is exactly what he did,\" Nyx nodded, pointing at the video. \"He’s not a high-level god. He’s a low-level player running around with end-game abilities. It’s a localized physics exploit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s terrifying,\" Lila shivered, wrapping her arms around her knees. \"If Vanguard’s Legacy finds out he’s just using a multiplier, they won’t be scared of his stats anymore. They’ll just try to lock him down and burst him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante took a slow sip of synthetic water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He played dumb perfectly. \"Sounds like the developers need to patch their game. If this guy is breaking the rules, won’t the system just ban him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Zenith Protocol doesn’t ban people, Dante,\" Nyx said, adjusting her dark glasses. \"It’s a cosmic system. It doesn’t make mistakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Dan has that talent, the system gave it to him for a reason. And right now, every single major guild on Veridia is offering real-world bounties to figure out who he is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante looked away from the holographic projection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at the front door of Sera’s apartment. It was a cheap, hollow wooden door with a basic magnetic lock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked down at his own physical hands. They weren’t covered in indestructible Gold-tier armor. They were just normal human hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The realization hit him like a physical punch to the gut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was practically a god inside Overture. He could execute a Calamity. He could wipe an army of three hundred players without breaking a sweat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But out here, in the real world, he was incredibly fragile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silas was a billionaire. The Guild Master of Vanguard’s Legacy had real-world Enforcer squads. He had mercenaries on payroll.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Silas read Oracle’s forum post, he would realize that Dan wasn’t a beta tester or a developer. He was just a guy with a broken talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if Silas managed to trace Dante’s IP address or neural signature back to this dingy apartment complex in Oakhaven, the game was over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silas wouldn’t fight him in Overture. He would just send two guys with suppressed pistols to kick Dante’s door down while he was locked in his VR capsule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would put a bullet in his real brain, and the indestructible avatar of ’Dan’ would simply cease to exist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante had 1.2 billion credits sitting in a secure offshore account.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed to move. He needed to get out of Sector 4. He needed to buy a high-security penthouse in the corporate sector, hire private military contractors for physical security, and upgrade his rig.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he couldn’t do any of that right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Zenith Protocol, the starter zones were highly restricted. Until a player officially cleared the Outpost’s final trial and transitioned into the main open world of Overture, their real-world funds and in-game assets were heavily monitored and bottlenecked by the system’s safe-zone restrictions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he wanted to freely move his money and secure his physical life, he had to graduate from Outpost 404.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to clear the Spire of Ascension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You guys really get into this stuff,\" Dante said, standing up from his folding chair. He tossed his half-eaten pizza crust back into the box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s not just a game, Dante,\" Sera said, looking up at him. \"It’s a completely new economy. Whoever figures out this Dan guy is going to make a fortune.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good luck with that,\" Dante said, offering a casual wave. \"Thanks for the food. I need to get some sleep. Big day of data management tomorrow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"See you around, neighbor,\" Lila smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante walked out of their apartment and stepped back into the flickering, chemical-smelling hallway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He unlocked his own door, stepped inside, and locked the cheap deadbolt. He leaned against the door, staring at his cold, empty VR capsule sitting in the corner of the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clock was ticking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oracle had just painted a massive target on his back. Silas was hunting him. The Legion of Blades was hunting him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t have time to grind levels or explore the rest of the blighted forest. He needed to leave the starter zone immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante walked over to the capsule. He didn’t get in yet. He set an alarm on his datapad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second the mandatory lockout timer expired, he was going to march straight to the center of the Outpost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was going to enter the Spire of Ascension, clear the final trial, and leave this miserable beginner town behind permanently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he was going to do it faster than anyone on the server.\u003C\u002Fp>",1846,"2026-06-03T12:02:18.787Z","2026-06-03T12:02:25.060Z",1,"novelbin.me","2f9c0e5bc6088e9c1453f56ef4499a28014d79e1b79ebbe4f04234fd5ca17b9a","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-48","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-46",109,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarted-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-cover.jpg"]