[{"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-55":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},1136208,1466,"Chapter 55: The Glacial Titans","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-55",55,"\u003Cp>Dante climbed the heavy stone staircase. With every step he took, the blistering, suffocating heat of the magma forges faded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air rapidly cooled. Within twenty steps, the ambient temperature went from a volcano to a crisp, biting chill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time he reached the stone archway marking the entrance to the third floor, his breath was pluming into thick white clouds. Frost actively formed on the edges of the [Sun-Forged Cuirass].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped over the threshold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The environment was a sprawling, endless sub-zero tundra. There were no walls. There was no ceiling. A violent, shrieking blizzard whipped across the flat expanse of blue permafrost, completely blinding his vision past thirty feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wind howled with actual physical force, rattling his gold armor and pushing against his chest like a solid wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system interface slammed into his vision. The holographic text was rimmed with jagged ice crystals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Spire of Ascension: Abyss Difficulty]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Floor 3: The Glacial Tundra]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Floor Modifier Active: Sheer Cold]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Warning: Environmental temperature is significantly below survival parameters. Target drains 150 HP every second. All movement speed is reduced by 15%.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante looked at his health bar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-150]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-150]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-150]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The numbers ticked away with terrifying speed. His massive 9,100 health pool was large, but taking a hundred and fifty damage every single second meant he would be dead in exactly one minute if he just stood there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The environmental hazard was a brutal, uncompromising gear check.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tiny flash of silver light illuminated the blinding white out of the blizzard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aura popped out of her pet-space. The tiny Doom Harbinger hovered next to his shoulder, her three starlight tails whipping wildly in the aggressive wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She let out a sharp, resonant chime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Skill Activated: Resurgence Wave]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A pulse of concentrated Aether washed over Dante. The massive 4,565 point heal instantly snapped his health bar back to maximum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Keep that on a tight rotation,\" Dante yelled over the howling wind. \"The cold is ripping through my base mitigation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aura chimed in agreement. Her heal was percentage-based and bypassed all system restrictions, but it had a hard ten-second cooldown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In those ten seconds, Dante would lose 1,500 health to the environment. As long as she didn’t miss a beat, he could survive the room indefinitely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Spire wasn’t just going to let him stand in the snow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dense permafrost thirty feet in front of him violently cracked. The sound of shattering ice echoed loudly over the blizzard. Five massive fissures tore open in the frozen ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Colossal hands made of solid, jagged blue glacier ice reached out of the fissures, gripping the edges of the frozen dirt and pulling themselves up to the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Floor Boss Spawn: Glacial Titan]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tier: Silver]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Level: 15]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[HP: 20,000 \u002F 20,000]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were five of them. They stood twenty feet tall, their bodies carved entirely from deeply compressed, ancient blue ice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t have faces, just smooth, glowing blue visors. They wielded crude, massive warhammers forged from entire frozen stalactites.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system interface updated violently, flashing a red warning prompt directly over the Titans’ heads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Abyss Difficulty Modifier Triggered: Absolute Fortitude.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Effect: The Glacial Titans receive a 100% bonus to their maximum Physical Defense rating. Highly resistant to physical kinetic force.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante stared at the prompt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A 100% bonus to a Silver-tier boss’s physical defense. The Zenith Protocol’s combat engine relied entirely on mitigation scaling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If a monster’s defense stat exceeded a player’s attack power by a certain threshold, the system defaulted to dealing exactly one point of chip damage per hit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Titans were effectively invulnerable to standard physical attacks. A normal Level 15 Warrior would completely shatter their weapon trying to swing at these things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Spire expected the challenger to rely on high-tier fire magic to melt the armor, or use complex environmental traps to crack the ice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t have fire spells. He was a pure physical damage dealer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at the five massive, invulnerable ice giants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante just laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The system thinks defense matters,\" Dante said, his voice easily carrying over the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t draw the [Crimson Edge]. The Silver-grade broadsword would bounce right off them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held out his right hand. The black, jagged brand on his wrist flared violently, burning with a heat that defied the sub-zero tundra. Thick, light-absorbing smoke erupted from his palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The smoke rapidly solidified into the massive, ugly shape of [Voidsever].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The primordial greatsword felt incredibly cold in his grip, but it wasn’t the environmental frost. It was the absolute cold of a cosmic vacuum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The weapon hummed with a low, predatory vibration, actively devouring the ambient white light of the blizzard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante pulled up the weapon’s passive trait in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Passive Activated: Absolute Severance]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Description: Voidsever exists partially outside of standard digital reality. Attacks made with this weapon ignore 100% of the target’s physical and magical armor. Defense stats are rendered entirely void.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The five Glacial Titans let out a synchronized, digitized roar that vibrated the permafrost beneath his iron boots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They raised their massive ice hammers and charged. Their heavy footsteps caused localized tremors, kicking up massive clouds of snow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante stepped forward, meeting the charge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t use a Zenith-tier skill. He didn’t need a massive damage multiplier. He just needed to hit them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lead Glacial Titan swung its massive stalactite hammer in a brutal horizontal arc, aiming to smash Dante entirely off the frozen platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t use [Blink Step] to dodge. He gripped the dark bone hilt of Voidsever with both hands, planted his boots, and swung the black blade directly into the path of the incoming hammer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no sound of shattering ice. There was no kinetic resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black blade passed straight through the massive ice hammer like a ghost passing through a wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It sheared the weapon cleanly in half, continuing its arc directly into the Glacial Titan’s torso.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[100% Armor Ignored.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system interface hitched for a fraction of a millisecond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Glacial Titan’s massive physical defense buff was entirely bypassed. Voidsever treated the unyielding, super-compressed glacier ice exactly the same as it would treat an unarmored Level 1 beginner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante’s base attack power, currently sitting at over 1,800 points without any buffs, dealt unmitigated, absolute true damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-3,800!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Glacial Titan didn’t stagger. It froze completely in place. A perfectly smooth, black line appeared across its waist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A second later, the top half of the twenty-foot-tall boss slid cleanly off its bottom half and crashed into the snow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive health bar dropped by twenty percent in a single, standard swing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Too easy,\" Dante muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t stop moving. He used the momentum of the swing to pivot, bringing the heavy black blade up in a clean, vertical arc directly into the falling Titan’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-4,200! Critical Hit!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black blade sliced straight through the boss’s core. The Glacial Titan violently exploded into millions of silver polygons, completely deleted from the arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Target Eliminated: Glacial Titan]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining four Titans stopped their charge. The basic combat governing them hesitated, entirely unable to process how their invulnerable frontline tank had just been deleted in two basic swings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who’s next?\" Dante asked, resting the flat of the black blade against his shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Titans roared, their aggro completely locking onto him. They didn’t swing their hammers this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They realized physical melee was a death sentence. They slammed their free hands into the permafrost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive array of razor-sharp ice spikes erupted from the ground. The spikes were ten feet tall and completely unavoidable, tearing through the snow and racing directly toward Dante in a massive, sweeping wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante triggered [Meteor Stride].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He vanished in a flash of white-hot light, completely bypassing the spike wave. He left a ten-foot-wide wall of superheated plasma cutting straight through the sub-zero tundra.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The intense heat of the plasma trail clashed violently with the freezing environment. It generated a massive, blinding cloud of thick white steam that instantly filled the center of the arena, completely obscuring vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante materialized directly behind the second Glacial Titan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swung the primordial blade in a heavy, horizontal sweep, cutting cleanly through the back of the Titan’s knees. The 100% armor penetration sheared the thick ice legs off instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive boss dropped to the ground with a heavy crash. Dante stepped up onto the boss’s falling back and drove the black sword straight down through its skull, pinning it to the permafrost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-5,000! Critical Hit!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Target Eliminated: Glacial Titan]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The steam cloud provided perfect cover. The remaining three Titans were blindly swinging their massive hammers, desperately trying to hit a target they couldn’t see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante moved through the fog like an executioner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t use stamina-heavy skills. He just relied on [Blink Step] to reposition quickly, letting Aura handle the constant environmental health drain with her ten-second percentage heals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cold was biting, ticking his health down by 150 points a second, but Aura was an infinite battery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He materialized next to the third Titan. He stepped inside its guard and delivered a clean thrust directly through its chest cavity. The Titan shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He blinked to the fourth. He ducked under a wild, sweeping hammer strike and delivered a horizontal decapitation strike. The head flew off, and the body dissolved into polygons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fifth Titan managed to spot him through the fading steam. It raised its hammer and brought it down in a desperate, two-handed overhead smash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante raised Voidsever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t use [Aegis Deflection]. He just blocked with the raw, indestructible material of the cursed sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive ice hammer slammed into the jagged black metal of Voidsever. The hammer instantly shattered into a million pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The kinetic force traveled up the Titan’s arms, staggering the massive boss backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante stepped forward and drove Voidsever completely through its frozen core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final Glacial Titan dissolved into light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Target Eliminated: Glacial Titan x5]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Floor 3 Cleared.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Time: 1 Minute, 45 Seconds.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The howling blizzard instantly died. The wind stopped blowing. The temperature snapped back to a comfortable, neutral baseline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante dismissed Voidsever. The black smoke retreated into the brand on his wrist. He was breathing easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t broken a sweat. The Abyss difficulty had tried to lock him behind a mathematical wall of infinite defense, and he had simply walked right through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked over to the center of the tundra, where the five bosses had dropped a massive pile of glowing loot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He activated his [Band of the Void-Walker] and vacuumed the silver coins, massive chunks of compressed ice, and high-tier crafting materials into his inventory. Sitting in the pile was another small, glowing stat crystal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Item Appraised: Glacial Core]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tier: Consumable]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Effect: Permanently grants +5 to all base stats.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante picked it up and crushed it in his palm. The cool energy flowed into him, stacking onto his previous buffs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Three floors down,\" Dante said, dismissing the blue window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the far edge of the frozen tundra, the snow melted away, revealing a heavy set of spiral stairs carved from solid gray stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stairs rose upward, disappearing into the dark ceiling of the Spire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t hesitate. He jogged up the spiral stairs, leaving the frozen wasteland behind. He was making incredible time.\u003C\u002Fp>",1876,"2026-06-03T12:02:19.066Z","2026-06-03T12:02:25.060Z",1,"novelbin.me","a9ef077d947ee2ba1e703d1c05a77d350f6c1a4da4950337d54498d8527060bf","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-56","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-54",109,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarted-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-cover.jpg"]