[{"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-60":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},1136213,1466,"Chapter 60: The Dance of Death","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-60",60,"\u003Cp>The massive and pulsating sphere of dark matter drifted across the invisible glass floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gluttony didn’t move fast. It floated with a slow and eerie inevitability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dozens of jagged maws covering its surface gnashed together. The wet clicking sound echoed loudly in the silent void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood his ground and gripped the [Crimson Edge] with both hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He kept his eyes locked on the shifting mass. His mind ran the combat math on a continuous loop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Keep the heals coming, Aura,\" Dante whispered. \"Do not let my health drop.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiny silver fox chimed. She floated a safe distance behind him and was ready to pulse her [Resurgence Wave].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boss closed the gap to twenty feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, a thick and fleshy tentacle erupted from the center of the dark matter sphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The end of the tentacle wasn’t a hand or a spike. It was a massive and gaping mouth lined with razor-sharp wooden teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It whipped forward with terrifying speed and aimed directly for the chest of Dante.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t try to block it. He couldn’t risk the kinetic impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He triggered [Blink Step] and teleported five feet to the right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tentacle smashed into the invisible glass floor where he had just been standing. It sent a ripple of dull gray light outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante materialized and immediately lunged forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swung the red broadsword in a fast and controlled horizontal slash against the extended tentacle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t use a skill. He just used a basic standard attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silver-grade blade sliced shallowly into the fleshy appendage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-1,200]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The damage number popped up. The massive defense stat of the boss mitigated the majority of the strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, the system interface flashed red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Spiteful Carapace Triggered: 20% Damage Reflected.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A localized burst of raw kinetic force erupted from the tentacle. It slammed directly into the chest of Dante.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reflection bypassed his [Sun-Forged Cuirass] completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-240 HP]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante staggered slightly and absorbed the unmitigated true damage. It stung, but it was manageable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Two hundred damage for a basic swing,\" Dante gritted his teeth and quickly backed away as the tentacle retracted. \"And it has five hundred thousand health. This is going to take forever.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t have time to complain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gluttony wasn’t a standard boss that relied on slow and telegraphed attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark matter sphere rippled violently. Six more tentacle-maws erupted from its surface simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t strike in unison. They lashed out in a chaotic and overlapping flurry. They covered a massive thirty-foot radius around the boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante couldn’t use [Blink Step] to dodge them all. The two-second cooldown was too long for a sustained barrage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to rely on raw evasion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He activated [Phantom Waltz].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t use it to attack. He used it purely for the Zenith-tier invulnerability frames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world slowed to a crawl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pulsating purple aura enveloped his gold armor. He became utterly untargetable by the combat engine of the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The six tentacle-maws whipped through his avatar. They completely phased through the digital structure without causing a single point of damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t vanish to strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He intentionally canceled the offensive portion of the animation by dropping into a heavy combat roll.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He let the invulnerability frames expire exactly as he cleared the effective range of the tentacles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He popped back up to his feet and breathed heavily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Phantom Waltz] had a 45-second cooldown if he didn’t secure a kill during the animation. He was now completely exposed for almost a minute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay,\" Dante exhaled and gripped his sword. \"That was close.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fight settled into a grueling and razor-thin dance of attrition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante couldn’t stand his ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was constantly moving and sprinting across the invisible glass floor to avoid the relentless overlapping strikes of the tentacle-maws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He treated the encounter like an intricate rhythm game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dodge. Roll. Wait for an opening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strike once with a basic attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-1,100]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take the unmitigated reflection damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-220 HP]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fall back. Let Aura heal the chip damage. Repeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was absolute agony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante was used to dominating the battlefield with overwhelming Zenith-tier burst damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, he was fighting like a terrified Level 1 beginner and desperately poking at a mountain with a stick.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minutes turned into an hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The focus of Dante was absolute. He couldn’t afford to get bored. He couldn’t afford to get frustrated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single mistake meant taking too much reflection damage or getting caught by a tentacle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The physical toll on his digital avatar was immense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The localized exhaustion was rapidly building up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to burn [Breath of the Colossus] on cooldown just to keep his digital lungs from collapsing and his stamina bar from zeroing out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gluttony HP: 350,000 \u002F 500,000]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Only a hundred and fifty thousand down,\" Dante muttered and dodged another sweeping tentacle. \"This is miserable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gluttony wasn’t a static beast. It was an advanced Dark Demon boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It recognized that the tiny human wasn’t dying. It recognized the pattern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boss adapted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark matter sphere suddenly stopped moving. All six extended tentacles retracted instantly and pulled back into the central mass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entity began to violently pulse. The localized maws across its surface opened impossibly wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante stopped sprinting. His Intuition stat spiked so hard he actually felt dizzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aura, get back!\" Dante yelled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Boss Mechanic Triggered: Endless Devour.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gluttony didn’t shoot a tentacle this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire dark matter sphere violently expanded!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boss literally turned itself inside out. It transformed from a fifty-foot sphere into a massive and black hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gravitational pull was absolute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The invisible glass floor beneath Dante groaned. The void itself was actively being sucked into the gaping and expanding maw of the boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no physical attack to dodge. There was no projectile to parry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an arena-wide tracking attack that completely ignored collision physics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante tried to trigger [Meteor Stride] to teleport away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Error: Spatial anchor applied. Teleportation failed.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was trapped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The expanding black hole rushed toward him and covered the fifty-yard gap in a fraction of a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The unavoidable execution mechanic was triggering. If he touched the black matter, his avatar would be permanently deleted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 45-second cooldown on [Phantom Waltz] still had twelve seconds remaining. He didn’t have his invulnerability frames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was going to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tiny flash of silver light exploded in the dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aura didn’t stay back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiny Grade 8 Doom Harbinger zipped directly in front of Dante. She placed herself between him and the massive expanding black hole of the boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She let out a piercing and resonant chime that resounded violently across the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t cast her healing wave. She cast the ultimate defensive skill she had acquired after absorbing the residual energy of the Annihilation-Tier dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Skill Activated: Aegis of the Harbinger]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aura didn’t just project a shield. She ripped the fabric of reality apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A localized reality-bending dome of pure and concentrated starlight slammed down over Dante.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t a physical barrier like [Aegis Deflection]. It was a localized temporal lock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It completely removed Dante and Aura from the physical timeline of the server for exactly three seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive expanding black hole of [Endless Devour] hit the starlight dome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system interface completely glitched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The unavoidable and instant-death execution mechanic of the Dark Demon boss slammed into the absolute and reality-bending invulnerability of the Grade 8 pet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The starlight dome didn’t break. It didn’t even flicker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black hole washed completely over them and swallowed the dome entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For three seconds, Dante was completely submerged in absolute terrifying nothingness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t hear the ambient noise of the void. He couldn’t see his own hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just watched the glowing buff icon ticking down in the corner of his vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3... 2... 1...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Aegis of the Harbinger expired.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The darkness vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante was still standing on the invisible glass floor. The starlight dome shattered into silver dust around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifty yards away, the massive black hole collapsed back in on itself. It reverted to the floating pulsating sphere of dark matter and jagged teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The [Endless Devour] animation had finished. The mechanic had been completely negated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante took a massive shuddering breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You saved me,\" Dante whispered and looked down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aura was floating near his waist. But she wasn’t glowing brightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiny silver fox looked completely faded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The brilliant starlight that usually radiated from her three tails was entirely gone. It was replaced by a dull and flickering gray static.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was physically drooping in the air and struggled to maintain her digital form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[System Warning: Pet ’Aura’ has exhausted cosmic energy reserves.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Current Status: Critical Exhaustion.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Warning: Further exertion will result in structural deletion.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood of Dante ran cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The [Aegis of the Harbinger] skill didn’t run on mana. It ran on her core cosmic energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Negating an instant-death mechanic from a Dark Demon boss had completely drained her battery. She was on the absolute verge of permanent deletion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she died, she didn’t respawn. She was an NPC bound to his soul. She would be gone forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No,\" Dante said instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t wait. He didn’t ask her. He forced his hand forward and tapped her fading static-filled form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Pet command issued: Return.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aura let out a weak and protesting chime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She tried to float away from his hand and wanted to stay and pulse her heal. But she didn’t have the energy to resist the master command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She dissolved into a stream of dull gray light and retreated into the hidden pet-space within his system interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The void was completely silent again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante stood alone in the dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at his system interface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 45-second cooldown on [Phantom Waltz] was ticking down. The massive reality-bending shield of [Aegis of the Harbinger] was on a one-hour cooldown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More importantly, Aura was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He no longer had his infinite health battery. He didn’t have his passive status cleanse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was a melee fighter trapped in an arena with a boss that healed from magic, instantly killed him if he got too close, and reflected 20% of all physical damage back at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had 9,130 health. The boss had 350,000 health remaining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every single time he hit the boss from now on, the reflection damage would permanently chip away at his health bar. There was absolutely no way to heal it back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was no longer a war of attrition. It was a mathematically guaranteed execution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gluttony pulsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive dark matter sphere floated forward again. The dozens of maws gnashed loudly in the silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It knew the glowing light was gone. It knew the human was completely isolated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante tightened his grip on the [Crimson Edge].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His arms felt incredibly heavy. The adrenaline of the near-death experience was fading. It was replaced by the sheer crushing reality of the numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just you and me now,\" Dante whispered into the dark and stared down the massive shifting sphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t have an out. He didn’t have a backup plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time since he entered Overture, Dante was completely and utterly out of options.\u003C\u002Fp>",1854,"2026-06-03T12:02:19.066Z","2026-06-03T12:02:25.060Z",1,"novelbin.me","164bb817abc412bbd141f9e1f5fd8a2074e59c3ed0a7fe18d0f02397158c459a","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-61","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-59",109,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarted-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-cover.jpg"]