[{"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-61":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},1136214,1466,"Chapter 61: The War of Attrition, Bloom’s Toxicity","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-61",61,"\u003Cp>Dante was completely alone in the dark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the last two hours, he had been surviving purely on instinct, spatial awareness, and a ridiculous amount of luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The suspended server partition was entirely silent save for the wet and horrific clicking of the dozens of maws of Gluttony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aura was gone. She was safely locked in her pet-space to prevent her structural deletion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without her infinite and percentage-based healing, Dante was fighting a losing battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was systematically chipping away at the Dark Demon boss with basic and unbuffed strikes from the [Crimson Edge].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every single time he landed a hit, the [Spiteful Carapace] passive reflected 20% of the damage back into his avatar as unavoidable true damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-220 HP]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-180 HP]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-240 HP]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The numbers had slowly and agonizingly stacked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante triggered [Blink Step] and teleported backward to dodge a massive sweeping tentacle that crashed into the invisible glass floor where he had just been standing. He landed heavily, and his boots skidded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t immediately follow up with a strike. He needed to breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Participant: Dan]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[HP: 2,150 \u002F 9,130]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Stamina: 400 \u002F 1,200]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was critically wounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His stamina was burning out faster than [Breath of the Colossus] could passively regenerate it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was simply because he was constantly forced to chain Zenith-tier mobility skills just to stay out of the lethal reach of the boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked across the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gluttony HP: 140,000 \u002F 500,000]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante let out a dry and exhausted laugh. \"I am not going to make it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The math was finally catching up to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he played perfectly and never took a direct hit from a tentacle, he couldn’t kill the boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed to deal another 140,000 physical damage to empty its health bar. The 20% reflection on that damage was 28,000 HP.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He only had 2,150 HP left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he kept swinging his sword, he would mathematically kill himself before the boss even hit ten percent health.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I need Damage over Time,\" Dante muttered and wiped digital sweat from his forehead. \"I need damage over time that does not count as a direct physical strike.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But [Staff of Cinders] dealt fire damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he equipped the Gold-tier staff and tried to burn the boss, the [Absolute Absorption] passive of Gluttony would instantly convert the fire magic into healing. It would completely undo hours of grueling work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Physical attacks killed him. Magic healed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante kept backing up as the massive sphere of dark matter slowly floated toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened his infinite inventory and frantically scrolled through the hundreds of items he had vacuumed up during his speedrun of the Spire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed an item that inflicted a physical debuff without relying on elemental or magical scaling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He scrolled past the silver coins, the heavy armor, and the stat crystals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes locked onto a single isolated inventory slot at the very bottom of the grid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sitting in the slot was a delicate and glowing crimson flower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Item Appraised: Bloom of Decay]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tier: Lore Item (Cursed)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Toxicity Level: Absolute]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Description: A highly concentrated physical manifestation of primordial rot. If consumed or applied to an open wound, the Bloom inflicts an un-cleansable and permanent ’Decay’ debuff. The target will lose 10% of their Maximum HP every second until True Death occurs. Ignores all standard immunities.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante stared at the prompt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the \"thank you\" gift from Aria. She was the number one ranked Hidden Class player who had tried to casually assassinate him back in Outpost 404.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ten percent of maximum HP every second,\" Dante read aloud. \"Un-cleansable. Ignores immunities.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t magic. It wasn’t fire or ice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a physical manifestation of primordial rot. The system classified it as a disease. It completely bypassed standard combat mitigation mechanics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t hesitate. He pulled the glowing crimson flower out of his inventory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held it carefully by the absolute bottom of the stem to ensure the glowing petals didn’t brush against his iron gauntlet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, ugly,\" Dante yelled across the void and waved the flower. \"You want to eat something? Eat this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gluttony didn’t have eyes, but it recognized the taunt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark matter sphere pulsed violently. The dozens of localized maws across its surface snapped shut simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante recognized the animation instantly. It was the exact same wind-up the boss had used an hour ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Boss Mechanic Triggered: Endless Devour.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Here we go,\" Dante whispered and lowered his stance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t have Aura to pop a reality-bending invulnerability dome this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he got caught in the gravitational pull, his avatar was gone permanently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark matter sphere violently expanded and turned itself inside out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black hole erupted into existence and instantly generated a massive inescapable gravitational vacuum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t try to run away. You couldn’t outrun a black hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He triggered [Meteor Stride].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t aim backward. He aimed straight into the center of the expanding darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He vanished in a flash of white-hot light and left a thick trail of plasma behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He materialized exactly three feet in front of the massive gaping maw of the expanding black hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gravitational pull grabbed his avatar instantly and dragged him forward with terrifying inescapable force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was being sucked directly into the execution zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t panic. He raised his right hand and kept the [Bloom of Decay] held tightly between his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark void rushed up to meet him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He threw the crimson flower directly into the center of the expanding black hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the flower left his hand, Dante immediately triggered his second Zenith-tier mobility skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Skill Executed: Phantom Waltz]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t use it to attack. He used it purely for the invulnerability frames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The purple pulsating aura completely enveloped him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He became utterly untargetable by the combat engine of the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive gravitational pull of the black hole washed straight through his digital form and completely failed to register his presence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was inside the event horizon, but he wasn’t taking damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He used the teleporting strikes of the skill to aggressively pull himself backward out of the expanding void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack. Crack. Crack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He blinked rapidly in reverse and teleported thirty, sixty, and ninety feet backward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He fought the gravitational current by exploiting the instantaneous spatial displacement of the assassination skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He materialized a hundred feet away completely clear of the mechanic of the boss. He dropped to one knee as the purple invulnerability frames faded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The [Bloom of Decay] had been completely sucked into the center of the black hole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive expanding void suddenly stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t collapse back into the dark matter sphere like it had before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It violently shuddered, and the dark edges glitched with a sickly bright red static.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive blaring red icon appeared directly over the health bar of the boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Debuff Applied: Absolute Decay.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system interface hitched as it struggled to process the interaction between an un-cleansable Lore item and a Dark Demon boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the math executed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten percent of the 500,000 Maximum HP of the boss was 50,000 damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The damage ticked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-50,000 HP!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gluttony let out a horrifying high-pitched screech of digitized static.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boss didn’t have vocal cords, but the sound of its code literally rotting away echoed through the silent void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark matter sphere violently collapsed back into its normal shifting shape to completely cancel the [Endless Devour] animation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the damage didn’t stop. The debuff ticked every single second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-50,000 HP!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the damage was classified as an internal system debuff and not a physical strike originating from the player, the [Spiteful Carapace] passive didn’t trigger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante wasn’t taking a single point of reflection damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante slowly stood up and leaned heavily on the [Crimson Edge].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His stamina bar was completely bottomed out from chaining the Zenith-tier mobility skills. He was barely holding his avatar upright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He watched the health bar of the boss plummet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gluttony HP: 40,000 \u002F 500,000]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boss was dying. The primordial rot was devouring its digital structure from the inside out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gluttony was a living manifestation of pure consumption. It didn’t possess a flight instinct. It didn’t know how to retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As its health bar dropped into the critical red zone, the dark matter sphere flared with a violent unstable energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It completely abandoned its defensive passives. The maws disappeared. The tentacles dissolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire sphere condensed into a tight and incredibly dense core of pure dark matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Boss Mechanic Triggered: Dying Star.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Intuition stat of Dante screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boss wasn’t going to just quietly rot away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was going to self-destruct and take the entire suspended server partition down with it in a localized supernova of pure void energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The core began to rapidly expand. It glowed with a blinding and terrifying purple light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, you do not,\" Dante gritted his teeth and forced his exhausted avatar to move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rot ticked one final time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-50,000 HP! OVERKILL!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The health bar of the boss completely zeroed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the self-destruct animation was already locked in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system engine had initiated the explosion sequence before the health pool officially registered as empty. The expanding purple light reached critical mass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t have [Phantom Waltz].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was on a 45-second cooldown because he hadn’t secured a kill during the animation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t have [Blink Step]. His stamina bar was sitting at absolute zero.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t dodge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The localized supernova detonated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wave of pure and unfiltered dark matter exploded outward. It washed over the invisible glass floor at the speed of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante raised the [Crimson Edge] and braced for impact. He fully knew it was entirely useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was sitting at 2,150 HP. The explosion was going to deal millions of damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aura!\" Dante yelled. His voice was desperate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t know if she even had the energy to manifest, but he triggered the master command anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tiny, flickering, and dull gray spark popped into existence directly in front of his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aura materialized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was barely holding her digital form together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t have the cosmic energy left to cast her reality-bending invulnerability dome. She didn’t have the energy to cast her passive cleanse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she didn’t need to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She let out a weak and static-filled chime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Skill Activated: Resurgence]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the final ultimate ability in her stat block. It was the skill she could only use once every twenty-four hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive wave of dark matter slammed into Dante.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The [Sun-Forged Cuirass] instantly shattered. The [Crimson Edge] vaporized in his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His avatar was completely and instantly consumed by the explosion. His health bar dropped from 2,150 to absolutely nothing in a single frame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-9,999,999! FATAL DAMAGE!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Participant ’Dan’ HP has reached 0.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a fraction of a millisecond, the system queued up the True Death parameters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The server prepared to send the lethal disconnect signal to the VR capsule of Dante on Veridia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The signal never sent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aura completely dissolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tiny Aether Sprite didn’t return to her pet-space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She sacrificed her remaining physical manifestation entirely. She turned into a burst of pure and unadulterated cosmic reset code.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silver light washed over the spot where Dante had just been vaporized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dark matter explosion continued outward and faded into the void. But the center of the blast radius completely reversed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante materialized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t reform slowly. He snapped back into reality instantly and stood in the exact same spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His [Sun-Forged Cuirass] was flawless. The [Crimson Edge] was sheathed at his hip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Resurgence Triggered.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Target resurrected at 100% HP and Mana.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Absolute Invulnerability Applied. Duration: 3 seconds.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante took a massive shuddering gasp of air. His stamina was completely full. His health bar was sitting perfectly at 9,130.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked down. Aura was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pet icon on his interface was grayed out. It indicated she was locked in a 24-hour dormant state to reconstruct her digital body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The explosion was over. The dark matter sphere was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The True Final Floor of the Spire of Ascension was completely and absolutely silent.\u003C\u002Fp>",2020,"2026-06-03T12:02:19.066Z","2026-06-03T12:02:25.060Z",1,"novelbin.me","81998e2dd842fab33d724011d830aaa45a304014c6db4a953eb62fd52cbc8621","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-62","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-60",109,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarted-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-cover.jpg"]