[{"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-82":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},1136235,1466,"Chapter 82: The Oakhaven Penalty","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-82",82,"\u003Cp>The Ignis Behemoth was falling apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t give the SSS-Rank regional boss a single fraction of a second to recover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was a blur of gold armor and black fabric. He relentlessly chained Zenith-tier skills and short-range teleportation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t bother using [Voidsever].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The damage reflection passives of the primordial greatsword were too risky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The [Dawn-Breaker Blade] was more than sufficient to whittle down the massive health pool when amplified by his overwhelming base stats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boss reared back. Its dark red eyes glowed violently as it prepared to unleash a massive arena-wide roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Boss Mechanic Triggered: Intimidation Roar]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Warning: Unblockable AoE. Applies a guaranteed 5-second ’Fear’ debuff, forcing the target to flee randomly.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante saw the casting animation begin. He didn’t try to outrun the sound wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He triggered [Phantom Dash].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He vanished and completely bypassed the physical distance. He materialized directly in front of the open jaws of the beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The localized sonic boom from his materialization detonated point-blank against the face of the boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Guaranteed Stun Applied. Duration: 1 Second.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive roar caught in the throat of the Ignis Behemoth. The casting animation was brutally canceled by the hard crowd control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boss froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t swing his sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened his system interface and scrolled rapidly to the bottom of his active skill list.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had watched the boss attempt to cast that roar three times now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Zenith Protocol, certain high-tier skills could be learned not just by absorbing a skillbook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could be learned by directly observing and mimicking the code of an attack from a monster, provided the player had the necessary stats and a opening to process the data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t just have stats. He had the [10,000x Skill Proficiency Multiplier].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will take that,\" Dante muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He focused his intent and initiated the mimicry prompt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[System Prompt: Attempting to mimic ’Intimidation Roar’.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Talent Activated: 10,000x Multiplier.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Registering 10,000 flawless observations.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The combat enlightenment rushed into his neural link. It wasn’t the physical mechanic of shouting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He understood the exact digital frequency required to bypass the mental defenses of a target and forcibly rewrite their localized combat logic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This instilled a hard-coded command to flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Intimidation Roar has been successfully copied.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Skill Evolution Triggered.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Intimidation Roar has evolved into: Abyssal Command.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Abyssal Command (Zenith)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Description: Unleashes a pulse of overwhelming cosmic authority. Inflicts a guaranteed 3-second ’Stun’ on all hostile entities within a 50-foot radius. Does not trigger diminishing returns on boss immunity timers. Cooldown: 10 seconds.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, that is completely unfair,\" Dante laughed and read the prompt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standard stuns in the Zenith Protocol suffered from diminishing returns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you stunned a boss, the next stun would last half as long, and eventually, the boss would become entirely immune to crowd control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Abyssal Command] explicitly bypassed that rule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one-second stun from [Phantom Dash] wore off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ignis Behemoth immediately tried to swing a massive magma-dripping fist to crush the annoying human standing in front of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t dodge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Skill Executed: Abyssal Command]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t roar. He simply projected a pulse of pure and concentrated killing intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air around him visibly distorted and radiated outward in a dark rippling wave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wave hit the Behemoth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Guaranteed Stun Applied. Duration: 3 Seconds.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive boss locked up instantly. Its fist froze mere inches from the helmet of Dante.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Three seconds,\" Dante said and adjusted his grip on the [Dawn-Breaker Blade]. \"Let us see how much damage I can do in three seconds.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swung his sword in a rapid and relentless flurry of basic attacks. He carved deep glowing gashes into the obsidian scales of the boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-3,200!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-3,500!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-3,100!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-6,800! Critical Hit!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The health bar plummeted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ignis Behemoth HP: 48,000 \u002F 250,000]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three-second stun expired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boss didn’t even get a chance to finish its swing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante triggered [Phantom Dash] again. He utilized his halved cooldowns from [Chrono-Shift].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Guaranteed Stun Applied. Duration: 1 Second.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The boss froze again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante delivered another heavy slash. He dropped the health of the boss below the critical twenty-percent threshold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the health bar dipped below 50,000 HP, the boss flashed a bright vulnerable red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t hesitate. He activated the new skill he had looted from the Broodmother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Skill Executed: Execute]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Talent Activated: 10,000x Multiplier.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skill evolved instantly and shifted into the Zenith-tier [Gaze of the Abyss].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante didn’t physically swing his sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system simply deleted him from his current coordinates and pasted him directly into the optimal strike zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was perfectly aligned with the massive glowing core in the center of the chest of the boss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Zenith-tier assassination skill bypassed all damage caps and invulnerability frames to apply a flat 50x damage modifier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante drove the Gold-tier broadsword straight into the core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[-163,500! Critical Hit! OVERKILL!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive damage number popped up in bright red text.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ignis Behemoth didn’t have time to roar or trigger a death animation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sheer volume of raw damage completely shattered its internal code.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive building-sized gorilla-turtle violently exploded into a massive shower of blue and silver polygons. It scattered glowing loot across the obsidian ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante landed perfectly on his feet and withdrew his sword from the dissolving pixels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t take a single point of unmitigated damage during the entire final phase of the fight. He had permanently stunned the boss into submission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Target Eliminated: Ignis Behemoth (Level 25 Dark Demon)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Experience Gained. Level Up!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Level Up!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante watched his level tick up to 57.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The SSS-Rank regional boss granted a massive chunk of experience even without the double EXP event modifier he had enjoyed in the caverns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked over to the loot pile and casually vacuumed up the gold coins and high-tier crafting materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single massive piece of armor caught his eye. It was a heavy jagged chest piece forged from dark cooling magma.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Item Appraised: Heart of the Ignis]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Tier: Dark Demon]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Type: Heavy Armor (Chest)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Stats: +6,000 Physical Defense, +2,000 Strength.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Passive: Generates a aura of extreme heat, dealing 5% of the Max HP of the user as fire damage per second to all nearby enemies.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a fantastic piece of gear, but Dante already had the [Carapace of the Void-Devourer].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t need the fire damage, and the stamina recovery and phasing passives of the Void-Devourer were far more universally useful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tossed the chest piece into his inventory and marked it for his next trade with Seraphina.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the last piece of loot vanished into his inventory, the system recognized the completion of the objective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The [Exclusive Regional Quest Scroll (Oakhaven)] that Dante had stolen from the Apex Coalition squad earlier in the Steppes suddenly materialized in front of him and floated in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thick glowing green wax seal on the scroll completely melted away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive server-wide announcement slammed into the sky. It completely overwrote the clouds with bright blazing gold text.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[GLOBAL SERVER ANNOUNCEMENT]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[SSS-Rank Regional Objective Completed: The Beast King of Frostfire has been slain!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The Frostfire Steppes have been pacified.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Completed by Player: Dan]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante smiled and read the text.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the system wasn’t finished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The automated logic of the Zenith Protocol required it to distribute the rewards associated with the specific quest scroll Dante had used to trigger the completion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The text shifted from gold to a bright mocking green.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[System Reward Distributed.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Player ’Dan’ has successfully completed the Oakhaven Regional Quest.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Title Acquired: Friend of Oakhaven]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Description: This title grants the user VIP access to all NPC merchants and fast-travel networks within the Oakhaven Battlezone.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dante stared at the title.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Friend of Oakhaven,\" Dante said aloud. His voice dripped with irony.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had literally just placed a massive unavoidable 10% EXP reduction penalty on the entire Oakhaven region and all affiliated players by stealing the quest scroll from the Apex Coalition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had completely sabotaged their entire early-game economy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the system had just rewarded him by officially naming him their best friend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The system in this game has a fantastic sense of humor,\" Dante laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands of miles away in the real-world city of Oakhaven, the reaction was apocalyptic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Apex Coalition guildhall located in the premium corporate sector of the city was in absolute ruins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gawain, the massive heavily armored Paladin and Guild Master of the Coalition, was actively destroying his own war room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had mobilized an entire army to march into the Frostfire Steppes to kill Dante and take their regional quest back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His army had been completely wiped out by a single terrifying girl wielding an indestructible frying pan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, the system had officially finalized the quest completion under the name of Dante.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two-day 10% EXP penalty was locked in. The entire Oakhaven region was currently bleeding progression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gawain stared at the golden announcement in the sky. His hands shook with pure unadulterated rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He stole our objective,\" Gawain roared and kicked a heavy oak table across the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He wiped our strike team, he triggered the penalty, and the system just gave him VIP access to our city!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His lieutenants stood around the room and were terrified to speak. They had never seen the Paladin this unhinged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sir,\" Arthur spoke up. He was the tank Dante had executed in the Steppes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had used his free revive and was currently wearing basic beginner armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dan is a anomaly. He has zero cooldowns. He has clones. We cannot fight him in a standard engagement.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I do not care about his cooldowns!\" Gawain snapped and spun around to glare at his officer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He humiliated us on a global scale! The Sakura Nation is laughing at us! Vanguard’s Legacy is laughing at us!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gawain pulled up his system interface. He didn’t buy a global broadcast. He didn’t want to play PR games.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened the high-priority guild command channel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Listen to me,\" Gawain ordered. His voice was deadly quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want every single member of the Apex Coalition pulled from the dungeons. I want every farming route abandoned. I want the entire roster mobilized.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sir, we have a 10% penalty,\" Arthur argued nervously. \"If we stop grinding now, we will fall permanently behind the other regions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are already behind!\" Gawain yelled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our reputation is completely destroyed! The only way we salvage this is if we bring back his head!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gawain pointed at the digital map floating in the center of the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He is in the Frostfire Steppes,\" Gawain commanded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Deploy the entire Coalition. I want a dragnet. Do not engage him solo.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you see him, ping his coordinates and hold the perimeter until the heavy squads arrive. We are going to bury him under sheer numbers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back in the Frostfire Steppes, Dante completely ignored his regional chat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew Gawain was coming for him. The Apex Coalition was a military organization. They wouldn’t let a public humiliation go unanswered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let them come,\" Dante said and turned his back on the bubbling magma lake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had his stats, his zero cooldowns, and a permanent VIP pass to their home city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was perfectly content to spend the rest of the day dismantling their entire guild piece by piece.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He started walking back toward the frozen tundra. He was ready to see how many heavily armored Paladins it took to stop a spatial fracture.\u003C\u002Fp>",1893,"2026-06-03T12:02:19.066Z","2026-06-03T12:02:25.060Z",1,"novelbin.me","3a074599c794cd0fe9754b80f2867517383a5e0154fe37599eec6d4e2c4c199c","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-83","started-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-chapter-81",109,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarted-with-a-10-000x-multiplier-in-a-game-worl-cover.jpg"]