NOVEL NEXT Chapter 634: Feeling Hopeless
The monster attacked.
The monster waved its hand, and space stretched. A distance that should have been one meter suddenly became five meters. Daniel made a sharp leap into range and released the sword aura.
The law of lightning erupted, and his strike came down with a sound like the sky shattering. The monster's body was split cleanly in half.
But before the blade had even fully fallen… the pieces stitched themselves back together.
The monster stood up again. Completely intact, without a single scratch, as if it had not just been killed.
"…It revived?" Daniel narrowed his eyes. This was exactly like the previous floor.
However, after looking more carefully, he realized that unlike the previous floor, this time the monster did not become stronger after dying. It simply returned from death to life.
"I guess that's at least better," he muttered to himself, but his frown did not fade. Now he had to figure out the purpose of this floor again.
The law of death activated once more. He raised the blade and brought it down in a vertical strike, forcing death upon it.
The monster collapsed. It stood up again. It was killed again.
Daniel killed without stopping. The monster was so weak that it could not offer even the slightest resistance and had no real power to attack.
The moment it revived, Daniel killed it again, not even giving it time to breathe.
Time passed.
One hour disappeared from the timer.
9,999,997 : 59 : 59
The monster suddenly vanished.
"Is it over?" Daniel let out a short breath, but he had no time to relax.
At that moment, ten cracks opened in space at the same time.
Ten monsters appeared and attacked instantly, not giving him any time to react.
Attacks poured in from all sides.
Daniel expanded his sword aura, lightning coiled around him, and the ground beneath his feet cracked.
Although their numbers had increased, their strength had not changed at all. They were still weak, extremely weak, to the point it was almost unbelievable.
He kept killing them one after another until another hour passed.
The ten monsters disappeared, and after a few moments, a hundred creatures appeared like a flood.
"Damn it, what kind of mechanism is this?" Daniel muttered. If the number of these monsters increased tenfold every hour, the situation could become dangerous.
He hoped it would not reach that point.
Daniel spun his sword. The law of lightning split the sky, and the law of death settled onto the blade.
But no matter how many he killed, they revived again and attacked him, and with every passing hour, their numbers increased.
Another hour passed.
The ground was no longer visible. A thousand monsters, like an ocean of cracked bodies, surrounded Daniel.
All of them moving. All of them attacking.
Daniel stood in the center of the battlefield. His frown deepened.
"…How long is this supposed to go on?"
He gripped his sword tighter. Lightning howled through the air. He kept killing over and over again. He had no other choice, and unfortunately, he did not even have a moment to rest.
He just had to keep killing and killing. If he rested for even a second, he would be attacked and injured.
Daniel no longer knew how many hours had passed.
The timer above him was still counting down, but the numbers no longer meant anything to him. Time on this floor felt like a cruel joke that existed only to mock his will.
The ground beneath him could no longer be seen. Monsters were everywhere.
Not thousands. Not millions.
But one hundred million. The number of monsters had reached one hundred million.
Daniel's breathing grew heavy.
The aura of death around his body trembled, no longer as stable as before. His strikes were still lethal, but his speed… It had slowed down, just a little.
Even though these monsters were extremely weak, their numbers were overwhelming, so many that even he was starting to struggle.
The monsters noticed this. They attacked relentlessly.
The sky suddenly turned crimson.
"Crimson Judgment."
The red clouds split apart, and hundreds of thousands of bloody swords rained down from the sky. Each blade carried the power of downfall, each strike a certain death.
Millions of monsters vanished in an instant.
But the empty space they left behind… was filled again in just a few breaths.
Daniel narrowed his eyes. Using mana, he formed pure swords. Dozens, hundreds, thousands of glowing blades shot into the monsters like rain. The law of lightning accompanied them, each impact like a bolt from the heavens.
Kill. Kill. Kill.
But their numbers did not decrease. Daniel was struck. A claw tore through his shoulder. A blade ripped into his side. A heavy blow sent him flying backward.
Blood splashed onto the ground.
"Damn it…"
Mana circulated through his body. Mana Healing sealed the wounds, flesh regenerated, bones returned to their places.
But this time was different. He could feel it. The mana he was using… was being consumed faster than ever before.
Recovery was still there, but it could no longer keep up with his consumption.
The monsters did not hesitate. Attack after attack. Blow after blow.
Daniel raised his sword and expanded the aura of death, but another wave hit him from every direction. His body was covered in wounds. His breath grew ragged. He healed again. His mana dropped even further.
He even tried using the power of eternity, wanting to see if, like the previous floor, it might be their weakness, but the answer was no.
For the first time, Daniel felt that something was slipping out of his control.
He stood there, in the middle of a sea of enemies, sword in hand, shoulders heavy.
"No matter how much I kill… it never ends," he thought to himself.
Another blow hit him. His knee buckled. He healed again.
His eyes wavered for a moment. Did this floor even have a purpose? Or was he really supposed to just keep killing like this? If this continued, he would truly lose.
When one full hour passed, the number of these monsters would reach one billion.
At that point, could he endure it, or win?
Even he was not sure.