Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

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Inside the black dungeon.

Zhou Baiyu's shoes were suddenly erased by the anti-cheat mechanism.

While the phantoms of Zhou Baiyu that had persisted for thousands of years were surrounding all the teleportation gates, effectively drawing all the monsters' attacks and continuously duplicating—

The shoes suddenly deteriorated.

Zhou Baiyu wasn't surprised; at this time, the game had already become extremely laggy.

Although the shoes were damaged, the phantoms still existed.

With these duplicated phantoms, he could ensure the teleportation gates were completely blocked.

He just had to get used to this stuttered movement, where taking one step resulted in three steps of lag.

"The game hasn't crashed yet, but taking advantage of the interval before the anti-cheat mechanism reacts... Frantic Breathing has already overloaded the number of phantoms."

"The cheating tools have been confiscated, but the effects of the cheating are still in place, so now the monsters can't leave the dungeon. These phantoms even have a strong aggro effect, truly a divine artifact..."

Zhou Baiyu couldn't help but admit, the continuous effect of One Shot Soul was exhilarating.

"Looking at the monster's design stats, the monsters are outrageous, entities that players would never be able to defeat with normal gameplay. But my mutated gear is even more preposterous."

"It seems that even if the Warden is stronger than these monsters, he can't be as overwhelmingly powerful as my mutation range, right?"

At this moment, Zhou Baiyu was quite confident in his control of the situation.

But this time, he became the one who underestimated his opponent.

As one of the highest authorities of the Pantheon, Karlando crafted the game's most challenging world boss—the Warden—not merely as an entity with artificially inflated stats that were daunting at a glance.

The Warden's strength lies in its representation of Karlando's absolute will, an experience manifested within the game.

When Zhou Baiyu thought he had a winning ticket, able to hold back the main forces—

At the end of the black dungeon, a statuesque figure emerged from the darkness.

His chest was bare, adorned with various red crystal stones, resembling scars that flickered with red light.

His mouth clamped on a large, smoldering cigar, and in his hand he held a writhing whip that seemed to be alive.

Brass knuckles, a general's cap, combat boots, and an extraordinary physique.

In the Warden's eyes, one could sense a level of intelligence not found in other monsters.

"So it's you who's disrupting Karlando's world, Mutator... It has been a long time since I've encountered a Mutator."

Never before had an opponent given Zhou Baiyu such an overwhelming sense of pressure.

Looking at the purple name above the opponent's head, "Warden Elran," Zhou Baiyu realized...

This boss might not have astronomical amounts of health and attack power...

But perhaps, this boss's abilities were more threatening than just stacked stats.

The Warden said,

"I've faced opponents much more difficult than you, ones that drove me to despair, but they were gods."

"You are too weak, for Karlando to send me to deal with you is to make a mountain out of a molehill."

Ordinary people may not know the strength of the Warden.

But Zhou Baiyu happened to possess the system of the God of Games and Entertainment.

Not to mention the myriad of attack methods the Warden had... Just the first four core abilities of the Warden were enough to drive Zhou Baiyu to despair.

[Warden.]

[Ability One: Invincible. Cannot be attacked, cannot be targeted. Immune to all damage.]

[Ability Two: Anti-cheat Mechanism. Can scan items to detect whether they are within the normal range of the game, otherwise can remove them.]

[Ability Three: Annihilation Vision. Everything within the field of vision, even illusions, will be forcibly extracted by the Warden for a health bar, making them unprotected or able to attack.]

[Ability Four: God of Destruction. All damage caused will additionally deal damage equal to a hundred percent of the target's maximum health.]

Invincible.

Just that one attribute was enough to prevent the end of the game.

It was like in MOBA games, if one tower wasn't taken down, the tower below it remains invincible. Untouchable, untargetable, unattackable.

The enemy had an inherent advantage of being unbeatable.

And if it were just invincibility, that would be one thing.

But the opponent also had GM privileges, able to engage anti-cheat measures.

This meant that if the opponent detected irregularities in his mutated items, he could quickly destroy them.

The third and fourth abilities were sufficient for the Warden to easily eliminate these phantoms.

Even to easily eliminate him.

"If I so much as touch you, you'll die. There's a chasmic difference between us, for Karlando to have me go after you is far too much of an overestimation."

The Warden had his own pride.

What people had he battled in the past? Or who had he suffered a beating from?

It was the God of Difference and Chaos.

Even though it was a one-sided beating, being "let me fix you," the pride taken in that was considerable.

It was akin to Jiraiya boasting to Kakashi, saying: I once confronted the First Hokage.

It was absolutely true, its deterrent effect was definitely real, but as for what happened in the past, that was not important.

What mattered was, the Warden, I had once suffered at the hands of the God of Difference and Chaos. What caliber are you? Dare you use a trickster god's tactics against me?

The Warden knew full well that he was the most powerful being of this age, as long as someone entered into the game of Fearful Dawn—

Then that person could never be his opponent.