It didn't take long for Grinya to completely slaughter the group of chaos warriors.
When the last chaos warrior fell, Grinya stood perfectly intact, not even a speck of dust on the hem of her clothes.
Of course, this wasn't because Lu Xun's controls were particularly good, but because the purple-tier equipment, the Arcane Woven Scale, was simply too overpowered. All the attacks from the chaos warriors were completely absorbed. It was lucky the chaos warriors lacked intelligence and couldn't speak, otherwise they would have definitely cursed Lu Xun in some Cybertronian language.
"We are at the same level, so I didn't originally intend to use a dimensional strike."
After enjoying the slaughter, Lu Xun felt satisfied.
However, he immediately recalled seeing a pair of large eyeballs staring at him earlier.
He remembered those eyeballs even spat some threats his way.
He had been having so much fun hacking away just now that he had forgotten about it.
Lu Xun quickly scanned his surroundings. While he didn't see any eyeballs, he did spot a finger floating in the air. It was very conspicuous because it was highlighted on his interface.
The finger was as withered as dry wood, with festering flesh, looking quite disgusting.
One look and Lu Xun remembered where this finger came from.
It was the pinky finger from the Hand of the Plague God.
Lu Xun approached it with a strange feeling.
As soon as he got close, three options suddenly popped up on his interface.
【Power of Faith I】
【Effect: Gain 5 levels. This level increase ignores breakthrough restrictions, up to a maximum of level 70.】
【Destined Blessing I】
【Effect: Your basic attacks gain a small damage increase and range enhancement.】
【Heartflow II】
【Effect: Gain stacks when dealing damage. Each stack provides an additional damage bonus, up to a maximum of 10 stacks. This effect resets when entering a deeper layer of the abyss.】
It was actually a buff selection.
Lu Xun was a bit surprised, but large text at the top of the interface warned that all buff effects were specific to the abyss. In other words, these buffs would only work within the abyss and would be useless once he left.
Perhaps this was the effect brought by the Hand of the Plague God reducing the dungeon difficulty.
The enhancements from all three buffs were quite good, but after hesitating for a moment, Lu Xun firmly chose the third one called Heartflow.
There was no special reason other than the fact that it was the only level two buff among the three.
In any case, choosing the higher-level one couldn't be wrong.
"I can't believe you actually defeated all those monsters." Gexi stared at her as if looking at a monster herself. Although it wouldn't be hard for her to eliminate those chaos warriors, the problem was that Grinya was only level 20.
A level 20 mage mowing down a group of high-level monsters of the same rank was as easy as chopping vegetables.
It was truly incredible.
Watching Grinya swallow that festering finger made Gexi's scalp tingle, yet Grinya's expression remained normal. Afterward, she clearly felt a new change in Grinya, a power belonging to a higher status.
This made her intensely curious about that finger.
"That finger... what was it?"
"A snack," Grinya said flatly.
'How disgusting, I want to throw up...' Grinya's consciousness was reeling with nausea. She didn't know what the evil god had just fed her, but she felt her body was very uncomfortable with it.
Gexi was speechless, but she didn't press further on the matter of the finger.
She turned her head to look at a spatial rift where space had been torn open a few meters away.
"After you killed all those monsters, this thing suddenly appeared. I don't know what it is, but I imagine it can take us to a new place," Gexi said.
Naturally, she wanted to leave this godforsaken place, but she had no idea what lay behind the spatial rift.
"Ancient books I've read mention that the abyss is not a single space. It is made of many layers and tiers of space stacked together. The exit must be in one of those layers. If we want to escape the abyss, we can only leave through here."
Gexi swallowed hard, nervously glancing at Grinya's expression. Seeing no reaction, she continued her explanation.
"The multiple layers of the abyss have no orderly arrangement. Everything here is chaotic, and everything changes every second. The possibility of finding an exit in the endless abyss is truly minuscule."
"And..." Her expression darkened, losing confidence as her voice grew smaller: "And I'm not sure what we will encounter next. Everything here is full of uncertainty. We might be killed in the next second. Rather than challenging that unknown possibility, perhaps staying where we are is also a good choice."
She was seriously considering this option.
Compared to a 99% chance of dying in the abyss, staying put was at least safe for now.
Humans are always afraid of the unknown.
But Grinya clearly had no intention of listening to her. She gradually approached the spatial rift and stopped before it, lost in thought.
Lu Xun was beginning to understand this dungeon.
Gexi's role seemed to be that of a useless NPC who couldn't help in battle. Her only function was to explain the important scene designs to him.
Of course, he didn't dislike tour-guide NPCs, but the feeling of her being an enemy who beat him half to death one moment and then a teammate who could only cheer from the sidelines the next was not very pleasant.
And the content of this dungeon seemed to be a roguelike mode.
Clear the monsters in a map, pick a buff, choose the next map, and repeat. The buffs would stack higher and higher until the end, where he could basically turn off his brain and start a hack-and-slash massacre.
To put it simply, a roguelike was a game about a mortal cultivating into an immortal. In the late game, players could experience the ultimate thrill of overwhelming power.
Lu Xun was actually looking forward to the roguelike mode of this game.
Moreover, he had already guessed that the big eyeballs were undoubtedly the final boss of this dungeon. Their disappearance just meant they were waiting for him at the final layer.
Sigh, these bosses always act like they have no brains. He didn't know why they were so obsessed with sending lackeys to train the protagonist first, only to step up themselves at the very end.
If he were the boss, he would have definitely stepped in and insta-killed the protagonist long ago.
Whatever, why was he arguing with a string of code?
...
The will of the God of Chaos moved within a void of nothingness, seemingly searching for and destroying something.
It appeared to be struggling, yet one could also sense a joy as if it were about to get its revenge.
Within those eyes as deep as the abyss, an image was reflected.
It was the scene of Lu Xun playing the game in his rented room. The perspective of the God of Chaos was directly facing him, seeing the faint smile hanging on the corner of Lu Xun's mouth.
The gaze of Chaos was distant and long.
"Keep being smug, Xun."
"I have already found you."
"I will be by your side very soon..."
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