Are you kidding me?! The boss of the Hell Dungeon is a loli!

Jiang Luo crunched the strawberry lollipop in her mouth, and a burst of scarlet blood light shot into the sky from the depths of the distant ruins.

The beam of light pierced the dark sky, causing the surrounding swamp of flesh and blood to churn violently.

An extremely domineering energy wave spread through the air, causing the clothes of the strange figures in Red Moon Castle to flutter loudly.

Jiang Luo's two white tufts of hair stood up straight.

"What a treasure!"

Jiang Luo spat out the small plastic stick from his mouth, his large, ruby-like eyes gleaming with undisguised greed.

Nyar stood to one side, leaning on his bone cane, a solemn expression on his skull-patterned face.

"The bizarre SS-class artifact that was conceived in the vortex of death has appeared in the world."

Before Naya could finish speaking, Jiang Luo had already lifted her skirt and rushed out.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go grab it!"

"If any of those smaller fish snatch it away any later, Lolo will throw you all out as fertilizer today!"

Jiang Luo ran wildly through the mud, leaving a trail of footprints of varying depths.

Nyar shook his head and could only quickly follow along with Stella and the others.

Lin Xiao dragged her body covered in stitches, stumbling and running at the back, still trying to process the reality that she was no longer human.

……

At the heart of the blood-soaked area was a collapsed ancient altar.

The area around the altar was densely packed with strange beings of all ranks who had arrived from all directions.

These usually arrogant and domineering lords were now all standing a hundred meters away from the altar, outside the safety line, and none of them dared to take even half a step forward.

Jiang Luo peeked half her head out from behind a pile of rubble, and seeing this bizarre scene, couldn't help but curl her lip.

"These small fry are usually pretty good at grabbing things, why are they all eating vegetarian food today?"

Jiang Luo swaggered out from behind the rubble and looked ahead, following the eerie gazes.

A layer of dark red mist, visible to the naked eye, enveloped the altar.

A dozen or so A-class and S-class monsters were standing at the edge of that layer of mist.

Their bodies remained in a forward-leaning posture, but their eyes were vacant and unfocused.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and one of the A-level eerie bodies turned into black powder instantly, completely obliterated before it could even let out a scream.

The remaining few eerie creatures turned around stiffly, mechanically wandering along the edge of the mist, completely reduced to soulless walking corpses.

Jiang Luo looked at the puppets whose souls had been drained, his two small, white shark fangs leaving a shallow mark on his lips.

No wonder all those small fry were watching the show from the outside; it turns out this thing also has a ranged soul-locking attack.

"Oh, isn't this the useless lord of Red Moon Castle who only knows how to hide behind his subordinates?"

A piercingly loud, hoarse voice came from not far away.

Jiang Luo turned her head and saw that Ran Xue was standing behind the Blood Lord, staring at her with a malicious look.

The blood-stained scales on his face trembled slightly with excitement.

"What, you want to get that item too?"

"Didn't you see what happened to those idiots? Just a touch of that chilling aura turned them into mindless puppets!"

"If you dare to go in, I can take your puppet body as a toy!"

Taking advantage of the presence of the Bloodthirsty Lord, Ranxue vented all the resentment he had felt from being humiliated by Jiang Luo.

The Bloodthirsty Lord crossed his arms and coldly watched Jiang Luo, making no attempt to stop his adopted son's provocation.

The Blood Lord let out a cold laugh, and the bone-forged armor on his body emitted a teeth-grinding scraping sound.

"Bloodstained, no need to waste words on a dead man."

"Even I dare not easily set foot in that forbidden zone. Does this girl, who broke through by luck, really think her subordinates are omnipotent?"

The Blood Lord raised his hand and pointed at the puppets wandering at the edge of the red mist.

"Before their souls were drained, weren't all those S-class anomalies brimming with self-confidence?"

"The rules of the abyss are absolute. Since she wants to die, let's just watch her turn into a beautiful doll."

Jiang Luo almost burst out laughing when he heard the Blood Lord's self-righteous remarks.

A violent killing intent flashed in her red eyes.

Jiang Luo lifted her small foot, clad in white cotton socks, and stomped heavily on a pebble, crushing it into powder.

"Are you itching for a beating, you ugly, scaly monster?"

"Lolo's Shadow didn't slice you into sashimi just now, so you really think you're something special, huh?!"

Frightened, Bloodstained shrank back behind the Blood Lord, but still refused to back down.

"Stop bluffing!"

"Go ahead and go in to get the props if you dare. If you come out alive, I'll cut off your head and let you kick it around like a ball!"

Jiang Luo put her hands on her hips and tapped the ground twice with the toes of her black leather shoes.

"Old man, if you don't dare to go in, it's because you're incompetent."

"Don't lump Lolo in with trash like you."

"Once Lolo brings out that SS-rank item, the first thing I'll do is tear off your bone armor and use it as firewood!"

Jiang Luo was too lazy to pay attention to these clowns; she frantically called out to that nonsense system in her mind.

"System, what the hell is that layer of red mist up ahead?"

"If Lolo just rushes in, will she end up like those idiots?"

[Ding, system check complete.]

The altar was enveloped in a high concentration of austere, ancient aura.

This aura has an absolute soul-stripping effect on ordinary supernatural entities; anyone who comes into contact with it will have their sanity robbed.

[However, as a member of the Abyss Mystery who has broken through to the SS-level realm, you possess the purest Abyss Origin within you, giving you a certain resistance to this chilling aura.]

As long as you don't stay inside for more than ten minutes, you won't be fatally affected.

Jiang Luo listened to the system's explanation, then stroked his chin and fell into deep thought.

Ten minutes sounds like a long time, but who knows what deadly traps are hidden inside that dilapidated altar.

If they get trapped inside, wouldn't Lolo's delicate, petite body perish in this wretched place?

Jiang Luo's large, ruby-like eyes darted around before finally settling on Lin Xiao, who was standing at the very back.

She recalled the dark red resentment emanating from Lin Xiao when he awakened in the ruins of the old city.

That terrifying power that could even corrode space itself was remarkably similar to the chilling aura before them.

Jiang Luo walked up to Lin Xiao in her little leather shoes and poked her arm covered in stitches.

"Hey, you silly woman, look at that red mist up ahead, don't you feel anything?"

Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment, her pale eyes without pupils following Jiang Luo's finger to look at the altar.

She stood there blankly, her broken face filled with confusion.

"I don't understand what you mean by 'how to look at it'."

Jiang Luo rested one hand on his forehead, his two white tufts of hair drooping limply.

Damn it, this child has only recently transformed from a human into a monster, and apart from solving math problems, he knows absolutely nothing about the laws of the monster world.

Expecting her to analyze the situation is even more absurd than expecting her alcoholic father to quit drinking.