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

The argument at the round table grew louder and louder.

Several hot-tempered veteran lords have even begun to summon their associated artifacts in preparation for action.

A muffled rumble came from the massive door deep inside the hall, which was engraved with ancient gods and demons.

All the arguing vanished without a trace at that moment.

Those arrogant abyss lords all stood up from their chairs and knelt on the cold floor.

They didn't even dare to breathe loudly.

A pair of feet clad in pure black boots slowly emerged from the shadows behind the door.

It was a tall, slender figure draped in a tattered cloak.

There was no fancy aura emanating from him, but wherever he went, the laws of space shattered as if they had been completely drained of moisture.

He walked straight to the huge floor-to-ceiling window at the far end of the round table.

The sky outside the window had been dyed blood red by the red light spreading from the north.

A hoarse sigh came from beneath the cloak.

"A hundred years have passed, and this nauseatingly sweet scent is still as domineering as it was back then."

The one-eyed old woman kneeling on the ground mustered her courage and raised her head, her voice trembling uncontrollably.

"Sir, should we assemble the expeditionary force to wipe out the northern region?"

The cloaked man raised a pale, paper-white hand and waved it gently.

"You'll just be throwing your lives away if you go. He's not some newly appointed ruler."

He turned around, and two eerie green flames lit up in the shadows beneath his cloak.

"This aura... he's brought those lunatics back for revenge."

The one-eyed old woman knelt on the ground, her body trembling like a leaf.

"You mean the King of Calamity, whom we banished a hundred years ago?"

The cloaked man did not answer, but simply raised his hand and pressed it against the glass of the French window.

The glass surface was instantly covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

"Prepare to awaken those old guys slumbering at the bottom of the abyss."

"A war that will sweep across both worlds has begun."

……

Inside Red Moon Castle.

Jiang Luo crumpled the strawberry lollipop wrapper into a ball and casually tossed it into the gaping abyssal man-eating flower next to him.

The carnivorous plant smacked its lips and swallowed the candy wrapper and the surrounding air into its stomach.

Nyar walked up the steps carrying his bone cane.

He pushed up his monocle with his white-gloved fingers.

"Owner."

Naya's voice carried a hint of elegant composure.

"Red Moon Castle is currently expanding rapidly in the real world. If nothing unexpected happens, the top strategy teams of the Human Federation will soon come knocking on our door."

Jiang Luo swung her two legs, which were clad in white stockings.

Excitement gleamed in her large, ruby-like eyes.

(✪ω✪)

"The Human Federation's top-tier strategy team?"

Jiang Luo took out another strawberry lollipop from her skirt pocket and peeled it open.

She put the lollipop in her mouth and held it there.

"Lolo wants to see what interesting tricks these middle-aged men can come up with."

She clenched her pink little fist and waved it.

"If we get too bored, Lolo will just take all their bones apart and use them as firewood!"

Naya looked at Jiang Luo's greedy, trouble-seeking appearance.

A mocking smile appeared on his handsome face.

"The scale of the Red Moon's arrival would be devastating to the real world."

Nyar pointed to the scarlet crescent moon outside the hall.

"They sent out raid teams into the main castle instance. If they could survive inside for a long enough time, they could slow down the assimilation of the real world to some extent."

Jiang Luo's chewing motion for the candy stopped in mid-air.

Her eyes, which had been narrowed into crescents, immediately widened to a bulge.

"etc!"

Jiang Luo jumped directly off the throne.

The black leather shoes made a crisp sound as they stepped on the bronze floor.

"If these lowly humans slow down Lolo's expansion rate, where will Lolo go to harvest all that delicious fear points!"

She puffed out her cheeks in anger.

Jiang Luo's two white tufts of hair on his head twitched twice.

"No way, this is absolutely a losing proposition!"

Naya bowed slightly.

"Not only that, Master."

He looked at Jiang Luo's exasperated little face.

"When faced with annihilation, fear is often replaced by anger and the courage to fight to the death."

Naya fiddled with the skull decoration at the top of her cane.

"If they approach the dungeon with a death wish, the quality of the fear you can harvest will be greatly reduced."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Luo's previously irritated expression subsided.

She spun around twice in place.

Jiang Luo's greedy little scheme was racing through his mind, sparks flying everywhere.

"Yeah, if they weren't afraid of dying, what would be the point of Lolo playing this game!"

Jiang Luo stopped in her tracks.

She stood with her hands on her hips, looking at Nyarlathotep and revealing a set of sharp, white shark teeth.

(oﾟvﾟ)ノ

"Since these small fry feel that Lolo has invaded their territory, then Lolo should just be more magnanimous."

Jiang Luo waved her delicate white hands excitedly.

"Lolo has turned Red Moon Castle into a real game instance!"

Naya raised an eyebrow.

"What do you mean?"

Jiang Luo walked to the edge of the throne steps.

"Lolo left the castle standing still."

She pointed in the direction of the gate.

"Those who want to participate can come in, and those who don't should stay outside and watch."

Jiang Luo thought about it more and more and felt that it was a brilliant idea.

"When those self-important players walk in full of confidence, Lolo will overturn the rules in front of them."

She licked the frosting off her lips.

"Let them contribute their purest fear points in their most desperate moments; that's how we maximize the benefits!"

The metal box system that had been playing dead in his mind immediately popped up.

[Ding! The system has detected that the host is exhibiting exploitative thinking characteristic of capitalists, and this system strongly approves of it.]

The system's mechanical electronic voice carried the tone of a shrewd businessman.

[The host can consume 50,000 points of terror to modify the underlying propagation logic of the Red Moon's Descent, switching the indiscriminate invasion mode to a permanent eerie instance mode.]

Jiang Luo's smile vanished.

She was so heartbroken she kept clicking her tongue.

o(▼皮▼メ;)o

"50,000 panic points?"

Jiang Luo cursed the system in his mind.

"Why don't you just rob someone of their broken tin box!"

You can't catch a wolf without risking your cub.

The system calmly and deliberately refuted the claim.

[As long as the castle is transformed into the ultimate nightmare of the real world, players will flock to it every day to die, making this investment a drop in the ocean.]

Jiang Luo bit her lip and hesitated for a long time.

She was eventually moved by the beautiful vision painted by the endless supply of chives.

"You win."

Jiang Luo clenched her small fist.

"For Lolo's long-term benefit, let's keep swindling!"

[Ding! 50,000 Fear Points have been deducted. The rules for the real world under the Red Moon have been successfully modified!]

[Red Moon Castle has officially become a permanent, eerie instance in the real world!]

The crimson light in the hall receded and returned.

The dark red mist, which had been spreading wildly outwards, rolled back.

These mists formed an insurmountable abyss-like barrier around the ancient castle.