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

Jiang Luo looked at the tattered bear that she had once hugged.

These are all S-rank Abyss Mysteries now, and they're so big, it feels a bit strange to carry them around.

The problem is, even someone of her size can't hug her!

Just then.

The terrifying teddy bear seemed to have sensed Jiang Luo's thoughts.

A strange red light flashed across his body, and his enormous form shrank in an instant, transforming back into a lifeless rag bear, lying quietly on Jiang Luo's chest.

"Is it that convenient?"

Jiang Luo blinked her blood-red eyes and hugged the tattered bear back to her.

In this way.

She was holding an S-class weirdo in her arms. If any annoying bugs came up later, she could just throw the rag bear out.

Thinking about this...

Jiang Luo decided to upgrade the overall combat strength of Red Moon Castle to another level.

She rummaged around in the small mountain of strange props for a while.

"You can have this lousy pair of scissors with an eyeball stuck in it. Don't wave your piece of junk in front of Lolo anymore."

Jiang Luo kicked her bare, white, tender little foot forward on the thick velvet carpet.

The giant, scarlet scissors that originally belonged to the vengeful doll slid along the ground to Stella's knees.

Stella's sickly purple eyes were fixed on the killing tool that exuded a high-level and eerie aura. She lay on the ground and kissed the carpet that Jiang Luo had just stepped on, almost obsessively.

"The master's reward is more intoxicating than the sweetest blood; Stella will surely use it to cut off the eyes of anyone who dares to look you in the eye."

Dark red, regular fine lines burrowed deep into her skin along her pale, slender fingers.

The energy bottleneck within her body, which had been stagnant at the peak of A-level, cracked under the strain, and a strange, terrifying pressure belonging to S-level rolled out on the right side of the hall.

Jiang Luo pursed her lips and looked away, ignoring the somewhat eccentric and yandere maid. She turned around and pulled out a mechanical heart that was flashing with electricity from the pile of spoils that emitted a ghostly blue light, and casually tossed it to Elizabeth, who was standing at the bottom of the stairs in standby mode.

"Go upgrade your crappy motherboard, so that next time someone burns it to scrap metal with a Firebird and Lolo has to pay for repairs."

Elizabeth's mechanical optical scanner rapidly rotated to complete the ballistic calculations. She extended her metal arms and steadily caught the core that was radiating enormous energy. Immediately, a dense array of conductive cables popped out from the surface of the mechanical arms, completely enveloping the core.

"Yes, my lord."

The cold, electronic sound had just fallen into the air.

Elizabeth's silver-white metallic body was quickly covered with a layer of dark blue S-class alloy armor.

Alice, carrying a thick book half her height, floated out from the direction of the Red Moon Library.

Jiang Luo grabbed the white bone staff that Jiang Xiaobai had bitten off a small piece of and roughly shoved it into the arms of the socially awkward female ghost.

"Use this as a bookmark, so those noisy dead people won't disturb Lolo's sleep anymore."

Alice was thrown into the air by the intense resentment emanating from the bone staff, and after landing, her originally pale and transparent spirit body quickly solidified, with the bloodthirsty aura unique to S-class monsters and her social anxiety strangely blending together.

Jiang Luo watched as her three capable subordinates successively achieved breakthroughs in strength, and she clapped her fair, dusty hands with satisfaction.

This round of sourcing was definitely worthwhile!

(✧◡✧)

The wealth of those old bastards is definitely more substantial than the garbage cans on the roadside!

Yun Yi carried the rusty scalpel to Jiang Luo's side. Her eyes, as she looked at the mountain of props, held a barely suppressed fervor.

"My darling daughter, I just smelled a familiar scent in that pile of things. I wonder if I could pick out a toy to protect you?"

Jiang Luo generously kicked aside the two worn-out suits of armor that were completely useless, and her fair fingers pointed directly to the blood-soaked, top-tier A-grade Bloodstained Long Dress in the corner.

"Put it on, and while you're at it, go and call Vivian, who's still wailing upstairs, down to pick out a wedding dress too."

Before long, Yun Yi and Vivian, who had been disturbed, changed into blood-stained robes imbued with high-level rules. Their frenzied power, belonging to the peak of S-rank, shattered the crystal chandelier on the dome of the hall.

Jiang Luo leisurely sucked on a strawberry lollipop, looking at the six identical S-level or higher high-level bizarre data jumping on the system panel, her ruby-like eyes overflowing with nouveau riche pride.

o(≧v≦)o

Is this the joy of paying players?

With this lineup, Lolo can now swagger around collecting protection money without any worries!

[Host, you'd better stop daydreaming. Although your subordinates have reached the peak of S-rank through resources, they will never cross that threshold in their lifetime.]

The text that popped into her mind felt like a bucket of cold water being poured over her head. Jiang Luo's little feet, which had been happily dangling in mid-air, stopped, and the sweet and sour strawberry flavor in her mouth suddenly became tasteless.

What does that mean?

Can't break through to SS rank?!

"System, do you need some kind of maintenance? Coming out in broad daylight to curse Lolo's employees?"

She bit down hard on the candy stick and mentally retorted angrily.

This is not a curse, but a fundamental law governing the operation of this strange world.

[For primordial anomalies like Yun Yi and Vivian, born from ordinary resentment, the peak of S-rank is the absolute limit of their life level.]

[Unless one is a special being like Jiang Xiaobai, who is born with abyssal energy, there is no chance of reshaping their core and touching the SS-level barrier.]

Abyssal energy?

This is the third time Jiang Luo has heard this word today.

The Dracula who was beaten to a pulp by her before, and those two shameless old monsters at the head office, were also muttering the same things over and over again.

"What kind of hellish place is this abyss? Why are those old guys all fighting over it like dogs seeing a bone?"

Jiang Luo bit down hard on the lollipop's hard shell, the crisp cracking sound particularly clear in the empty hall.

Long ago, the concept of SS-rank or SSS-rank did not exist in the supernatural world.

Surprisingly, the rigid electronic voice of this broken system revealed a sense of apprehension that Jiang Luo had never heard before.

Back then, any terrifying being who reached S-rank was considered the pinnacle of power in the entire world, until the Abyss descended without warning, completely crushing the existing ceiling of power.

Only a select few anomalies who survived the abyss's descent and successfully stole its power possessed the potential to break through the limits, thus evolving into the SS-class and the supreme SSS-class.

Jiang Luo was so engrossed in listening that she forgot to chew her bulging cheeks. She turned to look at Jiang Xiaobai, who was squatting in the corner, crunching away at a piece of A-grade armor like a potato chip.

"So the Abyss isn't actually a place, but rather a cheat that forcibly modifies the game's settings, right?"

[You can understand it this way, but they are a million times more terrifying than you can imagine.]

The true nature of the abyss is far beyond your current comprehension.

The terror of the abyss lies in its constant influence on your mind, until you become their complete puppet.