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

The girl pushed up her black-rimmed glasses.

"I need to go back to prepare for the college entrance examination. If I die here, it will affect my review progress."

Jiang Luo's step forward abruptly stopped in mid-air. She reached out her delicate little hand and picked at her ear, even wondering if she was hallucinating.

Σ(☉▽☉"a

What kind of time is this? The entire school building has been corrupted by bizarre rules and turned into a slaughterhouse where blood and flesh fly everywhere. This human, whose head could be chopped off at any moment, is still worrying about some damn college entrance examination.

"Is your brain filled with nothing but 'five years of college entrance exam preparation and three years of mock exams'?"

Jiang Luo angrily brandished the sickle in his hand.

"Lolo is going to kill you to silence you!"

Lin Meng put her backpack on her back and adjusted the shoulder straps.

"I know, but my abilities are actually quite useless."

She continued to explain, looking at Jiang Luo's puffed-up face.

"I can only see other people's death countdown."

"Apart from that, I have no other means of attack."

"This ability can only allow me to survive in bizarre dungeons at best."

"I can't offer any real help to those powerful individuals in the Human Federation who want to conquer high-level dungeons."

Lin Meng put her hands into her school uniform pockets.

"And I can see the trajectory of my own destiny."

"Just now, the moment you raised your scythe, I saw countless branches."

"As long as I keep what happened today to myself forever."

"The countdown above my head can continue indefinitely."

"But what if I try to reveal your secrets to the federal government?"

"My countdown will immediately reset to zero."

"I know what to do, and besides, I don't want to give up the opportunity to go to university."

There was not a trace of humility in the girl's tone; she was simply stating a cold, hard fact to a bizarre monster that could crush her at any moment.

After hearing these outrageous remarks, Jiang Luo stared at Lin Meng's calm face for a long time, and couldn't help but think to himself that this human was an absolute oddball.

However, this absolutely rational personality saved her a lot of trouble. As long as the other party still wanted to live to take the college entrance examination, the lock would never be opened.

"You're smart to know what's good for you."

Jiang Luo planted the sickle on the ground.

"If Lolo were to hear even a single word about today's events through the Human Federation's intelligence network..."

She leaned closer to Lin Meng and lowered her soft, sweet voice.

"Lolo promises to personally go to your exam room and twist your head off to kick around like a ball!"

Lin Meng nodded seriously, then raised her hand and pointed to Hongye, who was slumped in a pool of blood.

"And her, if you can make good use of her, she might become a great asset to you in the human world."

Jiang Luo was stunned for a moment.

They looked at the red leaves with some curiosity.

"Her fate has just undergone a reshuffling."

"The eerie power you left in her mind is changing her."

"She is breaking away from the Human Federation's system, which relies too heavily on rules and tools."

"Perhaps in the future, she will become an awakened being who can use the power of rules without needing strange props."

As soon as Lin Meng finished speaking, the air around Hongye began to visibly distort, and wisps of dark red energy were constantly trying to merge into her pale skin.

Jiang Luo followed Lin Meng's finger and saw Hongye struggling to get up from the pool of blood, clutching her head.

Upon hearing the words "Awakened One," the killing intent that had just subsided in Jiang Luo's eyes surged again. Letting a tiger return to the mountain was never her style as the lord of Red Moon Castle.

Without hesitation, Jiang Luo raised the Blood Moon Scythe in her hand, and countless dark red abyssal tentacles spread wildly outward along the shadow beneath her feet.

"In that case, Lolo can't keep her here even more."

Jiang Luo kicked the shadow beneath his feet.

"Little White is getting ready for a snack!"

Wearing overalls, Jiang Xiaobai poked half of his body out of the black mist, opened his abyssal maw filled with interlocking fangs, and let out an excited low growl.

Just as those deadly tentacles were about to pierce the prey's heart, Momiji made no move to defend herself or escape.

She took a large step forward, dragging her blood-stained boots, and stood directly facing the sharp blade of the Blood Moon Scythe.

"Thank you."

Hongye's hoarse voice suddenly rang out in the deathly silent corridor.

Jiang Luo's sickle stopped abruptly less than a centimeter from Hongye's neck. She tilted her head, looking at the abnormal human in front of her with a face full of confusion.

Oo?

What kind of weird brain circuits do you humans have?

Lolo is going to kill you all!

Why are you all doing the opposite of Xie Luoluo?

"Did you get your brain squeezed by a door?"

Jiang Luo pulled the sickle back half an inch.

"Lolo is the culprit who wiped out your entire S-class raiding team."

"You actually thanked Lolo?"

Hongye raised the back of her hand and hastily wiped the blood from her face, staring directly into Jiang Luo's violent red eyes.

"I have just remembered everything that happened in Dracula's castle."

She looked at the blood-dripping scythe and continued speaking.

"The captain and the others did indeed die at your hands."

"But I also clearly remember the oppressive aura that Dracula exuded when he appeared."

"That is an absolute force that we simply cannot contend with."

Hongye clenched her fists, which were hanging at her sides.

"Even without you, our arrogant S-rank strategy team would have been wiped out."

"Dracula has always viewed us as cannon fodder to drain your energy."

"We didn't even qualify to survive the first night in that SS-rank dungeon."

Hongye looked down at her empty hands and laughed self-deprecatingly.

"The captain always thought that he could sweep through all dungeons with the S-class bizarre items issued by the Human Federation."

"We were too arrogant."

"So arrogant that he thought he could be above the supernatural just because he had a few inanimate objects."

"You've shown me just how ridiculous it is to rely on bizarre props."

"If it weren't for you killing Dracula in the end..."

"Not only will I die, but my soul will also be drained by that vampire and turned into a blood slave."

Naya leaned lazily against the corridor wall, took out an exquisite pocket watch from his suit pocket and glanced at it.

"This human lady is much more clear-headed than those fools in the Federal Senate."

Nyar put the pocket watch back into his pocket.

"Humans always like to take borrowed power as their own source of confidence."

"They flaunt those incomplete rules that were extracted from lower-level monsters."

"But little did they know that they were facing an existence that truly transcended S-class."

"Those so-called S-class life-saving items are not even as good as cheap plastic toys."

Naya strode over to Jiang Luo and looked down at Hongye.

"The Holy Grail of Dawn, which your Human Federation is so proud of, is nothing more than a tool in the hands of the Lord to force out Dracula's true form."

"Over-reliance on external resources will ultimately backfire on you."

Jiang Luo was overjoyed to hear Naya's subtle flattery. He thought to himself that although this black coal ball was ugly, it had a very pleasing way of speaking.

[Ding! Consume 10,000 terror points to engrave the Abyss Mark in Hongye's mind?]

[Note: The Abyss Mark can be used for temporary descent. If Momiji shows any sign of betrayal towards the host, the host can directly eliminate her using the Abyss Mark and simultaneously descent into the Abyss.]

Oh ho?

There are such good things here!

System, if you have something this good, why didn't you show it to us sooner!

She casually retracted the Blood Moon Scythe into the void, waving her small hand like shooing away flies, and the abyssal tentacles that were entangled around the red leaves immediately retreated into the shadows.

"Hmph, since you're so self-aware, I'll be merciful and let you off the hook today."

Jiang Luo put his hands on his hips and struck a pose like a lord.

"But you'd better remember what you said today."

"If Lolo finds out you dared to deceive her."

"Lolo promises to show you what true agony feels like!"

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P.S.: Something came up these past couple of days, there will be two more chapters later~

I'll catch up on what I missed in the next few days, so please, dear readers, don't leave the book unfinished!