One SSS Affix per Level: My Novice Club Can Slay Gods!

The moment he finished speaking—

Buzz—

The teleportation array, which had remained dormant for so long, suddenly lit up.

Silver-white light twisted violently.

A figure slowly materialized within it.

A fiery red staff in his left hand.

A battered wooden club resting on his right shoulder.

He looked remarkably like a wandering vagrant.

It was John.

The moment he saw the densely packed crowd outside, his footsteps paused slightly.

His gaze swept across the gray insignias, and the relevant memories quickly surfaced in his mind.

A skull and a set of scales.

Gray Ledger.

One of the largest underground criminal organizations in the post-apocalyptic era.

Loan-sharking.

Smuggling.

Kidnapping.

Assassination.

As long as there was money to be made, there was nothing they would not do.

With all these people blocking the dungeon exit, they clearly had not come to congratulate him on his world-first clear.

The gray-robed man stepped forward.

"You’re Endbringer?"

John gave a slight nod.

The gray-robed man continued,

"A few hours ago, did you kill four players in the intermediate leveling zone?"

"And then list their equipment on the marketplace?"

John did not answer.

He had known this would not be anything good.

He equipped his monocle.

[Scan.]

Pale blue data rapidly flashed across his vision.

[Player: Lv.9.]

[Player: Lv.8.]

[Player: Lv.9.]

...

Their average level was somewhere between Lv.8 and Lv.9.

At the current stage of the game, they were already among the first wave of top players.

Their equipment was not bad either.

Almost all of them were wearing B-Rank gear purchased from the cash shop.

The equipment on each player was worth at least twenty Gold Coins, while their average HP should have been around 1,200.

John swept his gaze across the fifty people before him and quickly ran the numbers in his head.

Seeing that John still had not answered, the gray-robed man’s voice gradually turned cold.

"I asked you a question."

The leather-armored man beside him stepped forward even more aggressively.

"Are you fucking deaf—"

Before he could finish—

John took a single step forward.

His body instantly shot toward the two men.

The Novice Club swept horizontally.

Bang!

The wooden club slammed into the leather-armored man’s chest.

[-4,072!]

[White True Damage!]

[Impact Guard activated!]

The man’s breastplate caved inward with a deafening crunch.

His entire body was sent skidding backward across the ground.

The next instant—

Cleave erupted.

Boom!

A terrifying shock wave swept outward.

The gray-robed man did not even have time to raise his hand before he was blasted off his feet.

The two men crashed into the crowd one after another.

Their HP bars were instantly emptied.

[You have slain a Lv.8 player.]

[You have slain a Lv.9 player.]

[Class Change Quest Progress: 2/10.]

Their equipment scattered across the ground.

The entire area outside the dungeon fell silent.

Gray Ledger’s members froze.

The spectating players froze as well.

Faced with Gray Ledger’s interrogation, Endbringer had not even bothered to explain himself.

He had simply walked up and clubbed both men to death.

A moment later, the crowd erupted.

"He one-shot them?!"

"Wasn’t that the Unit Three Leader?"

"One swing killed two Lv.9 players?"

"What kind of equipment is that wooden club?"

"Wait. Gray Ledger spent all this time blocking the exit, and the first thing he did after coming out was beat their commander to death?"

Gray Ledger’s members finally reacted.

"Attack!"

"Kill him!"

The warriors in the front row charged simultaneously.

The assassins entered stealth and rapidly flanked him from both sides.

Behind them, dozens of mages raised their staffs as Fireballs, Ice Spikes, and Wind Blades began taking shape at the same time.

John remained where he was.

He did not retreat.

Instead, he reached out and crushed a gray-black crystal.

[You have used the item: Crystal Doppelganger!]

Boom!

Three towering figures made of mineral and stone rose from the ground, forming a wall in front of John.

The next second, a torrent of spells came crashing down.

Flames exploded.

Ice crystals scattered.

The three Crystal Doppelgangers were instantly swallowed by the concentrated bombardment.

John had already raised the Novice Club.

[Overcharge activated!]

[Current Charge Time: 1 second.]

[Current Charge Time: 2 seconds.]

[Current Charge Time: 3 seconds.]

The Crystal Doppelgangers shattered.

The warriors and assassins at the front had also reached John.

More than a dozen weapons came slashing down simultaneously.

John’s club struck the ground first.

Bang!

The entire area suddenly sank.

[Overcharge activated!]

[Cleave activated!]

Boom—!

A visible shock wave spread across the ground.

Stone slabs shattered.

Soil rolled upward.

The eight players at the very front were blasted into the air simultaneously.

[-5,382!]

[-5,382!]

[-5,382!]

[True Damage!]

All eight HP bars were emptied in an instant.

Before their corpses even hit the ground, equipment was already raining down from the air.

[You have slain five Lv.8 players.]

[You have slain three Lv.9 players.]

[Class Change Quest Progress: 10/10.]

[Ding! Hidden God-Rank Class Change Quest "Void Initiate" completed!]

[Hidden God-Rank Class Scroll activating!]

Buzz!

The silver-gray mark on the back of John’s hand suddenly lit up.

Pitch-black cracks opened one after another behind him.

The surrounding space seemed to be pulled apart by an invisible force, rapidly twisting and distorting.

[Ding! Class change successful!]

[Your class, "The Forsaken," has evolved into the Hidden God-Rank Class: Voidwalker!]

[Class Trait activated: Core Attribute Synchronization!]

[Strength, Constitution, Agility, and Wisdom have been synchronized with your highest core attribute!]

[Lv.10 EXP restriction removed!]

[You have obtained the Class-Exclusive Skill: Void Shift!]

[Void Shift]

[Type: Voidwalker-Exclusive Skill]

[Effect: Enter the Void and instantly teleport to any location within 20 meters.]

[While shifting, you cannot be locked onto, targeted, selected, or damaged.]

Silver-gray light erupted from John’s body.

His HP, MP, Physical Defense, Magic Defense, and speed all soared simultaneously.

The second wave of spells from the rear came crashing down.

Boom!

Fire and ice completely swallowed his body.

The remaining members of Gray Ledger stared fixedly at the center of the explosion.

The smoke and dust gradually cleared.

John was still standing in the same place.

His HP had not changed in the slightest.

[-0!]

[-0!]

[-0!]

A string of damage numbers floated above his head.

Everyone’s expression changed.

They could still explain his earlier performance by saying his damage was exceptionally high.

But now?

They could not even break through his defenses.

A mage instinctively took a step backward.

"What the hell is this?"

The assassin beside him turned and ran.

"Retreat!"

That shout seemed to wake everyone else up.

The remaining forty Gray Ledger players abandoned their formation and fled in every direction.

They were criminals.

They were not idiots.

An enemy they could not damage, yet who could kill them in a single strike, was not something numbers could overcome.

John watched the crowd scatter.

"And now you want to leave?"

His figure suddenly blurred.

The next instant, he vanished into thin air.

[Void Shift!]

Twenty meters away—

Space split open.

John appeared directly in front of the fleeing players.

His right hand released the Novice Club.

The Fire Crystal Staff instantly appeared in his palm.

[Binding Chains!]

[Effect: Deals damage equal to 200% of Wisdom and binds targets for 2.5 seconds.]

[Cooldown: 10 seconds.]

[Area of Effect: 50m × 50m.]

Clatter!

Dozens of chains burning with dark crimson light erupted from the ground and wrapped around the limbs of the players at the front.

[-2,110!]

Their bodies stiffened before they crashed heavily to the ground.

John swung his staff.

"Fire Serpent."

[Fire Serpent]

[Damage: 240% of Wisdom.]

[Cooldown: 5 seconds.]

[MP Cost: 20.]

Boom!

Blinding fire erupted from the tip of the Fire Crystal Staff.

A flaming serpent more than ten meters long took shape and charged into the crowd, dragging a rolling wave of heat behind it.

[Projectile Amplification activated!]

The Fire Serpent, which had originally been no thicker than a human arm, rapidly expanded in the wind.

In the blink of an eye, it transformed into a monstrous flaming python.

Boom!

The Fire Serpent crashed into the crowd.

Flames exploded outward.

[-12,660!]

Five members of Gray Ledger were swallowed by the inferno simultaneously.

Their HP bars were instantly emptied.

[CD--! activated!]

[Irene’s Fire Crystal Staff Cooldown Reduction activated!]

The skill icon dimmed for only a brief moment before lighting up again.

John raised the staff.

A second Fire Serpent shot forward.

Then came the third.

And the fourth.

[-12,660!]

[-12,660!]

[-12,660!]

Enormous Fire Serpents rampaged through the area outside the dungeon.

Flames erupted.

Screams rang out one after another.

In less than a minute, the battle was over.

Not a single one of Gray Ledger’s fifty elite players remained standing.

The ground was covered in equipment, potions, and Gold Coins.

Flames still burned across some of the dropped gear.

A trail of scorched earth extended dozens of meters into the distance.

The area outside the dungeon was deathly silent.

Thousands of spectating players stared at John.

Not one of them dared speak.

Even less did anyone dare step forward and steal the equipment scattered across the ground.

John put away his staff and began cleaning up the battlefield.

[You have obtained 73 B-Rank equipment items.]

[You have obtained 6 A-Rank equipment items.]

[You have obtained 184 Gold Coins.]

[You have obtained various potions, scrolls, and special items.]

A massive quantity of loot was absorbed into the Void Armory.

The ground was soon completely cleared.

John raised his head and swept his gaze across the surrounding crowd.

Every player who met his eyes instinctively stepped backward.

The next instant—

A silver-gray spatial crack opened beside John.

[Void Shift!]

His figure vanished from the spot.

Only several seconds later did a trembling voice finally emerge from the crowd.

"Fifty people..."

"He wiped out all fifty of them?"

The formerly silent crowd erupted into chaos.

"Gray Ledger’s entire Unit Three was wiped out by one player!"

"His physical attacks deal True Damage, and he can spam spells without stopping! What kind of class is that?"

"Upload the recording!"

"I’m reporting him! Someone’s cheating!"

The news rapidly spread throughout Blackstone.

At that moment, the rumors surrounding Endbringer spiraled completely out of control.

No one noticed—

At the edge of the crowd, a girl wearing a crimson hood stood quietly within the shadows.

From the moment John emerged from the dungeon until all fifty members of Gray Ledger were annihilated, she had never once looked away.

A moment later, the girl raised a hand and pulled her hood lower.

The corners of her crimson lips slowly curled into a smile.