Chapter 22: Infinite Dungeon Respawn? This Time, I’m the One Farming Monsters!

Light flickered around Ophelia’s body.

Several crisp system notifications continuously popped up on John’s interface.

[Your Hero Ophelia successfully killed Skin Ripper x210, Bone-Hanging Reaper x485, Flesh Aggregation x214!]

[Your Hero Ophelia has reached Lv4!]

[Your Hero Ophelia has reached Lv5!]

[Your Hero Ophelia has reached Lv6!]

[Your Hero Ophelia has reached Lv7!]

[Your Hero Ophelia has reached Lv8!]

Less than fifteen minutes later.

[Dungeon Notification: Remaining Aberrant Monsters Outside Odin Town: 1000/3000]

Looking around, there was not a single monster left in sight.

Ophelia gently landed from the sky.

Her leather boots stepped onto the blackened cobblestone street.

Her body transformed back into the cold and elegant dragon woman form.

"Not bad harvest."

John jumped down from his horse.

Standing on the charred stone pavement, he looked up at the sky.

One minute.

Two minutes.

Three minutes passed.

No new monsters appeared.

Ophelia finally couldn’t hold back anymore.

She walked to John’s side and pointed in one direction.

"They should be there."

When John realized what she meant, he was stunned.

"Hm? Those buildings?"

The place Ophelia pointed at was a Victorian-style townhouse with a pointed clock tower at the corner of the street.

"Just now, I sensed something moving inside those stones. The stench of those lowly creatures is even stronger there."

Following the direction she indicated, John looked over.

From his perspective, it was still just an ordinary abandoned brick building.

Nothing seemed unusual.

But John trusted Ophelia.

He nodded.

"Let’s test it."

After receiving the order, Ophelia lightly stepped on the ground with her toes.

Her figure shot upward.

A wave of scorching air exploded beneath her arms.

A thick pillar of deep-purple flame erupted from her mouth and blasted directly toward the first townhouse at the corner.

BOOM!

The moment the dragon flames struck the rooftop, the entire brick structure began shaking violently.

The broken window frames cracked open.

From inside, several red blood vessels as thick as barrels stretched out.

Covered in yellow mucus, they whipped toward Ophelia in the sky.

Whoosh—

Ophelia reacted instantly.

She twisted her waist in midair and slid sideways several meters like a swimming fish.

The flesh tendril brushed past her boots and smashed into the ground.

The stone pavement instantly shattered.

On the right side of John’s vision, a new notification appeared.

[Target: Child of the Fallen City]

[Rank: Four-Star (Special)]

[Level: Lv15]

[HP: 8200]

[Attack: 710]

[Defense: 1000]

[Trait: Parasitic Stone Nest (Hidden inside buildings, protected by the outer structure. Enters an invisible locked state before the shell is destroyed.)]

John immediately understood.

He looked up again at the seemingly quiet Victorian townhouses.

"So that’s where you were hiding. Pretending to be dead inside the bricks."

He gave an order.

"Then tear them all down."

Ophelia immediately responded:

"Yes."

Floating in the air, Ophelia transformed into her dragon form.

Two enormous flame-like dragon wings unfolded.

Her massive body left behind a purple afterimage as she charged toward the nearest stone house.

BOOM!

One step shattered the rooftop.

The scorching Primordial Dragonflame poured from her mouth directly into the chimney and every gap between the doors and windows.

The entire house was instantly filled with purple-hot flames.

The brick walls expanded outward.

Then—

BOOM!

The entire building exploded.

Several Childs of the Fallen City hiding inside plaster walls and floor gaps could not even crawl out of the ruins before being burned into charcoal by the terrifying heat.

[Your Hero Ophelia killed Child of the Fallen City Lv15 x90. Experience gained...]

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Explosions continuously echoed along both sides of the silent main street.

Ophelia’s figure moved like a streak of purple light between the buildings.

Every time she landed, an entire building exploded.

Fallen bricks turned into dust beneath the flames.

Hidden flesh tendrils and mutated bodies were swallowed by purple dragon flames the moment they emerged.

Half an hour later.

Approximately half of the houses on both sides of the street had collapsed.

Charred ruins covered the ground everywhere.

Large amounts of golden experience energy continuously gathered into Ophelia’s body.

Golden level-up halos lit up beneath her feet one after another.

[Your Hero Ophelia has reached Lv9!]

[Your Hero Ophelia has reached Lv10!]

The final two clock-tower buildings collapsed in flames.

The outer area of the town had been completely cleared.

Ophelia folded her dragon wings.

Returning to human form, she landed steadily three steps in front of John.

John casually opened her hero status panel.

[Hero: Ophelia]

[Race: Primordial Ancient Dragon]

[Quality: SSS]

[Level: Lv10 (0/20000)]

[HP: 21000/21000]

[Attack: 3900]

[Defense: 2100]

[Skill 1: World-Ending Dragonflame (Lv2 · Active)]

[Skill 2: Ancient Dragon March (Lv2 · Passive/Aura)]

[Skill 3: Primordial Blessing (Lv2 · Passive/Aura)]

[Skill 4: Dragonblade Rampage (Lv1 · Active · Newly Awakened): Enter "Half-Dragon True Form" after activation (retains humanoid form while unfolding Primordial Dragon Wings), lasting 20 seconds. During this period, every normal attack or sword strike will release "Dragonbane Sword Waves." Each sword wave deals true damage equal to 1000% of own attack power in a forward linear area. Cooldown: 3 minutes.]

John inhaled sharply after reading the description of the new skill.

"Not only can she enter half-dragon form... but every sword wave in this state deals one thousand times damage?"

"And it lasts twenty seconds?"

Ophelia’s current attack power had already reached 3900.

A thousand percent conversion of her basic attack meant that even a single sword wave would deal over 39,000 true damage!

And with twenty seconds, she could release more than a dozen, even dozens, of sword waves.

She was practically a humanoid siege cannon.

Before John could finish marveling, the entire scene suddenly turned even redder.

He looked up.

The sky seemed as if it was about to drip blood.

The cobblestone beneath his feet began violently shaking again.

RUMBLE!

A powerful earthquake spread underground.

Broken stones on both sides of the street bounced continuously.

Ahead of them, the giant tree hundreds of meters tall at the center of the town began shaking violently.

The blackened bark bulged outward with countless thick blood-red veins.

Dark crimson liquid flowed downward along the patterns of the tree.

Inside the massive trunk, twisted wooden patterns rapidly compressed and rearranged.

Eventually, they formed a distorted human face dozens of meters wide.

The eyes of the wooden face were empty.

Its mouth stretched open across both sides of the trunk.

A piercing howl erupted.

Whoosh—

Massive flesh vines descended from the crown of the tree.

Like giant serpents, they smashed into the ground and burrowed underground.

The blood water that had almost been burned away by dragon flames began moving again.

Gurgle... gurgle...

It emerged once more!

And as the blood water boiled, hunched creatures covered in flesh tumors crawled out from beneath the mud.

Thousands of Skin Rippers crowded together on the ground in front of the giant tree.

[Dungeon Notification: Remaining Aberrant Monsters Outside Odin Town: 3000/3000]

The monsters that had already been eliminated appeared again!

The dungeon had refreshed!