Garland was silent for a moment, then sent a message.

[Room 606 – Garland: If room 2705 wants to monopolize the battlefield, at the very least you must ensure that the frozen rooms don’t have their doors broken by monsters.]

Nanoe looked at this message, her gaze slightly changing.

Garland was smarter than the others.

He didn’t continue arguing about who had the right to take the spoils, but shifted to the issue of responsibility. If room 2705 wanted to monopolize, then they had to protect the affected rooms.

This was a clever bargaining tactic.

Nanoe didn’t dislike clever people.

She sent a message.

[Room 2705 – Nanoe: Acceptable.]

[Room 2705 – Nanoe: Within the battlefield range of the 27th floor, if ice monsters break through the doors of frozen rooms, Elith will prioritize handling them.]

[Room 2705 – Nanoe: In exchange, the dropped items, energy cores, corpses, and all spoils of war belong to room 2705.]

[Room 2705 – Nanoe: Anyone who disagrees can come to room 2705 to discuss after the doors open.]

The final line appeared.

The chat channel immediately became much cleaner.

The frozen rooms very quickly spoke up.

[Room 512 – Mina: I agree! As long as you don’t let the monsters break the door, I don’t need the spoils.]

[Room 729 – Loren: My room already has ice Wolves scratching cracks in the ice outside. I beg room 2705 for help! I agree.]

[Room 681 – Hake: I agree too. Those who want to fight over benefits can go fight on their own. Don’t drag us down with you.]

[Room 904 – Yuni: Thank you, room 2705.]

The situation reversed in just a few sentences.

Those who had wanted to use the name of "everyone has the right to survive" to create pressure immediately lost their moral high ground. Because those who were truly in danger had already accepted room 2705’s conditions.

If anyone still wanted to interfere at this point, it was no longer about saving people.

It was about stealing benefits.

Morie stood beside her watching the entire process, a hint of contemplation appearing in her eyes.

Nanoe was very different today.

In the past, Nanoe was also sharp and good at grasping psychology, but she always worked very carefully. She would avoid creating unnecessary enemies and would try to make everything proceed in the most beneficial but least risky direction.

But today was different.

She didn’t avoid conflict, and even proactively created pressure.

At times, Morie felt that Nanoe was deliberately making the entire apartment complex fear room 2705. This kind of confidence didn’t resemble normal calculation, but had almost touched upon arrogance.

Morie couldn’t help thinking, could Sister Nanoe have awakened some extremely terrifying ability?

But she didn’t ask.

Everyone had secrets.

She had them too.

So did Nanoe.

As long as Nanoe didn’t betray Rover, as long as her goal was still to protect the interests of room 2705, Morie didn’t need to dig into everything. She only needed to trust her own judgment.

Currently, Nanoe still stood on Rover’s side.

That was enough.

Out in the corridor, the liquidation had reached its conclusion.

Under the coordination of Elith and Morie, the ice monster army was divided into small groups and eliminated one by one. Thunder Dragon handled the large targets. Elith’s spiders killed the smaller units. And Morie’s Titan hands were like two mobile walls, not allowing any monster to break the liquidation formation.

One final ice Golem tried to charge toward a frozen room.

Inside that room, the owner was so frightened they continuously sent messages for help.

[Room 729 – Loren: It’s coming here! It’s coming here! Save me!]

Elith glanced over.

"Noisy."

She raised her hand.

Over a hundred strands of spider silk simultaneously shot out, wrapping around the ice Golem’s legs. Morie immediately controlled the Titan hand to push hard from the side, causing its heavy body to lose balance.

Thunder Dragon flapped its wings and flew up.

Krittttt!!!

A purple-black lightning bolt struck down.

BOOM!!!!

The final ice Golem exploded into countless fragments.

The spiders crawled over, quickly dragging the energy core and dropped items back toward room 2705.

In the corridor, the roars of ice monsters gradually disappeared. Only the sound of spider silk scraping on ice remained, the sound of debris rolling on the ground, and Sunako’s weak muttering about how she had been hung up so long she was starting to miss the feeling of standing on two feet.

But the system still hadn’t announced completion.

Nanoe looked toward the Ice Wolf General.

"Seems like one more step is missing."

The Ice Wolf General was still hung on the wall, her face calm to the point of being almost cold. Her army had been almost entirely eliminated, but those azure blue eyes still hadn’t shattered.

She didn’t resemble a defeated person.

More like a sword taken from its master’s hand, but the blade was still sharp.

Nanoe slowly stood up.

The thin towel on her body had been replaced by a soft robe that Monica had brought over, but that lazy, alluring air still hadn’t disappeared. On the contrary, when she raised her hand, that gentle aura mixed with a kind of danger very difficult to grasp.

A very thin strand of energy flew from the tip of her finger.

Not dazzling, not explosive. It was like a thread of pale red light, quietly entering the web that Elith had spread throughout the corridor, then traveling along those silk strands toward the Ice Wolf General.

Elith saw this scene, her eyes slightly shifting.

She didn’t stop it.

That strand of energy passed through the black spider on the Ice Wolf General’s shoulder, then seeped into her body.

Immediately, the Ice Wolf General struggled.

The cold aura on her body erupted violently, causing the surrounding spider silk to be covered with a layer of white frost. She wanted to resist, wanted to push that strand of energy out of her body, but Elith’s spider silk and Morie’s Titan hand immediately tightened.

In that moment, Nanoe’s voice rang out inside the Ice Wolf General’s head.

Very gentle.

Very close.

As if she were whispering beside her ear.

"Don’t resist."

The Ice Wolf General’s pupils contracted.

This wasn’t sound transmitted through spider silk, nor sound transmitted through the air. It appeared directly inside her head.

Nanoe continued:

"If you resist, I will crush you."

That voice was still as soft as before, even carrying a hint of faint allure. But right after, the Ice Wolf General sensed something.

An invisible hand.

It didn’t grip her neck, didn’t grip her limbs, but directly gripped her heart. Or more precisely, gripped the deepest life core within her body.

That sensation made the Ice Wolf General feel true fear for the first time.

Not the fear of facing death.

She wasn’t afraid of dying. From the moment she was captured, she had already mentally prepared for death in battle.

But the current sensation was completely different.

It was as if her life had been placed in the palm of a gentle, unfamiliar woman. As long as the other party exerted slight force, she wouldn’t have time to resist, wouldn’t have time to self-destruct, wouldn’t even have time to retain that final bit of dignity.

She could be crushed from the inside.

Silently, cleanly, and absolutely.

Nanoe softly said:

"I don’t need you to kneel."

"I also don’t need your immediate loyalty."

"I only need you to acknowledge one thing."

"From now on, your life belongs to room 2705."

The cold aura around the Ice Wolf General trembled.

She bit down hard on her teeth.

A very long moment later, the cold aura gradually weakened.

She closed her eyes.

Didn’t lower her head.

But also no longer resisted.

Her cold, hoarse voice rang out very low: 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

"I... surrender."

At that very moment, the entire battlefield fell silent.

Then, the system’s voice rang out.

[Ding!]

[All ice monster units in the third round have been eliminated or lost combat status.]

[Third Round – Complete.]

This notification didn’t only appear before Morie and Nanoe.

It also appeared before Rover.

At this moment, in room 2705’s bedroom, the sheets and blankets were crumpled beyond their original shape. The air was warm, chaotic, filled with the sweet scent of intimacy after an extended session of pleasure.

Rover was lying between Monica and Selina.

Monica lay on her side beside him, her maid dress disheveled to the point of barely maintaining its original dignified appearance. Her face was flushed, her hair slightly damp and sticking to her cheeks. Her eyes were still brimming with tears. Her entire body was soft and weak as if all her strength had been drained.

Selina was much bolder.

She was still wrapped around Rover, her arms hugging his neck, her hot breath blowing against his ear. Her gaze was hazy yet full of greed, like a large cat that had just been fed but was still not entirely satisfied.

Rover had been about to continue teasing Selina when the notification panel suddenly popped up before him.

[Ding!]

[Congratulations to Owner of room 2705 – Rover for completing the third round.]

[Round Ranking: Rank 1.]

[Round Evaluation: Absolute Dominance.]

[Basic reward has been issued.]

[Special Reward: Legendary Supply Crate x1.]

Rover froze.

Selina blinked, slightly dissatisfied that he had suddenly stopped moving.

"Master?"

Monica also tried to open her eyes, her voice as small as a mosquito:

"Is... is something wrong?"

Rover stared intently at the line "Legendary Supply Crate," then the corner of his mouth slowly curled up.

He was silent for two seconds.

Then laughed softly.

"Legendary Supply Crate?"

"Seems like... things outside were more lively than I thought."