After several consecutive flashes, the Ghoul King soon appeared before John.

Its body was over ten meters tall, with rotten flesh hanging all over it. A foul corpse stench rushed toward him head-on.

John’s gaze landed on the creature, and its attribute panel appeared.

[Ghoul King] (BOSS)

[HP]: 1,200,000 / 1,200,000

[Skills]: Frenzied Feast, Corpse Explosion, Parasitism, Rotting Poison Curse...

[Description]: The king of the Ghoul race within Mist Forest. All Ghouls obey its command.

...

John only gave it a simple glance.

Expressionless, he directly raised the Dragonflame Staff in his hand.

Strands of dragon flame began to brew within the staff.

The Ghoul King had also discovered John long ago.

It simply had not expected the other party’s speed to be so terrifyingly fast.

But very quickly, the Ghoul King reacted.

"Human, get lost!"

The rotten flesh on the Ghoul King’s body instantly exploded into countless streams of pus.

They blotted out the sky and poured toward John.

This was one of its signature skills—Corpse Explosion!

It carried extremely powerful toxic corrosion.

It was enough to make players suffer more than ten thousand damage every second.

And it would last a full ten minutes.

With its enormous body, once it used Corpse Explosion, almost the entire underground area transformed into an ocean of corpse fluid.

However, when the corpse fluid encountered John, it actually parted on its own.

Toxic Resistance was still taking effect!

And at that moment, the Dragonflame Staff in John’s hand had finished gathering power.

[Dragonfire Fury!]

This was a skill he had shared from the Crimsonflame Dragon.

It was an S-grade fire-type damage skill that could deal 300% of his Magic Attack as fire damage to the enemy every second.

Added to that was the 200% bonus provided by the Codex of Mage.

Combined with his modified Magic Attack value...

As the enormous fire dragon pounced onto the Ghoul King, a terrifying damage number instantly appeared.

[-2,190,000!]

Before the Ghoul King could even unleash its ultimate move, its body collapsed like mud.

After it died, loot immediately dropped all over the ground.

[You have killed the platinum-grade BOSS Ghoul King Lv.55. EXP +10,000,000. Gold coins +1,000,000. Fame +1,000,000!]

[You have plundered A-grade equipment: Ghoul Breastplate x1!]

[You have plundered S-grade equipment: Staff of Decay x1!]

[You have plundered S-grade talent: Decaying Aura!]

...

John had instantly killed the Ghoul King.

After that, he did not have time to check the attributes of the dropped loot.

He quickly returned to where he had been earlier.

At this moment, the Ghoul army had already surrounded Alan and the others.

However, before they could even attack, their king had already been instantly killed by John.

After sensing the death of their king, the Ghouls let out harsh, unpleasant wails from their throats.

Seeing this, Alan and the others thought they were about to unleash some ultimate move.

Just then, John returned.

In his left hand, he held the Dragonflame Staff. In his right hand, he held the Staff of Decay he had just picked up.

Although he had not checked its attributes yet, he already knew what the Staff of Decay was used for.

John raised the Staff of Decay and pointed it at the Ghoul army below.

"Decay!"

In an instant, dense death energy surged out of the staff.

It almost solidified into a cloud of black mist.

The black mist descended like a soul-snatching curse!

Every Ghoul touched by the black mist of death energy turned into mud the very next moment and merged into the ground.

Instant death upon contact.

Large amounts of black decay damage rose from the Ghouls’ bodies.

[-270,000 Decay Damage!]

[-270,000 Decay Damage!]

[...]

Damage numbers once again flooded John’s ears.

At the same time, Alan and the others below continuously received their share of the party EXP and gold coins.

Whoosh!

Before Lillian, the lowest-level mage, could even react, golden light suddenly burst from her body.

She had actually leveled up directly to Level 46!

Alan and the others’ EXP bars also rose sharply, leaving them only a tiny bit away from leveling up.

...

The four of them stared blankly as John stood high in the air, releasing vast waves of death energy.

The death energy harvested the Ghouls’ lives in enormous swathes like cutting leeks.

They watched this scene and could not come back to their senses for a long time.

The Ghoul army that they had regarded as a great enemy just moments ago could not even last one second in Boss John’s hands.

This kind of group area damage was simply too terrifying.

Moreover, Ghouls were creatures known for their HP.

Even so many Ghouls could not withstand it.

They did not dare imagine what kind of terrifying casualties would be caused if that death energy landed on them instead!

"No wonder he said he was going to bring us to speedrun the dungeon."

"This strength is too terrifying!"

Alan swallowed, his heart filled with shock.

And if he had not seen wrong, the staff in Boss John’s hand seemed to have dropped from the Ghoul King BOSS, right?

In other words, John had directly instantly killed the Ghoul King in an extremely short amount of time.

Then he had instantly returned and begun harvesting the Ghoul army!

That was a Level 55 platinum-grade BOSS.

Previously, Alan and the others had spent several full hours dealing with a Level 40 gold-grade BOSS outside.

But Boss John had taken less than thirty seconds from killing the Ghoul King to returning, right?

Within thirty seconds, he had instantly killed a platinum-grade BOSS.

Such strength was terrifying beyond belief!

Evelyn gazed at the figure in the air, brilliant light flickering repeatedly in her beautiful eyes.

Her red lips parted slightly.

"The gap between us and Boss John... is actually this huge!"

If her status had not been too low, Evelyn would have wanted to offer herself to him right then and there.

Just then, the final batch of Ghouls was dealt with by John.

His gaze landed on the people below.

With a flash, he appeared in front of them.

John gave the order.

"The Ghouls are cleared. Next, we’ll deal with the Ghost BOSS."

"Yes!"

The four of them were all incomparably excited.

With Boss John here, speedrunning the dungeon was not ridiculously simple?

That so-called Ghost King could probably be instantly killed too, right?

At this moment, after dealing with the Ghoul King, their dungeon progress had already reached 40%.

...

The ghost region.

This place was filled with overgrown tombstones everywhere.

Countless ghosts shuttled back and forth among the tombstones.

And at the very center of the tombstone field, a massive tombstone buried deep underground revealed one crude corner.

John and the others appeared among the tombstones.

In an instant, it triggered a riot among the ghosts.

"Screech!!!"

The ghost horde let out waves of shrill screams.

Tens of thousands of ghosts charged toward them while carrying mist.

Such a formation made Alan and the others’ scalps go numb.

They subconsciously looked toward John.

Only to discover that his figure had already appeared ahead of them.

"Same as before. I’ll go kill the BOSS. You hold them off first."

John’s voice fell beside their ears.

The next moment, he raised both the Staff of Decay and the Dragonflame Staff.

"Dragonfire Fury!"

"Death Harvest!"

Dragon flame and death energy instantly intertwined.

They were clearly two types of magic with conflicting attributes.

Yet under the adjustment of John’s Codex of Mage, along with the mage talents he had plundered before, they became incomparably compatible.

They actually formed streams of black flame.

The moment this black flame appeared, it directly burned the ghosts—who were originally immune to the vast majority of damage—into nothingness!