Level 500, Practically Immortal

Scolopendra enters the realm, and for the first time the announcement is calm, lucid and glitch-free, which is worse. Twenty-three crawler portraits plus Penelope 3 are set against Krakaren Prime, level 235 floor boss, and Scolopendra, level 500 Dungeon boss — a tier nobody has ever reached, and an ordinary-looking centipede the size of an aircraft carrier. The AI lays out the whole rule set: kill her and level timers end, floors stop collapsing, no more deals, the Ascendency battles start at once and the dungeon folds twelve hours after a winner is crowned; abandon her and the exit is gone forever. Either way her remaining seven of nine attacks trigger. Carl calls Plan C, straps Penny the pig into Mordecai's modified quadruped harness, quiets her with splooge, offers Emberus proof of who killed his son, and puts his father's gun to the pig's head to make Taranis show himself.

First appearances (1)

• The Dungeon Boss (Notification) — The boss tier above floor boss · never announced, because nobody had ever reached it

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