'Damn it, how disgusting!'
'Rankyaku!'
A white aura shot from Yang Tao's leg, striking the large net woven from tentacles. Unfortunately, it only cut a few strands and didn't completely destroy the net.
'Tekkai!'
Yang Tao immediately used Tekkai, one of the Rokushiki, and in an instant, his body became incredibly sluggish.
Some messy buffs appeared in his status bar.
Resistance 4, Slowness 3, Mining Fatigue 2, Jump Boost 2...
The most important among them was Resistance 4, which could genuinely reduce 80% of the damage taken.
If he could obtain Resistance V, he would be immune to most damage.
As his datafied body passed through the opponent's disgusting tentacles, Yang Tao felt a dizzying sensation.
Nausea 00:05
Hunger III 00:05
Weakness II 00:05
-77
My friend, that's a bit much...
The Party Host's mental abilities were suppressed, but it truly had a lot of messy little tricks.
He immediately took out milk and poured it into his mouth, not wanting to waste a single second.
He took out a magma bucket and poured it into the room, then threw Potion of Poison II and Potion of Slowness II at the Party Host.
At worst, they'd just hurt each other.
'One-Sword Style Iai: Death Lion Song...'
He instantly appeared behind the Party Host.
-1052
Damage exceeding four digits burst from the Party Host.
Swinging the sword... swinging the sword...
Dimensional Slash!
A ball of light composed of sword energy appeared out of thin air within the Party Host's body.
146542 / 210,000
The Party Host's health was rapidly decreasing. Currently, Yang Tao's burst damage was truly unreasonable.
Yang Tao threw several Instant Healing Potions into his mouth to prevent himself from dying due to the poisoning effect.
In his spare moments, he constantly used the Battlesign to block the tentacles coming from all directions. When there was truly no other way to avoid some attacks, he could only endure them with the Tekkai skill and Death Lion Song.
At this moment, all the techniques Yang Tao had learned before completely lost their effectiveness.
The available space around him became smaller and smaller.
The Party Host was everywhere; in fact, it could be said that he was now inside the Party Host's body. All those flashy techniques were completely useless at this moment.
It was like having excellent marksmanship, but your opponent throws a nuclear bomb.
'I still need to find a way to stack stats; that's the right path...'
At this moment, Yang Tao's thoughts became clear again.
119542 / 210,000
85422 / 210,000
...
The Party Host's health was steadily decreasing, but a big question lingered in his mind.
'Could it be the work of the external invaders that Squidward mentioned? It's just that Squidward was strong enough to endure it, while the Party Host was too weak to resist?'
The last time he was driven out, the Party Host's health was only 150,000. Now it had surged to 210,000 and it had lost its sanity.
He could only attribute the cause to those unknown outsiders.
'Dimensional Slash...'
Another Dimensional Slash plunged into the Party Host's body.
3254 / 220,000
Even on the brink of death, the Party Host showed no signs of regaining sanity. Yang Tao, wanting to figure out what had happened, looked at the blood-colored border above the Party Host's head and no longer hesitated.
"Dragon Twister!"
A storm appeared, combined with the internal Dimensional Slash, clearing the health bar above the Party Host's head.
Its constantly wriggling body and agile tentacles instantly froze, falling limply onto the already corrupted ground.
Yang Tao used the Moonwalk skill to fly in the air, with no intention of landing.
"The Party Host is dead... Where did the other Partygoers and Partiers go?"
Although the scene inside the room was like a purgatory, he knew that the number of Partygoers was definitely more than this.
"The other Partygoers must have escaped to other levels..."
The wonderful Party Host might have lost its ability to control the Partygoers.
Buzz...
A sound he had never heard before rang out. Centered around the Party Host, the surroundings began to turn into nothingness...
True nothingness.
Yang Tao couldn't even see the scene within the distorted space; he could only see everything around him disappearing.
Seeing such an eerie sight, he immediately retreated out of the room, but the speed at which the nothingness spread became faster and faster.
Blood, corpses, floor, walls, ceiling—everything gradually vanished silently.
Yang Tao encountered this situation for the first time.
'What is it? Man-made or natural?'
After a moment of hesitation, he directly summoned a wooden door, exited Level Fun, and stood at the wooden door's entrance, looking at the scene behind the door.
As the 'nothingness' devoured faster and faster, Level Fun, within his sight, completely disappeared.
Behind the wooden door, it had completely become a dead void, with no sound, no matter... Seeing such a scene, Yang Tao suddenly remembered seeing a similar scene before in Level 2.
At that time, he was in the corridor of the abandoned public area of Level 2. He pried open a locked wooden door, and what was behind it was just like the scene he was seeing now.
"Level Fun turned into a void? So Level Fun is gone?"
Yang Tao threw a cobblestone into the void. The moment the cobblestone entered the void, it was swallowed by darkness and completely disappeared.
"..."
Eric heard the commotion and came to Yang Tao's side, looking at the void behind the wooden door and then at the signboard above the wooden door.
"Yang, is this Level Fun? It looks a bit different from the information. I remember the description of the void seemed to say that Level Fun was decorated like a birthday party room..."
"That's right, it was indeed as you described it..."
Yang Tao pointed at the void behind the door and said, "But now Level Fun is gone, gone in every sense of the word. All that's left is nothingness."
Eric stared at Yang Tao, dumbfounded, then raised his hand to check the time on his watch and asked in an exaggerated tone, "Yang, tell me what you did? You destroyed Level Fun in just three hours??"
Yang Tao: "..."
He said with a wry smile, "I didn't, I don't, don't talk nonsense!"
He skillfully rattled off a triple denial, then explained to Eric, "I just went to Level Fun to see if there were any changes there. I searched around but didn't find a single Partygoer..."
"But I finally found the Party Host. It was just in a really abnormal state; I couldn't communicate with it at all, and it attacked me. I had no choice but to fight back. After it fell, Level Fun began to be swallowed by the void."
Eric listened carefully to his explanation, a thoughtful expression on his face, then said, "So you went to the Partygoers' home, and then killed their Party Host?"
"Hmm... your summary isn't wrong."
Yang Tao closed the wooden door leading to Level Fun and took out a new signboard from his backpack, placing it above the wooden door.
Voided
"Eric, can you help me investigate the Partygoer information and see if they are still active?"
"I'll go check other levels."