Shadows Reveal Hidden Light — Wayne Sanders novel Chapter 37

Chapter 37 Rules Are Rules

Besides, real combat experience was important too.

But Joanna frowned.

Her gaze landed on Marcus’s seemingly honest face, and realization finally dawned.

This Marcus was actually pretty sly.

Sure, he claimed to be carrying people through the dungeon, but his team’s damage output clearly wasn’t enough. They needed to party up with another team to efficiently clear the mobs. But the entry tickets were too expensive, so they recruited five people under the guise of “helping newbies,” planning to get free ticket subsidies.

On top of that, Grade 12 students were way too naive.

They all wanted to contribute in the dungeon.

They ended up actively participating, spending their own money, exhausting themselves, and still saying “thank you for helping me improve.”

It reminded Joanna of something from her previous life, where a film crew recruited college students as extras.

“Fifty bucks a day.”

“Wait, I can experience real-life paintball combat for 50 bucks a day? Playing either the good guys or the bad guys? Sign me up for the bad guys. Where do I pay?”

What a brilliant scheme. Paying to work.

After three years of teaming up with Lucas and the others, Joanna had no experience with these party tricks and scams. She had been completely blindsided.

And three days was absolutely unacceptable.

With only 30 days until the SAT, how could she possibly waste three days stuck in one dungeon?

Joanna was definitely going to join the monster-killing anyway.

But there was a difference between choosing to help and being manipulated into it. It left a faint sour taste in her mouth.

Whatever. No point wasting time on this.

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Joanna nodded at Nighthowl.

Nighthowl immediately activated Celestial Gaze.

An astral body appeared above the train station.

Through Nighthowl’s vision, everything within a 12-mile radius of the train station was laid bare before him.

The entire Grand Central Station was crawling with spiders, webs everywhere.

The tracks were glued down by spider silk, preventing the trains from moving.

The station’s waiting area and exits were covered in blood and cocoons.

The cocoons were as tall as a person. Whatever was wrapped inside twitched occasionally, revealing the clear outline of fingers and arms. It wasn’t hard to guess what was in there.

But the most terrifying sight was outside the station plaza.

Next to Grand Central stood several skyscrapers. Two of them, each about 70 stories tall, flanked the station on either side.

This city must have been a thriving metropolis in that parallel dimension.

But now, those two towers were connected by a massive spider web. And hanging in the center of that web was a spider roughly 60 feet across.

This was the Venom Spider Lady.

Her lower half was spider, but her upper half had a human form with a perfect figure.

Because she hung suspended in the web, her torso was parallel to the ground while her neck twisted at a 90-degree angle, creating a grotesque, unnatural posture.

Grace said happily.

Marcus’s eyes went wide.

“How is the dungeon progress at 50% already?

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e checked the damage output breakdown and saw Joanna at 99.99%.

They had encountered a goddess.

They had seen high damage dealers before, but never anything like this.

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Chapter 37 Rules Are Rules

“Wow, did we just get hard-carried by Joanna? You’re insanely strong! S-rank talent is no joke. Honestly, I feel like the ticket money should’ve gone to you instead,” Grace chattered excitedly. Derek, Victor, and Shane naturally nodded in agreement.

Marcus and his team, on the other hand, didn’t look too pleased.

Marcus forced a smile. “Rules are rules. Before the dungeon started, everyone agreed to the terms. We have to stick to them. Otherwise, if some genius player comes in and cleans house, how are small-timers like us supposed to make a living?”