Chapter 457: System's Progress - 2

The fifteenth challenge had pushed them to innovate. Thirty-two evolved kobolds, each with one and a half million health points, had proven too numerous and too durable for conventional tactics.

Dionz kept rattling off their "proper" names with enthusiasm, but to Elio they were just larger, more dangerous versions of their predecessors.

He wouldn't remember the names anyway…

The sheer volume of attacks they could coordinate had initially seemed overwhelming. 

Every approach was met with a storm of perfectly timed strikes that made sustained combat impossible. 

But that very lethality had inspired their unconventional solution.

"If we can't survive long," Elio had reasoned, "then let's make our deaths count as an attack."

The "bomb" strategy was born from this realization.