Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?
Chapter 104 - 102: On the Possibility of Dungeon Modifications

Chapter 104: Chapter 102: On the Possibility of Dungeon Modifications

The Asta Alliance is called Asta Dungeon in the eyes of the public, located in a neighboring country south of Yanor Kingdom, many times larger than Sain.

"Evil Nest Dungeon, City Lord Ganago’s external race is Chimeric Worm, internal race is Demon Clan, it can be said to be a thoroughbred hybrid."

"The main Monster in the city is the Chimeric Worm, characterized by devouring and evolving. By consuming enemies, it evolves, and each worm may develop a unique ability."

"Additionally, it should be noted that although Chimeric Worms evolve randomly, their growth mainly follows several broad directions, such as..."

"Be cautious of their fungal blankets; on these, the Chimeric Worms’ recovery power and ferocity are several times normal. Do not give them a chance to spread the blanket."

"As Chimeric Worms evolve, their weaknesses are compensated. However, one type of magic attribute can cause significant damage—lightning."

At this point, Gong Qiying couldn’t help but laugh.

Of all weaknesses, it had to be lightning, and he had many who utilized lightning at his disposal.

After reading the correspondence from the Asta Alliance, he gained a general understanding of Evil Nest Dungeon.

Simply put, it’s a bug nest.

Battling bugs is indeed an experience not to miss in the Battle of Lords.

"To deal with bugs, some extensive area damage would be good,"

He was looking through the Available Monster, with several unopened letters still scattered behind the altar.

The dungeon’s altar is not just for the City Lord to sit on.

As far as Gong Qiying knew, it could connect one Dungeon to another. Once a City Lord opens a letter from another dungeon and replies, official communication is established.

After establishing communication, resources and information can be exchanged via the altar, and visiting each other’s Dungeons is also possible.

But Gong Qiying will definitely not use this feature for now.

Up till now, he has only replied to the so-called Asta Alliance Dungeon.

It’s strange to think about it; Asta Alliance is just a dungeon, so why call itself an alliance?

He shook his head, unable to understand the intricate details, always feeling that Dungeon City Lords are not normal.

Except himself, who felt very normal.

Only after the connection is established can the two dungeons interact formally, including battles.

However, this does not include "Death Battles," which only require one to see the other on the world map to initiate.

Dungeon battles are of two types: battles and death battles.

Battles are sparring sessions between two parties; rewards and penalties, as well as their scope, are decided by the two City Lords, and it doesn’t matter if there are none.

Death battles mean a fight to the death; the losing party loses all resources and becomes a slave to the victor, and even if their spirit is alive, everything is controlled by the winner.

Normally, both battles and death battles can be refused, but—

Gong Qiying is being challenged for the first time and cannot refuse. Trying to avoid it would lead to a temporary spiritual power penalty.

If that were all, Gong Qiying would accept it for the sake of personal safety, but the problem lies elsewhere.

It’s the first time the City Lord of the Evil Nest Dungeon is challenging someone, and the challenged cannot refuse; the same goes when Gong Qiying challenges others...

It’s hard to believe that the hot-tempered creature who can hardly speak clearly is challenging another dungeon for the first time!

Encountering such a "fortunate" event, Gong Qiying had nothing to say but picked the seemingly most reliable dungeon, the Asta Alliance, to exchange information.

As is well-known, the more extreme the thinking, the safer it is as long as you don’t touch the other’s red line and echo their thoughts.

Of course, that’s as long as you’re not the one that the extreme ideology hates.

Otherwise, it tends to turn into a love-hate TV drama.

Although physically an Animated Corpse, Gong Qiying declared his internal race as human to Asta Alliance and was promptly accepted, even receiving a spiritual power hospitality gift worth a hundred ordinary people.

It gave Gong Qiying a feeling of finding a wealthy benefactor.

As for what to do after joining the alliance, Asta Alliance didn’t say much, only mentioning that they would consider letting him understand more deeply after he survived this death battle.

Quite pragmatic.

Evil Nest Dungeon has issued a mortal combat challenge at the end of September, and now it’s the beginning of October, with over twenty days left before the war begins.

He needs to prepare well.

Once the [Mortal Combat] commences, the initiator must bring their large army to fight in the challenger’s Dungeon.

What are we waiting for? Let’s prepare some welcoming rituals.

[Gedwin/Gong Qiying]

[third-level authority]

[New authority: Strong and Weak Balance: In a designated area, the strength of Monsters can vary according to the challengers, but not below the baseline set by the City Lord]

On the day of the siege, Gong Qiying chose to upgrade his authority, thus he was able to summon B-class Monsters.

Unbeknownst to him before the upgrade, all B-class Monsters are heavyweight.

Dragon Hunter Armor, Chief of the Melting Furnace, Dragon Armor Tree Guard, Hero Guda, Fran Undead Team (solo), Agitated Golden Lion, Steel Dragon...

These named Monsters mostly share a common summoning restriction — only one can be summoned at a time.

The spiritual power required for summoning is going towards five digits!

Although expensive, but...

"So cool,"

Whenever Gong Qiying had some free time, he would watch the Image Stone, naturally focusing on the part where the Storm Dragon and Dragon Hunter Armor were sieging.

Who would’ve thought that such simple and unadorned monsters in the game would create such a shocking scene when appearing in the otherworld.

It’s downright exhilarating!

Besides more powerful Monsters, the items he could summon also underwent a substantial upgrade.

Throwing these items out to lure adventurers, it’s hard to imagine how many would be hooked.

However, a problem arises.

How should these items be distributed?

Currently, the structure of Sain Dungeon’s three levels requires people to clear the upper level before accessing the items on the lower levels, many are stuck at the middle or even upper levels, how then can they obtain more items?

Up to this day, the types of items people have discovered don’t even make up half of those placed by Gong Qiying.

"We must change the Dungeon’s structure, but the problem is, people just got familiar with the current environment, wouldn’t changing it again scare them away?"

No, as long as the changes are good, they will attract even more people!

He found a building in the [Available Buildings] that he had long wanted to add —

[Fire Transmission Ceremony]

The Fire Transmission Ceremony of Dark Souls 1.

If he centers the Fire Transmission Ceremony and separates the Dungeon’s three levels horizontally on a flat plane, wouldn’t it be more conducive to exploration?

Those workers can still head to the areas with lower difficulty like the swamp and gourmet areas, while the capable ones can venture early into the forests and mines to unearth more treasures; the Fire Transmission Ceremony can also offer a space for a bit of rest.

Gong Qiying could even load shortcuts between the different scenes, truly embodying the "comprehensive connections turkey farm."

Those ingenious map designs would definitely bring surprises to the people of this otherworld.

"There are still some things to consider,"

That is, the narrative experience attached to the Dungeon.

Honestly, that campfires could broadcast images was completely accidental, but Gong Qiying has spotted an opportunity here.

Since the history of this world has been lost, randomly concocting some might persuade people to believe it.

"The history of ancient times, or even of the last era, could also be a good catch,"

He is set to significantly expand the narratives within the Dungeon, with the first priority being...

"First, turn the swamp area into a real Fran Fort,"

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