Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?
Chapter 129 - 124 The Plot is Going to Accelerate Now

Chapter 129: Chapter 124 The Plot is Going to Accelerate Now

In Gong Qiying’s view, "Unity Seeker" would be more aptly renamed as "Available Heroes".

Because according to the description, the adventurers that he can summon entirely come with a group-wide BUFF talent inherent to Hero Units.

Any creature that has entered the Sain Dungeon can be considered a Unity Seeker.

In battles against other dungeons, these individuals can be summoned, but it’s important to note that the summoned Unity Seekers are not real people, but rather, synthesized special entities.

Their combat abilities, possessed weapons and tools, etc., all depend on what they showcased in the Dungeon, and their talents also change according to performance.

"So what on earth did Leon go through..."

Gong Qiying recalled Leon’s character portrait, described adequately as that of a ’nutcase’, his expression complicated.

He would never admit that it was his influence that led Leon astray! Absolutely not!

But after seeing Leon’s talent called "Beating Frenzy", Gong Qiying fell silent again.

This was the first time he felt a tad guilty.

Better to look at the distant family of Unity Seekers.

In every battle, there is a summoning limit for Unity Seekers, determined by the levels of the opposing dungeons, and Unity Seekers cannot be summoned repeatedly.

Each Unity Seeker, based on their unique traits, converts into different talents, all characterized by their non-singular numbers, diverse effects, and all encompassing a group nature.

The stronger the bond with the Dungeon, the greater the strength the Unity Seekers can manifest. As long as the bond surpasses twenty, they can display their original power, and the higher the bond, the greater their strength improves.

Upon closer inspection, Gong Qiying saw that Dal, initially wavering between D+ and D++, could actually reach a level of C+ with an increase in bonds!

What’s the difference between this improvement and sitting on a rocket?

Fortunately, this power boost only occurs when summoned as Unity Seekers.

Dal also has the highest bond value among this group of Unity Seekers, which influenced this, his bond value being fifty-five, even higher than Leon’s.

There are various ways to enhance a bond; it could increase over a trivial matter, but in summary, there are mainly two methods:

One, recognition level towards the Dungeon, regardless if it’s recognizing the Dungeon’s story, monsters, or traps. Even if a masochist feels comfortable being killed by monsters, as long as they sincerely think these things are "good", the higher the bond.

Two, death.

Death enhances bonds like a guaranteed minimum; the more deaths, the higher the bond.

Fortunately, adventurers’ deaths don’t trigger dragon coughs; otherwise, the entire Bed City would be wiped out.

However, if relying only on deaths, the bond will begin to increase slowly around twenty.

The workers who mine every day have died far more times than the adventurers, but their bonds are still low.

Whether in terms of death count or recognition towards Sain, Dal is high in both, ultimately making him the first man to break through fifty!

Suddenly, Gong Qiying had a question.

"Apart from the group BUFF which seems somewhat useful, these people’s strength still isn’t as good as pulling a Level B out,"

Even the group BUFF could be substituted with methods like the Golden Stone Oath or Golden Tree Oath.

The description also mentioned that Unity Seekers have a special advantage over Dungeon-created beings; perhaps this is what convinces Gong Qiying to use them?

It’s tasteless to eat and a pity to discard; luckily, summoning Unity Seekers doesn’t consume spiritual power, so it could also be useful to summon them for a walk during fierce battles.

He realized that this module’s greatest use for him seems to be in checking which individuals hold the highest favorability towards the Sain Dungeon, rather satisfying.

Moreover, he could cater to those adventurers with high bond levels, like...

Letting them die a few more times or something.

"I swear I’m a bit wicked," Gong Qiying couldn’t help but laugh at himself.

As he scrolled through the lengthy list of Unity Seekers, checking their myriad talents—even someone who came in once could appear on the list and possess their own unique talent—no matter how he looked, the talents of those with low bond levels seemed makeshift.

Some effects were identical, just swapped names, and treated as new!

It’s just like the reskinning of the monsters by the War God.

Suddenly, Gong Qiying realized something.

Unity Seekers seem less appealing to him than directly summoning monsters, but what about other Underground City Lords?

Don’t forget, not every City Lord has a vast reserve of monsters like him, or can unlock more powerful and remarkable monsters with enhanced City Lord Authority.

To add different types of monsters in a normal Dungeon, the City Lord has to learn personally, thoroughly researching a type of monster before it can be recreated in the Dungeon.

How long the learning process is Gong Qiying isn’t sure, but presumably, thoroughly researching a type of monster would take a substantial amount of time.

Gong Qiying has the capital to change Monster Systems every day, able to either unleash Beating Frenzy or play elite monsters pressing down, or even something dirty like Crimson Corruption, while other Underground City Lords, for the sake of time and efficiency, would mostly choose to build a formed system.

For instance, the Evil Nest Dungeon is all about playing with bugs, while other dungeons might specialize in the Undead Race, Beastmen, goblins, etc.

So, do the Unity Seekers seem to really be of great use to other dungeons?

Gong Qiying is now curious about what type of Unity Seeker the Evil Nest Dungeon would bring out; it should probably be from the Demon Clan.

Humans from Sain battling the Demon Clan from Evil Nest, this thought even had a sense of fate.

"In order to enhance the Bonds, I need to devote more effort into creating the Dungeon,"

I must make the adventurers explore the Dungeon with smiles.

In fact, he had already achieved this goal—look, there’s an adventurer being chased and beaten by a group of Gollums in the swamp, suffering both physically and psychologically.

He genuinely died with a smile.

Even a smile of relief counts as a smile.

Taking advantage of the extra time, Gong Qiying connected with his external avatar and visited the library established by the Bed Family, where one could enter by paying money.

He flipped through numerous books documenting information about Dungeons, confirming his previous speculations—the Monsters used by other dungeons indeed form systems.

The advantage is that it maximizes each Monster’s strengths, but the disadvantage is that it’s easier to be targeted, making strategies against them more accessible.

In that instant, Gong Qiying clearly realized just how incredible the number of Monsters at his disposal was. Other Underground City Lords would probably curse him as a dog giant for discovering this.

Having many Monsters means always being able to bring out something new that others haven’t seen, making it hard to be targeted.

In battles against other dungeons, Gong Qiying could confidently say:

The advantage is mine!

"Sir, it’s closing time," a library staff member came over and said.

"Hmm."

Gong Qiying borrowed a few books, but unfortunately, two of them were not available for loan; he could only wait until the next day to come back and read them.

The next day.

Gong Qiying was just planning to check on the Dungeon situation before continuing to read, but he noticed something amiss right away.

Today, the number of adventurers entering the Dungeon was even fewer than yesterday!

For a moment, he thought Count Philip had been resurrected to haunt him with that confounded Decree again.

Intuition told Gong Qiying that something must have happened.

Sure enough, as he arrived in Bed City, what he saw was the gathering of guards outside the city, each person’s face showing an expression of facing a significant threat.

It wasn’t just the guards; among the gathered crowd were also a team of mercenaries who had never met before, each of them brawny and looking very strong at a glance.

The adventurers were grouped next to the guards; their formation was a bit loose, but overall, their spirit looked slightly better than the guards.

He also saw some familiar faces, Steeran, Flame Cultivator, Roger...

Dal wasn’t here; he was still challenging the Fran Undead Team today.

The air was filled with the smell of gunpowder.

Today’s Earl of Bed, Charon, climbed up the newly repaired city wall and loudly said to his soldiers:

"Val City has been occupied by the Demon Clan; it has turned into a Demon Cave!"

"Brave soldiers, depart and exterminate the demons!"

The guards responded loudly, and their morale seemed good.

Seeing all this, Gong Qiying always felt... it was so sudden.

Just yesterday, everything was calm, and how suddenly today they were sending troops to Val City.

From where did Charon get the news that Val City had fallen?

After some thought, Gong Qiying was about to blend into the crowd and head to Val City for a look, however, just at that moment, a message came from Sain.

[Received a distress call from Val Underground.]

"Val Underground?"

Gong Qiying’s eyebrows furrowed even deeper.

Where in the vicinity of Val City was there a Dungeon?